| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Sweet the rain's new fall, sunlit from heaven like the first... |
81.81 |
0.9637 |
0.5288 |
176 |
1 |
81.81 |
2017-12-11 |
| 2. |
Everyone's licking up to the new kingpin trying to get way u... |
75.54 |
0.9395 |
0.4319 |
311 |
1 |
75.54 |
2017-12-11 |
| 3. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
74.45 |
1.1081 |
0.3046 |
206 |
1 |
74.45 |
2017-12-11 |
| 4. |
We spent as much money as we could, and got as little for it... |
74.40 |
1.0486 |
0.3386 |
400 |
1 |
74.40 |
2017-12-11 |
| 5. |
I want to leave my footprints in the sands of time. Know the... |
74.16 |
1.1101 |
0.2698 |
235 |
1 |
74.16 |
2017-12-11 |
| 6. |
Can't hold on much longer. But I will never let go! I know i... |
73.54 |
0.9376 |
0.3957 |
272 |
1 |
73.54 |
2017-12-11 |
| 7. |
The great ideas of Xerox PARC which were turned into a great... |
72.77 |
0.9018 |
0.4215 |
290 |
1 |
72.77 |
2017-12-11 |
| 8. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
72.62 |
1.0203 |
0.3270 |
261 |
1 |
72.62 |
2012-10-07 |
| 9. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
72.34 |
0.9157 |
0.4279 |
350 |
1 |
72.34 |
2012-10-07 |
| 10. |
People just don't understand what is involved in this. This ... |
71.74 |
1.0599 |
0.2652 |
218 |
1 |
71.74 |
2017-12-11 |
| 11. |
A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppress... |
70.96 |
1.0617 |
0.2596 |
247 |
1 |
70.96 |
2017-12-11 |
| 12. |
Subdivisions in the high school halls. In the shopping malls... |
69.88 |
0.9373 |
0.3302 |
292 |
1 |
69.88 |
2017-12-11 |
| 13. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
69.42 |
1.0454 |
0.2350 |
255 |
2 |
63.13 |
2012-10-07 |
| 14. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
69.09 |
1.0487 |
0.2243 |
231 |
1 |
69.09 |
2010-05-29 |
| 15. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
67.81 |
0.9622 |
0.2982 |
392 |
1 |
67.81 |
2012-10-07 |
| 16. |
Sometimes you picture me. I'm walking too far ahead, you're ... |
67.71 |
0.9433 |
0.2665 |
170 |
1 |
67.71 |
2017-12-11 |
| 17. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
67.64 |
1.0398 |
0.2006 |
110 |
1 |
67.64 |
2012-04-28 |
| 18. |
Brother, I've seen all kinds of dishonesty in my day, but th... |
67.19 |
0.9732 |
0.2410 |
344 |
1 |
67.19 |
2017-12-11 |
| 19. |
I want to play a game. Let's play hide and seek. Those were ... |
66.59 |
0.9676 |
0.2350 |
339 |
1 |
66.59 |
2017-12-11 |
| 20. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
63.78 |
1.0883 |
0.1225 |
303 |
1 |
63.78 |
2012-04-28 |
| 21. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
62.89 |
1.0261 |
0.1341 |
273 |
1 |
62.89 |
2010-05-29 |
| 22. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
62.81 |
1.1016 |
0.0591 |
233 |
1 |
62.81 |
2012-04-28 |
| 23. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
62.25 |
1.0073 |
0.1509 |
369 |
1 |
62.25 |
2009-11-29 |
| 24. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
61.75 |
1.0201 |
0.1211 |
303 |
1 |
61.75 |
2010-05-29 |
| 25. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
61.60 |
1.0109 |
0.1600 |
400 |
1 |
61.60 |
2010-05-12 |
| 26. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
61.11 |
0.9309 |
0.1961 |
284 |
1 |
61.11 |
2009-11-29 |
| 27. |
Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It ... |
60.57 |
1.0183 |
0.1095 |
164 |
1 |
60.57 |
2017-12-11 |
| 28. |
The girls I like best are ones I never feel much like kiddin... |
59.66 |
0.9063 |
0.2035 |
239 |
1 |
59.66 |
2010-05-12 |
| 29. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
58.90 |
0.9899 |
0.0930 |
163 |
1 |
58.90 |
