| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live i... |
162.42 |
1.1242 |
0.2035 |
144 |
3 |
141.43 |
2017-04-17 |
| 2. |
You are what you are and you are where you are because of wh... |
160.54 |
1.1898 |
0.1183 |
178 |
1 |
160.54 |
2017-04-17 |
| 3. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
159.44 |
1.0960 |
0.2060 |
315 |
1 |
159.44 |
2017-04-20 |
| 4. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
156.98 |
1.0208 |
0.2568 |
231 |
1 |
156.98 |
2017-04-20 |
| 5. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
155.07 |
1.0466 |
0.2152 |
230 |
1 |
155.07 |
2016-10-20 |
| 6. |
Take a drink, my friend, and say what you have in your heart... |
153.08 |
1.0371 |
0.2091 |
152 |
1 |
153.08 |
2017-03-21 |
| 7. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
152.09 |
1.0291 |
0.2067 |
240 |
1 |
152.09 |
2016-10-20 |
| 8. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
148.39 |
1.0791 |
0.1336 |
259 |
1 |
148.39 |
2016-10-20 |
| 9. |
The day is made up of 24 hours and an infinite number of mom... |
147.85 |
1.0577 |
0.1516 |
200 |
1 |
147.85 |
2016-10-20 |
| 10. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
147.27 |
1.0845 |
0.1127 |
212 |
1 |
147.27 |
2016-10-20 |
| 11. |
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and... |
147.00 |
1.0873 |
0.1152 |
219 |
1 |
147.00 |
2016-10-20 |
| 12. |
When the shadow of the sash appeared on the curtains it was ... |
146.98 |
0.9858 |
0.2207 |
435 |
1 |
146.98 |
2017-02-26 |
| 13. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
146.15 |
1.0350 |
0.1688 |
416 |
1 |
146.15 |
2016-10-10 |
| 14. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
145.40 |
1.0471 |
0.1486 |
406 |
1 |
145.40 |
2017-01-26 |
| 15. |
One just can't imagine what prison is like from outside. You... |
144.85 |
1.0389 |
0.1512 |
271 |
1 |
144.85 |
2016-10-20 |
| 16. |
Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. T... |
144.48 |
1.0192 |
0.1703 |
418 |
1 |
144.48 |
2017-01-26 |
| 17. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
143.45 |
1.0115 |
0.1502 |
189 |
1 |
143.45 |
2016-10-10 |
| 18. |
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
143.17 |
0.9719 |
0.1775 |
44 |
1 |
143.17 |
2016-10-20 |
| 19. |
As the United States assumed greater status as a power in wo... |
140.22 |
1.0034 |
0.1409 |
205 |
1 |
140.22 |
2017-04-18 |
| 20. |
Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. Yo... |
139.02 |
1.0403 |
0.0903 |
129 |
1 |
139.02 |
2017-02-01 |
| 21. |
There's an old voice in my head that's holding me back. Well... |
138.09 |
1.0974 |
0.0345 |
225 |
2 |
138.08 |
2016-10-20 |
| 22. |
First, your return to shore was not part of our negotiations... |
137.35 |
0.9587 |
0.1642 |
305 |
1 |
137.35 |
2017-04-18 |
| 23. |
The world's changing out there, there are a lot of new, exci... |
137.32 |
1.0541 |
0.0662 |
394 |
1 |
137.32 |
2017-04-20 |
| 24. |
But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To kno... |
137.02 |
1.0738 |
0.0451 |
255 |
1 |
137.02 |
2017-01-27 |
| 25. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
136.97 |
1.0101 |
0.1060 |
336 |
1 |
136.97 |
2017-04-17 |
| 26. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
136.69 |
1.0697 |
0.0515 |
341 |
1 |
136.69 |
2016-10-10 |
| 27. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
136.29 |
1.0006 |
0.1080 |
311 |
1 |
136.29 |
2016-10-22 |
| 28. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
136.20 |
1.0567 |
0.0508 |
314 |
1 |
136.20 |
2016-10-20 |
| 29. |
Solving the following riddle will reveal the awful secret be... |
136.09 |
1.0257 |
0.0894 |
222 |
1 |
136.09 |
2016-10-20 |
| 30. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
135.31 |
1.0230 |
0.0787 |
200 |
1 |
135.31 |
2016-10-20 |
| 31. |
I don't know whether it's necessary or not; but this I do kn... |
133.25 |
0.9335 |
0.1308 |
142 |
1 |
133.25 |
2016-10-10 |
| 32. |
So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever s... |
133.25 |
1.1026 |
-0.0132 |
239 |
1 |
133.25 |
2016-10-20 |
| 33. |
Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beaut... |
132.67 |
0.9701 |
0.1083 |
145 |
1 |
132.67 |
2016-10-20 |
| 34. |
Is that what your little note says? It must be hard living y... |
131.82 |
1.0152 |
0.0630 |
201 |
1 |
131.82 |
2016-10-20 |
