| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
113.93 |
1.0334 |
0.2418 |
261 |
1 |
113.93 |
2013-11-29 |
| 2. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
112.89 |
0.9807 |
0.2718 |
129 |
1 |
112.89 |
2010-06-07 |
| 3. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
112.68 |
1.0960 |
0.1698 |
315 |
2 |
103.20 |
2013-12-19 |
| 4. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
109.25 |
1.0432 |
0.1806 |
276 |
1 |
109.25 |
2008-10-09 |
| 5. |
He rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' ... |
107.17 |
1.0461 |
0.1693 |
535 |
2 |
100.32 |
2015-06-04 |
| 6. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
106.29 |
0.9918 |
0.2051 |
400 |
1 |
106.29 |
2010-06-06 |
| 7. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
105.54 |
0.9981 |
0.1824 |
211 |
2 |
93.71 |
2008-10-10 |
| 8. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
104.00 |
1.0736 |
0.0931 |
350 |
1 |
104.00 |
2010-06-07 |
| 9. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
103.22 |
1.0450 |
0.1156 |
358 |
2 |
91.32 |
2008-10-09 |
| 10. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
102.90 |
1.0873 |
0.0614 |
243 |
1 |
102.90 |
2008-10-06 |
| 11. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
102.46 |
1.0543 |
0.0933 |
233 |
1 |
102.46 |
2010-06-07 |
| 12. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
102.12 |
1.0106 |
0.1313 |
302 |
2 |
94.17 |
2009-06-02 |
| 13. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
101.82 |
0.9948 |
0.1436 |
233 |
2 |
101.29 |
2008-10-10 |
| 14. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
101.58 |
1.0557 |
0.0823 |
289 |
1 |
101.58 |
2008-10-10 |
| 15. |
All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the... |
101.44 |
1.0401 |
0.1010 |
323 |
1 |
101.44 |
2017-04-01 |
| 16. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
100.85 |
1.0601 |
0.0653 |
256 |
2 |
91.04 |
2009-03-09 |
| 17. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
100.47 |
1.0682 |
0.0573 |
266 |
1 |
100.47 |
2008-10-10 |
| 18. |
Don't bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everythin... |
99.87 |
1.0136 |
0.1041 |
240 |
1 |
99.87 |
2015-06-03 |
| 19. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
99.46 |
0.9503 |
0.1560 |
211 |
2 |
83.67 |
2008-10-10 |
| 20. |
Now this is a story all about how my life got flipped - turn... |
99.37 |
0.9847 |
0.1184 |
192 |
1 |
99.37 |
2018-06-07 |
| 21. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
98.91 |
0.9829 |
0.1232 |
229 |
2 |
87.99 |
2008-10-09 |
| 22. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
98.51 |
1.0042 |
0.0943 |
168 |
1 |
98.51 |
2009-03-09 |
| 23. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
98.20 |
0.9909 |
0.1118 |
334 |
3 |
88.03 |
2009-01-13 |
| 24. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
98.09 |
1.0511 |
0.0483 |
252 |
3 |
94.25 |
2008-10-08 |
| 25. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
97.48 |
0.9866 |
0.1045 |
308 |
2 |
96.54 |
2008-10-21 |
| 26. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
96.48 |
0.9594 |
0.1183 |
258 |
1 |
96.48 |
2009-04-28 |
| 27. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
96.37 |
1.0197 |
0.0567 |
204 |
2 |
94.03 |
2008-10-09 |
| 28. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
96.29 |
1.0800 |
-0.0056 |
213 |
1 |
96.29 |
2008-10-10 |
| 29. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
96.21 |
0.8718 |
0.2081 |
318 |
1 |
96.21 |
2009-09-17 |
| 30. |
There's a dark side to each and every human soul. We wish we... |
96.02 |
0.9040 |
0.1482 |
494 |
1 |
96.02 |
2018-06-07 |
| 31. |
Studies suggest that the influence of parents is due to two ... |
95.71 |
0.9832 |
0.0949 |
289 |
1 |
95.71 |
2018-06-07 |
| 32. |
Our prematurity brought a second big advantage: it forced us... |
95.62 |
0.9992 |
0.0819 |
455 |
1 |
95.62 |
2018-06-07 |
| 33. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
95.59 |
1.0082 |
0.0562 |
212 |
1 |
95.59 |
2008-10-09 |
| 34. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
95.44 |
0.9836 |
0.0843 |
