| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
There is freedom in coming and going for no other reason tha... |
135.66 |
1.1443 |
0.2063 |
185 |
1 |
135.66 |
2021-07-17 |
| 2. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
125.01 |
1.0668 |
0.1951 |
350 |
2 |
116.09 |
2013-04-22 |
| 3. |
It just so happens that your friend here is only mostly dead... |
120.49 |
1.0560 |
0.1488 |
279 |
1 |
120.49 |
2021-07-06 |
| 4. |
So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of... |
117.47 |
1.0111 |
0.1505 |
204 |
1 |
117.47 |
2021-07-06 |
| 5. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
117.29 |
1.0621 |
0.1424 |
263 |
1 |
117.29 |
2014-09-12 |
| 6. |
Something's up, commander. We got called in for a rescue mis... |
116.83 |
1.0291 |
0.1331 |
231 |
1 |
116.83 |
2021-07-17 |
| 7. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
115.60 |
1.0613 |
0.1069 |
456 |
2 |
108.23 |
2014-09-12 |
| 8. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
115.21 |
1.0711 |
0.0853 |
213 |
2 |
106.81 |
2013-04-22 |
| 9. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
115.20 |
1.0719 |
0.1171 |
360 |
1 |
115.20 |
2014-09-12 |
| 10. |
It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky, up there, all... |
114.16 |
1.0147 |
0.1342 |
312 |
1 |
114.16 |
2021-07-17 |
| 11. |
I just don't see what purpose is it going to serve your goin... |
113.15 |
0.9527 |
0.1720 |
257 |
1 |
113.15 |
2021-07-17 |
| 12. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
112.47 |
1.0214 |
0.1114 |
269 |
1 |
112.47 |
2012-03-09 |
| 13. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
112.36 |
1.0387 |
0.1247 |
239 |
1 |
112.36 |
2014-09-12 |
| 14. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
112.31 |
1.0257 |
0.1091 |
401 |
1 |
112.31 |
2012-03-09 |
| 15. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
112.28 |
1.0254 |
0.1497 |
217 |
1 |
112.28 |
2013-04-22 |
| 16. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
112.27 |
1.1081 |
0.0575 |
206 |
1 |
112.27 |
2021-07-06 |
| 17. |
For we are not as faithful to the being we have most loved a... |
111.72 |
1.0957 |
0.0231 |
191 |
1 |
111.72 |
2021-07-06 |
| 18. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
111.46 |
1.0183 |
0.1019 |
191 |
1 |
111.46 |
2012-03-08 |
| 19. |
One way to combat the horizon effect is to continue search w... |
111.21 |
0.9775 |
0.1398 |
191 |
1 |
111.21 |
2021-07-06 |
| 20. |
He did not know how long it took, but later he looked back o... |
111.19 |
1.0850 |
0.0318 |
358 |
1 |
111.19 |
2021-07-06 |
| 21. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
110.86 |
1.0679 |
0.0733 |
177 |
1 |
110.86 |
2014-09-05 |
| 22. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
110.79 |
1.0561 |
0.0816 |
430 |
1 |
110.79 |
2014-09-12 |
| 23. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
110.25 |
1.0365 |
0.1078 |
162 |
2 |
99.98 |
2013-04-22 |
| 24. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
110.18 |
1.0314 |
0.1135 |
452 |
2 |
104.79 |
2012-03-09 |
| 25. |
Liquor dealers had to be where they could run into people wh... |
109.90 |
1.0329 |
0.0682 |
244 |
1 |
109.90 |
2021-07-06 |
| 26. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
109.90 |
1.0555 |
0.0782 |
323 |
1 |
109.90 |
2013-04-22 |
| 27. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
109.04 |
1.0403 |
0.0751 |
193 |
2 |
106.18 |
2014-09-12 |
| 28. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
108.71 |
1.0025 |
0.0920 |
256 |
1 |
108.71 |
2014-09-05 |
| 29. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
108.37 |
1.0516 |
0.0397 |
281 |
1 |
108.37 |
2013-04-22 |
| 30. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
108.29 |
1.0150 |
0.1215 |
325 |
2 |
106.17 |
2013-04-22 |
| 31. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
107.98 |
1.0883 |
0.0308 |
303 |
1 |
107.98 |
2014-09-12 |
| 32. |
I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not v... |