| 35. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
131.72 |
0.9643 |
0.1154 |
282 |
1 |
131.72 |
2016-10-20 |
| 36. |
You've always mistaken your vanity for love. It's your final... |
130.69 |
0.9877 |
0.0606 |
112 |
1 |
130.69 |
2017-01-26 |
| 37. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
130.18 |
1.0414 |
0.0158 |
234 |
1 |
130.18 |
2016-10-20 |
| 38. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
129.23 |
1.0495 |
0.0008 |
323 |
1 |
129.23 |
2016-09-30 |
| 39. |
Don't tell me what's in, don't tell me how to write, don't t... |
128.84 |
1.0768 |
-0.0296 |
183 |
1 |
128.84 |
2017-04-17 |
| 40. |
I'd pull your eyes out of your head, and put them in my own ... |
128.37 |
1.0902 |
-0.0377 |
148 |
1 |
128.37 |
2016-10-20 |
| 41. |
We live in an age when people do more writing than they have... |
128.27 |
1.0121 |
0.0174 |
280 |
1 |
128.27 |
2016-08-11 |
| 42. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
127.90 |
1.0033 |
0.0367 |
203 |
1 |
127.90 |
2016-10-21 |
| 43. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
127.41 |
1.0538 |
-0.0054 |
367 |
1 |
127.41 |
2017-03-21 |
| 44. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
126.51 |
1.0387 |
-0.0058 |
333 |
1 |
126.51 |
2016-10-20 |
| 45. |
Plato is always concerned to advocate views that will make p... |
125.65 |
0.9650 |
0.0640 |
206 |
1 |
125.65 |
2016-10-20 |
| 46. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
124.94 |
1.0301 |
-0.0158 |
268 |
1 |
124.94 |
2016-10-14 |
| 47. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
124.32 |
0.9374 |
0.0757 |
232 |
1 |
124.32 |
2016-10-22 |
| 48. |
Judges are picked out from the most dexterous lawyers, who a... |
122.52 |
0.9564 |
0.0179 |
397 |
1 |
122.52 |
2017-02-27 |
| 49. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
122.44 |
0.9541 |
0.0417 |
236 |
1 |
122.44 |
2016-10-20 |
| 50. |
For thirty years, I've sailed the seas and seen good and bad... |
122.02 |
0.9194 |
0.0450 |
305 |
1 |
122.02 |
2017-01-27 |
| 51. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
121.64 |
0.9332 |
0.0552 |
267 |
2 |
103.81 |
2016-10-20 |
| 52. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
121.52 |
0.9756 |
0.0113 |
223 |
1 |
121.52 |
2016-07-16 |
| 53. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
121.05 |
0.9206 |
0.0639 |
317 |
1 |
121.05 |
2016-10-20 |
| 54. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
120.72 |
1.0060 |
-0.0184 |
244 |
1 |
120.72 |
2016-10-10 |
| 55. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
119.93 |
1.0492 |
-0.0695 |
284 |
1 |
119.93 |
2016-07-16 |
| 56. |
There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. T... |
119.66 |
1.0476 |
-0.0651 |
554 |
1 |
119.66 |
2017-04-18 |
| 57. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
119.50 |
0.9833 |
-0.0093 |
387 |
1 |
119.50 |
2017-01-26 |
| 58. |
And, anyway, it's not about making money, it's about taking ... |
119.40 |
1.0155 |
-0.0497 |
172 |
1 |
119.40 |
2016-10-20 |
| 59. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
118.76 |
0.9957 |
-0.0266 |
323 |
1 |
118.76 |
2016-10-14 |
| 60. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
118.56 |
1.0667 |
-0.0931 |
308 |
1 |
118.56 |
2016-10-10 |
| 61. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
118.02 |
0.8936 |
0.0640 |
135 |
1 |
118.02 |
2016-07-16 |
| 62. |
As to your dead guy, occupational hazard. Drug dealer gettin... |
118.01 |
0.9626 |
-0.0051 |
134 |
1 |
118.01 |
2017-03-30 |
| 63. |
I also thought about my wife, the most important person in m... |
117.89 |
1.0640 |
-0.0969 |
285 |
1 |
117.89 |
2016-10-11 |
| 64. |
We acquire a taste for salt. By consuming less salt, we can ... |
117.55 |
0.9990 |
-0.0390 |
412 |
1 |
117.55 |
2017-02-26 |
| 65. |
In a town of moderate size, two men lived in neighbouring ho... |
116.96 |
1.0446 |
-0.0779 |
607 |
1 |
116.96 |
2016-12-07 |
| 66. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
115.84 |
0.9523 |
0.0008 |
576 |
1 |
115.84 |
2016-10-03 |
| 67. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
115.82 |
0.8981 |
0.0521 |
255 |
1 |
115.82 |
2016-10-10 |
| 68. |
I pulled up to the house about 7 or 8, and I yelled to the c... |
115.68 |
0.8838 |
0.0548 |
184 |
1 |
115.68 |
2017-04-20 |
| 69. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
