| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
When I ask him if quiz bowl has helped him in other areas of... |
74.66 |
1.0493 |
0.2664 |
150 |
1 |
74.66 |
2021-01-21 |
| 2. |
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life w... |
72.03 |
1.0107 |
0.2550 |
132 |
1 |
72.03 |
2021-01-21 |
| 3. |
Green is the sound the wind makes, rustling through the tree... |
71.00 |
1.0495 |
0.2089 |
292 |
1 |
71.00 |
2021-01-21 |
| 4. |
As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remai... |
70.16 |
1.0105 |
0.2144 |
166 |
1 |
70.16 |
2021-01-21 |
| 5. |
I've tried to hide it so that no one knows, but I guess it s... |
69.04 |
1.0587 |
0.1559 |
174 |
1 |
69.04 |
2021-01-21 |
| 6. |
This was supposed to be a question. Not a poem, confession o... |
69.01 |
1.0612 |
0.1594 |
163 |
1 |
69.01 |
2021-01-21 |
| 7. |
Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired... |
68.97 |
1.0499 |
0.1764 |
173 |
1 |
68.97 |
2021-01-20 |
| 8. |
The gentleman cannot be appreciated in small things but is a... |
68.57 |
1.0578 |
0.1439 |
174 |
1 |
68.57 |
2022-07-26 |
| 9. |
At the root of every large struggle in life is the need to b... |
67.27 |
1.0917 |
0.0974 |
336 |
1 |
67.27 |
2021-06-11 |
| 10. |
I don't want to live someone else's idea of how to live. Don... |
65.86 |
1.0980 |
0.0703 |
158 |
1 |
65.86 |
2021-01-20 |
| 11. |
The spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impress... |
65.23 |
1.0538 |
0.0985 |
239 |
1 |
65.23 |
2021-01-19 |
| 12. |
Anything which has ended is finished. That which is perfect ... |
65.21 |
1.0456 |
0.1120 |
323 |
2 |
64.86 |
2022-07-26 |
| 13. |
It's so relieving to know that you're leaving as soon as you... |
64.41 |
1.0610 |
0.0803 |
250 |
1 |
64.41 |
2022-07-26 |
| 14. |
All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the... |
63.99 |
1.0358 |
0.1012 |
323 |
1 |
63.99 |
2021-01-27 |
| 15. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
63.85 |
1.0384 |
0.0896 |
183 |
1 |
63.85 |
2021-06-11 |
| 16. |
Klausner sat down beside the telephone and waited. He tried ... |
63.84 |
1.0152 |
0.1149 |
497 |
1 |
63.84 |
2021-01-21 |
| 17. |
The wretched and the miserable should turn to their Savior f... |
63.60 |
0.9201 |
0.1932 |
128 |
1 |
63.60 |
2021-01-21 |
| 18. |
Every time I hear that dear old wedding march, I feel rather... |
63.56 |
1.0444 |
0.0787 |
249 |
1 |
63.56 |
2021-01-21 |
| 19. |
For every man there is a cause which he would gladly die for... |
63.43 |
1.0714 |
0.0519 |
242 |
1 |
63.43 |
2021-01-20 |
| 20. |
Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himsel... |
63.26 |
1.0595 |
0.0634 |
263 |
1 |
63.26 |
2021-01-20 |
| 21. |
And though it's always been with me, I must tear down the wa... |
63.22 |
1.0680 |
0.0545 |
210 |
1 |
63.22 |
2021-01-20 |
| 22. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
63.02 |
0.9916 |
0.1683 |
282 |
1 |
63.02 |
2021-01-21 |
| 23. |
See, that's the kind of thing I'm hoping to avoid. So when m... |
62.85 |
1.0578 |
0.0561 |
215 |
1 |
62.85 |
2022-07-26 |
| 24. |
I have often walked down this street before, but the pavemen... |
62.70 |
1.0063 |
0.0932 |
179 |
1 |
62.70 |
2022-07-26 |
| 25. |
Written in these walls are the stories that I can't explain.... |
62.47 |
1.0488 |
0.0564 |
411 |
1 |
62.47 |
2021-01-21 |
| 26. |
Precious are the dead that lie there, every stone over them ... |
61.74 |
1.0619 |
0.0356 |
346 |
1 |
61.74 |
2021-01-21 |
| 27. |
I don't think it really helped me, in my love life, my nasce... |
61.37 |
1.0064 |
0.0716 |
169 |
1 |
61.37 |
2021-06-11 |
| 28. |
What I really lived for were those evenings when you were al... |
