| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
136.67 |
1.0567 |
0.2573 |
303 |
1 |
136.67 |
2009-06-17 |
| 2. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
128.01 |
1.1162 |
0.1145 |
189 |
1 |
128.01 |
2010-03-25 |
| 3. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
127.09 |
1.0666 |
0.1553 |
297 |
1 |
127.09 |
2009-05-05 |
| 4. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
124.30 |
1.0214 |
0.1737 |
269 |
1 |
124.30 |
2010-03-25 |
| 5. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
123.11 |
1.0534 |
0.1302 |
357 |
1 |
123.11 |
2009-06-17 |
| 6. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
122.87 |
1.0787 |
0.1026 |
237 |
2 |
122.02 |
2010-03-27 |
| 7. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
122.47 |
1.0483 |
0.1292 |
227 |
1 |
122.47 |
2013-01-27 |
| 8. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
122.02 |
1.0441 |
0.1291 |
252 |
1 |
122.02 |
2009-09-16 |
| 9. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
120.30 |
1.0337 |
0.1229 |
214 |
1 |
120.30 |
2010-03-27 |
| 10. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
119.69 |
1.0714 |
0.0794 |
129 |
2 |
113.59 |
2010-03-22 |
| 11. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
118.81 |
0.9907 |
0.1516 |
211 |
2 |
114.53 |
2010-03-21 |
| 12. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
118.49 |
1.0232 |
0.1160 |
350 |
1 |
118.49 |
2010-03-21 |
| 13. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
118.06 |
1.0555 |
0.0796 |
363 |
1 |
118.06 |
2010-03-27 |
| 14. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
116.32 |
0.9527 |
0.1657 |
251 |
2 |
116.15 |
2010-03-30 |
| 15. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
114.55 |
0.9843 |
0.1170 |
234 |
2 |
107.61 |
2009-09-16 |
| 16. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
114.13 |
0.9976 |
0.0997 |
174 |
1 |
114.13 |
2010-03-25 |
| 17. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
113.87 |
0.9570 |
0.1378 |
287 |
1 |
113.87 |
2009-06-17 |
| 18. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
113.50 |
1.0740 |
0.0172 |
264 |
1 |
113.50 |
2010-03-27 |
| 19. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
112.56 |
1.0203 |
0.0619 |
261 |
1 |
112.56 |
2009-06-17 |
| 20. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
112.15 |
0.8890 |
0.1893 |
199 |
1 |
112.15 |
2009-06-17 |
| 21. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
111.14 |
1.0150 |
0.0535 |
325 |
1 |
111.14 |
2010-03-27 |
| 22. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
110.74 |
1.0023 |
0.0624 |
211 |
1 |
110.74 |
2009-06-17 |
| 23. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
110.64 |
0.9045 |
0.1592 |
235 |
1 |
110.64 |
2010-03-25 |
| 24. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
110.34 |
0.9905 |
0.0704 |
377 |
1 |
110.34 |
2010-03-25 |
| 25. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
110.33 |
1.0167 |
0.0441 |
378 |
2 |
108.93 |
2010-03-25 |
| 26. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
109.93 |
1.0486 |
0.0083 |
289 |
2 |
107.03 |
2013-01-27 |
| 27. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
109.46 |
1.0679 |
-0.0155 |
177 |
1 |
109.46 |
2010-03-27 |
| 28. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
109.46 |
1.0477 |
0.0047 |
360 |
1 |
109.46 |
2009-06-17 |
| 29. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
108.89 |
0.9691 |
0.0778 |
223 |
1 |
108.89 |
2010-03-25 |
| 30. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
108.83 |
1.0025 |
0.0438 |
336 |
1 |
108.83 |
2010-03-25 |
| 31. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
108.62 |
1.0613 |
-0.0170 |
456 |
2 |
102.03 |
2013-05-31 |
| 32. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
108.29 |
1.0565 |
-0.0154 |
247 |
1 |
