| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
138.07 |
1.0799 |
0.4049 |
243 |
2 |
122.44 |
2014-09-28 |
| 2. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
119.94 |
1.0485 |
0.2773 |
153 |
1 |
119.94 |
2014-09-28 |
| 3. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
115.08 |
1.0012 |
0.2403 |
260 |
1 |
115.08 |
2014-09-28 |
| 4. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
114.91 |
1.0613 |
0.1803 |
456 |
1 |
114.91 |
2014-09-28 |
| 5. |
Three changes occur while the stacked disk structure equilib... |
114.56 |
0.9382 |
0.3199 |
440 |
1 |
114.56 |
2014-09-28 |
| 6. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
113.78 |
1.0218 |
0.1996 |
268 |
1 |
113.78 |
2014-09-28 |
| 7. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
111.72 |
1.0787 |
0.1219 |
237 |
1 |
111.72 |
2014-09-28 |
| 8. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
110.64 |
1.0334 |
0.1502 |
131 |
1 |
110.64 |
2014-09-28 |
| 9. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
110.53 |
0.9904 |
0.2389 |
203 |
1 |
110.53 |
2013-12-10 |
| 10. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
109.82 |
0.9964 |
0.1849 |
203 |
2 |
98.36 |
2014-09-28 |
| 11. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
109.52 |
1.0454 |
0.1289 |
255 |
1 |
109.52 |
2013-12-10 |
| 12. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
109.43 |
1.0863 |
0.1255 |
210 |
1 |
109.43 |
2014-09-28 |
| 13. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
109.25 |
1.0763 |
0.1402 |
367 |
1 |
109.25 |
2013-12-10 |
| 14. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
109.18 |
1.0565 |
0.1151 |
247 |
1 |
109.18 |
2014-09-28 |
| 15. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
108.63 |
1.0214 |
0.1893 |
281 |
1 |
108.63 |
2014-09-28 |
| 16. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
107.88 |
1.0767 |
0.0811 |
212 |
1 |
107.88 |
2014-09-28 |
| 17. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
105.88 |
1.0340 |
0.1099 |
406 |
1 |
105.88 |
2014-09-28 |
| 18. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
105.57 |
1.0907 |
0.0471 |
303 |
1 |
105.57 |
2014-09-28 |
| 19. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
105.44 |
1.0173 |
0.1605 |
268 |
1 |
105.44 |
2013-12-10 |
| 20. |
This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic people ... |
105.26 |
1.0203 |
0.1443 |
400 |
1 |
105.26 |
2014-09-28 |
| 21. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
103.87 |
1.0264 |
0.1302 |
422 |
1 |
103.87 |
2014-09-28 |
| 22. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
103.14 |
0.9925 |
0.1528 |
247 |
1 |
103.14 |
2013-12-10 |
| 23. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
102.55 |
1.0662 |
0.0735 |
407 |
1 |
102.55 |
2013-12-10 |
| 24. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
101.86 |
0.9871 |
0.1437 |
209 |
1 |
101.86 |
2014-09-28 |
| 25. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
101.46 |
0.9866 |
0.1001 |
218 |
1 |
101.46 |
2013-12-10 |
| 26. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
101.31 |
1.0667 |
0.0607 |
406 |
2 |
95.57 |
2014-09-28 |
| 27. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
100.81 |
1.0088 |
0.1132 |
396 |
1 |
100.81 |
2013-12-10 |
| 28. |
I often see racers, particularly at the back of the pack in ... |
100.80 |
1.0004 |
0.1062 |
469 |
2 |
93.41 |
2014-09-28 |
| 29. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
100.01 |
0.9893 |
0.0853 |
323 |
1 |
100.01 |
2013-12-10 |
| 30. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
100.01 |
1.0201 |
0.0585 |
375 |
1 |
100.01 |
2014-09-28 |
| 31. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
99.75 |
1.0263 |
0.0445 |
267 |
1 |
99.75 |
2013-12-10 |
| 32. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
99.57 |
1.0053 |
0.0625 |
232 |
1 |
99.57 |
2014-09-28 |
| 33. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
99.02 |
1.0396 |
0.0170 |
149 |
1 |
99.02 |
2014-09-28 |
| 34. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
