| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
104.73 |
1.1215 |
0.1448 |
200 |
3 |
100.10 |
2013-10-07 |
| 2. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
102.81 |
0.9964 |
0.2197 |
203 |
2 |
96.53 |
2013-10-08 |
| 3. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
102.53 |
1.0429 |
0.1690 |
259 |
1 |
102.53 |
2013-10-08 |
| 4. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
99.98 |
1.1081 |
0.1103 |
206 |
2 |
98.09 |
2013-04-01 |
| 5. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
98.69 |
1.0679 |
0.1242 |
177 |
1 |
98.69 |
2013-04-01 |
| 6. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
98.52 |
1.0125 |
0.1505 |
224 |
1 |
98.52 |
2013-10-08 |
| 7. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
98.48 |
1.0941 |
0.1036 |
256 |
2 |
92.18 |
2013-04-01 |
| 8. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
97.78 |
1.0062 |
0.1508 |
288 |
1 |
97.78 |
2013-09-30 |
| 9. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
96.70 |
1.0943 |
0.0822 |
206 |
2 |
91.45 |
2013-10-08 |
| 10. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
96.66 |
1.0711 |
0.0679 |
213 |
1 |
96.66 |
2013-04-01 |
| 11. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
96.53 |
1.0619 |
0.0805 |
354 |
2 |
92.91 |
2013-10-08 |
| 12. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
96.44 |
1.0441 |
0.0966 |
252 |
1 |
96.44 |
2013-10-08 |
| 13. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
96.40 |
1.0621 |
0.1004 |
263 |
1 |
96.40 |
2013-03-31 |
| 14. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
95.63 |
1.0667 |
0.0985 |
406 |
2 |
90.62 |
2013-10-09 |
| 15. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
95.10 |
0.9795 |
0.1450 |
308 |
2 |
87.75 |
2013-10-08 |
| 16. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
94.77 |
1.0214 |
0.1405 |
281 |
2 |
91.75 |
2013-10-08 |
| 17. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
94.31 |
1.0068 |
0.1101 |
358 |
1 |
94.31 |
2013-10-09 |
| 18. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
94.21 |
1.0444 |
0.0656 |
197 |
1 |
94.21 |
2013-09-30 |
| 19. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
94.01 |
0.9687 |
0.1453 |
371 |
2 |
86.62 |
2013-09-30 |
| 20. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
93.74 |
1.0060 |
0.0995 |
171 |
1 |
93.74 |
2013-10-08 |
| 21. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
93.63 |
1.0201 |
0.0891 |
375 |
1 |
93.63 |
2013-04-01 |
| 22. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
93.16 |
1.0829 |
0.0189 |
288 |
1 |
93.16 |
2013-09-30 |
| 23. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
92.83 |
1.0565 |
0.0390 |
247 |
1 |
92.83 |
2013-03-30 |
| 24. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
91.83 |
1.0183 |
0.0642 |
191 |
1 |
91.83 |
2013-10-08 |
| 25. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
91.66 |
0.9514 |
0.1321 |
237 |
1 |
91.66 |
2013-10-03 |
| 26. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
91.48 |
1.0013 |
0.0797 |
273 |
1 |
91.48 |
2014-08-21 |
| 27. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
90.90 |
1.0004 |
0.0714 |
212 |
1 |
90.90 |
2013-09-30 |
| 28. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
90.89 |
0.9965 |
0.0777 |
310 |
2 |
84.01 |
2013-10-08 |
| 29. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
90.81 |
0.9309 |
0.1410 |
284 |
1 |
90.81 |
2014-04-27 |
| 30. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
90.21 |
1.1018 |
-0.0393 |
220 |
2 |
89.50 |
2013-10-08 |
| 31. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
89.97 |
1.0669 |
0.0297 |
213 |
1 |
89.97 |
2013-10-09 |
