| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
160.68 |
1.1296 |
0.2397 |
252 |
1 |
160.68 |
2012-12-02 |
| 2. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
159.53 |
1.0787 |
0.2501 |
237 |
1 |
159.53 |
2012-06-14 |
| 3. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
155.80 |
1.0972 |
0.2314 |
251 |
2 |
143.43 |
2013-09-26 |
| 4. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
151.46 |
1.0486 |
0.2146 |
289 |
1 |
151.46 |
2012-11-03 |
| 5. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
148.43 |
1.0799 |
0.1532 |
243 |
4 |
123.38 |
2013-09-26 |
| 6. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
140.47 |
1.0863 |
0.1183 |
210 |
1 |
140.47 |
2012-05-28 |
| 7. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
139.59 |
1.0292 |
0.1318 |
262 |
1 |
139.59 |
2012-08-09 |
| 8. |
He rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' ... |
139.16 |
1.0502 |
0.1352 |
535 |
2 |
110.19 |
2013-09-26 |
| 9. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
139.07 |
0.9946 |
0.1634 |
246 |
2 |
127.41 |
2012-08-25 |
| 10. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
137.46 |
1.0254 |
0.1597 |
217 |
1 |
137.46 |
2012-05-28 |
| 11. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
137.22 |
1.0120 |
0.1297 |
290 |
2 |
127.29 |
2013-09-19 |
| 12. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
136.88 |
1.0767 |
0.0605 |
212 |
1 |
136.88 |
2012-08-27 |
| 13. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
136.31 |
0.9785 |
0.1593 |
335 |
2 |
131.98 |
2012-05-28 |
| 14. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
136.09 |
1.0529 |
0.0800 |
351 |
1 |
136.09 |
2013-09-26 |
| 15. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
135.97 |
1.0796 |
0.0472 |
129 |
2 |
132.24 |
2013-09-26 |
| 16. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
135.62 |
1.0669 |
0.0950 |
213 |
1 |
135.62 |
2012-05-28 |
| 17. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
135.59 |
1.0257 |
0.1094 |
401 |
1 |
135.59 |
2012-08-25 |
| 18. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
134.82 |
1.1323 |
0.0239 |
341 |
1 |
134.82 |
2012-08-20 |
| 19. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
133.88 |
1.1018 |
0.0061 |
220 |
1 |
133.88 |
2013-10-03 |
| 20. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
133.49 |
0.9855 |
0.1590 |
258 |
1 |
133.49 |
2012-11-03 |
| 21. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
132.47 |
1.0608 |
0.0749 |
258 |
1 |
132.47 |
2012-06-09 |
| 22. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
132.26 |
0.9886 |
0.1146 |
220 |
2 |
129.02 |
2013-10-01 |
| 23. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
131.38 |
0.9640 |
0.1590 |
334 |
1 |
131.38 |
2012-08-27 |
| 24. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
131.35 |
0.9905 |
0.1105 |
377 |
1 |
131.35 |
2012-06-09 |
| 25. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
130.69 |
1.0666 |
0.0212 |
297 |
1 |
130.69 |
2012-06-07 |
| 26. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
130.09 |
1.0788 |
-0.0021 |
171 |
1 |
130.09 |
2012-07-02 |
| 27. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
129.55 |
0.9429 |
0.1365 |
287 |
1 |
129.55 |
2012-06-07 |
| 28. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
128.90 |
1.0173 |
0.0992 |
268 |
2 |
125.27 |
2012-06-07 |
| 29. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
128.83 |
0.9964 |
0.0754 |
203 |
1 |
128.83 |
2012-12-02 |
| 30. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
127.04 |
1.0117 |
0.0899 |
297 |
1 |
127.04 |
2012-08-25 |
| 31. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
126.75 |
1.0763 |
0.0198 |
367 |
2 |
115.62 |
2013-09-19 |
| 32. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
126.61 |
0.9884 |
0.0644 |
233 |
2 |
124.89 |
2013-09-26 |
| 33. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
126.54 |
1.0358 |
0.0586 |
349 |
1 |
126.54 |
2012-06-10 |
| 34. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. The work was generall... |
126.32 |
0.9746 |
