| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
When I ask him if quiz bowl has helped him in other areas of... |
78.65 |
1.0493 |
0.7218 |
150 |
2 |
71.21 |
2021-03-12 |
| 2. |
Remember the day I set you free, I told you you could always... |
72.98 |
1.0147 |
0.6265 |
157 |
1 |
72.98 |
2021-02-19 |
| 3. |
There was never any more inception than there is now, nor an... |
71.36 |
1.1551 |
0.4676 |
202 |
1 |
71.36 |
2021-03-10 |
| 4. |
And the hardest part was letting go, not taking part was the... |
69.16 |
1.0905 |
0.4814 |
161 |
1 |
69.16 |
2021-02-19 |
| 5. |
We passionately long that there may be another life in which... |
69.13 |
1.0815 |
0.4890 |
298 |
1 |
69.13 |
2021-02-19 |
| 6. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
68.42 |
1.0297 |
0.5243 |
249 |
1 |
68.42 |
2021-02-14 |
| 7. |
It so happened that during those days, among so many other c... |
68.38 |
1.0812 |
0.4764 |
459 |
1 |
68.38 |
2021-02-19 |
| 8. |
We lived at the carnival in summer. We scared ourselves to d... |
66.98 |
1.0161 |
0.5063 |
206 |
1 |
66.98 |
2021-03-12 |
| 9. |
You been confusing since the day I met you. Another night ch... |
65.87 |
1.0256 |
0.4674 |
207 |
1 |
65.87 |
2021-03-17 |
| 10. |
He has a life, a real life here. One that keeps him grounded... |
65.57 |
1.0341 |
0.4531 |
471 |
1 |
65.57 |
2021-03-12 |
| 11. |
I have spent my whole life scared, frightened of things that... |
65.31 |
1.0261 |
0.4609 |
430 |
1 |
65.31 |
2021-03-17 |
| 12. |
And when he came to the place where the wild things are, the... |
64.76 |
1.0250 |
0.4360 |
414 |
1 |
64.76 |
2021-03-12 |
| 13. |
A mortal, Frodo, who keeps one of the Great Rings, does not ... |
64.05 |
0.9994 |
0.4450 |
362 |
1 |
64.05 |
2021-03-17 |
| 14. |
Don't say you lose just yet, get up and move ahead, and not ... |
63.41 |
1.0150 |
0.4166 |
315 |
1 |
63.41 |
2021-03-10 |
| 15. |
Isn't that something? That is pretty. I like these kind of p... |
62.93 |
1.0410 |
0.3849 |
548 |
1 |
62.93 |
2021-03-10 |
| 16. |
Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunli... |
62.57 |
1.0724 |
0.3612 |
310 |
1 |
62.57 |
2021-02-19 |
| 17. |
It's a pity that folk as talk about fighting the Enemy can't... |
62.32 |
1.0053 |
0.4090 |
210 |
1 |
62.32 |
2021-03-17 |
| 18. |
I hate this place, this zoo, this prison, this reality, what... |
62.25 |
1.0428 |
0.3653 |
271 |
1 |
62.25 |
2021-02-19 |
| 19. |
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ev... |
61.84 |
0.9909 |
0.4176 |
263 |
1 |
61.84 |
2021-03-12 |
| 20. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
61.80 |
1.0314 |
0.4088 |
452 |
1 |
61.80 |
2021-03-12 |
| 21. |
But I really believe that there are more good people on this... |
61.55 |
1.1586 |
0.2331 |
157 |
1 |
61.55 |
2020-07-27 |
| 22. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
61.54 |
1.0534 |
0.3457 |
357 |
1 |
61.54 |
2021-03-10 |
| 23. |
On the contrary, it may happen that the atoms are launched i... |
61.16 |
1.0193 |
0.3651 |
388 |
1 |
61.16 |
2021-03-02 |
| 24. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
60.85 |
0.9430 |
0.4408 |
297 |
1 |
60.85 |
2021-03-17 |
| 25. |
There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. T... |
60.72 |
1.0442 |
0.3373 |
554 |
1 |
60.72 |
2021-02-19 |
| 26. |
I just told you the truth. I told you the truth the first ti... |
60.45 |
1.0709 |
0.3031 |
204 |
1 |
60.45 |
2021-02-14 |
| 27. |
But I got smarter, I got harder in the nick of time. Honey, ... |
60.41 |
1.0578 |
0.3100 |
205 |
1 |
60.41 |
2021-03-10 |
| 28. |
