Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the ... |
135.04 |
1.0696 |
0.1834 |
317 |
1 |
135.04 |
2015-11-12 |
2. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
133.74 |
1.0213 |
0.2040 |
240 |
1 |
133.74 |
2011-02-09 |
3. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
132.07 |
1.0445 |
0.1694 |
373 |
2 |
130.41 |
2013-09-28 |
4. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
130.42 |
1.0567 |
0.1416 |
303 |
3 |
126.21 |
2016-06-06 |
5. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
129.38 |
1.0025 |
0.1854 |
256 |
1 |
129.38 |
2010-11-12 |
6. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
125.72 |
1.0349 |
0.1185 |
234 |
3 |
119.09 |
2010-11-12 |
7. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
125.43 |
1.0088 |
0.1813 |
396 |
1 |
125.43 |
2013-09-28 |
8. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
124.70 |
1.0615 |
0.1083 |
305 |
1 |
124.70 |
2012-05-29 |
9. |
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in t... |
124.58 |
1.0202 |
0.1281 |
192 |
2 |
119.57 |
2017-06-26 |
10. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
122.81 |
1.0379 |
0.1240 |
245 |
1 |
122.81 |
2015-11-12 |
11. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
122.33 |
0.9772 |
0.1419 |
217 |
1 |
122.33 |
2009-10-27 |
12. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
122.05 |
1.0885 |
0.0664 |
341 |
1 |
122.05 |
2011-01-19 |
13. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
121.97 |
1.0391 |
0.0862 |
358 |
1 |
121.97 |
2009-12-13 |
14. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
121.67 |
1.0388 |
0.1093 |
243 |
1 |
121.67 |
2016-05-19 |
15. |
When I close my eyes, I am at the center of the sun. And I c... |
121.47 |
1.0543 |
0.0603 |
113 |
1 |
121.47 |
2015-06-03 |
16. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
121.41 |
1.0528 |
0.0562 |
201 |
2 |
118.07 |
2009-10-30 |
17. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
120.76 |
1.0013 |
0.1058 |
273 |
2 |
92.71 |
2017-03-22 |
18. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
120.08 |
1.0943 |
0.0400 |
206 |
1 |
120.08 |
2015-11-12 |
19. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
119.93 |
0.9684 |
0.1346 |
388 |
4 |
112.23 |
2015-11-12 |
20. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
119.61 |
1.0529 |
0.0443 |
351 |
1 |
119.61 |
2016-05-19 |
21. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
119.13 |
1.0270 |
0.1019 |
255 |
1 |
119.13 |
2013-09-28 |
22. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
119.03 |
0.9946 |
0.0972 |
246 |
1 |
119.03 |
2010-06-04 |
23. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
118.92 |
0.9697 |
0.1214 |
249 |
1 |
118.92 |
2009-10-15 |
24. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
118.54 |
1.0211 |
0.0970 |
213 |
1 |
118.54 |
2009-10-20 |
25. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
117.81 |
1.0053 |
0.0733 |
232 |
1 |
117.81 |
2009-10-22 |
26. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
117.56 |
1.0218 |
0.0536 |
268 |
1 |
117.56 |
2013-11-24 |
27. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
117.41 |
1.0555 |
0.0228 |
363 |
1 |
117.41 |
2010-01-04 |
28. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
116.46 |
1.0534 |
0.0169 |
357 |
1 |
116.46 |
2012-05-30 |
29. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
116.18 |
0.9646 |
0.1000 |
264 |
1 |
116.18 |
2011-02-09 |
30. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
116.12 |
1.0251 |
0.0376 |
261 |
1 |
116.12 |
2015-11-12 |
31. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
116.10 |
1.0016 |
0.0586 |
218 |
1 |
116.10 |
2013-09-28 |
32. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
115.91 |
1.0496 |
0.0127 |
314 |
1 |
115.91 |
2013-11-24 |
33. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
115.44 |
0.8722 |
0.1893 |
285 |
1 |
115.44 |
2010-11-12 |
34. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
114.97 |
0.9922 |
0.1032 |
341 |
1 |
114.97 |
2010-06-04 |
35. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
114.81 |
1.0173 |
0.0797 |
268 |
2 |
102.01 |
2011-02-09 |
36. |
As much money and life as you could want! The two things mos... |
114.52 |
1.0438 |
0.0087 |
198 |
1 |
114.52 |
2015-11-12 |
37. |
