| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
158.02 |
1.0445 |
0.3283 |
373 |
3 |
137.29 |
2011-01-28 |
| 2. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
145.83 |
1.0529 |
0.2121 |
351 |
1 |
145.83 |
2010-01-08 |
| 3. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
144.46 |
1.0251 |
0.2258 |
261 |
2 |
142.21 |
2008-08-16 |
| 4. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
144.06 |
1.0023 |
0.2454 |
211 |
2 |
117.02 |
2009-04-22 |
| 5. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
137.55 |
1.0444 |
0.1415 |
197 |
1 |
137.55 |
2008-12-16 |
| 6. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
137.52 |
1.0788 |
0.1079 |
171 |
1 |
137.52 |
2008-12-16 |
| 7. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
134.28 |
1.0391 |
0.1309 |
358 |
2 |
128.35 |
2008-08-24 |
| 8. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
133.23 |
1.0619 |
0.0964 |
354 |
2 |
125.54 |
2011-01-28 |
| 9. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
132.67 |
1.1018 |
0.0416 |
220 |
3 |
128.46 |
2010-01-03 |
| 10. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
131.75 |
0.9330 |
0.2153 |
360 |
1 |
131.75 |
2010-01-03 |
| 11. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
130.77 |
0.9723 |
0.1645 |
364 |
3 |
112.95 |
2009-04-22 |
| 12. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
130.52 |
1.0165 |
0.1183 |
392 |
3 |
119.58 |
2008-12-16 |
| 13. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
129.03 |
1.0515 |
0.0645 |
250 |
1 |
129.03 |
2008-08-12 |
| 14. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
128.99 |
1.0390 |
0.0747 |
205 |
1 |
128.99 |
2010-01-08 |
| 15. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
128.75 |
0.8919 |
0.2218 |
205 |
1 |
128.75 |
2008-08-15 |
| 16. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
128.53 |
1.0218 |
0.0888 |
268 |
1 |
128.53 |
2009-04-24 |
| 17. |
However, let us leave aside the philosophical, social, and e... |
128.39 |
0.9569 |
0.1823 |
410 |
1 |
128.39 |
2011-01-28 |
| 18. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
128.22 |
1.0201 |
0.0947 |
375 |
1 |
128.22 |
2011-01-28 |
| 19. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
127.97 |
0.9597 |
0.1530 |
347 |
5 |
114.31 |
2008-12-16 |
| 20. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
126.95 |
1.0062 |
0.0934 |
288 |
1 |
126.95 |
2008-12-16 |
| 21. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
126.58 |
0.9768 |
0.1222 |
387 |
4 |
122.78 |
2008-08-16 |
| 22. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
126.35 |
0.9997 |
0.0983 |
382 |
2 |
115.81 |
2008-08-29 |
| 23. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
126.25 |
0.9756 |
0.1166 |
229 |
1 |
126.25 |
2008-08-12 |
| 24. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
126.03 |
1.0487 |
0.0379 |
231 |
1 |
126.03 |
2008-08-15 |
| 25. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
125.43 |
0.9045 |
0.1821 |
235 |
2 |
107.34 |
2010-01-08 |
| 26. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
124.90 |
0.9894 |
0.0967 |
323 |
1 |
124.90 |
2009-04-24 |
| 27. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
124.77 |
1.0613 |
0.0201 |
266 |
1 |
124.77 |
2009-04-24 |
| 28. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
124.73 |
0.9941 |
0.0837 |
217 |
1 |
124.73 |
2008-08-15 |
| 29. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
124.70 |
0.9376 |
0.1477 |
367 |
1 |
124.70 |
2011-01-28 |
| 30. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
124.34 |
1.0211 |
0.0864 |
213 |
1 |
124.34 |
2011-01-28 |
| 31. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
123.97 |
0.9772 |
0.0928 |
217 |
2 |
116.73 |
2008-12-16 |
| 32. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
123.84 |
1.0168 |
0.0570 |
271 |
1 |
123.84 |
2008-12-16 |
| 33. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
123.84 |
1.0555 |
0.0183 |
363 |
1 |
123.84 |
2008-09-30 |
| 34. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
123.74 |
0.9740 |
0.0934 |
209 |
1 |
123.74 |
2008-12-16 |
| 35. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
123.70 |
1.0441 |
0.0684 |
316 |
1 |
123.70 |
2011-01-28 |
| 36. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
123.33 |
1.0025 |