61.36 |
1.0708 |
-0.0021 |
199 |
1 |
61.36 |
2021-01-20 |
| 29. |
The key to investing is not how much an industry will affect... |
61.07 |
1.0301 |
0.0379 |
151 |
1 |
61.07 |
2022-07-26 |
| 30. |
I search the faces of the gods... for ways to please you, to... |
60.70 |
1.0497 |
0.0255 |
264 |
1 |
60.70 |
2021-06-11 |
| 31. |
We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then... |
60.66 |
1.0188 |
0.0549 |
423 |
1 |
60.66 |
2021-01-21 |
| 32. |
In the early days of America, when men wore ruffles on their... |
60.57 |
1.0133 |
0.0604 |
354 |
1 |
60.57 |
2020-11-29 |
| 33. |
Where do you think you're going? Because I don't think you'r... |
60.34 |
1.0822 |
-0.0192 |
97 |
1 |
60.34 |
2021-01-19 |
| 34. |
You have to accept that sometimes that's how things happen i... |
60.32 |
1.0627 |
0.0054 |
208 |
1 |
60.32 |
2021-06-11 |
| 35. |
There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect,... |
60.31 |
0.9674 |
0.0767 |
132 |
1 |
60.31 |
2021-01-20 |
| 36. |
For the first time the magnitude of what he had undertaken c... |
60.24 |
1.0627 |
0.0022 |
316 |
1 |
60.24 |
2021-01-20 |
| 37. |
If you're willing to go through the battling to get to where... |
60.17 |
1.0304 |
0.0352 |
339 |
1 |
60.17 |
2021-01-21 |
| 38. |
OK, let me get something straight: this is a journal, not a ... |
60.01 |
0.9951 |
0.0735 |
299 |
1 |
60.01 |
2021-06-11 |
| 39. |
There was a little boy once upon a time who in spite of his ... |
59.94 |
1.1026 |
-0.0395 |
208 |
1 |
59.94 |
2020-11-29 |
| 40. |
For me, good design means that when I make a change, it's as... |
59.83 |
1.0646 |
-0.0240 |
266 |
1 |
59.83 |
2022-07-26 |
| 41. |
The amount of spent nuclear fuel and plutonium is increasing... |
59.53 |
0.9605 |
0.0961 |
270 |
1 |
59.53 |
2020-11-29 |
| 42. |
Tom put the Ring round the end of his little finger and held... |
59.33 |
1.0025 |
0.0467 |
374 |
1 |
59.33 |
2021-06-11 |
| 43. |
Despair comes slowly, crawling its way up inside you until i... |
59.28 |
0.9772 |
0.0782 |
266 |
1 |
59.28 |
2021-01-27 |
| 44. |
There's something moving through the windows and walls, I've... |
59.24 |
1.0801 |
-0.0363 |
176 |
1 |
59.24 |
2021-01-20 |
| 45. |
Too many times we stand aside and let the waters slip away '... |
59.12 |
1.0194 |
0.0279 |
233 |
1 |
59.12 |
2021-01-20 |
| 46. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
58.99 |
0.9636 |
0.0823 |
254 |
1 |
58.99 |
2021-01-21 |
| 47. |
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and ar... |
58.98 |
1.0289 |
0.0198 |
399 |
1 |
58.98 |
2021-01-20 |
| 48. |
Well, isn't this great, we've all learned something. Tony ca... |
58.98 |
1.0231 |
0.0228 |
228 |
1 |
58.98 |
2022-07-26 |
| 49. |
Every day I searched for new songs, and it was like applying... |
58.86 |
1.0301 |
0.0112 |
408 |
1 |
58.86 |
2020-11-29 |
| 50. |
If our civilization goes the way of the dodo and the remnant... |
58.74 |
0.9688 |
0.0775 |
305 |
1 |
58.74 |
2021-06-11 |
| 51. |
Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is b... |
58.70 |
1.0019 |
0.0345 |
253 |
1 |
58.70 |
2021-01-21 |
| 52. |
I mean that tonight you've made me ashamed of every concept ... |
58.57 |
1.0311 |
0.0077 |
317 |
1 |
58.57 |
2021-01-21 |
| 53. |
Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside ou... |
58.46 |
1.0614 |
-0.0213 |
150 |
1 |
58.46 |
2021-01-21 |
| 54. |
Hanging by threads of palest silver, I could have stayed tha... |
58.31 |
1.0282 |
0.0094 |
226 |
1 |
58.31 |
2022-07-26 |
| 55. |
Antoon used to import paint cans. That's simply too expensiv... |
57.97 |
0.9984 |
0.0317 |
260 |
1 |
57.97 |
2021-01-20 |
| 56. |
To be, or not to be: that is the question: whether 'tis nobl... |