98.80 |
1.0679 |
0.0137 |
177 |
1 |
98.80 |
2014-09-28 |
| 35. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
98.33 |
1.0795 |
0.0074 |
226 |
1 |
98.33 |
2013-12-10 |
| 36. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
97.95 |
1.0331 |
0.0168 |
234 |
1 |
97.95 |
2013-12-10 |
| 37. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
97.80 |
0.9593 |
0.0959 |
398 |
1 |
97.80 |
2014-09-28 |
| 38. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
97.80 |
0.9636 |
0.0869 |
254 |
1 |
97.80 |
2014-09-28 |
| 39. |
Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It's ab... |
97.60 |
1.0604 |
0.0210 |
260 |
1 |
97.60 |
2013-12-10 |
| 40. |
Races are not won in the first corner; however, they are oft... |
96.53 |
1.0535 |
0.0180 |
326 |
2 |
96.49 |
2013-12-10 |
| 41. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
96.50 |
1.0711 |
-0.0397 |
213 |
1 |
96.50 |
2013-12-10 |
| 42. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
96.29 |
0.9966 |
0.0370 |
259 |
1 |
96.29 |
2014-09-28 |
| 43. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
96.10 |
1.0314 |
0.0398 |
452 |
1 |
96.10 |
2013-12-10 |
| 44. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
95.94 |
1.0172 |
0.0480 |
341 |
1 |
95.94 |
2014-09-28 |
| 45. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
95.94 |
0.9863 |
0.0484 |
339 |
1 |
95.94 |
2013-12-10 |
| 46. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
95.49 |
1.0365 |
0.0186 |
162 |
1 |
95.49 |
2013-12-10 |
| 47. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
95.31 |
0.9372 |
0.0903 |
320 |
1 |
95.31 |
2014-09-28 |
| 48. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
95.31 |
0.9684 |
0.0576 |
388 |
1 |
95.31 |
2014-09-28 |
| 49. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
94.74 |
0.9731 |
0.0316 |
129 |
1 |
94.74 |
2014-09-28 |
| 50. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
94.74 |
0.9176 |
0.1385 |
365 |
1 |
94.74 |
2014-09-28 |
| 51. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
94.68 |
1.0669 |
-0.0180 |
286 |
1 |
94.68 |
2014-09-28 |
| 52. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
94.65 |
0.9772 |
0.0357 |
217 |
1 |
94.65 |
2014-09-28 |
| 53. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
94.32 |
1.0429 |
-0.0316 |
259 |
1 |
94.32 |
2014-09-28 |
| 54. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
93.44 |
1.0389 |
-0.0333 |
340 |
1 |
93.44 |
2014-09-28 |
| 55. |
However, let us leave aside the philosophical, social, and e... |
92.68 |
0.9569 |
0.0651 |
410 |
1 |
92.68 |
2014-09-28 |
| 56. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
92.63 |
0.9795 |
0.0149 |
308 |
1 |
92.63 |
2013-12-10 |
| 57. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
92.33 |
0.8826 |
0.1099 |
296 |
1 |
92.33 |
2014-09-28 |
| 58. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
91.71 |
0.9786 |
0.0052 |
235 |
1 |
91.71 |
2013-12-10 |
| 59. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
91.58 |
1.0077 |
0.0164 |
250 |
1 |
91.58 |
2014-09-28 |
| 60. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
91.26 |
1.0529 |
-0.0735 |
351 |
1 |
91.26 |
2013-12-10 |
| 61. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
91.22 |
0.9578 |
0.0208 |
281 |
1 |
91.22 |
2014-09-28 |
| 62. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
90.32 |
0.9710 |
-0.0082 |
173 |
1 |
90.32 |
2013-12-10 |
| 63. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
90.32 |
1.0201 |
-0.0576 |
172 |
1 |
90.32 |
2014-09-28 |
| 64. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
90.08 |
0.9879 |
-0.0126 |
450 |
1 |
90.08 |
2014-09-28 |
| 65. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
90.05 |
0.9994 |
-0.0027 |
269 |
2 |
89.12 |
2014-09-28 |
| 66. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
89.74 |
0.9675 |
0.0049 |
383 |
1 |
89.74 |
2013-12-10 |
| 67. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
89.54 |
1.0257 |
-0.0585 |
401 |
1 |
89.54 |
2013-12-10 |
