| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The goal a reader seeks determines the way he reads. The eff... |
91.24 |
1.0026 |
0.0743 |
713 |
1 |
91.24 |
2020-05-24 |
| 2. |
Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of... |
84.36 |
0.9925 |
-0.0199 |
602 |
1 |
84.36 |
2019-10-15 |
| 3. |
The midnight gang's assembled and picked a rendezvous for th... |
83.12 |
0.9010 |
0.0562 |
577 |
1 |
83.12 |
2019-10-15 |
| 4. |
In 1966, I went down to Greenwich Village, New York City to ... |
76.44 |
0.8655 |
0.0073 |
534 |
1 |
76.44 |
2020-03-30 |
| 5. |
Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me, I ain't th... |
101.52 |
0.9821 |
0.1834 |
527 |
1 |
101.52 |
2020-05-24 |
| 6. |
Well, when Johnny was first starting out, he was signed to a... |
85.59 |
0.8999 |
0.0856 |
508 |
1 |
85.59 |
2020-05-13 |
| 7. |
Social change is the restructuring of human social instituti... |
79.80 |
0.9402 |
-0.0264 |
497 |
1 |
79.80 |
2019-03-15 |
| 8. |
He then told them many remarkable stories, sometimes half as... |
109.69 |
1.0631 |
0.2065 |
494 |
1 |
109.69 |
2020-05-13 |
| 9. |
Soon after arriving, he offended the Icelanders by calling t... |
74.03 |
0.9578 |
-0.1104 |
485 |
1 |
74.03 |
2019-10-15 |
| 10. |
It is known that many of the germs which cause diseases cann... |
84.47 |
1.0351 |
-0.0436 |
483 |
1 |
84.47 |
2018-09-10 |
| 11. |
Before I was famous I had a whole bunch of jobs where all I ... |
92.53 |
1.0526 |
0.0142 |
479 |
1 |
92.53 |
2020-05-13 |
| 12. |
I so enjoy watching history warp as words pass from the lips... |
84.53 |
0.9586 |
-0.0020 |
461 |
1 |
84.53 |
2020-03-30 |
| 13. |
Two parallel developments on either side of the Atlantic wou... |
83.75 |
0.8984 |
0.0665 |
459 |
1 |
83.75 |
2019-03-15 |
| 14. |
One way to celebrate Grav-Mass is to decorate a tree with ap... |
84.54 |
0.9724 |
-0.0100 |
452 |
1 |
84.54 |
2019-10-15 |
| 15. |
I've been driving this route for 15 years. I've brought 'em ... |
102.67 |
0.9732 |
0.2028 |
450 |
1 |
102.67 |
2020-03-03 |
| 16. |
He was standing on an impossibly tall grey stone pillar. A d... |
91.49 |
0.9347 |
0.0998 |
444 |
1 |
91.49 |
2020-05-24 |
| 17. |
Stir-frying is a cooking technique in which small, uniform-s... |
75.76 |
0.9173 |
-0.0474 |
443 |
1 |
75.76 |
2019-03-19 |
| 18. |
Little bird, tell me, where do you go to get those colors of... |
84.72 |
1.0177 |
-0.0361 |
433 |
1 |
84.72 |
2019-10-15 |
| 19. |
Sir, you have besmirched the good name of Liquid Water, and ... |
87.08 |
0.9946 |
0.0025 |
422 |
1 |
87.08 |
2020-05-24 |
| 20. |
If you define terrorism as extreme physical or physiological... |
88.93 |
0.9438 |
0.0811 |
413 |
1 |
88.93 |
2020-05-13 |
| 21. |
She was probably my age, maybe a couple of inches taller, an... |
64.71 |
0.9681 |
-0.2073 |
403 |
1 |
64.71 |
2018-10-05 |
| 22. |
I get up when I want, except on Wednesdays when I get rudely... |
92.03 |
0.9583 |
0.0951 |
382 |
1 |
92.03 |
2020-05-24 |
| 23. |
Ladies and gentlemen, Corrado Soprano is not some harmless o... |
74.50 |
0.9122 |
-0.0610 |
377 |
1 |
74.50 |
2018-12-01 |
| 24. |