I often see racers, particularly at the back of the pack in ... |
60.01 |
0.9653 |
0.3953 |
349 |
1 |
60.01 |
2021-03-02 |
| 29. |
Looking back I know of one opportunity where an engineer cam... |
59.54 |
1.0476 |
0.3061 |
515 |
1 |
59.54 |
2021-03-10 |
| 30. |
The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The mo... |
59.18 |
0.9719 |
0.3750 |
249 |
1 |
59.18 |
2021-03-12 |
| 31. |
And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never ... |
59.16 |
1.0634 |
0.2818 |
177 |
1 |
59.16 |
2021-03-10 |
| 32. |
If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the k... |
58.80 |
1.0758 |
0.2600 |
216 |
1 |
58.80 |
2021-03-10 |
| 33. |
I think human beings must have faith or must look for faith,... |
58.09 |
1.0515 |
0.2688 |
279 |
1 |
58.09 |
2021-02-19 |
| 34. |
And baseball was proof positive that democracy was real. A b... |
57.85 |
1.0132 |
0.2916 |
303 |
1 |
57.85 |
2021-02-06 |
| 35. |
Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with... |
56.82 |
1.0457 |
0.2444 |
235 |
1 |
56.82 |
2021-03-10 |
| 36. |
Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because th... |
56.37 |
1.0453 |
0.2214 |
283 |
1 |
56.37 |
2021-02-14 |
| 37. |
At the root of every large struggle in life is the need to b... |
56.24 |
1.0917 |
0.1761 |
336 |
1 |
56.24 |
2021-03-02 |
| 38. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
56.22 |
0.9965 |
0.2780 |
168 |
1 |
56.22 |
2021-02-19 |
| 39. |
I can't have been there when brains were handed 'round or ge... |
55.90 |
1.0589 |
0.1876 |
187 |
1 |
55.90 |
2021-03-12 |
| 40. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
55.42 |
0.9846 |
0.2731 |
281 |
2 |
49.91 |
2021-03-17 |
| 41. |
Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for... |
55.42 |
1.0791 |
0.1411 |
199 |
1 |
55.42 |
2021-03-12 |
| 42. |
Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, foc... |
55.34 |
1.0673 |
0.2310 |
230 |
1 |
55.34 |
2020-08-04 |
| 43. |
Let us imagine that you are in a race with a tortoise. The t... |
55.21 |
1.0199 |
0.2290 |
381 |
2 |
54.73 |
2021-03-10 |
| 44. |
I was reading about how countless species are being pushed t... |
55.04 |
1.0328 |
0.2134 |
242 |
1 |
55.04 |
2020-08-04 |
| 45. |
Now this is a story all about how my life got flipped - turn... |
54.68 |
0.9790 |
0.2598 |
192 |
1 |
54.68 |
2021-03-12 |
| 46. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
54.34 |
1.0768 |
0.1957 |
295 |
1 |
54.34 |
2021-03-10 |
| 47. |
At three in the morning the blood runs slow and thick, and s... |
54.24 |
1.0189 |
0.1943 |
203 |
1 |
54.24 |
2021-03-10 |
| 48. |
But the queen - too long she has suffered the pain of love, ... |
53.96 |
1.0290 |
0.1943 |
265 |
1 |
53.96 |
2021-02-19 |
| 49. |
One overarching lesson we have learned during the past hundr... |
53.58 |
1.0078 |
0.2129 |
146 |
1 |
53.58 |
2021-03-10 |
| 50. |
As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision woul... |
53.39 |
0.9621 |
0.2537 |
223 |
1 |
53.39 |
2021-03-12 |
| 51. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
52.69 |
1.1162 |
0.1197 |
189 |
1 |
52.69 |
2021-03-12 |
| 52. |
What good are prayers and shrines to a person mad with love?... |
52.67 |
1.0373 |
0.1606 |
170 |
1 |
52.67 |
2021-03-10 |
| 53. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
52.59 |
1.0596 |
0.1320 |
239 |
1 |
52.59 |
2020-08-04 |
| 54. |
It's a human sign when things go wrong, when the scent of he... |
52.49 |
1.0292 |
0.1596 |
182 |
1 |
52.49 |
2021-03-12 |
| 55. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
51.97 |
1.0168 |
0.1627 |
271 |
