| 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... |
113.38 |
1.0026 |
-0.0835 |
713 |
1 |
113.38 |
2017-10-27 |
| 2. |
Opponents of a "scientific" approach to the social sciences ... |
117.88 |
0.9338 |
0.0001 |
642 |
1 |
117.88 |
2017-11-16 |
| 3. |
The rotten tiles broke with a noise of disaster and the man ... |
119.50 |
0.9656 |
-0.0151 |
617 |
1 |
119.50 |
2017-10-31 |
| 4. |
I'll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest where th... |
123.00 |
0.9923 |
-0.0266 |
586 |
1 |
123.00 |
2017-11-16 |
| 5. |
On the eve of a day that's forgotten and fake and the trees ... |
118.39 |
0.9752 |
-0.0541 |
565 |
1 |
118.39 |
2017-12-23 |
| 6. |
She finished her letter, wondering whether she had said enou... |
121.51 |
1.0260 |
-0.0490 |
545 |
1 |
121.51 |
2017-10-27 |
| 7. |
Don't look so disappointed, dear one. Just try them on. Toda... |
112.52 |
1.0339 |
-0.1279 |
497 |
1 |
112.52 |
2017-12-21 |
| 8. |
Kryten: Sir, I just can't eat any more raw coffee. Lister: [... |
116.25 |
0.8338 |
0.0860 |
486 |
1 |
116.25 |
2017-10-27 |
| 9. |
My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not on... |
124.39 |
0.9346 |
0.0391 |
466 |
1 |
124.39 |
2017-10-30 |
| 10. |
The double attack on Justin and Nearly Headless Nick turned ... |
131.92 |
0.9091 |
0.1254 |
431 |
1 |
131.92 |
2017-11-16 |
| 11. |
We are being watched. The government has a secret system, a ... |
109.74 |
0.8919 |
-0.0310 |
420 |
1 |
109.74 |
2017-10-31 |
| 12. |
You said I sounded a bit callous in my last letter, Dad. Let... |
135.56 |
1.0328 |
0.0579 |
420 |
1 |
135.56 |
2017-10-30 |
| 13. |
There's an infestation in my mind's imagination. I hope they... |
115.73 |
0.9744 |
-0.0831 |
412 |
1 |
115.73 |
2017-10-29 |
| 14. |
Right on up to high school, people said I was a writin' fool... |
121.24 |
0.8863 |
0.0547 |
407 |
1 |
121.24 |
2017-12-23 |
| 15. |
Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end unt... |
120.97 |
1.0402 |
-0.0641 |
405 |
1 |
120.97 |
2017-10-31 |
| 16. |
And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings... |
126.19 |
0.9755 |
0.0422 |
404 |
1 |
126.19 |
2017-12-23 |
| 17. |
That's different for everybody. You add up all your mortal s... |
118.72 |
0.9198 |
0.0027 |
402 |
1 |
118.72 |
2017-10-31 |
| 18. |
You like boats but not the ocean. You go to a lake in the su... |
110.96 |
1.0327 |
-0.1425 |
399 |
1 |
110.96 |
2017-10-31 |
| 19. |
I want to say I'm sorry for stuff I haven't done yet. Things... |
124.86 |
0.9919 |
-0.0158 |
397 |
1 |
124.86 |
2017-10-31 |
| 20. |
The only thing that burns in hell is the part of you that wo... |
134.70 |
1.0368 |
0.0418 |
384 |
2 |
126.43 |
2017-12-23 |
| 21. |
You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have... |
119.71 |
0.9587 |
-0.0249 |
378 |
1 |
119.71 |
2017-10-31 |
| 22. |
Sometimes ideas, like men, jump up and say 'hello'. They int... |
127.37 |
0.9500 |
0.0408 |
369 |
1 |
127.37 |
2017-12-23 |
| 23. |
It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to... |
121.52 |
0.8590 |
0.0928 |
365 |
1 |
121.52 |
2017-10-31 |
| 24. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
122.90 |
0.9561 |
0.0353 |
364 |
1 |
122.90 |
2017-10-31 |
| 25. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
128.75 |
0.9561 |
0.0763 |
362 |
2 |
127.78 |
2017-12-21 |
| 26. |
I still think about the letter you asked me to write. It nag... |
137.40 |
1.0888 |
0.0190 |
