| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
In any war, there are calms between storms. There will be da... |
79.50 |
1.1294 |
0.2897 |
192 |
1 |
79.50 |
2025-10-14 |
| 2. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
75.12 |
1.0943 |
0.2466 |
206 |
1 |
75.12 |
2025-10-14 |
| 3. |
I came to understand him to mean you could stop at, not all,... |
73.94 |
1.1532 |
0.1667 |
257 |
1 |
73.94 |
2025-10-14 |
| 4. |
One day Grandpa began to forget things. It was little things... |
73.92 |
1.0624 |
0.2571 |
381 |
1 |
73.92 |
2025-10-14 |
| 5. |
Well, we're doing mighty fine, I do suppose, in our streak o... |
72.65 |
1.0668 |
0.2300 |
398 |
1 |
72.65 |
2025-10-14 |
| 6. |
There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; th... |
72.17 |
1.0913 |
0.1970 |
274 |
1 |
72.17 |
2025-10-14 |
| 7. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
71.59 |
1.0270 |
0.2509 |
255 |
1 |
71.59 |
2025-10-24 |
| 8. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
71.58 |
1.0662 |
0.2115 |
407 |
1 |
71.58 |
2025-10-14 |
| 9. |
Every man had to die. He'd always found it odd that so many ... |
68.30 |
1.1415 |
0.0777 |
177 |
1 |
68.30 |
2025-10-14 |
| 10. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
68.16 |
1.0387 |
0.1780 |
239 |
1 |
68.16 |
2025-10-24 |
| 11. |
I don't need to try to control you. Look into my eyes and I'... |
68.15 |
1.0610 |
0.1555 |
163 |
1 |
68.15 |
2025-10-24 |
| 12. |
Sometimes you concentrate more on racing the cars around you... |
67.70 |
1.0968 |
0.1117 |
365 |
1 |
67.70 |
2025-10-14 |
| 13. |
She would follow, her dream of love, the dictates of her hea... |
67.26 |
1.0913 |
0.1093 |
223 |
1 |
67.26 |
2016-12-22 |
| 14. |
Years ago, I was an angry young man. And I'd pretend that I ... |
67.04 |
0.9852 |
0.2115 |
155 |
1 |
67.04 |
2020-02-11 |
| 15. |
Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly af... |
66.91 |
0.8371 |
0.3573 |
118 |
1 |
66.91 |
2016-11-16 |
| 16. |
That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something p... |
66.56 |
1.0665 |
0.1216 |
278 |
1 |
66.56 |
2025-10-14 |
| 17. |
There's a hundred-thousand streets in this city. You don't n... |
65.57 |
1.0301 |
0.1404 |
305 |
1 |
65.57 |
2025-10-24 |
| 18. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
65.36 |
1.0088 |
0.1579 |
396 |
1 |
65.36 |
2025-10-24 |
| 19. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
64.79 |
1.0379 |
0.1186 |
245 |
1 |
64.79 |
2025-10-24 |
| 20. |
We live in an age when people do more writing than they have... |
64.19 |
1.0298 |
0.1160 |
280 |
1 |
64.19 |
2016-11-16 |
| 21. |
Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought... |
63.61 |
1.1378 |
-0.0023 |
144 |
1 |
63.61 |
2016-12-22 |
| 22. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
63.00 |
1.0602 |
0.0644 |
389 |
1 |
63.00 |
2016-11-14 |
| 23. |
The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky are also on t... |
62.87 |
0.9454 |
0.1769 |
176 |
1 |
62.87 |
2020-02-11 |
| 24. |
I didn't know the girl, but I knew her family. All their liv... |
62.79 |
1.0124 |
0.1084 |
203 |
1 |
62.79 |
2020-02-11 |
| 25. |
We were good, we were gold, kinda dream that can't be sold. ... |
62.42 |
1.0035 |
0.1107 |
124 |
1 |
62.42 |
2025-10-14 |
| 26. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
62.05 |
1.0042 |
0.1034 |
352 |
1 |
62.05 |
2025-10-24 |
| 27. |
When I close my eyes, I am at the center of the sun. And I c... |
61.02 |
1.0543 |
0.0349 |
113 |
1 |
61.02 |
2016-11-06 |