There comes a point when you just love someone. Not because ... |
114.51 |
1.0778 |
-0.0175 |
409 |
1 |
114.51 |
2015-11-12 |
38. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
114.46 |
1.0630 |
0.0197 |
397 |
1 |
114.46 |
2013-11-24 |
39. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
114.40 |
0.9233 |
0.1174 |
168 |
1 |
114.40 |
2009-10-22 |
40. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
114.33 |
1.0463 |
-0.0026 |
182 |
1 |
114.33 |
2013-11-24 |
41. |
A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppress... |
114.22 |
1.0617 |
-0.0060 |
247 |
1 |
114.22 |
2016-06-06 |
42. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
114.06 |
1.0797 |
-0.0395 |
210 |
1 |
114.06 |
2010-03-31 |
43. |
If you think that you are going to love something, give it a... |
113.35 |
1.1227 |
-0.0855 |
147 |
1 |
113.35 |
2015-11-12 |
44. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
113.30 |
1.0399 |
0.0041 |
294 |
1 |
113.30 |
2015-11-12 |
45. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
113.00 |
1.1016 |
-0.0655 |
233 |
1 |
113.00 |
2015-11-12 |
46. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
112.98 |
0.9884 |
0.0466 |
233 |
2 |
101.80 |
2015-11-12 |
47. |
It's been a hard day's night, and I've been working like a d... |
112.83 |
1.0615 |
-0.0249 |
210 |
1 |
112.83 |
2017-06-26 |
48. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
112.33 |
1.0073 |
0.0305 |
369 |
1 |
112.33 |
2009-10-30 |
49. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
112.26 |
1.0320 |
0.0344 |
293 |
1 |
112.26 |
2013-09-28 |
50. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
112.18 |
1.0429 |
-0.0159 |
259 |
1 |
112.18 |
2009-10-20 |
51. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
111.46 |
0.9514 |
0.0706 |
237 |
1 |
111.46 |
2009-10-30 |
52. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
111.40 |
0.9844 |
0.0415 |
293 |
2 |
104.54 |
2010-01-04 |
53. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
111.34 |
1.0577 |
-0.0406 |
247 |
1 |
111.34 |
2009-07-10 |
54. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
111.24 |
0.9635 |
0.0615 |
389 |
1 |
111.24 |
2010-11-12 |
55. |
The idea of "Mr. Right" has been passed down over the genera... |
111.19 |
0.9671 |
0.0763 |
379 |
1 |
111.19 |
2010-11-12 |
56. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
111.16 |
1.0763 |
-0.0159 |
367 |
1 |
111.16 |
2016-06-06 |
57. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
111.07 |
0.9820 |
0.0389 |
267 |
1 |
111.07 |
2009-12-13 |
58. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
111.02 |
1.0441 |
-0.0250 |
252 |
1 |
111.02 |
2015-11-12 |
59. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
110.59 |
0.8919 |
0.1200 |
205 |
1 |
110.59 |
2009-10-30 |
60. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
110.45 |
1.0068 |
0.0088 |
358 |
1 |
110.45 |
2009-11-22 |
61. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
110.36 |
0.9886 |
0.0254 |
220 |
1 |
110.36 |
2010-11-12 |
62. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
110.20 |
1.0316 |
-0.0178 |
333 |
2 |
103.56 |
2013-09-28 |
63. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
110.08 |
0.9865 |
0.0235 |
276 |
1 |
110.08 |
2011-07-20 |
64. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
109.48 |
1.0521 |
-0.0536 |
171 |
1 |
109.48 |
2011-02-09 |
65. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
109.43 |
1.0885 |
-0.0824 |
315 |
1 |
109.43 |
2010-01-04 |
66. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
109.35 |
1.0613 |
-0.0542 |
456 |
1 |
109.35 |
2009-10-15 |
67. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
109.28 |
0.9841 |
0.0212 |
334 |
2 |
95.01 |
2010-01-04 |
68. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
109.17 |
0.9871 |
0.0355 |
227 |
1 |
109.17 |
2015-11-12 |
69. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
109.08 |
0.9468 |
0.0523 |
276 |
1 |
109.08 |
2011-02-09 |
70. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
108.81 |
0.9857 |
0.0104 |
293 |
2 |
103.10 |
2015-11-12 |
71. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
108.65 |
0.9557 |
0.0462 |
331 |
1 |
108.65 |
2015-11-12 |
72. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
108.58 |
1.0608 |