0.1046 |
405 |
1 |
126.32 |
2012-07-04 |
| 35. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
126.13 |
1.0023 |
0.0447 |
211 |
1 |
126.13 |
2012-08-25 |
| 36. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
125.41 |
0.9330 |
0.1167 |
360 |
1 |
125.41 |
2013-09-19 |
| 37. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
125.18 |
1.0352 |
0.0092 |
341 |
1 |
125.18 |
2012-11-10 |
| 38. |
Right, I am going to tell you how this works. You're going i... |
125.07 |
1.0482 |
0.0161 |
487 |
1 |
125.07 |
2012-05-29 |
| 39. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
124.81 |
1.0131 |
0.0211 |
225 |
1 |
124.81 |
2012-05-28 |
| 40. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
124.77 |
1.0613 |
-0.0228 |
266 |
1 |
124.77 |
2012-10-21 |
| 41. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
124.74 |
1.0429 |
-0.0070 |
259 |
1 |
124.74 |
2012-05-29 |
| 42. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
124.33 |
1.0060 |
0.0231 |
171 |
1 |
124.33 |
2013-09-26 |
| 43. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
124.19 |
0.9365 |
0.0978 |
248 |
2 |
116.02 |
2012-09-29 |
| 44. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
124.15 |
1.0316 |
0.0047 |
333 |
1 |
124.15 |
2012-05-30 |
| 45. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
123.94 |
0.9871 |
0.0661 |
227 |
1 |
123.94 |
2012-12-02 |
| 46. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
123.82 |
1.0077 |
0.0630 |
250 |
1 |
123.82 |
2012-06-09 |
| 47. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
123.65 |
1.0387 |
0.0214 |
239 |
1 |
123.65 |
2012-06-07 |
| 48. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
123.29 |
0.9023 |
0.1657 |
231 |
2 |
115.04 |
2012-05-30 |
| 49. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
123.21 |
1.0214 |
0.0018 |
269 |
2 |
114.15 |
2012-06-07 |
| 50. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
123.01 |
1.0034 |
0.0181 |
302 |
2 |
120.95 |
2012-05-28 |
| 51. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
122.60 |
0.9540 |
0.0634 |
285 |
1 |
122.60 |
2012-08-25 |
| 52. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
122.35 |
1.0263 |
-0.0100 |
267 |
1 |
122.35 |
2013-10-01 |
| 53. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
122.25 |
1.0523 |
-0.0401 |
256 |
1 |
122.25 |
2013-09-19 |
| 54. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
122.03 |
0.9991 |
0.0162 |
225 |
1 |
122.03 |
2012-05-30 |
| 55. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
121.79 |
1.0679 |
-0.0354 |
177 |
1 |
121.79 |
2013-09-26 |
| 56. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
121.55 |
1.0038 |
0.0371 |
237 |
1 |
121.55 |
2013-09-26 |
| 57. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
121.52 |
0.9758 |
0.0351 |
314 |
1 |
121.52 |
2012-05-28 |
| 58. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
121.41 |
1.0412 |
-0.0324 |
225 |
1 |
121.41 |
2013-09-19 |
| 59. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
121.13 |
1.0711 |
-0.0693 |
213 |
1 |
121.13 |
2012-05-28 |
| 60. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
120.94 |
0.9286 |
0.0757 |
194 |
1 |
120.94 |
2012-12-02 |
| 61. |
We often believe the more we practice a skill or technique -... |
120.93 |
0.9907 |
0.0488 |
397 |
3 |
109.21 |
2013-09-26 |
| 62. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
120.92 |
0.9527 |
0.0527 |
251 |
1 |
120.92 |
2012-11-10 |
| 63. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
120.91 |
1.0669 |
-0.0295 |
286 |
2 |
108.42 |
2013-09-26 |
| 64. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
120.57 |
1.0109 |
-0.0079 |
276 |
2 |
116.95 |
2013-09-26 |
| 65. |
Don't practice too much at first, or you're likely to develo... |
120.08 |
1.0141 |
0.0244 |
381 |
1 |
120.08 |
2012-06-08 |
| 66. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
120.08 |
0.9508 |
0.0808 |
384 |
1 |
120.08 |
2012-06-19 |
| 67. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
120.05 |
0.9148 |
0.0846 |
317 |
1 |
120.05 |
2012-05-30 |
