| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
144.36 |
0.9221 |
0.4359 |
244 |
2 |
143.65 |
2013-06-27 |
| 2. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
141.25 |
1.0496 |
0.2796 |
314 |
1 |
141.25 |
2013-06-27 |
| 3. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
136.97 |
1.0485 |
0.2754 |
153 |
1 |
136.97 |
2013-06-27 |
| 4. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
135.39 |
1.0205 |
0.2472 |
179 |
1 |
135.39 |
2013-06-27 |
| 5. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
132.91 |
1.1215 |
0.1531 |
200 |
1 |
132.91 |
2011-04-08 |
| 6. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
131.97 |
1.0390 |
0.1989 |
205 |
2 |
128.78 |
2013-06-27 |
| 7. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
131.13 |
1.0251 |
0.2064 |
261 |
1 |
131.13 |
2013-06-27 |
| 8. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
129.13 |
0.9936 |
0.2412 |
227 |
2 |
118.74 |
2013-06-27 |
| 9. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
127.45 |
0.8792 |
0.3288 |
296 |
1 |
127.45 |
2013-06-27 |
| 10. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
126.71 |
1.0257 |
0.1724 |
401 |
1 |
126.71 |
2011-04-05 |
| 11. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
126.19 |
1.0574 |
0.1572 |
205 |
1 |
126.19 |
2011-04-08 |
| 12. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
126.04 |
1.0829 |
0.1039 |
288 |
2 |
119.86 |
2011-04-08 |
| 13. |
As civilizations grew, humans spread out across the face of ... |
125.03 |
0.9418 |
0.2395 |
188 |
2 |
106.57 |
2012-01-26 |
| 14. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
124.43 |
1.0445 |
0.1264 |
373 |
1 |
124.43 |
2011-04-03 |
| 15. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
123.63 |
1.0346 |
0.1698 |
244 |
1 |
123.63 |
2011-04-03 |
| 16. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
123.48 |
1.0941 |
0.0981 |
256 |
2 |
116.46 |
2012-02-16 |
| 17. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
123.18 |
1.0696 |
0.0850 |
226 |
1 |
123.18 |
2011-04-02 |
| 18. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
122.11 |
1.0263 |
0.1209 |
267 |
1 |
122.11 |
2012-02-16 |
| 19. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
121.88 |
1.0621 |
0.1031 |
263 |
2 |
75.71 |
2011-04-03 |
| 20. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
121.39 |
1.0768 |
0.1044 |
295 |
1 |
121.39 |
2011-04-02 |
| 21. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
121.38 |
0.9820 |
0.1618 |
267 |
1 |
121.38 |
2011-04-08 |
| 22. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
120.94 |
1.0090 |
0.1716 |
282 |
1 |
120.94 |
2011-04-02 |
| 23. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
120.05 |
1.0124 |
0.1136 |
204 |
1 |
120.05 |
2013-06-27 |
| 24. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
119.86 |
0.9994 |
0.1578 |
269 |
1 |
119.86 |
2011-04-05 |
| 25. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
119.74 |
1.0331 |
0.0901 |
234 |
1 |
119.74 |
2011-04-06 |
| 26. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
117.37 |
0.9936 |
0.1090 |
311 |
1 |
117.37 |
2011-04-03 |
| 27. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
116.44 |
1.0314 |
0.1019 |
452 |
1 |
116.44 |
2011-04-08 |
| 28. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
115.86 |
0.9125 |
0.1778 |
308 |
1 |
115.86 |
2011-04-03 |
| 29. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
115.38 |
0.9398 |
0.1535 |
419 |
2 |
112.16 |
2011-04-03 |
| 30. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
114.81 |
1.0523 |
0.0220 |
256 |
2 |
93.03 |
2011-04-02 |
| 31. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
114.55 |
1.1162 |
0.0009 |
189 |
1 |
114.55 |
2011-04-04 |
