| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
164.04 |
1.0292 |
0.2817 |
262 |
1 |
164.04 |
2009-11-17 |
| 2. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
155.71 |
1.0528 |
0.1871 |
201 |
1 |
155.71 |
2009-11-17 |
| 3. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
155.27 |
0.9811 |
0.2630 |
272 |
2 |
130.27 |
2010-05-29 |
| 4. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
150.69 |
1.0417 |
0.1602 |
253 |
1 |
150.69 |
2009-11-16 |
| 5. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
150.20 |
1.0523 |
0.1438 |
256 |
1 |
150.20 |
2009-11-15 |
| 6. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
148.91 |
1.0429 |
0.1457 |
259 |
1 |
148.91 |
2009-11-17 |
| 7. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
147.66 |
1.1215 |
0.0824 |
200 |
1 |
147.66 |
2010-06-03 |
| 8. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
147.06 |
1.0711 |
0.0989 |
213 |
1 |
147.06 |
2009-11-17 |
| 9. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
146.80 |
1.0025 |
0.1704 |
256 |
1 |
146.80 |
2009-11-17 |
| 10. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
146.57 |
1.0477 |
0.1258 |
360 |
1 |
146.57 |
2009-11-15 |
| 11. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
146.22 |
1.0124 |
0.1535 |
204 |
3 |
124.81 |
2009-11-17 |
| 12. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
146.00 |
1.0141 |
0.1887 |
304 |
1 |
146.00 |
2009-11-17 |
| 13. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
145.88 |
1.0577 |
0.1043 |
247 |
1 |
145.88 |
2009-11-17 |
| 14. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
145.58 |
1.0390 |
0.1203 |
205 |
1 |
145.58 |
2009-11-16 |
| 15. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
144.59 |
1.0619 |
0.0968 |
354 |
2 |
135.59 |
2009-11-17 |
| 16. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
142.26 |
0.9084 |
0.2320 |
404 |
1 |
142.26 |
2009-11-21 |
| 17. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
141.41 |
1.0389 |
0.0922 |
318 |
1 |
141.41 |
2009-11-18 |
| 18. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
141.21 |
1.0013 |
0.1256 |
273 |
1 |
141.21 |
2009-11-16 |
| 19. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
139.68 |
0.9570 |
0.1601 |
287 |
1 |
139.68 |
2009-11-19 |
| 20. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
139.19 |
1.0666 |
0.0450 |
297 |
3 |
130.79 |
2010-11-04 |
| 21. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
138.61 |
1.0177 |
0.1273 |
392 |
1 |
138.61 |
2009-11-17 |
| 22. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
138.17 |
1.0320 |
0.1085 |
293 |
2 |
127.87 |
2009-11-17 |
| 23. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
137.88 |
1.0316 |
0.0731 |
333 |
2 |
124.81 |
2009-11-16 |
| 24. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
137.65 |
1.0068 |
0.0955 |
358 |
1 |
137.65 |
2010-06-03 |
| 25. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
137.61 |
1.0515 |
0.0453 |
250 |
1 |
137.61 |
2010-11-04 |
| 26. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
137.60 |
0.9964 |
0.1023 |
203 |
2 |
95.80 |
2010-05-29 |
| 27. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
137.45 |
0.9148 |
0.1840 |
317 |
1 |
137.45 |
2009-11-21 |
| 28. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
137.33 |
1.0644 |
0.0682 |
257 |
1 |
137.33 |
2010-05-29 |
| 29. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
137.22 |
1.0034 |
0.0907 |
302 |
1 |
137.22 |
2010-06-03 |
| 30. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
137.00 |
1.0445 |
0.0502 |
373 |
1 |
137.00 |
2010-06-03 |
| 31. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
136.73 |
0.9089 |
0.1866 |
342 |
2 |
133.94 |
2009-11-17 |
| 32. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
136.68 |
1.0534 |
0.0400 |
357 |
1 |
136.68 |
2009-12-21 |
| 33. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
136.59 |
1.0257 |
0.0712 |
401 |
1 |
136.59 |
2010-11-04 |
| 34. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