289 |
1 |
95.44 |
2008-10-08 |
| 35. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
95.41 |
1.0288 |
0.0339 |
166 |
3 |
89.86 |
2013-12-19 |
| 36. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
95.23 |
0.9523 |
0.1247 |
576 |
1 |
95.23 |
2013-12-19 |
| 37. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
95.22 |
0.9479 |
0.1191 |
317 |
3 |
85.08 |
2008-10-09 |
| 38. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
94.68 |
1.0487 |
0.0083 |
253 |
1 |
94.68 |
2008-10-06 |
| 39. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
94.58 |
1.0867 |
-0.0330 |
171 |
1 |
94.58 |
2009-03-09 |
| 40. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
93.93 |
0.9801 |
0.0704 |
289 |
2 |
82.97 |
2008-11-12 |
| 41. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
93.68 |
1.0865 |
-0.0388 |
237 |
1 |
93.68 |
2008-10-10 |
| 42. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
93.67 |
1.0529 |
-0.0025 |
373 |
1 |
93.67 |
2009-01-13 |
| 43. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
93.52 |
0.9915 |
0.0537 |
281 |
1 |
93.52 |
2008-10-03 |
| 44. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
93.49 |
0.9909 |
0.0595 |
293 |
1 |
93.49 |
2008-10-09 |
| 45. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
93.30 |
1.1070 |
-0.0644 |
265 |
2 |
88.60 |
2008-10-02 |
| 46. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
93.06 |
1.0130 |
0.0281 |
288 |
1 |
93.06 |
2008-10-10 |
| 47. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
92.64 |
0.9841 |
0.0505 |
263 |
2 |
90.79 |
2010-01-20 |
| 48. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
92.62 |
0.9673 |
0.0709 |
292 |
1 |
92.62 |
2009-06-10 |
| 49. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
92.60 |
0.9650 |
0.0735 |
347 |
3 |
90.18 |
2008-10-10 |
| 50. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
92.50 |
0.9756 |
0.0584 |
223 |
1 |
92.50 |
2008-10-10 |
| 51. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
92.49 |
0.9681 |
0.0721 |
392 |
1 |
92.49 |
2008-10-02 |
| 52. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
91.81 |
1.0301 |
-0.0045 |
268 |
1 |
91.81 |
2009-04-28 |
| 53. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
91.49 |
1.1086 |
-0.0849 |
233 |
1 |
91.49 |
2009-03-09 |
| 54. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
91.48 |
0.9271 |
0.0957 |
295 |
1 |
91.48 |
2008-10-10 |
| 55. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
91.40 |
1.0372 |
-0.0153 |
249 |
1 |
91.40 |
2008-10-02 |
| 56. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
91.39 |
1.0686 |
-0.0428 |
354 |
1 |
91.39 |
2009-03-09 |
| 57. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
91.31 |
1.0128 |
0.0153 |
369 |
1 |
91.31 |
2008-10-03 |
| 58. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
91.24 |
0.9927 |
0.0284 |
276 |
2 |
86.33 |
2009-02-25 |
| 59. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
91.20 |
0.9680 |
0.0521 |
256 |
1 |
91.20 |
2008-10-10 |
| 60. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
91.15 |
1.0426 |
-0.0271 |
131 |
1 |
91.15 |
2008-10-08 |
| 61. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
90.89 |
0.9931 |
0.0280 |
339 |
2 |
89.49 |
2010-11-24 |
| 62. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
90.79 |
0.9359 |
0.0802 |
355 |
2 |
85.77 |
2008-10-09 |
| 63. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
90.30 |
1.0291 |
-0.0213 |
240 |
1 |
90.30 |
2008-10-10 |
| 64. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
89.98 |
0.9561 |
0.0518 |
362 |
1 |
89.98 |
2008-10-02 |
| 65. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
89.58 |
0.9841 |
0.0144 |
217 |
1 |
89.58 |
2008-10-02 |
| 66. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
89.51 |
0.9952 |
0.0082 |
220 |
1 |
89.51 |
2008-10-02 |
| 67. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
89.26 |
1.0590 |
-0.0619 |
250 |
1 |
89.26 |
2008-10-15 |
| 68. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
89.04 |
0.8936 |
0.1010 |
346 |
2 |
82.25 |
2011-02-22 |
| 69. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
