| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
79.00 |
1.0060 |
0.2880 |
171 |
1 |
79.00 |
2008-10-20 |
| 2. |
Without some flexibility in our definitions we'll remain for... |
77.25 |
0.9599 |
0.3054 |
147 |
1 |
77.25 |
2019-11-28 |
| 3. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
73.47 |
1.0596 |
0.1438 |
239 |
1 |
73.47 |
2009-08-02 |
| 4. |
How do I live without the ones I love? Time still turns the ... |
71.41 |
1.0381 |
0.1316 |
170 |
1 |
71.41 |
2021-04-02 |
| 5. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
71.28 |
1.0829 |
0.0847 |
288 |
1 |
71.28 |
2009-08-02 |
| 6. |
Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be qui... |
71.09 |
1.0339 |
0.1305 |
190 |
1 |
71.09 |
2021-04-02 |
| 7. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
70.24 |
0.9649 |
0.1856 |
193 |
1 |
70.24 |
2008-12-07 |
| 8. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
70.13 |
1.0528 |
0.0959 |
201 |
2 |
67.83 |
2019-11-28 |
| 9. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
69.42 |
0.9785 |
0.1586 |
335 |
1 |
69.42 |
2008-09-19 |
| 10. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
69.28 |
1.0719 |
0.0629 |
360 |
1 |
69.28 |
2012-02-14 |
| 11. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
68.99 |
1.0214 |
0.1086 |
269 |
1 |
68.99 |
2008-10-19 |
| 12. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
68.89 |
1.0619 |
0.0665 |
354 |
2 |
67.84 |
2013-08-21 |
| 13. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
67.99 |
1.0358 |
0.0779 |
349 |
1 |
67.99 |
2024-04-15 |
| 14. |
My teacher scolds me that I neglect education, she don't kno... |
67.94 |
1.0025 |
0.1103 |
176 |
1 |
67.94 |
2019-11-28 |
| 15. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
67.79 |
1.0565 |
0.0539 |
247 |
2 |
66.47 |
2012-02-14 |
| 16. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
67.75 |
1.0515 |
0.0582 |
166 |
1 |
67.75 |
2012-02-14 |
| 17. |
I wanted to understand as much as I could about the procedur... |
67.15 |
1.0793 |
0.0206 |
267 |
1 |
67.15 |
2019-11-28 |
| 18. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
67.06 |
0.9965 |
0.1019 |
310 |
3 |
60.75 |
2008-10-20 |
| 19. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
67.04 |
1.0417 |
0.0564 |
253 |
2 |
62.89 |
2012-02-14 |
| 20. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
67.01 |
1.0529 |
0.0447 |
351 |
1 |
67.01 |
2013-09-01 |
| 21. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
66.75 |
1.0073 |
0.0861 |
369 |
1 |
66.75 |
2012-02-14 |
| 22. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
66.73 |
1.0349 |
0.0581 |
234 |
1 |
66.73 |
2008-12-07 |
| 23. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
66.66 |
0.9991 |
0.0928 |
225 |
1 |
66.66 |
2008-10-20 |
| 24. |
So, attend carefully to your posture. Quit drooping and hunc... |
66.60 |
0.9177 |
0.1732 |
352 |
1 |
66.60 |
2020-09-16 |
| 25. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
66.47 |
1.0389 |
0.0499 |
340 |
1 |
66.47 |
2008-10-20 |
| 26. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
66.41 |
1.0077 |
0.0801 |
250 |
2 |
60.49 |
2013-08-21 |
| 27. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
66.32 |
1.0261 |
0.0602 |
273 |
1 |
66.32 |
2008-12-07 |
| 28. |
No I'm not. I'm not the best version of me. I love being The... |
65.73 |
0.9586 |
0.1180 |
260 |
1 |
65.73 |
2019-11-28 |
| 29. |
If the children don't grow up, our bodies get bigger but our... |
65.69 |
1.0181 |
0.0579 |
203 |
1 |
65.69 |
2021-04-21 |
| 30. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
65.60 |
1.0477 |
0.0268 |
360 |
1 |
65.60 |
2008-10-20 |
| 31. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
65.31 |
1.0486 |
0.0212 |
289 |
1 |
65.31 |
2008-09-19 |
| 32. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
65.22 |
0.9601 |
0.1082 |
308 |
1 |
65.22 |
2008-12-07 |
| 33. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
64.90 |
1.0391 |
0.0240 |
358 |
1 |
64.90 |
2008-10-19 |
| 34. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
64.25 |
0.9886 |
0.0638 |
220 |
1 |
64.25 |
2012-02-14 |
| 35. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
64.06 |
0.9500 |
0.0993 |