1 |
51.97 |
2020-07-27 |
| 56. |
From the tip of his wand burst the silver doe. She landed on... |
51.90 |
1.0237 |
0.1522 |
261 |
2 |
42.51 |
2021-02-06 |
| 57. |
It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we ... |
51.78 |
1.0325 |
0.1286 |
435 |
1 |
51.78 |
2021-03-10 |
| 58. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
51.61 |
1.0885 |
0.0837 |
315 |
1 |
51.61 |
2020-08-04 |
| 59. |
You there, my friend. Come, let me hold you. Now, with a sig... |
51.28 |
0.9518 |
0.2115 |
314 |
1 |
51.28 |
2021-03-12 |
| 60. |
You know what I say? I say one down, a couple hundred thousa... |
51.11 |
0.9716 |
0.1725 |
315 |
1 |
51.11 |
2021-03-10 |
| 61. |
What makes a good book? An author who knows how to leave out... |
49.91 |
0.9841 |
0.1135 |
145 |
1 |
49.91 |
2020-05-25 |
| 62. |
It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. T... |
49.49 |
1.0460 |
0.0692 |
206 |
1 |
49.49 |
2020-06-18 |
| 63. |
Buster so excelled at being neither seen nor heard that he r... |
48.66 |
0.9529 |
0.1351 |
154 |
1 |
48.66 |
2020-06-18 |
| 64. |
Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man imme... |
48.26 |
1.0713 |
0.0184 |
107 |
1 |
48.26 |
2020-06-18 |
| 65. |
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those t... |
48.18 |
0.8285 |
0.2444 |
89 |
1 |
48.18 |
2020-08-04 |
| 66. |
Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it migh... |
47.72 |
1.1522 |
-0.0778 |
202 |
1 |
47.72 |
2020-06-09 |
| 67. |
I have never done a day's work in my life - honest or dishon... |
47.69 |
0.9581 |
0.1193 |
196 |
1 |
47.69 |
2021-03-12 |
| 68. |
So I walk into the sun. I thought you'd be there, but you co... |
47.55 |
1.0276 |
0.0206 |
139 |
1 |
47.55 |
2021-02-06 |
| 69. |
Now is the time for resting. Some things are ill to hear whe... |
46.41 |
0.9951 |
0.0075 |
84 |
1 |
46.41 |
2020-05-21 |
| 70. |
Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beaut... |
46.38 |
0.9654 |
0.0855 |
145 |
1 |
46.38 |
2020-08-04 |
| 71. |
I loved Jordan Catalano so much, and talked about him so muc... |
46.32 |
1.0316 |
0.0096 |
213 |
1 |
46.32 |
2021-02-14 |
| 72. |
The rich had been assured of his wealth and comfort, the toi... |
45.76 |
0.9798 |
0.0251 |
196 |
1 |
45.76 |
2020-06-18 |
| 73. |
After you got six pieces, you gotta get rid of 'em. Of cours... |
45.75 |
0.9245 |
0.1042 |
138 |
1 |
45.75 |
2021-03-10 |
| 74. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
45.53 |
1.0515 |
-0.0265 |
166 |
1 |
45.53 |
2020-06-09 |
| 75. |
Yep, my ex-wife Tammy cheated on me, then we divorced, then ... |
45.40 |
0.9223 |
0.0932 |
179 |
1 |
45.40 |
2020-06-09 |
| 76. |
And now the end is near, and so I face the final curtain. My... |
44.94 |
1.0281 |
-0.0117 |
242 |
1 |
44.94 |
2021-03-02 |
| 77. |
You have an urgent look about you... Has something happened?... |
44.61 |
0.9751 |
0.0187 |
144 |
1 |
44.61 |
2020-06-09 |
| 78. |
I wish I had a boyfriend. I wish he lived in the wardrobe on... |
44.36 |
0.9233 |
0.0742 |
181 |
1 |
44.36 |
2020-07-27 |
| 79. |
With a ready tongue and rapier wit, Hamilton could wound peo... |
44.13 |
0.9406 |
0.0333 |
200 |
1 |
44.13 |
2020-07-03 |
| 80. |
I have been taking care of it! I already got Big Red to cut ... |
43.66 |
0.9532 |
0.0215 |
289 |
1 |
43.66 |
2020-06-09 |
| 81. |
Adios rock band that we loved the most, this is a toast to w... |
43.54 |
1.1209 |
-0.1414 |
217 |
1 |
43.54 |
2020-05-21 |
| 82. |
If we play Bach on an old and well-preserved Silbermann orga... |
43.21 |
0.8989 |
0.0737 |
392 |
1 |
43.21 |
2020-07-27 |
