| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Tonight I'm making deals with the devil, and I know it's gon... |
96.84 |
1.0673 |
0.3103 |
118 |
1 |
96.84 |
2021-01-20 |
| 2. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
89.72 |
1.0943 |
0.1820 |
206 |
1 |
89.72 |
2017-03-10 |
| 3. |
Now that I've tried to talk to you and make you understand. ... |
89.61 |
1.0839 |
0.1909 |
177 |
1 |
89.61 |
2021-01-30 |
| 4. |
When I close my eyes, I am at the center of the sun. And I c... |
88.81 |
1.0543 |
0.2091 |
113 |
1 |
88.81 |
2021-01-20 |
| 5. |
Since man is a part of nature and has himself changed the en... |
86.91 |
1.0384 |
0.1980 |
339 |
1 |
86.91 |
2025-09-18 |
| 6. |
I'm going to marry you on a mountaintop, and as we reach the... |
85.42 |
1.0421 |
0.1731 |
238 |
1 |
85.42 |
2021-01-20 |
| 7. |
We passionately long that there may be another life in which... |
84.59 |
1.0815 |
0.1219 |
298 |
1 |
84.59 |
2017-05-19 |
| 8. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
84.33 |
1.0829 |
0.1168 |
288 |
1 |
84.33 |
2017-02-12 |
| 9. |
It's been a long day without you, my friend, and I'll tell y... |
84.20 |
1.0470 |
0.1508 |
140 |
2 |
77.87 |
2021-01-30 |
| 10. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
82.58 |
1.0941 |
0.0807 |
256 |
1 |
82.58 |
2017-02-12 |
| 11. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
80.77 |
1.0358 |
0.1132 |
349 |
2 |
73.91 |
2016-02-26 |
| 12. |
Only, we must allow time. But our demands as far as time is ... |
80.24 |
1.0706 |
0.0709 |
532 |
1 |
80.24 |
2017-02-12 |
| 13. |
Of so little weight are the greatest services to princes, wh... |
79.16 |
0.8596 |
0.2665 |
125 |
1 |
79.16 |
2016-11-13 |
| 14. |
Wrongfully imprisoned action heroes rarely have the time to ... |
78.73 |
0.9881 |
0.1319 |
316 |
1 |
78.73 |
2021-01-20 |
| 15. |
And in the night, when the dog barks at shadows, tell him no... |
78.65 |
1.0488 |
0.0701 |
245 |
1 |
78.65 |
2025-09-18 |
| 16. |
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien wrote his first story aged seven. ... |
78.56 |
0.9542 |
0.1634 |
834 |
1 |
78.56 |
2025-09-18 |
| 17. |
Maybe I'm not so different from everyone else after all. It'... |
78.41 |
1.0326 |
0.0828 |
249 |
1 |
78.41 |
2017-02-12 |
| 18. |
You know how far I'm prepared to go. I will be a boat and ro... |
78.26 |
1.0243 |
0.0890 |
237 |
1 |
78.26 |
2017-03-06 |
| 19. |
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has... |
77.59 |
1.0534 |
0.0504 |
177 |
1 |
77.59 |
2017-03-10 |
| 20. |
Translating from one language to another, unless it is from ... |
77.40 |
1.0298 |
0.0713 |
317 |
1 |
77.40 |
2017-03-06 |
| 21. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
76.89 |
0.9376 |
0.1562 |
360 |
1 |
76.89 |
2025-09-18 |
| 22. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
76.60 |
1.0462 |
0.0435 |
184 |
1 |
76.60 |
2015-07-27 |
| 23. |
The days go on and on... they don't end. All my life needed ... |
76.13 |
1.0501 |
0.0329 |
226 |
1 |
76.13 |
2017-02-12 |
| 24. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
76.04 |
1.0787 |
0.0030 |
237 |
1 |
76.04 |
2017-01-30 |
| 25. |
I have my books and my poetry to protect me; I am shielded i... |
75.80 |
0.9633 |
0.1150 |
231 |
1 |
75.80 |
2016-11-13 |
| 26. |
Ah how shameless - the way these mortals blame the gods. Fro... |
75.79 |
1.0254 |
0.0528 |
210 |
1 |
75.79 |
2017-03-10 |
| 27. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
75.64 |
1.0677 |
0.0083 |
284 |
1 |
75.64 |
2017-01-30 |
| 28. |
We live in an age when people do more writing than they have... |
