| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Owning a twelve-foot ladder in New York is a probable sign o... |
79.54 |
1.0476 |
0.4795 |
129 |
1 |
79.54 |
2025-01-28 |
| 2. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
73.98 |
0.9731 |
0.4419 |
129 |
2 |
59.42 |
2013-07-01 |
| 3. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
69.18 |
1.0711 |
0.2516 |
213 |
2 |
57.27 |
2016-06-24 |
| 4. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
68.32 |
0.9127 |
0.3943 |
252 |
1 |
68.32 |
2013-07-01 |
| 5. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
67.48 |
0.9964 |
0.2939 |
203 |
1 |
67.48 |
2013-07-01 |
| 6. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
66.53 |
1.0349 |
0.2373 |
234 |
1 |
66.53 |
2013-07-01 |
| 7. |
In most cases, there is more to be gained by maximizing the ... |
64.81 |
1.0598 |
0.1792 |
196 |
1 |
64.81 |
2013-07-01 |
| 8. |
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand h... |
63.72 |
1.0261 |
0.1943 |
335 |
1 |
63.72 |
2016-06-24 |
| 9. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
63.63 |
0.9109 |
0.3065 |
401 |
1 |
63.63 |
2016-06-24 |
| 10. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
63.27 |
0.9866 |
0.2234 |
218 |
2 |
58.05 |
2008-10-31 |
| 11. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
63.22 |
1.0151 |
0.1936 |
152 |
1 |
63.22 |
2013-07-01 |
| 12. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
63.18 |
1.0379 |
0.1857 |
245 |
1 |
63.18 |
2013-07-01 |
| 13. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
63.15 |
1.0214 |
0.1861 |
166 |
1 |
63.15 |
2013-07-01 |
| 14. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
62.89 |
1.0390 |
0.1626 |
205 |
1 |
62.89 |
2016-06-24 |
| 15. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
62.73 |
0.9213 |
0.2787 |
295 |
2 |
59.05 |
2013-07-01 |
| 16. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
62.41 |
1.0608 |
0.1460 |
258 |
1 |
62.41 |
2016-06-29 |
| 17. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
61.31 |
0.9936 |
0.1786 |
311 |
1 |
61.31 |
2013-07-01 |
| 18. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
60.75 |
1.0399 |
0.1217 |
294 |
1 |
60.75 |
2010-09-14 |
| 19. |
How many times have you seen the leader of a race have a mec... |
60.68 |
1.0155 |
0.1448 |
232 |
1 |
60.68 |
2011-10-31 |
| 20. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
60.37 |
0.9649 |
0.1894 |
193 |
2 |
55.95 |
2008-08-18 |
| 21. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
60.37 |
0.9593 |
0.1954 |
398 |
1 |
60.37 |
2013-07-01 |
| 22. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
60.12 |
0.9843 |
0.1646 |
234 |
2 |
53.62 |
2016-06-24 |
| 23. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
60.05 |
0.9157 |
0.2330 |
350 |
2 |
58.81 |
2013-07-01 |
| 24. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
60.01 |
0.9097 |
0.2382 |
153 |
1 |
60.01 |
2013-07-01 |
| 25. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
60.01 |
1.1081 |
0.0545 |
206 |
1 |
60.01 |
2011-10-31 |
| 26. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
59.84 |
0.9176 |
0.2384 |
365 |
1 |
59.84 |
2016-06-29 |
| 27. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
59.71 |
1.0189 |
0.1229 |
337 |
1 |
59.71 |
2010-09-15 |
| 28. |
All at sea again, and now my hurricanes, have brought down t... |
59.54 |
0.9843 |
0.1683 |
325 |
2 |
52.28 |
2025-01-28 |
| 29. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
59.34 |
0.8947 |
0.2406 |
366 |
1 |
59.34 |
2015-10-20 |
| 30. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
59.33 |
1.0331 |
0.1010 |
234 |
1 |
59.33 |
2013-07-01 |
| 31. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
58.04 |
1.0444 |
0.0649 |
197 |
1 |
58.04 |
2008-08-18 |
| 32. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
57.70 |
0.9233 |
0.1799 |
168 |
1 |
57.70 |
2010-09-15 |
| 33. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
57.67 |
0.9710 |
0.1315 |
173 |
1 |
57.67 |
2008-08-18 |
