| 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... |
165.88 |
1.0800 |
0.2362 |
129 |
3 |
144.67 |
2011-11-08 |
| 2. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
161.19 |
1.0755 |
0.2111 |
243 |
1 |
161.19 |
2011-09-17 |
| 3. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
156.93 |
1.0877 |
0.1601 |
129 |
1 |
156.93 |
2011-09-17 |
| 4. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
155.02 |
1.0567 |
0.1795 |
314 |
1 |
155.02 |
2011-09-17 |
| 5. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
153.64 |
1.0511 |
0.1758 |
252 |
1 |
153.64 |
2011-09-18 |
| 6. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
151.64 |
1.0524 |
0.1551 |
177 |
2 |
150.07 |
2011-09-17 |
| 7. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
151.36 |
1.0506 |
0.1562 |
259 |
2 |
146.16 |
2011-09-18 |
| 8. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
149.37 |
1.0144 |
0.1908 |
356 |
2 |
138.96 |
2011-09-18 |
| 9. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
148.72 |
1.1095 |
0.0784 |
252 |
1 |
148.72 |
2011-09-17 |
| 10. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
148.23 |
1.0543 |
0.1282 |
233 |
1 |
148.23 |
2011-09-17 |
| 11. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
146.92 |
1.0676 |
0.1094 |
456 |
1 |
146.92 |
2011-09-17 |
| 12. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
145.79 |
0.9918 |
0.1779 |
400 |
1 |
145.79 |
2012-03-01 |
| 13. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
145.59 |
1.0493 |
0.1184 |
264 |
1 |
145.59 |
2011-05-19 |
| 14. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
145.19 |
0.9561 |
0.2090 |
364 |
1 |
145.19 |
2011-09-18 |
| 15. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
144.47 |
1.0543 |
0.0997 |
360 |
1 |
144.47 |
2011-11-08 |
| 16. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
143.34 |
1.0194 |
0.1209 |
224 |
1 |
143.34 |
2011-05-19 |
| 17. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
143.07 |
1.0501 |
0.0911 |
263 |
1 |
143.07 |
2011-05-19 |
| 18. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
142.83 |
1.0857 |
0.0655 |
393 |
1 |
142.83 |
2011-05-19 |
| 19. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
142.64 |
1.0267 |
0.1137 |
261 |
1 |
142.64 |
2011-09-17 |
| 20. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
142.45 |
1.0399 |
0.1008 |
257 |
1 |
142.45 |
2011-05-19 |
| 21. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
142.43 |
0.9704 |
0.1648 |
254 |
1 |
142.43 |
2011-09-18 |
| 22. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
142.41 |
1.0845 |
0.0496 |
212 |
1 |
142.41 |
2011-05-19 |
| 23. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
142.32 |
1.0230 |
0.1132 |
200 |
1 |
142.32 |
2011-09-18 |
| 24. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
141.65 |
1.0283 |
0.1078 |
272 |
1 |
141.65 |
2011-09-18 |
| 25. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
141.35 |
0.9869 |
0.1365 |
193 |
1 |
141.35 |
2011-09-17 |
| 26. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
139.58 |
1.0165 |
0.0951 |
316 |
1 |
139.58 |
2011-05-25 |
| 27. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
139.54 |
0.9809 |
0.1273 |
209 |
1 |
139.54 |
2011-09-17 |
| 28. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
139.39 |
1.0628 |
0.0506 |
363 |
1 |
139.39 |
2011-05-19 |
| 29. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
138.53 |
1.0125 |
0.0905 |
232 |
1 |
138.53 |
2011-09-18 |
| 30. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
138.51 |
0.9761 |
0.1333 |
227 |
1 |
138.51 |
2011-09-17 |
| 31. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
138.51 |
1.0408 |
0.0714 |
257 |
1 |
138.51 |
2011-09-17 |
| 32. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
138.38 |
1.0106 |
0.0919 |
302 |
2 |
135.40 |
2011-09-18 |
| 33. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
138.37 |
1.0697 |
0.0430 |
341 |
1 |
138.37 |
2011-09-17 |
| 34. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
138.05 |
0.9119 |
0.1929 |
396 |
1 |
138.05 |
2012-03-01 |
| 35. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