136.08 |
1.0516 |
0.0344 |
281 |
1 |
136.08 |
2009-11-15 |
| 35. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
135.76 |
1.0053 |
0.0765 |
232 |
1 |
135.76 |
2009-11-16 |
| 36. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
134.73 |
0.9772 |
0.0948 |
217 |
1 |
134.73 |
2009-11-16 |
| 37. |
Right, I am going to tell you how this works. You're going i... |
134.67 |
1.0482 |
0.0505 |
487 |
1 |
134.67 |
2010-05-29 |
| 38. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
134.47 |
1.1114 |
-0.0407 |
247 |
2 |
127.92 |
2009-11-21 |
| 39. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
134.44 |
0.9697 |
0.1036 |
249 |
1 |
134.44 |
2009-11-16 |
| 40. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
132.75 |
0.9841 |
0.0792 |
334 |
1 |
132.75 |
2009-11-16 |
| 41. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
132.74 |
0.9893 |
0.0702 |
323 |
2 |
118.55 |
2010-05-29 |
| 42. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
132.59 |
1.1016 |
-0.0433 |
233 |
1 |
132.59 |
2009-11-17 |
| 43. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
132.27 |
0.9371 |
0.1574 |
318 |
1 |
132.27 |
2011-05-20 |
| 44. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
132.03 |
0.9936 |
0.0801 |
227 |
1 |
132.03 |
2010-05-29 |
| 45. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
132.01 |
1.0885 |
-0.0317 |
315 |
1 |
132.01 |
2009-11-16 |
| 46. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
131.97 |
1.0375 |
0.0617 |
200 |
1 |
131.97 |
2010-06-03 |
| 47. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
131.81 |
0.9795 |
0.0724 |
308 |
1 |
131.81 |
2009-11-16 |
| 48. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
131.43 |
1.0795 |
-0.0002 |
226 |
2 |
129.49 |
2010-05-29 |
| 49. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
130.94 |
1.0289 |
0.0203 |
276 |
1 |
130.94 |
2009-11-17 |
| 50. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
130.46 |
0.9857 |
0.0543 |
293 |
1 |
130.46 |
2009-11-16 |
| 51. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
130.30 |
1.0486 |
-0.0081 |
289 |
1 |
130.30 |
2009-11-16 |
| 52. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
129.66 |
0.9221 |
0.1109 |
244 |
1 |
129.66 |
2009-11-15 |
| 53. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
128.90 |
1.0419 |
-0.0135 |
261 |
2 |
126.48 |
2009-11-19 |
| 54. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
126.38 |
1.0201 |
-0.0081 |
375 |
1 |
126.38 |
2010-11-04 |
| 55. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
126.25 |
1.0167 |
-0.0029 |
378 |
2 |
123.26 |
2009-11-18 |
| 56. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
125.65 |
1.0668 |
-0.0622 |
350 |
1 |
125.65 |
2009-12-21 |
| 57. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
125.53 |
0.9649 |
0.0351 |
193 |
2 |
115.89 |
2010-11-04 |
| 58. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
125.39 |
1.0314 |
0.0078 |
452 |
2 |
123.73 |
2010-11-04 |
| 59. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
124.89 |
1.0521 |
-0.0609 |
171 |
1 |
124.89 |
2009-11-16 |
| 60. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
124.75 |
0.9814 |
0.0528 |
364 |
1 |
124.75 |
2009-11-17 |
| 61. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
124.70 |
1.0109 |
0.0164 |
400 |
1 |
124.70 |
2009-11-16 |
| 62. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
124.56 |
1.0426 |
-0.0500 |
323 |
1 |
124.56 |
2009-11-15 |
| 63. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
124.54 |
0.9500 |
0.0453 |
362 |
2 |
121.64 |
2009-11-17 |
| 64. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
124.24 |
0.9723 |
0.0221 |
364 |
1 |
124.24 |
2009-11-15 |
| 65. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
124.23 |
1.0090 |
0.0254 |
282 |
1 |
124.23 |
2009-11-17 |
| 66. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
124.18 |
0.9768 |
0.0160 |
387 |
1 |
124.18 |
2009-11-17 |
| 67. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