-0.0325 |
258 |
1 |
108.58 |
2012-05-30 |
73. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
108.57 |
1.0477 |
-0.0504 |
360 |
1 |
108.57 |
2010-11-12 |
74. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
108.55 |
0.9936 |
0.0008 |
311 |
1 |
108.55 |
2016-05-19 |
75. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
108.48 |
0.9546 |
0.0707 |
198 |
1 |
108.48 |
2009-10-22 |
76. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
108.48 |
0.9168 |
0.0785 |
240 |
1 |
108.48 |
2009-10-20 |
77. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
108.25 |
1.0296 |
-0.0313 |
437 |
1 |
108.25 |
2009-07-10 |
78. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
107.79 |
1.0214 |
-0.0355 |
269 |
1 |
107.79 |
2015-11-12 |
79. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
107.78 |
1.0288 |
-0.0092 |
300 |
1 |
107.78 |
2013-09-28 |
80. |
Some things you just can't explain. You don't even try. You ... |
107.57 |
1.0087 |
-0.0301 |
206 |
1 |
107.57 |
2017-03-22 |
81. |
I often see racers, particularly at the back of the pack in ... |
107.43 |
1.0004 |
0.0072 |
469 |
1 |
107.43 |
2013-09-28 |
82. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
107.18 |
0.9529 |
0.0697 |
269 |
1 |
107.18 |
2010-11-12 |
83. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
107.16 |
1.0696 |
-0.0913 |
226 |
1 |
107.16 |
2009-10-22 |
84. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
106.68 |
0.9632 |
0.0205 |
392 |
1 |
106.68 |
2010-06-04 |
85. |
I took up my vocation, I was called by my nation. Without he... |
106.68 |
0.9852 |
-0.0010 |
188 |
1 |
106.68 |
2017-06-26 |
86. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
106.20 |
1.0201 |
-0.0468 |
303 |
1 |
106.20 |
2015-11-12 |
87. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
106.12 |
0.9754 |
0.0028 |
362 |
1 |
106.12 |
2013-09-28 |
88. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
106.11 |
1.0109 |
-0.0060 |
400 |
1 |
106.11 |
2009-10-22 |
89. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
105.97 |
0.9997 |
-0.0254 |
382 |
1 |
105.97 |
2015-06-03 |
90. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
105.90 |
0.9768 |
-0.0041 |
387 |
1 |
105.90 |
2009-10-22 |
91. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
105.79 |
0.9798 |
-0.0164 |
199 |
1 |
105.79 |
2009-10-22 |
92. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
105.56 |
1.0125 |
-0.0479 |
224 |
1 |
105.56 |
2009-10-30 |
93. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
105.46 |
0.9991 |
-0.0326 |
225 |
2 |
99.56 |
2009-10-30 |
94. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
105.46 |
1.0396 |
-0.0808 |
149 |
1 |
105.46 |
2009-10-30 |
95. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
105.25 |
0.9045 |
0.0598 |
235 |
2 |
102.86 |
2015-11-12 |
96. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
105.21 |
1.0941 |
-0.0992 |
256 |
1 |
105.21 |
2010-11-12 |
97. |
I'll tell you a secret. Something they don't teach you in yo... |
104.64 |
0.9877 |
-0.0254 |
286 |
1 |
104.64 |
2015-11-12 |
98. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
104.38 |
1.0029 |
-0.0533 |
209 |
1 |
104.38 |
2010-01-04 |
99. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
104.29 |
0.9376 |
0.0529 |
360 |
1 |
104.29 |
2013-11-24 |
100. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
104.01 |
0.8602 |
0.0901 |
206 |
1 |
104.01 |
2011-02-09 |
101. |
However, let us leave aside the philosophical, social, and e... |
103.90 |
0.9569 |
0.0215 |
410 |
1 |
103.90 |
2015-11-12 |
102. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
103.86 |
0.9833 |
-0.0306 |
355 |
2 |
94.22 |
2010-03-31 |
103. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
103.85 |
0.9293 |
0.0226 |
355 |
1 |
103.85 |
2009-10-30 |
104. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
103.73 |
0.9430 |
-0.0004 |
211 |
1 |
103.73 |
2009-10-30 |
105. |
Three changes occur while the stacked disk structure equilib... |
103.20 |
0.9382 |
0.0319 |
440 |
1 |
103.20 |
2011-02-09 |
106. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
103.06 |
0.8916 |
0.0524 |
216 |
1 |
103.06 |
2009-12-13 |
107. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
102.20 |
1.0177 |
-0.0438 |
392 |
1 |
102.20 |
2015-11-12 |
108. |
