| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
132.74 |
1.0362 |
-0.0066 |
437 |
1 |
132.74 |
2013-10-16 |
| 2. |
At a peace rally in Philadelphia in 1966, a reporter asked m... |
124.28 |
0.9019 |
0.0611 |
431 |
1 |
124.28 |
2016-11-28 |
| 3. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
113.22 |
0.9657 |
-0.0824 |
424 |
1 |
113.22 |
2013-10-16 |
| 4. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
129.84 |
0.9545 |
0.0567 |
412 |
1 |
129.84 |
2013-10-16 |
| 5. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
147.83 |
0.9162 |
0.2291 |
401 |
2 |
136.66 |
2014-02-20 |
| 6. |
Oh, we knew we couldn't save everyone. Much as we would have... |
114.24 |
0.8744 |
0.0077 |
399 |
1 |
114.24 |
2020-03-07 |
| 7. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
121.34 |
0.9644 |
-0.0245 |
398 |
1 |
121.34 |
2013-10-17 |
| 8. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
141.41 |
1.0472 |
0.0546 |
397 |
1 |
141.41 |
2013-10-16 |
| 9. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
136.85 |
0.9703 |
0.0913 |
394 |
2 |
135.80 |
2013-10-17 |
| 10. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
126.66 |
0.9673 |
0.0146 |
393 |
1 |
126.66 |
2021-04-28 |
| 11. |
Now, imagine a universe in which the laws of physics are as ... |
111.01 |
0.9175 |
-0.0597 |
388 |
1 |
111.01 |
2018-02-14 |
| 12. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
124.82 |
0.9719 |
-0.0038 |
383 |
2 |
122.79 |
2018-02-14 |
| 13. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
143.34 |
1.0057 |
0.1056 |
382 |
1 |
143.34 |
2013-10-16 |
| 14. |
Don't practice too much at first, or you're likely to develo... |
132.29 |
0.9931 |
0.0391 |
381 |
1 |
132.29 |
2013-10-16 |
| 15. |
On Ethernet networks, collisions occur when two nodes attemp... |
116.47 |
0.9053 |
-0.0040 |
376 |
1 |
116.47 |
2020-03-08 |
| 16. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
136.20 |
1.0132 |
0.0413 |
371 |
2 |
130.31 |
2013-10-17 |
| 17. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
130.78 |
1.0128 |
0.0016 |
369 |
1 |
130.78 |
2013-10-16 |
| 18. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
130.27 |
0.9434 |
0.0668 |
367 |
1 |
130.27 |
2013-10-18 |
| 19. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
113.43 |
0.9787 |
-0.0995 |
364 |
1 |
113.43 |
2013-10-18 |
| 20. |
The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination - stuck... |
126.16 |
0.9440 |
0.0304 |
362 |
1 |
126.16 |
2020-03-07 |
| 21. |
When Betty and Billy fell asleep, he walked down to the kitc... |
116.15 |
0.9649 |
-0.0618 |
360 |
1 |
116.15 |
2013-10-16 |
| 22. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
143.20 |
0.9392 |
0.1723 |
360 |
1 |
143.20 |
2013-10-16 |
| 23. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
134.20 |
1.0450 |
-0.0041 |
358 |
1 |
134.20 |
2013-10-16 |
| 24. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
127.94 |
0.9359 |
0.0553 |
355 |
1 |
127.94 |
2013-10-16 |
| 25. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
132.19 |
0.9824 |
0.0496 |
352 |
2 |
132.15 |
2013-10-17 |
| 26. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
135.52 |
1.0736 |
-0.0239 |
350 |
1 |
135.52 |
2016-11-28 |
| 27. |
But there is virtually no relationship between being an expe... |
110.38 |
0.9674 |
-0.1149 |
347 |
1 |
110.38 |
2020-03-07 |
| 28. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
132.36 |
1.0462 |
-0.0201 |
340 |
1 |
132.36 |
2013-10-18 |
| 29. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
142.83 |
0.9931 |
0.1149 |
339 |
2 |
140.67 |
2013-10-17 |
| 30. |
She was wearing a pair of my pajamas with the sleeves rolled... |
114.97 |
1.0214 |
-0.1300 |
326 |
1 |
114.97 |
2016-11-28 |
| 31. |
Buddhism addresses two major types of meditation. Vipassana ... |
110.33 |
0.8992 |
-0.0372 |
320 |
1 |
110.33 |
2016-03-08 |
| 32. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
117.99 |
0.9113 |
0.0079 |
318 |
1 |
117.99 |
2013-10-16 |
| 33. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
126.94 |
0.9479 |
0.0342 |
317 |
1 |
126.94 |
2013-10-18 |