Well - it's just that you seem to be labouring under the del... |
95.80 |
0.9477 |
0.1509 |
374 |
1 |
95.80 |
2020-05-13 |
| 25. |
I've known good criminals and bad cops. Bad priests. Honorab... |
88.22 |
1.0429 |
-0.0244 |
372 |
1 |
88.22 |
2020-05-24 |
| 26. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
72.98 |
0.9787 |
-0.1239 |
364 |
1 |
72.98 |
2019-03-19 |
| 27. |
Ned Ryerson! "Needlenose Ned"? "Ned the Head"? Come on, budd... |
55.60 |
0.7787 |
-0.1401 |
362 |
1 |
55.60 |
2018-12-02 |
| 28. |
We now know that most of the stars in the sky have worlds ar... |
97.10 |
1.1191 |
0.0069 |
359 |
1 |
97.10 |
2019-03-15 |
| 29. |
I still think about the letter you asked me to write. It nag... |
79.89 |
1.0888 |
-0.1500 |
356 |
1 |
79.89 |
2019-05-12 |
| 30. |
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, the lowing herd w... |
92.33 |
0.9123 |
0.1296 |
355 |
1 |
92.33 |
2020-03-30 |
| 31. |
He's been known to obsess over typos in e-mails to the point... |
90.05 |
1.0485 |
0.0022 |
340 |
1 |
90.05 |
2020-05-24 |
| 32. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
70.59 |
0.9931 |
-0.1654 |
339 |
1 |
70.59 |
2018-10-04 |
| 33. |
No. You're just a murderer, Light Yagami. And this notebook ... |
69.50 |
0.9845 |
-0.1927 |
339 |
1 |
69.50 |
2018-09-10 |
| 34. |
Men are not subtle - men are obvious. Women know what men wa... |
85.32 |
0.9350 |
0.0302 |
335 |
1 |
85.32 |
2020-05-13 |
| 35. |
Many think that probabilities do not exist in real life. Nev... |
104.27 |
0.9642 |
0.2336 |
321 |
1 |
104.27 |
2020-05-13 |
| 36. |
Dictionaries are designed to appear authoritative. They're t... |
84.77 |
0.9101 |
0.0576 |
321 |
1 |
84.77 |
2019-05-05 |
| 37. |
She came into a room; she stood, as he had often seen her, i... |
108.84 |
0.9924 |
0.2834 |
308 |
1 |
108.84 |
2020-03-30 |
| 38. |
Within some disciplines prediction and practical application... |
73.13 |
0.9267 |
-0.0964 |
305 |
1 |
73.13 |
2019-05-31 |
| 39. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
85.60 |
1.0698 |
-0.0628 |
303 |
1 |
85.60 |
2019-03-19 |
| 40. |
In synchronous communications, the sender and receiver must ... |
64.28 |
0.9235 |
-0.1914 |
297 |
1 |
64.28 |
2018-09-10 |
| 41. |
The Swarms have crushed the meager human resistance and laid... |
94.50 |
0.9240 |
0.1844 |
297 |
1 |
94.50 |
2020-05-13 |
| 42. |
And now for a brief public service announcement: alligators.... |
85.40 |
0.9298 |
0.0455 |
292 |
1 |
85.40 |
2020-03-23 |
| 43. |
It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but... |
107.98 |
1.1053 |
0.1662 |
287 |
1 |
107.98 |
2020-03-23 |
| 44. |
Using the laser guide, you can steer your rocket past the gu... |
87.01 |
1.0325 |
-0.0191 |
281 |
1 |
87.01 |
2019-10-15 |
| 45. |
Come senators, congressmen please heed the call. Don't stand... |
71.99 |
0.9376 |
-0.1203 |
281 |
1 |
71.99 |
2018-09-10 |
| 46. |
In all the houses keys to memorizing objects and feelings ha... |
99.19 |
1.0216 |
0.1423 |
277 |
1 |
99.19 |
2020-03-30 |
| 47. |
Mr. Van Doren, I'm also from New York, a different part of N... |
77.56 |
0.9371 |
-0.0604 |