362 |
1 |
64.06 |
2009-08-02 |
| 36. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
64.00 |
1.0774 |
-0.0291 |
304 |
1 |
64.00 |
2012-02-14 |
| 37. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
63.99 |
1.0337 |
0.0144 |
214 |
1 |
63.99 |
2008-12-07 |
| 38. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
63.85 |
1.0441 |
0.0018 |
252 |
1 |
63.85 |
2008-12-07 |
| 39. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
63.83 |
1.0487 |
-0.0032 |
231 |
1 |
63.83 |
2012-02-14 |
| 40. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
63.72 |
0.9792 |
0.0645 |
265 |
1 |
63.72 |
2013-09-01 |
| 41. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
63.56 |
1.0523 |
-0.0112 |
256 |
2 |
54.10 |
2008-10-19 |
| 42. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
63.50 |
1.0169 |
0.0232 |
346 |
1 |
63.50 |
2012-02-14 |
| 43. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
63.50 |
0.9578 |
0.0823 |
281 |
1 |
63.50 |
2008-09-20 |
| 44. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
63.35 |
0.9687 |
0.0690 |
371 |
2 |
61.09 |
2008-10-18 |
| 45. |
I walked awhile among the rocks: the sky was perfectly clear... |
63.33 |
1.0159 |
0.0214 |
256 |
1 |
63.33 |
2023-09-11 |
| 46. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
62.79 |
1.0885 |
-0.0600 |
315 |
1 |
62.79 |
2008-12-07 |
| 47. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
62.65 |
0.9675 |
0.0587 |
383 |
2 |
60.56 |
2012-02-14 |
| 48. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
62.58 |
0.9723 |
0.0527 |
364 |
1 |
62.58 |
2008-10-03 |
| 49. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
62.37 |
1.0506 |
-0.0290 |
277 |
1 |
62.37 |
2012-02-16 |
| 50. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
62.36 |
1.0183 |
0.0031 |
191 |
1 |
62.36 |
2008-10-20 |
| 51. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
62.19 |
0.9663 |
0.0524 |
330 |
1 |
62.19 |
2012-02-14 |
| 52. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
62.12 |
1.0677 |
-0.0502 |
284 |
1 |
62.12 |
2012-02-14 |
| 53. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
62.10 |
1.0725 |
-0.0553 |
233 |
1 |
62.10 |
2013-08-23 |
| 54. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
61.53 |
0.9852 |
0.0227 |
264 |
1 |
61.53 |
2008-10-19 |
| 55. |
While it may hold true that the final few seconds of a bike ... |
61.37 |
0.8341 |
0.1711 |
224 |
1 |
61.37 |
2012-02-14 |
| 56. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
61.36 |
0.9905 |
0.0146 |
337 |
1 |
61.36 |
2012-02-14 |
| 57. |
A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. |
61.01 |
1.0702 |
-0.0709 |
57 |
1 |
61.01 |
2023-09-11 |
| 58. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
60.84 |
0.9084 |
0.0881 |
300 |
1 |
60.84 |
2008-09-19 |
| 59. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
60.64 |
1.0168 |
-0.0235 |
271 |
1 |
60.64 |
2008-10-11 |
| 60. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
60.51 |
1.0555 |
-0.0644 |
363 |
1 |
60.51 |
2008-10-19 |
| 61. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
60.30 |
0.9786 |
0.0091 |
235 |
1 |
60.30 |
2012-02-14 |
| 62. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
60.24 |
0.9865 |
0.0002 |
276 |
1 |
60.24 |
2008-12-07 |
| 63. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
60.06 |
0.9213 |
0.0625 |
295 |
1 |
60.06 |
2008-12-07 |
| 64. |
You've no right to starve people, to punish them for no reas... |
60.04 |
1.0795 |
-0.0961 |
345 |
1 |
60.04 |
2024-04-15 |
| 65. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
59.84 |
0.8916 |
0.0886 |
216 |
2 |
57.73 |
2008-11-13 |
| 66. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
59.79 |
1.0547 |
-0.0754 |
257 |
1 |
59.79 |
2012-02-14 |
| 67. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
59.35 |
1.1016 |
-0.1295 |
233 |
2 |
57.77 |
2009-08-02 |
| 68. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
59.26 |
1.0534 |
-0.0827 |
357 |
1 |
59.26 |
2008-10-11 |
| 69. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
59.12 |
1.0445 |
-0.0761 |
373 |
1 |
59.12 |
2008-09-19 |
| 70. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
58.98 |
0.9286 |
0.0375 |
194 |
1 |
58.98 |
