| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this ... |
152.91 |
1.0281 |
0.3896 |
163 |
1 |
152.91 |
2018-11-05 |
| 2. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
136.16 |
1.0205 |
0.2348 |
179 |
1 |
136.16 |
2010-02-08 |
| 3. |
The gods may throw a dice, their minds as cold as ice. And s... |
133.24 |
1.0553 |
0.1782 |
199 |
1 |
133.24 |
2018-11-13 |
| 4. |
Most localities haven't found a better way to de-ice roadway... |
132.22 |
1.0134 |
0.2167 |
273 |
1 |
132.22 |
2018-11-13 |
| 5. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
132.07 |
1.0398 |
0.1731 |
110 |
1 |
132.07 |
2008-10-23 |
| 6. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
131.87 |
1.0099 |
0.2087 |
207 |
1 |
131.87 |
2008-10-23 |
| 7. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
128.34 |
1.0696 |
0.1157 |
226 |
2 |
117.76 |
2018-11-13 |
| 8. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
127.95 |
1.0391 |
0.1520 |
358 |
1 |
127.95 |
2018-11-06 |
| 9. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
125.23 |
1.0263 |
0.1323 |
267 |
1 |
125.23 |
2018-11-13 |
| 10. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
124.89 |
1.0788 |
0.0719 |
171 |
1 |
124.89 |
2010-05-25 |
| 11. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
123.57 |
1.0368 |
0.1081 |
276 |
1 |
123.57 |
2010-01-11 |
| 12. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
123.04 |
0.9811 |
0.1608 |
272 |
1 |
123.04 |
2010-02-08 |
| 13. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
121.61 |
0.9723 |
0.1576 |
364 |
3 |
106.32 |
2008-10-27 |
| 14. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
121.35 |
0.9884 |
0.1345 |
233 |
1 |
121.35 |
2009-10-05 |
| 15. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
121.33 |
1.0487 |
0.0695 |
231 |
1 |
121.33 |
2009-10-05 |
| 16. |
What I think is if you can't figure out how to have a simple... |
120.96 |
1.0761 |
0.0399 |
210 |
1 |
120.96 |
2018-11-13 |
| 17. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
120.64 |
0.9795 |
0.1375 |
308 |
1 |
120.64 |
2009-10-05 |
| 18. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
120.08 |
1.0796 |
0.0265 |
129 |
2 |
113.21 |
2009-11-06 |
| 19. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
119.63 |
1.0441 |
0.0644 |
252 |
1 |
119.63 |
2008-10-27 |
| 20. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
118.27 |
1.0352 |
0.0625 |
341 |
2 |
117.27 |
2009-10-05 |
| 21. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
116.93 |
0.9293 |
0.1539 |
355 |
3 |
103.70 |
2009-03-18 |
| 22. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
116.02 |
1.0251 |
0.0463 |
261 |
2 |
105.02 |
2018-11-13 |
| 23. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
115.86 |
1.1114 |
-0.0424 |
247 |
1 |
115.86 |
2009-03-18 |
| 24. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
114.72 |
0.9833 |
0.0797 |
355 |
1 |
114.72 |
2008-11-07 |
| 25. |
HAL, you have an enormous responsibility on this mission, in... |
114.42 |
0.9562 |
0.0864 |
316 |
1 |
114.42 |
2018-11-13 |
| 26. |
Bobby, my uncle loves you. He needs you. So you're gonna get... |
113.85 |
1.0389 |
0.0076 |
198 |
1 |
113.85 |
2018-11-06 |
| 27. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
113.17 |
1.0183 |
0.0229 |
191 |
1 |
113.17 |
2010-02-08 |
| 28. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
112.88 |
1.0565 |
-0.0154 |
247 |
1 |
112.88 |
2010-02-08 |
| 29. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
112.88 |
1.0619 |
-0.0141 |
354 |
1 |
112.88 |
2009-10-05 |
| 30. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
112.75 |
0.9213 |
0.1222 |
295 |
1 |
112.75 |
2008-10-23 |
| 31. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
111.22 |
1.0165 |
0.0158 |
392 |
2 |
109.43 |
2008-12-22 |
| 32. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
111.20 |
1.0429 |
-0.0162 |
259 |
2 |
102.03 |
2010-01-11 |
| 33. |
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolution... |
111.06 |
0.9474 |
0.0474 |
189 |
1 |
111.06 |
2018-11-05 |
| 34. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
110.84 |
1.0403 |
0.0244 |
275 |
1 |
110.84 |
2010-05-25 |
| 35. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
110.57 |
1.0337 |
-0.0122 |
214 |
1 |
110.57 |
2010-02-08 |
| 36. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
110.49 |
1.0131 |
0.0047 |
225 |
2 |
106.42 |
2010-02-08 |
| 37. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
110.35 |
1.0214 |
-0.0064 |
