| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
169.89 |
1.1114 |
0.3152 |
247 |
2 |
145.11 |
2013-06-25 |
| 2. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
144.58 |
1.0419 |
0.1724 |
261 |
1 |
144.58 |
2013-03-09 |
| 3. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
144.18 |
1.0063 |
0.2051 |
371 |
1 |
144.18 |
2011-07-23 |
| 4. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
143.29 |
0.9792 |
0.2629 |
265 |
1 |
143.29 |
2011-07-23 |
| 5. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
142.21 |
1.0417 |
0.1500 |
253 |
1 |
142.21 |
2014-08-28 |
| 6. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
141.75 |
1.0621 |
0.1477 |
263 |
2 |
137.43 |
2014-10-31 |
| 7. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
141.72 |
0.9833 |
0.2087 |
355 |
1 |
141.72 |
2014-08-28 |
| 8. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
141.40 |
1.0941 |
0.1247 |
256 |
1 |
141.40 |
2012-10-19 |
| 9. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
140.13 |
1.0068 |
0.1733 |
358 |
2 |
139.09 |
2011-07-23 |
| 10. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
138.73 |
1.0391 |
0.1318 |
358 |
2 |
137.57 |
2011-07-24 |
| 11. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
137.52 |
1.0125 |
0.1395 |
224 |
1 |
137.52 |
2013-10-31 |
| 12. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
137.01 |
1.0565 |
0.0909 |
247 |
1 |
137.01 |
2011-07-23 |
| 13. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
135.39 |
1.0388 |
0.1293 |
243 |
1 |
135.39 |
2011-07-23 |
| 14. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
135.27 |
0.9653 |
0.1787 |
394 |
2 |
118.74 |
2013-08-02 |
| 15. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
134.62 |
1.0031 |
0.1602 |
304 |
1 |
134.62 |
2014-06-20 |
| 16. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
134.43 |
1.0515 |
0.0748 |
250 |
1 |
134.43 |
2011-07-23 |
| 17. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
133.71 |
1.1016 |
0.0204 |
233 |
2 |
130.01 |
2011-07-23 |
| 18. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
133.29 |
1.0885 |
0.0651 |
341 |
1 |
133.29 |
2014-10-31 |
| 19. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
133.21 |
1.0608 |
0.0904 |
258 |
1 |
133.21 |
2011-07-23 |
| 20. |
Right, I am going to tell you how this works. You're going i... |
132.99 |
1.0482 |
0.0920 |
487 |
3 |
120.62 |
2013-07-01 |
| 21. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
132.57 |
0.9601 |
0.1573 |
308 |
1 |
132.57 |
2012-10-19 |
| 22. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
132.54 |
0.8653 |
0.2583 |
255 |
1 |
132.54 |
2013-10-31 |
| 23. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
132.23 |
1.0034 |
0.1050 |
302 |
1 |
132.23 |
2013-06-27 |
| 24. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
130.46 |
1.0390 |
0.0518 |
205 |
1 |
130.46 |
2011-07-22 |
| 25. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
130.24 |
1.0263 |
0.0653 |
267 |
1 |
130.24 |
2011-07-23 |
| 26. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
129.89 |
1.0389 |
0.0527 |
318 |
1 |
129.89 |
2011-07-23 |
| 27. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
129.49 |
0.9612 |
0.1254 |
256 |
1 |
129.49 |
2011-07-22 |
| 28. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
128.46 |
1.0347 |
0.0690 |
550 |
1 |
128.46 |
2011-07-23 |
| 29. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
127.97 |
1.0679 |
0.0255 |
177 |
1 |
127.97 |
2011-07-24 |
| 30. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
127.92 |
1.0567 |
0.0173 |
303 |
2 |
121.37 |
2013-02-02 |
| 31. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
127.73 |
1.0725 |
0.0246 |
233 |
1 |
127.73 |
2011-07-22 |
| 32. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
127.68 |
1.1162 |
-0.0039 |
189 |
1 |
127.68 |
2011-07-23 |
| 33. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
127.49 |
1.1068 |
0.0031 |
393 |
1 |
127.49 |
2011-07-22 |
| 34. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
127.26 |
0.9852 |
0.0825 |
264 |
1 |
127.26 |
2011-09-09 |
| 35. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
126.79 |
0.9844 |
0.0842 |
293 |
1 |
126.79 |
2011-07-23 |
| 36. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
126.61 |
1.0368 |
0.0258 |
276 |
1 |
126.61 |
2011-07-24 |
| 37. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
126.22 |
0.9578 |
0.1008 |
281 |
2 |
116.74 |
2011-07-23 |
| 38. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
125.96 |
0.9976 |
0.0792 |
174 |
1 |
125.96 |
2011-07-23 |
