| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
122.64 |
1.0151 |
0.3160 |
152 |
1 |
122.64 |
2010-08-01 |
| 2. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
112.43 |
0.9691 |
0.2581 |
223 |
2 |
101.36 |
2011-11-09 |
| 3. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
111.29 |
1.0417 |
0.1707 |
253 |
1 |
111.29 |
2010-08-01 |
| 4. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
110.92 |
1.0567 |
0.1552 |
303 |
2 |
103.83 |
2010-04-19 |
| 5. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
110.29 |
1.0403 |
0.2037 |
275 |
1 |
110.29 |
2014-03-09 |
| 6. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
110.28 |
1.0528 |
0.1466 |
201 |
3 |
100.21 |
2011-08-24 |
| 7. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
109.66 |
0.9731 |
0.2114 |
129 |
1 |
109.66 |
2009-04-20 |
| 8. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
108.62 |
0.9897 |
0.1936 |
274 |
1 |
108.62 |
2011-08-23 |
| 9. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
106.96 |
0.9965 |
0.1713 |
310 |
2 |
104.68 |
2011-04-06 |
| 10. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
106.95 |
1.0993 |
0.0660 |
265 |
1 |
106.95 |
2011-11-23 |
| 11. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
106.75 |
1.0396 |
0.1182 |
149 |
1 |
106.75 |
2014-03-09 |
| 12. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
106.69 |
1.0168 |
0.1493 |
271 |
1 |
106.69 |
2011-11-09 |
| 13. |
Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It's ab... |
106.03 |
1.0604 |
0.1300 |
260 |
1 |
106.03 |
2011-12-12 |
| 14. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
105.71 |
1.0596 |
0.0916 |
239 |
2 |
100.71 |
2012-06-13 |
| 15. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
105.55 |
1.1022 |
0.0848 |
259 |
1 |
105.55 |
2012-06-13 |
| 16. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
105.44 |
0.9275 |
0.2199 |
211 |
2 |
98.92 |
2011-11-23 |
| 17. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
105.28 |
1.0125 |
0.1338 |
224 |
1 |
105.28 |
2011-11-09 |
| 18. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
105.10 |
0.9805 |
0.1711 |
292 |
2 |
101.31 |
2013-10-17 |
| 19. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
104.98 |
1.0498 |
0.0909 |
180 |
1 |
104.98 |
2009-04-10 |
| 20. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
104.38 |
1.0768 |
0.1018 |
295 |
2 |
97.55 |
2011-11-13 |
| 21. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
103.09 |
1.0907 |
0.0361 |
303 |
1 |
103.09 |
2010-08-01 |
| 22. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
103.02 |
1.0284 |
0.1388 |
282 |
1 |
103.02 |
2012-03-09 |
| 23. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
102.98 |
1.0483 |
0.0719 |
227 |
1 |
102.98 |
2009-04-10 |
| 24. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
102.89 |
1.0426 |
0.0792 |
323 |
1 |
102.89 |
2009-04-04 |
| 25. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
102.16 |
1.0203 |
0.0975 |
261 |
1 |
102.16 |
2009-08-05 |
| 26. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
101.78 |
1.0774 |
0.0621 |
304 |
1 |
101.78 |
2011-08-23 |
| 27. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
101.51 |
0.9675 |
0.1491 |
383 |
2 |
98.25 |
2009-08-05 |
| 28. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
101.25 |
1.0441 |
0.0615 |
252 |
1 |
101.25 |
2012-06-13 |
| 29. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
101.23 |
0.9884 |
0.1153 |
233 |
2 |
97.82 |
2010-08-01 |
| 30. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
101.10 |
0.9636 |
0.1387 |
254 |
4 |
91.08 |
2009-11-14 |
| 31. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
100.90 |
1.0796 |
0.0154 |
129 |
2 |
100.16 |
2010-08-01 |
| 32. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
100.77 |
1.0331 |
0.0637 |
234 |
1 |
100.77 |
2009-04-27 |
| 33. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
100.59 |
0.9233 |
0.1655 |
168 |
1 |
100.59 |
2011-12-12 |
| 34. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
100.54 |
1.0270 |
0.1055 |
255 |
1 |
100.54 |
2011-12-12 |
| 35. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
100.54 |
1.0201 |
0.0805 |
375 |
2 |
94.87 |
2009-04-24 |
| 36. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
100.35 |
1.0496 |
0.0441 |
314 |
2 |
100.14 |
2009-11-14 |
| 37. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
100.14 |
0.9886 |
0.1059 |
220 |
2 |
91.42 |
2011-12-12 |
| 38. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
99.72 |
0.9785 |
0.1120 |
335 |
1 |
99.72 |
2009-04-29 |
| 39. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
99.34 |
1.0389 |
0.0462 |
318 |
1 |
99.34 |
2009-08-05 |
| 40. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
98.90 |
1.0254 |
0.0935 |
217 |
1 |
98.90 |
2010-04-19 |
