| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The boy had a way with words, he sang, he moved with grace. ... |
88.58 |
1.0434 |
0.7608 |
230 |
1 |
88.58 |
2025-08-26 |
| 2. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
82.79 |
1.0025 |
0.6837 |
256 |
1 |
82.79 |
2013-12-25 |
| 3. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
80.21 |
1.0941 |
0.5396 |
256 |
2 |
61.21 |
2014-05-13 |
| 4. |
A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppress... |
66.84 |
1.0617 |
0.2997 |
247 |
1 |
66.84 |
2015-12-20 |
| 5. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
64.98 |
1.0795 |
0.2440 |
226 |
1 |
64.98 |
2015-10-16 |
| 6. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
63.69 |
0.9851 |
0.3121 |
317 |
1 |
63.69 |
2015-11-18 |
| 7. |
Because some men aren't looking for anything logical, like m... |
62.89 |
1.0031 |
0.2778 |
170 |
1 |
62.89 |
2015-10-15 |
| 8. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
62.13 |
1.0521 |
0.2133 |
171 |
1 |
62.13 |
2015-11-18 |
| 9. |
You have two choices: you can keep running and hiding and bl... |
61.56 |
1.0660 |
0.1878 |
164 |
1 |
61.56 |
2015-12-19 |
| 10. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
60.50 |
1.0679 |
0.1643 |
177 |
1 |
60.50 |
2015-11-18 |
| 11. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
60.24 |
1.0943 |
0.1326 |
206 |
1 |
60.24 |
2015-10-14 |
| 12. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
60.24 |
1.0799 |
0.1470 |
243 |
2 |
54.35 |
2015-10-21 |
| 13. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
60.17 |
0.9653 |
0.2602 |
394 |
1 |
60.17 |
2015-11-17 |
| 14. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
58.77 |
1.0462 |
0.1508 |
184 |
2 |
57.18 |
2015-10-19 |
| 15. |
I never wanted to become someone like him. So secure, conten... |
58.61 |
1.0519 |
0.1418 |
245 |
1 |
58.61 |
2015-10-20 |
| 16. |
How do I live without the ones I love? Time still turns the ... |
58.39 |
1.0381 |
0.1512 |
170 |
1 |
58.39 |
2015-10-14 |
| 17. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
57.30 |
0.9461 |
0.2210 |
193 |
1 |
57.30 |
2015-11-18 |
| 18. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
57.19 |
1.0201 |
0.1447 |
172 |
1 |
57.19 |
2013-12-21 |
| 19. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
56.82 |
0.9064 |
0.2509 |
399 |
1 |
56.82 |
2015-11-18 |
| 20. |
We're no strangers to love. You know the rules and so do I. ... |
56.53 |
0.9838 |
0.1676 |
387 |
1 |
56.53 |
2015-10-15 |
| 21. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
56.41 |
1.0533 |
0.0956 |
257 |
2 |
55.72 |
2015-10-14 |
| 22. |
You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I ... |
56.36 |
1.0213 |
0.1266 |
155 |
1 |
56.36 |
2015-10-16 |
| 23. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
56.27 |
1.0444 |
0.1017 |
197 |
1 |
56.27 |
2015-10-19 |
| 24. |
The shearers' hut had bark walls and a tin roof. The floors ... |
55.66 |
0.9943 |
0.1394 |
321 |
1 |
55.66 |
2015-10-21 |
| 25. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
55.21 |
1.0201 |
0.1044 |
375 |
1 |
55.21 |
2015-12-11 |
| 26. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
55.13 |
1.0567 |
0.0662 |
303 |
2 |
50.12 |
2014-05-13 |
| 27. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
54.86 |
0.9128 |
0.2046 |
133 |
1 |
54.86 |
2014-05-13 |
| 28. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
54.57 |
1.0062 |
0.1053 |
288 |
1 |
54.57 |
2015-11-18 |
| 29. |
Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a ch... |
54.42 |
1.0118 |
0.0966 |
250 |
1 |
54.42 |
2015-10-16 |