356 |
1 |
137.40 |
2017-11-16 |
| 27. |
Not that I condone fascism, or any -ism for that matter. -Is... |
114.89 |
0.8668 |
0.0314 |
345 |
1 |
114.89 |
2017-11-16 |
| 28. |
Monster lizard ravages east coast! Mayors in five New Englan... |
110.07 |
0.8517 |
0.0062 |
344 |
1 |
110.07 |
2017-12-23 |
| 29. |
What is finished is the idea that this great country is dedi... |
126.22 |
1.0370 |
-0.0212 |
334 |
1 |
126.22 |
2017-10-27 |
| 30. |
My aunt used to live in Paris. I remember, she used to come ... |
141.99 |
1.0244 |
0.1132 |
330 |
1 |
141.99 |
2017-11-16 |
| 31. |
What you gonna do with your man there? You're always gonna h... |
131.24 |
1.0071 |
0.0565 |
329 |
1 |
131.24 |
2017-10-27 |
| 32. |
Dictionaries are designed to appear authoritative. They're t... |
125.69 |
0.9101 |
0.0682 |
321 |
1 |
125.69 |
2017-11-16 |
| 33. |
If the essence of creativity is linking disparate facts and ... |
118.74 |
0.9812 |
-0.0551 |
317 |
1 |
118.74 |
2017-10-29 |
| 34. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
123.02 |
0.9479 |
0.0387 |
317 |
1 |
123.02 |
2017-12-21 |
| 35. |
I'm always worried maybe people aren't going to like me when... |
132.42 |
0.9740 |
0.0478 |
314 |
1 |
132.42 |
2017-12-23 |
| 36. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
123.52 |
0.9827 |
0.0071 |
314 |
1 |
123.52 |
2017-10-27 |
| 37. |
Although today dalmatians serve primarily as firehouse masco... |
114.10 |
0.9229 |
-0.0328 |
310 |
1 |
114.10 |
2017-10-26 |
| 38. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
129.11 |
0.9402 |
0.0918 |
310 |
1 |
129.11 |
2017-10-27 |
| 39. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
117.60 |
0.9866 |
-0.0447 |
308 |
1 |
117.60 |
2017-10-27 |
| 40. |
I tried several times to call her, but after the first call,... |
133.06 |
1.0405 |
0.0329 |
307 |
1 |
133.06 |
2017-10-27 |
| 41. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
109.37 |
1.0270 |
-0.1514 |
303 |
1 |
109.37 |
2017-10-31 |
| 42. |
It's very frustrating to me that we have not yet managed to ... |
107.77 |
0.9865 |
-0.1572 |
296 |
1 |
107.77 |
2017-10-27 |
| 43. |
Now, I'm going to give you three simple rules. First, trust ... |
135.32 |
0.9534 |
0.0972 |
295 |
1 |
135.32 |
2017-10-31 |
| 44. |
Now look at this picture. Look at it hard. Then turn the pag... |
112.45 |
0.9316 |
-0.0588 |
293 |
1 |
112.45 |
2017-10-27 |
| 45. |
Children are blameless. I have never hurt them. Your boy is ... |
120.65 |
0.9161 |
0.0201 |
292 |
1 |
120.65 |
2017-11-16 |
| 46. |
I'm dancing on the White House lawn; sipping tea by the Taj ... |
98.58 |
0.8587 |
-0.0976 |
282 |
1 |
98.58 |
2017-11-16 |
| 47. |
Any one can get angry - that is easy - or give or spend mone... |
133.00 |
1.0768 |
-0.0026 |
282 |
1 |
133.00 |
2017-11-16 |
| 48. |
I'm a cop - I'm good at reading people - so I know I can tru... |
135.44 |
0.9559 |
0.0910 |
281 |
1 |
135.44 |
2017-10-27 |
| 49. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
129.74 |
0.9932 |
0.0533 |
281 |
1 |
129.74 |
2017-10-27 |
| 50. |
You know, Marty, I'm gonna be very sad to see you go. You've... |
115.67 |
0.9304 |
-0.0364 |
276 |
1 |
115.67 |
2017-12-23 |
| 51. |
You know, you go to thrift shops and you go to garage sales ... |
143.88 |
1.0239 |
0.1270 |
274 |
1 |
143.88 |
2017-10-27 |
| 52. |
You can tell me that your dog ran away then tell me that it ... |
114.74 |
1.0363 |
-0.1208 |
273 |
1 |
114.74 |