| 41. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
98.27 |
0.9946 |
0.0769 |
246 |
1 |
98.27 |
2010-04-19 |
| 42. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
97.82 |
1.0063 |
0.0603 |
371 |
3 |
94.89 |
2011-12-12 |
| 43. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
97.61 |
0.9814 |
0.1223 |
364 |
1 |
97.61 |
2012-06-13 |
| 44. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
97.19 |
0.9670 |
0.1347 |
307 |
1 |
97.19 |
2012-06-14 |
| 45. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
97.00 |
1.0523 |
0.0009 |
256 |
1 |
97.00 |
2013-10-17 |
| 46. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
96.96 |
1.0125 |
0.0825 |
413 |
1 |
96.96 |
2010-08-01 |
| 47. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
96.58 |
1.0389 |
0.0164 |
340 |
2 |
93.21 |
2009-04-27 |
| 48. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
95.27 |
0.9485 |
0.0916 |
236 |
1 |
95.27 |
2009-04-29 |
| 49. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
94.80 |
0.9631 |
0.1213 |
345 |
2 |
94.72 |
2011-08-24 |
| 50. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
94.75 |
1.0031 |
0.0629 |
304 |
1 |
94.75 |
2010-08-01 |
| 51. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
94.33 |
1.0073 |
0.0289 |
369 |
1 |
94.33 |
2009-04-10 |
| 52. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
94.12 |
0.8602 |
0.1634 |
206 |
1 |
94.12 |
2012-03-16 |
| 53. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
94.09 |
1.0138 |
0.0111 |
231 |
1 |
94.09 |
2009-11-14 |
| 54. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
93.65 |
0.9485 |
0.0745 |
291 |
1 |
93.65 |
2014-03-09 |
| 55. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
93.39 |
0.9941 |
0.0211 |
217 |
1 |
93.39 |
2010-08-01 |
| 56. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
93.21 |
0.9831 |
0.0406 |
469 |
2 |
92.53 |
2009-11-14 |
| 57. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
92.99 |
1.0399 |
-0.0213 |
294 |
1 |
92.99 |
2010-04-19 |
| 58. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
92.95 |
1.0662 |
-0.0154 |
407 |
1 |
92.95 |
2011-11-24 |
| 59. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
92.92 |
1.0477 |
-0.0330 |
360 |
2 |
86.97 |
2010-08-01 |
| 60. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
92.86 |
0.9279 |
0.0906 |
317 |
2 |
92.09 |
2009-11-14 |
| 61. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
92.58 |
1.0444 |
-0.0423 |
197 |
1 |
92.58 |
2012-06-13 |
| 62. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
92.54 |
0.8961 |
0.1088 |
189 |
2 |
81.24 |
2009-04-10 |
| 63. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
92.36 |
1.0577 |
-0.0552 |
247 |
1 |
92.36 |
2010-08-01 |
| 64. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
92.10 |
0.8878 |
0.1153 |
346 |
3 |
82.58 |
2010-08-01 |
| 65. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
91.57 |
0.8562 |
0.1414 |
170 |
1 |
91.57 |
2010-08-01 |
| 66. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
91.43 |
1.0725 |
-0.0509 |
233 |
1 |
91.43 |
2014-03-09 |
| 67. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
91.15 |
0.9937 |
0.0242 |
429 |
1 |
91.15 |
2011-12-12 |
| 68. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
91.06 |
0.9907 |
-0.0001 |
211 |
1 |
91.06 |
2009-04-20 |
| 69. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
90.98 |
1.0062 |
-0.0155 |
288 |
1 |
90.98 |
2010-04-19 |
| 70. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
89.96 |
1.0214 |
-0.0431 |
269 |
1 |
89.96 |
2010-08-01 |
| 71. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
89.73 |
0.9879 |
-0.0016 |
450 |
1 |
89.73 |
2009-04-23 |
| 72. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
89.18 |
1.0619 |
-0.0868 |
354 |
1 |
89.18 |
2009-04-10 |
| 73. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
89.09 |
1.0261 |
-0.0581 |
273 |
1 |
89.09 |
2009-04-24 |
| 74. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
89.09 |
0.9986 |
-0.0278 |
283 |
1 |
89.09 |
2012-06-14 |
| 75. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
89.05 |
1.0008 |
0.0121 |
473 |
1 |
89.05 |
2011-11-13 |
| 76. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
87.74 |
0.9740 |
-0.0230 |
209 |
1 |
87.74 |
2009-04-04 |
| 77. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
87.74 |
1.0013 |
-0.0471 |
273 |
1 |
87.74 |
2009-05-07 |
| 78. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
87.68 |
1.1162 |
-0.1204 |
189 |
1 |
87.68 |
2010-08-01 |
| 79. |
As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit... |
87.06 |
0.9898 |
-0.0041 |
353 |
1 |
87.06 |
2011-11-23 |
| 80. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
86.52 |
1.0197 |
-0.0808 |
226 |
1 |
86.52 |
2009-04-20 |
| 81. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
86.11 |
0.9005 |
0.0354 |