When Betty and Billy fell asleep, he walked down to the kitc... |
101.60 |
0.9693 |
-0.0177 |
360 |
1 |
101.60 |
2009-10-20 |
109. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
101.20 |
0.8852 |
0.0434 |
201 |
1 |
101.20 |
2015-11-12 |
110. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
100.88 |
0.9286 |
-0.0061 |
194 |
2 |
92.92 |
2015-11-12 |
111. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
100.63 |
1.0668 |
-0.1431 |
350 |
1 |
100.63 |
2009-10-22 |
112. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
100.15 |
0.9673 |
-0.0113 |
232 |
1 |
100.15 |
2016-05-19 |
113. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
99.99 |
1.0232 |
-0.0724 |
236 |
1 |
99.99 |
2013-11-24 |
114. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
99.75 |
1.0796 |
-0.1714 |
129 |
1 |
99.75 |
2015-11-12 |
115. |
You don't care about anything except you. You just want to p... |
99.42 |
1.0488 |
-0.1331 |
230 |
1 |
99.42 |
2017-03-22 |
116. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
98.85 |
0.9553 |
-0.0435 |
430 |
1 |
98.85 |
2013-11-24 |
117. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
98.25 |
0.9699 |
-0.0714 |
269 |
1 |
98.25 |
2009-10-30 |
118. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
97.65 |
0.9907 |
-0.0988 |
211 |
1 |
97.65 |
2009-07-10 |
119. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
97.19 |
0.8878 |
0.0012 |
346 |
1 |
97.19 |
2009-10-15 |
120. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
97.15 |
0.9540 |
-0.0669 |
285 |
1 |
97.15 |
2009-10-22 |
121. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
97.14 |
0.7876 |
0.1038 |
316 |
1 |
97.14 |
2013-09-28 |
122. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
96.85 |
1.0334 |
-0.1538 |
131 |
1 |
96.85 |
2009-10-30 |
123. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
96.53 |
0.9632 |
-0.0378 |
345 |
1 |
96.53 |
2015-06-03 |
124. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
95.23 |
1.0375 |
-0.1205 |
200 |
2 |
87.47 |
2009-10-20 |
125. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
93.57 |
0.8958 |
-0.0356 |
322 |
1 |
93.57 |
2011-07-20 |
126. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
93.55 |
1.0314 |
-0.1368 |
452 |
1 |
93.55 |
2009-10-15 |
127. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
93.11 |
0.9937 |
-0.1176 |
429 |
1 |
93.11 |
2009-10-20 |
128. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
91.01 |
1.0203 |
-0.1850 |
261 |
1 |
91.01 |
2009-11-18 |
129. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
89.40 |
0.9710 |
-0.1606 |
173 |
1 |
89.40 |
2009-10-22 |
130. |
Come on, kid, don't fool around. Just let your hand drop to ... |
88.36 |
1.0182 |
-0.2046 |
373 |
1 |
88.36 |
2017-03-22 |
131. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
88.08 |
0.9109 |
-0.1036 |
401 |
1 |
88.08 |
2009-10-27 |
132. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
87.98 |
0.9148 |
-0.1097 |
317 |
1 |
87.98 |
2009-11-22 |
133. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
87.73 |
1.0201 |
-0.2255 |
172 |
1 |
87.73 |
2009-10-30 |
134. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
86.46 |
0.9916 |
-0.1594 |
282 |
1 |
86.46 |
2010-01-04 |
135. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
86.43 |
1.0297 |
-0.2415 |
249 |
1 |
86.43 |
2009-10-22 |
136. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
86.43 |
0.9567 |
-0.1675 |
273 |
1 |
86.43 |
2009-10-30 |
137. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
86.21 |
1.0337 |
-0.2470 |
214 |
1 |
86.21 |
2009-10-20 |
138. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
84.65 |
0.9216 |
-0.1099 |
255 |
1 |
84.65 |
2016-09-12 |
139. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
84.26 |
0.9709 |
-0.1607 |
397 |
1 |
84.26 |
2009-11-22 |
140. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
83.50 |
0.9359 |
-0.1342 |
353 |
1 |
83.50 |
2009-10-27 |
141. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
82.81 |
1.0346 |
-0.2368 |
244 |
1 |
82.81 |
2009-10-30 |
142. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
78.95 |
1.0257 |
-0.2994 |
401 |
1 |
78.95 |
2017-03-22 |
143. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
74.53 |
0.8595 |
-0.1788 |
242 |
1 |
74.53 |
2009-11-18 |