| 34. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
57.66 |
0.7805 |
0.3223 |
154 |
1 |
57.66 |
2010-09-15 |
| 35. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
57.43 |
1.0385 |
0.0590 |
230 |
1 |
57.43 |
2013-07-01 |
| 36. |
This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic people ... |
57.13 |
1.0203 |
0.0813 |
400 |
1 |
57.13 |
2013-07-01 |
| 37. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
56.89 |
1.0943 |
0.0057 |
206 |
1 |
56.89 |
2013-07-01 |
| 38. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
56.71 |
0.9646 |
0.1199 |
264 |
1 |
56.71 |
2015-10-20 |
| 39. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
56.59 |
1.0396 |
0.0421 |
149 |
1 |
56.59 |
2008-10-24 |
| 40. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
56.48 |
0.9371 |
0.1574 |
318 |
1 |
56.48 |
2013-07-01 |
| 41. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
56.41 |
0.9894 |
0.0891 |
323 |
2 |
55.13 |
2008-10-21 |
| 42. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
56.41 |
1.0013 |
0.0771 |
273 |
1 |
56.41 |
2015-10-20 |
| 43. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
55.94 |
0.9278 |
0.1420 |
295 |
1 |
55.94 |
2013-07-01 |
| 44. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
55.82 |
0.9785 |
0.0889 |
335 |
1 |
55.82 |
2008-10-21 |
| 45. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
55.78 |
1.0261 |
0.0399 |
273 |
3 |
50.89 |
2013-07-01 |
| 46. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
55.76 |
0.9729 |
0.0937 |
255 |
2 |
50.94 |
2008-10-24 |
| 47. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
55.38 |
0.9841 |
0.0745 |
334 |
2 |
54.50 |
2008-10-31 |
| 48. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
55.37 |
1.0337 |
0.0243 |
214 |
1 |
55.37 |
2008-10-30 |
| 49. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
54.97 |
0.9513 |
0.0997 |
354 |
1 |
54.97 |
2009-11-10 |
| 50. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
54.96 |
1.0567 |
-0.0063 |
303 |
1 |
54.96 |
2008-10-31 |
| 51. |
And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and that ... |
54.90 |
0.9598 |
0.0906 |
220 |
1 |
54.90 |
2010-09-14 |
| 52. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
54.59 |
0.9049 |
0.1390 |
351 |
1 |
54.59 |
2013-07-01 |
| 53. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
54.56 |
1.1114 |
-0.0692 |
247 |
2 |
54.13 |
2013-07-01 |
| 54. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
54.34 |
0.9726 |
0.0663 |
154 |
1 |
54.34 |
2010-09-14 |
| 55. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
54.27 |
1.0523 |
-0.0152 |
256 |
1 |
54.27 |
2008-10-31 |
| 56. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
54.27 |
0.8602 |
0.1774 |
206 |
1 |
54.27 |
2015-10-20 |
| 57. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
53.89 |
0.9697 |
0.0604 |
249 |
2 |
48.87 |
2008-10-24 |
| 58. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
53.83 |
1.0218 |
0.0066 |
268 |
1 |
53.83 |
2010-09-15 |
| 59. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
53.42 |
0.9485 |
0.0730 |
236 |
1 |
53.42 |
2008-10-24 |
| 60. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
53.19 |
0.9966 |
0.0202 |
259 |
1 |
53.19 |
2008-08-18 |
| 61. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
53.18 |
1.0972 |
-0.0697 |
251 |
1 |
53.18 |
2011-10-31 |
| 62. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
53.17 |
0.9846 |
0.0317 |
281 |
1 |
53.17 |
2008-10-31 |
| 63. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
53.13 |
1.0352 |
-0.0196 |
341 |
1 |
53.13 |
2008-10-24 |
| 64. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
52.99 |
1.0120 |
0.0007 |
290 |
2 |
52.16 |
2008-10-24 |
| 65. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
52.91 |
0.9411 |
0.0705 |
318 |
2 |
49.44 |
2010-09-15 |
| 66. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
52.90 |
0.9234 |
0.0882 |
346 |
3 |
47.70 |
2008-10-24 |
| 67. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
52.54 |
1.1022 |
-0.0843 |
