| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
150.04 |
1.0639 |
0.2578 |
303 |
3 |
135.80 |
2012-01-12 |
| 2. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
149.72 |
0.9631 |
0.3543 |
273 |
1 |
149.72 |
2014-10-10 |
| 3. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
143.49 |
1.0524 |
0.2078 |
177 |
1 |
143.49 |
2011-06-08 |
| 4. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
142.46 |
1.0059 |
0.2487 |
283 |
1 |
142.46 |
2011-11-29 |
| 5. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
142.15 |
1.0464 |
0.2095 |
294 |
2 |
135.49 |
2012-01-14 |
| 6. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
141.50 |
1.0404 |
0.2095 |
406 |
2 |
125.32 |
2012-01-12 |
| 7. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
141.27 |
0.9422 |
0.2956 |
190 |
1 |
141.27 |
2014-10-10 |
| 8. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
140.49 |
0.9713 |
0.2635 |
193 |
1 |
140.49 |
2012-01-12 |
| 9. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
137.08 |
1.0464 |
0.1652 |
213 |
1 |
137.08 |
2011-11-29 |
| 10. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
136.46 |
1.0131 |
0.1904 |
245 |
3 |
117.56 |
2012-01-12 |
| 11. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
136.04 |
1.0125 |
0.1826 |
232 |
1 |
136.04 |
2011-11-29 |
| 12. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
133.80 |
1.0301 |
0.1454 |
268 |
1 |
133.80 |
2011-12-04 |
| 13. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
133.77 |
1.0538 |
0.1354 |
367 |
1 |
133.77 |
2011-12-04 |
| 14. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
133.70 |
0.9765 |
0.1984 |
269 |
1 |
133.70 |
2014-10-10 |
| 15. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
132.58 |
0.9583 |
0.2081 |
237 |
1 |
132.58 |
2011-11-29 |
| 16. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
131.84 |
1.0576 |
0.0990 |
231 |
1 |
131.84 |
2014-10-10 |
| 17. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
131.46 |
1.0697 |
0.0958 |
341 |
1 |
131.46 |
2011-06-15 |
| 18. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
130.28 |
1.0135 |
0.1355 |
358 |
1 |
130.28 |
2011-12-04 |
| 19. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
129.80 |
0.9681 |
0.1790 |
392 |
1 |
129.80 |
2014-10-10 |
| 20. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
129.09 |
1.0082 |
0.1219 |
212 |
1 |
129.09 |
2011-04-03 |
| 21. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
128.78 |
0.9271 |
0.2076 |
323 |
2 |
111.95 |
2014-10-10 |
| 22. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
128.62 |
1.0495 |
0.0810 |
323 |
1 |
128.62 |
2011-06-14 |
| 23. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
128.55 |
0.9346 |
0.1930 |
211 |
2 |
125.56 |
2011-12-04 |
| 24. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
126.93 |
0.9947 |
0.1313 |
346 |
2 |
108.90 |
2012-01-12 |
| 25. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
126.69 |
0.9704 |
0.1432 |
254 |
1 |
126.69 |
2014-10-10 |
| 26. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
126.07 |
1.0676 |
0.0460 |
456 |
2 |
116.90 |
2011-06-08 |
| 27. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
125.29 |
0.9866 |
0.1158 |
308 |
1 |
125.29 |
2012-01-12 |
| 28. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
125.19 |
1.0432 |
0.0578 |
276 |
1 |
125.19 |
2014-10-10 |
| 29. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
124.82 |
0.9606 |
0.1406 |
203 |
1 |
124.82 |
2011-06-08 |
| 30. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
123.52 |
1.0189 |
0.0664 |
290 |
1 |
123.52 |
2014-10-10 |
| 31. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
122.96 |
0.9392 |
0.1480 |
360 |
2 |
116.70 |
2011-06-14 |
| 32. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
122.88 |
1.0427 |
0.0382 |
269 |
1 |
122.88 |
2011-12-04 |
| 33. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
121.99 |
0.9917 |
0.0831 |
317 |
2 |
114.42 |
2011-12-04 |
| 34. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
121.96 |
1.0521 |
0.0144 |
197 |