| 32. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
113.45 |
1.0669 |
0.0316 |
213 |
1 |
113.45 |
2011-04-02 |
| 33. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
113.34 |
0.9632 |
0.1437 |
345 |
1 |
113.34 |
2011-04-02 |
| 34. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
112.65 |
0.9578 |
0.0997 |
281 |
1 |
112.65 |
2011-04-08 |
| 35. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
112.57 |
1.0201 |
0.0376 |
303 |
1 |
112.57 |
2013-06-27 |
| 36. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
112.55 |
1.0125 |
0.0824 |
413 |
1 |
112.55 |
2012-01-19 |
| 37. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
112.37 |
0.9871 |
0.0905 |
227 |
1 |
112.37 |
2011-04-05 |
| 38. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
112.36 |
1.0885 |
-0.0299 |
315 |
1 |
112.36 |
2011-04-04 |
| 39. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
112.28 |
0.9731 |
0.0689 |
129 |
1 |
112.28 |
2011-04-08 |
| 40. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
112.14 |
1.0167 |
0.0433 |
378 |
1 |
112.14 |
2011-04-06 |
| 41. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
112.01 |
1.0358 |
0.0577 |
349 |
1 |
112.01 |
2011-04-02 |
| 42. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
111.79 |
1.0343 |
0.0530 |
242 |
1 |
111.79 |
2011-04-02 |
| 43. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
111.10 |
1.0025 |
0.0417 |
336 |
2 |
103.10 |
2011-04-03 |
| 44. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
111.01 |
0.9910 |
0.0533 |
295 |
1 |
111.01 |
2013-06-27 |
| 45. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
111.01 |
0.9164 |
0.1308 |
305 |
2 |
105.94 |
2012-02-16 |
| 46. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
110.53 |
1.0034 |
0.0330 |
302 |
1 |
110.53 |
2011-04-08 |
| 47. |
The idea of "Mr. Right" has been passed down over the genera... |
109.97 |
0.9671 |
0.0896 |
379 |
1 |
109.97 |
2011-04-03 |
| 48. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
109.84 |
1.0368 |
-0.0046 |
276 |
1 |
109.84 |
2011-04-08 |
| 49. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
109.79 |
1.0531 |
0.0158 |
272 |
2 |
108.63 |
2011-04-06 |
| 50. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
109.73 |
0.9710 |
0.0528 |
173 |
1 |
109.73 |
2011-04-04 |
| 51. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
109.53 |
0.9851 |
0.0455 |
317 |
1 |
109.53 |
2012-02-16 |
| 52. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
109.51 |
0.9884 |
0.0390 |
233 |
2 |
106.18 |
2011-04-06 |
| 53. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
109.44 |
0.8916 |
0.1362 |
216 |
1 |
109.44 |
2013-06-27 |
| 54. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
109.37 |
1.0053 |
0.0195 |
232 |
1 |
109.37 |
2011-04-08 |
| 55. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
109.31 |
0.9756 |
0.0494 |
229 |
1 |
109.31 |
2011-04-04 |
| 56. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
109.31 |
0.9485 |
0.0802 |
291 |
1 |
109.31 |
2011-04-03 |
| 57. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
108.94 |
0.8353 |
0.1950 |
283 |
2 |
95.08 |
2013-06-27 |
| 58. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
108.91 |
0.9965 |
0.0266 |
277 |
1 |
108.91 |
2011-04-02 |
| 59. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
108.82 |
1.1323 |
-0.0770 |
341 |
2 |
103.86 |
2011-04-05 |
| 60. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
108.02 |
1.0669 |
-0.0206 |
286 |
1 |
108.02 |
2013-06-27 |
| 61. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
106.69 |
1.0644 |
-0.0269 |
257 |
1 |
106.69 |
2011-04-02 |
| 62. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
106.43 |
0.9631 |
0.0871 |
345 |
1 |
106.43 |
2011-04-08 |