| 68. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
119.34 |
0.9709 |
0.0621 |
397 |
2 |
113.19 |
2012-10-29 |
| 69. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
118.74 |
0.9293 |
0.0587 |
355 |
1 |
118.74 |
2012-06-10 |
| 70. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
117.90 |
0.9966 |
-0.0172 |
259 |
1 |
117.90 |
2013-09-26 |
| 71. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
117.83 |
0.9756 |
0.0023 |
229 |
1 |
117.83 |
2012-06-07 |
| 72. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
117.76 |
1.0391 |
-0.0544 |
358 |
1 |
117.76 |
2012-05-28 |
| 73. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
117.70 |
1.0375 |
-0.0136 |
200 |
1 |
117.70 |
2013-10-01 |
| 74. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
117.39 |
0.9994 |
0.0068 |
269 |
1 |
117.39 |
2012-07-02 |
| 75. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
117.28 |
0.9772 |
-0.0059 |
217 |
2 |
108.60 |
2013-09-26 |
| 76. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
117.15 |
0.9514 |
0.0223 |
237 |
1 |
117.15 |
2012-06-09 |
| 77. |
Races are not won in the first corner; however, they are oft... |
117.08 |
1.0535 |
-0.0456 |
326 |
1 |
117.08 |
2013-09-19 |
| 78. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
117.04 |
1.0320 |
-0.0222 |
293 |
1 |
117.04 |
2012-05-28 |
| 79. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
117.02 |
1.0124 |
-0.0424 |
204 |
1 |
117.02 |
2012-07-02 |
| 80. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
116.86 |
1.0033 |
-0.0391 |
189 |
1 |
116.86 |
2013-10-01 |
| 81. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
116.22 |
0.9907 |
-0.0264 |
211 |
1 |
116.22 |
2013-09-26 |
| 82. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
116.14 |
1.0365 |
-0.0419 |
162 |
1 |
116.14 |
2012-12-02 |
| 83. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
115.65 |
1.0328 |
-0.0335 |
356 |
1 |
115.65 |
2012-05-28 |
| 84. |
Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It's ab... |
115.51 |
1.0604 |
-0.0676 |
260 |
1 |
115.51 |
2012-06-09 |
| 85. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
115.26 |
1.1022 |
-0.1097 |
259 |
1 |
115.26 |
2013-09-26 |
| 86. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
114.70 |
0.9997 |
-0.0432 |
382 |
1 |
114.70 |
2012-05-30 |
| 87. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
114.51 |
0.9894 |
-0.0337 |
323 |
1 |
114.51 |
2012-06-07 |
| 88. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
113.64 |
1.0516 |
-0.1084 |
281 |
1 |
113.64 |
2013-09-26 |
| 89. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
113.42 |
1.0168 |
-0.0730 |
271 |
1 |
113.42 |
2012-06-05 |
| 90. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
112.99 |
0.9120 |
0.0597 |
436 |
1 |
112.99 |
2013-09-26 |
| 91. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
112.96 |
1.0515 |
-0.1153 |
250 |
1 |
112.96 |
2012-09-09 |
| 92. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
112.46 |
1.0547 |
-0.0858 |
257 |
1 |
112.46 |
2013-10-01 |
| 93. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
112.28 |
0.8916 |
0.0413 |
216 |
1 |
112.28 |
2012-06-07 |
| 94. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
111.89 |
0.9675 |
-0.0289 |
383 |
1 |
111.89 |
2012-08-09 |
| 95. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
111.87 |
0.9500 |
-0.0190 |
362 |
1 |
111.87 |
2012-05-29 |
| 96. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
111.62 |
0.9072 |
0.0178 |
237 |
1 |
111.62 |
2012-07-02 |
| 97. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
111.54 |
0.9064 |
0.0292 |
399 |
1 |
111.54 |
2012-06-09 |
| 98. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
110.86 |
0.9109 |
0.0125 |
401 |
1 |
110.86 |
2012-08-31 |
| 99. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
110.53 |
0.9831 |
-0.0575 |
469 |
1 |
110.53 |
2013-10-01 |
| 100. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
110.30 |
1.0398 |
-0.1348 |
110 |
1 |
110.30 |
2013-09-19 |
| 101. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
110.18 |
