| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
122.82 |
1.0445 |
0.3023 |
373 |
1 |
122.82 |
2015-03-01 |
| 2. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
121.86 |
1.0917 |
0.2667 |
243 |
2 |
110.37 |
2013-04-17 |
| 3. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
117.85 |
1.0417 |
0.2460 |
253 |
1 |
117.85 |
2015-03-09 |
| 4. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
116.52 |
1.1016 |
0.1738 |
233 |
1 |
116.52 |
2013-04-17 |
| 5. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
112.70 |
1.0829 |
0.1519 |
288 |
1 |
112.70 |
2013-04-17 |
| 6. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
110.16 |
1.0768 |
0.1684 |
295 |
1 |
110.16 |
2013-04-17 |
| 7. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
109.76 |
1.0774 |
0.1530 |
304 |
1 |
109.76 |
2015-03-01 |
| 8. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
109.06 |
0.9772 |
0.2128 |
217 |
1 |
109.06 |
2015-03-11 |
| 9. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
108.18 |
0.9649 |
0.2178 |
193 |
1 |
108.18 |
2015-03-01 |
| 10. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
108.06 |
1.0141 |
0.2044 |
304 |
1 |
108.06 |
2015-03-01 |
| 11. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
107.59 |
1.0240 |
0.1499 |
256 |
1 |
107.59 |
2013-04-17 |
| 12. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
106.69 |
1.0288 |
0.1708 |
300 |
1 |
106.69 |
2015-03-11 |
| 13. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
106.47 |
1.0669 |
0.1310 |
213 |
1 |
106.47 |
2015-03-11 |
| 14. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
105.96 |
1.0462 |
0.1068 |
184 |
1 |
105.96 |
2015-03-11 |
| 15. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
105.91 |
0.9805 |
0.1827 |
292 |
1 |
105.91 |
2015-03-01 |
| 16. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
104.88 |
1.0795 |
0.0978 |
226 |
2 |
103.22 |
2015-03-11 |
| 17. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
104.61 |
0.9372 |
0.2115 |
320 |
1 |
104.61 |
2013-04-17 |
| 18. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
104.38 |
0.9833 |
0.1599 |
355 |
1 |
104.38 |
2015-03-01 |
| 19. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
104.29 |
1.0361 |
0.1053 |
269 |
1 |
104.29 |
2013-04-17 |
| 20. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
102.89 |
1.0025 |
0.1237 |
336 |
1 |
102.89 |
2013-04-17 |
| 21. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
102.34 |
1.0725 |
0.0720 |
233 |
1 |
102.34 |
2015-03-01 |
| 22. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
102.11 |
1.0263 |
0.0890 |
267 |
2 |
90.56 |
2015-03-11 |
| 23. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
102.03 |
1.0088 |
0.1454 |
396 |
1 |
102.03 |
2015-03-01 |
| 24. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
101.98 |
1.0763 |
0.0804 |
367 |
1 |
101.98 |
2015-03-11 |
| 25. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
101.84 |
1.0060 |
0.1026 |
171 |
1 |
101.84 |
2013-04-17 |
| 26. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
101.49 |
1.0053 |
0.1024 |
232 |
1 |
101.49 |
2015-03-11 |
| 27. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
101.24 |
1.0264 |
0.1206 |
422 |
1 |
101.24 |
2013-04-17 |
| 28. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
101.04 |
1.0595 |
0.0476 |
379 |
1 |
101.04 |
2013-04-17 |
| 29. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
100.53 |
1.1215 |
0.0013 |
200 |
1 |
100.53 |
2013-04-17 |
| 30. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
99.75 |
1.0073 |
0.0913 |
369 |
2 |
92.46 |
2015-03-11 |
| 31. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
99.28 |
1.0515 |
0.0315 |
250 |
1 |
99.28 |
2015-03-11 |
| 32. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
99.17 |
0.9871 |
0.1195 |
227 |
1 |
99.17 |
2013-04-17 |
| 33. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
98.67 |
1.0214 |
0.0555 |
269 |
1 |
98.67 |
2015-03-01 |
| 34. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
98.57 |
1.0711 |
0.0009 |
213 |
1 |
98.57 |
2013-04-17 |
| 35. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
98.29 |
1.0941 |
0.0113 |
256 |
1 |
98.29 |
2013-04-17 |
| 36. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
98.06 |
0.9676 |
0.1125 |
442 |
1 |
98.06 |
2015-03-01 |
| 37. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
97.95 |
1.0257 |
0.0512 |
401 |
1 |
97.95 |
2015-03-09 |
| 38. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