166 |
1 |
110.35 |
2010-05-25 |
| 38. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
110.33 |
0.9687 |
0.0563 |
371 |
1 |
110.33 |
2012-02-13 |
| 39. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
110.31 |
1.0352 |
-0.0127 |
341 |
1 |
110.31 |
2009-03-18 |
| 40. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
110.07 |
1.0214 |
0.0386 |
281 |
1 |
110.07 |
2011-10-02 |
| 41. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
108.99 |
1.0419 |
-0.0346 |
261 |
1 |
108.99 |
2010-05-25 |
| 42. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
108.94 |
0.9907 |
0.0150 |
211 |
2 |
105.12 |
2011-10-02 |
| 43. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
108.77 |
1.0767 |
-0.0734 |
212 |
1 |
108.77 |
2009-03-18 |
| 44. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
108.69 |
1.0941 |
-0.0582 |
256 |
1 |
108.69 |
2011-04-11 |
| 45. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
108.59 |
0.9946 |
0.0092 |
246 |
2 |
104.16 |
2008-11-24 |
| 46. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
108.25 |
0.9429 |
0.0593 |
287 |
1 |
108.25 |
2008-10-27 |
| 47. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
107.91 |
1.0596 |
-0.0644 |
239 |
1 |
107.91 |
2009-03-18 |
| 48. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
107.25 |
0.8533 |
0.1391 |
232 |
1 |
107.25 |
2010-02-08 |
| 49. |
You looked on amazed, and began to suspect yourself of being... |
106.72 |
1.0372 |
-0.0525 |
243 |
1 |
106.72 |
2018-11-13 |
| 50. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
106.65 |
0.9682 |
0.0159 |
143 |
3 |
84.11 |
2009-11-06 |
| 51. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
106.37 |
0.9578 |
0.0252 |
281 |
3 |
101.68 |
2010-01-11 |
| 52. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
106.03 |
0.9756 |
0.0029 |
229 |
2 |
100.33 |
2011-04-11 |
| 53. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
105.97 |
0.9846 |
-0.0069 |
281 |
2 |
101.96 |
2009-03-18 |
| 54. |
I became yearbook photographer because I liked the idea that... |
105.87 |
1.0461 |
-0.0682 |
193 |
1 |
105.87 |
2018-11-05 |
| 55. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
105.83 |
1.0261 |
-0.0502 |
273 |
1 |
105.83 |
2008-10-27 |
| 56. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
105.72 |
1.0033 |
-0.0332 |
189 |
2 |
102.29 |
2009-10-05 |
| 57. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
105.53 |
0.9786 |
-0.0086 |
193 |
1 |
105.53 |
2008-10-23 |
| 58. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
105.19 |
0.9635 |
0.0143 |
389 |
1 |
105.19 |
2009-10-05 |
| 59. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
105.12 |
0.9500 |
0.0234 |
362 |
2 |
103.18 |
2009-03-18 |
| 60. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
104.55 |
0.9843 |
-0.0234 |
234 |
1 |
104.55 |
2010-02-08 |
| 61. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
104.22 |
0.9202 |
0.0425 |
254 |
1 |
104.22 |
2008-10-23 |
| 62. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
104.21 |
1.0379 |
-0.0403 |
245 |
2 |
102.87 |
2011-10-02 |
| 63. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
104.17 |
1.0993 |
-0.1390 |
265 |
1 |
104.17 |
2008-10-27 |
| 64. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
103.93 |
0.9593 |
0.0056 |
398 |
1 |
103.93 |
2008-11-24 |
| 65. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
103.80 |
1.0516 |
-0.0933 |
281 |
1 |
103.80 |
2010-02-08 |
| 66. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
102.94 |
0.9567 |
-0.0056 |
273 |
1 |
102.94 |
2010-02-08 |
| 67. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
102.92 |
0.9675 |
-0.0074 |
383 |
1 |
102.92 |
2011-04-11 |
| 68. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
102.66 |
1.0211 |
-0.0424 |
213 |
1 |
102.66 |
2011-04-11 |
| 69. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
102.55 |
1.0177 |
-0.0322 |
392 |
2 |
100.56 |
2011-04-11 |
| 70. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
102.28 |
1.0090 |
-0.0206 |
282 |
1 |
102.28 |
2018-11-13 |
| 71. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
102.28 |
0.9260 |
0.0298 |
243 |
1 |
102.28 |
2010-02-08 |
| 72. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
102.09 |
1.0787 |
-0.1373 |
237 |
1 |
102.09 |
2009-03-18 |
| 73. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
102.09 |
1.0004 |
-0.0636 |
212 |
2 |
82.60 |
2008-10-27 |
| 74. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
102.08 |
1.0396 |
-0.1039 |
149 |
