| 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... |
152.86 |
1.1114 |
0.1753 |
247 |
1 |
152.86 |
2010-07-03 |
| 2. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
150.88 |
1.0941 |
0.2096 |
256 |
3 |
137.39 |
2012-04-21 |
| 3. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
147.09 |
1.0555 |
0.1862 |
363 |
1 |
147.09 |
2010-07-03 |
| 4. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
143.13 |
1.1215 |
0.1088 |
200 |
1 |
143.13 |
2012-12-11 |
| 5. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
141.46 |
1.0025 |
0.1903 |
336 |
1 |
141.46 |
2010-06-15 |
| 6. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
140.77 |
1.0630 |
0.1561 |
397 |
3 |
128.62 |
2012-12-11 |
| 7. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
139.43 |
1.0711 |
0.0985 |
213 |
1 |
139.43 |
2010-06-15 |
| 8. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
138.53 |
1.0763 |
0.1323 |
367 |
1 |
138.53 |
2010-06-15 |
| 9. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
136.82 |
0.9910 |
0.1635 |
295 |
2 |
124.20 |
2010-07-03 |
| 10. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
136.65 |
1.0389 |
0.1140 |
318 |
2 |
127.32 |
2012-01-13 |
| 11. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
136.19 |
1.0740 |
0.1116 |
264 |
1 |
136.19 |
2012-01-13 |
| 12. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
135.68 |
0.9553 |
0.1945 |
430 |
1 |
135.68 |
2012-12-11 |
| 13. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
135.59 |
1.0396 |
0.0956 |
149 |
1 |
135.59 |
2010-06-15 |
| 14. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
134.68 |
1.0201 |
0.1183 |
375 |
2 |
125.96 |
2012-12-11 |
| 15. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
134.51 |
0.9769 |
0.1540 |
263 |
1 |
134.51 |
2012-12-11 |
| 16. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
133.06 |
0.9776 |
0.1431 |
308 |
1 |
133.06 |
2009-03-01 |
| 17. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
132.88 |
1.0403 |
0.1187 |
275 |
1 |
132.88 |
2010-08-09 |
| 18. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
130.54 |
1.0515 |
0.0458 |
250 |
1 |
130.54 |
2010-08-09 |
| 19. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
130.53 |
1.0506 |
0.0773 |
277 |
2 |
124.81 |
2012-12-11 |
| 20. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
129.56 |
1.0337 |
0.0563 |
214 |
2 |
115.30 |
2010-11-25 |
| 21. |
He rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' ... |
128.38 |
1.0502 |
0.0564 |
535 |
1 |
128.38 |
2011-06-10 |
| 22. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
128.25 |
1.0334 |
0.0399 |
131 |
1 |
128.25 |
2012-12-11 |
| 23. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
127.10 |
0.9376 |
0.1676 |
360 |
2 |
123.87 |
2012-01-13 |
| 24. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
126.76 |
0.9863 |
0.0849 |
339 |
3 |
111.41 |
2010-11-26 |
| 25. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
126.75 |
1.0417 |
0.0226 |
253 |
1 |
126.75 |
2012-12-11 |
| 26. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
126.53 |
0.9684 |
0.0993 |
388 |
1 |
126.53 |
2009-03-01 |
| 27. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
126.36 |
1.0031 |
0.0939 |
304 |
1 |
126.36 |
2012-12-11 |
| 28. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
126.11 |
1.0774 |
0.0132 |
304 |
1 |
126.11 |
2010-07-03 |
| 29. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
125.89 |
0.9871 |
0.0947 |
227 |
2 |
118.85 |
2010-08-09 |
| 30. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
125.51 |
0.9681 |
0.0961 |
378 |
1 |
125.51 |
2012-12-11 |
| 31. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
125.29 |
1.0077 |
0.0880 |
250 |
2 |
121.45 |
2012-12-11 |
| 32. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
125.18 |
0.9330 |
0.1269 |
360 |
2 |
108.38 |
2010-08-09 |
| 33. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
125.06 |
0.9785 |
0.0771 |
335 |
1 |
125.06 |
2012-12-11 |
| 34. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
124.98 |
1.0125 |
0.0370 |
224 |
1 |
124.98 |
2009-02-22 |
| 35. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
124.66 |
1.0013 |
0.0470 |
273 |
2 |
117.99 |
2009-03-01 |
| 36. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
124.63 |
1.0214 |
0.0219 |
166 |
2 |
124.39 |
2009-02-24 |
| 37. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
123.65 |
1.1018 |
-0.0676 |
220 |
1 |
123.65 |
2010-06-15 |
| 38. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
123.47 |
1.0719 |
-0.0055 |
360 |
1 |
123.47 |
2010-11-26 |
| 39. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