108.29 |
2010-03-25 |
| 33. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
108.26 |
0.9879 |
0.0530 |
450 |
2 |
104.22 |
2013-01-27 |
| 34. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
108.08 |
1.0361 |
0.0030 |
269 |
1 |
108.08 |
2009-05-05 |
| 35. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
107.62 |
1.0419 |
-0.0072 |
261 |
1 |
107.62 |
2009-06-17 |
| 36. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
107.14 |
0.8916 |
0.1385 |
216 |
1 |
107.14 |
2010-03-27 |
| 37. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
107.05 |
0.9164 |
0.1128 |
305 |
1 |
107.05 |
2009-06-17 |
| 38. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
106.97 |
0.9612 |
0.0673 |
256 |
1 |
106.97 |
2009-06-17 |
| 39. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
106.73 |
0.9614 |
0.0648 |
292 |
1 |
106.73 |
2010-03-22 |
| 40. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
106.67 |
1.0669 |
-0.0413 |
286 |
1 |
106.67 |
2010-03-27 |
| 41. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
106.50 |
1.0025 |
0.0214 |
256 |
1 |
106.50 |
2010-03-25 |
| 42. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
105.46 |
1.0270 |
-0.0131 |
255 |
1 |
105.46 |
2010-03-27 |
| 43. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
105.45 |
0.8722 |
0.1416 |
285 |
1 |
105.45 |
2010-03-27 |
| 44. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
105.29 |
0.9936 |
0.0187 |
311 |
1 |
105.29 |
2013-01-27 |
| 45. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
105.08 |
0.9754 |
0.0349 |
362 |
1 |
105.08 |
2013-01-27 |
| 46. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
104.69 |
1.0613 |
-0.0548 |
266 |
1 |
104.69 |
2013-01-26 |
| 47. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
104.26 |
0.9798 |
0.0226 |
199 |
1 |
104.26 |
2010-03-21 |
| 48. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
104.14 |
0.9697 |
0.0315 |
249 |
1 |
104.14 |
2010-03-21 |
| 49. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
103.30 |
1.0596 |
-0.0664 |
239 |
1 |
103.30 |
2010-03-25 |
| 50. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
103.17 |
1.0288 |
-0.0369 |
300 |
1 |
103.17 |
2013-01-27 |
| 51. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
103.09 |
1.0292 |
-0.0380 |
262 |
1 |
103.09 |
2010-03-21 |
| 52. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
102.75 |
0.8878 |
0.1001 |
346 |
1 |
102.75 |
2010-03-21 |
| 53. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
102.44 |
0.9684 |
0.0165 |
388 |
1 |
102.44 |
2013-01-27 |
| 54. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
101.80 |
0.9894 |
-0.0106 |
323 |
1 |
101.80 |
2009-06-17 |
| 55. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
101.71 |
0.9786 |
-0.0007 |
193 |
1 |
101.71 |
2009-06-11 |
| 56. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
101.54 |
0.9710 |
0.0053 |
173 |
1 |
101.54 |
2010-03-27 |
| 57. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
101.17 |
0.9758 |
-0.0031 |
314 |
1 |
101.17 |
2013-05-31 |
| 58. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
100.75 |
0.9672 |
0.0015 |
396 |
1 |
100.75 |
2013-01-27 |
| 59. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
100.70 |
1.0390 |
-0.0708 |
205 |
1 |
100.70 |
2009-09-16 |
| 60. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
100.66 |
0.9852 |
-0.0174 |
264 |
1 |
100.66 |
2009-06-17 |
| 61. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
100.42 |
0.9786 |
-0.0131 |
235 |
1 |
100.42 |
2010-03-27 |
| 62. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
100.31 |
0.9922 |
-0.0278 |
341 |
1 |
100.31 |
2013-01-27 |
| 63. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
99.27 |
0.9675 |
-0.0131 |
383 |
1 |
99.27 |
2009-04-26 |
| 64. |
Don't tell me what's in, don't tell me how to write, don't t... |