2017-12-21 |
| 53. |
Saying "I love you" is not the words I want to hear from you... |
146.85 |
1.0774 |
0.0997 |
268 |
1 |
146.85 |
2017-10-27 |
| 54. |
I wanted to understand as much as I could about the procedur... |
119.76 |
1.0845 |
-0.1237 |
267 |
1 |
119.76 |
2017-10-31 |
| 55. |
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting... |
144.48 |
1.1000 |
0.0580 |
263 |
1 |
144.48 |
2017-12-23 |
| 56. |
When you have children, you always have family. They will al... |
119.29 |
0.9933 |
-0.0367 |
261 |
1 |
119.29 |
2017-10-27 |
| 57. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
132.29 |
1.0498 |
0.0107 |
261 |
1 |
132.29 |
2017-10-31 |
| 58. |
We hold our rifles in missing hands. We stand tall on missin... |
118.90 |
1.0081 |
-0.0525 |
256 |
1 |
118.90 |
2017-10-27 |
| 59. |
Son, a woman is a lot like a... a refrigerator! They're abou... |
100.40 |
0.8790 |
-0.1019 |
256 |
1 |
100.40 |
2017-10-27 |
| 60. |
Suppose you suggest to your husband that subsidized llama fa... |
104.52 |
0.9374 |
-0.0972 |
255 |
1 |
104.52 |
2017-12-23 |
| 61. |
Pooka. From old Celtic mythology, a fairy spirit in animal f... |
101.99 |
0.8847 |
-0.1011 |
254 |
1 |
101.99 |
2017-11-16 |
| 62. |
Look at that sky, Malcolm. Just think. Somewhere out there, ... |
133.33 |
0.9562 |
0.0807 |
250 |
2 |
124.60 |
2017-10-31 |
| 63. |
He was close, real close. I couldn't see him yet, but I coul... |
142.73 |
1.0608 |
0.0856 |
249 |
1 |
142.73 |
2017-11-16 |
| 64. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
135.71 |
1.0654 |
0.0190 |
247 |
1 |
135.71 |
2017-10-30 |
| 65. |
In Carl Jung's opinion, we all have a sixth sense - intuitio... |
116.40 |
0.9387 |
-0.0399 |
243 |
1 |
116.40 |
2017-10-31 |
| 66. |
I let it fall, my heart, and as it fell you rose to claim it... |
122.61 |
1.0529 |
-0.0644 |
240 |
1 |
122.61 |
2017-10-30 |
| 67. |
The key goals in user-interface design are increase in speed... |
112.02 |
1.0343 |
-0.1284 |
239 |
1 |
112.02 |
2017-10-31 |
| 68. |
That's the engineer of the Excess Express. Talk about a drea... |
120.28 |
0.9113 |
0.0173 |
235 |
1 |
120.28 |
2017-10-30 |
| 69. |
This is the most stupid, irresponsible, dangerous thing you ... |
135.64 |
0.9521 |
0.1014 |
220 |
1 |
135.64 |
2017-11-16 |
| 70. |
Where's that money, you silly stupid old fool? Where's that ... |
119.07 |
0.8913 |
0.0305 |
220 |
1 |
119.07 |
2017-10-27 |
| 71. |
No! Fool that I am! I should have remembered! Those slippers... |
121.51 |
0.9546 |
-0.0167 |
219 |
1 |
121.51 |
2017-10-27 |
| 72. |
I want you to be very clear about this: You were fired. I wa... |
134.13 |
1.0506 |
0.0171 |
214 |
1 |
134.13 |
2017-10-27 |
| 73. |
Through these fields of destruction, baptisms of fire, I've ... |
131.47 |
1.0187 |
0.0341 |
213 |
1 |
131.47 |
2017-12-21 |
| 74. |
If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now, ... |
139.19 |
1.0469 |
0.0639 |
212 |
1 |
139.19 |
2017-10-31 |
| 75. |
Every second he breathed, the smell of the grass, the cool a... |
120.74 |
1.0657 |
-0.0950 |
210 |
1 |
120.74 |
2017-10-30 |
| 76. |
Ah how shameless - the way these mortals blame the gods. Fro... |
126.56 |
1.0294 |
-0.0130 |
210 |
1 |
126.56 |
2017-10-27 |
| 77. |
It didn't stop you from writing it. As if every thought that... |
134.47 |
0.9978 |
0.0802 |
210 |
1 |
134.47 |
2017-11-16 |
| 78. |
So now I have to decide. Decide whether to let the world be ... |
123.96 |