107.61 |
0.9983 |
0.0658 |
271 |
1 |
107.61 |
2021-07-06 |
| 33. |
Little bird, tell me, where do you go to get those colors of... |
107.38 |
1.0115 |
0.0565 |
433 |
1 |
107.38 |
2021-07-06 |
| 34. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
107.20 |
0.9772 |
0.1014 |
217 |
1 |
107.20 |
2012-03-03 |
| 35. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
107.16 |
0.9275 |
0.1507 |
211 |
1 |
107.16 |
2014-09-12 |
| 36. |
To be, or not to be: that is the question: whether 'tis nobl... |
107.09 |
0.9875 |
0.0828 |
198 |
1 |
107.09 |
2021-07-06 |
| 37. |
When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead, and the W... |
106.99 |
0.9103 |
0.1560 |
199 |
1 |
106.99 |
2021-07-17 |
| 38. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
106.26 |
1.0696 |
-0.0018 |
226 |
2 |
99.30 |
2012-03-09 |
| 39. |
If you want to drive a race car well, whether to win an Indy... |
106.11 |
1.0272 |
0.0609 |
405 |
2 |
103.08 |
2013-04-22 |
| 40. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
105.55 |
0.9863 |
0.0789 |
339 |
1 |
105.55 |
2012-03-03 |
| 41. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
105.42 |
1.0058 |
0.0747 |
411 |
1 |
105.42 |
2012-03-03 |
| 42. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
105.29 |
1.0441 |
0.0164 |
252 |
1 |
105.29 |
2012-03-08 |
| 43. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
104.74 |
0.9578 |
0.0961 |
281 |
1 |
104.74 |
2014-09-12 |
| 44. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
104.66 |
0.9279 |
0.1293 |
317 |
1 |
104.66 |
2014-09-12 |
| 45. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
104.41 |
0.9202 |
0.1312 |
254 |
1 |
104.41 |
2014-09-12 |
| 46. |
He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecc... |
104.35 |
0.9498 |
0.0962 |
407 |
1 |
104.35 |
2021-07-06 |
| 47. |
This year our members have put more things on top of other t... |
104.29 |
1.0695 |
-0.0340 |
342 |
1 |
104.29 |
2021-07-06 |
| 48. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
104.10 |
1.0613 |
-0.0135 |
266 |
1 |
104.10 |
2012-03-08 |
| 49. |
Three changes occur while the stacked disk structure equilib... |
103.91 |
0.9382 |
0.1310 |
440 |
1 |
103.91 |
2012-03-09 |
| 50. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
103.76 |
1.1296 |
-0.0543 |
252 |
1 |
103.76 |
2014-09-05 |
| 51. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
103.65 |
1.0197 |
0.0214 |
226 |
1 |
103.65 |
2012-03-09 |
| 52. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
103.17 |
0.9986 |
0.0401 |
283 |
1 |
103.17 |
2014-09-05 |
| 53. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
103.15 |
1.0232 |
0.0597 |
350 |
2 |
92.81 |
2013-04-22 |
| 54. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
103.05 |
1.0154 |
0.0685 |
351 |
2 |
97.68 |
2013-04-22 |
| 55. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
102.79 |
1.1323 |
-0.0667 |
341 |
1 |
102.79 |
2012-03-08 |
| 56. |
One just can't imagine what prison is like from outside. You... |
102.72 |
1.0336 |
-0.0001 |
271 |
1 |
102.72 |
2021-07-06 |
| 57. |
I don't want you to think of this as just a film - some proc... |
102.22 |
0.9967 |
0.0347 |
412 |
1 |
102.22 |
2021-07-06 |
| 58. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
101.76 |
1.0261 |
0.0341 |
410 |
1 |
101.76 |
2012-03-08 |
| 59. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
101.68 |
1.0264 |
0.0322 |
422 |
1 |
101.68 |
2012-03-06 |
| 60. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
101.47 |
1.0545 |
0.0037 |
416 |
1 |
101.47 |
2012-03-08 |
| 61. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
101.11 |
1.0008 |
0.0557 |
473 |
1 |
101.11 |
2012-03-08 |
| 62. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
100.99 |
1.0167 |
0.0023 |
378 |
3 |
98.51 |
2012-03-08 |
| 63. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
100.96 |
0.9614 |
0.0556 |
292 |
2 |
100.62 |
2013-04-22 |
| 64. |