273 |
1 |
77.56 |
2019-03-15 |
| 48. |
Because the peoples of Micronesia and Palau did not have a w... |
89.21 |
0.8914 |
0.1329 |
271 |
1 |
89.21 |
2020-05-24 |
| 49. |
When another blames you or hates you, or people voice simila... |
101.08 |
1.0487 |
0.1237 |
268 |
1 |
101.08 |
2020-05-24 |
| 50. |
Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I'm afraid, even fights)... |
94.97 |
0.9484 |
0.1362 |
267 |
1 |
94.97 |
2020-05-15 |
| 51. |
Italian imports - sixty-five smackeroonies. That's right, no... |
83.72 |
0.8783 |
0.0679 |
262 |
1 |
83.72 |
2020-05-13 |
| 52. |
What could there be about a shadow that was so terrible that... |
107.97 |
1.0549 |
0.2118 |
259 |
1 |
107.97 |
2019-10-15 |
| 53. |
When I lay with you I could stay there. Close my eyes, feel ... |
79.51 |
1.0176 |
-0.0983 |
257 |
1 |
79.51 |
2020-05-13 |
| 54. |
Don't you ever talk that way to me. Never! Never! What we've... |
70.98 |
0.9768 |
-0.1795 |
254 |
1 |
70.98 |
2019-03-19 |
| 55. |
Pooka. From old Celtic mythology, a fairy spirit in animal f... |
77.44 |
0.8847 |
-0.0066 |
254 |
1 |
77.44 |
2019-10-15 |
| 56. |
She belonged to a different age, but being so entire, so com... |
75.92 |
1.0039 |
-0.1091 |
252 |
1 |
75.92 |
2019-03-19 |
| 57. |
She may be the face I can't forget. The trace of pleasure or... |
81.29 |
1.0342 |
-0.0830 |
252 |
1 |
81.29 |
2018-12-01 |
| 58. |
Look at that sky, Malcolm. Just think. Somewhere out there, ... |
87.02 |
0.9562 |
0.0350 |
250 |
1 |
87.02 |
2018-12-01 |
| 59. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
78.59 |
1.0654 |
-0.1504 |
247 |
1 |
78.59 |
2018-12-02 |
| 60. |
Be careful, you are not in Wonderland. I've heard the strang... |
71.90 |
0.9598 |
-0.1621 |
246 |
1 |
71.90 |
2019-03-15 |
| 61. |
There before me was a woman who had finally, after all this ... |
80.10 |
1.0680 |
-0.1370 |
246 |
1 |
80.10 |
2019-03-23 |
| 62. |
It's zero hour, Michael. It's the end of the line. I'm the f... |
76.91 |
0.9310 |
-0.0645 |
244 |
1 |
76.91 |
2020-03-30 |
| 63. |
Then Annie got the crazy idea that she could talk me into bu... |
89.11 |
0.9394 |
0.0734 |
243 |
1 |
89.11 |
2020-05-24 |
| 64. |
I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymor... |
72.20 |
1.0259 |
-0.1800 |
237 |
1 |
72.20 |
2018-09-10 |
| 65. |
The two kinds of messages that an object-communication diagr... |
88.00 |
0.8937 |
0.1121 |
237 |
1 |
88.00 |
2020-05-24 |
| 66. |
I walked by your guidance counselor's office one time. A bun... |
86.61 |
0.9457 |
0.0406 |
236 |
1 |
86.61 |
2019-03-15 |
| 67. |
It was the same kind of ominous voice; but these men could b... |
67.05 |
0.9701 |
-0.2173 |
235 |
1 |
67.05 |
2018-09-10 |
| 68. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
106.84 |
1.0543 |
0.1963 |
233 |
1 |
106.84 |
2020-12-14 |
| 69. |
Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have t... |
83.69 |
1.0465 |
-0.0810 |
232 |
1 |
83.69 |
2020-05-24 |
| 70. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
87.46 |
0.9761 |
0.0506 |
227 |
1 |
87.46 |
2019-03-15 |
| 71. |
I read this thing the other day about how when you hear that... |