212 |
1 |
86.11 |
2010-08-01 |
| 82. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
86.04 |
0.8916 |
0.0453 |
216 |
1 |
86.04 |
2011-11-09 |
| 83. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
85.42 |
0.8289 |
0.1076 |
304 |
1 |
85.42 |
2010-08-01 |
| 84. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
85.20 |
1.0154 |
-0.0383 |
351 |
1 |
85.20 |
2010-08-01 |
| 85. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
85.14 |
0.9371 |
0.0285 |
318 |
1 |
85.14 |
2010-09-02 |
| 86. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
84.79 |
0.9597 |
-0.0331 |
347 |
1 |
84.79 |
2011-12-12 |
| 87. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
84.41 |
1.0183 |
-0.1053 |
191 |
1 |
84.41 |
2009-04-10 |
| 88. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
83.83 |
0.9120 |
0.0336 |
436 |
1 |
83.83 |
2010-08-01 |
| 89. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
83.70 |
0.9049 |
0.0113 |
351 |
1 |
83.70 |
2011-12-12 |
| 90. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
82.63 |
0.8775 |
0.0242 |
443 |
1 |
82.63 |
2010-08-01 |
| 91. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
82.43 |
0.9289 |
-0.0346 |
204 |
1 |
82.43 |
2012-03-09 |
| 92. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
82.03 |
0.9309 |
-0.0406 |
284 |
1 |
82.03 |
2009-04-10 |
| 93. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
81.49 |
0.9339 |
-0.0492 |
310 |
1 |
81.49 |
2011-12-12 |
| 94. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
81.25 |
0.9676 |
-0.0756 |
442 |
1 |
81.25 |
2010-08-01 |
| 95. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
81.16 |
0.9758 |
-0.0924 |
314 |
1 |
81.16 |
2011-12-12 |
| 96. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
80.90 |
1.0263 |
-0.1477 |
267 |
1 |
80.90 |
2010-08-01 |
| 97. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
80.55 |
0.9942 |
-0.1097 |
483 |
1 |
80.55 |
2009-04-23 |
| 98. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
80.52 |
0.9372 |
-0.0569 |
320 |
1 |
80.52 |
2009-04-10 |
| 99. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
80.29 |
1.0644 |
-0.1549 |
257 |
1 |
80.29 |
2011-11-09 |
| 100. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
80.22 |
0.9709 |
-0.0573 |
397 |
1 |
80.22 |
2011-11-23 |
| 101. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
79.58 |
1.0025 |
-0.1362 |
336 |
1 |
79.58 |
2010-04-13 |
| 102. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
78.95 |
0.9426 |
-0.0812 |
317 |
1 |
78.95 |
2011-11-09 |
| 103. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
78.71 |
0.9109 |
-0.0523 |
401 |
1 |
78.71 |
2009-04-10 |
| 104. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
78.62 |
0.8722 |
-0.0145 |
285 |
1 |
78.62 |
2009-04-04 |
| 105. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
78.28 |
0.9464 |
-0.0902 |
323 |
1 |
78.28 |
2011-08-24 |
| 106. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
77.81 |
0.8826 |
-0.0354 |
296 |
1 |
77.81 |
2009-04-20 |
| 107. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
77.17 |
0.8956 |
-0.0525 |
322 |
1 |
77.17 |
2009-04-04 |
| 108. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
76.88 |
0.9148 |
-0.0779 |
317 |
3 |
73.20 |
2010-08-01 |
| 109. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
76.58 |
0.9632 |
-0.1248 |
392 |
1 |
76.58 |
2009-04-27 |
| 110. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
76.29 |
0.9342 |
-0.1016 |
434 |
1 |
76.29 |
2009-04-04 |
| 111. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
75.51 |
0.9857 |
-0.1665 |
293 |
1 |
75.51 |
2009-11-14 |
| 112. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
73.65 |
0.8947 |
-0.0898 |
366 |
1 |
73.65 |
2009-04-10 |
| 113. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
73.20 |
0.9894 |
-0.1901 |
323 |
1 |
73.20 |
2009-04-04 |
| 114. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
70.71 |
0.9359 |
-0.1290 |
353 |
1 |
70.71 |
2010-05-23 |
| 115. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
68.86 |
0.9088 |
-0.1568 |
348 |
1 |
68.86 |
2009-04-20 |
| 116. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
62.50 |
0.9278 |
-0.2485 |
295 |
1 |
62.50 |
2009-04-20 |
| 117. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
62.45 |
1.0349 |
-0.3598 |
234 |
1 |
62.45 |
2011-08-23 |
| 118. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
45.01 |
1.1016 |
-0.6183 |
233 |
1 |
45.01 |
2009-04-20 |
| 119. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
40.66 |
0.9128 |
-0.4719 |
133 |
1 |
40.66 |
2010-08-01 |
| 120. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
35.70 |
1.0090 |
-0.5845 |
282 |
1 |
35.70 |
2010-08-01 |
| 121. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
29.76 |
0.9098 |
-0.5985 |
167 |
1 |
29.76 |
2010-08-01 |