As to your dead guy, occupational hazard. Drug dealer gettin... |
100.92 |
0.9567 |
0.0534 |
134 |
1 |
100.92 |
2021-07-06 |
| 65. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
100.90 |
1.1018 |
-0.0913 |
220 |
1 |
100.90 |
2012-03-06 |
| 66. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
100.45 |
1.0417 |
-0.0329 |
253 |
1 |
100.45 |
2012-03-03 |
| 67. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
100.31 |
0.9364 |
0.1104 |
351 |
3 |
96.30 |
2012-03-09 |
| 68. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
99.92 |
1.0251 |
-0.0210 |
261 |
2 |
98.62 |
2014-09-05 |
| 69. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
99.36 |
1.0125 |
-0.0153 |
224 |
1 |
99.36 |
2012-03-08 |
| 70. |
Finally, gentlemen, there are people with an hereditary anim... |
99.22 |
0.9383 |
0.0787 |
471 |
1 |
99.22 |
2014-09-05 |
| 71. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
99.12 |
0.9540 |
0.0432 |
285 |
1 |
99.12 |
2012-03-08 |
| 72. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
99.08 |
1.0031 |
0.0274 |
304 |
1 |
99.08 |
2012-03-03 |
| 73. |
In the early days of America, when men wore ruffles on their... |
98.93 |
1.0133 |
-0.0305 |
354 |
1 |
98.93 |
2021-07-06 |
| 74. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
98.86 |
0.9212 |
0.0748 |
323 |
1 |
98.86 |
2012-03-08 |
| 75. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
98.85 |
1.1016 |
-0.1090 |
233 |
1 |
98.85 |
2012-03-06 |
| 76. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
98.84 |
0.9785 |
0.0178 |
335 |
1 |
98.84 |
2012-03-08 |
| 77. |
Don't practice too much at first, or you're likely to develo... |
98.69 |
1.0141 |
0.0157 |
381 |
1 |
98.69 |
2012-03-03 |
| 78. |
Danger is a topic you're often asked about as a sprinter. Th... |
98.64 |
0.9801 |
0.0497 |
428 |
1 |
98.64 |
2013-04-22 |
| 79. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
98.02 |
0.9430 |
0.0407 |
211 |
2 |
97.25 |
2012-03-09 |
| 80. |
What you do as soon as you get up can underpin and affect yo... |
97.87 |
1.0448 |
-0.0711 |
291 |
1 |
97.87 |
2021-07-06 |
| 81. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
97.77 |
0.9371 |
0.0849 |
318 |
1 |
97.77 |
2014-09-05 |
| 82. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
97.53 |
1.0379 |
-0.0207 |
245 |
1 |
97.53 |
2014-09-05 |
| 83. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
97.53 |
1.0463 |
-0.0689 |
182 |
1 |
97.53 |
2012-03-08 |
| 84. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
97.46 |
0.9790 |
0.0396 |
311 |
1 |
97.46 |
2012-03-03 |
| 85. |
This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic people ... |
97.24 |
1.0203 |
-0.0134 |
400 |
1 |
97.24 |
2014-09-05 |
| 86. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
97.07 |
1.0347 |
-0.0364 |
550 |
1 |
97.07 |
2012-03-08 |
| 87. |
She left the lighthouse and went down to the beach to look a... |
96.76 |
1.0634 |
-0.1081 |
593 |
1 |
96.76 |
2021-07-06 |
| 88. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
96.69 |
1.0485 |
-0.0397 |
153 |
1 |
96.69 |
2012-03-03 |
| 89. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
96.44 |
1.0063 |
-0.0361 |
371 |
1 |
96.44 |
2012-03-08 |
| 90. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
95.58 |
1.0768 |
-0.0772 |
295 |
1 |
95.58 |
2012-03-03 |
| 91. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
95.21 |
0.9468 |
0.0100 |
276 |
1 |
95.21 |
2012-03-06 |
| 92. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
94.60 |
1.0477 |
-0.0958 |
360 |
1 |
94.60 |
2012-03-08 |
| 93. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
94.44 |
0.9426 |
0.0079 |
317 |
1 |
94.44 |
2012-03-08 |
| 94. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
93.91 |
0.9881 |
-0.0071 |
424 |
1 |
93.91 |
2021-07-06 |
| 95. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
93.31 |
0.9811 |
-0.0422 |
272 |
1 |
93.31 |
2012-03-09 |
| 96. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
92.89 |
0.9155 |
0.0635 |
