| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the ... |
161.65 |
1.0020 |
0.3555 |
201 |
1 |
161.65 |
2015-06-10 |
| 2. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
152.92 |
1.0493 |
0.2410 |
264 |
1 |
152.92 |
2015-05-29 |
| 3. |
According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way tha... |
146.80 |
1.0409 |
0.1934 |
248 |
1 |
146.80 |
2020-05-01 |
| 4. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
145.90 |
0.9833 |
0.2434 |
387 |
1 |
145.90 |
2013-11-13 |
| 5. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
144.93 |
1.0600 |
0.1565 |
351 |
1 |
144.93 |
2013-11-13 |
| 6. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
144.51 |
1.0654 |
0.1446 |
247 |
1 |
144.51 |
2015-06-09 |
| 7. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
142.57 |
0.9909 |
0.2100 |
293 |
2 |
133.31 |
2015-02-19 |
| 8. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
142.21 |
1.0208 |
0.1724 |
231 |
1 |
142.21 |
2015-05-29 |
| 9. |
Well, our daughter Becky left home for a year and a half and... |
141.45 |
0.9023 |
0.2311 |
105 |
1 |
141.45 |
2020-05-01 |
| 10. |
The number one challenge I've seen with myself and with othe... |
140.98 |
1.0161 |
0.1696 |
239 |
1 |
140.98 |
2015-05-29 |
| 11. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
139.52 |
1.0320 |
0.1446 |
401 |
2 |
128.79 |
2015-06-09 |
| 12. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
138.52 |
1.0969 |
0.0675 |
303 |
1 |
138.52 |
2016-02-05 |
| 13. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
138.20 |
1.0192 |
0.1457 |
243 |
1 |
138.20 |
2015-05-29 |
| 14. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
138.20 |
0.9996 |
0.1673 |
483 |
1 |
138.20 |
2015-06-10 |
| 15. |
We live in an age when people do more writing than they have... |
138.06 |
1.0342 |
0.1273 |
280 |
1 |
138.06 |
2015-06-10 |
| 16. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
137.01 |
1.0095 |
0.1382 |
211 |
2 |
130.83 |
2015-06-25 |
| 17. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
136.19 |
1.0018 |
0.1411 |
246 |
1 |
136.19 |
2015-06-04 |
| 18. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
136.16 |
1.0144 |
0.1287 |
162 |
1 |
136.16 |
2013-11-09 |
| 19. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
135.92 |
1.0130 |
0.1271 |
288 |
1 |
135.92 |
2015-06-09 |
| 20. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
135.79 |
1.0370 |
0.1020 |
262 |
1 |
135.79 |
2015-06-04 |
| 21. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
134.26 |
1.0101 |
0.1177 |
336 |
2 |
121.42 |
2015-05-29 |
| 22. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
134.22 |
0.9849 |
0.1422 |
337 |
1 |
134.22 |
2015-06-25 |
| 23. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
134.21 |
0.9783 |
0.1549 |
273 |
1 |
134.21 |
2013-11-13 |
| 24. |
I had felt it growing, this feeling that had been hiding ben... |
134.15 |
1.0437 |
0.0865 |
260 |
1 |
134.15 |
2017-05-20 |
| 25. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
133.91 |
0.9842 |
0.1412 |
335 |
2 |
133.08 |
2015-06-25 |
| 26. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
132.02 |
1.0697 |
0.0470 |
341 |
1 |
132.02 |
2015-06-18 |
| 27. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
131.98 |
1.0195 |
0.0936 |
239 |
1 |
131.98 |
2013-11-09 |
| 28. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
131.95 |
1.0472 |
0.0532 |
149 |
1 |
131.95 |
2013-11-09 |
| 29. |
Finally, there are those languages, such as Turkish, Finnish... |
131.94 |
0.9039 |
0.2099 |
353 |
1 |
131.94 |
2016-04-03 |
| 30. |
In the past, all a King had to do was look respectable in un... |
131.87 |
0.9806 |
0.1266 |
253 |
1 |
131.87 |
2017-06-04 |
| 31. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
