| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
143.70 |
1.0529 |
0.1950 |
351 |
3 |
137.93 |
2010-08-22 |
| 2. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
140.42 |
0.9221 |
0.2973 |
244 |
1 |
140.42 |
2010-08-22 |
| 3. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
139.47 |
0.9691 |
0.2420 |
223 |
1 |
139.47 |
2010-08-22 |
| 4. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
138.48 |
1.0711 |
0.1314 |
213 |
1 |
138.48 |
2010-08-22 |
| 5. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
137.56 |
0.9682 |
0.2263 |
143 |
1 |
137.56 |
2010-08-22 |
| 6. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
137.07 |
1.0445 |
0.1458 |
373 |
1 |
137.07 |
2010-08-22 |
| 7. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
136.20 |
1.0547 |
0.1280 |
257 |
1 |
136.20 |
2014-09-16 |
| 8. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
135.97 |
1.0120 |
0.1687 |
290 |
1 |
135.97 |
2014-09-16 |
| 9. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
135.08 |
1.0337 |
0.1393 |
214 |
1 |
135.08 |
2014-09-16 |
| 10. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
134.72 |
1.0117 |
0.1582 |
297 |
2 |
133.06 |
2010-08-22 |
| 11. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
134.19 |
1.0385 |
0.1268 |
230 |
2 |
114.49 |
2010-08-22 |
| 12. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
133.99 |
0.8956 |
0.2679 |
217 |
1 |
133.99 |
2010-08-22 |
| 13. |
No man's life can be encompassed in one telling. There is no... |
133.90 |
1.0458 |
0.1170 |
282 |
1 |
133.90 |
2022-07-28 |
| 14. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
133.60 |
1.0201 |
0.1400 |
172 |
1 |
133.60 |
2010-08-22 |
| 15. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
132.62 |
1.0441 |
0.1075 |
252 |
1 |
132.62 |
2010-08-22 |
| 16. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
132.12 |
0.9612 |
0.1861 |
256 |
2 |
120.94 |
2010-08-22 |
| 17. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
132.09 |
0.9684 |
0.1786 |
388 |
1 |
132.09 |
2010-08-22 |
| 18. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
131.34 |
1.0029 |
0.1376 |
209 |
1 |
131.34 |
2010-08-22 |
| 19. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
131.06 |
1.0297 |
0.1084 |
249 |
1 |
131.06 |
2013-09-20 |
| 20. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
129.43 |
0.9697 |
0.1542 |
249 |
1 |
129.43 |
2022-07-28 |
| 21. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
129.18 |
0.9430 |
0.1788 |
211 |
2 |
128.99 |
2013-09-20 |
| 22. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
128.91 |
1.0417 |
0.0777 |
253 |
2 |
126.12 |
2010-08-22 |
| 23. |
I mind how once we lay such a transparent summer morning, ho... |
128.46 |
0.9605 |
0.1550 |
292 |
1 |
128.46 |
2022-11-21 |
| 24. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
128.34 |
0.9886 |
0.1259 |
220 |
1 |
128.34 |
2010-08-22 |
| 25. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
127.82 |
0.9943 |
0.1157 |
373 |
1 |
127.82 |
2013-09-20 |
| 26. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
127.55 |
0.9572 |
0.1504 |
201 |
1 |
127.55 |
2010-08-22 |
| 27. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
127.50 |
0.9786 |
0.1286 |
193 |
2 |
126.18 |
2013-11-26 |
| 28. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
127.02 |
1.0232 |
0.0798 |
350 |
1 |
127.02 |
2010-08-22 |
| 29. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
126.32 |
0.9161 |
0.1808 |
200 |
1 |
126.32 |
2010-08-22 |
| 30. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
124.98 |
0.8916 |
0.1937 |
216 |
4 |
115.82 |
2014-09-16 |
| 31. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
124.59 |
0.8810 |
0.2009 |
282 |
1 |
124.59 |
2010-08-22 |
| 32. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
124.20 |
0.8900 |
0.1885 |
164 |
1 |
124.20 |
2010-08-22 |
| 33. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
123.78 |
0.9646 |
0.1103 |
264 |
1 |
123.78 |
2010-08-22 |
| 34. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
123.20 |
1.0419 |
0.0279 |
261 |
1 |
123.20 |
2012-02-16 |
| 35. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
122.95 |
1.0565 |
0.0112 |
247 |
1 |
122.95 |
2013-11-26 |
| 36. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
122.82 |
0.9509 |
0.1156 |
225 |
2 |
114.42 |
2010-08-22 |
| 37. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
122.59 |
1.0099 |
0.0546 |
207 |
2 |
119.27 |
2012-02-16 |
| 38. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
122.07 |
0.9897 |
0.0703 |
274 |
1 |
122.07 |
2010-08-22 |
| 39. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
121.32 |
1.0787 |
-0.0252 |
237 |
1 |
121.32 |