168 |
1 |
92.89 |
2021-07-06 |
| 97. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
92.41 |
0.8722 |
0.0590 |
285 |
1 |
92.41 |
2014-09-12 |
| 98. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
92.30 |
1.0124 |
-0.0863 |
204 |
1 |
92.30 |
2012-03-03 |
| 99. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
92.28 |
1.0232 |
-0.0605 |
236 |
1 |
92.28 |
2014-09-05 |
| 100. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
91.54 |
0.9698 |
-0.0185 |
397 |
1 |
91.54 |
2012-03-03 |
| 101. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
91.25 |
0.8961 |
0.0207 |
189 |
1 |
91.25 |
2021-07-06 |
| 102. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
90.79 |
1.0531 |
-0.1046 |
272 |
1 |
90.79 |
2012-03-08 |
| 103. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
90.69 |
0.8878 |
0.0238 |
346 |
1 |
90.69 |
2012-03-08 |
| 104. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
90.61 |
1.0023 |
-0.0948 |
211 |
1 |
90.61 |
2012-03-08 |
| 105. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
89.32 |
0.9084 |
-0.0097 |
300 |
1 |
89.32 |
2012-03-08 |
| 106. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
89.18 |
0.9665 |
-0.0225 |
326 |
1 |
89.18 |
2012-03-03 |
| 107. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
88.95 |
0.8890 |
0.0033 |
199 |
1 |
88.95 |
2014-09-05 |
| 108. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
88.94 |
0.9723 |
-0.0761 |
364 |
1 |
88.94 |
2012-03-08 |
| 109. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
88.89 |
0.9740 |
-0.0833 |
209 |
1 |
88.89 |
2012-03-06 |
| 110. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
88.77 |
0.9164 |
-0.0220 |
305 |
1 |
88.77 |
2012-03-06 |
| 111. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
87.96 |
0.7805 |
0.0996 |
154 |
1 |
87.96 |
2014-09-05 |
| 112. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
86.75 |
0.9084 |
-0.0338 |
404 |
1 |
86.75 |
2012-03-06 |
| 113. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
86.36 |
0.9833 |
-0.1147 |
355 |
1 |
86.36 |
2012-03-03 |
| 114. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
85.98 |
1.0389 |
-0.1752 |
340 |
1 |
85.98 |
2012-03-06 |
| 115. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
85.67 |
0.9739 |
-0.0806 |
412 |
1 |
85.67 |
2012-03-06 |
| 116. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
84.14 |
0.8956 |
-0.0481 |
322 |
1 |
84.14 |
2014-09-05 |
| 117. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
83.40 |
0.9649 |
-0.1288 |
193 |
1 |
83.40 |
2012-03-08 |
| 118. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
83.28 |
0.9176 |
-0.0460 |
365 |
1 |
83.28 |
2012-03-06 |
| 119. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
83.01 |
0.9376 |
-0.0717 |
360 |
1 |
83.01 |
2012-03-08 |
| 120. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
82.53 |
0.9710 |
-0.1474 |
173 |
2 |
82.50 |
2012-03-08 |
| 121. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
81.26 |
0.9601 |
-0.1414 |
308 |
1 |
81.26 |
2012-03-06 |
| 122. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
81.05 |
0.9120 |
-0.0683 |
436 |
1 |
81.05 |
2014-09-05 |
| 123. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
79.52 |
0.9125 |
-0.1147 |
308 |
1 |
79.52 |
2012-03-08 |
| 124. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
77.23 |
0.9632 |
-0.1856 |
392 |
1 |
77.23 |
2012-03-06 |
| 125. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
76.26 |
0.9064 |
-0.1355 |
399 |
1 |
76.26 |
2012-03-06 |
| 126. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
75.43 |
0.9072 |
-0.1528 |
237 |
1 |
75.43 |
2012-03-08 |
| 127. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
74.84 |
1.0263 |
-0.2773 |
267 |
1 |
74.84 |
2012-03-03 |
| 128. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
74.70 |
0.8753 |
-0.1211 |
427 |
1 |
74.70 |
2012-03-03 |
| 129. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
68.29 |
0.9904 |
-0.2669 |
203 |
1 |
68.29 |
2012-03-03 |