| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
126.27 |
1.0797 |
0.2535 |
210 |
1 |
126.27 |
2010-01-11 |
| 2. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
119.82 |
1.0613 |
0.2093 |
266 |
3 |
110.37 |
2013-06-27 |
| 3. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
116.01 |
1.0063 |
0.2227 |
371 |
1 |
116.01 |
2010-01-11 |
| 4. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
112.91 |
1.0767 |
0.1168 |
212 |
1 |
112.91 |
2009-08-04 |
| 5. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
112.37 |
1.0292 |
0.1592 |
262 |
2 |
106.56 |
2009-08-04 |
| 6. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
112.04 |
1.0907 |
0.0978 |
303 |
1 |
112.04 |
2009-11-10 |
| 7. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
111.18 |
1.0331 |
0.1418 |
234 |
3 |
100.14 |
2013-06-27 |
| 8. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
110.66 |
1.0829 |
0.0900 |
288 |
2 |
102.88 |
2009-11-13 |
| 9. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
109.60 |
0.9884 |
0.1715 |
233 |
1 |
109.60 |
2009-07-25 |
| 10. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
109.18 |
1.0516 |
0.1035 |
281 |
3 |
96.71 |
2009-11-10 |
| 11. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
108.68 |
1.0398 |
0.0997 |
110 |
1 |
108.68 |
2010-08-24 |
| 12. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
108.01 |
1.0077 |
0.1763 |
250 |
1 |
108.01 |
2013-06-27 |
| 13. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
107.43 |
1.0391 |
0.1039 |
358 |
1 |
107.43 |
2009-08-20 |
| 14. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
106.37 |
0.9731 |
0.1399 |
129 |
3 |
98.75 |
2009-08-20 |
| 15. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
106.04 |
1.0477 |
0.0767 |
360 |
1 |
106.04 |
2013-06-27 |
| 16. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
105.64 |
1.0168 |
0.1029 |
271 |
1 |
105.64 |
2009-11-13 |
| 17. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
105.32 |
0.9936 |
0.1409 |
227 |
1 |
105.32 |
2010-08-24 |
| 18. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
105.06 |
1.0768 |
0.0747 |
295 |
1 |
105.06 |
2009-11-10 |
| 19. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
103.48 |
1.0346 |
0.1019 |
244 |
1 |
103.48 |
2013-06-27 |
| 20. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
103.28 |
1.0595 |
0.0357 |
379 |
2 |
99.91 |
2009-11-13 |
| 21. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
103.19 |
0.9786 |
0.1124 |
235 |
1 |
103.19 |
2010-01-28 |
| 22. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
103.11 |
1.1215 |
-0.0069 |
200 |
1 |
103.11 |
2013-06-27 |
| 23. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
102.84 |
1.0534 |
0.0370 |
357 |
1 |
102.84 |
2009-11-13 |
| 24. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
102.48 |
0.9786 |
0.1003 |
193 |
4 |
91.75 |
2010-08-24 |
| 25. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
102.19 |
1.1162 |
0.0059 |
189 |
1 |
102.19 |
2013-06-27 |
| 26. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
102.17 |
1.0462 |
0.0285 |
184 |
2 |
95.36 |
2013-06-27 |
| 27. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
102.00 |
1.0885 |
0.0254 |
341 |
1 |
102.00 |
2013-06-27 |
| 28. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
100.84 |
1.0296 |
0.0434 |
437 |
1 |
100.84 |
2009-08-02 |
| 29. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
100.80 |
0.9893 |
0.0768 |
323 |
1 |
100.80 |
2009-08-03 |
| 30. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
100.17 |
1.0669 |
0.0256 |
213 |
1 |
100.17 |
2013-06-27 |
| 31. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
99.90 |
0.9863 |
0.0744 |
339 |
1 |
99.90 |
2009-11-13 |
| 32. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
99.82 |
0.9843 |
0.0662 |
234 |
1 |
99.82 |
2009-07-25 |
| 33. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
99.56 |
1.0486 |
0.0049 |
289 |
1 |
99.56 |
2009-07-25 |
| 34. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
98.92 |
0.9570 |
0.0906 |
287 |
1 |
98.92 |
2013-06-27 |
| 35. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
98.89 |
1.0218 |
0.0209 |
268 |
1 |
98.89 |
2013-06-27 |
| 36. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
98.49 |
1.0463 |
-0.0097 |
182 |
1 |
98.49 |
2009-07-25 |
| 37. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
