| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
147.12 |
1.0201 |
0.1590 |
303 |
3 |
141.38 |
2013-06-26 |
| 2. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
145.15 |
1.0567 |
0.1066 |
303 |
2 |
143.19 |
2010-07-25 |
| 3. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
144.61 |
1.0389 |
0.1203 |
340 |
1 |
144.61 |
2010-07-23 |
| 4. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
143.80 |
1.0943 |
0.0899 |
206 |
1 |
143.80 |
2012-04-11 |
| 5. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
142.72 |
1.0725 |
0.0985 |
233 |
2 |
136.33 |
2010-07-25 |
| 6. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
142.36 |
0.9905 |
0.1539 |
377 |
1 |
142.36 |
2010-08-10 |
| 7. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
141.71 |
1.0498 |
0.0814 |
180 |
2 |
138.18 |
2011-01-04 |
| 8. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
140.60 |
1.0797 |
0.0425 |
210 |
1 |
140.60 |
2010-07-23 |
| 9. |
The day is made up of 24 hours and an infinite number of mom... |
139.84 |
1.0529 |
0.0685 |
200 |
1 |
139.84 |
2015-08-15 |
| 10. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
138.76 |
0.7890 |
0.3224 |
230 |
1 |
138.76 |
2010-07-23 |
| 11. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
138.45 |
1.0389 |
0.0696 |
318 |
2 |
129.37 |
2016-01-15 |
| 12. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
138.43 |
1.0426 |
0.0656 |
323 |
1 |
138.43 |
2009-05-05 |
| 13. |
A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its peri... |
138.27 |
1.0164 |
0.0809 |
335 |
1 |
138.27 |
2021-08-31 |
| 14. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
137.92 |
0.9946 |
0.1083 |
246 |
1 |
137.92 |
2009-05-05 |
| 15. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
137.83 |
1.0214 |
0.0789 |
166 |
1 |
137.83 |
2013-07-18 |
| 16. |
Some day, and that day may never come, I will call upon you ... |
137.47 |
1.0423 |
0.0552 |
162 |
1 |
137.47 |
2017-09-29 |
| 17. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
137.40 |
1.1016 |
-0.0030 |
233 |
2 |
136.07 |
2011-02-24 |
| 18. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
137.36 |
1.0441 |
0.0557 |
252 |
2 |
136.49 |
2010-07-25 |
| 19. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
136.69 |
1.0496 |
0.0435 |
314 |
1 |
136.69 |
2011-02-24 |
| 20. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
136.27 |
1.0429 |
0.0466 |
259 |
2 |
134.00 |
2010-07-25 |
| 21. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
136.09 |
1.0767 |
0.0104 |
212 |
1 |
136.09 |
2009-05-05 |
| 22. |
I'll tell you a riddle. You're waiting for a train, a train ... |
136.00 |
1.0788 |
0.0076 |
251 |
1 |
136.00 |
2021-08-31 |
| 23. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
135.90 |
1.0596 |
0.0263 |
239 |
1 |
135.90 |
2010-07-23 |
| 24. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
134.87 |
1.0412 |
0.0381 |
225 |
1 |
134.87 |
2009-09-17 |
| 25. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
134.59 |
1.0666 |
0.0095 |
297 |
1 |
134.59 |
2009-08-03 |
| 26. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
134.55 |
1.0189 |
0.0597 |
337 |
2 |
130.42 |
2013-12-18 |
| 27. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
134.14 |
0.9843 |
0.0867 |
234 |
1 |
134.14 |
2009-05-05 |
| 28. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
133.27 |
0.9651 |
0.1345 |
389 |
1 |
133.27 |
2010-07-25 |
| 29. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
132.88 |
1.0787 |
-0.0160 |
237 |
1 |
132.88 |
2009-09-17 |
| 30. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
132.77 |
1.0714 |
-0.0133 |
129 |
1 |
132.77 |
2009-09-17 |
| 31. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
132.55 |
1.0331 |
0.0248 |
234 |
1 |
132.55 |
2009-09-17 |
| 32. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
132.45 |
1.0138 |
0.0449 |
231 |
1 |
132.45 |
2009-09-16 |
| 33. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
132.41 |
0.9942 |
0.0691 |
483 |
2 |
126.89 |
2014-08-03 |
| 34. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
132.30 |
1.0668 |
-0.0075 |
350 |
2 |
131.95 |
2009-09-23 |
| 35. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
132.25 |
1.0403 |
0.0582 |
275 |
1 |
132.25 |
2013-11-24 |