259 |
1 |
52.54 |
2013-07-01 |
| 68. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
52.38 |
1.0063 |
-0.0052 |
371 |
2 |
52.14 |
2008-10-24 |
| 69. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
52.26 |
1.0201 |
-0.0214 |
172 |
2 |
51.09 |
2008-08-15 |
| 70. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
52.09 |
0.9786 |
0.0168 |
235 |
1 |
52.09 |
2011-10-31 |
| 71. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
51.93 |
0.9045 |
0.0882 |
235 |
1 |
51.93 |
2015-10-20 |
| 72. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
51.83 |
0.9339 |
0.0570 |
310 |
2 |
51.29 |
2009-11-10 |
| 73. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
51.76 |
0.9342 |
0.0555 |
434 |
1 |
51.76 |
2008-10-31 |
| 74. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
51.74 |
0.8971 |
0.0923 |
266 |
1 |
51.74 |
2008-10-24 |
| 75. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
51.36 |
1.0201 |
-0.0384 |
375 |
1 |
51.36 |
2008-10-24 |
| 76. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
51.32 |
0.8935 |
0.0885 |
328 |
1 |
51.32 |
2008-10-21 |
| 77. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
51.27 |
0.9430 |
0.0368 |
211 |
1 |
51.27 |
2008-10-20 |
| 78. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
51.26 |
1.0053 |
-0.0258 |
232 |
1 |
51.26 |
2008-10-31 |
| 79. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
51.14 |
1.0426 |
-0.0653 |
323 |
1 |
51.14 |
2008-10-21 |
| 80. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
51.13 |
0.9527 |
0.0244 |
251 |
1 |
51.13 |
2008-08-18 |
| 81. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
51.07 |
1.0799 |
-0.1041 |
243 |
1 |
51.07 |
2008-08-15 |
| 82. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
51.03 |
1.0025 |
-0.0273 |
256 |
2 |
49.47 |
2008-10-31 |
| 83. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
50.93 |
0.9756 |
-0.0025 |
229 |
1 |
50.93 |
2008-10-24 |
| 84. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
50.83 |
0.9084 |
0.0633 |
404 |
2 |
45.33 |
2008-10-30 |
| 85. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
50.64 |
1.0521 |
-0.0853 |
171 |
1 |
50.64 |
2010-09-15 |
| 86. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
50.54 |
0.9468 |
0.0191 |
276 |
2 |
46.39 |
2008-10-31 |
| 87. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
50.39 |
0.9275 |
0.0353 |
211 |
1 |
50.39 |
2010-03-21 |
| 88. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
50.28 |
0.8595 |
0.1016 |
242 |
1 |
50.28 |
2013-07-01 |
| 89. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
50.16 |
0.9776 |
-0.0189 |
308 |
1 |
50.16 |
2010-09-14 |
| 90. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
49.88 |
1.0090 |
-0.0390 |
282 |
1 |
49.88 |
2013-07-01 |
| 91. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
49.77 |
0.9912 |
-0.0287 |
237 |
1 |
49.77 |
2010-09-15 |
| 92. |
We're no strangers to love. You know the rules and so do I. ... |
49.70 |
0.9443 |
0.0062 |
143 |
1 |
49.70 |
2016-06-24 |
| 93. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
49.50 |
1.0529 |
-0.1073 |
351 |
1 |
49.50 |
2008-08-18 |
| 94. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
49.33 |
1.0574 |
-0.1036 |
205 |
1 |
49.33 |
2013-07-01 |
| 95. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
49.22 |
0.9897 |
-0.0489 |
274 |
1 |
49.22 |
2008-10-24 |
| 96. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
49.17 |
0.9023 |
0.0552 |
231 |
1 |
49.17 |
2010-09-14 |
| 97. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
49.17 |
0.9572 |
-0.0172 |
201 |
1 |
49.17 |
2008-08-18 |
| 98. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
49.05 |
0.9068 |
0.0314 |
269 |
1 |
49.05 |
2008-10-21 |
| 99. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
48.26 |
0.9910 |
-0.0688 |
295 |
2 |
47.26 |
2008-10-24 |
| 100. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
48.25 |
0.8353 |
0.0879 |
283 |
2 |
45.40 |
2010-09-14 |
| 101. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