97.80 |
1.0787 |
-0.0115 |
237 |
1 |
97.80 |
2015-05-14 |
| 39. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
97.77 |
1.0201 |
0.0418 |
172 |
1 |
97.77 |
2013-04-17 |
| 40. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
97.40 |
0.9529 |
0.1520 |
269 |
1 |
97.40 |
2015-03-11 |
| 41. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
96.86 |
0.9881 |
0.1111 |
424 |
1 |
96.86 |
2015-03-11 |
| 42. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
96.83 |
0.9699 |
0.0874 |
269 |
2 |
94.78 |
2015-03-01 |
| 43. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
96.49 |
1.0596 |
-0.0078 |
239 |
2 |
90.21 |
2013-04-17 |
| 44. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
96.49 |
1.0109 |
0.0440 |
276 |
1 |
96.49 |
2013-04-17 |
| 45. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
96.18 |
1.0177 |
0.0715 |
392 |
1 |
96.18 |
2015-03-11 |
| 46. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
95.81 |
1.0477 |
0.0011 |
360 |
1 |
95.81 |
2013-04-17 |
| 47. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
95.29 |
0.9763 |
0.0642 |
289 |
1 |
95.29 |
2013-04-17 |
| 48. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
95.12 |
0.9831 |
0.0642 |
469 |
1 |
95.12 |
2013-04-17 |
| 49. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
95.11 |
0.9754 |
0.0695 |
362 |
1 |
95.11 |
2015-03-11 |
| 50. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
95.07 |
0.9687 |
0.0748 |
371 |
1 |
95.07 |
2013-04-17 |
| 51. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
94.71 |
1.0320 |
0.0397 |
293 |
1 |
94.71 |
2015-03-01 |
| 52. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
93.75 |
1.0211 |
0.0334 |
213 |
1 |
93.75 |
2015-03-01 |
| 53. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
93.21 |
1.0740 |
-0.0177 |
264 |
1 |
93.21 |
2015-03-01 |
| 54. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
92.93 |
0.9572 |
0.1008 |
376 |
1 |
92.93 |
2015-03-01 |
| 55. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
92.71 |
0.9622 |
0.0568 |
392 |
1 |
92.71 |
2013-04-17 |
| 56. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
92.36 |
1.0167 |
-0.0009 |
378 |
1 |
92.36 |
2013-04-17 |
| 57. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
91.92 |
1.0905 |
-0.0550 |
210 |
1 |
91.92 |
2015-03-06 |
| 58. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
91.92 |
1.0117 |
0.0367 |
297 |
1 |
91.92 |
2015-03-01 |
| 59. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
91.89 |
1.0328 |
0.0093 |
356 |
1 |
91.89 |
2013-04-17 |
| 60. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
91.76 |
1.0168 |
-0.0129 |
271 |
1 |
91.76 |
2013-04-17 |
| 61. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
91.23 |
1.0441 |
-0.0066 |
316 |
2 |
91.18 |
2015-03-01 |
| 62. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
90.76 |
1.0131 |
-0.0261 |
225 |
1 |
90.76 |
2013-04-17 |
| 63. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
90.46 |
1.0379 |
-0.0157 |
245 |
1 |
90.46 |
2013-04-17 |
| 64. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
89.51 |
0.9601 |
0.0218 |
308 |
2 |
87.02 |
2013-04-17 |
| 65. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
89.32 |
1.0485 |
-0.0394 |
153 |
1 |
89.32 |
2013-04-17 |
| 66. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
89.23 |
1.0767 |
-0.1051 |
212 |
1 |
89.23 |
2015-03-11 |
| 67. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
89.07 |
0.9966 |
-0.0249 |
259 |
1 |
89.07 |
2013-04-17 |
| 68. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
88.25 |
1.0396 |
-0.0837 |
149 |
1 |
88.25 |
2013-04-17 |
| 69. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
88.13 |
0.9922 |
0.0107 |
341 |
1 |
88.13 |
2015-03-09 |
| 70. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
87.95 |
1.0252 |
-0.0720 |
176 |
1 |
87.95 |
2013-04-17 |
| 71. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
86.25 |
1.0358 |
-0.0529 |
349 |
1 |
86.25 |
2013-04-17 |
| 72. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
85.22 |
0.9593 |
-0.0250 |
398 |
1 |
85.22 |
2013-04-17 |
| 73. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
85.16 |
1.0120 |
-0.0839 |
290 |
1 |
85.16 |
2013-04-17 |
| 74. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
84.82 |
0.9216 |
0.0428 |
255 |
1 |
84.82 |
2013-04-17 |
| 75. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
83.61 |
0.9632 |
-0.0091 |
345 |
1 |
83.61 |