0.0653 |
256 |
1 |
123.33 |
2008-08-11 |
| 37. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
123.09 |
0.9342 |
0.1351 |
434 |
1 |
123.09 |
2008-08-12 |
| 38. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
122.87 |
0.8996 |
0.1588 |
192 |
3 |
99.68 |
2008-09-27 |
| 39. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
122.70 |
0.9213 |
0.1416 |
295 |
2 |
120.70 |
2008-08-15 |
| 40. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
122.07 |
0.9942 |
0.0715 |
483 |
2 |
117.65 |
2008-08-24 |
| 41. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
121.36 |
1.0666 |
-0.0159 |
297 |
1 |
121.36 |
2008-08-16 |
| 42. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
121.33 |
1.0711 |
-0.0258 |
213 |
2 |
119.79 |
2008-08-24 |
| 43. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
121.09 |
0.9865 |
0.0629 |
276 |
1 |
121.09 |
2008-08-11 |
| 44. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
120.64 |
1.0412 |
0.0025 |
225 |
1 |
120.64 |
2011-01-28 |
| 45. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
120.12 |
1.0668 |
-0.0245 |
350 |
1 |
120.12 |
2008-12-16 |
| 46. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
119.67 |
0.9699 |
0.0653 |
269 |
1 |
119.67 |
2011-01-28 |
| 47. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
119.64 |
0.9852 |
0.0507 |
264 |
2 |
117.62 |
2010-01-03 |
| 48. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
118.95 |
0.9691 |
0.0599 |
223 |
1 |
118.95 |
2011-01-28 |
| 49. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
118.73 |
0.9897 |
0.0356 |
274 |
1 |
118.73 |
2009-04-22 |
| 50. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
117.79 |
0.9841 |
0.0391 |
334 |
1 |
117.79 |
2008-08-16 |
| 51. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
116.21 |
1.0124 |
-0.0093 |
204 |
1 |
116.21 |
2008-08-15 |
| 52. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
115.64 |
0.9084 |
0.0962 |
404 |
3 |
105.88 |
2008-12-16 |
| 53. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
115.61 |
0.9540 |
0.0445 |
285 |
1 |
115.61 |
2008-12-16 |
| 54. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
115.10 |
0.9567 |
0.0389 |
273 |
1 |
115.10 |
2008-12-16 |
| 55. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
115.00 |
0.9293 |
0.0664 |
355 |
2 |
106.49 |
2008-12-16 |
| 56. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
114.20 |
1.0696 |
-0.0852 |
226 |
1 |
114.20 |
2008-08-16 |
| 57. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
112.79 |
1.0429 |
-0.0688 |
259 |
1 |
112.79 |
2010-01-03 |
| 58. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
112.46 |
0.9593 |
0.0181 |
398 |
1 |
112.46 |
2009-04-24 |
| 59. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
112.34 |
0.9411 |
0.0313 |
318 |
1 |
112.34 |
2010-01-07 |
| 60. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
111.90 |
0.9468 |
0.0204 |
276 |
1 |
111.90 |
2008-09-30 |
| 61. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
111.54 |
0.9843 |
-0.0247 |
234 |
1 |
111.54 |
2008-09-27 |
| 62. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
111.19 |
0.9844 |
-0.0181 |
293 |
2 |
110.36 |
2008-09-30 |
| 63. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
111.16 |
0.9785 |
-0.0140 |
335 |
3 |
106.98 |
2008-08-29 |
| 64. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
110.88 |
0.9866 |
-0.0315 |
218 |
1 |
110.88 |
2008-08-16 |
| 65. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
110.02 |
0.9646 |
-0.0142 |
264 |
1 |
110.02 |
2008-12-16 |
| 66. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
109.90 |
0.9893 |
-0.0390 |
323 |
3 |
101.05 |
2008-12-16 |
| 67. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
109.83 |
1.0349 |
-0.0860 |
234 |
1 |
109.83 |
2008-12-16 |
| 68. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
109.70 |
1.0389 |
-0.0887 |
318 |
1 |
109.70 |
2008-12-16 |
| 69. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
109.68 |
1.0365 |
-0.0583 |
162 |
1 |
109.68 |
2010-01-03 |
| 70. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
108.60 |
0.9684 |
-0.0269 |
388 |
1 |
108.60 |
2008-08-16 |
| 71. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
108.46 |
0.9925 |
-0.0182 |
247 |
1 |
108.46 |
2011-01-28 |
| 72. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
