| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
153.07 |
0.9676 |
0.2340 |
247 |
2 |
134.48 |
2012-11-05 |
| 2. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
147.16 |
1.0493 |
0.1073 |
264 |
1 |
147.16 |
2012-10-29 |
| 3. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
145.36 |
1.1095 |
0.0283 |
252 |
1 |
145.36 |
2012-10-29 |
| 4. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
143.41 |
1.0139 |
0.1200 |
349 |
1 |
143.41 |
2012-10-29 |
| 5. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
142.65 |
1.0590 |
0.0541 |
250 |
1 |
142.65 |
2012-10-31 |
| 6. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
141.10 |
0.9963 |
0.1035 |
274 |
1 |
141.10 |
2012-10-29 |
| 7. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
140.51 |
0.9704 |
0.1270 |
254 |
1 |
140.51 |
2012-11-05 |
| 8. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
139.37 |
1.0132 |
0.0756 |
371 |
1 |
139.37 |
2012-10-29 |
| 9. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
139.10 |
1.1062 |
-0.0177 |
200 |
1 |
139.10 |
2012-10-29 |
| 10. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
138.97 |
0.8986 |
0.1878 |
216 |
2 |
135.05 |
2012-10-31 |
| 11. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
138.74 |
1.0250 |
0.0623 |
271 |
1 |
138.74 |
2012-10-29 |
| 12. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
137.88 |
1.0601 |
0.0137 |
256 |
1 |
137.88 |
2015-03-06 |
| 13. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
137.86 |
0.9604 |
0.1141 |
285 |
1 |
137.86 |
2012-10-29 |
| 14. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
137.68 |
1.0582 |
0.0138 |
180 |
1 |
137.68 |
2012-10-31 |
| 15. |
Right, I am going to tell you how this works. You're going i... |
137.32 |
1.0444 |
0.0420 |
487 |
1 |
137.32 |
2012-10-29 |
| 16. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
136.64 |
1.0399 |
0.0324 |
257 |
1 |
136.64 |
2012-12-20 |
| 17. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
136.09 |
1.0253 |
0.0404 |
337 |
1 |
136.09 |
2012-10-29 |
| 18. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
134.72 |
0.8437 |
0.2083 |
268 |
1 |
134.72 |
2012-10-29 |
| 19. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
134.47 |
0.9583 |
0.0925 |
237 |
1 |
134.47 |
2012-10-29 |
| 20. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
134.40 |
0.9918 |
0.0650 |
400 |
2 |
128.43 |
2012-10-30 |
| 21. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
133.98 |
1.0106 |
0.0352 |
302 |
1 |
133.98 |
2012-10-31 |
| 22. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
133.29 |
0.9763 |
0.0646 |
143 |
1 |
133.29 |
2012-10-29 |
| 23. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
132.84 |
0.9561 |
0.0887 |
364 |
1 |
132.84 |
2012-10-31 |
| 24. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
132.35 |
0.9761 |
0.0626 |
227 |
1 |
132.35 |
2012-10-29 |
| 25. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
132.09 |
0.9917 |
0.0424 |
317 |
1 |
132.09 |
2012-10-29 |
| 26. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
131.89 |
0.9070 |
0.1182 |
192 |
2 |
126.24 |
2012-10-31 |
| 27. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
131.77 |
0.9839 |
0.0448 |
308 |
1 |
131.77 |
2012-10-29 |
| 28. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
131.65 |
0.9974 |
0.0267 |
163 |
1 |
131.65 |
2012-11-05 |
| 29. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
131.33 |
1.0791 |
-0.0487 |
259 |
1 |
131.33 |
2012-11-05 |
| 30. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
131.30 |
1.0265 |
0.0026 |
375 |
1 |
131.30 |
2012-11-05 |
| 31. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
131.29 |
1.0524 |
-0.0292 |
177 |
1 |
131.29 |
2012-10-29 |
| 32. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
131.17 |
1.0320 |
-0.0015 |
401 |
1 |
131.17 |
2012-10-31 |
| 33. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
130.65 |
0.9545 |
0.0756 |
412 |
1 |
130.65 |
2012-10-29 |
| 34. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
129.72 |
1.0060 |
0.0132 |
244 |
1 |
129.72 |
2012-10-29 |
| 35. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
129.70 |
1.0464 |
-0.0285 |
294 |
1 |
129.70 |
2012-11-05 |
| 36. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
129.68 |
0.9801 |
0.0404 |
282 |
3 |
128.86 |
2012-11-05 |
| 37. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
129.21 |
1.0487 |
-0.0424 |
253 |
1 |
129.21 |
2012-11-02 |
| 38. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
129.19 |
1.0350 |
-0.0118 |
416 |
1 |
129.19 |
2012-11-05 |
| 39. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
128.25 |
1.0227 |
-0.0148 |
378 |
1 |
128.25 |
2012-11-02 |