2012-02-16 |
| 40. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
121.07 |
0.9048 |
0.1465 |
271 |
1 |
121.07 |
2010-08-22 |
| 41. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
120.94 |
1.0379 |
0.0123 |
245 |
1 |
120.94 |
2010-08-22 |
| 42. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
119.99 |
0.9207 |
0.1213 |
174 |
1 |
119.99 |
2010-08-22 |
| 43. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
119.12 |
0.9005 |
0.1339 |
212 |
1 |
119.12 |
2010-08-22 |
| 44. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
119.07 |
0.8958 |
0.1382 |
322 |
1 |
119.07 |
2010-08-22 |
| 45. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
119.07 |
0.9023 |
0.1317 |
231 |
1 |
119.07 |
2010-08-22 |
| 46. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
118.93 |
1.0331 |
-0.0003 |
234 |
1 |
118.93 |
2010-08-22 |
| 47. |
I was down, my dreams were wearing thin. When you're lost, w... |
118.63 |
1.1034 |
-0.0732 |
385 |
1 |
118.63 |
2025-08-16 |
| 48. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
118.51 |
1.0441 |
-0.0150 |
316 |
1 |
118.51 |
2012-02-16 |
| 49. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
118.45 |
0.9396 |
0.0890 |
119 |
1 |
118.45 |
2014-09-16 |
| 50. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
117.77 |
1.0232 |
-0.0005 |
236 |
2 |
114.49 |
2012-02-16 |
| 51. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
117.66 |
0.9068 |
0.1149 |
225 |
1 |
117.66 |
2010-08-22 |
| 52. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
117.56 |
0.9128 |
0.1081 |
133 |
1 |
117.56 |
2010-08-22 |
| 53. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
117.15 |
1.0328 |
-0.0155 |
356 |
1 |
117.15 |
2013-11-26 |
| 54. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
116.55 |
0.9578 |
0.0543 |
281 |
1 |
116.55 |
2010-08-22 |
| 55. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
116.51 |
0.8975 |
0.1142 |
268 |
1 |
116.51 |
2010-08-22 |
| 56. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
116.09 |
0.9216 |
0.0865 |
255 |
1 |
116.09 |
2014-09-16 |
| 57. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
115.94 |
0.9756 |
0.0312 |
229 |
1 |
115.94 |
2012-02-16 |
| 58. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
115.78 |
0.9916 |
0.0138 |
282 |
1 |
115.78 |
2010-08-22 |
| 59. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
115.45 |
0.9342 |
0.0683 |
434 |
2 |
111.25 |
2012-02-16 |
| 60. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
115.30 |
0.9739 |
0.0273 |
412 |
1 |
115.30 |
2013-11-26 |
| 61. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
115.19 |
0.8629 |
0.1374 |
299 |
1 |
115.19 |
2013-09-20 |
| 62. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
114.92 |
0.8348 |
0.1631 |
219 |
1 |
114.92 |
2010-08-22 |
| 63. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
114.53 |
1.0252 |
-0.0307 |
176 |
1 |
114.53 |
2010-08-22 |
| 64. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
114.43 |
1.0829 |
-0.0892 |
288 |
1 |
114.43 |
2012-02-16 |
| 65. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
114.33 |
1.0399 |
-0.0471 |
294 |
1 |
114.33 |
2012-02-16 |
| 66. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
114.30 |
1.0486 |
-0.0560 |
289 |
1 |
114.30 |
2013-03-22 |
| 67. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
114.17 |
1.0284 |
-0.0370 |
282 |
1 |
114.17 |
2012-02-16 |
| 68. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
113.74 |
0.9678 |
0.0199 |
445 |
1 |
113.74 |
2013-11-26 |
| 69. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
113.71 |
0.9212 |
0.0662 |
231 |
1 |
113.71 |
2010-08-22 |
| 70. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
113.59 |
0.9740 |
0.0124 |
209 |
1 |
113.59 |
2012-02-16 |
| 71. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
113.24 |
1.0023 |
-0.0190 |
211 |
1 |
113.24 |
2010-08-22 |
| 72. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
112.93 |
0.9247 |
0.0560 |
253 |
1 |
112.93 |
2010-08-22 |
| 73. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
112.10 |
0.9371 |
0.0363 |
318 |
1 |
112.10 |
2012-02-16 |
| 74. |
Studies suggest that the influence of parents is due to two ... |
111.74 |
0.9794 |
-0.0091 |
289 |
1 |
111.74 |
2022-11-21 |
| 75. |
Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, foc... |
111.67 |
1.0673 |
-0.0976 |
230 |
1 |
111.67 |
2025-08-16 |
| 76. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
111.46 |
0.9339 |
0.0340 |
310 |
2 |
110.75 |
2012-02-16 |
| 77. |
She dreams of 1969 before the soldiers came. The life was ch... |
111.40 |
1.0198 |
-0.0524 |
246 |
1 |
111.40 |
2018-11-06 |
| 78. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