88.81 |
0.9833 |
0.0122 |
387 |
2 |
88.05 |
2008-10-10 |
| 70. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
88.73 |
1.0250 |
-0.0299 |
271 |
1 |
88.73 |
2008-10-02 |
| 71. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
88.71 |
1.1093 |
-0.1229 |
220 |
1 |
88.71 |
2008-10-10 |
| 72. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
88.39 |
1.0125 |
-0.0290 |
171 |
1 |
88.39 |
2008-10-02 |
| 73. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
88.38 |
1.0320 |
-0.0377 |
401 |
1 |
88.38 |
2008-10-09 |
| 74. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
87.79 |
1.0607 |
-0.0762 |
357 |
1 |
87.79 |
2008-10-08 |
| 75. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
87.75 |
1.0332 |
-0.0526 |
267 |
2 |
85.79 |
2008-10-10 |
| 76. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
87.70 |
0.9119 |
0.0731 |
396 |
3 |
75.68 |
2008-10-10 |
| 77. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
87.62 |
0.9357 |
0.0419 |
204 |
1 |
87.62 |
2009-02-21 |
| 78. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
87.56 |
1.0181 |
-0.0377 |
276 |
1 |
87.56 |
2008-10-08 |
| 79. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
87.31 |
0.9810 |
0.0003 |
362 |
2 |
83.72 |
2008-10-10 |
| 80. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
87.21 |
0.9621 |
0.0154 |
212 |
1 |
87.21 |
2008-10-08 |
| 81. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
87.02 |
1.0265 |
-0.0498 |
375 |
1 |
87.02 |
2008-10-10 |
| 82. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
86.65 |
1.0234 |
-0.0505 |
392 |
1 |
86.65 |
2008-10-10 |
| 83. |
There are perhaps twenty regular posters on the forum, and s... |
86.49 |
1.0520 |
-0.0726 |
392 |
1 |
86.49 |
2018-06-07 |
| 84. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
86.43 |
0.9957 |
-0.0295 |
323 |
1 |
86.43 |
2008-10-02 |
| 85. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
86.33 |
1.0208 |
-0.0557 |
231 |
1 |
86.33 |
2008-10-15 |
| 86. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
86.28 |
0.9519 |
0.0167 |
323 |
1 |
86.28 |
2009-06-03 |
| 87. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
85.99 |
0.9265 |
0.0338 |
254 |
2 |
80.75 |
2008-10-09 |
| 88. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
85.68 |
0.9869 |
-0.0326 |
193 |
1 |
85.68 |
2008-10-06 |
| 89. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
85.40 |
0.9736 |
-0.0117 |
378 |
1 |
85.40 |
2008-10-10 |
| 90. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
85.28 |
0.9922 |
-0.0382 |
264 |
1 |
85.28 |
2008-10-09 |
| 91. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
85.17 |
0.9927 |
-0.0438 |
234 |
1 |
85.17 |
2008-10-10 |
| 92. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
85.14 |
0.9339 |
0.0238 |
317 |
3 |
81.63 |
2008-10-10 |
| 93. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
85.02 |
1.0264 |
-0.0801 |
191 |
1 |
85.02 |
2009-03-09 |
| 94. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
84.95 |
0.9966 |
-0.0397 |
377 |
1 |
84.95 |
2008-10-08 |
| 95. |
Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a ch... |
84.75 |
1.0167 |
-0.0662 |
250 |
1 |
84.75 |
2015-06-04 |
| 96. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
84.58 |
0.8778 |
0.0695 |
285 |
2 |
78.71 |
2008-10-09 |
| 97. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
84.21 |
1.0638 |
-0.1244 |
247 |
1 |
84.21 |
2009-03-09 |
| 98. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
84.00 |
1.1198 |
-0.1818 |
247 |
1 |
84.00 |
2008-10-02 |
| 99. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
83.59 |
0.8624 |
0.0673 |
174 |
2 |
81.45 |
2008-10-09 |
| 100. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
83.10 |
0.9352 |
-0.0074 |
194 |
1 |
83.10 |
2009-03-09 |
| 101. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
82.82 |
0.9917 |
-0.0639 |
317 |
1 |
82.82 |
2008-10-03 |
| 102. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
82.79 |
0.8993 |
0.0289 |
366 |
2 |
80.80 |
2008-10-10 |
| 103. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
82.75 |
1.0414 |
-0.1173 |
234 |
1 |