75.55 |
1.0078 |
0.0670 |
280 |
1 |
75.55 |
2017-02-12 |
| 29. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
75.54 |
1.0368 |
0.0378 |
276 |
1 |
75.54 |
2015-07-17 |
| 30. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
75.49 |
1.0521 |
0.0218 |
171 |
1 |
75.49 |
2017-02-12 |
| 31. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
75.46 |
0.9943 |
0.0792 |
373 |
1 |
75.46 |
2017-03-10 |
| 32. |
I can't believe the things I see. The path that I have chose... |
75.44 |
1.1127 |
-0.0395 |
164 |
1 |
75.44 |
2017-01-24 |
| 33. |
On the day that you were born the angels got together and de... |
75.06 |
1.0582 |
0.0096 |
179 |
1 |
75.06 |
2021-01-30 |
| 34. |
But pure, unadulterated feelings are dangerous in their own ... |
74.98 |
1.0154 |
0.0513 |
420 |
1 |
74.98 |
2017-02-12 |
| 35. |
What you need to learn, children, is the difference between ... |
74.92 |
1.1081 |
-0.0423 |
167 |
1 |
74.92 |
2017-03-06 |
| 36. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
74.70 |
1.0399 |
0.0228 |
294 |
1 |
74.70 |
2017-05-11 |
| 37. |
Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn a... |
74.63 |
1.0373 |
0.0244 |
541 |
1 |
74.63 |
2015-07-27 |
| 38. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
74.20 |
1.0577 |
-0.0021 |
247 |
1 |
74.20 |
2017-03-06 |
| 39. |
The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to ev... |
73.48 |
0.9742 |
0.0711 |
406 |
1 |
73.48 |
2017-03-06 |
| 40. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
73.32 |
1.0567 |
-0.0137 |
303 |
1 |
73.32 |
2017-03-10 |
| 41. |
I still think about the letter you asked me to write. It nag... |
73.15 |
1.0835 |
-0.0429 |
356 |
1 |
73.15 |
2017-01-30 |
| 42. |
I think if your clients want to sit on my shoulders and call... |
73.12 |
1.0393 |
0.0009 |
473 |
1 |
73.12 |
2016-11-13 |
| 43. |
What I want you to be - I don't mean physically but morally,... |
72.84 |
1.0007 |
0.0355 |
389 |
1 |
72.84 |
2017-03-06 |
| 44. |
No, I don't think so; no. Mr. Kane was a man who got everyth... |
72.77 |
0.9299 |
0.1053 |
327 |
1 |
72.77 |
2017-03-10 |
| 45. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
72.73 |
1.0346 |
0.0000 |
244 |
1 |
72.73 |
2017-01-30 |
| 46. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
72.53 |
0.9893 |
0.0425 |
323 |
1 |
72.53 |
2018-10-28 |
| 47. |
When you have eaten enough to meet your needs, your digestiv... |
72.44 |
0.9785 |
0.0520 |
392 |
1 |
72.44 |
2018-06-05 |
| 48. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
72.42 |
1.0547 |
-0.0245 |
257 |
1 |
72.42 |
2017-05-19 |
| 49. |
It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life... |
72.40 |
1.0347 |
-0.0048 |
162 |
1 |
72.40 |
2017-03-10 |
| 50. |
Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It ... |
72.32 |
1.0183 |
0.0105 |
164 |
2 |
71.69 |
2017-01-30 |
| 51. |
All this time we wait on this shallow line for a martyr to s... |
72.25 |
1.0262 |
0.0016 |
296 |
1 |
72.25 |
2017-02-12 |
| 52. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
71.97 |
0.9651 |
0.0587 |
389 |
1 |
71.97 |
2017-01-30 |
| 53. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
71.92 |
1.0201 |
0.0030 |
303 |
1 |
71.92 |
2015-07-17 |
| 54. |
Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well th... |
71.66 |
0.9668 |
0.0526 |
237 |
1 |
71.66 |
2017-05-19 |
| 55. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
71.59 |
1.0232 |
-0.0048 |
350 |
1 |
71.59 |
2017-02-12 |
| 56. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
71.56 |
1.0090 |
0.0090 |