122.66 |
0.9676 |
0.0723 |
442 |
2 |
111.87 |
2010-11-25 |
| 40. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
122.55 |
1.0368 |
-0.0050 |
276 |
2 |
112.72 |
2012-01-13 |
| 41. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
122.21 |
1.0595 |
-0.0292 |
379 |
1 |
122.21 |
2012-01-13 |
| 42. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
122.08 |
1.0109 |
0.0490 |
400 |
1 |
122.08 |
2012-01-13 |
| 43. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
122.04 |
0.9884 |
0.0375 |
233 |
1 |
122.04 |
2010-03-07 |
| 44. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
121.66 |
0.9844 |
0.0436 |
293 |
2 |
118.04 |
2011-06-10 |
| 45. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
121.65 |
0.9831 |
0.0482 |
469 |
1 |
121.65 |
2012-12-11 |
| 46. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
121.59 |
1.0090 |
0.0576 |
282 |
3 |
115.46 |
2012-01-13 |
| 47. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
121.05 |
0.9772 |
0.0376 |
217 |
1 |
121.05 |
2010-06-15 |
| 48. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
120.97 |
1.0109 |
0.0076 |
276 |
1 |
120.97 |
2011-08-29 |
| 49. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
120.79 |
0.9672 |
0.0552 |
396 |
2 |
117.05 |
2012-12-11 |
| 50. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
120.78 |
1.0177 |
0.0363 |
392 |
1 |
120.78 |
2012-12-11 |
| 51. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
120.68 |
1.0131 |
-0.0018 |
225 |
1 |
120.68 |
2010-03-07 |
| 52. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
120.13 |
0.9279 |
0.0888 |
317 |
1 |
120.13 |
2010-06-15 |
| 53. |
Danger is a topic you're often asked about as a sprinter. Th... |
119.54 |
0.9801 |
0.0677 |
428 |
1 |
119.54 |
2012-01-13 |
| 54. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
119.39 |
1.0565 |
-0.0551 |
247 |
1 |
119.39 |
2010-08-09 |
| 55. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
119.08 |
0.9668 |
0.0773 |
383 |
1 |
119.08 |
2010-07-03 |
| 56. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
118.84 |
0.9278 |
0.0743 |
295 |
2 |
113.79 |
2012-12-11 |
| 57. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
118.43 |
0.9976 |
0.0183 |
174 |
1 |
118.43 |
2012-12-11 |
| 58. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
118.32 |
0.9964 |
-0.0015 |
203 |
1 |
118.32 |
2010-06-15 |
| 59. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
117.68 |
0.9946 |
-0.0053 |
246 |
1 |
117.68 |
2009-02-22 |
| 60. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
117.63 |
1.0498 |
-0.0655 |
180 |
1 |
117.63 |
2012-12-11 |
| 61. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
117.12 |
1.0534 |
-0.0663 |
357 |
1 |
117.12 |
2009-02-22 |
| 62. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
116.84 |
1.0183 |
-0.0413 |
191 |
2 |
94.76 |
2011-06-10 |
| 63. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
116.56 |
0.9795 |
0.0004 |
308 |
1 |
116.56 |
2009-02-22 |
| 64. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
116.47 |
0.9540 |
0.0234 |
285 |
1 |
116.47 |
2010-07-03 |
| 65. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
116.09 |
0.9966 |
-0.0210 |
259 |
1 |
116.09 |
2010-06-15 |
| 66. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
115.31 |
0.9814 |
0.0274 |
364 |
1 |
115.31 |
2012-12-11 |
| 67. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
115.25 |
1.0387 |
-0.0374 |
239 |
1 |
115.25 |
2012-12-11 |
| 68. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
115.01 |
1.0531 |
-0.0482 |
272 |
1 |
115.01 |
2010-07-03 |
| 69. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
114.88 |
0.9514 |
0.0146 |
237 |
3 |
113.91 |
2009-02-22 |
| 70. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
113.98 |
0.9622 |
0.0019 |
392 |
1 |
113.98 |
2009-02-24 |
| 71. |
When Betty and Billy fell asleep, he walked down to the kitc... |
113.16 |
0.9693 |
0.0028 |
360 |
1 |
113.16 |
2010-11-25 |
| 72. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
112.34 |
0.9734 |
-0.0297 |
289 |
2 |
111.30 |
2010-11-25 |
| 73. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
111.42 |
0.9566 |
0.0018 |
576 |
1 |
111.42 |
2010-07-03 |
| 74. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
110.99 |
1.0167 |
-0.0775 |
378 |
1 |
110.99 |
2010-08-09 |
| 75. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
110.96 |
0.9632 |
-0.0245 |
392 |
1 |
110.96 |
2010-07-03 |
| 76. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
110.44 |
0.9426 |
-0.0114 |
317 |
1 |
110.44 |
2009-02-24 |
| 77. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
109.90 |
0.9811 |
