| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
129.60 |
1.0565 |
0.2046 |
247 |
2 |
119.52 |
2012-11-01 |
| 2. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
121.91 |
1.1296 |
0.0567 |
252 |
2 |
113.67 |
2012-10-15 |
| 3. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
121.59 |
1.0486 |
0.1346 |
289 |
1 |
121.59 |
2013-01-16 |
| 4. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
121.29 |
1.0767 |
0.1036 |
212 |
1 |
121.29 |
2012-10-29 |
| 5. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
121.01 |
0.9514 |
0.2261 |
237 |
1 |
121.01 |
2012-10-12 |
| 6. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
120.70 |
1.0774 |
0.0971 |
304 |
1 |
120.70 |
2012-10-12 |
| 7. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
119.57 |
1.0679 |
0.0956 |
177 |
1 |
119.57 |
2012-10-17 |
| 8. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
118.59 |
1.0213 |
0.1327 |
240 |
1 |
118.59 |
2020-06-04 |
| 9. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
117.87 |
1.0498 |
0.0972 |
180 |
1 |
117.87 |
2012-10-12 |
| 10. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
117.29 |
1.0417 |
0.0996 |
253 |
1 |
117.29 |
2012-10-15 |
| 11. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
116.78 |
0.9912 |
0.1452 |
237 |
2 |
105.97 |
2012-10-11 |
| 12. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
116.78 |
1.0388 |
0.0976 |
243 |
2 |
112.64 |
2012-10-11 |
| 13. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
116.75 |
1.0412 |
0.0949 |
225 |
2 |
115.97 |
2012-11-01 |
| 14. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
116.12 |
1.0167 |
0.1132 |
378 |
1 |
116.12 |
2012-10-15 |
| 15. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
115.91 |
1.0561 |
0.0718 |
430 |
1 |
115.91 |
2013-01-16 |
| 16. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
115.89 |
1.0596 |
0.0681 |
239 |
1 |
115.89 |
2012-10-15 |
| 17. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
115.40 |
0.9557 |
0.1672 |
331 |
1 |
115.40 |
2012-12-03 |
| 18. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
115.35 |
1.0013 |
0.1212 |
273 |
1 |
115.35 |
2012-10-31 |
| 19. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
114.34 |
0.9846 |
0.1280 |
281 |
1 |
114.34 |
2012-10-29 |
| 20. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
114.03 |
1.0214 |
0.0882 |
269 |
2 |
100.51 |
2012-10-08 |
| 21. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
113.90 |
1.0331 |
0.0752 |
234 |
1 |
113.90 |
2012-10-16 |
| 22. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
113.79 |
0.9372 |
0.1701 |
320 |
1 |
113.79 |
2012-10-12 |
| 23. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
113.42 |
1.0644 |
0.0393 |
257 |
2 |
106.22 |
2012-10-31 |
| 24. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
113.34 |
1.0288 |
0.0741 |
300 |
1 |
113.34 |
2012-10-04 |
| 25. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
112.75 |
0.9897 |
0.1075 |
274 |
2 |
110.68 |
2012-10-21 |
| 26. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
112.20 |
1.0368 |
0.0550 |
276 |
1 |
112.20 |
2012-10-19 |
| 27. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
112.11 |
1.0389 |
0.0520 |
318 |
1 |
112.11 |
2012-10-15 |
| 28. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
111.87 |
1.0917 |
-0.0031 |
243 |
1 |
111.87 |
2012-11-13 |
| 29. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
110.78 |
1.0462 |
0.0318 |
184 |
1 |
110.78 |
2012-10-17 |
| 30. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
110.39 |
1.0062 |
0.0680 |
288 |
2 |
107.39 |
2015-09-22 |
| 31. |
Don't practice too much at first, or you're likely to develo... |
110.22 |
1.0141 |
0.0584 |
381 |
1 |
110.22 |
2012-10-17 |
| 32. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
110.09 |
1.0154 |
0.0559 |
351 |
1 |
110.09 |
2012-10-15 |
| 33. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
109.39 |
0.9831 |
0.0814 |
469 |