| 39. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
125.89 |
0.9651 |
0.1267 |
389 |
2 |
119.39 |
2013-06-11 |
| 40. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
125.62 |
1.0314 |
0.0613 |
452 |
2 |
112.59 |
2012-12-29 |
| 41. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
125.40 |
1.0183 |
0.0280 |
191 |
1 |
125.40 |
2013-06-16 |
| 42. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
125.28 |
0.9646 |
0.0852 |
264 |
2 |
121.87 |
2013-10-28 |
| 43. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
125.18 |
1.1323 |
-0.0486 |
341 |
1 |
125.18 |
2011-07-24 |
| 44. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
124.50 |
0.9798 |
0.0587 |
199 |
1 |
124.50 |
2011-07-22 |
| 45. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
123.26 |
1.0795 |
-0.0158 |
226 |
1 |
123.26 |
2013-10-31 |
| 46. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
122.68 |
1.0090 |
0.0632 |
282 |
1 |
122.68 |
2013-06-16 |
| 47. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
122.44 |
1.0013 |
0.0243 |
273 |
1 |
122.44 |
2013-06-16 |
| 48. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
122.37 |
1.0714 |
-0.0546 |
129 |
1 |
122.37 |
2011-07-24 |
| 49. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
121.66 |
1.0297 |
-0.0110 |
249 |
1 |
121.66 |
2011-07-22 |
| 50. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
121.56 |
1.0218 |
-0.0057 |
268 |
1 |
121.56 |
2013-06-25 |
| 51. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
121.51 |
1.0666 |
-0.0476 |
297 |
1 |
121.51 |
2011-07-23 |
| 52. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
121.18 |
1.0740 |
-0.0199 |
264 |
1 |
121.18 |
2014-08-28 |
| 53. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
120.83 |
1.0062 |
0.0064 |
288 |
1 |
120.83 |
2013-02-02 |
| 54. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
120.61 |
1.0213 |
-0.0134 |
240 |
1 |
120.61 |
2013-10-28 |
| 55. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
120.17 |
0.9583 |
0.0925 |
341 |
1 |
120.17 |
2011-07-22 |
| 56. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
119.64 |
0.9991 |
0.0043 |
225 |
1 |
119.64 |
2011-07-23 |
| 57. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
119.63 |
0.9905 |
0.0439 |
337 |
1 |
119.63 |
2014-10-31 |
| 58. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
118.86 |
0.9734 |
0.0228 |
289 |
2 |
109.36 |
2011-08-06 |
| 59. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
118.72 |
1.0365 |
-0.0120 |
162 |
1 |
118.72 |
2011-07-22 |
| 60. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
118.35 |
1.0763 |
-0.0428 |
367 |
1 |
118.35 |
2011-07-23 |
| 61. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
118.27 |
0.9532 |
0.0366 |
258 |
1 |
118.27 |
2011-08-06 |
| 62. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
118.09 |
1.0529 |
-0.0633 |
351 |
1 |
118.09 |
2013-03-09 |
| 63. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
117.94 |
0.9485 |
0.0416 |
236 |
1 |
117.94 |
2013-06-16 |
| 64. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
117.65 |
1.0361 |
-0.0494 |
269 |
1 |
117.65 |
2011-07-24 |
| 65. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
117.59 |
0.9965 |
-0.0105 |
277 |
1 |
117.59 |
2011-07-22 |
| 66. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
117.33 |
0.9681 |
0.0233 |
378 |
1 |
117.33 |
2011-07-23 |
| 67. |
Don't practice too much at first, or you're likely to develo... |
116.46 |
1.0141 |
0.0020 |
381 |
1 |
116.46 |
2013-03-09 |
| 68. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
116.28 |
1.0008 |
0.0168 |
473 |
1 |
116.28 |
2011-07-23 |
| 69. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
115.44 |
1.0398 |
-0.0836 |
110 |
2 |
112.73 |
2011-07-23 |
| 70. |
Danger is a topic you're often asked about as a sprinter. Th... |
115.39 |
0.9801 |
0.0294 |
428 |
1 |
115.39 |
2013-07-07 |
| 71. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
115.31 |
1.0251 |
-0.0611 |
261 |
1 |
115.31 |
2011-07-24 |
| 72. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
115.26 |
1.0943 |
-0.0961 |
206 |
1 |
115.26 |
2014-08-28 |
| 73. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
114.92 |
1.0595 |
-0.0943 |
379 |
2 |
96.00 |
2013-06-16 |
| 74. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
114.83 |
1.0487 |
-0.0918 |
231 |
1 |
114.83 |
2011-07-22 |
| 75. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
114.24 |
0.9709 |
0.0274 |
397 |
1 |
114.24 |
2011-07-23 |
| 76. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
113.93 |
0.9514 |
0.0031 |
237 |
1 |
113.93 |
2011-07-23 |
