| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
It's a funny thing, but people mostly have it backward. They... |
147.38 |
1.0612 |
0.1515 |
173 |
1 |
147.38 |
2015-10-26 |
| 2. |
There are but two types of men who desire war: those who hav... |
143.36 |
1.0679 |
0.1203 |
256 |
1 |
143.36 |
2015-08-12 |
| 3. |
Punishment and negative reinforcement are opposites. Punishm... |
142.45 |
1.0338 |
0.1519 |
338 |
1 |
142.45 |
2015-08-12 |
| 4. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
141.59 |
1.0613 |
0.1103 |
456 |
2 |
131.22 |
2016-03-29 |
| 5. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
140.87 |
1.0534 |
0.1092 |
357 |
1 |
140.87 |
2015-08-10 |
| 6. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
139.23 |
1.0261 |
0.1182 |
273 |
1 |
139.23 |
2015-11-25 |
| 7. |
You have two choices: you can keep running and hiding and bl... |
137.95 |
1.0660 |
0.0695 |
164 |
2 |
130.94 |
2015-08-10 |
| 8. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
137.52 |
1.1016 |
0.0302 |
233 |
1 |
137.52 |
2015-08-07 |
| 9. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
137.05 |
1.0396 |
0.0814 |
149 |
1 |
137.05 |
2015-08-07 |
| 10. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
136.63 |
1.1323 |
0.0265 |
341 |
2 |
135.71 |
2015-12-27 |
| 11. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
136.55 |
1.0412 |
0.0825 |
225 |
1 |
136.55 |
2015-08-06 |
| 12. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
136.53 |
1.0528 |
0.0665 |
201 |
2 |
128.10 |
2015-08-13 |
| 13. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
135.51 |
1.0667 |
0.0878 |
406 |
1 |
135.51 |
2015-11-25 |
| 14. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
135.23 |
1.0445 |
0.0698 |
373 |
1 |
135.23 |
2016-03-25 |
| 15. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
134.73 |
1.0883 |
0.0528 |
303 |
1 |
134.73 |
2015-10-26 |
| 16. |
I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart o... |
133.27 |
1.0488 |
0.0588 |
321 |
1 |
133.27 |
2016-03-25 |
| 17. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
133.15 |
1.0740 |
0.0601 |
264 |
2 |
124.75 |
2015-10-27 |
| 18. |
It's really hard to do nothing totally. Even just sitting he... |
132.35 |
1.0424 |
0.0508 |
171 |
1 |
132.35 |
2015-08-07 |
| 19. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
130.76 |
1.0391 |
0.0427 |
358 |
1 |
130.76 |
2016-03-25 |
| 20. |
This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic people ... |
130.73 |
1.0203 |
0.0889 |
400 |
1 |
130.73 |
2016-02-18 |
| 21. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
130.47 |
1.0261 |
0.0869 |
410 |
1 |
130.47 |
2015-08-07 |
| 22. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
130.33 |
1.0795 |
0.0229 |
226 |
1 |
130.33 |
2015-08-11 |
| 23. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
129.56 |
1.0684 |
0.0275 |
253 |
2 |
125.33 |
2016-04-06 |
| 24. |
So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever s... |
129.27 |
1.0972 |
-0.0268 |
239 |
1 |
129.27 |
2015-08-06 |
| 25. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
128.65 |
1.0252 |
0.0266 |
176 |
2 |
121.47 |
2015-10-27 |
| 26. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
128.30 |
1.0320 |
0.0606 |
293 |
1 |
128.30 |
2015-08-14 |
| 27. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
128.15 |
0.9697 |
0.0844 |
249 |
1 |
128.15 |
2015-08-14 |
| 28. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
127.88 |
0.9546 |
0.1283 |
198 |
1 |
127.88 |
2015-10-26 |
| 29. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
127.40 |
1.0254 |
0.0629 |
217 |
1 |
127.40 |
2015-08-14 |
| 30. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
127.40 |
1.0296 |
0.0248 |
437 |
1 |
127.40 |
2015-08-10 |
| 31. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
127.26 |
1.0613 |
-0.0136 |
266 |
1 |
127.26 |
2016-03-25 |
| 32. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
127.19 |
0.9698 |
0.1093 |
397 |
1 |
127.19 |
2015-10-26 |
| 33. |
You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the ... |
126.61 |
1.0696 |
-0.0148 |
317 |
1 |
126.61 |
2015-11-25 |
| 34. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
126.34 |
1.0173 |
0.0657 |
268 |
2 |
118.70 |
2015-12-27 |
| 35. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
126.34 |
1.0796 |
-0.0460 |
129 |
1 |
126.34 |
2016-03-25 |
