| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
103.06 |
1.0800 |
0.3089 |
129 |
1 |
103.06 |
2009-10-03 |
| 2. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
99.50 |
1.0225 |
0.3171 |
152 |
1 |
99.50 |
2012-04-12 |
| 3. |
Living men are bound by time... Thus, their lives have an ur... |
97.04 |
0.9925 |
0.3275 |
365 |
1 |
97.04 |
2015-05-13 |
| 4. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
89.25 |
1.0181 |
0.1912 |
276 |
2 |
79.45 |
2012-04-12 |
| 5. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
87.40 |
1.0845 |
0.0972 |
212 |
1 |
87.40 |
2009-07-31 |
| 6. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
86.58 |
1.0267 |
0.1481 |
261 |
1 |
86.58 |
2009-10-01 |
| 7. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
86.23 |
0.9650 |
0.2046 |
347 |
2 |
82.33 |
2016-12-06 |
| 8. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
86.10 |
1.0617 |
0.1015 |
171 |
1 |
86.10 |
2009-08-04 |
| 9. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
85.98 |
1.0427 |
0.1217 |
269 |
1 |
85.98 |
2009-08-05 |
| 10. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
83.90 |
1.0567 |
0.0782 |
314 |
2 |
78.79 |
2011-12-04 |
| 11. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
83.75 |
1.0877 |
0.0421 |
129 |
1 |
83.75 |
2011-01-06 |
| 12. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
83.53 |
1.0035 |
0.1273 |
310 |
1 |
83.53 |
2009-07-31 |
| 13. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
83.47 |
1.0197 |
0.1079 |
204 |
2 |
80.92 |
2009-10-03 |
| 14. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
82.51 |
0.9377 |
0.1863 |
198 |
1 |
82.51 |
2015-05-13 |
| 15. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
82.22 |
1.0332 |
0.0786 |
267 |
1 |
82.22 |
2012-03-04 |
| 16. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
81.34 |
0.9928 |
0.1070 |
293 |
1 |
81.34 |
2009-10-01 |
| 17. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
81.32 |
1.0333 |
0.0617 |
176 |
1 |
81.32 |
2009-08-04 |
| 18. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
81.20 |
1.0672 |
0.0301 |
239 |
2 |
77.45 |
2009-08-05 |
| 19. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
80.16 |
0.9517 |
0.1313 |
276 |
1 |
80.16 |
2012-03-04 |
| 20. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
80.02 |
0.9890 |
0.0973 |
272 |
1 |
80.02 |
2009-08-04 |
| 21. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
79.91 |
0.9949 |
0.0964 |
304 |
1 |
79.91 |
2009-08-30 |
| 22. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
79.07 |
1.0576 |
0.0091 |
231 |
1 |
79.07 |
2009-08-04 |
| 23. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
78.93 |
0.8988 |
0.1680 |
193 |
1 |
78.93 |
2009-08-04 |
| 24. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
78.89 |
1.0132 |
0.0545 |
371 |
1 |
78.89 |
2009-10-01 |
| 25. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
78.63 |
1.0498 |
0.0149 |
261 |
2 |
76.82 |
2012-04-12 |
| 26. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
78.44 |
0.9829 |
0.0773 |
229 |
1 |
78.44 |
2009-07-31 |
| 27. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
78.22 |
1.0253 |
0.0356 |
337 |
1 |
78.22 |
2009-10-01 |
| 28. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
78.17 |
0.9756 |
0.0810 |
223 |
1 |
78.17 |
2015-05-13 |
| 29. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
78.12 |
1.0506 |
0.0056 |
259 |
1 |
78.12 |
2009-08-04 |
| 30. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
77.81 |
1.0006 |
0.0518 |
311 |
3 |
73.85 |
2009-08-04 |
| 31. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
77.67 |
1.0028 |
0.0466 |
259 |
1 |
77.67 |
2009-08-05 |
| 32. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
77.58 |
1.0265 |
0.0264 |
375 |
1 |
77.58 |
2011-12-04 |
| 33. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
77.45 |
1.0472 |
0.0110 |
397 |
1 |
77.45 |
2011-12-04 |
| 34. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