82.75 |
2008-10-06 |
| 104. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
82.36 |
1.0057 |
-0.0822 |
382 |
1 |
82.36 |
2008-10-02 |
| 105. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
82.30 |
0.8986 |
0.0263 |
363 |
1 |
82.30 |
2009-02-25 |
| 106. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
82.04 |
0.9136 |
0.0067 |
348 |
1 |
82.04 |
2008-10-10 |
| 107. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
81.99 |
0.9011 |
0.0185 |
322 |
2 |
78.39 |
2008-10-09 |
| 108. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
81.88 |
0.9603 |
-0.0396 |
430 |
1 |
81.88 |
2008-10-02 |
| 109. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
81.55 |
0.9346 |
-0.0260 |
211 |
1 |
81.55 |
2008-10-06 |
| 110. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
81.13 |
0.9145 |
-0.0043 |
404 |
2 |
81.04 |
2010-06-07 |
| 111. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
80.79 |
0.9780 |
-0.0813 |
173 |
1 |
80.79 |
2008-10-15 |
| 112. |
I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live i... |
80.31 |
1.1242 |
-0.2225 |
144 |
1 |
80.31 |
2015-06-03 |
| 113. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
79.28 |
1.0672 |
-0.1825 |
239 |
1 |
79.28 |
2008-10-02 |
| 114. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
78.92 |
1.0199 |
-0.1418 |
225 |
1 |
78.92 |
2009-03-03 |
| 115. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
78.26 |
0.9135 |
-0.0303 |
393 |
2 |
77.85 |
2008-12-10 |
| 116. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
78.07 |
0.9380 |
-0.0672 |
284 |
2 |
75.59 |
2008-10-06 |
| 117. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
77.32 |
1.0464 |
-0.1775 |
294 |
1 |
77.32 |
2008-10-02 |
| 118. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
77.10 |
0.9713 |
-0.1113 |
193 |
1 |
77.10 |
2008-10-02 |
| 119. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
77.09 |
0.9827 |
-0.1205 |
314 |
1 |
77.09 |
2008-10-06 |
| 120. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
76.91 |
0.9740 |
-0.1115 |
371 |
1 |
76.91 |
2008-10-09 |
| 121. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
76.57 |
1.0411 |
-0.1839 |
341 |
1 |
76.57 |
2008-10-02 |
| 122. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
76.57 |
0.9422 |
-0.0919 |
190 |
1 |
76.57 |
2008-10-02 |
| 123. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
76.30 |
1.0086 |
-0.1605 |
218 |
1 |
76.30 |
2009-02-20 |
| 124. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
76.28 |
0.9609 |
-0.1039 |
331 |
1 |
76.28 |
2008-10-06 |
| 125. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
76.10 |
0.8887 |
-0.0247 |
464 |
1 |
76.10 |
2008-10-10 |
| 126. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
75.98 |
1.0462 |
-0.1944 |
340 |
1 |
75.98 |
2008-10-09 |
| 127. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
75.58 |
0.9726 |
-0.1231 |
396 |
1 |
75.58 |
2008-10-10 |
| 128. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
74.50 |
0.8666 |
-0.0370 |
206 |
1 |
74.50 |
2008-10-09 |
| 129. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
74.21 |
0.9332 |
-0.1043 |
267 |
1 |
74.21 |
2008-10-02 |
| 130. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
74.14 |
0.9849 |
-0.1556 |
337 |
2 |
71.17 |
2008-10-02 |
| 131. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
74.03 |
1.0267 |
-0.1968 |
261 |
1 |
74.03 |
2008-10-08 |
| 132. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
73.00 |
1.0103 |
-0.2008 |
209 |
1 |
73.00 |
2010-06-07 |
| 133. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
72.85 |
0.7923 |
0.0219 |
316 |
1 |
72.85 |
2008-10-09 |
| 134. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
72.75 |
0.9332 |
-0.1194 |
295 |
1 |
72.75 |
2008-10-06 |
| 135. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
70.05 |
0.8986 |
-0.1160 |
216 |
1 |
70.05 |
2008-10-02 |
| 136. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
63.62 |
0.8656 |
-0.1547 |
242 |
1 |
63.62 |
2008-10-02 |
| 137. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
48.02 |
0.9143 |
-0.3791 |
300 |
1 |
48.02 |
2008-10-10 |