115.22 |
0.9425 |
-0.0055 |
248 |
1 |
115.22 |
2016-10-20 |
| 70. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
115.10 |
1.0585 |
-0.1208 |
226 |
1 |
115.10 |
2016-07-16 |
| 71. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
114.92 |
1.0086 |
-0.0794 |
218 |
1 |
114.92 |
2016-10-20 |
| 72. |
Take my love, take my land, take me where I cannot stand. I ... |
114.44 |
1.0211 |
-0.0949 |
176 |
1 |
114.44 |
2016-07-16 |
| 73. |
For most people, the ringing of a phone was a welcome sign. ... |
114.37 |
0.9821 |
-0.0506 |
220 |
1 |
114.37 |
2016-10-11 |
| 74. |
In the Age of Ancients the world was unformed, shrouded by f... |
113.66 |
0.8936 |
0.0214 |
490 |
1 |
113.66 |
2017-04-27 |
| 75. |
The men in the room suddenly realized that they didn't want ... |
112.86 |
1.0378 |
-0.1143 |
215 |
1 |
112.86 |
2016-10-20 |
| 76. |
When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their padd... |
112.40 |
0.9844 |
-0.0576 |
209 |
1 |
112.40 |
2016-10-20 |
| 77. |
Mom says each of us has a veil between ourselves and the res... |
112.39 |
1.0400 |
-0.1160 |
512 |
1 |
112.39 |
2017-03-21 |
| 78. |
The man that I named The Giver passed along to the boy knowl... |
112.32 |
0.9756 |
-0.0579 |
407 |
1 |
112.32 |
2017-03-30 |
| 79. |
All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the... |
112.14 |
1.0401 |
-0.1230 |
323 |
1 |
112.14 |
2017-04-17 |
| 80. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
111.56 |
0.9927 |
-0.0859 |
276 |
1 |
111.56 |
2016-10-20 |
| 81. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
111.29 |
0.9841 |
-0.0815 |
263 |
1 |
111.29 |
2016-10-14 |
| 82. |
Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is... |
110.57 |
0.9421 |
-0.0381 |
229 |
1 |
110.57 |
2017-01-26 |
| 83. |
The feeling of having no power over people and events is gen... |
110.47 |
0.9886 |
-0.0809 |
384 |
1 |
110.47 |
2016-10-22 |
| 84. |
Then you compared a woman's love to Hell, to barren land whe... |
109.89 |
1.0217 |
-0.1201 |
336 |
1 |
109.89 |
2017-01-27 |
| 85. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
108.50 |
0.9046 |
-0.0102 |
448 |
1 |
108.50 |
2016-10-20 |
| 86. |
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand h... |
108.08 |
1.0295 |
-0.1398 |
335 |
1 |
108.08 |
2016-07-16 |
| 87. |
Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very ... |
107.69 |
1.0373 |
-0.1589 |
224 |
1 |
107.69 |
2017-01-27 |
| 88. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
106.14 |
0.9864 |
-0.1206 |
292 |
1 |
106.14 |
2016-10-20 |
| 89. |
We're no strangers to love. You know the rules and so do I. ... |
105.70 |
0.9879 |
-0.1256 |
387 |
1 |
105.70 |
2017-04-20 |
| 90. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
104.94 |
0.9636 |
-0.1125 |
281 |
1 |
104.94 |
2017-03-21 |
| 91. |
I just want to tell you how I'm feeling. Gotta make you unde... |
104.36 |
1.0348 |
-0.1783 |
245 |
1 |
104.36 |
2017-02-01 |
| 92. |
If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to ... |
100.75 |
0.9874 |
-0.1636 |
275 |
1 |
100.75 |
2017-04-17 |
| 93. |
One overarching lesson we have learned during the past hundr... |
95.32 |
1.0113 |
-0.2279 |
146 |
1 |
95.32 |
2016-10-20 |
| 94. |
Estella, to the last hour of my life, you cannot choose but ... |
93.40 |
1.0288 |
-0.2658 |
372 |
1 |
93.40 |
2017-04-17 |
| 95. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
92.52 |
0.8624 |
-0.1165 |
174 |
1 |
92.52 |
2016-10-14 |
| 96. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
91.08 |
0.9880 |
-0.2534 |
199 |
1 |
91.08 |
2016-10-20 |
| 97. |
What alternative is there to the media's "Us" versus "Them"?... |
82.37 |
0.8608 |
-0.2095 |
407 |
1 |
82.37 |
2016-10-14 |
| 98. |
So, ahem, how much is it, then, Tom? - You know how much, Ni... |
81.24 |
0.8869 |
-0.2164 |
607 |
1 |
81.24 |
2016-10-10 |
| 99. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
74.40 |
0.9866 |
-0.3837 |
308 |
1 |
74.40 |
2016-07-17 |
| 100. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
54.19 |
1.0482 |
-0.5979 |
407 |
1 |
54.19 |
2016-07-16 |
| 101. |
"Exactly," said Dumbledore, beaming once more. "Which makes ... |
53.66 |
0.8813 |
-0.4506 |
224 |
1 |
53.66 |
2016-10-20 |
| 102. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
50.91 |
0.8986 |
-0.4878 |
216 |
1 |
50.91 |
2016-10-09 |