| 30. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
54.20 |
0.9340 |
0.1699 |
296 |
1 |
54.20 |
2015-11-18 |
| 31. |
I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you... |
54.11 |
1.0057 |
0.0964 |
458 |
1 |
54.11 |
2015-12-21 |
| 32. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
53.93 |
0.9943 |
0.1041 |
373 |
1 |
53.93 |
2015-11-18 |
| 33. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
53.78 |
1.0445 |
0.0509 |
373 |
1 |
53.78 |
2015-10-21 |
| 34. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
53.34 |
0.9084 |
0.1780 |
300 |
1 |
53.34 |
2015-11-13 |
| 35. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
53.16 |
1.0459 |
0.0368 |
200 |
1 |
53.16 |
2014-05-14 |
| 36. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
52.47 |
0.9706 |
0.0981 |
216 |
2 |
51.97 |
2014-05-17 |
| 37. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
52.42 |
1.0516 |
0.0161 |
281 |
1 |
52.42 |
2015-10-16 |
| 38. |
In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice ... |
52.42 |
1.0375 |
0.0302 |
224 |
1 |
52.42 |
2015-10-14 |
| 39. |
To be fair, English is full of booby traps for the unwary fo... |
52.21 |
0.9175 |
0.1459 |
240 |
1 |
52.21 |
2015-11-18 |
| 40. |
The feeling of having no power over people and events is gen... |
51.96 |
0.9850 |
0.0733 |
384 |
1 |
51.96 |
2015-10-14 |
| 41. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
51.71 |
1.0029 |
0.0503 |
209 |
1 |
51.71 |
2014-05-17 |
| 42. |
I was stealing saltshakers again. Ten, sometimes twelve a ni... |
51.63 |
0.9829 |
0.0687 |
371 |
1 |
51.63 |
2015-10-19 |
| 43. |
Thing is Butch, right now you got ability. But painful as it... |
51.62 |
0.8912 |
0.1602 |
186 |
1 |
51.62 |
2014-05-14 |
| 44. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
51.14 |
0.9795 |
0.0621 |
308 |
1 |
51.14 |
2014-05-14 |
| 45. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
51.10 |
0.9649 |
0.0759 |
193 |
1 |
51.10 |
2015-10-14 |
| 46. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
50.80 |
0.9843 |
0.0504 |
234 |
1 |
50.80 |
2014-05-17 |
| 47. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
50.42 |
0.9846 |
0.0423 |
281 |
2 |
42.92 |
2015-11-18 |
| 48. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
50.05 |
1.0719 |
-0.0525 |
360 |
1 |
50.05 |
2013-12-21 |
| 49. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
50.02 |
0.9682 |
0.0506 |
143 |
2 |
46.70 |
2014-05-15 |
| 50. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
49.95 |
0.9871 |
0.0303 |
209 |
1 |
49.95 |
2015-11-13 |
| 51. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
49.72 |
0.9125 |
0.1002 |
308 |
1 |
49.72 |
2015-10-14 |
| 52. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
49.62 |
0.8559 |
0.1547 |
191 |
1 |
49.62 |
2013-12-21 |
| 53. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
49.59 |
1.0343 |
-0.0243 |
242 |
1 |
49.59 |
2013-12-22 |
| 54. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
49.36 |
1.0696 |
-0.0643 |
226 |
1 |
49.36 |
2014-01-07 |
| 55. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
49.27 |
1.0644 |
-0.0609 |
257 |
1 |
49.27 |
2013-12-22 |
| 56. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
49.14 |
1.0151 |
-0.0142 |
152 |
1 |
49.14 |
2014-05-17 |
| 57. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
49.05 |
1.0574 |
-0.0584 |
205 |
1 |
49.05 |
2015-10-26 |
| 58. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
48.67 |
1.0684 |
-0.0771 |
253 |
1 |
48.67 |
2014-05-13 |
| 59. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
48.15 |
1.1081 |
-0.1274 |