282 |
1 |
71.56 |
2017-04-02 |
| 57. |
Fourscore and seven minutes ago we, your forefathers, were b... |
71.47 |
0.9137 |
0.1030 |
306 |
1 |
71.47 |
2018-10-28 |
| 58. |
The Western States nervous under the beginning change. Texas... |
71.43 |
0.8939 |
0.1222 |
327 |
1 |
71.43 |
2017-02-12 |
| 59. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
71.40 |
1.0169 |
-0.0012 |
346 |
1 |
71.40 |
2017-02-12 |
| 60. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
71.34 |
1.0172 |
-0.0023 |
341 |
1 |
71.34 |
2017-03-10 |
| 61. |
I was standing all alone in the world outside. You were sear... |
71.31 |
1.0406 |
-0.0262 |
188 |
1 |
71.31 |
2017-02-13 |
| 62. |
In all the houses keys to memorizing objects and feelings ha... |
71.18 |
1.0166 |
-0.0040 |
277 |
1 |
71.18 |
2017-02-12 |
| 63. |
Take my hand for a minute. We're in it. Imagine all the pain... |
71.15 |
0.9814 |
0.0308 |
329 |
1 |
71.15 |
2017-05-19 |
| 64. |
The syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist... |
70.88 |
0.9419 |
0.0664 |
326 |
1 |
70.88 |
2017-01-24 |
| 65. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
70.57 |
0.9740 |
0.0299 |
209 |
1 |
70.57 |
2017-03-10 |
| 66. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
70.55 |
1.0177 |
-0.0141 |
392 |
1 |
70.55 |
2017-05-19 |
| 67. |
Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even P... |
70.46 |
0.9533 |
0.0490 |
465 |
1 |
70.46 |
2017-02-10 |
| 68. |
So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And mayb... |
70.45 |
1.0959 |
-0.0937 |
266 |
1 |
70.45 |
2017-04-14 |
| 69. |
Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-ass... |
70.31 |
0.9417 |
0.0585 |
164 |
2 |
69.76 |
2017-04-02 |
| 70. |
He never did... anything that was... illegal... Unless you c... |
70.31 |
0.9180 |
0.0822 |
111 |
1 |
70.31 |
2018-10-28 |
| 71. |
Droll thing life is - that mysterious arrangement of mercile... |
70.28 |
0.9742 |
0.0256 |
210 |
1 |
70.28 |
2017-03-10 |
| 72. |
Men always believe that. With a law degree you're taking on ... |
70.23 |
1.0535 |
-0.0544 |
132 |
1 |
70.23 |
2016-11-13 |
| 73. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
70.20 |
0.9731 |
0.0256 |
129 |
1 |
70.20 |
2017-01-30 |
| 74. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
70.04 |
1.0125 |
-0.0161 |
413 |
1 |
70.04 |
2017-02-12 |
| 75. |
At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for som... |
69.97 |
0.9818 |
0.0136 |
649 |
1 |
69.97 |
2017-03-06 |
| 76. |
I got the feeling Poseidon really didn't know what to think ... |
69.97 |
0.9961 |
-0.0007 |
280 |
1 |
69.97 |
2017-05-19 |
| 77. |
Who is evil? Who is righteous? These terms have changed thro... |
69.95 |
0.9660 |
0.0291 |
358 |
1 |
69.95 |
2018-06-05 |
| 78. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
69.87 |
0.9411 |
0.0529 |
318 |
1 |
69.87 |
2015-07-17 |
| 79. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
69.85 |
1.0719 |
-0.0782 |
360 |
1 |
69.85 |
2016-06-22 |
| 80. |
Morale was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian's fault. T... |
69.82 |
0.9340 |
0.0592 |
183 |
1 |
69.82 |
2017-02-12 |
| 81. |
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a... |
69.74 |
1.0282 |
-0.0361 |
459 |
1 |
69.74 |
2017-05-19 |
| 82. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
69.56 |
0.9682 |
0.0213 |
143 |
2 |
68.88 |
2017-02-12 |
| 83. |
We are being watched. The government has a secret system, a ... |
69.49 |
0.8895 |
0.0991 |
420 |
1 |
69.49 |
2017-04-14 |
| 84. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. The work was generall... |