1 |
121.96 |
2014-10-10 |
| 35. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
121.79 |
0.9928 |
0.0771 |
293 |
1 |
121.79 |
2011-12-04 |
| 36. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
120.62 |
0.8787 |
0.1789 |
443 |
1 |
120.62 |
2012-01-12 |
| 37. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
119.92 |
1.0672 |
-0.0146 |
239 |
1 |
119.92 |
2011-06-09 |
| 38. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
119.15 |
1.0253 |
0.0247 |
337 |
1 |
119.15 |
2011-06-14 |
| 39. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
117.62 |
0.9918 |
0.0489 |
400 |
1 |
117.62 |
2011-06-16 |
| 40. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
117.56 |
0.9660 |
0.0746 |
258 |
1 |
117.56 |
2011-06-21 |
| 41. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
116.39 |
0.8880 |
0.1351 |
296 |
1 |
116.39 |
2011-06-08 |
| 42. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
116.31 |
0.8986 |
0.1222 |
205 |
1 |
116.31 |
2011-06-13 |
| 43. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
116.18 |
1.0561 |
-0.0373 |
227 |
1 |
116.18 |
2012-01-12 |
| 44. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
114.78 |
0.9797 |
0.0333 |
269 |
2 |
109.51 |
2014-10-10 |
| 45. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
114.74 |
1.0101 |
0.0002 |
336 |
2 |
105.40 |
2011-06-13 |
| 46. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
114.54 |
0.9949 |
0.0220 |
304 |
1 |
114.54 |
2011-06-14 |
| 47. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
113.45 |
0.9258 |
0.0758 |
184 |
1 |
113.45 |
2014-10-10 |
| 48. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
112.97 |
0.9963 |
-0.0062 |
274 |
1 |
112.97 |
2011-06-09 |
| 49. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
112.60 |
0.9194 |
0.0806 |
360 |
1 |
112.60 |
2014-10-10 |
| 50. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
112.60 |
0.8984 |
0.0987 |
267 |
1 |
112.60 |
2011-06-09 |
| 51. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
112.54 |
1.0960 |
-0.1031 |
315 |
1 |
112.54 |
2011-06-08 |
| 52. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
111.86 |
1.0418 |
-0.0584 |
214 |
2 |
100.55 |
2011-06-08 |
| 53. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
111.53 |
1.0320 |
-0.0462 |
401 |
1 |
111.53 |
2011-06-14 |
| 54. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
111.18 |
0.9380 |
0.0372 |
284 |
1 |
111.18 |
2011-09-18 |
| 55. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
111.01 |
1.0026 |
-0.0231 |
200 |
1 |
111.01 |
2011-06-08 |
| 56. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
110.02 |
0.9650 |
0.0040 |
347 |
1 |
110.02 |
2011-06-14 |
| 57. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
109.97 |
0.9749 |
0.0005 |
337 |
1 |
109.97 |
2014-10-10 |
| 58. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
109.52 |
1.0178 |
-0.0577 |
207 |
1 |
109.52 |
2011-12-04 |
| 59. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
109.51 |
0.9244 |
0.0426 |
225 |
2 |
106.23 |
2014-10-10 |
| 60. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
109.11 |
0.9957 |
-0.0375 |
323 |
1 |
109.11 |
2011-06-16 |
| 61. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
108.85 |
0.9377 |
0.0259 |
198 |
1 |
108.85 |
2011-06-08 |
| 62. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
108.27 |
0.9108 |
0.0404 |
235 |
2 |
100.45 |
2011-06-15 |
| 63. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
107.85 |
0.9756 |
-0.0291 |
223 |
1 |
107.85 |
2011-06-08 |
| 64. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
107.74 |
0.8656 |
0.0824 |
242 |
2 |
84.21 |
2011-11-29 |
| 65. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
107.00 |
0.9989 |
-0.0520 |
282 |
1 |
107.00 |
2011-11-29 |
| 66. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
106.60 |
0.9012 |
0.0385 |
322 |
1 |
106.60 |
2011-12-04 |
| 67. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
106.52 |
0.9927 |
-0.0565 |
276 |
1 |
106.52 |
2011-06-08 |
| 68. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
