| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
145.25 |
1.0993 |
0.2066 |
265 |
2 |
145.17 |
2008-08-26 |
| 2. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
137.20 |
1.0444 |
0.1838 |
197 |
1 |
137.20 |
2010-05-22 |
| 3. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
136.50 |
1.0389 |
0.1920 |
340 |
2 |
126.47 |
2010-05-21 |
| 4. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
132.93 |
1.1162 |
0.1208 |
189 |
1 |
132.93 |
2010-05-22 |
| 5. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
131.99 |
1.1018 |
0.0793 |
220 |
1 |
131.99 |
2009-05-23 |
| 6. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
131.85 |
1.0429 |
0.1419 |
259 |
1 |
131.85 |
2010-07-03 |
| 7. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
129.77 |
1.0252 |
0.1356 |
176 |
2 |
128.81 |
2010-07-08 |
| 8. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
128.55 |
1.0523 |
0.0996 |
256 |
2 |
126.35 |
2008-08-27 |
| 9. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
127.14 |
1.0787 |
0.0633 |
237 |
2 |
123.93 |
2008-08-26 |
| 10. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
126.26 |
1.0263 |
0.1082 |
267 |
1 |
126.26 |
2010-07-03 |
| 11. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
126.06 |
1.0099 |
0.1207 |
207 |
1 |
126.06 |
2009-11-19 |
| 12. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
125.07 |
1.0711 |
0.0483 |
213 |
3 |
120.53 |
2008-12-20 |
| 13. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
124.99 |
1.0189 |
0.1082 |
337 |
2 |
123.52 |
2010-05-21 |
| 14. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
124.72 |
1.0613 |
0.0609 |
266 |
2 |
122.66 |
2008-08-26 |
| 15. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
124.57 |
1.0340 |
0.0912 |
406 |
1 |
124.57 |
2008-08-26 |
| 16. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
123.68 |
0.9795 |
0.1324 |
308 |
2 |
121.49 |
2008-08-26 |
| 17. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
123.09 |
1.0528 |
0.0487 |
201 |
1 |
123.09 |
2008-08-27 |
| 18. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
122.76 |
0.9593 |
0.1489 |
398 |
2 |
109.74 |
2008-09-28 |
| 19. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
122.62 |
0.9936 |
0.1083 |
311 |
2 |
115.94 |
2008-08-24 |
| 20. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
122.32 |
1.0567 |
0.0434 |
303 |
1 |
122.32 |
2009-03-21 |
| 21. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
121.90 |
1.0487 |
0.0420 |
231 |
1 |
121.90 |
2008-08-26 |
| 22. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
121.83 |
1.0168 |
0.0797 |
271 |
1 |
121.83 |
2009-05-09 |
| 23. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
121.75 |
0.9540 |
0.1385 |
285 |
1 |
121.75 |
2010-05-21 |
| 24. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
121.58 |
1.0334 |
0.0529 |
131 |
1 |
121.58 |
2009-05-24 |
| 25. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
120.99 |
1.0201 |
0.0677 |
303 |
3 |
112.14 |
2008-08-27 |
| 26. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
119.40 |
0.9820 |
0.0938 |
267 |
1 |
119.40 |
2009-11-19 |
| 27. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
119.34 |
1.0515 |
0.0190 |
250 |
1 |
119.34 |
2008-08-24 |
| 28. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
119.20 |
1.0213 |
0.0466 |
240 |
1 |
119.20 |
2010-05-22 |
| 29. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
118.84 |
1.0555 |
0.0138 |
363 |
1 |
118.84 |
2008-08-24 |
| 30. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
117.27 |
1.0368 |
0.0177 |
276 |
1 |
117.27 |
2008-08-26 |
| 31. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
117.21 |
0.9768 |
0.0788 |
387 |
2 |
117.08 |
2008-08-26 |
| 32. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
117.06 |
1.0261 |
0.0237 |
273 |
2 |
115.52 |
2008-09-28 |
| 33. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
116.99 |
0.9811 |
0.0726 |
272 |
1 |
116.99 |
2008-12-20 |
| 34. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
116.98 |
1.0463 |
0.0000 |
182 |
2 |
115.41 |
2009-05-23 |
| 35. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
116.74 |
0.9997 |
0.0527 |
382 |
1 |
116.74 |
2008-08-27 |
| 36. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
115.65 |
1.0120 |
0.0261 |
290 |
3 |
106.41 |
2008-08-27 |
| 37. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
115.60 |
0.9785 |
0.0631 |
335 |
1 |
115.60 |
2008-08-26 |
| 38. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
114.99 |
0.9632 |
0.0761 |
392 |
1 |
114.99 |
2008-08-26 |
| 39. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
114.49 |
1.0025 |
0.0267 |
336 |
1 |
114.49 |
2010-06-29 |