206 |
1 |
48.15 |
2014-05-16 |
| 60. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
47.97 |
0.8975 |
0.0795 |
268 |
1 |
47.97 |
2014-05-14 |
| 61. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
47.91 |
1.0669 |
-0.0911 |
286 |
1 |
47.91 |
2014-05-15 |
| 62. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
47.71 |
0.9731 |
-0.0014 |
129 |
1 |
47.71 |
2014-06-16 |
| 63. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
47.51 |
1.0463 |
-0.0786 |
182 |
1 |
47.51 |
2013-12-24 |
| 64. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
47.40 |
0.9351 |
0.0303 |
190 |
1 |
47.40 |
2015-11-18 |
| 65. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
47.37 |
0.9303 |
0.0345 |
176 |
1 |
47.37 |
2015-10-13 |
| 66. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
47.28 |
0.9247 |
0.0383 |
253 |
1 |
47.28 |
2015-10-14 |
| 67. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
47.15 |
1.0213 |
-0.0610 |
240 |
1 |
47.15 |
2014-05-14 |
| 68. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
47.03 |
0.9207 |
0.0372 |
174 |
1 |
47.03 |
2014-05-15 |
| 69. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
46.84 |
0.8968 |
0.0572 |
186 |
1 |
46.84 |
2013-12-22 |
| 70. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
46.79 |
0.9884 |
-0.0354 |
262 |
1 |
46.79 |
2013-12-24 |
| 71. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
46.61 |
0.9504 |
-0.0011 |
263 |
1 |
46.61 |
2015-12-19 |
| 72. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
46.46 |
1.0288 |
-0.0825 |
300 |
1 |
46.46 |
2014-01-15 |
| 73. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
45.98 |
0.9257 |
0.0108 |
317 |
1 |
45.98 |
2014-01-16 |
| 74. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
45.64 |
0.9893 |
-0.0597 |
323 |
1 |
45.64 |
2014-06-16 |
| 75. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
45.06 |
1.0375 |
-0.1197 |
200 |
1 |
45.06 |
2014-01-15 |
| 76. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
45.02 |
0.9097 |
0.0073 |
153 |
1 |
45.02 |
2014-01-16 |
| 77. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
45.01 |
0.9371 |
-0.0204 |
318 |
1 |
45.01 |
2015-10-21 |
| 78. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
44.65 |
0.9907 |
-0.0813 |
211 |
1 |
44.65 |
2015-12-19 |
| 79. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
44.46 |
0.9786 |
-0.0731 |
235 |
1 |
44.46 |
2014-01-16 |
| 80. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
44.39 |
0.9646 |
-0.0605 |
264 |
1 |
44.39 |
2013-12-25 |
| 81. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
44.33 |
0.9619 |
-0.0590 |
393 |
1 |
44.33 |
2014-05-15 |
| 82. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
44.16 |
1.0441 |
-0.1447 |
316 |
1 |
44.16 |
2014-05-16 |
| 83. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
44.15 |
1.0183 |
-0.1191 |
191 |
1 |
44.15 |
2014-01-15 |
| 84. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
43.74 |
0.9841 |
-0.0932 |
334 |
1 |
43.74 |
2013-12-25 |
| 85. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
43.70 |
1.0417 |
-0.1516 |
253 |
1 |
43.70 |
2014-01-15 |
| 86. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
43.64 |
0.9212 |
-0.0324 |
231 |
1 |
43.64 |
2014-05-16 |
| 87. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
43.62 |
1.0740 |
-0.1856 |
264 |
1 |
43.62 |
2014-01-16 |
| 88. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
43.52 |
1.0038 |
-0.1174 |
237 |
1 |
43.52 |
2014-05-17 |
| 89. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
43.44 |
1.0529 |
-0.1681 |
351 |
2 |
42.86 |
2014-01-07 |
