| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
169.06 |
1.0561 |
0.2709 |
227 |
2 |
158.65 |
2010-04-10 |
| 2. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
150.37 |
1.0130 |
0.1684 |
288 |
1 |
150.37 |
2013-05-21 |
| 3. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
148.10 |
1.0736 |
0.0925 |
350 |
1 |
148.10 |
2013-05-21 |
| 4. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
147.10 |
1.0743 |
0.0826 |
297 |
1 |
147.10 |
2013-05-21 |
| 5. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
146.88 |
0.9931 |
0.1653 |
339 |
1 |
146.88 |
2013-05-21 |
| 6. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
145.63 |
1.0432 |
0.1012 |
276 |
1 |
145.63 |
2013-05-21 |
| 7. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
145.47 |
0.9927 |
0.1506 |
276 |
1 |
145.47 |
2013-05-21 |
| 8. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
145.46 |
1.0524 |
0.0880 |
177 |
1 |
145.46 |
2010-04-09 |
| 9. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
145.35 |
1.1198 |
0.0207 |
247 |
3 |
130.09 |
2010-04-28 |
| 10. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
145.16 |
1.0332 |
0.1063 |
267 |
3 |
128.26 |
2013-05-21 |
| 11. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
143.91 |
1.0845 |
0.0446 |
212 |
1 |
143.91 |
2013-05-21 |
| 12. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
143.86 |
1.0426 |
0.0836 |
131 |
2 |
137.61 |
2013-05-21 |
| 13. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
143.80 |
0.9935 |
0.1380 |
217 |
1 |
143.80 |
2013-05-21 |
| 14. |
Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, foc... |
143.20 |
1.0364 |
0.0926 |
230 |
1 |
143.20 |
2013-05-21 |
| 15. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
142.34 |
1.0139 |
0.1174 |
349 |
2 |
136.02 |
2012-03-30 |
| 16. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
141.56 |
0.9299 |
0.1737 |
168 |
1 |
141.56 |
2012-05-14 |
| 17. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
141.54 |
1.0125 |
0.0977 |
232 |
1 |
141.54 |
2010-04-10 |
| 18. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
141.50 |
0.9756 |
0.1351 |
223 |
1 |
141.50 |
2010-03-29 |
| 19. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
141.27 |
1.0873 |
0.0191 |
243 |
1 |
141.27 |
2010-04-28 |
| 20. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
141.25 |
0.9981 |
0.1107 |
211 |
2 |
139.53 |
2013-05-21 |
| 21. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
141.13 |
1.0777 |
0.0287 |
226 |
1 |
141.13 |
2010-04-09 |
| 22. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
140.93 |
1.0063 |
0.1055 |
293 |
2 |
135.98 |
2013-05-21 |
| 23. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
140.30 |
1.0411 |
0.0627 |
341 |
1 |
140.30 |
2012-03-30 |
| 24. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
140.06 |
1.0095 |
0.0889 |
211 |
2 |
136.09 |
2010-04-28 |
| 25. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
139.80 |
1.0487 |
0.0468 |
253 |
1 |
139.80 |
2010-03-29 |
| 26. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
139.48 |
1.0511 |
0.0460 |
252 |
1 |
139.48 |
2010-03-29 |
| 27. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
138.61 |
0.9857 |
0.1086 |
268 |
1 |
138.61 |
2013-05-21 |
| 28. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
138.43 |
0.9673 |
0.1221 |
292 |
1 |
138.43 |
2013-05-21 |
| 29. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
138.33 |
0.9927 |
0.0904 |
234 |
1 |
138.33 |
2010-04-28 |
| 30. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
138.09 |
0.9889 |
0.1091 |
429 |
1 |
138.09 |
2013-05-21 |
| 31. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
137.11 |
0.9864 |
0.0942 |
292 |
1 |
137.11 |
2010-03-29 |
| 32. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
136.97 |
1.0392 |
0.0413 |
258 |
1 |
136.97 |
2012-03-30 |
| 33. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
136.57 |
0.9374 |
0.1376 |
232 |
1 |
136.57 |
2013-05-21 |
| 34. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
136.51 |
1.0504 |
0.0235 |
225 |
1 |
136.51 |
2013-05-21 |
| 35. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
136.47 |
0.9801 |
0.0915 |
289 |
1 |
136.47 |
2012-05-14 |
| 36. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
136.15 |
1.0462 |
0.0259 |
340 |
3 |
129.00 |
2012-05-14 |
| 37. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
136.14 |
1.0086 |
0.0561 |
218 |
1 |
136.14 |
2012-03-30 |
| 38. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
135.96 |
1.0291 |
0.0365 |
240 |
2 |
129.17 |
2010-04-28 |
| 39. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
135.77 |
1.0101 |
0.0579 |
336 |
1 |
135.77 |
2010-09-11 |
| 40. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
135.29 |
0.9637 |
0.1109 |
342 |
1 |
135.29 |
2013-05-21 |
| 41. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
135.23 |
0.9985 |
0.0756 |
392 |
1 |
135.23 |
2013-05-21 |