| 32. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
89.87 |
1.0567 |
0.0063 |
303 |
1 |
89.87 |
2013-09-30 |
| 33. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
89.75 |
0.9907 |
0.0687 |
211 |
2 |
87.31 |
2013-10-07 |
| 34. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
89.63 |
1.0595 |
0.0006 |
379 |
2 |
85.43 |
2013-09-30 |
| 35. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
89.50 |
0.9966 |
0.0610 |
259 |
1 |
89.50 |
2013-09-30 |
| 36. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
89.18 |
1.0389 |
0.0161 |
340 |
1 |
89.18 |
2013-09-30 |
| 37. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
89.07 |
1.0167 |
0.0390 |
378 |
1 |
89.07 |
2013-10-08 |
| 38. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
88.49 |
1.0445 |
0.0017 |
373 |
1 |
88.49 |
2013-10-08 |
| 39. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
88.22 |
1.0340 |
0.0107 |
406 |
1 |
88.22 |
2013-09-30 |
| 40. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
88.16 |
1.0399 |
0.0030 |
294 |
1 |
88.16 |
2013-09-30 |
| 41. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
87.88 |
1.0261 |
0.0477 |
410 |
1 |
87.88 |
2013-10-03 |
| 42. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
87.71 |
1.0131 |
0.0208 |
225 |
1 |
87.71 |
2013-10-08 |
| 43. |
There are perhaps twenty regular posters on the forum, and s... |
87.23 |
1.0709 |
-0.0069 |
392 |
1 |
87.23 |
2013-03-31 |
| 44. |
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly... |
87.05 |
1.0314 |
-0.0073 |
172 |
1 |
87.05 |
2013-03-29 |
| 45. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
87.05 |
1.0125 |
0.0496 |
413 |
1 |
87.05 |
2013-03-31 |
| 46. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
86.75 |
0.9897 |
0.0343 |
274 |
1 |
86.75 |
2013-04-01 |
| 47. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
86.71 |
0.8553 |
0.1668 |
174 |
1 |
86.71 |
2014-04-27 |
| 48. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
86.49 |
0.9570 |
0.0653 |
287 |
1 |
86.49 |
2013-03-30 |
| 49. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
86.45 |
1.0288 |
0.0249 |
300 |
1 |
86.45 |
2013-03-30 |
| 50. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
86.38 |
1.0379 |
0.0194 |
245 |
1 |
86.38 |
2013-10-08 |
| 51. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
85.68 |
0.9500 |
0.0636 |
362 |
1 |
85.68 |
2013-03-31 |
| 52. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
85.39 |
0.9763 |
0.0325 |
289 |
1 |
85.39 |
2013-04-01 |
| 53. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
85.39 |
0.9461 |
0.0590 |
193 |
1 |
85.39 |
2013-03-29 |
| 54. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
85.27 |
1.0120 |
-0.0045 |
290 |
1 |
85.27 |
2013-04-01 |
| 55. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
84.73 |
0.8947 |
0.1101 |
366 |
2 |
81.65 |
2013-10-08 |
| 56. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
84.20 |
0.9734 |
0.0204 |
289 |
3 |
73.29 |
2013-09-30 |
| 57. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
84.19 |
1.0459 |
-0.0172 |
200 |
1 |
84.19 |
2013-03-29 |
| 58. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
84.03 |
1.1068 |
-0.0788 |
393 |
1 |
84.03 |
2013-04-01 |
| 59. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
83.78 |
1.0358 |
-0.0096 |
349 |
1 |
83.78 |
2013-10-08 |
| 60. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
83.56 |
0.9168 |
0.0702 |
240 |
1 |
83.56 |
2014-08-21 |
| 61. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
83.53 |
1.0088 |
0.0133 |
396 |
1 |
83.53 |
2013-10-08 |
| 62. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
83.46 |
1.0531 |
-0.0308 |
272 |
2 |
79.98 |
2013-10-08 |