57.88 |
0.9875 |
0.0375 |
198 |
1 |
57.88 |
2021-01-20 |
| 57. |
A book, to me, is almost sacrosanct: such an individual and ... |
57.86 |
0.9826 |
0.0443 |
272 |
1 |
57.86 |
2021-06-11 |
| 58. |
Now the scandal and the light are to be distributed differen... |
57.77 |
0.9838 |
0.0438 |
426 |
1 |
57.77 |
2021-01-21 |
| 59. |
To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No... |
57.35 |
0.9617 |
0.0547 |
159 |
1 |
57.35 |
2020-11-29 |
| 60. |
Most people find that the biggest change they make in their ... |
57.03 |
1.0587 |
-0.0453 |
265 |
1 |
57.03 |
2021-01-19 |
| 61. |
If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowe... |
57.01 |
0.9768 |
0.0292 |
220 |
1 |
57.01 |
2020-11-29 |
| 62. |
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all do... |
56.99 |
1.0677 |
-0.0563 |
239 |
1 |
56.99 |
2020-11-29 |
| 63. |
No matter how a program twists and turns to get out of itsel... |
56.94 |
1.0094 |
0.0023 |
238 |
1 |
56.94 |
2021-01-21 |
| 64. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
56.64 |
0.9965 |
0.0053 |
168 |
1 |
56.64 |
2020-11-29 |
| 65. |
I walked into the store. After the buzzing and booming of th... |
56.60 |
0.9922 |
0.0130 |
311 |
1 |
56.60 |
2020-11-29 |
| 66. |
It's true, Mr. Ross entered into an early release agreement.... |
56.55 |
0.9734 |
0.0269 |
250 |
1 |
56.55 |
2020-11-29 |
| 67. |
But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another ... |
56.44 |
1.0142 |
-0.0378 |
154 |
1 |
56.44 |
2021-06-11 |
| 68. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
56.39 |
1.0662 |
-0.0357 |
407 |
1 |
56.39 |
2021-01-20 |
| 69. |
I love bagels even though they are one of mankind's most dan... |
56.25 |
1.0379 |
-0.0430 |
321 |
1 |
56.25 |
2021-06-11 |
| 70. |
In the town where I was born, lived a man who sailed to sea.... |
56.17 |
1.0605 |
-0.0615 |
229 |
1 |
56.17 |
2021-06-11 |
| 71. |
Legend has it this bridge was constructed by a young man and... |
56.14 |
1.0474 |
-0.0518 |
408 |
1 |
56.14 |
2020-11-29 |
| 72. |
Now you make sure you tell old Marlo I burned the money. 'Ca... |
56.06 |
1.0059 |
-0.0149 |
242 |
1 |
56.06 |
2020-11-29 |
| 73. |
Cardan's gaze catches mine, and I can't help the evil smile ... |
56.02 |
1.0289 |
-0.0394 |
244 |
1 |
56.02 |
2021-01-20 |
| 74. |
If all else perished, and he remained, I should still contin... |
55.95 |
1.0365 |
-0.0433 |
166 |
1 |
55.95 |
2021-01-20 |
| 75. |
There's a simplicity to war: Attacking is the only secret. D... |
55.88 |
1.0315 |
-0.0443 |
189 |
1 |
55.88 |
2021-06-11 |
| 76. |
While it may hold true that the final few seconds of a bike ... |
55.49 |
0.8341 |
0.1542 |
224 |
1 |
55.49 |
2020-11-29 |
| 77. |
I want this mark all the way back to Earth with time to spar... |
55.44 |
1.0049 |
-0.0365 |
178 |
1 |
55.44 |
2021-01-19 |
| 78. |
Every single night I endure the fight of little wings of whi... |
55.30 |
1.0203 |
-0.0376 |
354 |
1 |
55.30 |
2021-06-11 |
| 79. |
You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's sou... |
55.13 |
1.0633 |
-0.0873 |
245 |
1 |
55.13 |
2021-01-20 |
| 80. |
When I was younger, so much younger than today, I never need... |
55.11 |
0.9893 |
-0.0136 |
202 |
1 |
55.11 |
2021-01-20 |
| 81. |
How can I just let you walk away, just let you leave without... |
55.04 |
1.0921 |
-0.1180 |
164 |
1 |
55.04 |
2021-01-20 |
| 82. |
The robins were singing vespers in the high tree-tops, filli... |
55.01 |
1.0181 |
-0.0379 |
287 |
1 |
55.01 |
2021-06-11 |
| 83. |
I got the feeling Poseidon really didn't know what to think ... |
54.73 |
0.9961 |
-0.0272 |
280 |
1 |
54.73 |
2022-07-26 |
| 84. |