| 34. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
127.59 |
1.0188 |
-0.0242 |
316 |
1 |
127.59 |
2013-10-18 |
| 35. |
If we do our job right, we never need to go to court. Look, ... |
108.86 |
1.0341 |
-0.1924 |
315 |
1 |
108.86 |
2020-03-07 |
| 36. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
149.51 |
1.0960 |
0.0631 |
315 |
1 |
149.51 |
2013-10-17 |
| 37. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
139.65 |
0.9402 |
0.1406 |
310 |
1 |
139.65 |
2016-11-28 |
| 38. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
114.07 |
0.9839 |
-0.1013 |
308 |
1 |
114.07 |
2013-10-17 |
| 39. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
124.44 |
0.9949 |
-0.0256 |
304 |
1 |
124.44 |
2013-10-16 |
| 40. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
138.26 |
1.0639 |
0.0080 |
303 |
1 |
138.26 |
2013-10-17 |
| 41. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
129.19 |
1.0106 |
-0.0109 |
302 |
1 |
129.19 |
2013-10-16 |
| 42. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
151.76 |
1.0743 |
0.1010 |
297 |
1 |
151.76 |
2016-03-08 |
| 43. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
123.87 |
1.0509 |
-0.0858 |
295 |
1 |
123.87 |
2013-10-18 |
| 44. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
146.26 |
1.0464 |
0.0870 |
294 |
1 |
146.26 |
2013-10-16 |
| 45. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
119.45 |
0.9673 |
-0.0428 |
292 |
1 |
119.45 |
2013-10-16 |
| 46. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
147.03 |
1.0557 |
0.0834 |
289 |
1 |
147.03 |
2013-10-17 |
| 47. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
139.30 |
1.0130 |
0.0661 |
288 |
1 |
139.30 |
2016-11-28 |
| 48. |
I also thought about my wife, the most important person in m... |
128.77 |
1.0640 |
-0.0660 |
285 |
1 |
128.77 |
2021-04-28 |
| 49. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
120.92 |
0.9604 |
-0.0249 |
285 |
1 |
120.92 |
2013-10-17 |
| 50. |
Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop bei... |
127.48 |
1.1111 |
-0.1244 |
284 |
1 |
127.48 |
2018-02-14 |
| 51. |
Demons run when a good man goes to war. Night will fall and ... |
119.66 |
1.1066 |
-0.1811 |
277 |
1 |
119.66 |
2020-03-07 |
| 52. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
115.90 |
1.0432 |
-0.1471 |
276 |
1 |
115.90 |
2016-11-28 |
| 53. |
It's close to midnight, something evil's lurking in the dark... |
137.97 |
1.0303 |
0.0338 |
275 |
1 |
137.97 |
2022-08-01 |
| 54. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
123.25 |
0.9631 |
-0.0097 |
273 |
1 |
123.25 |
2013-10-16 |
| 55. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
103.47 |
1.0759 |
-0.2699 |
273 |
1 |
103.47 |
2013-10-16 |
| 56. |
A problem in communication is that people don't smile enough... |
140.25 |
1.0193 |
0.0687 |
272 |
1 |
140.25 |
2016-03-08 |
| 57. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
119.90 |
1.0301 |
-0.1025 |
268 |
1 |
119.90 |
2013-10-16 |
| 58. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
119.23 |
0.9884 |
-0.0641 |
267 |
1 |
119.23 |
2013-10-17 |
| 59. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
146.86 |
1.1070 |
0.0305 |
265 |
2 |
144.00 |
2016-11-28 |
| 60. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
122.67 |
0.9922 |
-0.0424 |
264 |
1 |
122.67 |
2013-10-16 |
| 61. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
144.16 |
1.0506 |
0.0658 |
259 |
1 |
144.16 |
2016-11-28 |
| 62. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
145.23 |
1.0601 |
0.0638 |
256 |
1 |
145.23 |
2013-10-16 |
| 63. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
137.49 |
1.0481 |
0.0129 |
255 |
3 |
127.26 |
2013-10-16 |
| 64. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
132.60 |
0.9762 |
0.0513 |
249 |
1 |
132.60 |
2013-10-17 |
| 65. |
Yes, of course. I remember, how could I forget? How you feel... |
118.95 |
0.9284 |
-0.0121 |
248 |
1 |
118.95 |
2020-03-07 |
| 66. |
Let me put it this way, Mr. Amor. The 9000 series is the mos... |
132.05 |
0.9568 |
0.0660 |
245 |
1 |
132.05 |
2016-11-28 |
| 67. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
150.08 |