122.97 |
1.0261 |
-0.0475 |
273 |
1 |
122.97 |
2010-11-04 |
| 68. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
122.68 |
1.0454 |
-0.0710 |
255 |
1 |
122.68 |
2009-11-16 |
| 69. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
122.36 |
0.9088 |
0.0719 |
348 |
2 |
111.74 |
2009-11-17 |
| 70. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
122.21 |
0.9731 |
-0.0113 |
129 |
1 |
122.21 |
2010-05-29 |
| 71. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
121.32 |
0.9894 |
-0.0179 |
323 |
2 |
114.48 |
2009-11-17 |
| 72. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
121.14 |
1.0483 |
-0.0856 |
227 |
2 |
116.49 |
2010-06-03 |
| 73. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
120.64 |
0.9843 |
-0.0277 |
234 |
1 |
120.64 |
2009-11-21 |
| 74. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
120.47 |
1.0088 |
-0.0098 |
396 |
1 |
120.47 |
2009-11-17 |
| 75. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
120.46 |
1.0444 |
-0.0908 |
197 |
1 |
120.46 |
2010-06-03 |
| 76. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
120.33 |
1.0131 |
-0.0579 |
225 |
1 |
120.33 |
2010-05-29 |
| 77. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
120.07 |
1.0214 |
-0.0698 |
166 |
1 |
120.07 |
2010-11-04 |
| 78. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
119.42 |
0.9614 |
-0.0066 |
292 |
1 |
119.42 |
2009-11-16 |
| 79. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
119.12 |
1.0183 |
-0.0745 |
191 |
1 |
119.12 |
2009-11-16 |
| 80. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
119.08 |
0.9289 |
0.0178 |
204 |
1 |
119.08 |
2009-11-15 |
| 81. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
119.04 |
1.0120 |
-0.0641 |
290 |
1 |
119.04 |
2009-11-16 |
| 82. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
118.74 |
1.0462 |
-0.1060 |
184 |
1 |
118.74 |
2010-05-29 |
| 83. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
118.67 |
0.9074 |
0.0448 |
396 |
1 |
118.67 |
2009-11-17 |
| 84. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
118.64 |
1.0463 |
-0.1054 |
182 |
1 |
118.64 |
2010-06-03 |
| 85. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
118.08 |
0.9675 |
-0.0170 |
383 |
1 |
118.08 |
2010-11-04 |
| 86. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
117.94 |
0.9532 |
-0.0147 |
258 |
1 |
117.94 |
2009-11-17 |
| 87. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
117.89 |
0.9084 |
0.0328 |
300 |
1 |
117.89 |
2010-05-29 |
| 88. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
117.76 |
1.0829 |
-0.1430 |
288 |
1 |
117.76 |
2009-11-15 |
| 89. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
116.53 |
1.0613 |
-0.1279 |
456 |
1 |
116.53 |
2010-11-04 |
| 90. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
115.95 |
1.0077 |
-0.0426 |
250 |
1 |
115.95 |
2011-05-20 |
| 91. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
115.69 |
0.9886 |
-0.0644 |
220 |
1 |
115.69 |
2009-11-16 |
| 92. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
115.62 |
0.9398 |
-0.0094 |
419 |
1 |
115.62 |
2009-11-16 |
| 93. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
115.51 |
0.9635 |
-0.0379 |
389 |
1 |
115.51 |
2010-11-04 |
| 94. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
114.78 |
0.9622 |
-0.0415 |
392 |
1 |
114.78 |
2009-11-16 |
| 95. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
113.91 |
0.8958 |
0.0161 |
322 |
1 |
113.91 |
2009-11-15 |
| 96. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
111.57 |
0.9699 |
-0.0821 |
269 |
1 |
111.57 |
2009-11-16 |
| 97. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
111.47 |
1.0358 |
-0.1066 |
349 |
1 |
111.47 |
2010-05-29 |
| 98. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
111.43 |
1.0331 |
-0.1481 |
234 |
2 |
105.46 |
2010-11-04 |
| 99. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
111.29 |
0.9907 |
-0.1062 |
211 |
1 |
111.29 |
2009-11-17 |
| 100. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
111.26 |