I'm far from home, no place to go, but I don't feel cold. I'... |
54.71 |
1.0241 |
-0.0546 |
262 |
1 |
54.71 |
2021-01-20 |
| 85. |
I can always tell when you're lying. I also know that you ca... |
54.68 |
1.0147 |
-0.0488 |
249 |
1 |
54.68 |
2021-01-19 |
| 86. |
Sliding-window flow controls are designed to provide reliabl... |
54.60 |
0.9301 |
0.0415 |
297 |
1 |
54.60 |
2021-06-11 |
| 87. |
Even a few people leaving would reverberate through the enti... |
54.50 |
1.0279 |
-0.0607 |
253 |
1 |
54.50 |
2021-01-19 |
| 88. |
I'm not very good at this, out, being in public. But I felt ... |
54.46 |
1.0774 |
-0.1135 |
219 |
1 |
54.46 |
2021-01-19 |
| 89. |
I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other peopl... |
54.00 |
1.0281 |
-0.0719 |
168 |
1 |
54.00 |
2022-07-26 |
| 90. |
The town has a sense, not of history, but of time, and the t... |
53.93 |
1.0726 |
-0.1208 |
264 |
1 |
53.93 |
2021-01-21 |
| 91. |
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the abi... |
53.55 |
1.0651 |
-0.1175 |
314 |
1 |
53.55 |
2021-01-19 |
| 92. |
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are ... |
53.38 |
0.9987 |
-0.0509 |
223 |
1 |
53.38 |
2020-11-29 |
| 93. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
53.16 |
1.0515 |
-0.1114 |
250 |
1 |
53.16 |
2022-07-26 |
| 94. |
All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, educatio... |
52.91 |
0.9446 |
-0.0083 |
182 |
1 |
52.91 |
2020-11-29 |
| 95. |
A myth is a traditional story that attempts to explain such ... |
52.74 |
0.9290 |
-0.0002 |
134 |
1 |
52.74 |
2020-11-29 |
| 96. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
52.66 |
0.9997 |
-0.0653 |
382 |
1 |
52.66 |
2021-01-19 |
| 97. |
You'll face lots of pain and despair on the way. In fact, th... |
52.61 |
1.0406 |
-0.1141 |
244 |
1 |
52.61 |
2021-01-27 |
| 98. |
But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our... |
52.60 |
0.9287 |
0.0032 |
275 |
1 |
52.60 |
2020-11-29 |
| 99. |
How often do you think about why your friends came into your... |
52.41 |
1.0162 |
-0.0904 |
389 |
1 |
52.41 |
2021-01-20 |
| 100. |
We give it away with nothing left to lose. Got the strongest... |
51.97 |
1.0380 |
-0.1180 |
195 |
1 |
51.97 |
2022-07-26 |
| 101. |
You know, when you feel this sting of losing, you have to re... |
51.75 |
1.0784 |
-0.1683 |
334 |
1 |
51.75 |
2020-11-29 |
| 102. |
So don't be afraid to make mistakes, stumble and fall, becau... |
51.71 |
1.0751 |
-0.1655 |
350 |
1 |
51.71 |
2022-07-26 |
| 103. |
Breathe, breathe in the air. Don't be afraid to care. Leave ... |
51.60 |
1.0471 |
-0.1376 |
262 |
1 |
51.60 |
2021-01-20 |
| 104. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
51.34 |
0.8951 |
0.0152 |
193 |
1 |
51.34 |
2021-06-11 |
| 105. |
Some drivers actually perform best when there is a little ex... |
51.31 |
0.9632 |
-0.0552 |
240 |
1 |
51.31 |
2020-11-29 |
| 106. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
50.99 |
1.0343 |
-0.0912 |
242 |
1 |
50.99 |
2020-11-29 |
| 107. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
50.78 |
1.0083 |
-0.0657 |
273 |
1 |
50.78 |
2021-01-19 |
| 108. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
50.66 |
0.9426 |
-0.0451 |
317 |
1 |
50.66 |
2021-01-19 |
| 109. |
I wouldn't hold my breath if I was you, you broke my heart a... |
50.65 |
1.0220 |
-0.1446 |
158 |
1 |
50.65 |
2021-01-19 |
| 110. |
Now wait a minute. Just a minute. There's only one thing you... |
50.59 |
1.0548 |
-0.1624 |
253 |
1 |
50.59 |
2021-01-20 |
| 111. |
Now, men, in conclusion, I would like to say that, in the tw... |
50.59 |
1.0509 |
-0.1563 |
311 |
1 |
50.59 |
2021-01-20 |
| 112. |