| 28. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
60.67 |
1.0399 |
0.0431 |
294 |
1 |
60.67 |
2017-01-31 |
| 29. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
60.51 |
1.0711 |
0.0090 |
213 |
1 |
60.51 |
2017-01-31 |
| 30. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
60.18 |
1.0151 |
0.0592 |
152 |
1 |
60.18 |
2016-12-22 |
| 31. |
If only all the contradictory voices shouting inside my head... |
60.10 |
1.0513 |
0.0215 |
176 |
1 |
60.10 |
2016-11-14 |
| 32. |
This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to... |
60.05 |
1.0254 |
0.0465 |
163 |
1 |
60.05 |
2016-12-22 |
| 33. |
Punishment and negative reinforcement are opposites. Punishm... |
59.71 |
1.0338 |
0.0321 |
338 |
2 |
58.14 |
2016-11-16 |
| 34. |
It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a h... |
59.13 |
1.0949 |
-0.0394 |
302 |
1 |
59.13 |
2016-11-14 |
| 35. |
I had felt it growing, this feeling that had been hiding ben... |
58.85 |
1.0385 |
0.0120 |
260 |
1 |
58.85 |
2016-12-22 |
| 36. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
58.75 |
0.9966 |
0.0521 |
259 |
1 |
58.75 |
2016-11-16 |
| 37. |
It is not difficult to wield a sword in one hand; the way to... |
58.70 |
1.0499 |
-0.0021 |
194 |
1 |
58.70 |
2016-11-05 |
| 38. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
58.40 |
0.9504 |
0.0921 |
263 |
2 |
57.70 |
2016-11-04 |
| 39. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
58.35 |
1.0477 |
-0.0061 |
360 |
1 |
58.35 |
2016-11-05 |
| 40. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
57.99 |
1.1068 |
-0.0716 |
393 |
1 |
57.99 |
2016-12-22 |
| 41. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
57.94 |
0.9663 |
0.0680 |
330 |
1 |
57.94 |
2016-12-22 |
| 42. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
57.91 |
1.0063 |
0.0274 |
371 |
1 |
57.91 |
2017-02-01 |
| 43. |
Very well, gentlemen. This, and maybe other similar things, ... |
57.37 |
1.0280 |
-0.0039 |
464 |
1 |
57.37 |
2016-11-06 |
| 44. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
57.17 |
1.0799 |
-0.0594 |
243 |
1 |
57.17 |
2016-11-14 |
| 45. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
57.04 |
1.0719 |
-0.0537 |
360 |
1 |
57.04 |
2016-12-22 |
| 46. |
Love is a command, not just a feeling. Somehow, in the roman... |
56.80 |
1.0516 |
-0.0377 |
270 |
1 |
56.80 |
2016-11-05 |
| 47. |
I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live i... |
56.76 |
1.1180 |
-0.1048 |
144 |
1 |
56.76 |
2016-11-05 |
| 48. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
56.08 |
0.9786 |
0.0225 |
193 |
1 |
56.08 |
2017-02-07 |
| 49. |
A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple a... |
55.97 |
1.0619 |
-0.0628 |
167 |
1 |
55.97 |
2016-11-05 |
| 50. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
55.94 |
0.9572 |
0.0414 |
201 |
1 |
55.94 |
2016-11-06 |
| 51. |
I can and do say that nothing human beings have ever before ... |
55.87 |
1.0296 |
-0.0323 |
306 |
1 |
55.87 |
2016-11-05 |
| 52. |
I'll tell you a riddle. You're waiting for a train, a train ... |
55.63 |
1.0788 |
-0.0858 |
251 |
1 |
55.63 |
2016-11-06 |
| 53. |
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most ... |
55.55 |
1.0439 |
-0.0523 |
369 |
1 |
55.55 |
2016-11-05 |
| 54. |
For this is what it means to be a king: to be first in every... |
55.53 |
1.0271 |
-0.0359 |
276 |
1 |
55.53 |
2016-12-22 |
| 55. |
I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won'... |
55.44 |
1.1126 |
-0.1230 |
295 |
1 |
55.44 |
2016-11-14 |
| 56. |
Well, you've cracked the sky, scrapers fill the air, but wil... |
