| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
117.30 |
0.9897 |
0.2265 |
274 |
2 |
109.34 |
2009-03-21 |
| 2. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
115.53 |
1.0403 |
0.1981 |
275 |
1 |
115.53 |
2010-06-29 |
| 3. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
114.31 |
1.0334 |
0.1475 |
131 |
3 |
104.06 |
2012-09-01 |
| 4. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
111.95 |
1.1114 |
0.0467 |
247 |
1 |
111.95 |
2009-11-22 |
| 5. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
111.64 |
1.0485 |
0.1454 |
153 |
1 |
111.64 |
2010-06-29 |
| 6. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
109.09 |
1.1018 |
0.0240 |
220 |
1 |
109.09 |
2009-02-14 |
| 7. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
108.85 |
1.0907 |
0.0355 |
303 |
1 |
108.85 |
2009-11-02 |
| 8. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
107.56 |
1.0454 |
0.0651 |
255 |
1 |
107.56 |
2010-07-02 |
| 9. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
106.97 |
1.0117 |
0.1402 |
297 |
1 |
106.97 |
2012-06-25 |
| 10. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
106.68 |
1.0595 |
0.0469 |
379 |
1 |
106.68 |
2009-11-22 |
| 11. |
He rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' ... |
106.51 |
1.0502 |
0.0740 |
535 |
1 |
106.51 |
2021-08-20 |
| 12. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
106.50 |
1.0289 |
0.0759 |
276 |
1 |
106.50 |
2009-06-21 |
| 13. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
106.32 |
1.0203 |
0.0837 |
261 |
1 |
106.32 |
2009-02-14 |
| 14. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
105.31 |
1.1016 |
-0.0124 |
233 |
2 |
101.99 |
2009-07-11 |
| 15. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
105.14 |
1.0483 |
0.0385 |
227 |
1 |
105.14 |
2021-08-20 |
| 16. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
104.94 |
1.0131 |
0.0710 |
225 |
1 |
104.94 |
2009-11-02 |
| 17. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
104.49 |
0.9886 |
0.0945 |
220 |
1 |
104.49 |
2010-07-10 |
| 18. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
104.02 |
1.0197 |
0.0555 |
226 |
1 |
104.02 |
2008-11-15 |
| 19. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
103.97 |
0.9893 |
0.0881 |
323 |
1 |
103.97 |
2009-11-02 |
| 20. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
103.40 |
0.9636 |
0.1077 |
254 |
1 |
103.40 |
2012-09-01 |
| 21. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
103.14 |
1.0787 |
-0.0111 |
237 |
2 |
98.71 |
2009-11-22 |
| 22. |
Think of all the roads, think of all their crossings. Taking... |
103.08 |
1.0623 |
-0.0181 |
200 |
1 |
103.08 |
2021-08-20 |
| 23. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
103.06 |
1.0213 |
0.0445 |
240 |
1 |
103.06 |
2009-07-11 |
| 24. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
102.80 |
1.0515 |
0.0113 |
250 |
2 |
101.13 |
2009-11-22 |
| 25. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
102.32 |
0.9532 |
0.1055 |
258 |
3 |
96.59 |
2010-06-22 |
| 26. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
101.99 |
1.0109 |
0.0453 |
276 |
1 |
101.99 |
2009-03-21 |
| 27. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
101.90 |
1.0120 |
0.0433 |
290 |
1 |
101.90 |
2009-03-21 |
| 28. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
101.71 |
0.9125 |
0.1414 |
308 |
1 |
101.71 |
2009-11-03 |
| 29. |
You are the promised kiss of springtime that makes the lonel... |
101.09 |
1.0724 |
-0.0451 |
369 |
1 |
101.09 |
2021-02-10 |
| 30. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
100.96 |
1.0132 |
0.0226 |
143 |
1 |
100.96 |
2010-07-07 |
| 31. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
100.70 |
1.0768 |
0.0043 |
295 |
1 |