71.10 |
1.0641 |
-0.2324 |
225 |
1 |
71.10 |
2018-09-10 |
| 72. |
In the early days, living in their squalid apartment, all th... |
91.80 |
0.9226 |
0.1267 |
224 |
1 |
91.80 |
2020-05-24 |
| 73. |
As my bones grew they did hurt. They hurt really bad. I trie... |
93.87 |
1.0694 |
0.0274 |
223 |
1 |
93.87 |
2020-03-30 |
| 74. |
You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think t... |
81.52 |
1.0445 |
-0.0875 |
223 |
1 |
81.52 |
2019-03-15 |
| 75. |
Everything happens for a reason. The system will be assessin... |
96.31 |
1.0365 |
0.0827 |
222 |
1 |
96.31 |
2020-05-24 |
| 76. |
Reading is not a natural process; the habits necessary for e... |
108.70 |
1.0252 |
0.2477 |
218 |
1 |
108.70 |
2020-05-24 |
| 77. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
94.90 |
1.0086 |
0.0965 |
218 |
1 |
94.90 |
2020-05-13 |
| 78. |
Don't your feet get cold in the winter time? The sky won't s... |
85.87 |
1.0547 |
-0.0536 |
216 |
1 |
85.87 |
2019-10-15 |
| 79. |
I open up the paper. There's a story of an actor who had die... |
99.38 |
1.0275 |
0.1314 |
213 |
1 |
99.38 |
2020-03-30 |
| 80. |
There are places I'll remember all my life, though some have... |
68.17 |
1.0755 |
-0.2812 |
211 |
1 |
68.17 |
2018-10-04 |
| 81. |
Finally the press is interested again in Bela Lugosi. There ... |
103.04 |
0.9525 |
0.2254 |
210 |
1 |
103.04 |
2020-05-13 |
| 82. |
According to the data in their networks the ring has some ki... |
43.29 |
0.9454 |
-0.4695 |
209 |
1 |
43.29 |
2018-09-22 |
| 83. |
For instance, a black hole as light as a small asteroid woul... |
75.22 |
0.9600 |
-0.0797 |
209 |
1 |
75.22 |
2018-10-04 |
| 84. |
Every thought and every word works for you or against you, a... |
86.88 |
1.0681 |
-0.0672 |
208 |
1 |
86.88 |
2020-05-13 |
| 85. |
Just give me all the bacon and eggs you have. Wait, wait, I'... |
80.66 |
0.9298 |
-0.0206 |
206 |
1 |
80.66 |
2020-05-24 |
| 86. |
I've been up. I've been down. I've been kicked down to the g... |
78.52 |
0.9406 |
-0.0606 |
204 |
1 |
78.52 |
2020-05-13 |
| 87. |
By that point, entire sectors of my cerebral cortex seemed t... |
90.02 |
0.9734 |
0.0803 |
203 |
1 |
90.02 |
2020-05-24 |
| 88. |
Yes. Everyone at Harvard's inventing something. Harvard unde... |
91.54 |
0.9444 |
0.0984 |
203 |
1 |
91.54 |
2020-05-13 |
| 89. |
Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long ... |
100.13 |
1.0929 |
0.0870 |
199 |
1 |
100.13 |
2018-12-01 |
| 90. |
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are... |
68.14 |
0.9237 |
-0.1279 |
199 |
1 |
68.14 |
2018-12-01 |
| 91. |
Bobby, my uncle loves you. He needs you. So you're gonna get... |
95.30 |
1.0464 |
0.0637 |
198 |
1 |
95.30 |
2020-03-30 |
| 92. |
I have never done a day's work in my life - honest or dishon... |
105.03 |
0.9631 |
0.2659 |
196 |
1 |
105.03 |
2020-05-13 |
| 93. |
I know you're into banks and Wall Street, but everyone knows... |
58.05 |
1.0189 |
-0.3434 |
194 |
1 |
58.05 |
2018-09-10 |
| 94. |
We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all... |
104.91 |
1.1024 |
0.1338 |
194 |
1 |