| 77. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
113.79 |
0.9905 |
-0.0294 |
377 |
1 |
113.79 |
2011-07-23 |
| 78. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
113.79 |
1.0077 |
-0.0137 |
250 |
1 |
113.79 |
2011-07-23 |
| 79. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
113.71 |
0.9430 |
0.0022 |
211 |
1 |
113.71 |
2013-06-16 |
| 80. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
113.41 |
1.0167 |
-0.0598 |
378 |
1 |
113.41 |
2011-07-22 |
| 81. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
112.83 |
0.9049 |
0.0456 |
351 |
2 |
100.14 |
2013-06-16 |
| 82. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
112.05 |
1.0288 |
-0.0580 |
300 |
1 |
112.05 |
2011-07-23 |
| 83. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
110.88 |
0.8933 |
0.0415 |
363 |
1 |
110.88 |
2013-06-25 |
| 84. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
109.59 |
1.0168 |
-0.0976 |
271 |
1 |
109.59 |
2011-07-22 |
| 85. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
109.46 |
0.9005 |
0.0145 |
212 |
2 |
102.84 |
2012-12-29 |
| 86. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
109.01 |
0.9682 |
-0.0572 |
143 |
1 |
109.01 |
2011-07-22 |
| 87. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
107.80 |
1.0574 |
-0.1271 |
205 |
1 |
107.80 |
2011-07-23 |
| 88. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
107.50 |
0.9910 |
-0.0892 |
295 |
1 |
107.50 |
2014-10-26 |
| 89. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
107.48 |
0.9353 |
-0.0404 |
177 |
1 |
107.48 |
2011-07-22 |
| 90. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
107.30 |
0.9365 |
-0.0370 |
248 |
1 |
107.30 |
2011-08-06 |
| 91. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
107.26 |
0.9243 |
0.0130 |
448 |
1 |
107.26 |
2012-10-19 |
| 92. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
107.06 |
1.0165 |
-0.1166 |
392 |
1 |
107.06 |
2013-06-25 |
| 93. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
106.87 |
0.9567 |
-0.0200 |
184 |
2 |
100.72 |
2013-10-28 |
| 94. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
105.75 |
1.0214 |
-0.1418 |
166 |
1 |
105.75 |
2013-03-09 |
| 95. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
105.46 |
0.9698 |
-0.0545 |
397 |
2 |
104.76 |
2013-10-31 |
| 96. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
105.18 |
0.9739 |
-0.0580 |
412 |
1 |
105.18 |
2011-07-23 |
| 97. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
105.11 |
0.8722 |
0.0103 |
285 |
2 |
103.57 |
2013-06-16 |
| 98. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
103.41 |
1.0053 |
-0.1422 |
232 |
1 |
103.41 |
2011-07-24 |
| 99. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
102.76 |
0.9893 |
-0.1299 |
323 |
1 |
102.76 |
2011-07-23 |
| 100. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
102.74 |
0.9768 |
-0.1145 |
387 |
1 |
102.74 |
2013-06-16 |
| 101. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
101.05 |
0.9275 |
-0.0858 |
211 |
1 |
101.05 |
2013-10-28 |
| 102. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
97.31 |
0.9176 |
-0.0656 |
365 |
1 |
97.31 |
2014-06-20 |
| 103. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
96.68 |
0.9202 |
-0.1127 |
254 |
1 |
96.68 |
2013-06-25 |
| 104. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
96.65 |
1.0033 |
-0.2026 |
189 |
1 |
96.65 |
2011-07-23 |
| 105. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
95.09 |
0.8890 |
-0.0984 |
199 |
1 |
95.09 |
2011-08-06 |
| 106. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
90.76 |
0.9763 |
-0.2193 |
289 |
1 |
90.76 |
2013-06-16 |
| 107. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
90.50 |
0.8958 |
-0.1355 |
322 |
1 |
90.50 |
2013-06-25 |
| 108. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
89.27 |
0.9863 |
-0.2371 |
339 |
1 |
89.27 |
2013-06-16 |
| 109. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
79.76 |
0.9710 |
-0.3132 |
173 |
1 |
79.76 |
2013-06-16 |
| 110. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
72.15 |
0.8553 |
-0.2608 |
174 |
1 |
72.15 |
2013-06-16 |
| 111. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
68.82 |
0.9359 |
-0.3250 |
353 |
1 |
68.82 |
2013-06-16 |
| 112. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
68.14 |
1.0201 |
-0.4611 |
172 |
1 |
68.14 |
2013-06-16 |
| 113. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
65.29 |
1.0516 |
-0.5111 |
281 |
1 |
65.29 |
2013-06-16 |
| 114. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
56.68 |
0.8105 |
-0.3469 |
204 |
1 |
56.68 |
2013-03-09 |