100.70 |
2012-09-01 |
| 32. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
100.65 |
0.9894 |
0.0549 |
323 |
1 |
100.65 |
2010-07-02 |
| 33. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
100.16 |
1.0574 |
0.0079 |
205 |
1 |
100.16 |
2010-12-15 |
| 34. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
99.86 |
1.0487 |
-0.0181 |
231 |
1 |
99.86 |
2009-03-21 |
| 35. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
99.72 |
0.9991 |
0.0322 |
225 |
2 |
99.66 |
2009-03-20 |
| 36. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
99.33 |
1.0201 |
0.0108 |
375 |
1 |
99.33 |
2009-03-21 |
| 37. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
99.29 |
1.0523 |
-0.0272 |
256 |
1 |
99.29 |
2009-02-14 |
| 38. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
98.43 |
0.9710 |
0.0436 |
173 |
1 |
98.43 |
2009-06-21 |
| 39. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
98.38 |
0.9943 |
0.0229 |
373 |
1 |
98.38 |
2009-11-02 |
| 40. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
98.28 |
1.0352 |
-0.0160 |
341 |
1 |
98.28 |
2009-02-14 |
| 41. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
97.94 |
1.0486 |
-0.0351 |
289 |
1 |
97.94 |
2009-06-21 |
| 42. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
97.50 |
1.0375 |
0.0183 |
200 |
1 |
97.50 |
2010-07-10 |
| 43. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
96.50 |
0.9072 |
0.0904 |
237 |
1 |
96.50 |
2009-06-21 |
| 44. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
96.40 |
1.0331 |
-0.0387 |
234 |
1 |
96.40 |
2009-03-21 |
| 45. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
96.04 |
0.9798 |
0.0097 |
199 |
2 |
91.75 |
2009-02-14 |
| 46. |
No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a m... |
95.86 |
1.0505 |
-0.0592 |
162 |
1 |
95.86 |
2021-08-20 |
| 47. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
95.86 |
1.0062 |
-0.0139 |
288 |
1 |
95.86 |
2009-06-21 |
| 48. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
95.66 |
0.9786 |
0.0104 |
235 |
1 |
95.66 |
2009-11-03 |
| 49. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
95.65 |
0.9916 |
0.0393 |
282 |
1 |
95.65 |
2010-07-07 |
| 50. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
95.52 |
0.9202 |
0.0682 |
254 |
1 |
95.52 |
2009-02-14 |
| 51. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
95.40 |
1.0025 |
-0.0150 |
336 |
1 |
95.40 |
2009-02-14 |
| 52. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
94.48 |
0.9723 |
0.0079 |
364 |
1 |
94.48 |
2021-08-20 |
| 53. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
94.37 |
1.0314 |
-0.0205 |
452 |
1 |
94.37 |
2009-11-02 |
| 54. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
93.71 |
1.0462 |
-0.0807 |
184 |
1 |
93.71 |
2014-09-02 |
| 55. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
92.31 |
0.8958 |
0.0611 |
322 |
1 |
92.31 |
2009-12-27 |
| 56. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
92.02 |
0.9795 |
-0.0284 |
308 |
1 |
92.02 |
2009-03-21 |
| 57. |
I never did like the idea of sitting on newspapers. I did it... |
91.46 |
1.0495 |
-0.1239 |
266 |
1 |
91.46 |
2021-08-20 |
| 58. |
I'm not in existential crisis! Just the opposite. I was fine... |
91.11 |
0.9583 |
-0.0252 |
228 |
1 |
91.11 |
2018-05-30 |
| 59. |
But I believe in true love, you know? I don't believe that e... |
91.09 |
1.0676 |
-0.1303 |
213 |
1 |
91.09 |
2020-12-09 |
| 60. |
It used to make you so happy, the water. I think it's brave ... |
90.98 |
1.0289 |
-0.1011 |
237 |
1 |
90.98 |
2021-02-10 |
| 61. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
90.85 |
0.9212 |
0.0195 |
323 |
1 |
90.85 |
2015-02-06 |
| 62. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
90.45 |
1.0201 |