| 40. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
127.94 |
0.9787 |
0.0242 |
364 |
1 |
127.94 |
2012-11-05 |
| 41. |
Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It's ab... |
127.53 |
1.0390 |
-0.0383 |
260 |
1 |
127.53 |
2012-10-30 |
| 42. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
127.44 |
1.0387 |
-0.0390 |
333 |
1 |
127.44 |
2012-11-02 |
| 43. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
127.14 |
1.0639 |
-0.0697 |
303 |
2 |
121.43 |
2012-11-02 |
| 44. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
127.14 |
0.9756 |
0.0162 |
223 |
1 |
127.14 |
2012-11-12 |
| 45. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
126.66 |
1.0111 |
-0.0099 |
452 |
1 |
126.66 |
2012-10-29 |
| 46. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
126.15 |
0.9445 |
0.0489 |
389 |
1 |
126.15 |
2012-11-12 |
| 47. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
125.92 |
0.9515 |
0.0426 |
334 |
1 |
125.92 |
2012-10-29 |
| 48. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
125.57 |
0.9392 |
0.0476 |
360 |
2 |
116.53 |
2012-12-22 |
| 49. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
125.33 |
0.9930 |
-0.0056 |
350 |
2 |
121.09 |
2012-10-29 |
| 50. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
124.97 |
1.1086 |
-0.1332 |
233 |
1 |
124.97 |
2012-11-05 |
| 51. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
124.47 |
1.0672 |
-0.0969 |
239 |
2 |
123.97 |
2012-10-31 |
| 52. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
124.10 |
0.9842 |
-0.0135 |
335 |
1 |
124.10 |
2012-11-05 |
| 53. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
123.33 |
1.0287 |
-0.0668 |
269 |
1 |
123.33 |
2012-11-05 |
| 54. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
123.22 |
1.0208 |
-0.0593 |
231 |
1 |
123.22 |
2012-10-29 |
| 55. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
123.13 |
0.9162 |
0.0467 |
401 |
1 |
123.13 |
2012-11-05 |
| 56. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
121.83 |
0.9377 |
0.0208 |
198 |
1 |
121.83 |
2012-11-05 |
| 57. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
121.32 |
1.0479 |
-0.1022 |
205 |
1 |
121.32 |
2012-11-05 |
| 58. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
121.10 |
0.9338 |
0.0213 |
326 |
1 |
121.10 |
2012-10-29 |
| 59. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
120.58 |
0.9980 |
-0.0547 |
295 |
1 |
120.58 |
2012-11-05 |
| 60. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
120.54 |
0.9329 |
0.0223 |
345 |
1 |
120.54 |
2012-10-30 |
| 61. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
120.51 |
0.9841 |
-0.0449 |
263 |
2 |
117.67 |
2012-10-29 |
| 62. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
119.29 |
0.9206 |
0.0111 |
317 |
1 |
119.29 |
2012-10-29 |
| 63. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
118.99 |
0.9673 |
-0.0359 |
292 |
1 |
118.99 |
2012-10-30 |
| 64. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
118.60 |
1.0020 |
-0.0638 |
411 |
1 |
118.60 |
2012-11-05 |
| 65. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
118.47 |
0.9468 |
-0.0224 |
318 |
1 |
118.47 |
2012-10-31 |
| 66. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
116.62 |
1.0195 |
-0.1031 |
239 |
1 |
116.62 |
2012-10-29 |
| 67. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
115.72 |
0.8964 |
0.0035 |
199 |
1 |
115.72 |
2012-10-31 |
| 68. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
115.39 |
0.9536 |
-0.0447 |
311 |
1 |
115.39 |
2012-10-29 |
| 69. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
115.11 |
0.9265 |
-0.0290 |
254 |
1 |
115.11 |
2015-03-06 |
| 70. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
113.10 |
0.9650 |
-0.0800 |
347 |
1 |
113.10 |
2012-10-29 |
| 71. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
112.07 |
0.9027 |
-0.0319 |
189 |
1 |
112.07 |
2012-11-02 |
| 72. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
111.32 |
0.8974 |
-0.0171 |
365 |
1 |
111.32 |
2012-11-05 |
| 73. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
110.55 |
0.8986 |
-0.0312 |
363 |
1 |
110.55 |
2012-10-31 |
| 74. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
110.18 |
0.9523 |
-0.0806 |
576 |
1 |
110.18 |
2012-11-12 |
| 75. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
109.32 |
0.8830 |
-0.0277 |
300 |
1 |
109.32 |
2012-10-29 |
| 76. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
104.99 |
1.0476 |
-0.2390 |
110 |
1 |
104.99 |
2012-10-29 |
| 77. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
103.74 |
1.0370 |
-0.2287 |
262 |
1 |
103.74 |
2012-10-29 |
| 78. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
89.25 |
0.8843 |
-0.1787 |
168 |
1 |
89.25 |
2012-12-20 |