108.44 |
0.9769 |
-0.0416 |
263 |
1 |
108.44 |
2008-08-15 |
| 73. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
107.58 |
0.9710 |
-0.0476 |
173 |
1 |
107.58 |
2008-08-12 |
| 74. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
107.47 |
0.9763 |
-0.0479 |
289 |
1 |
107.47 |
2008-09-30 |
| 75. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
107.39 |
0.9527 |
-0.0246 |
251 |
1 |
107.39 |
2008-08-15 |
| 76. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
107.38 |
0.9612 |
-0.0331 |
256 |
1 |
107.38 |
2008-08-12 |
| 77. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
107.21 |
0.9234 |
0.0086 |
346 |
1 |
107.21 |
2011-01-28 |
| 78. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
106.41 |
0.9578 |
-0.0387 |
281 |
2 |
100.09 |
2008-08-25 |
| 79. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
105.44 |
0.8595 |
0.0534 |
242 |
1 |
105.44 |
2010-01-07 |
| 80. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
105.34 |
0.9087 |
0.0123 |
393 |
1 |
105.34 |
2008-08-12 |
| 81. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
105.30 |
0.9513 |
-0.0376 |
354 |
1 |
105.30 |
2008-09-30 |
| 82. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
105.29 |
0.9851 |
-0.0731 |
317 |
1 |
105.29 |
2008-08-15 |
| 83. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
105.29 |
0.9275 |
-0.0210 |
211 |
1 |
105.29 |
2008-12-16 |
| 84. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
105.07 |
0.9084 |
0.0013 |
300 |
1 |
105.07 |
2008-08-16 |
| 85. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
104.33 |
0.8722 |
0.0321 |
285 |
2 |
88.50 |
2008-09-30 |
| 86. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
101.31 |
1.0337 |
-0.1594 |
214 |
1 |
101.31 |
2008-12-16 |
| 87. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
100.75 |
0.9846 |
-0.1157 |
281 |
1 |
100.75 |
2010-01-07 |
| 88. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
100.21 |
0.9754 |
-0.1040 |
362 |
2 |
98.05 |
2008-12-16 |
| 89. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
99.13 |
0.9553 |
-0.0923 |
430 |
1 |
99.13 |
2008-12-16 |
| 90. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
98.80 |
1.0797 |
-0.2324 |
210 |
1 |
98.80 |
2008-12-16 |
| 91. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
98.20 |
0.9798 |
-0.1378 |
199 |
1 |
98.20 |
2010-01-03 |
| 92. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
97.78 |
0.9986 |
-0.1540 |
283 |
1 |
97.78 |
2008-09-30 |
| 93. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
97.66 |
0.8670 |
-0.0186 |
318 |
1 |
97.66 |
2010-01-07 |
| 94. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
97.32 |
0.9916 |
-0.1090 |
282 |
1 |
97.32 |
2010-01-08 |
| 95. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
96.78 |
0.9148 |
-0.0782 |
317 |
1 |
96.78 |
2011-01-28 |
| 96. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
93.05 |
1.0090 |
-0.1626 |
282 |
1 |
93.05 |
2011-01-28 |
| 97. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
92.74 |
0.8878 |
-0.0882 |
346 |
1 |
92.74 |
2008-12-13 |
| 98. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
92.63 |
0.9857 |
-0.1878 |
293 |
2 |
91.99 |
2008-08-15 |
| 99. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
92.46 |
0.8770 |
-0.0764 |
300 |
1 |
92.46 |
2008-08-11 |
| 100. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
89.73 |
0.8753 |
-0.0926 |
427 |
1 |
89.73 |
2009-04-24 |
| 101. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
85.91 |
0.9668 |
-0.1842 |
383 |
1 |
85.91 |
2010-01-08 |
| 102. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
85.37 |
0.9202 |
-0.1857 |
254 |
1 |
85.37 |
2008-08-23 |
| 103. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
84.64 |
0.8105 |
-0.0859 |
204 |
2 |
79.33 |
2008-08-16 |
| 104. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
81.92 |
1.0263 |
-0.3221 |
267 |
1 |
81.92 |
2008-12-16 |
| 105. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
81.21 |
1.0292 |
-0.3317 |
262 |
1 |
81.21 |
2010-01-08 |
| 106. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
72.42 |
0.9670 |
-0.3031 |
307 |
1 |
72.42 |
2010-01-04 |
| 107. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
55.39 |
0.9965 |
-0.5234 |
277 |
1 |
55.39 |
2010-01-08 |