55.02 |
1.0235 |
-0.0414 |
232 |
1 |
55.02 |
2016-11-16 |
| 57. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
55.01 |
0.9635 |
0.0185 |
389 |
1 |
55.01 |
2017-01-04 |
| 58. |
And for the first time there's no pain in my life. It's been... |
54.97 |
1.0752 |
-0.0940 |
235 |
1 |
54.97 |
2020-02-11 |
| 59. |
Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very ... |
54.94 |
1.0323 |
-0.0516 |
224 |
1 |
54.94 |
2016-11-16 |
| 60. |
Difference in opinions has cost many millions of lives: for ... |
54.80 |
0.8766 |
0.1016 |
167 |
1 |
54.80 |
2016-12-22 |
| 61. |
You're right, I did lose a million dollars last year. I expe... |
54.61 |
0.8581 |
0.1167 |
145 |
1 |
54.61 |
2016-11-14 |
| 62. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
54.55 |
0.9790 |
-0.0052 |
311 |
1 |
54.55 |
2016-11-05 |
| 63. |
How do I live without the ones I love? Time still turns the ... |
54.50 |
1.0381 |
-0.0652 |
170 |
1 |
54.50 |
2016-11-06 |
| 64. |
The feeling of having no power over people and events is gen... |
54.45 |
0.9850 |
-0.0130 |
384 |
1 |
54.45 |
2017-01-31 |
| 65. |
I was standing all alone in the world outside. You were sear... |
54.23 |
1.0406 |
-0.0726 |
188 |
1 |
54.23 |
2016-11-06 |
| 66. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
54.18 |
0.9279 |
0.0392 |
317 |
1 |
54.18 |
2016-11-14 |
| 67. |
And, anyway, it's not about making money, it's about taking ... |
53.92 |
1.0091 |
-0.0466 |
172 |
1 |
53.92 |
2016-11-05 |
| 68. |
People only understand things in terms of their experience, ... |
53.82 |
0.9139 |
0.0468 |
114 |
1 |
53.82 |
2016-11-04 |
| 69. |
In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice ... |
53.68 |
1.0375 |
-0.0793 |
224 |
1 |
53.68 |
2016-11-05 |
| 70. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
53.53 |
0.9772 |
-0.0217 |
217 |
1 |
53.53 |
2016-11-14 |
| 71. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
53.52 |
0.9646 |
-0.0092 |
264 |
2 |
50.86 |
2016-11-05 |
| 72. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
53.03 |
1.0486 |
-0.1020 |
289 |
1 |
53.03 |
2016-11-06 |
| 73. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
52.94 |
0.8884 |
0.0566 |
135 |
1 |
52.94 |
2017-01-31 |
| 74. |
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give oth... |
52.90 |
1.0252 |
-0.0809 |
180 |
1 |
52.90 |
2016-11-04 |
| 75. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
52.88 |
1.0025 |
-0.0586 |
256 |
1 |
52.88 |
2016-11-04 |
| 76. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
52.79 |
1.0533 |
-0.1110 |
257 |
1 |
52.79 |
2016-11-14 |
| 77. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
52.71 |
0.9546 |
-0.0137 |
198 |
1 |
52.71 |
2016-12-22 |
| 78. |
And high above, depicted in a tower, sat Conquest, robed in ... |
52.58 |
0.9399 |
-0.0013 |
163 |
1 |
52.58 |
2016-11-16 |
| 79. |
Under the lights when everything goes. Nowhere to hide when ... |
52.55 |
1.0686 |
-0.1306 |
119 |
1 |
52.55 |
2017-02-07 |
| 80. |
I'll be the number two guy here in about six weeks. How? Nam... |
52.41 |
0.9596 |
-0.0240 |
205 |
1 |
52.41 |
2017-02-03 |
| 81. |
I was going to the worst place in the world and I didn't eve... |
52.26 |
0.9532 |
-0.0203 |
455 |
1 |
52.26 |
2017-01-04 |
| 82. |
If you are one of earth's inhabitants, how blest your father... |
51.81 |
0.9964 |
-0.0716 |
390 |
1 |
51.81 |
2016-12-22 |
| 83. |
A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppress... |
51.79 |
1.0617 |
-0.1372 |
247 |
1 |
51.79 |
2016-11-06 |