131.50 |
0.9775 |
0.1384 |
473 |
1 |
131.50 |
2015-05-29 |
| 32. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
131.39 |
1.0901 |
0.0138 |
288 |
1 |
131.39 |
2013-11-19 |
| 33. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
130.92 |
1.0341 |
0.0634 |
273 |
1 |
130.92 |
2013-11-09 |
| 34. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
130.69 |
0.9873 |
0.1193 |
396 |
1 |
130.69 |
2013-11-09 |
| 35. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
130.44 |
1.0006 |
0.0933 |
311 |
1 |
130.44 |
2015-06-18 |
| 36. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
129.31 |
1.0590 |
0.0243 |
250 |
1 |
129.31 |
2015-05-29 |
| 37. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
129.13 |
1.0483 |
0.0397 |
305 |
1 |
129.13 |
2015-06-10 |
| 38. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
128.78 |
0.9424 |
0.1401 |
320 |
1 |
128.78 |
2015-05-29 |
| 39. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
128.41 |
0.9698 |
0.1122 |
389 |
1 |
128.41 |
2016-01-20 |
| 40. |
Gentlemen: You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you,... |
127.96 |
0.9570 |
0.1127 |
100 |
1 |
127.96 |
2015-06-04 |
| 41. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
127.41 |
0.9012 |
0.1707 |
322 |
1 |
127.41 |
2013-11-15 |
| 42. |
I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live i... |
127.19 |
1.1242 |
-0.0531 |
144 |
1 |
127.19 |
2015-06-24 |
| 43. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
126.30 |
0.9949 |
0.0746 |
304 |
1 |
126.30 |
2015-06-04 |
| 44. |
I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the sens... |
126.02 |
1.0131 |
0.0494 |
214 |
1 |
126.02 |
2015-06-25 |
| 45. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
125.21 |
1.0509 |
0.0063 |
295 |
1 |
125.21 |
2016-02-05 |
| 46. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
125.00 |
1.0304 |
0.0212 |
257 |
2 |
117.87 |
2015-06-10 |
| 47. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
124.63 |
0.8964 |
0.1456 |
199 |
1 |
124.63 |
2013-11-09 |
| 48. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
123.43 |
0.9258 |
0.1137 |
184 |
1 |
123.43 |
2015-06-10 |
| 49. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
123.24 |
0.9809 |
0.0485 |
209 |
2 |
112.11 |
2013-11-15 |
| 50. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
122.62 |
0.9963 |
0.0292 |
274 |
1 |
122.62 |
2015-05-29 |
| 51. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
122.57 |
1.0189 |
0.0079 |
290 |
1 |
122.57 |
2013-11-09 |
| 52. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
122.36 |
1.0042 |
0.0179 |
168 |
1 |
122.36 |
2015-06-04 |
| 53. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
121.22 |
0.9183 |
0.0988 |
308 |
1 |
121.22 |
2013-11-19 |
| 54. |
Suppose you suggest to your husband that subsidized llama fa... |
121.14 |
0.9374 |
0.0829 |
255 |
1 |
121.14 |
2015-06-04 |
| 55. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
120.95 |
1.0576 |
-0.0466 |
231 |
1 |
120.95 |
2015-05-29 |
| 56. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
120.60 |
0.9392 |
0.0779 |
360 |
2 |
120.33 |
2015-06-09 |
| 57. |
I was having this awful nightmare that I was 32. And then I ... |
120.11 |
0.9834 |
0.0174 |
137 |
2 |
98.10 |
2016-02-05 |
| 58. |
Hope you're feeling better now, hope you got my letter, how ... |
120.03 |
1.0065 |
0.0104 |
251 |
1 |
120.03 |
2016-02-05 |
| 59. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
119.76 |
0.9354 |
0.0797 |
384 |
1 |
119.76 |
2013-11-15 |
| 60. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
119.66 |
0.9299 |
0.0648 |
168 |
1 |
119.66 |
2017-06-05 |
| 61. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
119.52 |
0.9957 |
0.0101 |
323 |