Anything high-tech, you can break into. With a radio, you ca... |
50.46 |
1.0530 |
-0.1591 |
376 |
1 |
50.46 |
2021-01-20 |
| 113. |
It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and my... |
50.08 |
0.9362 |
-0.0498 |
407 |
1 |
50.08 |
2020-11-29 |
| 114. |
It's really hard to do nothing totally. Even just sitting he... |
49.84 |
1.0424 |
-0.1588 |
171 |
1 |
49.84 |
2021-01-20 |
| 115. |
We're no strangers to love. You know the rules and so do I. ... |
49.69 |
0.9838 |
-0.1012 |
387 |
1 |
49.69 |
2021-01-20 |
| 116. |
This town is very peaceful. Yes, and that is why there are s... |
49.60 |
1.0197 |
-0.1414 |
306 |
1 |
49.60 |
2022-07-26 |
| 117. |
Then we saw him pick up all the things that were down. He pi... |
49.51 |
1.1220 |
-0.2475 |
219 |
1 |
49.51 |
2021-01-20 |
| 118. |
The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The mo... |
49.39 |
0.9719 |
-0.0938 |
249 |
1 |
49.39 |
2020-11-29 |
| 119. |
Children know something that we all too often set aside once... |
49.36 |
1.0534 |
-0.1951 |
179 |
1 |
49.36 |
2021-01-19 |
| 120. |
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read an... |
48.92 |
0.9819 |
-0.1119 |
326 |
1 |
48.92 |
2020-11-29 |
| 121. |
And it's a happy ending. Wayward husband comes to his senses... |
48.72 |
0.9239 |
-0.0631 |
288 |
1 |
48.72 |
2020-11-29 |
| 122. |
The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is no... |
48.46 |
0.9849 |
-0.1340 |
310 |
1 |
48.46 |
2021-01-19 |
| 123. |
That night of my sister's 18th birthday a lot of things happ... |
48.32 |
1.0297 |
-0.1738 |
374 |
1 |
48.32 |
2021-01-19 |
| 124. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
47.69 |
0.8947 |
-0.0477 |
366 |
1 |
47.69 |
2021-01-20 |
| 125. |
The seaweed is always greener in somebody else's lake. You d... |
47.51 |
1.0369 |
-0.1989 |
244 |
1 |
47.51 |
2021-01-19 |
| 126. |
Dawn was close. The weaker stars had already disappeared, an... |
47.44 |
0.9112 |
-0.0961 |
110 |
1 |
47.44 |
2021-06-11 |
| 127. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
47.15 |
0.9202 |
-0.0860 |
254 |
1 |
47.15 |
2021-01-20 |
| 128. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
47.04 |
0.9570 |
-0.1242 |
287 |
1 |
47.04 |
2021-01-19 |
| 129. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
45.86 |
0.9597 |
-0.1465 |
347 |
1 |
45.86 |
2020-11-29 |
| 130. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
45.74 |
0.9155 |
-0.0611 |
168 |
1 |
45.74 |
2021-01-21 |
| 131. |
I never conquered, rarely came. 16 just held such better day... |
45.53 |
0.9407 |
-0.1371 |
263 |
1 |
45.53 |
2020-11-29 |
| 132. |
Before me there stands an opportunity, there for the taking ... |
45.00 |
1.0053 |
-0.2155 |
227 |
1 |
45.00 |
2021-01-20 |
| 133. |
Well, things are getting pretty serious right now. I mean, w... |
44.10 |
1.0048 |
-0.2387 |
164 |
1 |
44.10 |
2021-01-20 |
| 134. |
That's me in the corner, that's me in the spotlight losing m... |
44.02 |
1.0267 |
-0.2515 |
181 |
1 |
44.02 |
2020-11-29 |
| 135. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
43.21 |
0.8996 |
-0.1389 |
192 |
1 |
43.21 |
2021-01-19 |
| 136. |
The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, ... |
43.15 |
0.8489 |
-0.0886 |
216 |
1 |
43.15 |
2020-11-29 |
| 137. |
I consider all the things I have done to become a worthy adv... |
43.04 |
0.9739 |
-0.2313 |
163 |
1 |
43.04 |
2020-11-29 |
| 138. |
The Mercury program was over. Four years later, astronaut Gu... |
40.97 |
0.8832 |
-0.1566 |
461 |
1 |
40.97 |
2020-11-29 |
| 139. |
I said a hip hop, the hippie, the hippie to the hip, hip hop... |
39.45 |
0.8604 |
-0.1661 |
182 |
1 |
39.45 |
2020-11-29 |