| 63. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
83.01 |
0.9857 |
-0.0058 |
293 |
1 |
83.01 |
2013-10-08 |
| 64. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
82.82 |
0.9991 |
-0.0216 |
225 |
1 |
82.82 |
2013-10-08 |
| 65. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
82.79 |
0.9376 |
0.0429 |
367 |
1 |
82.79 |
2013-03-30 |
| 66. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
82.74 |
1.0389 |
-0.0617 |
318 |
1 |
82.74 |
2013-03-29 |
| 67. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
82.71 |
0.9805 |
-0.0016 |
292 |
1 |
82.71 |
2013-03-29 |
| 68. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
82.64 |
0.9376 |
0.0708 |
360 |
2 |
79.08 |
2013-09-30 |
| 69. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
82.32 |
0.9532 |
0.0183 |
258 |
1 |
82.32 |
2013-10-08 |
| 70. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
82.30 |
0.9723 |
0.0014 |
364 |
1 |
82.30 |
2013-04-01 |
| 71. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
82.15 |
0.9601 |
0.0123 |
308 |
1 |
82.15 |
2013-04-01 |
| 72. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
81.93 |
0.9339 |
0.0330 |
310 |
1 |
81.93 |
2013-04-01 |
| 73. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
81.64 |
1.0252 |
-0.0644 |
176 |
1 |
81.64 |
2013-03-29 |
| 74. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
81.61 |
0.9668 |
0.0367 |
383 |
1 |
81.61 |
2013-04-01 |
| 75. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
81.34 |
1.0534 |
-0.0925 |
357 |
1 |
81.34 |
2013-04-01 |
| 76. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
81.26 |
0.9886 |
-0.0287 |
220 |
1 |
81.26 |
2013-10-08 |
| 77. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
80.81 |
0.9937 |
-0.0213 |
429 |
1 |
80.81 |
2013-04-01 |
| 78. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
80.59 |
0.9905 |
-0.0097 |
337 |
1 |
80.59 |
2013-04-01 |
| 79. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
80.34 |
0.9772 |
-0.0296 |
217 |
1 |
80.34 |
2013-04-01 |
| 80. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
80.16 |
1.0763 |
-0.0920 |
367 |
1 |
80.16 |
2013-03-30 |
| 81. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
80.13 |
0.9855 |
-0.0060 |
258 |
1 |
80.13 |
2013-04-01 |
| 82. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
79.88 |
0.9833 |
-0.0393 |
355 |
1 |
79.88 |
2013-10-08 |
| 83. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
79.74 |
1.0031 |
-0.0275 |
304 |
1 |
79.74 |
2013-09-30 |
| 84. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
79.66 |
0.9430 |
-0.0051 |
211 |
2 |
78.00 |
2013-10-08 |
| 85. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
79.39 |
0.9426 |
-0.0047 |
317 |
2 |
73.88 |
2013-03-29 |
| 86. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
79.18 |
1.0361 |
-0.1013 |
269 |
1 |
79.18 |
2013-03-30 |
| 87. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
79.12 |
0.9879 |
-0.0497 |
450 |
1 |
79.12 |
2013-03-29 |
| 88. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
78.67 |
1.0232 |
-0.0498 |
350 |
2 |
76.25 |
2013-04-01 |
| 89. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
78.61 |
1.0787 |
-0.1517 |
237 |
1 |
78.61 |
2013-04-01 |
| 90. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
78.59 |
0.9792 |
-0.0141 |
265 |
1 |
78.59 |
2013-10-08 |
| 91. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
78.43 |
0.9148 |
0.0124 |
317 |
1 |
78.43 |
2013-03-31 |
| 92. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
78.08 |
1.0485 |
-0.0899 |
153 |
1 |
78.08 |
2013-04-01 |
| 93. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
78.01 |
0.9289 |
-0.0094 |
204 |
1 |
78.01 |
2013-03-29 |