| 83. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
42.89 |
0.9772 |
-0.0077 |
217 |
1 |
42.89 |
2020-06-18 |
| 84. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
42.79 |
0.9233 |
0.0405 |
168 |
1 |
42.79 |
2020-08-04 |
| 85. |
Ten percent of whatever they were gonna steal. One time, I "... |
42.61 |
0.8481 |
0.1019 |
124 |
1 |
42.61 |
2020-06-18 |
| 86. |
Eating, bathing, having a girlfriend, having an active socia... |
42.28 |
1.0328 |
-0.0777 |
216 |
1 |
42.28 |
2020-06-18 |
| 87. |
Kinda cold, walking home. Growing older on my own. Feels so ... |
42.27 |
1.0464 |
-0.0985 |
198 |
1 |
42.27 |
2020-06-09 |
| 88. |
I cheated on the intelligence test, I'm sorry! But I just wa... |
41.89 |
1.0316 |
-0.0873 |
313 |
2 |
39.73 |
2020-06-18 |
| 89. |
I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout i... |
41.64 |
1.0824 |
-0.1411 |
300 |
1 |
41.64 |
2020-06-09 |
| 90. |
I got in touch with a friend of mine who works at a research... |
41.41 |
0.9273 |
-0.0022 |
306 |
1 |
41.41 |
2020-06-18 |
| 91. |
Don't you see? What these two people, who are such geniuses ... |
41.27 |
1.0183 |
-0.0918 |
292 |
1 |
41.27 |
2020-07-03 |
| 92. |
Whose fault is it that things ended up like this? Coincidenc... |
40.88 |
0.8998 |
0.0141 |
241 |
1 |
40.88 |
2020-06-18 |
| 93. |
I never imagined a boy like you could give me so much troubl... |
40.59 |
0.8916 |
0.0167 |
283 |
1 |
40.59 |
2020-06-09 |
| 94. |
We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds,... |
40.58 |
1.0654 |
-0.1614 |
248 |
1 |
40.58 |
2020-07-03 |
| 95. |
The first notes on the clarinet are simply a rising scale, b... |
40.40 |
0.9567 |
-0.0518 |
212 |
1 |
40.40 |
2020-06-18 |
| 96. |
The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman wo... |
40.26 |
0.8909 |
-0.0001 |
192 |
1 |
40.26 |
2020-06-18 |
| 97. |
The fact is that gossip, rumors, mythmaking, and news storie... |
40.08 |
0.9152 |
-0.0194 |
218 |
1 |
40.08 |
2020-06-09 |
| 98. |
My hopes are so high that your kiss might kill me, so won't ... |
39.42 |
0.9118 |
-0.0425 |
183 |
1 |
39.42 |
2020-06-18 |
| 99. |
It's strange, but the way you look right now sort of looks l... |
39.15 |
1.0081 |
-0.1406 |
165 |
1 |
39.15 |
2020-06-18 |
| 100. |
Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. Yo... |
38.32 |
1.0317 |
-0.1678 |
129 |
1 |
38.32 |
2020-06-09 |
| 101. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
37.90 |
0.8958 |
-0.0362 |
322 |
1 |
37.90 |
2020-06-09 |
| 102. |
My shadow is always with me. Sometimes ahead, sometimes behi... |
37.80 |
1.0069 |
-0.1812 |
145 |
1 |
37.80 |
2020-06-18 |
| 103. |
Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape w... |
37.46 |
0.9115 |
-0.0823 |
118 |
1 |
37.46 |
2020-06-18 |
| 104. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
36.78 |
1.0725 |
-0.2136 |
233 |
1 |
36.78 |
2020-07-03 |
| 105. |
Think of what you're saying, you can get it wrong and still ... |
36.73 |
1.1084 |
-0.2787 |
172 |
1 |
36.73 |
2020-06-18 |
| 106. |
My heart is like an open highway. Like Frankie said, I did i... |
36.43 |
0.8885 |
-0.0875 |
106 |
1 |
36.43 |
2020-06-09 |
| 107. |
We think Voldemort wants to build up his army, not just witc... |
36.42 |
0.9112 |
-0.1151 |
177 |
1 |
36.42 |
2020-06-09 |
| 108. |
It is now time to make it unclear. To write off lines that d... |
36.32 |
1.0684 |
-0.2570 |
290 |
1 |
36.32 |
2020-06-09 |
| 109. |
I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mi... |
36.25 |
0.9010 |
-0.0836 |
63 |
1 |
36.25 |
2020-05-21 |
| 110. |