111.26 |
0.9649 |
0.0013 |
193 |
1 |
111.26 |
2010-08-22 |
| 79. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
111.16 |
0.8595 |
0.1058 |
242 |
1 |
111.16 |
2010-08-22 |
| 80. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
109.98 |
0.8077 |
0.1473 |
167 |
1 |
109.98 |
2010-08-22 |
| 81. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
109.84 |
0.9925 |
-0.0387 |
247 |
1 |
109.84 |
2012-02-16 |
| 82. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
109.36 |
1.0531 |
-0.1034 |
272 |
1 |
109.36 |
2012-02-16 |
| 83. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
109.28 |
0.8971 |
0.0519 |
266 |
1 |
109.28 |
2010-08-22 |
| 84. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
108.58 |
1.0025 |
-0.0596 |
256 |
1 |
108.58 |
2012-02-16 |
| 85. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
108.29 |
0.9631 |
-0.0227 |
345 |
1 |
108.29 |
2010-08-22 |
| 86. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
107.04 |
0.9871 |
-0.0576 |
227 |
2 |
105.76 |
2010-08-22 |
| 87. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
106.96 |
0.9275 |
0.0013 |
211 |
1 |
106.96 |
2010-08-22 |
| 88. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
106.43 |
0.9811 |
-0.0569 |
272 |
1 |
106.43 |
2012-02-16 |
| 89. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
106.37 |
0.9485 |
-0.0248 |
291 |
1 |
106.37 |
2012-02-16 |
| 90. |
I want you to be very clear about this: You were fired. I wa... |
105.87 |
1.0427 |
-0.1234 |
214 |
1 |
105.87 |
2022-07-28 |
| 91. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
105.58 |
0.9863 |
-0.0695 |
339 |
1 |
105.58 |
2010-08-22 |
| 92. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
105.05 |
0.9884 |
-0.0762 |
233 |
1 |
105.05 |
2012-02-16 |
| 93. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
105.00 |
0.8295 |
0.0823 |
209 |
1 |
105.00 |
2010-08-22 |
| 94. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
104.81 |
1.0666 |
-0.1565 |
297 |
1 |
104.81 |
2012-02-16 |
| 95. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
104.66 |
0.9266 |
-0.0178 |
267 |
1 |
104.66 |
2012-02-16 |
| 96. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
104.23 |
1.0459 |
-0.1408 |
200 |
1 |
104.23 |
2012-02-16 |
| 97. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
102.56 |
0.8559 |
0.0347 |
191 |
1 |
102.56 |
2013-09-20 |
| 98. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
101.69 |
0.9805 |
-0.0975 |
292 |
1 |
101.69 |
2012-02-16 |
| 99. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
100.56 |
0.9084 |
-0.0352 |
300 |
1 |
100.56 |
2010-08-22 |
| 100. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
100.53 |
0.8867 |
-0.0137 |
241 |
1 |
100.53 |
2010-08-22 |
| 101. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
99.56 |
0.8890 |
-0.0244 |
199 |
1 |
99.56 |
2010-08-22 |
| 102. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
99.23 |
0.8809 |
-0.0192 |
127 |
1 |
99.23 |
2010-08-22 |
| 103. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
98.78 |
0.9965 |
-0.1387 |
310 |
1 |
98.78 |
2012-02-16 |
| 104. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
97.73 |
1.0288 |
-0.1801 |
300 |
1 |
97.73 |
2012-02-16 |
| 105. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
97.47 |
1.0714 |
-0.2250 |
129 |
1 |
97.47 |
2012-02-16 |
| 106. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
96.45 |
0.9731 |
-0.1356 |
129 |
1 |
96.45 |
2010-08-22 |
| 107. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
96.04 |
0.8852 |
-0.0512 |
201 |
2 |
93.41 |
2013-09-20 |
| 108. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
94.76 |
0.9155 |
-0.0926 |
168 |
1 |
94.76 |
2013-03-22 |
| 109. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
92.48 |
1.0053 |
-0.2022 |
232 |
1 |
92.48 |
2012-02-16 |
| 110. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
90.65 |
0.8910 |
-0.1038 |
150 |
1 |
90.65 |
2010-08-22 |
| 111. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
85.83 |
0.9776 |
-0.2323 |
308 |
1 |
85.83 |
2012-02-16 |
| 112. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
84.74 |
1.0498 |
-0.3139 |
180 |
1 |
84.74 |
2012-02-16 |
| 113. |
While you were sleeping, you tossed, you turned. You rolled ... |
83.06 |
0.8614 |
-0.1401 |
172 |
1 |
83.06 |
2010-08-22 |
| 114. |
From the Kentucky coal mine to the California sun, there Bob... |
80.86 |
1.0467 |
-0.3445 |
93 |
1 |
80.86 |
2025-08-16 |
| 115. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
50.11 |
0.8961 |
-0.4610 |
189 |
1 |
50.11 |
2012-02-16 |
| 116. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
41.55 |
1.0679 |
-0.7071 |
177 |
1 |
41.55 |
2010-08-22 |