| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
156.82 |
1.0800 |
0.1725 |
129 |
1 |
156.82 |
2013-08-15 |
| 2. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
154.70 |
0.9963 |
0.2438 |
274 |
2 |
143.19 |
2013-08-15 |
| 3. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
153.00 |
1.0128 |
0.2231 |
369 |
1 |
153.00 |
2013-08-15 |
| 4. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
151.56 |
1.0291 |
0.1862 |
240 |
1 |
151.56 |
2010-11-20 |
| 5. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
144.66 |
1.0617 |
0.0975 |
171 |
1 |
144.66 |
2010-11-20 |
| 6. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
143.82 |
1.0476 |
0.0974 |
110 |
2 |
137.97 |
2013-08-15 |
| 7. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
143.64 |
1.0338 |
0.1247 |
277 |
1 |
143.64 |
2010-11-20 |
| 8. |
Sometimes you concentrate more on racing the cars around you... |
143.39 |
1.0791 |
0.0853 |
365 |
1 |
143.39 |
2013-08-14 |
| 9. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
142.45 |
1.0333 |
0.1052 |
176 |
1 |
142.45 |
2013-08-15 |
| 10. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
141.95 |
1.0759 |
0.0692 |
273 |
1 |
141.95 |
2013-08-15 |
| 11. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
141.71 |
1.0524 |
0.0831 |
177 |
1 |
141.71 |
2013-08-15 |
| 12. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
141.68 |
1.0669 |
0.0738 |
379 |
1 |
141.68 |
2013-08-15 |
| 13. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
139.52 |
1.0332 |
0.0859 |
267 |
1 |
139.52 |
2010-11-20 |
| 14. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
137.72 |
1.0464 |
0.0650 |
213 |
1 |
137.72 |
2010-11-20 |
| 15. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
137.61 |
1.0270 |
0.0785 |
303 |
1 |
137.61 |
2010-11-20 |
| 16. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
137.10 |
1.0427 |
0.0585 |
269 |
1 |
137.10 |
2013-08-14 |
| 17. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
133.98 |
0.9807 |
0.0829 |
129 |
1 |
133.98 |
2010-11-20 |
| 18. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
133.65 |
1.0265 |
0.0499 |
375 |
1 |
133.65 |
2010-11-20 |
| 19. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
133.44 |
1.0264 |
0.0406 |
191 |
1 |
133.44 |
2013-08-14 |
| 20. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
132.97 |
0.9519 |
0.1194 |
323 |
1 |
132.97 |
2013-08-14 |
| 21. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
132.81 |
0.9354 |
0.1420 |
384 |
1 |
132.81 |
2010-11-20 |
| 22. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
131.75 |
1.0883 |
-0.0243 |
189 |
1 |
131.75 |
2013-08-25 |
| 23. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
130.94 |
1.0039 |
0.0529 |
255 |
2 |
122.35 |
2010-11-25 |
| 24. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
129.44 |
1.0743 |
-0.0343 |
297 |
1 |
129.44 |
2013-08-15 |
| 25. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
128.99 |
1.0736 |
-0.0362 |
350 |
1 |
128.99 |
2010-12-25 |
| 26. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
128.19 |
1.0350 |
0.0082 |
416 |
1 |
128.19 |
2013-08-15 |
| 27. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
128.17 |
0.9740 |
0.0578 |
371 |
1 |
128.17 |
2013-08-14 |
| 28. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
128.13 |
0.9801 |
0.0560 |
282 |
1 |
128.13 |
2010-11-20 |
| 29. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
127.07 |
1.0509 |
-0.0242 |
295 |
1 |
127.07 |
2010-11-20 |
| 30. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
126.27 |
1.0960 |
-0.0788 |
315 |
1 |
126.27 |
2013-08-15 |
| 31. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
125.64 |
0.9468 |
0.0610 |
318 |
1 |
125.64 |
2013-08-14 |
| 32. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
125.51 |
0.9787 |
0.0320 |
364 |
1 |
125.51 |
2013-08-14 |
| 33. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
125.48 |
0.9451 |
0.0697 |
419 |
1 |
125.48 |
2010-11-20 |
| 34. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
125.44 |
1.0033 |
0.0032 |
203 |
1 |
125.44 |
2010-11-20 |
| 35. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
125.09 |
1.0287 |
-0.0260 |
269 |
1 |
125.09 |
2010-11-20 |
| 36. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
124.23 |