104.91 |
2020-03-30 |
| 95. |
And men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mi... |
83.68 |
1.0597 |
-0.0890 |
192 |
1 |
83.68 |
2018-09-10 |
| 96. |
Baby, I have no story to be told, but I've heard one on you.... |
77.15 |
0.9680 |
-0.1041 |
191 |
1 |
77.15 |
2018-09-10 |
| 97. |
No offence, but NASA spends fifteen years, hundreds of milli... |
80.38 |
0.9806 |
-0.0719 |
191 |
1 |
80.38 |
2018-09-10 |
| 98. |
To the extent that experience is the sum of our memories and... |
109.26 |
1.0938 |
0.1835 |
191 |
1 |
109.26 |
2020-05-15 |
| 99. |
What was the power that turned the worm into a moth? It was ... |
79.55 |
1.0472 |
-0.1149 |
188 |
1 |
79.55 |
2018-09-13 |
| 100. |
I will not be distracted by this anymore! It will take more ... |
94.56 |
0.9513 |
0.1072 |
187 |
1 |
94.56 |
2020-05-13 |
| 101. |
I wish we'll end up this crazy way before we burn our steam.... |
74.99 |
1.0480 |
-0.1717 |
185 |
1 |
74.99 |
2019-03-19 |
| 102. |
Today I don't feel like doing anything. I just wanna lay in ... |
71.91 |
0.9894 |
-0.1559 |
180 |
1 |
71.91 |
2020-05-13 |
| 103. |
I have often walked down this street before, but the pavemen... |
93.37 |
1.0196 |
0.0591 |
179 |
1 |
93.37 |
2018-10-04 |
| 104. |
Hey, Sid! Remember that time last summer we were all gathere... |
69.71 |
0.9507 |
-0.1652 |
174 |
1 |
69.71 |
2018-09-10 |
| 105. |
I think people place too much emphasis on their careers. I w... |
83.27 |
0.9600 |
-0.0187 |
172 |
1 |
83.27 |
2019-10-15 |
| 106. |
We lose direction, no stone unturned, no tears to damn you w... |
70.11 |
0.9374 |
-0.1467 |
168 |
1 |
70.11 |
2018-12-02 |
| 107. |
She gives me feelings like I never felt before. I'm breaking... |
95.70 |
0.9440 |
0.1340 |
165 |
1 |
95.70 |
2020-05-13 |
| 108. |
Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over th... |
67.42 |
0.8720 |
-0.1254 |
151 |
1 |
67.42 |
2020-05-24 |
| 109. |
My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes. That's a sen... |
97.65 |
0.9663 |
0.1372 |
147 |
1 |
97.65 |
2019-03-15 |
| 110. |
Mind is not in any one place. Every cell in this body has it... |
109.82 |
1.0841 |
0.1783 |
146 |
1 |
109.82 |
2020-05-13 |
| 111. |
For one who contradicts emptiness there would be nothing tha... |
72.88 |
1.0123 |
-0.1586 |
143 |
1 |
72.88 |
2020-05-13 |
| 112. |
"Look at that," she whispered, and then after a moment: "I'd... |
93.85 |
0.8641 |
0.2089 |
142 |
1 |
93.85 |
2020-05-15 |
| 113. |
You know what the trouble is, Brucey? We used to make stuff ... |
99.64 |
0.9525 |
0.1700 |
140 |
1 |
99.64 |
2020-03-30 |
| 114. |
Waving colored flags, we won't surrender, there's no standin... |
89.28 |
0.9986 |
0.0430 |
140 |
1 |
89.28 |
2020-05-13 |
| 115. |
Men always believe that. With a law degree you're taking on ... |
84.08 |
1.0610 |
-0.0820 |
132 |
1 |
84.08 |
2020-05-24 |
| 116. |
And can you feel the love tonight, it is where we are. It's ... |
91.98 |
0.9362 |
0.0993 |
116 |
1 |
91.98 |
2019-05-30 |
| 117. |
A duck walked up to a lemonade stand and he said to the man ... |
65.18 |
0.8181 |
-0.0871 |
115 |
1 |
65.18 |
2019-10-15 |