| 63. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
106.34 |
1.0487 |
-0.0557 |
231 |
1 |
106.34 |
2010-02-21 |
| 64. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
106.33 |
0.9570 |
0.0426 |
287 |
1 |
106.33 |
2011-04-03 |
| 65. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
106.21 |
0.9266 |
0.0720 |
278 |
1 |
106.21 |
2012-01-19 |
| 66. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
105.77 |
1.0577 |
-0.0686 |
247 |
1 |
105.77 |
2011-04-03 |
| 67. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
105.72 |
0.9965 |
-0.0092 |
168 |
1 |
105.72 |
2011-04-02 |
| 68. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
105.46 |
1.1114 |
-0.1244 |
247 |
2 |
79.97 |
2011-04-03 |
| 69. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
105.34 |
0.9289 |
0.0573 |
204 |
1 |
105.34 |
2010-02-12 |
| 70. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
104.58 |
1.0885 |
-0.0723 |
341 |
1 |
104.58 |
2011-04-02 |
| 71. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
104.45 |
1.0534 |
-0.0711 |
357 |
1 |
104.45 |
2011-04-02 |
| 72. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
104.14 |
0.9754 |
0.0078 |
362 |
1 |
104.14 |
2011-04-03 |
| 73. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
103.56 |
0.9612 |
0.0104 |
256 |
1 |
103.56 |
2010-02-12 |
| 74. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
101.99 |
0.9997 |
-0.0394 |
382 |
1 |
101.99 |
2011-04-03 |
| 75. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
101.85 |
0.9500 |
0.0076 |
362 |
1 |
101.85 |
2011-04-05 |
| 76. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
101.61 |
1.0099 |
-0.0597 |
207 |
1 |
101.61 |
2012-02-16 |
| 77. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
101.60 |
0.9212 |
0.0351 |
323 |
1 |
101.60 |
2011-04-08 |
| 78. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
101.19 |
1.0385 |
-0.0912 |
230 |
1 |
101.19 |
2011-04-02 |
| 79. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
101.06 |
0.9529 |
0.0355 |
269 |
1 |
101.06 |
2011-04-02 |
| 80. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
100.68 |
0.9965 |
-0.0520 |
310 |
1 |
100.68 |
2011-04-02 |
| 81. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
100.49 |
0.8919 |
0.0488 |
205 |
1 |
100.49 |
2011-04-04 |
| 82. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
100.24 |
0.9986 |
-0.0635 |
162 |
1 |
100.24 |
2011-04-02 |
| 83. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
99.81 |
0.9064 |
0.0388 |
399 |
1 |
99.81 |
2011-04-02 |
| 84. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
99.79 |
0.9709 |
0.0059 |
397 |
1 |
99.79 |
2012-01-19 |
| 85. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
99.76 |
0.9005 |
0.0335 |
212 |
1 |
99.76 |
2011-04-02 |
| 86. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
99.41 |
1.0403 |
-0.0931 |
193 |
1 |
99.41 |
2011-04-05 |
| 87. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
99.19 |
0.8553 |
0.0697 |
174 |
1 |
99.19 |
2011-04-02 |
| 88. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
99.09 |
1.0033 |
-0.0809 |
189 |
1 |
99.09 |
2011-04-02 |
| 89. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
98.16 |
0.9371 |
0.0221 |
318 |
1 |
98.16 |
2011-04-03 |
| 90. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
97.86 |
1.0016 |
-0.0888 |
218 |
2 |
95.18 |
2011-04-02 |
| 91. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
97.29 |
1.0943 |
-0.1497 |
206 |
1 |
97.29 |
2012-02-16 |
| 92. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
97.19 |
0.9739 |
-0.0270 |
412 |
1 |
97.19 |
2011-04-02 |
| 93. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
96.82 |
1.0125 |
-0.1073 |
224 |
2 |
85.09 |
2011-04-03 |
| 94. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