2013-04-17 |
| 76. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
83.36 |
0.9814 |
-0.0329 |
364 |
1 |
83.36 |
2015-03-11 |
| 77. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
83.16 |
0.9072 |
-0.0025 |
237 |
1 |
83.16 |
2013-04-17 |
| 78. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
82.84 |
0.9155 |
0.0368 |
168 |
1 |
82.84 |
2013-04-17 |
| 79. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
82.53 |
0.9045 |
-0.0040 |
235 |
2 |
80.35 |
2013-04-17 |
| 80. |
Danger is a topic you're often asked about as a sprinter. Th... |
81.77 |
0.9801 |
-0.0458 |
428 |
1 |
81.77 |
2013-04-17 |
| 81. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
81.48 |
1.0284 |
-0.0970 |
282 |
1 |
81.48 |
2013-04-17 |
| 82. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
81.43 |
0.8878 |
-0.0005 |
346 |
1 |
81.43 |
2013-04-17 |
| 83. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
81.37 |
1.0972 |
-0.1807 |
251 |
1 |
81.37 |
2015-03-11 |
| 84. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
81.31 |
1.0023 |
-0.1180 |
211 |
1 |
81.31 |
2013-04-17 |
| 85. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
80.80 |
1.0349 |
-0.1553 |
234 |
1 |
80.80 |
2015-03-01 |
| 86. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
80.28 |
0.9619 |
-0.0813 |
393 |
1 |
80.28 |
2015-03-01 |
| 87. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
80.12 |
0.9886 |
-0.1130 |
220 |
1 |
80.12 |
2013-04-17 |
| 88. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
79.30 |
0.7805 |
0.0790 |
154 |
1 |
79.30 |
2015-03-11 |
| 89. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
78.77 |
1.1022 |
-0.2091 |
259 |
1 |
78.77 |
2015-03-11 |
| 90. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
78.52 |
0.9820 |
-0.1234 |
267 |
1 |
78.52 |
2013-04-17 |
| 91. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
78.14 |
0.9234 |
-0.0671 |
346 |
1 |
78.14 |
2015-03-01 |
| 92. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
78.01 |
1.0029 |
-0.1596 |
209 |
1 |
78.01 |
2015-03-01 |
| 93. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
77.24 |
1.0375 |
-0.1503 |
200 |
1 |
77.24 |
2013-04-17 |
| 94. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
77.23 |
0.9916 |
-0.1075 |
282 |
1 |
77.23 |
2013-04-17 |
| 95. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
77.04 |
0.9074 |
-0.0618 |
396 |
1 |
77.04 |
2013-04-17 |
| 96. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
76.42 |
0.9709 |
-0.0973 |
397 |
1 |
76.42 |
2013-04-17 |
| 97. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
76.18 |
0.9233 |
-0.1021 |
168 |
2 |
74.44 |
2015-03-11 |
| 98. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
75.01 |
0.9084 |
-0.0899 |
300 |
1 |
75.01 |
2013-04-17 |
| 99. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
74.74 |
0.9109 |
-0.0941 |
401 |
1 |
74.74 |
2013-04-17 |
| 100. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
74.68 |
0.9212 |
-0.1052 |
323 |
1 |
74.68 |
2013-04-17 |
| 101. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
74.22 |
1.0150 |
-0.1580 |
325 |
1 |
74.22 |
2013-04-17 |
| 102. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
73.18 |
0.9279 |
-0.1247 |
317 |
1 |
73.18 |
2013-04-17 |
| 103. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
72.56 |
0.9665 |
-0.1275 |
326 |
1 |
72.56 |
2013-04-17 |
| 104. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
71.04 |
0.9176 |
-0.1111 |
267 |
1 |
71.04 |
2013-04-17 |
| 105. |
Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, foc... |
69.96 |
1.0673 |
-0.2648 |
230 |
1 |
69.96 |
2015-03-01 |
| 106. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
69.56 |
0.9120 |
-0.1219 |
436 |
1 |
69.56 |
2015-03-01 |
| 107. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
68.26 |
0.9786 |
-0.2371 |
235 |
1 |
68.26 |
2013-04-17 |
| 108. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
65.30 |
0.8961 |
-0.1901 |
189 |
1 |
65.30 |
2013-04-17 |
| 109. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
54.38 |
1.0613 |
-0.4673 |
456 |
1 |
54.38 |
2015-03-09 |
| 110. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
52.90 |
1.0068 |
-0.4313 |
358 |
1 |
52.90 |
2015-03-09 |
| 111. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
42.87 |
0.9965 |
-0.5401 |
168 |
1 |
42.87 |
2015-03-09 |
| 112. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
35.05 |
1.0684 |
-0.6638 |
253 |
1 |
35.05 |
2015-03-09 |