77.44 |
0.9698 |
0.0825 |
389 |
2 |
69.92 |
2012-04-12 |
| 35. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
77.15 |
1.0189 |
0.0239 |
290 |
1 |
77.15 |
2009-07-31 |
| 36. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
76.77 |
0.9933 |
0.0523 |
450 |
2 |
72.02 |
2009-09-16 |
| 37. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
76.30 |
1.0462 |
-0.0114 |
340 |
1 |
76.30 |
2009-08-05 |
| 38. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
75.95 |
0.9402 |
0.0850 |
310 |
1 |
75.95 |
2009-08-04 |
| 39. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
75.82 |
1.0059 |
0.0206 |
283 |
1 |
75.82 |
2009-07-31 |
| 40. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
75.51 |
0.9989 |
0.0293 |
282 |
1 |
75.51 |
2012-04-12 |
| 41. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
74.96 |
1.0590 |
-0.0465 |
250 |
1 |
74.96 |
2009-07-31 |
| 42. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
74.85 |
0.9673 |
0.0470 |
292 |
1 |
74.85 |
2009-08-04 |
| 43. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
74.78 |
0.8437 |
0.1667 |
268 |
1 |
74.78 |
2009-08-04 |
| 44. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
74.65 |
0.9952 |
0.0166 |
220 |
1 |
74.65 |
2011-01-06 |
| 45. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
74.32 |
1.0320 |
-0.0211 |
401 |
2 |
67.82 |
2009-08-04 |
| 46. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
74.20 |
0.9128 |
0.0877 |
237 |
2 |
68.50 |
2009-08-05 |
| 47. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
74.18 |
1.0511 |
-0.0463 |
252 |
1 |
74.18 |
2009-10-03 |
| 48. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
74.17 |
1.0135 |
-0.0074 |
358 |
1 |
74.17 |
2009-10-04 |
| 49. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
74.04 |
1.0529 |
-0.0492 |
373 |
1 |
74.04 |
2009-08-04 |
| 50. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
73.77 |
0.9400 |
0.0600 |
434 |
1 |
73.77 |
2009-08-05 |
| 51. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
73.67 |
1.0639 |
-0.0668 |
303 |
1 |
73.67 |
2009-08-05 |
| 52. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
73.58 |
0.9957 |
-0.0011 |
323 |
1 |
73.58 |
2009-08-04 |
| 53. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
73.46 |
0.9927 |
0.0024 |
262 |
2 |
67.31 |
2009-08-04 |
| 54. |
The child is brought up in a culture where he or she simply ... |
73.43 |
1.0215 |
-0.0198 |
356 |
1 |
73.43 |
2015-05-07 |
| 55. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
72.96 |
1.0777 |
-0.0934 |
226 |
1 |
72.96 |
2009-08-04 |
| 56. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
72.94 |
0.9762 |
0.0099 |
249 |
1 |
72.94 |
2009-10-03 |
| 57. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
72.92 |
0.9681 |
0.0233 |
392 |
1 |
72.92 |
2009-08-05 |
| 58. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
72.78 |
1.0194 |
-0.0376 |
224 |
1 |
72.78 |
2009-08-05 |
| 59. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
72.57 |
1.0479 |
-0.0684 |
205 |
2 |
71.87 |
2009-10-01 |
| 60. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
72.33 |
1.0588 |
-0.0809 |
281 |
1 |
72.33 |
2009-08-04 |
| 61. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
72.09 |
0.9981 |
-0.0245 |
211 |
1 |
72.09 |
2009-08-05 |
| 62. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
71.79 |
0.9810 |
-0.0055 |
362 |
1 |
71.79 |
2009-08-04 |
| 63. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
71.43 |
0.8880 |
0.0777 |
296 |
1 |
71.43 |
2009-08-04 |
| 64. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
71.34 |
1.0867 |
-0.1268 |
171 |
2 |
70.78 |
2009-10-03 |
| 65. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
70.91 |
1.0139 |
-0.0424 |
349 |
1 |
70.91 |
2009-10-04 |
| 66. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
70.41 |
0.9500 |
0.0034 |
287 |
1 |
70.41 |
2009-07-31 |
| 67. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
70.33 |
0.9632 |
-0.0114 |