-0.0550 |
272 |
2 |
109.02 |
2010-11-25 |
| 78. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
109.76 |
0.9665 |
0.0050 |
326 |
1 |
109.76 |
2010-06-15 |
| 79. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
109.66 |
0.9309 |
-0.0115 |
284 |
1 |
109.66 |
2009-02-22 |
| 80. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
109.49 |
0.9168 |
0.0044 |
240 |
1 |
109.49 |
2011-08-29 |
| 81. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
109.35 |
1.0696 |
-0.1545 |
226 |
1 |
109.35 |
2010-11-25 |
| 82. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
109.21 |
0.9866 |
-0.0727 |
218 |
1 |
109.21 |
2009-02-22 |
| 83. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
108.85 |
1.0516 |
-0.1376 |
281 |
1 |
108.85 |
2010-07-03 |
| 84. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
108.60 |
0.9023 |
0.0528 |
231 |
1 |
108.60 |
2010-11-25 |
| 85. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
108.32 |
0.9164 |
-0.0020 |
305 |
1 |
108.32 |
2009-03-01 |
| 86. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
107.95 |
1.0063 |
-0.0990 |
371 |
1 |
107.95 |
2010-08-09 |
| 87. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
107.83 |
0.9468 |
-0.0417 |
276 |
2 |
100.81 |
2010-08-09 |
| 88. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
107.17 |
1.0788 |
-0.1843 |
171 |
1 |
107.17 |
2009-02-22 |
| 89. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
106.86 |
0.9649 |
-0.0685 |
193 |
1 |
106.86 |
2010-11-26 |
| 90. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
106.64 |
0.9234 |
-0.0225 |
346 |
2 |
100.83 |
2010-06-15 |
| 91. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
104.32 |
0.8852 |
-0.0073 |
201 |
1 |
104.32 |
2012-12-11 |
| 92. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
104.21 |
0.9912 |
-0.0896 |
237 |
1 |
104.21 |
2010-07-03 |
| 93. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
103.81 |
0.9899 |
-0.1231 |
163 |
1 |
103.81 |
2010-06-15 |
| 94. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
103.61 |
1.0297 |
-0.1612 |
249 |
1 |
103.61 |
2009-02-22 |
| 95. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
103.17 |
0.9097 |
-0.0023 |
464 |
1 |
103.17 |
2009-02-22 |
| 96. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
103.03 |
0.9636 |
-0.0991 |
254 |
1 |
103.03 |
2010-03-07 |
| 97. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
102.84 |
1.0596 |
-0.1986 |
239 |
1 |
102.84 |
2009-02-22 |
| 98. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
102.80 |
0.8961 |
-0.0366 |
189 |
1 |
102.80 |
2009-02-22 |
| 99. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
102.05 |
0.8996 |
-0.0487 |
192 |
1 |
102.05 |
2009-02-22 |
| 100. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
100.78 |
0.9691 |
-0.1240 |
223 |
1 |
100.78 |
2011-08-29 |
| 101. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
100.66 |
0.8916 |
-0.0468 |
216 |
1 |
100.66 |
2010-11-25 |
| 102. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
100.00 |
0.9064 |
-0.0585 |
399 |
1 |
100.00 |
2009-03-01 |
| 103. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
99.89 |
0.9212 |
-0.0801 |
323 |
1 |
99.89 |
2009-02-22 |
| 104. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
99.31 |
1.0679 |
-0.2144 |
177 |
1 |
99.31 |
2010-11-25 |
| 105. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
98.64 |
0.9088 |
-0.0762 |
348 |
1 |
98.64 |
2011-06-10 |
| 106. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
98.63 |
0.9991 |
-0.1711 |
225 |
1 |
98.63 |
2009-02-22 |
| 107. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
98.47 |
0.9286 |
-0.1038 |
194 |
1 |
98.47 |
2009-02-24 |
| 108. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
98.18 |
1.0172 |
-0.1588 |
341 |
1 |
98.18 |
2010-08-09 |
| 109. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
97.36 |
0.9583 |
-0.0980 |
341 |
1 |
97.36 |
2012-12-11 |
| 110. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
95.90 |
0.9857 |
-0.1826 |
293 |
1 |
95.90 |
2009-02-24 |
| 111. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
95.10 |
1.0797 |
-0.2880 |
210 |
1 |
95.10 |
2009-02-24 |
| 112. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
93.87 |
0.9084 |
-0.1176 |
404 |
1 |
93.87 |
2009-02-22 |
| 113. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
93.47 |
0.9792 |
-0.1574 |
265 |
1 |
93.47 |
2011-08-29 |
| 114. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
93.14 |
0.9045 |
-0.1238 |
235 |
1 |
93.14 |
2009-02-22 |
| 115. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
86.96 |
0.9893 |
-0.2612 |
323 |
1 |
86.96 |
2010-07-03 |