69.21 |
0.9746 |
0.0100 |
405 |
1 |
69.21 |
2017-03-10 |
| 85. |
I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself q... |
69.21 |
0.9875 |
-0.0029 |
275 |
1 |
69.21 |
2017-02-12 |
| 86. |
The matter between the stars is collectively termed the inte... |
69.07 |
0.9377 |
0.0449 |
346 |
1 |
69.07 |
2017-02-12 |
| 87. |
Yes, it was her he was looking at, and there was meaning in ... |
69.04 |
1.0815 |
-0.0994 |
167 |
1 |
69.04 |
2017-03-06 |
| 88. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
68.98 |
0.9084 |
0.0729 |
300 |
1 |
68.98 |
2015-07-17 |
| 89. |
It was also a lot easier for online teachers to hold their s... |
68.69 |
0.9866 |
-0.0094 |
253 |
1 |
68.69 |
2017-02-12 |
| 90. |
She would follow, her dream of love, the dictates of her hea... |
68.62 |
1.0913 |
-0.1151 |
223 |
1 |
68.62 |
2017-02-12 |
| 91. |
I'll dive in the sky. Oh, the waters alive! I'll float down ... |
68.56 |
0.9449 |
0.0304 |
170 |
1 |
68.56 |
2017-02-12 |
| 92. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
68.55 |
0.9795 |
-0.0043 |
308 |
1 |
68.55 |
2017-05-19 |
| 93. |
V: I can assure you, I mean you no harm. Evey: Who are you? ... |
68.36 |
0.8661 |
0.1064 |
323 |
1 |
68.36 |
2017-02-12 |
| 94. |
Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust ... |
68.35 |
1.0051 |
-0.0328 |
218 |
1 |
68.35 |
2017-02-12 |
| 95. |
I was having this awful nightmare that I was 32. And then I ... |
68.31 |
0.9764 |
-0.0046 |
137 |
1 |
68.31 |
2017-03-06 |
| 96. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
67.92 |
1.0684 |
-0.1022 |
253 |
2 |
66.37 |
2017-03-10 |
| 97. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
67.92 |
0.8793 |
0.0869 |
157 |
1 |
67.92 |
2015-07-24 |
| 98. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
67.70 |
0.9125 |
0.0506 |
308 |
1 |
67.70 |
2015-07-17 |
| 99. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
67.59 |
0.9540 |
0.0075 |
285 |
1 |
67.59 |
2017-02-12 |
| 100. |
So I'd say Laura was the worst roommate. She had a nervous b... |
67.50 |
0.8804 |
0.0798 |
266 |
1 |
67.50 |
2018-10-18 |
| 101. |
I was pulled this way and that for longer than I can remembe... |
67.02 |
1.0609 |
-0.1075 |
345 |
1 |
67.02 |
2017-05-11 |
| 102. |
All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the... |
66.83 |
1.0358 |
-0.0851 |
323 |
1 |
66.83 |
2017-02-12 |
| 103. |
At 211 degrees, water is hot. At 212 degrees, it boils. And ... |
66.61 |
0.8974 |
0.0502 |
174 |
1 |
66.61 |
2017-02-13 |
| 104. |
Fool, prate not to me about covenants. There can be no coven... |
66.46 |
1.0050 |
-0.0596 |
308 |
1 |
66.46 |
2017-03-10 |
| 105. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
66.27 |
1.0375 |
-0.0948 |
200 |
1 |
66.27 |
2017-02-12 |
| 106. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
66.25 |
0.9697 |
-0.0272 |
249 |
1 |
66.25 |
2017-02-12 |
| 107. |
Every magic trick consists of three parts, or acts. The firs... |
66.06 |
1.0245 |
-0.0847 |
354 |
1 |
66.06 |
2016-11-13 |
| 108. |
You should have acted. They're already here. The Elder Scrol... |
65.87 |
0.9289 |
0.0082 |
316 |
1 |
65.87 |
2017-03-10 |
| 109. |
OK, let me get something straight: this is a journal, not a ... |
65.01 |
0.9951 |
-0.0703 |
299 |
1 |
65.01 |
2017-03-10 |
| 110. |
The wind was bitterly cold. The snow swirled, blurring his v... |
64.87 |
1.0005 |
-0.0777 |
298 |
1 |
64.87 |
2017-01-30 |
| 111. |
A life is made up of a great number of small incidents and a... |
64.81 |
0.9848 |
-0.0628 |
305 |
1 |
64.81 |
2017-03-10 |