It's all there, black and white, clear as crystal! You stole... |
36.23 |
0.8767 |
-0.0678 |
198 |
1 |
36.23 |
2020-06-18 |
| 111. |
How can you tell me that you're lonely and say for you that ... |
35.50 |
1.1275 |
-0.3312 |
206 |
1 |
35.50 |
2020-06-18 |
| 112. |
And so their end began. They thought us the final frontier, ... |
35.14 |
1.0717 |
-0.2924 |
296 |
1 |
35.14 |
2020-06-18 |
| 113. |
Stars, in your multitudes - scarce to be counted, filling th... |
35.04 |
1.0345 |
-0.2497 |
295 |
1 |
35.04 |
2020-06-18 |
| 114. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
35.04 |
0.9855 |
-0.1608 |
258 |
1 |
35.04 |
2020-06-18 |
| 115. |
Almost heaven, West Virginia. Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenando... |
34.96 |
0.8759 |
-0.1018 |
270 |
1 |
34.96 |
2020-05-21 |
| 116. |
There are all sorts of dream interpretations, Freud's being ... |
34.45 |
0.9643 |
-0.2013 |
244 |
1 |
34.45 |
2020-05-21 |
| 117. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
34.43 |
0.8826 |
-0.1042 |
296 |
1 |
34.43 |
2020-05-21 |
| 118. |
There was no telling what people might find out once they fe... |
34.26 |
0.9309 |
-0.1514 |
109 |
1 |
34.26 |
2020-05-21 |
| 119. |
You want praise from people who kick themselves every fiftee... |
34.11 |
0.9247 |
-0.1728 |
117 |
1 |
34.11 |
2020-06-18 |
| 120. |
Although some men who were easy with their words said that i... |
33.98 |
1.0729 |
-0.3067 |
195 |
1 |
33.98 |
2020-05-21 |
| 121. |
I said a hip hop, the hippie, the hippie to the hip, hip hop... |
33.59 |
0.8604 |
-0.1262 |
182 |
1 |
33.59 |
2020-06-18 |
| 122. |
A heart is not judged by how much you love but by how much y... |
33.30 |
0.9120 |
-0.1769 |
83 |
1 |
33.30 |
2020-06-09 |
| 123. |
Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerou... |
33.28 |
0.8500 |
-0.1274 |
128 |
1 |
33.28 |
2020-06-18 |
| 124. |
I bet you're wondering how I knew about your plans to make m... |
33.24 |
1.0235 |
-0.2932 |
158 |
1 |
33.24 |
2020-05-21 |
| 125. |
My life, when it is written, will read better than it lived.... |
33.17 |
0.8734 |
-0.1350 |
271 |
1 |
33.17 |
2020-06-09 |
| 126. |
Of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us, for the... |
32.00 |
0.9951 |
-0.2890 |
200 |
1 |
32.00 |
2020-05-21 |
| 127. |
Is getting rid of all the thorns in someone's path really wh... |
31.38 |
0.9303 |
-0.2395 |
79 |
1 |
31.38 |
2020-07-03 |
| 128. |
Here's what's problematic: You don't even know where your bo... |
31.20 |
0.9384 |
-0.2491 |
253 |
1 |
31.20 |
2020-06-09 |
| 129. |
Little brat. I invent the game, find the kid, drag him up th... |
31.09 |
0.8515 |
-0.1725 |
114 |
1 |
31.09 |
2020-06-18 |
| 130. |
It used to be risky for a scientist to assert that anything ... |
31.01 |
1.0167 |
-0.3232 |
217 |
1 |
31.01 |
2020-07-03 |
| 131. |
Well, the zombies were having fun. The party had just begun.... |
30.62 |
0.8953 |
-0.2161 |
298 |
1 |
30.62 |
2020-07-03 |
| 132. |
Scissors cuts paper. Paper covers rock. Rock crushes lizard.... |
30.51 |
0.7918 |
-0.1006 |
244 |
1 |
30.51 |
2020-07-03 |
| 133. |
Lamp oil? Rope? Bombs? You want it? It's yours, my friend, a... |
29.56 |
0.7437 |
-0.0949 |
93 |
1 |
29.56 |
2020-07-03 |
| 134. |
Here's our man. Yeah, all right. Here's me. Well, the guy pl... |
29.49 |
0.8007 |
-0.1528 |
134 |
1 |
29.49 |
2020-07-03 |
| 135. |
Speaking in my official capacity as a Pulitzer Prize winner,... |
29.02 |
0.7449 |
-0.1118 |
93 |
1 |
29.02 |
2020-06-09 |
| 136. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
27.09 |
0.8770 |
-0.2663 |
300 |
1 |
27.09 |
2020-06-18 |