1.0796 |
-0.1985 |
129 |
1 |
111.26 |
2010-05-29 |
| 101. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
111.12 |
0.9513 |
-0.0628 |
354 |
1 |
111.12 |
2009-11-17 |
| 102. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
110.71 |
1.0218 |
-0.1433 |
268 |
1 |
110.71 |
2009-11-16 |
| 103. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
110.26 |
0.9266 |
-0.0487 |
267 |
1 |
110.26 |
2009-11-17 |
| 104. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
109.93 |
0.8916 |
-0.0162 |
216 |
2 |
101.75 |
2009-11-16 |
| 105. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
109.50 |
1.0154 |
-0.0939 |
351 |
1 |
109.50 |
2010-05-29 |
| 106. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
109.06 |
0.9865 |
-0.1173 |
276 |
1 |
109.06 |
2009-11-16 |
| 107. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
109.02 |
0.8602 |
0.0054 |
206 |
1 |
109.02 |
2009-11-15 |
| 108. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
108.95 |
0.9109 |
-0.0411 |
401 |
1 |
108.95 |
2009-11-16 |
| 109. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
108.94 |
0.9965 |
-0.1291 |
310 |
1 |
108.94 |
2009-11-15 |
| 110. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
108.84 |
0.9684 |
-0.0994 |
388 |
1 |
108.84 |
2009-11-15 |
| 111. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
107.96 |
0.9212 |
-0.0587 |
323 |
1 |
107.96 |
2009-11-17 |
| 112. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
107.85 |
1.0211 |
-0.1321 |
213 |
1 |
107.85 |
2009-11-15 |
| 113. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
107.27 |
1.0125 |
-0.1211 |
413 |
1 |
107.27 |
2011-05-20 |
| 114. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
107.23 |
0.8670 |
-0.0083 |
318 |
2 |
102.76 |
2009-11-15 |
| 115. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
106.51 |
0.9763 |
-0.1293 |
289 |
1 |
106.51 |
2009-11-15 |
| 116. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
106.32 |
1.0696 |
-0.2271 |
226 |
1 |
106.32 |
2010-05-29 |
| 117. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
104.84 |
0.8890 |
-0.0586 |
199 |
1 |
104.84 |
2009-11-16 |
| 118. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
104.43 |
0.8947 |
-0.0591 |
366 |
1 |
104.43 |
2009-11-15 |
| 119. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
104.32 |
1.0368 |
-0.2061 |
276 |
1 |
104.32 |
2009-11-15 |
| 120. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
101.93 |
1.0264 |
-0.1758 |
422 |
1 |
101.93 |
2010-05-29 |
| 121. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
101.65 |
0.9668 |
-0.1160 |
383 |
1 |
101.65 |
2010-11-04 |
| 122. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
100.77 |
0.9429 |
-0.1405 |
287 |
1 |
100.77 |
2010-05-29 |
| 123. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
100.10 |
0.8878 |
-0.0923 |
346 |
1 |
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2009-11-15 |
| 124. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
97.42 |
1.0596 |
-0.2876 |
239 |
1 |
97.42 |
2009-11-15 |
| 125. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
96.56 |
1.0173 |
-0.2060 |
268 |
1 |
96.56 |
2009-11-15 |
| 126. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
96.50 |
0.9612 |
-0.1946 |
256 |
1 |
96.50 |
2010-11-04 |
| 127. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
96.47 |
0.9293 |
-0.1621 |
355 |
1 |
96.47 |
2009-11-16 |
| 128. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
95.43 |
0.9546 |
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198 |
1 |
95.43 |
2009-11-15 |
| 129. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
95.13 |
1.0270 |
-0.2354 |
255 |
1 |
95.13 |
2010-05-29 |
| 130. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
86.36 |
0.9005 |
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212 |
1 |
86.36 |
2009-11-16 |
| 131. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
84.55 |
0.9514 |
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237 |
1 |
84.55 |
2010-11-04 |