94.88 |
0.8467 |
0.0666 |
343 |
1 |
94.88 |
2011-04-03 |
| 95. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
94.76 |
0.9351 |
-0.0526 |
190 |
1 |
94.76 |
2011-04-04 |
| 96. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
94.66 |
0.9912 |
-0.0773 |
237 |
1 |
94.66 |
2011-04-02 |
| 97. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
93.47 |
0.9084 |
-0.0309 |
300 |
1 |
93.47 |
2010-04-28 |
| 98. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
92.41 |
0.9905 |
-0.0935 |
337 |
1 |
92.41 |
2011-04-04 |
| 99. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
92.10 |
0.9074 |
-0.0382 |
396 |
1 |
92.10 |
2011-04-02 |
| 100. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
91.46 |
0.9675 |
-0.1014 |
383 |
1 |
91.46 |
2010-02-12 |
| 101. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
90.70 |
0.9049 |
-0.0501 |
351 |
1 |
90.70 |
2009-04-21 |
| 102. |
Three changes occur while the stacked disk structure equilib... |
90.65 |
0.9382 |
-0.0642 |
440 |
1 |
90.65 |
2011-04-05 |
| 103. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
90.48 |
0.9376 |
-0.0849 |
367 |
1 |
90.48 |
2011-04-05 |
| 104. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
89.61 |
1.0619 |
-0.2193 |
354 |
1 |
89.61 |
2010-04-28 |
| 105. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
89.36 |
0.9785 |
-0.1387 |
335 |
1 |
89.36 |
2010-02-17 |
| 106. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
88.99 |
1.0337 |
-0.2012 |
214 |
1 |
88.99 |
2010-02-21 |
| 107. |
The label doesn't mention that that rib-eye steak came from ... |
88.64 |
0.7731 |
0.0587 |
145 |
1 |
88.64 |
2012-02-16 |
| 108. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
88.60 |
0.9676 |
-0.1299 |
442 |
1 |
88.60 |
2010-02-12 |
| 109. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
88.32 |
0.9904 |
-0.1231 |
203 |
1 |
88.32 |
2011-04-04 |
| 110. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
87.93 |
0.9758 |
-0.1521 |
314 |
1 |
87.93 |
2010-02-12 |
| 111. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
84.88 |
1.0252 |
-0.2377 |
176 |
2 |
74.68 |
2011-04-03 |
| 112. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
84.77 |
0.8653 |
-0.0610 |
255 |
1 |
84.77 |
2012-01-26 |
| 113. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
82.84 |
0.8105 |
-0.0402 |
204 |
1 |
82.84 |
2011-04-02 |
| 114. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
82.56 |
0.9653 |
-0.1850 |
394 |
1 |
82.56 |
2010-02-17 |
| 115. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
82.06 |
0.9553 |
-0.1809 |
430 |
1 |
82.06 |
2011-04-05 |
| 116. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
81.91 |
0.9023 |
-0.0937 |
231 |
1 |
81.91 |
2012-02-16 |
| 117. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
81.24 |
1.0284 |
-0.2257 |
282 |
1 |
81.24 |
2011-04-02 |
| 118. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
80.21 |
1.0666 |
-0.3169 |
297 |
2 |
70.15 |
2012-02-16 |
| 119. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
79.96 |
1.0063 |
-0.2586 |
371 |
1 |
79.96 |
2011-04-03 |
| 120. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
76.40 |
1.0419 |
-0.3285 |
261 |
1 |
76.40 |
2009-04-21 |
| 121. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
72.15 |
0.9922 |
-0.2781 |
341 |
1 |
72.15 |
2012-01-19 |
| 122. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
66.99 |
0.9699 |
-0.3465 |
269 |
1 |
66.99 |
2009-05-30 |
| 123. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
52.83 |
0.9691 |
-0.4803 |
223 |
1 |
52.83 |
2010-02-12 |
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One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
38.90 |
1.0528 |
-0.7009 |
201 |
1 |
38.90 |
2011-04-03 |