98.92 |
1.0695 |
-0.1184 |
183 |
1 |
98.92 |
2024-09-06 |
| 65. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
98.66 |
1.0063 |
-0.0577 |
371 |
1 |
98.66 |
2009-05-05 |
| 66. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
98.30 |
1.0521 |
-0.1070 |
171 |
1 |
98.30 |
2010-03-27 |
| 67. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
97.56 |
1.0125 |
-0.0745 |
224 |
1 |
97.56 |
2013-01-27 |
| 68. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
97.53 |
0.9899 |
-0.0522 |
163 |
1 |
97.53 |
2009-04-26 |
| 69. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
97.27 |
0.8961 |
0.0391 |
189 |
2 |
94.02 |
2010-03-22 |
| 70. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
96.82 |
0.9884 |
-0.0575 |
233 |
1 |
96.82 |
2010-03-22 |
| 71. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
96.55 |
0.9293 |
-0.0010 |
355 |
1 |
96.55 |
2009-05-05 |
| 72. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
96.32 |
1.0073 |
-0.0812 |
369 |
1 |
96.32 |
2010-03-30 |
| 73. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
95.99 |
0.9464 |
-0.0235 |
323 |
1 |
95.99 |
2013-01-27 |
| 74. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
95.45 |
0.9699 |
-0.0522 |
269 |
1 |
95.45 |
2009-06-17 |
| 75. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
95.18 |
1.0172 |
-0.1021 |
341 |
1 |
95.18 |
2013-01-27 |
| 76. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
94.73 |
1.0347 |
-0.1239 |
550 |
1 |
94.73 |
2010-03-21 |
| 77. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
94.60 |
0.9365 |
-0.0270 |
248 |
1 |
94.60 |
2009-04-26 |
| 78. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
94.51 |
0.9653 |
-0.0566 |
394 |
1 |
94.51 |
2013-01-27 |
| 79. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. The work was generall... |
94.50 |
0.9746 |
-0.0660 |
405 |
3 |
92.78 |
2010-03-27 |
| 80. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
94.24 |
0.9213 |
-0.0152 |
295 |
1 |
94.24 |
2013-05-31 |
| 81. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
94.11 |
0.9532 |
-0.0484 |
258 |
1 |
94.11 |
2009-06-17 |
| 82. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
93.24 |
0.7876 |
0.1089 |
316 |
1 |
93.24 |
2009-06-17 |
| 83. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
92.37 |
1.0498 |
-0.1617 |
180 |
1 |
92.37 |
2009-04-26 |
| 84. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
91.72 |
0.9087 |
-0.0269 |
393 |
1 |
91.72 |
2009-05-02 |
| 85. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
90.69 |
0.9148 |
-0.0429 |
317 |
2 |
89.93 |
2010-03-21 |
| 86. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
90.62 |
0.9226 |
-0.0513 |
348 |
1 |
90.62 |
2009-04-26 |
| 87. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
90.61 |
1.0328 |
-0.1616 |
356 |
1 |
90.61 |
2024-09-06 |
| 88. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
90.19 |
0.9376 |
-0.0705 |
367 |
1 |
90.19 |
2013-01-27 |
| 89. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
90.17 |
0.9509 |
-0.0840 |
225 |
1 |
90.17 |
2010-03-30 |
| 90. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
89.07 |
1.0320 |
-0.1756 |
293 |
1 |
89.07 |
2010-03-21 |
| 91. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
88.96 |
0.8981 |
-0.0428 |
393 |
1 |
88.96 |
2010-03-22 |
| 92. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
86.89 |
1.0368 |
-0.2014 |
276 |
1 |
86.89 |
2009-05-02 |
| 93. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
86.80 |
0.8956 |
-0.0611 |
322 |
1 |
86.80 |
2009-06-11 |
| 94. |
Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, foc... |
82.23 |
1.0673 |
-0.2767 |
230 |
1 |
82.23 |
2024-09-06 |
| 95. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
73.60 |
0.9364 |
-0.2288 |
351 |
1 |
73.60 |
2024-09-06 |