136.96 |
1.0672 |
0.0232 |
239 |
1 |
136.96 |
2011-09-17 |
| 36. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
136.76 |
1.0881 |
-0.0018 |
210 |
1 |
136.76 |
2011-09-17 |
| 37. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
135.96 |
1.1070 |
-0.0243 |
265 |
1 |
135.96 |
2011-05-19 |
| 38. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
135.90 |
1.0654 |
0.0151 |
247 |
1 |
135.90 |
2011-11-08 |
| 39. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
135.83 |
0.9817 |
0.1060 |
304 |
2 |
113.99 |
2011-10-02 |
| 40. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
135.77 |
1.0188 |
0.0728 |
316 |
1 |
135.77 |
2012-03-01 |
| 41. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
135.75 |
1.0370 |
0.0447 |
262 |
2 |
131.81 |
2012-03-07 |
| 42. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
134.36 |
1.0111 |
0.0721 |
452 |
1 |
134.36 |
2011-09-18 |
| 43. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
134.05 |
0.9807 |
0.0758 |
129 |
1 |
134.05 |
2011-05-18 |
| 44. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
133.81 |
0.9981 |
0.0678 |
211 |
1 |
133.81 |
2011-05-25 |
| 45. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
133.75 |
0.9844 |
0.0937 |
351 |
1 |
133.75 |
2011-10-02 |
| 46. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
133.73 |
1.0144 |
0.0521 |
162 |
1 |
133.73 |
2011-05-19 |
| 47. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
133.50 |
1.0540 |
0.0051 |
184 |
1 |
133.50 |
2011-05-18 |
| 48. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
133.29 |
0.9740 |
0.0920 |
371 |
2 |
130.88 |
2012-03-07 |
| 49. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
133.20 |
1.0272 |
0.0323 |
226 |
1 |
133.20 |
2011-09-18 |
| 50. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
132.96 |
1.0538 |
0.0185 |
367 |
2 |
128.75 |
2011-09-18 |
| 51. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
132.09 |
1.0018 |
0.0512 |
246 |
1 |
132.09 |
2011-09-18 |
| 52. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
131.79 |
0.9765 |
0.0729 |
269 |
1 |
131.79 |
2012-03-07 |
| 53. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
131.38 |
0.9101 |
0.1411 |
351 |
1 |
131.38 |
2011-05-19 |
| 54. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
130.11 |
1.0135 |
0.0267 |
358 |
1 |
130.11 |
2012-03-01 |
| 55. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
129.71 |
0.9801 |
0.0536 |
289 |
2 |
112.13 |
2011-09-17 |
| 56. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
129.32 |
0.9244 |
0.1112 |
225 |
2 |
113.84 |
2011-09-18 |
| 57. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
128.68 |
0.8656 |
0.1619 |
242 |
1 |
128.68 |
2011-09-18 |
| 58. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
128.19 |
0.9980 |
0.0255 |
295 |
2 |
126.85 |
2011-09-17 |
| 59. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
128.02 |
1.0392 |
-0.0140 |
258 |
2 |
125.19 |
2011-09-17 |
| 60. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
127.46 |
1.0600 |
-0.0441 |
351 |
2 |
124.05 |
2011-05-25 |
| 61. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
127.17 |
0.9517 |
0.0698 |
397 |
1 |
127.17 |
2011-05-19 |
| 62. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
126.76 |
0.9359 |
0.0755 |
355 |
1 |
126.76 |
2011-09-18 |
| 63. |
He rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' ... |
126.42 |
1.0461 |
-0.0224 |
535 |
1 |
126.42 |
2011-09-17 |
| 64. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
126.01 |
0.9468 |
0.0572 |
318 |
1 |
126.01 |
2011-09-18 |
| 65. |
I often see racers, particularly at the back of the pack in ... |
125.92 |
0.9960 |
0.0204 |
469 |
1 |
125.92 |
2011-09-18 |
| 66. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
125.52 |
1.0350 |
-0.0204 |
416 |
1 |
125.52 |
2011-05-19 |
| 67. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
124.42 |
0.8721 |
0.1252 |
231 |
1 |
124.42 |
2012-03-07 |
| 68. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
124.37 |
1.0883 |
-0.0911 |
189 |
1 |
124.37 |
2011-05-25 |
| 69. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