| 90. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
43.42 |
0.9672 |
-0.0828 |
396 |
1 |
43.42 |
2013-12-25 |
| 91. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
43.41 |
1.0320 |
-0.1478 |
293 |
1 |
43.41 |
2014-01-06 |
| 92. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
43.36 |
1.0547 |
-0.1716 |
257 |
1 |
43.36 |
2013-12-25 |
| 93. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
43.24 |
0.9785 |
-0.0978 |
335 |
1 |
43.24 |
2014-01-17 |
| 94. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
43.03 |
0.9946 |
-0.1182 |
246 |
1 |
43.03 |
2014-05-15 |
| 95. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
43.02 |
1.0379 |
-0.1617 |
245 |
1 |
43.02 |
2014-01-15 |
| 96. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
43.01 |
1.0034 |
-0.1274 |
302 |
1 |
43.01 |
2014-05-13 |
| 97. |
The label doesn't mention that that rib-eye steak came from ... |
42.73 |
0.7731 |
0.0972 |
145 |
1 |
42.73 |
2014-05-17 |
| 98. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
42.33 |
0.9049 |
-0.0427 |
351 |
1 |
42.33 |
2014-01-16 |
| 99. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
42.16 |
0.9729 |
-0.1142 |
255 |
1 |
42.16 |
2014-01-15 |
| 100. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
41.26 |
0.9330 |
-0.0926 |
360 |
1 |
41.26 |
2014-05-13 |
| 101. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
41.22 |
0.9266 |
-0.0870 |
267 |
1 |
41.22 |
2014-01-16 |
| 102. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
41.13 |
0.9814 |
-0.1437 |
364 |
2 |
38.60 |
2014-02-14 |
| 103. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
41.02 |
0.8520 |
-0.0165 |
202 |
1 |
41.02 |
2014-05-15 |
| 104. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
40.96 |
0.8996 |
-0.0653 |
192 |
1 |
40.96 |
2015-11-13 |
| 105. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
40.12 |
0.8348 |
-0.0177 |
219 |
1 |
40.12 |
2014-01-15 |
| 106. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
39.58 |
0.8826 |
-0.0764 |
296 |
1 |
39.58 |
2013-12-22 |
| 107. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
39.53 |
0.9164 |
-0.1113 |
305 |
1 |
39.53 |
2013-12-19 |
| 108. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
38.97 |
0.9567 |
-0.1630 |
184 |
1 |
38.97 |
2014-05-13 |
| 109. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
38.87 |
0.9084 |
-0.1167 |
404 |
2 |
37.99 |
2014-05-13 |
| 110. |
Buddhism addresses two major types of meditation. Vipassana ... |
38.54 |
0.9312 |
-0.1462 |
320 |
1 |
38.54 |
2013-12-21 |
| 111. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
38.41 |
0.8533 |
-0.0710 |
232 |
1 |
38.41 |
2013-12-26 |
| 112. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
38.40 |
1.0403 |
-0.2582 |
275 |
1 |
38.40 |
2014-01-15 |
| 113. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
38.34 |
1.0485 |
-0.2676 |
153 |
1 |
38.34 |
2013-12-21 |
| 114. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
38.29 |
1.0068 |
-0.2269 |
358 |
1 |
38.29 |
2013-12-26 |
| 115. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
38.09 |
0.9852 |
-0.2094 |
264 |
1 |
38.09 |
2014-05-15 |
| 116. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
37.12 |
1.0090 |
-0.2530 |
282 |
1 |
37.12 |
2014-05-15 |
| 117. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
36.36 |
1.1014 |
-0.3608 |
273 |
1 |
36.36 |
2014-01-16 |
| 118. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
33.30 |
0.8467 |
-0.1685 |
343 |
1 |
33.30 |
2014-01-15 |
| 119. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
32.00 |
0.7805 |
-0.1287 |
154 |
1 |
32.00 |
2014-01-16 |