1 |
119.52 |
2013-11-13 |
| 62. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
118.96 |
1.0419 |
-0.0416 |
341 |
1 |
118.96 |
2013-11-09 |
| 63. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
118.68 |
0.9820 |
0.0212 |
297 |
1 |
118.68 |
2015-06-18 |
| 64. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
118.67 |
1.0086 |
-0.0183 |
218 |
1 |
118.67 |
2015-06-04 |
| 65. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
118.45 |
1.0777 |
-0.0870 |
226 |
1 |
118.45 |
2013-11-09 |
| 66. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
118.44 |
0.9824 |
0.0233 |
352 |
1 |
118.44 |
2013-11-09 |
| 67. |
I would never want to forfeit my genders. Along with Aunt Au... |
117.78 |
0.9785 |
0.0114 |
204 |
1 |
117.78 |
2016-04-03 |
| 68. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
117.73 |
0.9332 |
0.0549 |
295 |
1 |
117.73 |
2016-01-20 |
| 69. |
The feeling of having no power over people and events is gen... |
117.73 |
0.9886 |
0.0085 |
384 |
1 |
117.73 |
2015-06-09 |
| 70. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
117.68 |
0.8666 |
0.1173 |
206 |
1 |
117.68 |
2015-06-10 |
| 71. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
117.31 |
1.0529 |
-0.0669 |
373 |
1 |
117.31 |
2013-11-14 |
| 72. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
117.07 |
1.0498 |
-0.0675 |
261 |
1 |
117.07 |
2013-11-09 |
| 73. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
116.27 |
1.0060 |
-0.0309 |
225 |
1 |
116.27 |
2015-05-29 |
| 74. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
116.15 |
1.0873 |
-0.1168 |
243 |
1 |
116.15 |
2013-11-09 |
| 75. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
116.06 |
0.9468 |
0.0257 |
318 |
1 |
116.06 |
2015-06-09 |
| 76. |
After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will c... |
115.68 |
0.9362 |
0.0081 |
340 |
1 |
115.68 |
2017-05-18 |
| 77. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
115.15 |
1.0036 |
-0.0376 |
277 |
1 |
115.15 |
2015-06-04 |
| 78. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
114.95 |
0.9889 |
-0.0121 |
429 |
1 |
114.95 |
2015-06-24 |
| 79. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
114.42 |
1.1086 |
-0.1494 |
233 |
1 |
114.42 |
2013-11-09 |
| 80. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
114.16 |
0.9947 |
-0.0285 |
346 |
1 |
114.16 |
2015-06-24 |
| 81. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
113.82 |
1.1138 |
-0.1517 |
341 |
1 |
113.82 |
2015-06-24 |
| 82. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
113.75 |
1.0601 |
-0.1102 |
256 |
1 |
113.75 |
2015-06-24 |
| 83. |
I'll tell you a secret. Something they don't teach you in yo... |
113.47 |
0.9930 |
-0.0396 |
286 |
1 |
113.47 |
2015-06-24 |
| 84. |
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a... |
113.39 |
1.0314 |
-0.0884 |
459 |
1 |
113.39 |
2015-06-24 |
| 85. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
113.09 |
1.0426 |
-0.0990 |
131 |
1 |
113.09 |
2015-06-10 |
| 86. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
112.98 |
0.9244 |
0.0275 |
225 |
1 |
112.98 |
2015-06-25 |
| 87. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
112.51 |
0.9857 |
-0.0371 |
268 |
1 |
112.51 |
2013-11-09 |
| 88. |
May your hands always be busy, may your feet always be swift... |
112.23 |
1.0218 |
-0.0787 |
222 |
1 |
112.23 |
2015-06-04 |
| 89. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
111.95 |
1.0669 |
-0.1254 |
379 |
1 |
111.95 |
2015-06-25 |
| 90. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
111.92 |
0.9597 |
-0.0217 |
251 |
1 |
111.92 |
2015-06-24 |
| 91. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
111.57 |
0.9338 |
0.0108 |
326 |
1 |
111.57 |
2016-01-20 |