| 40. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
114.34 |
1.0445 |
-0.0167 |
373 |
1 |
114.34 |
2008-08-26 |
| 41. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
114.31 |
0.9532 |
0.0722 |
258 |
1 |
114.31 |
2008-08-23 |
| 42. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
114.07 |
0.9776 |
0.0471 |
308 |
2 |
110.33 |
2008-08-26 |
| 43. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
114.03 |
0.9485 |
0.0780 |
291 |
1 |
114.03 |
2010-06-29 |
| 44. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
113.46 |
1.0391 |
-0.0141 |
358 |
1 |
113.46 |
2008-08-27 |
| 45. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
113.41 |
0.9763 |
0.0417 |
289 |
2 |
103.63 |
2008-08-24 |
| 46. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
113.25 |
1.0352 |
-0.0156 |
341 |
1 |
113.25 |
2008-08-23 |
| 47. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
113.10 |
1.0297 |
-0.0152 |
249 |
1 |
113.10 |
2010-01-22 |
| 48. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
112.69 |
1.0165 |
-0.0007 |
392 |
2 |
112.07 |
2009-11-19 |
| 49. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
112.64 |
0.9833 |
0.0298 |
355 |
2 |
111.40 |
2008-08-26 |
| 50. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
112.60 |
0.9723 |
0.0425 |
364 |
2 |
104.31 |
2008-08-25 |
| 51. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
112.49 |
1.0352 |
-0.0220 |
341 |
1 |
112.49 |
2009-11-19 |
| 52. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
112.34 |
1.0349 |
-0.0268 |
234 |
1 |
112.34 |
2010-07-08 |
| 53. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
112.31 |
0.8947 |
0.1187 |
366 |
1 |
112.31 |
2008-08-24 |
| 54. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
112.25 |
0.9942 |
0.0225 |
483 |
1 |
112.25 |
2008-08-26 |
| 55. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
112.22 |
1.0829 |
-0.0737 |
288 |
2 |
106.04 |
2008-08-27 |
| 56. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
112.11 |
1.0483 |
-0.0446 |
227 |
1 |
112.11 |
2009-03-21 |
| 57. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
111.69 |
1.0167 |
-0.0071 |
378 |
1 |
111.69 |
2009-03-21 |
| 58. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
111.53 |
0.9653 |
0.0444 |
394 |
3 |
104.40 |
2009-05-23 |
| 59. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
111.37 |
1.0211 |
0.0095 |
213 |
1 |
111.37 |
2010-05-21 |
| 60. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
110.78 |
0.9148 |
0.0812 |
317 |
1 |
110.78 |
2009-05-09 |
| 61. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
110.62 |
0.9865 |
0.0077 |
276 |
2 |
107.84 |
2008-08-28 |
| 62. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
110.47 |
0.9886 |
0.0056 |
220 |
2 |
110.21 |
2010-01-22 |
| 63. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
109.73 |
0.9912 |
0.0207 |
237 |
1 |
109.73 |
2010-05-21 |
| 64. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
109.17 |
0.9398 |
0.0494 |
419 |
1 |
109.17 |
2008-08-26 |
| 65. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
108.69 |
0.9910 |
-0.0135 |
295 |
1 |
108.69 |
2008-08-26 |
| 66. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
108.66 |
0.9619 |
0.0186 |
393 |
2 |
99.76 |
2008-08-24 |
| 67. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
107.26 |
0.9857 |
-0.0241 |
293 |
1 |
107.26 |
2008-08-26 |
| 68. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
107.03 |
1.0389 |
-0.0767 |
318 |
1 |
107.03 |
2010-05-22 |
| 69. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
106.16 |
1.0375 |
-0.0390 |
200 |
1 |
106.16 |
2009-11-19 |
| 70. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
105.79 |
1.0454 |
-0.0999 |
255 |
1 |
105.79 |
2008-08-26 |
| 71. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
105.50 |
0.9411 |
0.0062 |
318 |
2 |
99.05 |
2008-08-26 |
| 72. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
105.34 |
1.0390 |
-0.0977 |
205 |
1 |
105.34 |
2010-05-21 |
| 73. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
104.91 |
0.9567 |
-0.0157 |
273 |
2 |
101.07 |
2008-08-27 |
| 74. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
104.78 |
0.9687 |
-0.0240 |
371 |
3 |
103.47 |
2008-08-29 |
| 75. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
104.42 |
0.9213 |
0.0159 |
295 |
2 |
98.24 |
2008-08-26 |
| 76. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
104.36 |
0.9844 |
-0.0434 |
293 |
1 |
104.36 |
2008-08-24 |
| 77. |
I don't want to go in there. He's a dangerous bastard. Taken... |
103.39 |
0.9368 |
0.0058 |
174 |
1 |
103.39 |
2008-08-26 |
| 78. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
103.07 |
0.9359 |
0.0280 |
353 |
1 |
103.07 |
2010-01-22 |