98.48 |
1.0213 |
0.0169 |
240 |
1 |
98.48 |
2009-08-20 |
| 38. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
98.33 |
0.9897 |
0.0475 |
274 |
1 |
98.33 |
2009-11-13 |
| 39. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
98.15 |
1.0251 |
0.0106 |
261 |
1 |
98.15 |
2009-08-03 |
| 40. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
98.02 |
0.9513 |
0.0888 |
354 |
1 |
98.02 |
2009-07-25 |
| 41. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
97.86 |
0.9916 |
0.0857 |
282 |
1 |
97.86 |
2013-06-27 |
| 42. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
97.74 |
1.0496 |
-0.0171 |
314 |
2 |
90.73 |
2013-06-27 |
| 43. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
97.01 |
0.9965 |
0.0294 |
310 |
1 |
97.01 |
2009-07-25 |
| 44. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
96.94 |
1.0109 |
0.0144 |
276 |
1 |
96.94 |
2010-01-11 |
| 45. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
96.55 |
1.0529 |
-0.0324 |
351 |
1 |
96.55 |
2009-08-03 |
| 46. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
96.16 |
1.0799 |
-0.0673 |
243 |
1 |
96.16 |
2009-08-03 |
| 47. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
95.91 |
0.9795 |
0.0347 |
308 |
1 |
95.91 |
2009-08-20 |
| 48. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
95.31 |
0.9682 |
0.0375 |
143 |
2 |
94.08 |
2013-06-27 |
| 49. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
95.30 |
0.8826 |
0.1262 |
296 |
1 |
95.30 |
2010-08-24 |
| 50. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
94.84 |
0.9398 |
0.0720 |
419 |
2 |
88.86 |
2009-11-10 |
| 51. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
94.62 |
1.0099 |
-0.0132 |
207 |
1 |
94.62 |
2013-06-27 |
| 52. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
94.52 |
1.0314 |
0.0066 |
452 |
1 |
94.52 |
2009-11-13 |
| 53. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
94.42 |
1.0577 |
-0.0638 |
247 |
1 |
94.42 |
2009-11-13 |
| 54. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
94.37 |
1.0545 |
-0.0165 |
416 |
1 |
94.37 |
2013-06-27 |
| 55. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
94.30 |
0.9763 |
0.0196 |
289 |
1 |
94.30 |
2009-08-02 |
| 56. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
93.81 |
0.9500 |
0.0432 |
362 |
1 |
93.81 |
2013-06-27 |
| 57. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
93.48 |
1.0062 |
-0.0187 |
288 |
1 |
93.48 |
2009-07-25 |
| 58. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
92.75 |
1.0068 |
-0.0235 |
358 |
2 |
87.89 |
2010-08-24 |
| 59. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
92.41 |
1.0426 |
-0.0672 |
323 |
1 |
92.41 |
2009-07-25 |
| 60. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
92.08 |
1.0165 |
-0.0397 |
392 |
1 |
92.08 |
2009-07-25 |
| 61. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
92.08 |
1.0060 |
-0.0382 |
171 |
1 |
92.08 |
2009-11-10 |
| 62. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
92.02 |
0.9886 |
-0.0141 |
220 |
1 |
92.02 |
2009-11-10 |
| 63. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
91.01 |
1.0023 |
-0.0432 |
211 |
1 |
91.01 |
2009-07-25 |
| 64. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
90.50 |
1.0203 |
-0.0611 |
261 |
1 |
90.50 |
2013-06-27 |
| 65. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
90.18 |
1.0565 |
-0.1070 |
247 |
1 |
90.18 |
2009-08-03 |
| 66. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
89.84 |
0.9351 |
0.0081 |
190 |
1 |
89.84 |
2013-06-27 |
| 67. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
89.56 |
0.9769 |
-0.0331 |
263 |
1 |
89.56 |
2009-11-10 |
| 68. |
Three changes occur while the stacked disk structure equilib... |
89.42 |
0.9382 |
0.0317 |
440 |
1 |
89.42 |
2013-06-27 |
| 69. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
89.37 |
0.9365 |
0.0087 |
248 |
1 |
89.37 |
2010-08-24 |
| 70. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
88.86 |
1.0498 |
-0.1165 |
180 |
1 |
88.86 |
2013-06-27 |
| 71. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
88.27 |
1.0261 |
-0.0964 |
273 |
1 |
88.27 |
2013-06-27 |
| 72. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
88.08 |
0.9852 |
-0.0550 |
264 |
1 |
88.08 |
2010-08-24 |
| 73. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
88.02 |
0.9430 |