1.0243 |
-0.0242 |
153 |
1 |
124.23 |
2013-08-15 |
| 37. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
124.19 |
1.0461 |
-0.0475 |
318 |
1 |
124.19 |
2013-08-14 |
| 38. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
123.89 |
0.9737 |
0.0228 |
237 |
1 |
123.89 |
2013-08-14 |
| 39. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
123.61 |
1.0125 |
-0.0259 |
171 |
1 |
123.61 |
2010-11-25 |
| 40. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
123.49 |
1.0250 |
-0.0311 |
271 |
1 |
123.49 |
2010-11-20 |
| 41. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
122.96 |
1.0482 |
-0.0484 |
407 |
1 |
122.96 |
2010-11-20 |
| 42. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
122.44 |
1.0020 |
-0.0071 |
411 |
1 |
122.44 |
2013-08-14 |
| 43. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
121.64 |
0.9915 |
-0.0173 |
281 |
1 |
121.64 |
2013-08-15 |
| 44. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
121.01 |
0.8721 |
0.1046 |
231 |
1 |
121.01 |
2013-08-15 |
| 45. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
120.96 |
1.0462 |
-0.0730 |
340 |
1 |
120.96 |
2013-08-15 |
| 46. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
120.85 |
1.0667 |
-0.0873 |
308 |
1 |
120.85 |
2010-11-20 |
| 47. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
120.77 |
0.9561 |
0.0140 |
362 |
1 |
120.77 |
2013-08-15 |
| 48. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
120.30 |
1.0130 |
-0.0483 |
288 |
1 |
120.30 |
2013-08-15 |
| 49. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
120.00 |
1.0403 |
-0.0797 |
234 |
1 |
120.00 |
2013-08-15 |
| 50. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
119.08 |
0.9763 |
-0.0213 |
143 |
1 |
119.08 |
2010-11-20 |
| 51. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
118.92 |
1.0227 |
-0.0626 |
378 |
1 |
118.92 |
2010-11-25 |
| 52. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
118.89 |
0.9643 |
-0.0022 |
282 |
1 |
118.89 |
2010-11-20 |
| 53. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
118.51 |
1.1086 |
-0.1581 |
233 |
1 |
118.51 |
2010-11-20 |
| 54. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
117.53 |
0.9422 |
-0.0049 |
190 |
1 |
117.53 |
2013-08-15 |
| 55. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
116.58 |
1.0800 |
-0.1482 |
213 |
1 |
116.58 |
2010-11-20 |
| 56. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
115.79 |
0.9143 |
0.0151 |
300 |
2 |
113.77 |
2013-08-25 |
| 57. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
115.45 |
0.9271 |
0.0010 |
323 |
1 |
115.45 |
2013-08-15 |
| 58. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
115.42 |
0.9145 |
0.0141 |
404 |
1 |
115.42 |
2010-11-20 |
| 59. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
114.76 |
1.0067 |
-0.0727 |
422 |
1 |
114.76 |
2010-11-20 |
| 60. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
111.54 |
0.9594 |
-0.0671 |
258 |
1 |
111.54 |
2013-08-15 |
| 61. |
Races are not won in the first corner; however, they are oft... |
109.22 |
1.0346 |
-0.1499 |
326 |
1 |
109.22 |
2013-08-14 |
| 62. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
106.71 |
0.9680 |
-0.1125 |
256 |
1 |
106.71 |
2010-11-20 |
| 63. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
104.44 |
0.8437 |
-0.0071 |
268 |
1 |
104.44 |
2010-11-20 |
| 64. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
101.01 |
0.9775 |
-0.1550 |
473 |
1 |
101.01 |
2010-11-20 |
| 65. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
100.85 |
0.9269 |
-0.1113 |
269 |
1 |
100.85 |
2013-08-25 |
| 66. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
97.97 |
0.8830 |
-0.0959 |
300 |
1 |
97.97 |
2010-11-25 |
| 67. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
95.83 |
0.9123 |
-0.1358 |
351 |
1 |
95.83 |
2013-08-15 |
| 68. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
92.26 |
0.9713 |
-0.2340 |
193 |
1 |
92.26 |
2010-11-20 |
| 69. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
84.65 |
0.9374 |
-0.2578 |
232 |
1 |
84.65 |
2010-11-20 |
| 70. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
74.06 |
1.0873 |
-0.4989 |
243 |
1 |
74.06 |
2013-08-15 |
| 71. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
69.53 |
0.9726 |
-0.4123 |
396 |
1 |
69.53 |
2010-11-20 |