124.25 |
1.0334 |
-0.0440 |
261 |
1 |
124.25 |
2012-03-07 |
| 70. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
123.28 |
0.9228 |
0.0645 |
305 |
3 |
112.21 |
2011-05-25 |
| 71. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
123.05 |
1.0686 |
-0.0844 |
354 |
2 |
120.20 |
2011-09-17 |
| 72. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
122.63 |
1.1198 |
-0.1440 |
247 |
1 |
122.63 |
2011-05-18 |
| 73. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
122.40 |
0.9703 |
0.0118 |
394 |
1 |
122.40 |
2011-05-19 |
| 74. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
122.15 |
0.9880 |
-0.0194 |
199 |
1 |
122.15 |
2011-05-19 |
| 75. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
122.00 |
0.9545 |
0.0272 |
412 |
1 |
122.00 |
2011-05-18 |
| 76. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
121.62 |
0.9329 |
0.0503 |
345 |
2 |
113.74 |
2011-05-19 |
| 77. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
121.58 |
0.9985 |
-0.0173 |
392 |
1 |
121.58 |
2011-05-19 |
| 78. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
121.21 |
1.0026 |
-0.0331 |
200 |
1 |
121.21 |
2011-05-18 |
| 79. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
121.17 |
1.0095 |
-0.0461 |
211 |
1 |
121.17 |
2011-05-18 |
| 80. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
120.98 |
0.9392 |
0.0310 |
360 |
1 |
120.98 |
2011-05-25 |
| 81. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
120.97 |
1.0279 |
-0.0700 |
172 |
1 |
120.97 |
2011-05-19 |
| 82. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
120.90 |
0.9762 |
-0.0136 |
249 |
1 |
120.90 |
2011-05-18 |
| 83. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
120.76 |
1.0006 |
-0.0386 |
311 |
1 |
120.76 |
2011-05-18 |
| 84. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
120.63 |
1.0243 |
-0.0604 |
153 |
1 |
120.63 |
2011-09-18 |
| 85. |
As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit... |
119.40 |
0.9706 |
-0.0073 |
353 |
1 |
119.40 |
2011-09-18 |
| 86. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
119.04 |
1.0682 |
-0.1189 |
266 |
1 |
119.04 |
2011-09-17 |
| 87. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
118.70 |
1.0509 |
-0.0984 |
295 |
1 |
118.70 |
2011-05-18 |
| 88. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
118.22 |
0.9966 |
-0.0473 |
377 |
2 |
108.00 |
2011-10-02 |
| 89. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
117.49 |
0.9963 |
-0.0633 |
274 |
1 |
117.49 |
2011-05-18 |
| 90. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
117.44 |
0.9889 |
-0.0399 |
429 |
1 |
117.44 |
2011-05-19 |
| 91. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
117.35 |
0.9698 |
-0.0296 |
389 |
1 |
117.35 |
2011-05-18 |
| 92. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
117.09 |
0.9530 |
-0.0064 |
445 |
1 |
117.09 |
2011-05-19 |
| 93. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
116.64 |
0.9561 |
-0.0258 |
362 |
1 |
116.64 |
2011-05-19 |
| 94. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
115.75 |
0.9775 |
-0.0423 |
473 |
1 |
115.75 |
2011-09-18 |
| 95. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
114.77 |
0.9632 |
-0.0480 |
287 |
1 |
114.77 |
2011-05-19 |
| 96. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
114.73 |
0.9271 |
-0.0138 |
295 |
1 |
114.73 |
2011-05-18 |
| 97. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
114.45 |
1.0250 |
-0.1103 |
271 |
1 |
114.45 |
2011-05-19 |
| 98. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
113.92 |
0.9377 |
-0.0231 |
198 |
1 |
113.92 |
2011-09-17 |
| 99. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
113.15 |
0.8172 |
0.0789 |
204 |
1 |
113.15 |
2012-03-01 |
| 100. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
113.09 |
0.9852 |
-0.0854 |
235 |
1 |
113.09 |
2011-05-19 |
| 101. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
112.62 |
0.9108 |
-0.0142 |
235 |
1 |
112.62 |
2011-09-18 |
| 102. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
112.54 |
0.9931 |
-0.0926 |
339 |
1 |
112.54 |
2011-05-25 |
| 103. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