48.24 |
0.8890 |
0.0328 |
199 |
1 |
48.24 |
2008-08-18 |
| 102. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
48.20 |
1.0788 |
-0.1584 |
171 |
1 |
48.20 |
2008-10-24 |
| 103. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
48.16 |
0.9461 |
-0.0260 |
193 |
1 |
48.16 |
2010-09-14 |
| 104. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
48.10 |
0.9226 |
-0.0025 |
348 |
1 |
48.10 |
2008-08-18 |
| 105. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
47.49 |
1.0429 |
-0.1359 |
259 |
1 |
47.49 |
2008-10-20 |
| 106. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
47.30 |
0.9088 |
-0.0045 |
348 |
1 |
47.30 |
2008-10-21 |
| 107. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
47.18 |
0.8914 |
0.0104 |
366 |
1 |
47.18 |
2010-04-30 |
| 108. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
46.98 |
0.9293 |
-0.0316 |
355 |
2 |
46.00 |
2011-10-31 |
| 109. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
46.82 |
1.0334 |
-0.1397 |
131 |
1 |
46.82 |
2010-09-14 |
| 110. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
46.79 |
0.9084 |
-0.0142 |
300 |
1 |
46.79 |
2008-10-24 |
| 111. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
46.60 |
1.0528 |
-0.1631 |
201 |
1 |
46.60 |
2008-08-18 |
| 112. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
46.56 |
0.8810 |
0.0093 |
282 |
1 |
46.56 |
2008-08-15 |
| 113. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
46.46 |
1.0042 |
-0.1042 |
352 |
1 |
46.46 |
2011-10-31 |
| 114. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
46.42 |
0.9164 |
-0.0292 |
305 |
1 |
46.42 |
2010-09-14 |
| 115. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
46.39 |
0.9514 |
-0.0652 |
237 |
1 |
46.39 |
2008-10-31 |
| 116. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
45.89 |
1.0060 |
-0.1294 |
171 |
1 |
45.89 |
2008-10-24 |
| 117. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
45.80 |
1.0340 |
-0.1588 |
406 |
1 |
45.80 |
2008-10-24 |
| 118. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
45.65 |
1.0555 |
-0.1834 |
363 |
1 |
45.65 |
2008-09-01 |
| 119. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
45.50 |
1.0417 |
-0.1727 |
253 |
1 |
45.50 |
2008-10-24 |
| 120. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
45.46 |
0.9125 |
-0.0439 |
308 |
1 |
45.46 |
2008-08-18 |
| 121. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
45.37 |
0.9670 |
-0.0844 |
307 |
1 |
45.37 |
2010-03-21 |
| 122. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
45.26 |
0.9672 |
-0.1021 |
396 |
1 |
45.26 |
2008-08-18 |
| 123. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
44.21 |
0.9633 |
-0.1184 |
304 |
1 |
44.21 |
2008-10-31 |
| 124. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
43.27 |
1.0124 |
-0.1862 |
204 |
1 |
43.27 |
2010-09-14 |
| 125. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
43.04 |
0.9795 |
-0.1577 |
308 |
1 |
43.04 |
2010-09-14 |
| 126. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
42.27 |
1.0613 |
-0.2539 |
266 |
1 |
42.27 |
2008-08-18 |
| 127. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
38.82 |
0.9350 |
-0.1932 |
195 |
1 |
38.82 |
2010-04-30 |
| 128. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
38.34 |
1.0829 |
-0.3511 |
288 |
1 |
38.34 |
2010-04-30 |
| 129. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
38.30 |
1.0993 |
-0.3684 |
265 |
1 |
38.30 |
2009-12-16 |
| 130. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
37.91 |
0.9908 |
-0.2515 |
342 |
1 |
37.91 |
2009-12-16 |
| 131. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
36.20 |
0.9376 |
-0.2464 |
367 |
1 |
36.20 |
2008-10-20 |
| 132. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
34.10 |
0.9567 |
-0.3057 |
273 |
1 |
34.10 |
2010-04-30 |
| 133. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
33.78 |
0.8961 |
-0.2512 |
189 |
1 |
33.78 |
2008-10-20 |
| 134. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
33.68 |
1.0004 |
-0.3581 |
212 |
1 |
33.68 |
2010-04-30 |