2008-11-23 |
| 30. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
58.84 |
0.9769 |
0.1074 |
263 |
1 |
58.84 |
2009-11-29 |
| 31. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
57.05 |
1.0263 |
0.0259 |
267 |
1 |
57.05 |
2008-11-22 |
| 32. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
57.04 |
1.0389 |
0.0156 |
318 |
3 |
51.34 |
2010-05-29 |
| 33. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
56.78 |
1.0429 |
0.0037 |
259 |
1 |
56.78 |
2008-11-23 |
| 34. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
56.70 |
0.8971 |
0.1547 |
266 |
2 |
50.48 |
2008-11-28 |
| 35. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
56.45 |
1.0168 |
0.0264 |
271 |
1 |
56.45 |
2010-05-29 |
| 36. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
55.46 |
1.0613 |
-0.0371 |
266 |
2 |
53.01 |
2008-11-22 |
| 37. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
54.60 |
0.9068 |
0.1034 |
269 |
1 |
54.60 |
2008-12-01 |
| 38. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
54.24 |
1.0016 |
-0.0057 |
218 |
2 |
53.47 |
2008-12-01 |
| 39. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
54.22 |
1.0516 |
-0.0519 |
281 |
1 |
54.22 |
2008-11-23 |
| 40. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
54.18 |
0.9045 |
0.0952 |
235 |
4 |
48.24 |
2008-11-23 |
| 41. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
54.18 |
0.9275 |
0.0686 |
211 |
2 |
50.85 |
2009-11-29 |
| 42. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
53.93 |
0.9884 |
0.0106 |
262 |
2 |
48.53 |
2008-11-28 |
| 43. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
53.81 |
0.9084 |
0.0859 |
300 |
1 |
53.81 |
2009-11-29 |
| 44. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
53.45 |
0.9866 |
-0.0046 |
218 |
1 |
53.45 |
2008-11-22 |
| 45. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
53.41 |
0.9910 |
-0.0041 |
295 |
1 |
53.41 |
2008-11-23 |
| 46. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
53.32 |
1.0331 |
-0.0520 |
234 |
1 |
53.32 |
2008-12-01 |
| 47. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
53.19 |
0.9653 |
0.0239 |
394 |
1 |
53.19 |
2009-11-29 |
| 48. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
52.68 |
1.0389 |
-0.0651 |
340 |
1 |
52.68 |
2010-05-10 |
| 49. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
52.33 |
0.9986 |
-0.0332 |
283 |
1 |
52.33 |
2009-11-29 |
| 50. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
52.26 |
0.9372 |
0.0303 |
320 |
1 |
52.26 |
2010-05-29 |
| 51. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
52.21 |
0.9572 |
0.0043 |
201 |
1 |
52.21 |
2008-12-01 |
| 52. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
51.88 |
1.0477 |
-0.0889 |
360 |
1 |
51.88 |
2008-12-01 |
| 53. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
51.72 |
1.0251 |
-0.0739 |
261 |
1 |
51.72 |
2009-11-29 |
| 54. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
51.70 |
1.0799 |
-0.1306 |
243 |
1 |
51.70 |
2008-11-23 |
| 55. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
51.68 |
1.0013 |
-0.0495 |
273 |
2 |
46.55 |
2008-11-23 |
| 56. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
51.40 |
0.9894 |
-0.0376 |
323 |
1 |
51.40 |
2008-11-28 |
| 57. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
51.23 |
0.9540 |
-0.0115 |
285 |
2 |
48.63 |
2008-11-23 |
| 58. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
51.12 |
0.9266 |
0.0174 |
278 |
1 |
51.12 |
2008-11-22 |
| 59. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
51.03 |
1.0577 |
-0.1207 |
247 |
1 |
51.03 |
2008-11-23 |
| 60. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
50.97 |
0.8573 |
0.0857 |