| 84. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
51.75 |
1.0577 |
-0.1339 |
247 |
1 |
51.75 |
2016-11-06 |
| 85. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
51.53 |
0.9372 |
-0.0174 |
320 |
2 |
49.13 |
2016-11-16 |
| 86. |
Hey you... did you ever realize what you'd become, and did y... |
51.53 |
1.0446 |
-0.1248 |
233 |
1 |
51.53 |
2016-11-05 |
| 87. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
51.38 |
0.9303 |
-0.0131 |
176 |
1 |
51.38 |
2016-12-22 |
| 88. |
Tim and the Princess lounge in the castle garden, laughing t... |
51.31 |
1.0152 |
-0.0993 |
192 |
1 |
51.31 |
2016-11-05 |
| 89. |
As a manager you will also be able to control gravity. Sir I... |
51.30 |
0.9706 |
-0.0549 |
409 |
1 |
51.30 |
2016-11-04 |
| 90. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
51.21 |
1.0150 |
-0.1009 |
325 |
1 |
51.21 |
2017-01-31 |
| 91. |
You there, my friend. Come, let me hold you. Now, with a sig... |
50.82 |
0.9518 |
-0.0446 |
314 |
1 |
50.82 |
2016-12-22 |
| 92. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
50.53 |
0.9045 |
-0.0025 |
235 |
1 |
50.53 |
2017-01-31 |
| 93. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
50.41 |
1.0343 |
-0.1345 |
242 |
1 |
50.41 |
2016-11-05 |
| 94. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
49.64 |
0.9426 |
-0.0565 |
317 |
1 |
49.64 |
2016-11-06 |
| 95. |
An idea is like a virus, resilient, highly contagious. The s... |
49.56 |
0.8278 |
0.0569 |
131 |
1 |
49.56 |
2016-11-14 |
| 96. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
49.55 |
0.9202 |
-0.0357 |
254 |
1 |
49.55 |
2016-11-06 |
| 97. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
49.37 |
0.9023 |
-0.0210 |
231 |
1 |
49.37 |
2017-01-04 |
| 98. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
48.43 |
0.8629 |
0.0016 |
299 |
1 |
48.43 |
2016-11-06 |
| 99. |
Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away... |
48.15 |
1.0082 |
-0.1487 |
180 |
1 |
48.15 |
2016-12-22 |
| 100. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
48.06 |
1.0905 |
-0.2326 |
210 |
1 |
48.06 |
2016-11-05 |
| 101. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
47.94 |
0.8353 |
0.0205 |
283 |
1 |
47.94 |
2016-11-04 |
| 102. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
47.80 |
1.0429 |
-0.1896 |
259 |
1 |
47.80 |
2016-11-05 |
| 103. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
47.09 |
1.0763 |
-0.2357 |
367 |
1 |
47.09 |
2016-11-05 |
| 104. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
46.64 |
0.9289 |
-0.0963 |
204 |
1 |
46.64 |
2016-11-06 |
| 105. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
46.43 |
0.9665 |
-0.1377 |
326 |
1 |
46.43 |
2016-11-05 |
| 106. |
There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased qu... |
46.05 |
0.9216 |
-0.0996 |
211 |
1 |
46.05 |
2016-11-06 |
| 107. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
45.72 |
0.9905 |
-0.1744 |
337 |
1 |
45.72 |
2016-12-22 |
| 108. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
45.32 |
0.9734 |
-0.1644 |
289 |
1 |
45.32 |
2016-11-06 |
| 109. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
44.53 |
1.0038 |
-0.2089 |
237 |
1 |
44.53 |
2016-12-22 |
| 110. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
43.98 |
0.9371 |
-0.1520 |
318 |
1 |
43.98 |
2016-12-22 |
| 111. |
Then listen up! When I joined the corps, we didn't have any ... |
43.09 |
0.9198 |
-0.1506 |
213 |
1 |
43.09 |
2016-11-04 |
| 112. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
41.71 |
0.8382 |
-0.0937 |
268 |
1 |
41.71 |
2016-11-04 |