| 36. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
132.08 |
1.0314 |
0.0602 |
452 |
1 |
132.08 |
2014-08-30 |
| 37. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
131.87 |
1.0201 |
0.0311 |
172 |
1 |
131.87 |
2009-09-17 |
| 38. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
131.77 |
1.0261 |
0.0641 |
410 |
1 |
131.77 |
2021-08-31 |
| 39. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
131.60 |
0.9339 |
0.1183 |
310 |
1 |
131.60 |
2009-09-16 |
| 40. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
131.52 |
0.8559 |
0.1955 |
191 |
1 |
131.52 |
2010-07-23 |
| 41. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
131.12 |
0.9485 |
0.1011 |
236 |
1 |
131.12 |
2009-08-06 |
| 42. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
130.99 |
1.0347 |
0.0339 |
550 |
1 |
130.99 |
2009-09-16 |
| 43. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
130.87 |
0.9330 |
0.1181 |
360 |
1 |
130.87 |
2009-09-16 |
| 44. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
130.71 |
1.0398 |
-0.0005 |
110 |
1 |
130.71 |
2009-05-05 |
| 45. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
130.65 |
0.9965 |
0.0467 |
168 |
1 |
130.65 |
2010-07-23 |
| 46. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
130.58 |
0.9820 |
0.0641 |
267 |
1 |
130.58 |
2009-05-05 |
| 47. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
130.57 |
0.9879 |
0.0613 |
450 |
2 |
125.13 |
2009-05-05 |
| 48. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
130.51 |
0.9251 |
0.1201 |
177 |
1 |
130.51 |
2010-07-23 |
| 49. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
130.44 |
1.0132 |
0.0227 |
143 |
1 |
130.44 |
2010-07-23 |
| 50. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
130.37 |
0.9513 |
0.0941 |
354 |
1 |
130.37 |
2009-05-05 |
| 51. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
130.07 |
1.0462 |
-0.0091 |
184 |
1 |
130.07 |
2009-08-03 |
| 52. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
130.07 |
0.9398 |
0.1059 |
419 |
1 |
130.07 |
2010-07-25 |
| 53. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
129.83 |
0.9665 |
0.1205 |
326 |
1 |
129.83 |
2021-08-31 |
| 54. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
129.53 |
0.9936 |
0.0422 |
311 |
2 |
125.16 |
2013-06-26 |
| 55. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
129.52 |
0.9758 |
0.0603 |
314 |
1 |
129.52 |
2012-03-03 |
| 56. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
129.46 |
0.9734 |
0.0618 |
289 |
2 |
125.57 |
2009-09-17 |
| 57. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
129.21 |
1.0799 |
-0.0492 |
243 |
1 |
129.21 |
2012-05-04 |
| 58. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
128.48 |
0.9893 |
0.0387 |
323 |
1 |
128.48 |
2009-08-21 |
| 59. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
128.20 |
0.9912 |
0.0632 |
237 |
1 |
128.20 |
2011-01-04 |
| 60. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
128.09 |
1.0534 |
-0.0284 |
357 |
1 |
128.09 |
2009-05-05 |
| 61. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
128.02 |
1.0264 |
0.0328 |
422 |
1 |
128.02 |
2010-07-25 |
| 62. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
127.97 |
1.0795 |
-0.0239 |
226 |
3 |
127.30 |
2013-03-28 |
| 63. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
127.80 |
0.9943 |
0.0278 |
373 |
1 |
127.80 |
2009-09-17 |
| 64. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
127.64 |
1.0463 |
-0.0289 |
182 |
2 |
126.01 |
2010-07-14 |
| 65. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
127.56 |
0.9851 |
0.0355 |
317 |
1 |
127.56 |
2009-09-16 |
| 66. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
127.53 |
1.0529 |
-0.0326 |
351 |
1 |
127.53 |
2009-09-17 |
| 67. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
127.03 |
1.0016 |
0.0120 |
218 |
1 |
127.03 |
2013-07-02 |
| 68. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
127.00 |
0.9682 |
0.0458 |
143 |
1 |
127.00 |
2009-08-03 |
| 69. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
126.81 |
1.0117 |
0.0462 |
297 |
1 |
126.81 |
2010-07-23 |
| 70. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
126.73 |
0.9855 |
0.0614 |
258 |
1 |
126.73 |
2010-07-23 |
| 71. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
125.93 |
0.9583 |