1.0162 |
-0.0210 |
209 |
1 |
123.96 |
2017-10-30 |
| 79. |
You have to accept that sometimes that's how things happen i... |
126.60 |
1.0695 |
-0.0557 |
208 |
1 |
126.60 |
2017-10-30 |
| 80. |
We took a perfectly useless psychopath like Valentine, and t... |
126.20 |
0.8956 |
0.0832 |
207 |
1 |
126.20 |
2017-12-23 |
| 81. |
Don't you know what it means to me to be a Marine, Dad? Ever... |
119.44 |
0.9551 |
-0.0362 |
206 |
1 |
119.44 |
2017-10-27 |
| 82. |
So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were f... |
110.75 |
1.0452 |
-0.1640 |
206 |
1 |
110.75 |
2017-10-27 |
| 83. |
This was my only and my constant comfort. When I think of it... |
125.38 |
1.0531 |
-0.0423 |
204 |
1 |
125.38 |
2017-10-27 |
| 84. |
But then he'll wonder why I haven't been married. You know w... |
116.74 |
0.9829 |
-0.0873 |
201 |
1 |
116.74 |
2017-11-16 |
| 85. |
I have never done a day's work in my life - honest or dishon... |
120.05 |
0.9631 |
-0.0007 |
196 |
1 |
120.05 |
2017-11-16 |
| 86. |
With gene therapy, we can remove those genes which we know m... |
124.75 |
1.0419 |
-0.0349 |
195 |
1 |
124.75 |
2017-11-16 |
| 87. |
Neal, the board is deciding whether to release you from your... |
128.44 |
1.0188 |
0.0075 |
194 |
1 |
128.44 |
2017-10-31 |
| 88. |
Though my story's seldom told, I have squandered my resistan... |
124.49 |
0.9641 |
0.0406 |
194 |
1 |
124.49 |
2017-10-27 |
| 89. |
Oh, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Even though the soun... |
98.65 |
0.7906 |
-0.0147 |
191 |
1 |
98.65 |
2017-11-16 |
| 90. |
Well, let me tell you something, Caveman. You are here on ac... |
129.15 |
1.0592 |
-0.0272 |
190 |
1 |
129.15 |
2017-10-31 |
| 91. |
We look not at the things which are what you would call seen... |
136.55 |
1.1443 |
-0.0440 |
190 |
1 |
136.55 |
2017-10-31 |
| 92. |
Start spreading the news, I'm leaving today. I want to be a ... |
128.47 |
0.8903 |
0.1017 |
189 |
1 |
128.47 |
2017-12-23 |
| 93. |
History is not merely a linear collection of points that we ... |
140.26 |
1.0937 |
0.0306 |
187 |
1 |
140.26 |
2017-10-31 |
| 94. |
Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they ... |
136.32 |
1.1568 |
-0.0577 |
186 |
1 |
136.32 |
2017-10-27 |
| 95. |
That's me in the corner, that's me in the spotlight losing m... |
131.52 |
1.0345 |
0.0189 |
181 |
1 |
131.52 |
2017-10-27 |
| 96. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
106.97 |
1.0582 |
-0.2059 |
180 |
1 |
106.97 |
2017-12-21 |
| 97. |
When the shoes first fell from the sky, he remembered thinki... |
126.36 |
1.0243 |
-0.0116 |
170 |
1 |
126.36 |
2017-10-31 |
| 98. |
What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty again... |
124.45 |
1.0269 |
-0.0297 |
169 |
1 |
124.45 |
2017-10-30 |
| 99. |
I would never want to belong to any club that would have som... |
146.60 |
1.1034 |
0.0783 |
164 |
1 |
146.60 |
2017-10-31 |
| 100. |
You have two choices: you can keep running and hiding and bl... |
107.74 |
1.0722 |
-0.2113 |
164 |
1 |
107.74 |
2017-11-17 |
| 101. |
It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life... |
141.95 |
1.0411 |
0.1022 |
162 |
1 |
141.95 |
2017-12-23 |
| 102. |
Sometimes you are too ashamed to leave. That was true now. A... |
132.63 |
1.0711 |
-0.0079 |
146 |
1 |
132.63 |
2017-10-27 |
| 103. |
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and t... |
139.43 |
1.1367 |
-0.0222 |
136 |
1 |
139.43 |
2017-11-16 |