| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
If we burn our wings flying too close to the sun; if the mom... |
148.86 |
1.0823 |
0.2733 |
200 |
1 |
148.86 |
2018-10-28 |
| 2. |
The spot where we intend to fight must not be made known; fo... |
147.69 |
1.0028 |
0.3401 |
292 |
1 |
147.69 |
2016-12-11 |
| 3. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
147.00 |
1.0388 |
0.3321 |
243 |
1 |
147.00 |
2016-12-12 |
| 4. |
This tree is our symbol. Our affirmation of life, and everyo... |
145.44 |
1.0254 |
0.3026 |
220 |
1 |
145.44 |
2018-10-28 |
| 5. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
141.08 |
1.0034 |
0.2802 |
302 |
1 |
141.08 |
2010-01-05 |
| 6. |
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specif... |
140.94 |
1.0350 |
0.2612 |
334 |
2 |
133.30 |
2016-12-13 |
| 7. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
136.56 |
1.0797 |
0.1581 |
210 |
3 |
130.19 |
2016-12-12 |
| 8. |
Never give up on everything if one thing is too hard. Never ... |
136.08 |
1.0751 |
0.1738 |
323 |
1 |
136.08 |
2016-12-13 |
| 9. |
You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the ... |
135.68 |
1.0696 |
0.1778 |
317 |
1 |
135.68 |
2016-05-22 |
| 10. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
132.43 |
0.9504 |
0.2499 |
263 |
1 |
132.43 |
2016-12-12 |
| 11. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
131.79 |
1.0711 |
0.1231 |
213 |
1 |
131.79 |
2012-06-26 |
| 12. |
And isn't that a minor miracle? The state of the world today... |
130.46 |
1.0618 |
0.1369 |
265 |
1 |
130.46 |
2016-12-13 |
| 13. |
But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very m... |
130.41 |
1.0318 |
0.1587 |
297 |
1 |
130.41 |
2018-10-28 |
| 14. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
129.91 |
1.0669 |
0.1476 |
286 |
2 |
127.51 |
2012-04-29 |
| 15. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
129.17 |
1.0197 |
0.1528 |
226 |
1 |
129.17 |
2012-04-29 |
| 16. |
To think that the affairs of this life always remain in the ... |
128.92 |
1.0118 |
0.1768 |
473 |
1 |
128.92 |
2016-12-18 |
| 17. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
128.23 |
1.0565 |
0.1075 |
247 |
1 |
128.23 |
2010-01-05 |
| 18. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
128.01 |
1.0725 |
0.1181 |
233 |
1 |
128.01 |
2012-07-27 |
| 19. |
Our prematurity brought a second big advantage: it forced us... |
126.07 |
0.9962 |
0.1656 |
455 |
1 |
126.07 |
2016-12-19 |
| 20. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
125.39 |
0.9897 |
0.1487 |
274 |
1 |
125.39 |
2010-01-13 |
| 21. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
124.84 |
0.9831 |
0.1604 |
469 |
1 |
124.84 |
2016-12-18 |
| 22. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
123.34 |
1.0441 |
0.0792 |
252 |
1 |
123.34 |
2010-01-12 |
| 23. |
Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It's ab... |
123.23 |
1.0604 |
0.0937 |
260 |
1 |
123.23 |
2012-07-27 |
| 24. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
122.47 |
1.0567 |
0.0577 |
303 |
1 |
122.47 |
2010-01-12 |
| 25. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
122.08 |
1.0662 |
0.0815 |
407 |
1 |
122.08 |
2012-08-10 |
| 26. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
121.73 |
1.0829 |
0.0255 |
288 |
1 |
121.73 |
2012-08-09 |
| 27. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
121.42 |
1.0141 |
0.1261 |
304 |
1 |
121.42 |
2012-04-29 |
| 28. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
120.81 |
1.0334 |
0.0587 |
131 |
1 |
120.81 |
2012-08-09 |
| 29. |
When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell whe... |
120.30 |
0.9842 |
0.1145 |
324 |
1 |
120.30 |
2016-12-12 |
| 30. |
Perhaps I'm just projecting my own concern about it. I know ... |
119.43 |
1.0196 |
0.0688 |
227 |
1 |
119.43 |
2016-12-08 |
| 31. |
No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-se... |
119.15 |
0.9283 |
0.1514 |
232 |
1 |
119.15 |
2016-12-11 |
| 32. |
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most ... |
116.94 |
1.0439 |
0.0250 |
369 |
1 |
116.94 |
2016-12-19 |
| 33. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