| 92. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
111.54 |
1.0074 |
-0.0589 |
410 |
1 |
111.54 |
2016-01-20 |
| 93. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
111.33 |
1.0128 |
-0.0731 |
369 |
1 |
111.33 |
2015-06-09 |
| 94. |
Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It's ab... |
110.60 |
1.0390 |
-0.1074 |
260 |
1 |
110.60 |
2015-06-04 |
| 95. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
109.12 |
0.8778 |
0.0381 |
285 |
1 |
109.12 |
2013-11-15 |
| 96. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
108.64 |
1.0543 |
-0.1475 |
182 |
1 |
108.64 |
2015-05-29 |
| 97. |
Dear Mr. Vernon, We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice... |
108.56 |
0.9610 |
-0.0406 |
491 |
1 |
108.56 |
2015-06-24 |
| 98. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
108.36 |
1.0582 |
-0.1537 |
180 |
1 |
108.36 |
2015-06-10 |
| 99. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
108.14 |
0.8913 |
0.0162 |
201 |
1 |
108.14 |
2013-11-13 |
| 100. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
107.31 |
0.9807 |
-0.0935 |
129 |
1 |
107.31 |
2015-06-09 |
| 101. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
106.33 |
1.0333 |
-0.1476 |
176 |
1 |
106.33 |
2013-11-09 |
| 102. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
105.45 |
0.9987 |
-0.1112 |
236 |
1 |
105.45 |
2013-11-09 |
| 103. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
104.73 |
0.9604 |
-0.0855 |
285 |
1 |
104.73 |
2013-11-15 |
| 104. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. The work was generall... |
104.68 |
0.9692 |
-0.0762 |
405 |
1 |
104.68 |
2015-06-24 |
| 105. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
103.67 |
0.9162 |
-0.0469 |
401 |
1 |
103.67 |
2015-06-25 |
| 106. |
As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit... |
103.17 |
0.9706 |
-0.0950 |
353 |
1 |
103.17 |
2015-05-29 |
| 107. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
103.11 |
1.0755 |
-0.2115 |
243 |
1 |
103.11 |
2013-11-09 |
| 108. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
103.00 |
1.0125 |
-0.1549 |
171 |
1 |
103.00 |
2013-11-19 |
| 109. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
102.20 |
0.9479 |
-0.0905 |
317 |
1 |
102.20 |
2013-11-19 |
| 110. |
When Betty and Billy fell asleep, he walked down to the kitc... |
99.80 |
0.9649 |
-0.1191 |
360 |
1 |
99.80 |
2013-11-14 |
| 111. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
99.02 |
0.8936 |
-0.0658 |
346 |
1 |
99.02 |
2013-11-09 |
| 112. |
Our world, with its rules of causality, has trained us to be... |
98.67 |
0.9855 |
-0.1506 |
282 |
1 |
98.67 |
2017-06-05 |
| 113. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
98.66 |
0.9726 |
-0.1414 |
396 |
1 |
98.66 |
2013-11-19 |
| 114. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
95.10 |
0.9681 |
-0.1667 |
392 |
1 |
95.10 |
2013-11-09 |
| 115. |
And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and that ... |
93.73 |
0.9635 |
-0.1748 |
220 |
1 |
93.73 |
2015-06-04 |
| 116. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
85.90 |
0.9530 |
-0.2217 |
445 |
1 |
85.90 |
2013-11-09 |
| 117. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
58.63 |
1.0759 |
-0.5821 |
273 |
1 |
58.63 |
2015-06-04 |
| 118. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
54.42 |
0.8812 |
-0.4293 |
177 |
1 |
54.42 |
2015-06-04 |
| 119. |
As much money and life as you could want! The two things mos... |
50.14 |
1.0492 |
-0.6316 |
198 |
1 |
50.14 |
2015-06-04 |
| 120. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
45.07 |
1.0288 |
-0.6595 |
166 |
1 |
45.07 |
2015-06-04 |
| 121. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
38.86 |
0.7852 |
-0.4700 |
154 |
1 |
38.86 |
2015-06-04 |