| 42. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
134.57 |
0.9468 |
0.1096 |
318 |
1 |
134.57 |
2012-06-29 |
| 43. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
134.53 |
1.0265 |
0.0335 |
375 |
1 |
134.53 |
2010-03-29 |
| 44. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
134.38 |
0.9561 |
0.1065 |
364 |
1 |
134.38 |
2010-04-09 |
| 45. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
134.23 |
0.9989 |
0.0620 |
282 |
1 |
134.23 |
2012-06-29 |
| 46. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
133.07 |
0.9643 |
0.0891 |
282 |
2 |
129.85 |
2013-05-21 |
| 47. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
132.83 |
0.9128 |
0.1271 |
237 |
1 |
132.83 |
2013-05-21 |
| 48. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
132.80 |
1.0883 |
-0.0391 |
189 |
1 |
132.80 |
2010-03-29 |
| 49. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
132.58 |
1.0969 |
-0.0542 |
303 |
1 |
132.58 |
2010-03-29 |
| 50. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
132.49 |
0.9873 |
0.0635 |
396 |
1 |
132.49 |
2012-05-14 |
| 51. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
132.33 |
0.9842 |
0.0567 |
335 |
1 |
132.33 |
2013-05-21 |
| 52. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
132.31 |
1.0320 |
0.0127 |
401 |
1 |
132.31 |
2010-03-29 |
| 53. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
132.24 |
0.9841 |
0.0528 |
263 |
1 |
132.24 |
2012-05-14 |
| 54. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
131.84 |
0.9392 |
0.1020 |
360 |
1 |
131.84 |
2013-05-21 |
| 55. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
130.48 |
0.9682 |
0.0664 |
341 |
1 |
130.48 |
2010-03-29 |
| 56. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
130.47 |
0.9909 |
0.0374 |
334 |
1 |
130.47 |
2012-03-30 |
| 57. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
130.16 |
1.0857 |
-0.0513 |
393 |
1 |
130.16 |
2010-03-29 |
| 58. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
129.71 |
0.9833 |
0.0375 |
387 |
2 |
122.37 |
2010-04-28 |
| 59. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
129.08 |
0.9963 |
0.0144 |
274 |
1 |
129.08 |
2010-03-29 |
| 60. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
128.97 |
0.8656 |
0.1483 |
242 |
1 |
128.97 |
2010-04-28 |
| 61. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
128.89 |
1.0616 |
-0.0431 |
304 |
1 |
128.89 |
2013-05-21 |
| 62. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
128.21 |
1.0901 |
-0.0818 |
288 |
1 |
128.21 |
2013-05-21 |
| 63. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
128.18 |
0.9114 |
0.1024 |
399 |
1 |
128.18 |
2012-05-14 |
| 64. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
127.51 |
0.9820 |
0.0272 |
297 |
2 |
118.96 |
2013-05-21 |
| 65. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
127.37 |
0.9763 |
0.0233 |
143 |
1 |
127.37 |
2010-03-29 |
| 66. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
126.54 |
0.9922 |
0.0015 |
264 |
2 |
126.29 |
2013-05-21 |
| 67. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
126.29 |
0.9644 |
0.0299 |
398 |
2 |
122.36 |
2013-05-21 |
| 68. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
126.05 |
0.9949 |
0.0050 |
304 |
1 |
126.05 |
2010-03-29 |
| 69. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
125.65 |
1.0250 |
-0.0356 |
271 |
1 |
125.65 |
2010-05-11 |
| 70. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
125.57 |
0.9933 |
-0.0001 |
450 |
1 |
125.57 |
2010-03-29 |
| 71. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
125.34 |
1.0759 |
-0.0867 |
273 |
1 |
125.34 |
2013-05-21 |
| 72. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
124.63 |
0.9265 |
0.0511 |
254 |
1 |
124.63 |
2013-05-21 |
| 73. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
124.52 |
0.9987 |
-0.0171 |
236 |
1 |
124.52 |
2013-05-21 |
| 74. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
124.07 |
0.9145 |
0.0625 |
404 |
1 |
124.07 |
2013-05-21 |
| 75. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
123.78 |
1.0194 |
-0.0503 |
224 |
2 |
122.78 |
2012-03-30 |
| 76. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
123.67 |
0.9680 |
0.0030 |
256 |
1 |
123.67 |
2010-04-28 |
| 77. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
123.63 |
0.9338 |
0.0463 |
326 |
1 |
123.63 |
2010-04-28 |
| 78. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
123.61 |
0.9749 |
0.0044 |
337 |
1 |
123.61 |
2013-05-21 |
| 79. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
123.43 |
1.0165 |
-0.0489 |
316 |
1 |
123.43 |
2013-05-21 |
| 80. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
123.04 |
1.0543 |
-0.0865 |
360 |
1 |
123.04 |
2010-04-28 |
| 81. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
122.70 |
1.0036 |
-0.0399 |
277 |
1 |
122.70 |
2013-05-21 |
| 82. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
122.47 |
0.9162 |
0.0463 |
401 |
1 |