2 |
108.93 |
2013-10-18 |
| 34. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
108.77 |
0.9529 |
0.1055 |
269 |
2 |
106.11 |
2014-12-31 |
| 35. |
Right, I am going to tell you how this works. You're going i... |
108.39 |
1.0482 |
0.0065 |
487 |
1 |
108.39 |
2012-10-19 |
| 36. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
108.38 |
0.9553 |
0.0993 |
430 |
2 |
100.41 |
2012-10-15 |
| 37. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
108.26 |
1.0863 |
-0.0328 |
210 |
1 |
108.26 |
2012-10-12 |
| 38. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
107.35 |
1.0719 |
-0.0273 |
360 |
1 |
107.35 |
2012-10-15 |
| 39. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
107.33 |
1.0263 |
0.0181 |
267 |
1 |
107.33 |
2014-12-31 |
| 40. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
107.30 |
1.0349 |
0.0092 |
234 |
1 |
107.30 |
2012-10-04 |
| 41. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
107.25 |
0.9965 |
0.0471 |
310 |
1 |
107.25 |
2012-11-01 |
| 42. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
107.08 |
1.0613 |
-0.0193 |
456 |
1 |
107.08 |
2020-06-04 |
| 43. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
106.82 |
0.9697 |
0.0698 |
249 |
1 |
106.82 |
2012-10-11 |
| 44. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
106.19 |
1.0232 |
0.0101 |
236 |
2 |
101.81 |
2012-11-23 |
| 45. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
105.77 |
0.9894 |
0.0398 |
323 |
1 |
105.77 |
2012-10-15 |
| 46. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
105.74 |
0.9754 |
0.0535 |
362 |
1 |
105.74 |
2012-10-11 |
| 47. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
105.65 |
1.0068 |
0.0213 |
358 |
1 |
105.65 |
2012-11-14 |
| 48. |
I've seen it all. I have seen the trees, I have seen the wil... |
104.89 |
1.0581 |
-0.0374 |
273 |
1 |
104.89 |
2020-06-06 |
| 49. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
104.68 |
1.0379 |
-0.0193 |
245 |
1 |
104.68 |
2012-10-16 |
| 50. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
104.61 |
1.0320 |
-0.0141 |
293 |
1 |
104.61 |
2013-10-18 |
| 51. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
104.49 |
1.0025 |
0.0143 |
256 |
1 |
104.49 |
2012-10-11 |
| 52. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
104.24 |
0.9922 |
0.0221 |
341 |
1 |
104.24 |
2012-11-08 |
| 53. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
104.17 |
1.0109 |
0.0028 |
400 |
1 |
104.17 |
2012-10-16 |
| 54. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
103.94 |
1.0454 |
-0.0340 |
255 |
1 |
103.94 |
2015-09-22 |
| 55. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
103.88 |
1.0788 |
-0.0680 |
171 |
1 |
103.88 |
2012-10-12 |
| 56. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
103.76 |
1.0529 |
-0.0432 |
351 |
1 |
103.76 |
2012-10-19 |
| 57. |
When Betty and Billy fell asleep, he walked down to the kitc... |
103.71 |
0.9693 |
0.0399 |
360 |
1 |
103.71 |
2012-11-01 |
| 58. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
103.14 |
1.0595 |
-0.0559 |
379 |
2 |
101.41 |
2012-10-12 |
| 59. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
102.85 |
0.9567 |
0.0441 |
273 |
1 |
102.85 |
2013-01-24 |
| 60. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
102.77 |
0.9684 |
0.0316 |
388 |
1 |
102.77 |
2013-10-21 |
| 61. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
102.44 |
0.9709 |
0.0259 |
397 |
1 |
102.44 |
2012-11-01 |
| 62. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
102.43 |
0.9084 |
0.0883 |
300 |
1 |
102.43 |
2012-10-19 |
| 63. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
101.91 |
1.0391 |
-0.0474 |
358 |
1 |
101.91 |
2013-01-21 |
| 64. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
101.89 |
0.9468 |
0.0447 |
276 |
1 |
101.89 |
2012-10-04 |
| 65. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
101.79 |
0.9023 |
0.0882 |
231 |
1 |
101.79 |
2012-10-04 |