287 |
1 |
70.33 |
2009-07-31 |
| 68. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
69.96 |
0.8830 |
0.0651 |
300 |
1 |
69.96 |
2009-11-29 |
| 69. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
69.84 |
1.0131 |
-0.0658 |
245 |
1 |
69.84 |
2009-09-16 |
| 70. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
69.69 |
0.9980 |
-0.0539 |
295 |
1 |
69.69 |
2009-08-05 |
| 71. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
69.49 |
0.9136 |
0.0289 |
348 |
1 |
69.49 |
2009-10-03 |
| 72. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
68.86 |
0.9503 |
-0.0264 |
211 |
1 |
68.86 |
2009-07-31 |
| 73. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
68.85 |
0.9228 |
0.0122 |
305 |
1 |
68.85 |
2011-01-06 |
| 74. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
68.79 |
0.9660 |
-0.0292 |
258 |
1 |
68.79 |
2012-04-12 |
| 75. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
68.24 |
1.0079 |
-0.0867 |
273 |
1 |
68.24 |
2009-09-16 |
| 76. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
68.19 |
0.9841 |
-0.0642 |
263 |
1 |
68.19 |
2009-08-04 |
| 77. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
68.17 |
0.9424 |
-0.0187 |
320 |
1 |
68.17 |
2009-10-01 |
| 78. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
67.99 |
1.0199 |
-0.1049 |
225 |
1 |
67.99 |
2009-08-04 |
| 79. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
67.64 |
0.8981 |
0.0246 |
255 |
1 |
67.64 |
2011-01-06 |
| 80. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
67.33 |
1.0270 |
-0.1166 |
303 |
1 |
67.33 |
2009-08-04 |
| 81. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
67.19 |
0.9392 |
-0.0252 |
360 |
1 |
67.19 |
2009-08-04 |
| 82. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
67.10 |
0.9574 |
-0.0475 |
354 |
1 |
67.10 |
2009-08-04 |
| 83. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
66.92 |
0.9244 |
-0.0150 |
225 |
1 |
66.92 |
2012-04-12 |
| 84. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
66.90 |
0.8964 |
0.0046 |
199 |
1 |
66.90 |
2009-08-04 |
| 85. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
66.74 |
0.9143 |
-0.0115 |
300 |
1 |
66.74 |
2015-05-07 |
| 86. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
66.41 |
1.0067 |
-0.0957 |
422 |
1 |
66.41 |
2011-01-06 |
| 87. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
64.53 |
1.0165 |
-0.1456 |
316 |
1 |
64.53 |
2009-09-16 |
| 88. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
64.30 |
0.9357 |
-0.0693 |
204 |
1 |
64.30 |
2009-10-03 |
| 89. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
63.90 |
0.9844 |
-0.1092 |
351 |
1 |
63.90 |
2009-10-01 |
| 90. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
62.91 |
0.9926 |
-0.1317 |
413 |
1 |
62.91 |
2015-05-07 |
| 91. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
61.59 |
0.9339 |
-0.0964 |
317 |
1 |
61.59 |
2009-08-03 |
| 92. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
61.42 |
0.9927 |
-0.1666 |
234 |
1 |
61.42 |
2009-07-31 |
| 93. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
61.22 |
0.9827 |
-0.1551 |
314 |
1 |
61.22 |
2009-08-04 |
| 94. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
60.45 |
0.7923 |
0.0245 |
316 |
1 |
60.45 |
2009-08-04 |
| 95. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
59.46 |
0.8847 |
-0.0842 |
282 |
1 |
59.46 |
2009-08-04 |
| 96. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
59.45 |
0.9346 |
-0.1349 |
211 |
1 |
59.45 |
2009-08-04 |
| 97. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
55.28 |
1.0130 |
-0.2670 |
288 |
1 |
55.28 |
2009-07-31 |
| 98. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
51.23 |
0.8986 |
-0.2072 |
216 |
1 |
51.23 |
2011-01-06 |
| 99. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
45.07 |
1.0016 |
-0.3962 |
217 |
1 |
45.07 |
2009-07-31 |
| 100. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
34.15 |
1.0881 |
-0.6336 |
210 |
1 |
34.15 |
2009-07-31 |