| 79. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
103.06 |
0.9672 |
-0.0363 |
396 |
2 |
98.31 |
2008-08-26 |
| 80. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
102.55 |
0.9202 |
-0.0012 |
254 |
3 |
99.02 |
2008-08-26 |
| 81. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
102.02 |
1.0060 |
-0.0958 |
171 |
1 |
102.02 |
2009-11-19 |
| 82. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
102.01 |
0.9088 |
0.0112 |
348 |
1 |
102.01 |
2009-05-09 |
| 83. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
101.36 |
1.0025 |
-0.0937 |
256 |
1 |
101.36 |
2008-08-25 |
| 84. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
101.10 |
0.9851 |
-0.0764 |
317 |
1 |
101.10 |
2008-08-28 |
| 85. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
100.80 |
0.9351 |
-0.0368 |
190 |
1 |
100.80 |
2008-08-26 |
| 86. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. The work was generall... |
100.22 |
0.9746 |
-0.0477 |
405 |
1 |
100.22 |
2010-05-21 |
| 87. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
100.01 |
1.0053 |
-0.1107 |
232 |
1 |
100.01 |
2008-08-25 |
| 88. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
99.58 |
0.9966 |
-0.1045 |
259 |
1 |
99.58 |
2008-08-24 |
| 89. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
99.37 |
0.9866 |
-0.0995 |
218 |
2 |
97.12 |
2008-08-26 |
| 90. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
99.34 |
1.0172 |
-0.0916 |
341 |
1 |
99.34 |
2010-06-29 |
| 91. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
99.07 |
0.9622 |
-0.0677 |
392 |
1 |
99.07 |
2008-08-26 |
| 92. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
98.91 |
1.0038 |
-0.0869 |
237 |
1 |
98.91 |
2012-01-08 |
| 93. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
98.88 |
0.9597 |
-0.0693 |
347 |
1 |
98.88 |
2008-08-26 |
| 94. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
98.77 |
1.0696 |
-0.1878 |
226 |
1 |
98.77 |
2008-08-24 |
| 95. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
98.43 |
0.9941 |
-0.1143 |
217 |
1 |
98.43 |
2008-08-27 |
| 96. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
97.73 |
0.9064 |
-0.0213 |
399 |
1 |
97.73 |
2012-01-08 |
| 97. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
97.68 |
0.9084 |
-0.0289 |
404 |
1 |
97.68 |
2008-08-26 |
| 98. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
97.68 |
0.9513 |
-0.0721 |
354 |
2 |
96.97 |
2008-08-27 |
| 99. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
97.44 |
0.9266 |
-0.0533 |
267 |
1 |
97.44 |
2008-09-28 |
| 100. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
97.40 |
1.0201 |
-0.1540 |
172 |
1 |
97.40 |
2012-01-08 |
| 101. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
97.28 |
0.9635 |
-0.0863 |
389 |
1 |
97.28 |
2008-08-26 |
| 102. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
97.22 |
0.9376 |
-0.0610 |
367 |
2 |
96.40 |
2008-08-26 |
| 103. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
96.82 |
0.9049 |
-0.0319 |
351 |
1 |
96.82 |
2008-08-26 |
| 104. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
96.69 |
0.8770 |
-0.0074 |
300 |
2 |
95.22 |
2008-08-28 |
| 105. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
96.43 |
0.8722 |
-0.0052 |
285 |
1 |
96.43 |
2008-08-24 |
| 106. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
96.41 |
0.9893 |
-0.1253 |
323 |
1 |
96.41 |
2008-08-26 |
| 107. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
96.17 |
0.9739 |
-0.0764 |
412 |
1 |
96.17 |
2010-05-21 |
| 108. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
95.40 |
0.9212 |
-0.0632 |
323 |
1 |
95.40 |
2008-08-26 |
| 109. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
94.64 |
0.8890 |
-0.0448 |
199 |
2 |
93.79 |
2008-08-25 |
| 110. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
94.15 |
0.8852 |
-0.0398 |
201 |
1 |
94.15 |
2008-08-25 |
| 111. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
94.05 |
0.8105 |
0.0276 |
204 |
1 |
94.05 |
2009-05-23 |
| 112. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
91.94 |
0.9072 |
-0.0857 |
237 |
1 |
91.94 |
2008-08-26 |
| 113. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
87.82 |
0.8958 |
-0.1054 |
322 |
1 |
87.82 |
2008-08-26 |
| 114. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
86.81 |
0.9509 |
-0.1359 |
225 |
1 |
86.81 |
2010-01-22 |
| 115. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
86.10 |
0.8595 |
-0.0876 |
242 |
1 |
86.10 |
2008-08-25 |
| 116. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
84.10 |
0.9168 |
-0.1636 |
240 |
1 |
84.10 |
2008-08-25 |
| 117. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
78.33 |
0.9710 |
-0.2780 |
173 |
1 |
78.33 |
2008-08-23 |