| 66. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
101.62 |
0.9756 |
0.0133 |
229 |
1 |
101.62 |
2012-10-16 |
| 67. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
101.55 |
1.0088 |
-0.0206 |
396 |
1 |
101.55 |
2014-12-27 |
| 68. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
101.43 |
0.8770 |
0.1100 |
300 |
1 |
101.43 |
2014-12-27 |
| 69. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
100.94 |
1.0337 |
-0.0515 |
214 |
1 |
100.94 |
2012-10-04 |
| 70. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
100.89 |
1.0169 |
-0.0352 |
346 |
1 |
100.89 |
2012-10-29 |
| 71. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
100.86 |
0.9293 |
0.0522 |
355 |
1 |
100.86 |
2012-10-19 |
| 72. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
100.81 |
0.9731 |
0.0079 |
129 |
1 |
100.81 |
2014-12-31 |
| 73. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
100.59 |
0.9879 |
-0.0091 |
450 |
1 |
100.59 |
2012-10-26 |
| 74. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
100.45 |
0.9758 |
0.0017 |
314 |
1 |
100.45 |
2012-10-03 |
| 75. |
The idea of "Mr. Right" has been passed down over the genera... |
100.31 |
0.9671 |
0.0090 |
379 |
1 |
100.31 |
2013-10-18 |
| 76. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
100.20 |
1.0177 |
-0.0427 |
392 |
1 |
100.20 |
2012-10-19 |
| 77. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
100.17 |
1.0138 |
-0.0391 |
231 |
1 |
100.17 |
2012-10-17 |
| 78. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
99.78 |
0.8933 |
0.0776 |
363 |
2 |
96.87 |
2012-10-15 |
| 79. |
However, let us leave aside the philosophical, social, and e... |
99.67 |
0.9569 |
0.0130 |
410 |
1 |
99.67 |
2012-11-07 |
| 80. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
99.52 |
0.9866 |
-0.0182 |
218 |
2 |
94.53 |
2012-10-19 |
| 81. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
99.46 |
0.9805 |
-0.0127 |
292 |
1 |
99.46 |
2012-10-19 |
| 82. |
As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit... |
99.20 |
0.9898 |
-0.0245 |
353 |
1 |
99.20 |
2012-10-04 |
| 83. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
98.85 |
0.9904 |
-0.0285 |
203 |
1 |
98.85 |
2012-10-19 |
| 84. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
98.83 |
0.9780 |
-0.0163 |
337 |
1 |
98.83 |
2012-10-04 |
| 85. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
98.69 |
0.9266 |
0.0337 |
267 |
1 |
98.69 |
2012-10-17 |
| 86. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
98.37 |
0.9966 |
-0.0394 |
259 |
1 |
98.37 |
2012-10-16 |
| 87. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
98.27 |
0.9651 |
-0.0088 |
389 |
1 |
98.27 |
2012-10-08 |
| 88. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
98.20 |
1.0506 |
-0.0950 |
277 |
1 |
98.20 |
2012-10-17 |
| 89. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
98.11 |
0.8878 |
0.0669 |
346 |
1 |
98.11 |
2012-10-16 |
| 90. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
97.41 |
1.0714 |
-0.1235 |
129 |
1 |
97.41 |
2012-10-03 |
| 91. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
97.41 |
0.9125 |
0.0354 |
308 |
2 |
90.29 |
2012-10-21 |
| 92. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
97.30 |
0.9527 |
-0.0059 |
251 |
1 |
97.30 |
2012-10-19 |
| 93. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
97.24 |
0.9233 |
0.0229 |
168 |
1 |
97.24 |
2015-09-22 |
| 94. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
97.02 |
0.9786 |
-0.0345 |
235 |
1 |
97.02 |
2012-10-19 |
| 95. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
96.47 |
1.0696 |
-0.1309 |
226 |
1 |
96.47 |
2012-10-04 |
| 96. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
95.62 |
0.9798 |
-0.0493 |
199 |
1 |
95.62 |
2012-10-12 |
| 97. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
95.48 |
1.0429 |
-0.1138 |
259 |
1 |
95.48 |
2012-10-03 |
| 98. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
95.14 |
0.9899 |
-0.0641 |