| 36. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
126.28 |
0.9912 |
0.0742 |
237 |
1 |
126.28 |
2015-08-13 |
| 37. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
125.84 |
1.0125 |
0.0199 |
224 |
1 |
125.84 |
2015-08-07 |
| 38. |
The men in the room suddenly realized that they didn't want ... |
125.78 |
1.0319 |
0.0101 |
215 |
1 |
125.78 |
2015-08-06 |
| 39. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
125.72 |
0.9612 |
0.0729 |
256 |
1 |
125.72 |
2015-08-14 |
| 40. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
125.65 |
1.0565 |
-0.0261 |
247 |
1 |
125.65 |
2016-03-25 |
| 41. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
125.49 |
1.0483 |
-0.0196 |
227 |
1 |
125.49 |
2015-08-12 |
| 42. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
124.53 |
0.9710 |
0.0466 |
173 |
1 |
124.53 |
2015-10-26 |
| 43. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
123.48 |
0.9672 |
0.0547 |
396 |
1 |
123.48 |
2015-08-11 |
| 44. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
123.35 |
1.0454 |
-0.0343 |
255 |
1 |
123.35 |
2015-12-27 |
| 45. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
123.28 |
1.0621 |
-0.0292 |
263 |
1 |
123.28 |
2015-08-07 |
| 46. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
122.95 |
1.0232 |
0.0335 |
350 |
1 |
122.95 |
2015-08-30 |
| 47. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
121.40 |
1.0053 |
-0.0093 |
232 |
2 |
114.80 |
2015-08-14 |
| 48. |
As a manager you will also be able to control gravity. Sir I... |
120.65 |
0.9706 |
0.0309 |
409 |
1 |
120.65 |
2015-11-25 |
| 49. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
120.60 |
1.0346 |
-0.0016 |
244 |
1 |
120.60 |
2015-08-10 |
| 50. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
120.08 |
0.9109 |
0.0791 |
401 |
1 |
120.08 |
2016-02-18 |
| 51. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
119.98 |
0.9994 |
0.0175 |
269 |
1 |
119.98 |
2015-08-14 |
| 52. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
119.92 |
0.9619 |
0.0292 |
393 |
1 |
119.92 |
2016-03-25 |
| 53. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
119.86 |
1.0013 |
-0.0173 |
273 |
1 |
119.86 |
2015-08-10 |
| 54. |
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read an... |
119.76 |
0.9819 |
0.0102 |
326 |
1 |
119.76 |
2015-08-12 |
| 55. |
There comes a point when you just love someone. Not because ... |
119.51 |
1.0778 |
-0.0851 |
409 |
1 |
119.51 |
2015-08-11 |
| 56. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
119.44 |
1.0487 |
-0.0721 |
231 |
1 |
119.44 |
2016-01-14 |
| 57. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
119.43 |
0.9398 |
0.0513 |
419 |
1 |
119.43 |
2015-08-07 |
| 58. |
Living men are bound by time... Thus, their lives have an ur... |
119.40 |
0.9884 |
0.0015 |
365 |
1 |
119.40 |
2016-03-25 |
| 59. |
We're no strangers to love. You know the rules and so do I. ... |
119.20 |
0.9443 |
0.0306 |
143 |
2 |
118.63 |
2015-08-14 |
| 60. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
119.14 |
1.1014 |
-0.0846 |
273 |
1 |
119.14 |
2015-08-12 |
| 61. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
118.97 |
1.0150 |
0.0117 |
325 |
1 |
118.97 |
2015-10-26 |
| 62. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
118.34 |
0.9330 |
0.0462 |
360 |
1 |
118.34 |
2015-08-06 |
| 63. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
118.10 |
0.9769 |
-0.0083 |
263 |
1 |
118.10 |
2015-12-27 |
| 64. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
117.86 |
0.9553 |
0.0204 |
430 |
1 |
117.86 |
2016-03-29 |
| 65. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
117.23 |
1.0023 |
-0.0411 |
211 |
1 |
117.23 |
2016-03-25 |
| 66. |
I was stealing saltshakers again. Ten, sometimes twelve a ni... |
117.19 |
0.9829 |
-0.0057 |
371 |
1 |
117.19 |
2016-03-25 |
| 67. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
117.10 |
0.8933 |
0.0753 |
363 |
2 |
110.23 |
2016-03-30 |
| 68. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
116.31 |
1.0496 |
-0.0948 |
314 |
1 |
116.31 |
2015-09-01 |
| 69. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
115.92 |
0.9965 |
-0.0438 |
310 |
1 |
115.92 |
2015-08-07 |
| 70. |
When Betty and Billy fell asleep, he walked down to the kitc... |
115.63 |
0.9693 |
0.0020 |
360 |
1 |
115.63 |
2015-08-07 |
| 71. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
115.34 |
0.9583 |
0.0328 |
341 |
1 |
115.34 |