| 112. |
I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anyt... |
64.78 |
0.9721 |
-0.0506 |
306 |
1 |
64.78 |
2017-02-12 |
| 113. |
In the past, all a King had to do was look respectable in un... |
64.59 |
0.9745 |
-0.0557 |
253 |
1 |
64.59 |
2017-02-12 |
| 114. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
64.50 |
0.9905 |
-0.0729 |
337 |
1 |
64.50 |
2017-03-10 |
| 115. |
A fellow will remember a lot of things you wouldn't think he... |
64.18 |
0.9651 |
-0.0521 |
453 |
1 |
64.18 |
2017-03-10 |
| 116. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
64.12 |
0.9635 |
-0.0513 |
389 |
1 |
64.12 |
2015-07-16 |
| 117. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
63.98 |
0.9532 |
-0.0430 |
258 |
1 |
63.98 |
2016-02-26 |
| 118. |
Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I hones... |
63.94 |
1.0227 |
-0.1131 |
272 |
1 |
63.94 |
2015-07-17 |
| 119. |
Titanium was discovered in 1790 but not purified until the e... |
63.78 |
0.8796 |
0.0277 |
309 |
2 |
62.56 |
2017-05-11 |
| 120. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
63.52 |
0.9994 |
-0.0958 |
269 |
1 |
63.52 |
2017-05-19 |
| 121. |
Dearest creature in creation studying English pronunciation,... |
62.27 |
0.8624 |
0.0234 |
478 |
1 |
62.27 |
2017-02-12 |
| 122. |
Son, a woman is a lot like a... a refrigerator! They're abou... |
61.86 |
0.8747 |
0.0053 |
256 |
1 |
61.86 |
2018-10-18 |
| 123. |
Without a queen the locust swarm turned the ground to black.... |
61.74 |
1.0165 |
-0.1382 |
265 |
1 |
61.74 |
2017-02-12 |
| 124. |
To be fair, English is full of booby traps for the unwary fo... |
61.13 |
0.9175 |
-0.0479 |
240 |
1 |
61.13 |
2017-05-19 |
| 125. |
Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very ... |
61.07 |
1.0323 |
-0.1635 |
224 |
1 |
61.07 |
2015-07-17 |
| 126. |
Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. Yo... |
60.92 |
1.0317 |
-0.1651 |
129 |
1 |
60.92 |
2017-05-19 |
| 127. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
60.16 |
0.9922 |
-0.1364 |
341 |
1 |
60.16 |
2017-03-10 |
| 128. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
59.99 |
1.0062 |
-0.1528 |
288 |
1 |
59.99 |
2017-01-24 |
| 129. |
Soon I'll be sixty years old, my daddy got sixty-one. Rememb... |
59.89 |
0.9803 |
-0.1283 |
216 |
1 |
59.89 |
2017-01-24 |
| 130. |
A vector is a quantity that has both magnitude and direction... |
59.69 |
0.9281 |
-0.0790 |
285 |
1 |
59.69 |
2017-04-11 |
| 131. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
59.51 |
0.9904 |
-0.1438 |
203 |
1 |
59.51 |
2016-02-26 |
| 132. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
59.39 |
1.0389 |
-0.1940 |
340 |
1 |
59.39 |
2017-03-10 |
| 133. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
57.92 |
0.9176 |
-0.0936 |
365 |
1 |
57.92 |
2017-03-06 |
| 134. |
You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I... |
56.70 |
0.9932 |
-0.1866 |
267 |
1 |
56.70 |
2017-03-10 |
| 135. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
56.63 |
0.9275 |
-0.1219 |
211 |
1 |
56.63 |
2016-02-26 |
| 136. |
It's a funny thing, but people mostly have it backward. They... |
56.56 |
1.0612 |
-0.2566 |
173 |
1 |
56.56 |
2017-02-12 |
| 137. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
55.43 |
0.9572 |
-0.1687 |
376 |
1 |
55.43 |
2017-03-10 |
| 138. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
54.08 |
0.8775 |
-0.1082 |
443 |
1 |
54.08 |
2015-07-17 |
| 139. |
Vinny: "It's a four ton truck, Tyrone, it's not as though it... |
52.95 |
0.7621 |
-0.0088 |
250 |
1 |
52.95 |
2016-02-26 |