116.38 |
1.0261 |
0.0298 |
273 |
1 |
116.38 |
2010-01-05 |
| 34. |
Take my hand for a minute. We're in it. Imagine all the pain... |
116.20 |
0.9814 |
0.0757 |
329 |
1 |
116.20 |
2016-12-08 |
| 35. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
115.88 |
0.9905 |
0.0702 |
377 |
2 |
114.43 |
2012-08-09 |
| 36. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
115.48 |
1.0787 |
-0.0306 |
237 |
1 |
115.48 |
2012-04-29 |
| 37. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
114.70 |
0.9266 |
0.1158 |
267 |
1 |
114.70 |
2012-06-26 |
| 38. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
113.58 |
1.0445 |
-0.0118 |
373 |
1 |
113.58 |
2010-01-13 |
| 39. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
113.22 |
1.0257 |
0.0093 |
401 |
1 |
113.22 |
2010-01-12 |
| 40. |
The Swarms have crushed the meager human resistance and laid... |
113.06 |
0.9197 |
0.1168 |
297 |
1 |
113.06 |
2016-12-12 |
| 41. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
112.90 |
0.9578 |
0.0675 |
281 |
1 |
112.90 |
2016-12-12 |
| 42. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
112.30 |
0.9682 |
0.0502 |
143 |
1 |
112.30 |
2012-07-27 |
| 43. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
112.25 |
0.9699 |
0.0493 |
269 |
1 |
112.25 |
2012-04-29 |
| 44. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
112.24 |
1.0907 |
-0.0683 |
303 |
1 |
112.24 |
2010-01-13 |
| 45. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
112.20 |
1.0263 |
-0.0075 |
267 |
1 |
112.20 |
2010-01-05 |
| 46. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
111.27 |
0.9570 |
0.0552 |
287 |
3 |
106.76 |
2010-01-13 |
| 47. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
110.33 |
1.0211 |
0.0116 |
213 |
1 |
110.33 |
2010-01-13 |
| 48. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
110.13 |
1.0389 |
-0.0364 |
340 |
1 |
110.13 |
2010-01-13 |
| 49. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
109.06 |
0.9965 |
-0.0109 |
168 |
1 |
109.06 |
2014-11-23 |
| 50. |
Can you "choose" something when you are forcefully and enthu... |
108.88 |
0.9300 |
0.0362 |
173 |
1 |
108.88 |
2018-10-28 |
| 51. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
108.87 |
0.9912 |
0.0242 |
237 |
2 |
91.91 |
2012-08-13 |
| 52. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
108.65 |
1.0095 |
-0.0238 |
316 |
1 |
108.65 |
2010-01-05 |
| 53. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
108.59 |
1.0062 |
-0.0201 |
288 |
1 |
108.59 |
2010-01-05 |
| 54. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
108.13 |
0.9852 |
-0.0032 |
264 |
1 |
108.13 |
2012-04-29 |
| 55. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
107.98 |
1.0172 |
-0.0018 |
341 |
1 |
107.98 |
2011-01-22 |
| 56. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
107.05 |
0.8722 |
0.1024 |
285 |
2 |
96.66 |
2012-07-27 |
| 57. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
106.77 |
0.9865 |
-0.0160 |
276 |
2 |
101.49 |
2012-08-10 |
| 58. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
106.32 |
0.9125 |
0.0544 |
308 |
1 |
106.32 |
2011-01-22 |
| 59. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
106.16 |
0.9351 |
0.0231 |
190 |
1 |
106.16 |
2016-12-12 |
| 60. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
106.10 |
0.9636 |
-0.0007 |
254 |
1 |
106.10 |
2010-01-13 |
| 61. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
105.97 |
0.9546 |
0.0385 |
198 |
1 |
105.97 |
2012-11-02 |
| 62. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
105.64 |
1.0284 |
-0.0260 |
282 |
2 |
104.85 |
2012-04-29 |
| 63. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
105.60 |
1.0498 |
-0.0961 |
180 |
1 |
105.60 |
2012-08-09 |
| 64. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
105.45 |
1.0183 |
-0.0665 |
191 |
1 |
105.45 |
2010-01-05 |
| 65. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
104.94 |
0.9084 |
0.0482 |
404 |
1 |
104.94 |
2012-07-27 |
| 66. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
104.34 |
0.9275 |
0.0163 |
211 |
2 |
96.56 |
2010-02-20 |
| 67. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