104.70 |
1.0492 |
-0.1246 |
284 |
2 |
104.35 |
2011-06-08 |
| 69. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
104.65 |
1.0392 |
-0.1153 |
258 |
1 |
104.65 |
2011-06-13 |
| 70. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
104.53 |
1.0006 |
-0.0825 |
311 |
1 |
104.53 |
2011-06-14 |
| 71. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
103.85 |
0.9519 |
-0.0358 |
323 |
1 |
103.85 |
2011-06-15 |
| 72. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
103.15 |
0.9931 |
-0.0830 |
339 |
1 |
103.15 |
2011-06-08 |
| 73. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
102.69 |
0.9807 |
-0.0908 |
129 |
1 |
102.69 |
2011-06-08 |
| 74. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
102.37 |
0.9931 |
-0.0979 |
218 |
1 |
102.37 |
2011-06-15 |
| 75. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
102.36 |
0.9128 |
-0.0172 |
237 |
1 |
102.36 |
2011-06-08 |
| 76. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
101.87 |
0.9339 |
-0.0334 |
317 |
1 |
101.87 |
2011-06-15 |
| 77. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
100.69 |
1.0472 |
-0.1696 |
149 |
1 |
100.69 |
2011-06-08 |
| 78. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
100.45 |
1.0351 |
-0.1492 |
276 |
1 |
100.45 |
2011-06-08 |
| 79. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
99.60 |
1.0638 |
-0.1918 |
247 |
1 |
99.60 |
2011-06-09 |
| 80. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
99.23 |
0.9658 |
-0.0909 |
308 |
2 |
96.65 |
2011-06-10 |
| 81. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
98.80 |
0.9451 |
-0.0697 |
419 |
1 |
98.80 |
2011-06-14 |
| 82. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
98.75 |
1.0836 |
-0.2137 |
206 |
1 |
98.75 |
2011-06-08 |
| 83. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
98.59 |
1.0686 |
-0.1993 |
354 |
1 |
98.59 |
2011-06-14 |
| 84. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
98.12 |
1.0039 |
-0.1365 |
255 |
1 |
98.12 |
2011-06-09 |
| 85. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
95.24 |
0.8974 |
-0.0497 |
365 |
1 |
95.24 |
2011-06-15 |
| 86. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
94.60 |
1.0372 |
-0.2075 |
249 |
1 |
94.60 |
2011-06-15 |
| 87. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
92.26 |
0.9775 |
-0.1548 |
473 |
1 |
92.26 |
2011-06-21 |
| 88. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
91.77 |
0.9536 |
-0.1399 |
311 |
1 |
91.77 |
2011-06-13 |
| 89. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
91.68 |
1.0139 |
-0.1963 |
349 |
1 |
91.68 |
2011-06-08 |
| 90. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
90.73 |
1.0028 |
-0.2079 |
259 |
1 |
90.73 |
2011-06-08 |
| 91. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
89.32 |
0.7923 |
-0.0083 |
316 |
1 |
89.32 |
2011-06-14 |
| 92. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
88.56 |
1.0588 |
-0.2822 |
281 |
1 |
88.56 |
2011-06-15 |
| 93. |
The idea of "Mr. Right" has been passed down over the genera... |
88.03 |
0.9630 |
-0.1772 |
379 |
1 |
88.03 |
2011-06-08 |
| 94. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
87.04 |
0.9228 |
-0.1546 |
305 |
1 |
87.04 |
2011-06-15 |
| 95. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
86.31 |
0.8794 |
-0.1157 |
427 |
1 |
86.31 |
2011-06-15 |
| 96. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
85.54 |
0.9434 |
-0.1889 |
367 |
1 |
85.54 |
2011-06-08 |
| 97. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
85.09 |
0.9403 |
-0.1816 |
345 |
1 |
85.09 |
2011-06-08 |
| 98. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
85.05 |
1.0279 |
-0.2877 |
172 |
1 |
85.05 |
2011-06-13 |
| 99. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
84.72 |
0.9817 |
-0.2337 |
304 |
1 |
84.72 |
2011-06-08 |
| 100. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
81.27 |
1.0615 |
-0.3519 |
201 |
1 |
81.27 |
2011-06-08 |
| 101. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
58.07 |
1.0063 |
-0.4944 |
293 |
1 |
58.07 |
2011-06-08 |