2008-12-07 |
| 71. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
58.64 |
0.8958 |
0.0647 |
322 |
1 |
58.64 |
2012-02-14 |
| 72. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
58.53 |
0.9936 |
-0.0349 |
311 |
1 |
58.53 |
2012-02-16 |
| 73. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
58.28 |
0.9226 |
0.0320 |
348 |
1 |
58.28 |
2012-02-14 |
| 74. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
58.19 |
0.9925 |
-0.0394 |
247 |
1 |
58.19 |
2012-02-14 |
| 75. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
58.06 |
0.9633 |
-0.0123 |
304 |
1 |
58.06 |
2012-02-14 |
| 76. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
57.92 |
0.8996 |
0.0491 |
192 |
2 |
55.47 |
2012-02-14 |
| 77. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
57.80 |
1.0211 |
-0.0743 |
213 |
1 |
57.80 |
2013-08-23 |
| 78. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
57.57 |
0.9790 |
-0.0360 |
311 |
1 |
57.57 |
2012-02-14 |
| 79. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
57.25 |
0.9212 |
0.0165 |
323 |
1 |
57.25 |
2008-09-19 |
| 80. |
It's not a question but a lesson learned in time. It's somet... |
57.17 |
1.0465 |
-0.1101 |
144 |
1 |
57.17 |
2021-04-02 |
| 81. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
57.17 |
1.0390 |
-0.1026 |
205 |
1 |
57.17 |
2008-10-18 |
| 82. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
56.71 |
0.9527 |
-0.0238 |
251 |
1 |
56.71 |
2008-09-20 |
| 83. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
56.58 |
0.8919 |
0.0349 |
205 |
1 |
56.58 |
2008-12-07 |
| 84. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
56.33 |
0.9513 |
-0.0286 |
354 |
1 |
56.33 |
2008-09-20 |
| 85. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
56.31 |
0.8933 |
0.0290 |
363 |
1 |
56.31 |
2009-08-02 |
| 86. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
56.15 |
0.9504 |
-0.0307 |
263 |
1 |
56.15 |
2012-02-14 |
| 87. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
55.95 |
0.9941 |
-0.0776 |
217 |
1 |
55.95 |
2012-02-14 |
| 88. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
55.93 |
1.0016 |
-0.0855 |
218 |
2 |
55.03 |
2009-08-02 |
| 89. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
55.58 |
0.9293 |
-0.0189 |
355 |
1 |
55.58 |
2008-09-19 |
| 90. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
54.78 |
0.9148 |
-0.0175 |
317 |
1 |
54.78 |
2009-08-02 |
| 91. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
54.76 |
1.0797 |
-0.1827 |
210 |
1 |
54.76 |
2008-10-20 |
| 92. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
54.42 |
0.9881 |
-0.0967 |
424 |
1 |
54.42 |
2012-02-14 |
| 93. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
54.41 |
0.9168 |
-0.0256 |
240 |
1 |
54.41 |
2008-12-07 |
| 94. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
54.31 |
0.8890 |
0.0006 |
199 |
1 |
54.31 |
2008-09-19 |
| 95. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
53.68 |
0.9780 |
-0.0987 |
337 |
1 |
53.68 |
2008-11-05 |
| 96. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
53.50 |
0.9710 |
-0.0947 |
173 |
1 |
53.50 |
2012-02-14 |
| 97. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
53.45 |
0.9243 |
-0.0488 |
448 |
1 |
53.45 |
2013-09-01 |
| 98. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
52.89 |
0.9772 |
-0.1109 |
217 |
1 |
52.89 |
2008-09-19 |
| 99. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
52.79 |
0.9278 |
-0.0631 |
295 |
1 |
52.79 |
2008-12-07 |
| 100. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
52.52 |
0.9279 |
-0.0676 |
317 |
1 |
52.52 |
2009-08-02 |
| 101. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
52.11 |
1.0033 |
-0.1497 |
189 |
1 |
52.11 |
2012-02-14 |
| 102. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
49.49 |
0.9567 |
-0.1461 |
273 |
1 |
49.49 |
2008-09-19 |
| 103. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
47.75 |
0.9365 |
-0.1544 |
248 |
1 |
47.75 |
2008-10-20 |
| 104. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
44.82 |
0.9430 |
-0.2089 |
211 |
1 |
44.82 |
2008-09-19 |
| 105. |
You've gotta understand my position. I'm a coward, and Jaret... |
39.54 |
0.8109 |
-0.1632 |
137 |
1 |
39.54 |
2020-09-16 |