0.0900 |
341 |
2 |
123.57 |
2014-08-30 |
| 72. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
125.73 |
1.0343 |
0.0108 |
242 |
1 |
125.73 |
2009-09-17 |
| 73. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
125.70 |
1.0211 |
0.0159 |
213 |
2 |
120.39 |
2010-07-23 |
| 74. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
125.62 |
0.9852 |
0.0189 |
264 |
1 |
125.62 |
2009-05-05 |
| 75. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
125.41 |
0.9769 |
0.0245 |
263 |
1 |
125.41 |
2009-05-05 |
| 76. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
125.28 |
0.9619 |
0.0428 |
393 |
1 |
125.28 |
2009-09-17 |
| 77. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
125.21 |
1.0711 |
-0.0744 |
213 |
1 |
125.21 |
2009-05-05 |
| 78. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
124.77 |
1.0077 |
0.0310 |
250 |
1 |
124.77 |
2013-12-18 |
| 79. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
124.76 |
0.9691 |
0.0287 |
223 |
1 |
124.76 |
2013-06-26 |
| 80. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
124.37 |
1.0403 |
-0.0283 |
193 |
1 |
124.37 |
2011-02-24 |
| 81. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
123.77 |
1.0677 |
-0.0476 |
284 |
1 |
123.77 |
2010-07-25 |
| 82. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
123.30 |
1.0203 |
-0.0321 |
261 |
1 |
123.30 |
2009-08-03 |
| 83. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
123.20 |
0.9798 |
0.0009 |
199 |
1 |
123.20 |
2013-06-26 |
| 84. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
123.11 |
0.9553 |
0.0338 |
430 |
2 |
116.40 |
2009-09-16 |
| 85. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
123.01 |
1.0201 |
-0.0341 |
375 |
1 |
123.01 |
2009-05-05 |
| 86. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
121.91 |
0.8899 |
0.0897 |
293 |
1 |
121.91 |
2010-07-23 |
| 87. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
121.70 |
0.9871 |
0.0238 |
209 |
2 |
120.74 |
2009-09-17 |
| 88. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
121.26 |
0.9372 |
0.0350 |
320 |
2 |
119.51 |
2016-01-15 |
| 89. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
121.21 |
1.0023 |
-0.0360 |
211 |
2 |
115.99 |
2009-09-23 |
| 90. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
120.80 |
0.9275 |
0.0362 |
211 |
1 |
120.80 |
2009-09-17 |
| 91. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
120.53 |
0.9899 |
-0.0295 |
163 |
3 |
112.48 |
2013-12-18 |
| 92. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
120.27 |
0.9279 |
0.0363 |
317 |
1 |
120.27 |
2009-09-16 |
| 93. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
120.18 |
0.9168 |
0.0443 |
240 |
1 |
120.18 |
2009-05-05 |
| 94. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
119.86 |
1.0013 |
-0.0437 |
273 |
1 |
119.86 |
2009-08-03 |
| 95. |
Fool, prate not to me about covenants. There can be no coven... |
119.76 |
1.0050 |
-0.0504 |
308 |
1 |
119.76 |
2021-08-31 |
| 96. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
119.74 |
1.0565 |
-0.1017 |
247 |
1 |
119.74 |
2009-09-16 |
| 97. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
119.53 |
0.8629 |
0.0933 |
299 |
1 |
119.53 |
2010-07-23 |
| 98. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
119.51 |
1.0197 |
-0.0667 |
226 |
1 |
119.51 |
2011-02-24 |
| 99. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
118.72 |
0.9125 |
0.0366 |
308 |
2 |
113.85 |
2012-04-11 |
| 100. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
118.63 |
0.9805 |
-0.0306 |
292 |
1 |
118.63 |
2009-08-21 |
| 101. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
118.62 |
0.9109 |
0.0383 |
401 |
1 |
118.62 |
2013-06-26 |
| 102. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
118.54 |
0.9786 |
-0.0338 |
193 |
2 |
112.50 |
2011-01-04 |
| 103. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
118.49 |
1.0368 |
-0.0907 |
276 |
1 |
118.49 |
2009-05-05 |
| 104. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
118.26 |
1.0829 |
-0.1378 |
288 |
1 |
118.26 |
2010-07-23 |
| 105. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
118.26 |
0.9857 |
-0.0409 |
293 |
1 |
118.26 |
2009-09-16 |
| 106. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
118.25 |
0.9706 |
-0.0256 |
216 |
1 |
118.25 |