122.47 |
2013-05-21 |
| 83. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
121.69 |
1.0506 |
-0.0962 |
259 |
1 |
121.69 |
2013-05-21 |
| 84. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
121.37 |
1.0253 |
-0.0702 |
337 |
1 |
121.37 |
2010-05-11 |
| 85. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
121.19 |
0.9727 |
-0.0150 |
442 |
1 |
121.19 |
2013-05-21 |
| 86. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
120.79 |
1.0033 |
-0.0554 |
203 |
1 |
120.79 |
2013-05-21 |
| 87. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
119.28 |
1.0039 |
-0.0620 |
255 |
1 |
119.28 |
2013-05-21 |
| 88. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
119.28 |
0.9258 |
0.0147 |
184 |
1 |
119.28 |
2010-05-11 |
| 89. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
118.99 |
0.9926 |
-0.0478 |
413 |
1 |
118.99 |
2013-05-21 |
| 90. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
118.77 |
0.9966 |
-0.0574 |
377 |
1 |
118.77 |
2013-05-21 |
| 91. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
118.32 |
0.8936 |
0.0334 |
346 |
1 |
118.32 |
2010-03-29 |
| 92. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
117.00 |
1.0199 |
-0.1058 |
225 |
1 |
117.00 |
2013-05-21 |
| 93. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
116.97 |
0.9740 |
-0.0530 |
371 |
1 |
116.97 |
2010-04-28 |
| 94. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
116.75 |
0.9243 |
-0.0060 |
240 |
1 |
116.75 |
2013-05-21 |
| 95. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
116.61 |
0.9011 |
0.0171 |
322 |
1 |
116.61 |
2010-03-29 |
| 96. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
116.41 |
0.9137 |
0.0012 |
342 |
1 |
116.41 |
2010-03-29 |
| 97. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
116.24 |
1.0654 |
-0.1564 |
247 |
1 |
116.24 |
2010-03-29 |
| 98. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
116.23 |
0.9574 |
-0.0425 |
354 |
1 |
116.23 |
2010-04-28 |
| 99. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
115.89 |
1.0521 |
-0.1485 |
197 |
1 |
115.89 |
2013-05-21 |
| 100. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
115.19 |
0.9183 |
-0.0138 |
308 |
1 |
115.19 |
2012-03-30 |
| 101. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
114.68 |
0.9817 |
-0.0770 |
304 |
1 |
114.68 |
2013-05-21 |
| 102. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
114.50 |
0.8856 |
0.0201 |
369 |
1 |
114.50 |
2010-03-29 |
| 103. |
Races are not won in the first corner; however, they are oft... |
112.76 |
1.0346 |
-0.1409 |
326 |
1 |
112.76 |
2013-05-21 |
| 104. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
111.88 |
1.0479 |
-0.1721 |
205 |
1 |
111.88 |
2012-05-14 |
| 105. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
111.66 |
0.8666 |
0.0068 |
206 |
1 |
111.66 |
2010-03-29 |
| 106. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
111.51 |
0.9917 |
-0.1149 |
317 |
1 |
111.51 |
2013-05-21 |
| 107. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
109.73 |
1.0059 |
-0.1444 |
283 |
1 |
109.73 |
2010-03-29 |
| 108. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
108.89 |
0.9244 |
-0.0656 |
225 |
1 |
108.89 |
2012-03-30 |
| 109. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
108.61 |
0.8988 |
-0.0480 |
193 |
1 |
108.61 |
2012-06-29 |
| 110. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
108.01 |
0.9404 |
-0.0842 |
383 |
1 |
108.01 |
2013-05-21 |
| 111. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
106.06 |
0.8172 |
0.0099 |
204 |
1 |
106.06 |
2013-05-21 |
| 112. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
105.96 |
1.0131 |
-0.1793 |
245 |
1 |
105.96 |
2010-03-29 |
| 113. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
104.69 |
0.9424 |
-0.1189 |
320 |
1 |
104.69 |
2013-05-21 |
| 114. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
104.30 |
0.8964 |
-0.0816 |
199 |
1 |
104.30 |
2010-03-29 |
| 115. |
However, let us leave aside the philosophical, social, and e... |
103.57 |
0.9524 |
-0.1247 |
410 |
1 |
103.57 |
2013-05-21 |
| 116. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
102.69 |
1.0399 |
-0.2300 |
257 |
1 |
102.69 |
2013-05-21 |
| 117. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
102.46 |
0.8986 |
-0.0972 |
205 |
1 |
102.46 |
2010-03-29 |
| 118. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
101.87 |
0.9380 |
-0.1412 |
284 |
1 |
101.87 |
2010-09-11 |
| 119. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
100.01 |
0.9807 |
-0.2088 |
129 |
1 |
100.01 |
2010-03-29 |
| 120. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
98.01 |
0.9810 |
-0.2082 |
362 |
1 |
98.01 |
2013-05-21 |
| 121. |
Being comfortable in the car is critical. If you're not comf... |
53.84 |
0.9976 |
-0.5825 |
212 |
1 |
53.84 |
2012-06-29 |
| 122. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
49.91 |
1.0051 |
-0.6226 |
162 |
1 |
49.91 |
2010-09-11 |