270 |
2 |
50.35 |
2008-12-01 |
| 61. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
50.54 |
1.0352 |
-0.1012 |
341 |
2 |
45.94 |
2008-11-23 |
| 62. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
50.54 |
0.9646 |
-0.0341 |
264 |
1 |
50.54 |
2008-11-23 |
| 63. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
50.39 |
1.0131 |
-0.0884 |
225 |
2 |
48.89 |
2008-11-22 |
| 64. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
50.29 |
0.9578 |
-0.0316 |
281 |
1 |
50.29 |
2008-11-22 |
| 65. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
50.25 |
0.9843 |
-0.0633 |
234 |
1 |
50.25 |
2008-11-22 |
| 66. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
50.19 |
1.0993 |
-0.1766 |
265 |
1 |
50.19 |
2008-11-23 |
| 67. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
50.08 |
1.0619 |
-0.1355 |
354 |
1 |
50.08 |
2008-11-23 |
| 68. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
50.00 |
0.9468 |
-0.0260 |
276 |
1 |
50.00 |
2008-11-23 |
| 69. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
49.90 |
0.9513 |
-0.0281 |
354 |
1 |
49.90 |
2008-11-23 |
| 70. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
49.76 |
0.9164 |
0.0052 |
305 |
1 |
49.76 |
2009-11-29 |
| 71. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
49.53 |
0.9109 |
0.0042 |
401 |
2 |
48.47 |
2008-11-22 |
| 72. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
49.46 |
0.9786 |
-0.0726 |
193 |
1 |
49.46 |
2008-11-28 |
| 73. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
49.10 |
0.9758 |
-0.0706 |
314 |
1 |
49.10 |
2009-11-29 |
| 74. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
49.04 |
0.9863 |
-0.0786 |
339 |
4 |
45.90 |
2008-11-23 |
| 75. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
49.01 |
1.0399 |
-0.1319 |
294 |
2 |
48.51 |
2008-12-01 |
| 76. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
48.78 |
0.8826 |
0.0173 |
296 |
2 |
45.18 |
2008-11-23 |
| 77. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
48.62 |
0.9946 |
-0.0993 |
246 |
1 |
48.62 |
2008-11-22 |
| 78. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
48.49 |
0.9289 |
-0.0381 |
204 |
1 |
48.49 |
2008-11-22 |
| 79. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
48.47 |
0.9697 |
-0.0768 |
249 |
1 |
48.47 |
2008-11-23 |
| 80. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
48.24 |
1.0498 |
-0.1662 |
180 |
1 |
48.24 |
2008-11-23 |
| 81. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
48.12 |
1.0441 |
-0.1564 |
252 |
1 |
48.12 |
2008-11-22 |
| 82. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
48.06 |
0.8958 |
-0.0062 |
322 |
1 |
48.06 |
2008-11-28 |
| 83. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
47.94 |
0.9514 |
-0.0683 |
237 |
1 |
47.94 |
2008-11-22 |
| 84. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
47.82 |
0.9278 |
-0.0445 |
295 |
1 |
47.82 |
2008-11-23 |
| 85. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
47.74 |
1.0340 |
-0.1497 |
406 |
1 |
47.74 |
2008-11-28 |
| 86. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
47.57 |
0.9527 |
-0.0769 |
251 |
2 |
45.97 |
2008-11-23 |
| 87. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
47.56 |
1.0711 |
-0.2005 |
213 |
1 |
47.56 |
2008-11-23 |
| 88. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
47.50 |
1.0445 |
-0.1690 |
373 |
1 |
47.50 |
2008-11-28 |
| 89. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
47.45 |
0.9500 |
-0.0742 |
362 |
1 |
47.45 |
2008-11-18 |
| 90. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
47.33 |
1.0296 |
-0.1518 |
437 |
1 |
47.33 |
2008-11-28 |
| 91. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