0.9676 |
-0.0444 |
442 |
1 |
110.18 |
2013-09-26 |
| 102. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
110.12 |
0.9266 |
-0.0124 |
267 |
2 |
109.99 |
2012-12-02 |
| 103. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
109.73 |
0.9553 |
-0.0371 |
430 |
1 |
109.73 |
2012-05-29 |
| 104. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
109.31 |
0.9651 |
-0.0217 |
389 |
1 |
109.31 |
2012-06-07 |
| 105. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
108.81 |
0.9936 |
-0.0703 |
227 |
1 |
108.81 |
2013-09-26 |
| 106. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
108.53 |
1.0025 |
-0.1006 |
336 |
2 |
100.87 |
2013-09-26 |
| 107. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
108.30 |
0.9668 |
-0.0254 |
383 |
1 |
108.30 |
2012-06-07 |
| 108. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
106.69 |
0.9212 |
-0.0326 |
323 |
1 |
106.69 |
2013-10-03 |
| 109. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
106.60 |
0.9601 |
-0.0708 |
308 |
1 |
106.60 |
2012-06-07 |
| 110. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
106.51 |
1.0251 |
-0.1433 |
261 |
1 |
106.51 |
2012-05-30 |
| 111. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
105.63 |
1.0533 |
-0.1502 |
257 |
1 |
105.63 |
2013-09-26 |
| 112. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
105.48 |
0.9243 |
-0.0095 |
448 |
2 |
100.07 |
2013-09-26 |
| 113. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
105.36 |
1.0197 |
-0.1484 |
226 |
1 |
105.36 |
2012-06-07 |
| 114. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
105.02 |
1.0368 |
-0.1648 |
276 |
2 |
103.50 |
2013-09-26 |
| 115. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
104.72 |
1.0214 |
-0.1579 |
166 |
1 |
104.72 |
2012-10-21 |
| 116. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
104.60 |
0.8775 |
-0.0065 |
443 |
1 |
104.60 |
2012-06-07 |
| 117. |
Three changes occur while the stacked disk structure equilib... |
104.47 |
0.9382 |
-0.0459 |
440 |
1 |
104.47 |
2012-05-28 |
| 118. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
103.07 |
0.9682 |
-0.1148 |
143 |
1 |
103.07 |
2012-08-09 |
| 119. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
102.76 |
1.0201 |
-0.1743 |
172 |
1 |
102.76 |
2012-05-30 |
| 120. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
102.28 |
0.9786 |
-0.1354 |
193 |
1 |
102.28 |
2012-11-03 |
| 121. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
101.96 |
0.9614 |
-0.1128 |
292 |
1 |
101.96 |
2012-05-29 |
| 122. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
101.81 |
0.9155 |
-0.0220 |
168 |
1 |
101.81 |
2013-09-19 |
| 123. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
100.91 |
1.0083 |
-0.1272 |
273 |
1 |
100.91 |
2012-05-28 |
| 124. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
99.93 |
1.0042 |
-0.1341 |
352 |
1 |
99.93 |
2012-05-30 |
| 125. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
99.41 |
1.0232 |
-0.1636 |
236 |
1 |
99.41 |
2012-05-28 |
| 126. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
97.84 |
0.8852 |
-0.0720 |
201 |
1 |
97.84 |
2012-06-09 |
| 127. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
97.11 |
0.9780 |
-0.1722 |
337 |
1 |
97.11 |
2013-09-26 |
| 128. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
96.01 |
1.0403 |
-0.2301 |
193 |
1 |
96.01 |
2013-09-26 |
| 129. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
95.50 |
1.0337 |
-0.2434 |
214 |
1 |
95.50 |
2012-05-28 |
| 130. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
94.85 |
0.8961 |
-0.1139 |
189 |
1 |
94.85 |
2012-06-17 |
| 131. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
89.14 |
0.9233 |
-0.1938 |
168 |
1 |
89.14 |
2013-09-28 |
| 132. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
76.71 |
1.0284 |
-0.3523 |
282 |
1 |
76.71 |
2013-09-28 |
| 133. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
75.74 |
0.9912 |
-0.3397 |
237 |
1 |
75.74 |
2013-09-26 |
| 134. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
74.78 |
0.9925 |
-0.3390 |
247 |
1 |
74.78 |
2013-09-26 |