2010-07-23 |
| 107. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
117.67 |
0.9430 |
-0.0053 |
211 |
1 |
117.67 |
2010-07-23 |
| 108. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
117.57 |
0.9966 |
-0.0575 |
259 |
1 |
117.57 |
2009-09-17 |
| 109. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
117.14 |
0.9763 |
-0.0399 |
289 |
2 |
116.34 |
2010-07-23 |
| 110. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
117.02 |
1.0109 |
-0.0443 |
400 |
1 |
117.02 |
2009-08-20 |
| 111. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
116.99 |
1.0053 |
-0.0717 |
232 |
1 |
116.99 |
2009-05-05 |
| 112. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
116.75 |
0.8821 |
0.0485 |
176 |
1 |
116.75 |
2010-07-23 |
| 113. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
116.48 |
0.9904 |
-0.0184 |
203 |
1 |
116.48 |
2013-12-18 |
| 114. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
116.19 |
1.0213 |
-0.0948 |
240 |
1 |
116.19 |
2009-04-27 |
| 115. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
115.49 |
0.9266 |
-0.0044 |
267 |
1 |
115.49 |
2011-01-04 |
| 116. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
114.94 |
0.9468 |
-0.0293 |
276 |
1 |
114.94 |
2009-09-16 |
| 117. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
114.47 |
0.8670 |
0.0484 |
318 |
1 |
114.47 |
2012-09-18 |
| 118. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
114.02 |
0.8867 |
0.0237 |
241 |
1 |
114.02 |
2010-07-23 |
| 119. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
113.27 |
1.0232 |
-0.0738 |
350 |
1 |
113.27 |
2013-06-26 |
| 120. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
112.97 |
0.8890 |
0.0116 |
199 |
1 |
112.97 |
2013-06-26 |
| 121. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
112.91 |
1.0944 |
-0.1500 |
308 |
1 |
112.91 |
2009-09-23 |
| 122. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
112.57 |
0.9699 |
-0.0713 |
269 |
1 |
112.57 |
2009-09-17 |
| 123. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
111.00 |
0.8933 |
-0.0027 |
363 |
2 |
109.17 |
2021-08-31 |
| 124. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
110.10 |
0.8919 |
-0.0134 |
205 |
1 |
110.10 |
2009-05-05 |
| 125. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
109.25 |
1.0063 |
-0.1340 |
371 |
1 |
109.25 |
2018-06-08 |
| 126. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
108.53 |
0.9681 |
-0.0980 |
378 |
2 |
106.81 |
2009-09-16 |
| 127. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
108.38 |
1.0334 |
-0.1725 |
131 |
1 |
108.38 |
2009-09-17 |
| 128. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
107.70 |
1.0630 |
-0.1733 |
397 |
1 |
107.70 |
2016-01-15 |
| 129. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
107.34 |
0.9049 |
-0.0455 |
351 |
1 |
107.34 |
2009-05-05 |
| 130. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
106.70 |
0.9841 |
-0.1307 |
334 |
1 |
106.70 |
2009-04-27 |
| 131. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
106.44 |
0.9632 |
-0.1104 |
392 |
1 |
106.44 |
2009-09-23 |
| 132. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
104.23 |
0.9532 |
-0.1226 |
258 |
1 |
104.23 |
2009-05-05 |
| 133. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
104.20 |
0.8947 |
-0.0596 |
366 |
1 |
104.20 |
2009-05-05 |
| 134. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
103.02 |
0.9846 |
-0.1636 |
281 |
1 |
103.02 |
2009-05-05 |
| 135. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
102.95 |
0.9546 |
-0.1042 |
198 |
1 |
102.95 |
2009-09-16 |
| 136. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
97.30 |
0.9649 |
-0.1901 |
193 |
1 |
97.30 |
2010-07-23 |
| 137. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
94.74 |
0.9216 |
-0.1300 |
255 |
1 |
94.74 |
2010-07-23 |
| 138. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
93.35 |
0.9364 |
-0.1556 |
351 |
1 |
93.35 |
2014-08-30 |
| 139. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
91.04 |
0.9965 |
-0.2720 |
310 |
1 |
91.04 |
2009-04-27 |
| 140. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
82.43 |
0.9865 |
-0.3310 |
276 |
1 |
82.43 |
2009-12-21 |
| 141. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
39.12 |
0.9991 |
-0.6954 |
225 |
1 |
39.12 |
2009-12-21 |