112.33 |
0.9650 |
-0.0681 |
347 |
1 |
112.33 |
2011-09-18 |
| 104. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
111.82 |
0.9947 |
-0.0946 |
346 |
1 |
111.82 |
2011-05-19 |
| 105. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
111.78 |
1.0301 |
-0.1415 |
268 |
1 |
111.78 |
2011-05-18 |
| 106. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
111.69 |
0.8955 |
0.0041 |
436 |
1 |
111.69 |
2011-09-17 |
| 107. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
111.44 |
0.9926 |
-0.0938 |
413 |
1 |
111.44 |
2011-05-19 |
| 108. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
111.39 |
0.9299 |
-0.0519 |
168 |
2 |
101.87 |
2011-09-18 |
| 109. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
109.48 |
0.9884 |
-0.1141 |
267 |
1 |
109.48 |
2011-05-19 |
| 110. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
109.38 |
0.9681 |
-0.0917 |
392 |
1 |
109.38 |
2011-10-02 |
| 111. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
108.78 |
0.9801 |
-0.1063 |
282 |
1 |
108.78 |
2011-05-19 |
| 112. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
108.55 |
0.9424 |
-0.0750 |
320 |
1 |
108.55 |
2011-05-19 |
| 113. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
108.53 |
0.9135 |
-0.0406 |
393 |
1 |
108.53 |
2011-09-17 |
| 114. |
When Betty and Billy fell asleep, he walked down to the kitc... |
108.46 |
0.9649 |
-0.0912 |
360 |
1 |
108.46 |
2011-05-19 |
| 115. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
108.06 |
1.0035 |
-0.1429 |
310 |
1 |
108.06 |
2011-05-18 |
| 116. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
106.29 |
1.0543 |
-0.2120 |
182 |
1 |
106.29 |
2011-05-19 |
| 117. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
105.81 |
1.0189 |
-0.1775 |
290 |
1 |
105.81 |
2011-05-19 |
| 118. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
105.79 |
0.9804 |
-0.1383 |
227 |
1 |
105.79 |
2011-05-19 |
| 119. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
105.56 |
0.8437 |
-0.0039 |
268 |
1 |
105.56 |
2011-05-19 |
| 120. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
105.07 |
0.8986 |
-0.0574 |
363 |
1 |
105.07 |
2011-10-02 |
| 121. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
104.45 |
1.0482 |
-0.2036 |
407 |
1 |
104.45 |
2011-05-19 |
| 122. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
103.80 |
0.9857 |
-0.1542 |
268 |
1 |
103.80 |
2011-05-19 |
| 123. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
103.33 |
1.0320 |
-0.2038 |
401 |
1 |
103.33 |
2011-05-25 |
| 124. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
102.86 |
0.9422 |
-0.1289 |
190 |
2 |
90.39 |
2011-05-19 |
| 125. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
102.11 |
0.9332 |
-0.1196 |
295 |
1 |
102.11 |
2011-05-19 |
| 126. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
102.07 |
1.0450 |
-0.2277 |
358 |
1 |
102.07 |
2011-05-18 |
| 127. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
101.57 |
0.9841 |
-0.1792 |
217 |
1 |
101.57 |
2011-05-18 |
| 128. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
101.33 |
0.8913 |
-0.0831 |
201 |
1 |
101.33 |
2011-05-19 |
| 129. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
101.13 |
0.9374 |
-0.1302 |
232 |
1 |
101.13 |
2011-05-25 |
| 130. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
97.20 |
0.8787 |
-0.1092 |
443 |
1 |
97.20 |
2011-05-25 |
| 131. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
96.94 |
0.9011 |
-0.1266 |
322 |
1 |
96.94 |
2011-05-18 |
| 132. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
92.03 |
0.8964 |
-0.1679 |
199 |
1 |
92.03 |
2011-05-18 |
| 133. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
90.84 |
0.9123 |
-0.1810 |
351 |
1 |
90.84 |
2011-05-18 |
| 134. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
90.25 |
1.0432 |
-0.3256 |
276 |
1 |
90.25 |
2011-05-18 |
| 135. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
89.92 |
1.0588 |
-0.3445 |
281 |
1 |
89.92 |
2011-05-18 |
| 136. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
83.50 |
0.9403 |
-0.2682 |
307 |
1 |
83.50 |
2011-10-02 |