2016-01-14 |
| 72. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
115.22 |
0.9884 |
-0.0424 |
233 |
1 |
115.22 |
2015-08-12 |
| 73. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
115.12 |
0.9635 |
-0.0120 |
389 |
1 |
115.12 |
2016-03-29 |
| 74. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
114.90 |
0.9293 |
0.0157 |
355 |
1 |
114.90 |
2016-02-18 |
| 75. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
114.04 |
0.9148 |
0.0234 |
317 |
1 |
114.04 |
2015-08-06 |
| 76. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
113.19 |
1.0696 |
-0.1435 |
226 |
1 |
113.19 |
2015-08-14 |
| 77. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
113.18 |
1.0498 |
-0.1252 |
180 |
1 |
113.18 |
2015-08-06 |
| 78. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
112.75 |
0.9894 |
-0.0590 |
323 |
1 |
112.75 |
2015-08-06 |
| 79. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
111.47 |
0.9342 |
-0.0152 |
434 |
2 |
110.34 |
2015-08-11 |
| 80. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
111.31 |
1.0063 |
-0.0923 |
371 |
1 |
111.31 |
2015-08-13 |
| 81. |
A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, ... |
111.01 |
0.9726 |
-0.0503 |
325 |
1 |
111.01 |
2016-03-29 |
| 82. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
110.59 |
0.9798 |
-0.0775 |
199 |
1 |
110.59 |
2016-03-29 |
| 83. |
Take my love, take my land, take me where I cannot stand. I ... |
110.55 |
1.0141 |
-0.1105 |
176 |
1 |
110.55 |
2015-08-07 |
| 84. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
109.25 |
0.9074 |
-0.0042 |
396 |
1 |
109.25 |
2015-08-07 |
| 85. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
108.98 |
1.0060 |
-0.1163 |
171 |
1 |
108.98 |
2015-10-26 |
| 86. |
At a peace rally in Philadelphia in 1966, a reporter asked m... |
108.57 |
0.8985 |
0.0002 |
431 |
1 |
108.57 |
2015-08-06 |
| 87. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
108.46 |
0.9899 |
-0.1046 |
163 |
1 |
108.46 |
2015-08-13 |
| 88. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
108.02 |
0.9904 |
-0.0636 |
203 |
1 |
108.02 |
2015-08-11 |
| 89. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
107.51 |
0.9084 |
-0.0244 |
300 |
1 |
107.51 |
2015-08-11 |
| 90. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
106.82 |
1.0083 |
-0.0875 |
273 |
1 |
106.82 |
2015-08-11 |
| 91. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
106.57 |
0.9527 |
-0.0780 |
251 |
1 |
106.57 |
2016-03-25 |
| 92. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
106.50 |
0.9772 |
-0.1067 |
217 |
2 |
104.56 |
2016-03-25 |
| 93. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
106.46 |
0.9723 |
-0.0947 |
364 |
1 |
106.46 |
2015-08-13 |
| 94. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
106.44 |
0.9593 |
-0.0812 |
398 |
1 |
106.44 |
2015-08-06 |
| 95. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
106.07 |
0.9597 |
-0.0855 |
347 |
1 |
106.07 |
2015-08-14 |
| 96. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
105.84 |
0.9120 |
-0.0101 |
436 |
2 |
103.88 |
2015-08-12 |
| 97. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
105.03 |
0.8956 |
-0.0295 |
322 |
1 |
105.03 |
2015-08-13 |
| 98. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
104.87 |
0.9359 |
-0.0360 |
353 |
1 |
104.87 |
2015-10-27 |
| 99. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
104.54 |
1.0201 |
-0.1691 |
172 |
1 |
104.54 |
2015-08-13 |
| 100. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
104.36 |
0.9087 |
-0.0417 |
393 |
1 |
104.36 |
2015-08-07 |
| 101. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
103.87 |
0.8382 |
0.0147 |
268 |
1 |
103.87 |
2015-08-06 |
| 102. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
100.41 |
0.8775 |
-0.0515 |
443 |
1 |
100.41 |
2015-08-11 |
| 103. |
In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the ... |
98.87 |
0.9976 |
-0.1845 |
201 |
1 |
98.87 |
2016-01-14 |
| 104. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
98.70 |
1.0388 |
-0.1982 |
243 |
1 |
98.70 |
2015-08-06 |
| 105. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
97.16 |
0.9916 |
-0.1529 |
282 |
1 |
97.16 |
2016-03-29 |
| 106. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
89.54 |
1.0109 |
-0.2778 |
276 |
1 |
89.54 |
2016-03-25 |
| 107. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
88.64 |
0.9897 |
-0.2670 |
274 |
1 |
88.64 |
2015-08-06 |