1.0060 |
0.1636 |
244 |
1 |
150.08 |
2013-10-18 |
| 68. |
Swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home. I loo... |
114.54 |
1.0257 |
-0.1436 |
240 |
1 |
114.54 |
2020-03-07 |
| 69. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
131.14 |
1.0291 |
-0.0142 |
240 |
1 |
131.14 |
2016-11-28 |
| 70. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
119.58 |
0.9851 |
-0.0542 |
237 |
1 |
119.58 |
2013-10-18 |
| 71. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
124.39 |
0.9583 |
0.0049 |
237 |
1 |
124.39 |
2013-10-17 |
| 72. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
132.78 |
0.9852 |
0.0427 |
235 |
1 |
132.78 |
2013-10-17 |
| 73. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
137.30 |
1.0414 |
0.0208 |
234 |
1 |
137.30 |
2013-10-16 |
| 74. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
110.98 |
1.0576 |
-0.1995 |
231 |
1 |
110.98 |
2016-11-28 |
| 75. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
133.41 |
1.0466 |
-0.0134 |
230 |
1 |
133.41 |
2013-10-16 |
| 76. |
My wife deserves vengeance. Doesn't make a difference whethe... |
151.57 |
1.0015 |
0.1736 |
230 |
1 |
151.57 |
2016-11-28 |
| 77. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
137.57 |
0.9761 |
0.0945 |
227 |
2 |
133.43 |
2016-03-08 |
| 78. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
126.23 |
1.0777 |
-0.1010 |
226 |
1 |
126.23 |
2016-03-08 |
| 79. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
132.04 |
1.0585 |
-0.0310 |
226 |
1 |
132.04 |
2013-10-16 |
| 80. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
119.10 |
1.0504 |
-0.1261 |
225 |
1 |
119.10 |
2013-10-16 |
| 81. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
132.21 |
1.0800 |
-0.0581 |
213 |
1 |
132.21 |
2013-10-16 |
| 82. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
121.89 |
1.0836 |
-0.1355 |
206 |
2 |
119.28 |
2013-10-16 |
| 83. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
122.22 |
1.0412 |
-0.0892 |
205 |
1 |
122.22 |
2013-10-16 |
| 84. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
115.49 |
1.0033 |
-0.1100 |
203 |
1 |
115.49 |
2013-10-17 |
| 85. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
102.36 |
0.8913 |
-0.0995 |
201 |
1 |
102.36 |
2013-10-16 |
| 86. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
139.24 |
1.1062 |
-0.0233 |
200 |
1 |
139.24 |
2013-10-18 |
| 87. |
Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long ... |
139.58 |
1.0929 |
-0.0092 |
199 |
1 |
139.58 |
2016-11-28 |
| 88. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
129.41 |
1.0521 |
-0.0530 |
197 |
1 |
129.41 |
2014-02-20 |
| 89. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
143.63 |
0.9713 |
0.1405 |
193 |
1 |
143.63 |
2013-10-17 |
| 90. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
104.69 |
1.0115 |
-0.2038 |
189 |
1 |
104.69 |
2014-02-20 |
| 91. |
Don't tell me what's in, don't tell me how to write, don't t... |
143.09 |
1.0768 |
0.0326 |
183 |
1 |
143.09 |
2016-11-28 |
| 92. |
Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away... |
128.86 |
1.0147 |
-0.0188 |
180 |
1 |
128.86 |
2020-03-07 |
| 93. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
142.17 |
1.0582 |
0.0412 |
180 |
1 |
142.17 |
2013-10-18 |
| 94. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
136.35 |
1.0333 |
0.0211 |
176 |
1 |
136.35 |
2013-10-16 |
| 95. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
125.56 |
1.0279 |
-0.0578 |
172 |
1 |
125.56 |
2013-10-16 |
| 96. |
You can have my answer now, if you like. My final offer is t... |
128.49 |
0.9210 |
0.0691 |
171 |
1 |
128.49 |
2016-11-28 |
| 97. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
106.64 |
1.0042 |
-0.1800 |
168 |
1 |
106.64 |
2013-10-17 |
| 98. |
I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not ... |
117.05 |
1.1244 |
-0.2176 |
164 |
1 |
117.05 |
2016-11-28 |
| 99. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
149.87 |
0.9974 |
0.1614 |
163 |
1 |
149.87 |
2013-10-17 |
| 100. |
He also swore himself by a binding oath that whatever wife h... |
142.24 |
1.0348 |
0.0667 |
162 |
1 |
142.24 |
2020-03-07 |