1 |
102.08 |
2008-12-22 |
| 75. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
101.90 |
1.0150 |
-0.0249 |
325 |
1 |
101.90 |
2010-02-08 |
| 76. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
101.39 |
0.8826 |
0.0554 |
296 |
1 |
101.39 |
2010-02-08 |
| 77. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
100.91 |
0.7890 |
0.1441 |
230 |
1 |
100.91 |
2010-02-08 |
| 78. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
100.72 |
0.9965 |
-0.0659 |
277 |
1 |
100.72 |
2009-10-05 |
| 79. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
100.43 |
1.0197 |
-0.0952 |
226 |
1 |
100.43 |
2008-10-23 |
| 80. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
100.43 |
0.9398 |
-0.0028 |
419 |
1 |
100.43 |
2009-03-18 |
| 81. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
100.25 |
0.9649 |
-0.0400 |
193 |
1 |
100.25 |
2009-07-14 |
| 82. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
98.57 |
1.0595 |
-0.1469 |
379 |
1 |
98.57 |
2009-10-02 |
| 83. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
98.23 |
0.9964 |
-0.0896 |
203 |
2 |
94.49 |
2009-10-02 |
| 84. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
97.42 |
0.9376 |
-0.0329 |
367 |
1 |
97.42 |
2009-11-06 |
| 85. |
Why, if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie us... |
97.28 |
0.9475 |
-0.0806 |
254 |
1 |
97.28 |
2018-11-05 |
| 86. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
96.67 |
0.8670 |
0.0303 |
318 |
1 |
96.67 |
2010-02-08 |
| 87. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
96.67 |
0.9212 |
-0.0259 |
323 |
1 |
96.67 |
2008-10-27 |
| 88. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
96.12 |
0.9266 |
-0.0397 |
267 |
2 |
84.56 |
2010-02-08 |
| 89. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
96.12 |
0.9275 |
-0.0435 |
211 |
1 |
96.12 |
2008-10-27 |
| 90. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
95.92 |
0.9857 |
-0.1017 |
293 |
1 |
95.92 |
2008-11-07 |
| 91. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
95.47 |
0.9886 |
-0.1052 |
220 |
1 |
95.47 |
2008-11-07 |
| 92. |
His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji D... |
95.30 |
0.7558 |
0.1170 |
235 |
1 |
95.30 |
2018-11-13 |
| 93. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
95.28 |
0.9820 |
-0.0998 |
267 |
1 |
95.28 |
2008-11-24 |
| 94. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
95.06 |
1.0463 |
-0.1739 |
182 |
1 |
95.06 |
2009-11-06 |
| 95. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
94.83 |
0.9871 |
-0.0759 |
209 |
1 |
94.83 |
2011-04-11 |
| 96. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
94.18 |
0.8996 |
-0.0363 |
192 |
2 |
81.65 |
2009-04-17 |
| 97. |
No, I thought not. You have not asked me for instance, what ... |
93.50 |
0.9286 |
-0.0930 |
295 |
1 |
93.50 |
2018-11-05 |
| 98. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
93.16 |
0.8981 |
-0.0341 |
393 |
2 |
90.05 |
2009-10-05 |
| 99. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
93.01 |
0.9942 |
-0.1275 |
483 |
1 |
93.01 |
2008-10-23 |
| 100. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
92.19 |
1.0365 |
-0.1566 |
162 |
1 |
92.19 |
2010-02-08 |
| 101. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
92.13 |
0.9097 |
-0.0182 |
464 |
1 |
92.13 |
2010-01-11 |
| 102. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
92.06 |
0.9632 |
-0.1077 |
392 |
1 |
92.06 |
2009-10-02 |
| 103. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
91.91 |
1.0534 |
-0.2032 |
357 |
1 |
91.91 |
2009-10-05 |
| 104. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
90.49 |
0.9691 |
-0.1353 |
223 |
1 |
90.49 |
2009-07-14 |
| 105. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
89.57 |
0.9074 |
-0.0753 |
396 |
1 |
89.57 |
2008-12-22 |
| 106. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
87.53 |
0.9005 |
-0.0954 |
212 |
1 |
87.53 |
2009-10-05 |
| 107. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
87.29 |
0.7876 |
0.0194 |
316 |
1 |
87.29 |
2008-10-24 |
| 108. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
85.45 |
1.0109 |
-0.2232 |
276 |
1 |
85.45 |
2008-12-22 |
| 109. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
84.83 |
0.8602 |
-0.0808 |
206 |
1 |
84.83 |
2010-02-08 |
| 110. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
83.75 |
0.9485 |
-0.1748 |
291 |
1 |
83.75 |
2010-05-25 |
| 111. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
81.84 |
0.9088 |
-0.1502 |
348 |
1 |
81.84 |
2009-03-18 |