163 |
1 |
95.14 |
2012-11-13 |
| 99. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
95.11 |
0.9376 |
-0.0121 |
360 |
2 |
93.92 |
2012-10-17 |
| 100. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
95.07 |
0.9649 |
-0.0398 |
193 |
1 |
95.07 |
2012-10-12 |
| 101. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
94.69 |
1.0630 |
-0.1416 |
397 |
1 |
94.69 |
2024-10-03 |
| 102. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
94.52 |
1.0252 |
-0.1054 |
176 |
1 |
94.52 |
2012-10-12 |
| 103. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
94.48 |
0.9566 |
-0.0372 |
576 |
1 |
94.48 |
2015-09-22 |
| 104. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
94.12 |
0.8852 |
0.0307 |
201 |
1 |
94.12 |
2012-10-15 |
| 105. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
94.08 |
0.9120 |
0.0035 |
436 |
1 |
94.08 |
2015-09-22 |
| 106. |
Finally, gentlemen, there are people with an hereditary anim... |
93.93 |
0.9383 |
-0.0243 |
471 |
1 |
93.93 |
2014-12-31 |
| 107. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
93.78 |
1.0150 |
-0.1024 |
325 |
1 |
93.78 |
2012-10-03 |
| 108. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
93.59 |
0.9500 |
-0.0393 |
362 |
1 |
93.59 |
2012-10-29 |
| 109. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
93.57 |
0.9049 |
0.0056 |
351 |
1 |
93.57 |
2012-10-11 |
| 110. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
93.56 |
0.8981 |
0.0123 |
393 |
1 |
93.56 |
2012-11-01 |
| 111. |
The true mind can weather all lies and illusions without bei... |
92.96 |
1.0390 |
-0.1344 |
229 |
1 |
92.96 |
2024-10-03 |
| 112. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
92.27 |
0.9289 |
-0.0310 |
204 |
1 |
92.27 |
2012-10-04 |
| 113. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
92.13 |
1.0531 |
-0.1566 |
272 |
1 |
92.13 |
2012-10-17 |
| 114. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
91.80 |
0.9309 |
-0.0376 |
284 |
1 |
91.80 |
2012-10-17 |
| 115. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
91.68 |
0.9286 |
-0.0365 |
194 |
1 |
91.68 |
2013-01-22 |
| 116. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
91.47 |
1.0090 |
-0.1189 |
282 |
1 |
91.47 |
2014-12-27 |
| 117. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
91.29 |
0.9583 |
-0.0700 |
341 |
2 |
84.88 |
2012-10-16 |
| 118. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
90.96 |
1.0677 |
-0.1826 |
284 |
1 |
90.96 |
2012-10-12 |
| 119. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
90.80 |
0.9593 |
-0.0757 |
398 |
1 |
90.80 |
2012-10-10 |
| 120. |
Three changes occur while the stacked disk structure equilib... |
90.51 |
0.9382 |
-0.0575 |
440 |
1 |
90.51 |
2012-10-08 |
| 121. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
89.60 |
0.9640 |
-0.0921 |
334 |
1 |
89.60 |
2012-10-15 |
| 122. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
89.60 |
0.9916 |
-0.1197 |
282 |
1 |
89.60 |
2012-10-04 |
| 123. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
89.02 |
1.0033 |
-0.1371 |
189 |
1 |
89.02 |
2012-10-21 |
| 124. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
88.23 |
0.9851 |
-0.1265 |
317 |
1 |
88.23 |
2012-10-04 |
| 125. |
You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I ... |
86.24 |
1.0213 |
-0.1821 |
155 |
1 |
86.24 |
2015-09-22 |
| 126. |
Blore stood rigid - listening. He could hear sounds everywhe... |
85.01 |
1.0050 |
-0.1778 |
395 |
1 |
85.01 |
2025-03-07 |
| 127. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
84.43 |
0.9411 |
-0.1195 |
318 |
1 |
84.43 |
2014-12-31 |
| 128. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
78.98 |
0.8916 |
-0.1231 |
216 |
1 |
78.98 |
2014-12-27 |
| 129. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
78.08 |
0.8382 |
-0.0784 |
268 |
1 |
78.08 |
2014-12-31 |
| 130. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
77.47 |
0.9532 |
-0.1993 |
258 |
1 |
77.47 |
2015-09-22 |