-0.0892 |
172 |
1 |
90.45 |
2010-07-03 |
| 63. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
90.11 |
1.0529 |
-0.1212 |
351 |
2 |
81.82 |
2009-07-11 |
| 64. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
90.02 |
0.9841 |
-0.0515 |
334 |
2 |
89.85 |
2009-06-21 |
| 65. |
Grown-ups like to tell you where they were when President Ke... |
89.98 |
0.9799 |
-0.0555 |
404 |
1 |
89.98 |
2018-05-30 |
| 66. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
89.84 |
0.9286 |
-0.0013 |
194 |
1 |
89.84 |
2009-03-21 |
| 67. |
Nothing drives down real estate prices like a good old-fashi... |
89.16 |
1.0167 |
-0.1132 |
152 |
1 |
89.16 |
2021-02-10 |
| 68. |
Finally, gentlemen, there are people with an hereditary anim... |
87.80 |
0.9383 |
-0.0123 |
471 |
1 |
87.80 |
2015-02-06 |
| 69. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
87.67 |
0.9398 |
-0.0283 |
419 |
1 |
87.67 |
2008-11-13 |
| 70. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
87.38 |
1.0053 |
-0.1033 |
232 |
1 |
87.38 |
2008-11-13 |
| 71. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
87.22 |
0.9233 |
-0.0259 |
168 |
1 |
87.22 |
2008-11-13 |
| 72. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
87.13 |
0.9844 |
-0.0830 |
293 |
1 |
87.13 |
2009-02-14 |
| 73. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
87.13 |
0.9045 |
-0.0042 |
235 |
1 |
87.13 |
2020-12-09 |
| 74. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
86.99 |
1.0684 |
-0.1404 |
253 |
1 |
86.99 |
2010-07-03 |
| 75. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
86.82 |
0.9879 |
-0.0858 |
450 |
1 |
86.82 |
2015-02-06 |
| 76. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
85.94 |
1.0263 |
-0.1390 |
267 |
1 |
85.94 |
2008-11-15 |
| 77. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
85.82 |
0.8722 |
0.0167 |
285 |
1 |
85.82 |
2009-03-21 |
| 78. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
84.89 |
1.0168 |
-0.1401 |
271 |
1 |
84.89 |
2009-02-14 |
| 79. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
84.09 |
0.9820 |
-0.1125 |
267 |
1 |
84.09 |
2008-11-13 |
| 80. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
83.99 |
1.0031 |
-0.1022 |
304 |
1 |
83.99 |
2018-05-30 |
| 81. |
Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because th... |
83.47 |
1.0453 |
-0.2031 |
283 |
1 |
83.47 |
2021-08-20 |
| 82. |
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality... |
83.04 |
1.0376 |
-0.1839 |
228 |
1 |
83.04 |
2018-05-30 |
| 83. |
Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal ... |
82.99 |
0.8954 |
-0.0480 |
528 |
1 |
82.99 |
2021-08-20 |
| 84. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
82.79 |
1.0214 |
-0.1699 |
166 |
1 |
82.79 |
2008-11-13 |
| 85. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
82.34 |
0.9279 |
-0.0746 |
317 |
1 |
82.34 |
2008-11-13 |
| 86. |
It wasn't always so clear, but the Rust programming language... |
82.05 |
1.0158 |
-0.1850 |
259 |
1 |
82.05 |
2021-08-20 |
| 87. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
81.07 |
0.9351 |
-0.1024 |
190 |
1 |
81.07 |
2009-03-21 |
| 88. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
80.48 |
0.8382 |
-0.0062 |
268 |
2 |
75.54 |
2008-11-13 |
| 89. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
74.63 |
1.0214 |
-0.2532 |
269 |
1 |
74.63 |
2008-11-13 |
| 90. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
73.94 |
0.9371 |
-0.1369 |
318 |
1 |
73.94 |
2012-09-08 |
| 91. |
And now for a brief public service announcement: alligators.... |
67.24 |
0.9265 |
-0.2393 |
292 |
1 |
67.24 |
2018-05-30 |
| 92. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
55.61 |
1.0885 |
-0.4864 |
341 |
1 |
55.61 |
2015-02-06 |