-0.0210 |
211 |
1 |
88.02 |
2013-06-27 |
| 74. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
87.72 |
0.9097 |
0.0581 |
464 |
1 |
87.72 |
2009-07-25 |
| 75. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
87.26 |
1.0172 |
-0.0611 |
341 |
1 |
87.26 |
2013-06-27 |
| 76. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
87.15 |
1.0042 |
-0.0426 |
352 |
1 |
87.15 |
2010-08-24 |
| 77. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
86.73 |
1.0390 |
-0.1273 |
205 |
1 |
86.73 |
2009-08-03 |
| 78. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
86.52 |
1.0555 |
-0.1408 |
363 |
1 |
86.52 |
2009-11-13 |
| 79. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
86.48 |
0.9553 |
-0.0354 |
430 |
1 |
86.48 |
2009-08-07 |
| 80. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
86.07 |
0.9912 |
-0.0559 |
237 |
1 |
86.07 |
2013-06-27 |
| 81. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
85.72 |
0.9646 |
-0.0609 |
264 |
1 |
85.72 |
2010-08-24 |
| 82. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
85.70 |
0.9619 |
-0.0519 |
393 |
1 |
85.70 |
2009-08-04 |
| 83. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
85.47 |
1.0125 |
-0.1132 |
224 |
1 |
85.47 |
2009-11-13 |
| 84. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
84.99 |
0.9532 |
-0.0577 |
258 |
2 |
84.23 |
2009-08-03 |
| 85. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
84.15 |
1.0016 |
-0.1185 |
218 |
1 |
84.15 |
2010-08-24 |
| 86. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
83.45 |
0.9844 |
-0.0990 |
293 |
1 |
83.45 |
2009-07-25 |
| 87. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
83.21 |
0.9583 |
-0.0370 |
341 |
3 |
79.94 |
2013-06-27 |
| 88. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
82.75 |
0.9286 |
-0.0570 |
194 |
1 |
82.75 |
2010-02-12 |
| 89. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
82.64 |
0.9991 |
-0.1269 |
225 |
1 |
82.64 |
2009-08-03 |
| 90. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
81.96 |
0.9293 |
-0.0637 |
355 |
1 |
81.96 |
2010-08-24 |
| 91. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
81.85 |
0.9649 |
-0.1025 |
193 |
1 |
81.85 |
2010-08-24 |
| 92. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
81.52 |
0.9125 |
-0.0511 |
308 |
1 |
81.52 |
2010-01-28 |
| 93. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
81.14 |
0.9709 |
-0.0739 |
397 |
1 |
81.14 |
2009-11-10 |
| 94. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
81.04 |
0.9846 |
-0.1318 |
281 |
1 |
81.04 |
2009-07-25 |
| 95. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
80.98 |
0.9275 |
-0.0767 |
211 |
1 |
80.98 |
2009-11-13 |
| 96. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
80.69 |
1.0141 |
-0.1270 |
304 |
1 |
80.69 |
2013-06-27 |
| 97. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
79.41 |
0.9640 |
-0.0971 |
334 |
1 |
79.41 |
2010-08-24 |
| 98. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
79.11 |
0.9289 |
-0.0976 |
204 |
1 |
79.11 |
2009-11-13 |
| 99. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
78.47 |
0.8553 |
-0.0332 |
174 |
1 |
78.47 |
2009-07-25 |
| 100. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
77.90 |
1.0095 |
-0.1901 |
316 |
1 |
77.90 |
2009-11-13 |
| 101. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
77.73 |
0.9910 |
-0.1698 |
295 |
2 |
77.47 |
2013-06-27 |
| 102. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
77.65 |
1.0361 |
-0.2171 |
269 |
1 |
77.65 |
2013-06-27 |
| 103. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
77.60 |
1.0644 |
-0.2102 |
257 |
1 |
77.60 |
2013-06-27 |
| 104. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
77.33 |
0.9670 |
-0.1100 |
307 |
1 |
77.33 |
2013-06-27 |
| 105. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
75.42 |
0.9614 |
-0.1638 |
292 |
1 |
75.42 |
2009-08-20 |
| 106. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
75.07 |
0.9966 |
-0.2065 |
259 |
1 |
75.07 |
2013-06-27 |
| 107. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
71.48 |
0.9601 |
-0.2031 |
308 |
1 |
71.48 |
2009-08-03 |
| 108. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
65.25 |
0.7876 |
-0.0995 |
316 |
1 |
65.25 |
2009-08-03 |
| 109. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
58.42 |
0.9155 |
-0.2541 |
168 |
1 |
58.42 |
2013-06-27 |