103.44 |
0.9942 |
-0.0467 |
483 |
1 |
103.44 |
2010-01-12 |
| 68. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
102.32 |
0.9330 |
0.0019 |
360 |
1 |
102.32 |
2012-04-29 |
| 69. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
101.97 |
1.1296 |
-0.1751 |
252 |
1 |
101.97 |
2014-11-23 |
| 70. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
101.43 |
0.9500 |
-0.0274 |
362 |
1 |
101.43 |
2010-01-13 |
| 71. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
101.37 |
0.9871 |
-0.0313 |
209 |
1 |
101.37 |
2010-01-12 |
| 72. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
100.65 |
1.0768 |
-0.1237 |
295 |
1 |
100.65 |
2010-01-12 |
| 73. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
100.02 |
0.9841 |
-0.0732 |
334 |
1 |
100.02 |
2012-07-27 |
| 74. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
99.97 |
0.9687 |
-0.0572 |
371 |
1 |
99.97 |
2010-01-13 |
| 75. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
99.11 |
0.8914 |
0.0083 |
366 |
1 |
99.11 |
2010-01-12 |
| 76. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
99.02 |
0.9676 |
-0.0616 |
442 |
1 |
99.02 |
2012-04-29 |
| 77. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
97.79 |
0.9936 |
-0.1074 |
311 |
1 |
97.79 |
2010-01-13 |
| 78. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
97.49 |
1.0403 |
-0.1413 |
193 |
1 |
97.49 |
2012-07-27 |
| 79. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
97.35 |
0.9670 |
-0.0423 |
307 |
1 |
97.35 |
2010-01-05 |
| 80. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
95.27 |
1.0352 |
-0.1686 |
341 |
1 |
95.27 |
2010-01-13 |
| 81. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
93.91 |
0.9786 |
-0.1281 |
235 |
1 |
93.91 |
2010-01-05 |
| 82. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
91.74 |
1.0165 |
-0.1817 |
392 |
1 |
91.74 |
2010-01-05 |
| 83. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
90.48 |
0.9157 |
-0.0912 |
350 |
1 |
90.48 |
2010-01-13 |
| 84. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
90.44 |
0.9128 |
-0.0522 |
369 |
2 |
86.36 |
2010-02-20 |
| 85. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
90.07 |
0.9293 |
-0.1128 |
355 |
1 |
90.07 |
2010-01-05 |
| 86. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
89.82 |
1.0365 |
-0.1929 |
162 |
1 |
89.82 |
2010-01-05 |
| 87. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
87.92 |
0.9811 |
-0.1824 |
272 |
2 |
87.33 |
2010-02-20 |
| 88. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
87.84 |
0.7876 |
0.0102 |
316 |
1 |
87.84 |
2012-04-29 |
| 89. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
87.64 |
0.9213 |
-0.1276 |
295 |
1 |
87.64 |
2010-01-12 |
| 90. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
86.05 |
0.9922 |
-0.1724 |
341 |
1 |
86.05 |
2012-08-10 |
| 91. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
82.74 |
0.8382 |
-0.0893 |
268 |
1 |
82.74 |
2010-01-13 |
| 92. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
82.67 |
0.9120 |
-0.1311 |
436 |
1 |
82.67 |
2012-04-29 |
| 93. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
82.09 |
0.9709 |
-0.1877 |
397 |
1 |
82.09 |
2010-01-05 |
| 94. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
78.09 |
0.9364 |
-0.1906 |
351 |
1 |
78.09 |
2010-01-05 |
| 95. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
74.91 |
0.8852 |
-0.2068 |
201 |
1 |
74.91 |
2010-01-12 |
| 96. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
73.06 |
1.0150 |
-0.3068 |
325 |
1 |
73.06 |
2010-01-13 |
| 97. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
70.52 |
1.0666 |
-0.4308 |
297 |
1 |
70.52 |
2012-08-10 |
| 98. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
70.15 |
0.9651 |
-0.2968 |
389 |
1 |
70.15 |
2012-08-10 |
| 99. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
63.51 |
1.0399 |
-0.4634 |
294 |
1 |
63.51 |
2010-01-05 |
| 100. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
58.59 |
0.9899 |
-0.4684 |
163 |
1 |
58.59 |
2012-06-26 |
| 101. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
58.46 |
1.0125 |
-0.4898 |
224 |
1 |
58.46 |
2012-08-09 |