| 68. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
89.28 |
1.0574 |
-0.0719 |
205 |
1 |
89.28 |
2013-12-10 |
| 69. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
88.79 |
1.0254 |
-0.0321 |
217 |
1 |
88.79 |
2013-12-10 |
| 70. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
87.12 |
0.9155 |
0.0680 |
168 |
1 |
87.12 |
2014-09-28 |
| 71. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
86.43 |
0.9785 |
-0.0484 |
335 |
1 |
86.43 |
2013-12-10 |
| 72. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
86.25 |
0.9946 |
-0.0697 |
246 |
1 |
86.25 |
2013-12-10 |
| 73. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
85.59 |
0.9780 |
-0.0592 |
337 |
1 |
85.59 |
2013-12-10 |
| 74. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
84.95 |
1.0068 |
-0.0927 |
358 |
1 |
84.95 |
2013-12-10 |
| 75. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
84.28 |
0.9792 |
-0.0372 |
265 |
1 |
84.28 |
2013-12-10 |
| 76. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
83.94 |
0.9213 |
-0.0210 |
295 |
1 |
83.94 |
2014-09-28 |
| 77. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
83.63 |
0.9125 |
-0.0143 |
308 |
1 |
83.63 |
2014-09-28 |
| 78. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
82.87 |
0.9097 |
0.0200 |
464 |
1 |
82.87 |
2013-12-10 |
| 79. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
82.50 |
0.9376 |
-0.0181 |
360 |
1 |
82.50 |
2013-12-10 |
| 80. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
82.18 |
1.0214 |
-0.1461 |
166 |
1 |
82.18 |
2013-12-10 |
| 81. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
81.25 |
1.1215 |
-0.2272 |
200 |
1 |
81.25 |
2013-12-10 |
| 82. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
80.90 |
1.0595 |
-0.1900 |
379 |
1 |
80.90 |
2014-09-28 |
| 83. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
79.99 |
0.9216 |
-0.0260 |
255 |
2 |
77.43 |
2014-09-28 |
| 84. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
79.96 |
0.9844 |
-0.1230 |
293 |
1 |
79.96 |
2013-12-10 |
| 85. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
79.44 |
0.9468 |
-0.0965 |
276 |
3 |
59.87 |
2014-09-28 |
| 86. |
Buddhism addresses two major types of meditation. Vipassana ... |
78.46 |
0.9312 |
-0.0405 |
320 |
1 |
78.46 |
2014-09-28 |
| 87. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
77.98 |
1.0740 |
-0.2008 |
264 |
1 |
77.98 |
2013-12-10 |
| 88. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
75.71 |
0.9087 |
-0.0877 |
393 |
1 |
75.71 |
2013-12-10 |
| 89. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
75.19 |
0.9763 |
-0.1721 |
289 |
1 |
75.19 |
2014-09-28 |
| 90. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
74.11 |
0.9176 |
-0.0911 |
267 |
1 |
74.11 |
2013-12-10 |
| 91. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
72.95 |
0.9754 |
-0.1889 |
362 |
1 |
72.95 |
2013-12-10 |
| 92. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
72.32 |
0.9566 |
-0.1606 |
576 |
1 |
72.32 |
2013-12-10 |
| 93. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
71.58 |
0.9266 |
-0.1612 |
267 |
1 |
71.58 |
2013-12-10 |
| 94. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
68.94 |
0.9168 |
-0.1788 |
240 |
1 |
68.94 |
2013-12-10 |
| 95. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
68.34 |
0.9289 |
-0.2011 |
204 |
1 |
68.34 |
2013-12-10 |
| 96. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
64.12 |
0.8105 |
-0.1304 |
204 |
1 |
64.12 |
2013-12-10 |
| 97. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
59.60 |
0.9632 |
-0.2858 |
345 |
1 |
59.60 |
2013-12-10 |
| 98. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
52.40 |
0.8595 |
-0.3010 |
242 |
1 |
52.40 |
2013-12-10 |
| 99. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
43.86 |
1.0038 |
-0.5096 |
237 |
1 |
43.86 |
2014-09-28 |
| 100. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
42.08 |
0.9697 |
-0.5250 |
249 |
1 |
42.08 |
2014-09-28 |
| 101. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
30.08 |
0.8996 |
-0.5911 |
192 |
1 |
30.08 |
2014-09-28 |