47.31 |
0.9072 |
-0.0379 |
237 |
1 |
47.31 |
2008-11-18 |
| 92. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
46.85 |
1.0095 |
-0.1482 |
316 |
1 |
46.85 |
2008-11-23 |
| 93. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
46.72 |
0.8852 |
-0.0231 |
201 |
1 |
46.72 |
2008-11-20 |
| 94. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
46.70 |
0.8956 |
-0.0314 |
322 |
1 |
46.70 |
2008-11-28 |
| 95. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
46.36 |
1.0025 |
-0.1493 |
256 |
1 |
46.36 |
2008-12-01 |
| 96. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
46.28 |
0.9084 |
-0.0525 |
404 |
1 |
46.28 |
2008-12-01 |
| 97. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
46.22 |
0.9964 |
-0.1456 |
203 |
1 |
46.22 |
2008-11-23 |
| 98. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
46.22 |
1.0337 |
-0.1836 |
214 |
1 |
46.22 |
2009-11-29 |
| 99. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
45.64 |
1.0528 |
-0.2180 |
201 |
1 |
45.64 |
2008-11-23 |
| 100. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
45.52 |
1.0462 |
-0.2147 |
184 |
1 |
45.52 |
2008-11-20 |
| 101. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
45.44 |
0.9893 |
-0.1531 |
323 |
1 |
45.44 |
2008-11-21 |
| 102. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
45.06 |
0.9234 |
-0.0890 |
346 |
1 |
45.06 |
2008-12-01 |
| 103. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
44.98 |
1.0334 |
-0.2124 |
131 |
1 |
44.98 |
2008-11-21 |
| 104. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
44.94 |
1.0534 |
-0.2245 |
357 |
1 |
44.94 |
2008-11-18 |
| 105. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
44.48 |
0.9820 |
-0.1611 |
267 |
1 |
44.48 |
2008-11-28 |
| 106. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
44.36 |
1.0099 |
-0.1969 |
207 |
1 |
44.36 |
2008-11-22 |
| 107. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
44.16 |
0.8722 |
-0.0571 |
285 |
1 |
44.16 |
2008-11-23 |
| 108. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
43.81 |
0.9570 |
-0.1497 |
287 |
2 |
43.03 |
2008-11-22 |
| 109. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
43.68 |
0.9567 |
-0.1537 |
273 |
1 |
43.68 |
2008-11-21 |
| 110. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
43.62 |
0.9376 |
-0.1301 |
367 |
1 |
43.62 |
2008-11-22 |
| 111. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
43.44 |
0.9857 |
-0.1880 |
293 |
1 |
43.44 |
2008-12-01 |
| 112. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
43.28 |
0.9148 |
-0.1177 |
317 |
1 |
43.28 |
2008-11-22 |
| 113. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
43.16 |
0.8602 |
-0.0689 |
206 |
1 |
43.16 |
2008-11-23 |
| 114. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
43.15 |
0.9532 |
-0.1612 |
258 |
1 |
43.15 |
2008-11-23 |
| 115. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
42.59 |
0.9233 |
-0.1488 |
168 |
1 |
42.59 |
2008-12-01 |
| 116. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
41.93 |
0.8947 |
-0.1193 |
366 |
1 |
41.93 |
2008-11-21 |
| 117. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
41.69 |
1.0068 |
-0.2375 |
358 |
1 |
41.69 |
2008-11-23 |
| 118. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
41.01 |
0.9649 |
-0.2127 |
193 |
1 |
41.01 |
2008-12-01 |
| 119. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
40.90 |
0.9805 |
-0.2246 |
292 |
1 |
40.90 |
2008-11-18 |
| 120. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
40.49 |
0.8951 |
-0.1493 |
193 |
1 |
40.49 |
2008-12-01 |
| 121. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
40.46 |
0.8890 |
-0.1496 |
199 |
1 |
40.46 |
2008-11-21 |