| 94. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
77.94 |
0.9893 |
-0.0688 |
323 |
1 |
77.94 |
2013-04-01 |
| 95. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
77.60 |
0.8919 |
0.0235 |
205 |
1 |
77.60 |
2013-03-30 |
| 96. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
77.42 |
0.9566 |
-0.0261 |
576 |
1 |
77.42 |
2013-10-03 |
| 97. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
77.05 |
0.9994 |
-0.0597 |
269 |
1 |
77.05 |
2013-03-30 |
| 98. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
76.93 |
0.9411 |
-0.0322 |
318 |
1 |
76.93 |
2013-04-01 |
| 99. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
76.90 |
0.9785 |
-0.0693 |
335 |
1 |
76.90 |
2013-04-01 |
| 100. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
76.86 |
0.9710 |
-0.0677 |
173 |
2 |
74.22 |
2013-10-08 |
| 101. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
76.72 |
0.9904 |
-0.0433 |
203 |
1 |
76.72 |
2013-09-30 |
| 102. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
76.52 |
0.9513 |
-0.0464 |
354 |
1 |
76.52 |
2013-04-01 |
| 103. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
76.50 |
0.9593 |
-0.0544 |
398 |
1 |
76.50 |
2013-03-31 |
| 104. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
76.38 |
0.9739 |
-0.0401 |
412 |
1 |
76.38 |
2013-10-09 |
| 105. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
76.29 |
0.9844 |
-0.0831 |
293 |
1 |
76.29 |
2013-10-08 |
| 106. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
75.79 |
0.9698 |
-0.0450 |
397 |
1 |
75.79 |
2013-04-01 |
| 107. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
75.78 |
1.0077 |
-0.0724 |
250 |
1 |
75.78 |
2013-03-29 |
| 108. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
75.72 |
0.9049 |
-0.0090 |
351 |
2 |
72.69 |
2013-10-03 |
| 109. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
75.60 |
0.9786 |
-0.0889 |
193 |
1 |
75.60 |
2013-04-01 |
| 110. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
75.27 |
1.0352 |
-0.1463 |
341 |
1 |
75.27 |
2013-03-29 |
| 111. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
75.14 |
1.1162 |
-0.1895 |
189 |
1 |
75.14 |
2013-03-29 |
| 112. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
75.08 |
0.9546 |
-0.0402 |
198 |
1 |
75.08 |
2013-04-01 |
| 113. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
74.86 |
1.0109 |
-0.0963 |
400 |
1 |
74.86 |
2013-09-30 |
| 114. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
74.57 |
0.9943 |
-0.1143 |
373 |
1 |
74.57 |
2013-03-29 |
| 115. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
74.48 |
0.9946 |
-0.1172 |
246 |
1 |
74.48 |
2013-03-29 |
| 116. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
74.28 |
0.9128 |
0.0036 |
369 |
1 |
74.28 |
2013-03-31 |
| 117. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
73.61 |
0.9342 |
-0.0635 |
434 |
1 |
73.61 |
2013-03-29 |
| 118. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
73.42 |
0.9871 |
-0.0830 |
209 |
1 |
73.42 |
2013-09-30 |
| 119. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
73.00 |
1.0487 |
-0.1910 |
231 |
1 |
73.00 |
2013-04-01 |
| 120. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
72.95 |
0.9769 |
-0.1180 |
263 |
1 |
72.95 |
2013-03-29 |
| 121. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
68.76 |
0.9005 |
-0.0900 |
212 |
1 |
68.76 |
2013-03-29 |
| 122. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
68.64 |
0.9612 |
-0.1518 |
256 |
1 |
68.64 |
2013-03-29 |
| 123. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
67.93 |
0.7805 |
0.0177 |
154 |
1 |
67.93 |
2013-03-29 |
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61.22 |
1.0398 |
-0.3259 |
110 |
1 |
61.22 |
2013-03-29 |