| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not ... |
110.47 |
1.1244 |
0.1633 |
164 |
1 |
110.47 |
2017-03-19 |
| 2. |
I just told you the truth. I told you the truth the first ti... |
104.30 |
1.0779 |
0.1424 |
204 |
1 |
104.30 |
2017-02-27 |
| 3. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
102.65 |
1.0466 |
0.1470 |
230 |
2 |
91.89 |
2017-03-19 |
| 4. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
102.50 |
1.0362 |
0.1622 |
437 |
2 |
97.11 |
2014-01-16 |
| 5. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
102.44 |
1.0079 |
0.1824 |
273 |
1 |
102.44 |
2010-12-11 |
| 6. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
102.25 |
0.9935 |
0.1977 |
217 |
1 |
102.25 |
2010-06-23 |
| 7. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
101.75 |
1.0540 |
0.1246 |
184 |
1 |
101.75 |
2011-10-13 |
| 8. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
101.54 |
1.0883 |
0.0992 |
189 |
1 |
101.54 |
2010-12-12 |
| 9. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
101.52 |
1.0638 |
0.1145 |
247 |
1 |
101.52 |
2010-12-11 |
| 10. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
100.81 |
1.1138 |
0.0672 |
341 |
1 |
100.81 |
2010-12-11 |
| 11. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
99.77 |
1.0432 |
0.1174 |
276 |
1 |
99.77 |
2010-12-11 |
| 12. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
99.62 |
1.0561 |
0.1002 |
227 |
1 |
99.62 |
2010-12-11 |
| 13. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
99.54 |
1.0194 |
0.1358 |
224 |
1 |
99.54 |
2010-12-11 |
| 14. |
It's taken me a lot of years, but I've come around to this: ... |
98.99 |
0.9626 |
0.1544 |
328 |
1 |
98.99 |
2017-11-29 |
| 15. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
97.86 |
1.0736 |
0.0668 |
350 |
1 |
97.86 |
2014-01-16 |
| 16. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
96.71 |
1.0682 |
0.0573 |
266 |
1 |
96.71 |
2010-06-23 |
| 17. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
96.45 |
0.9797 |
0.1460 |
269 |
2 |
82.72 |
2011-10-13 |
| 18. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
96.14 |
1.0060 |
0.1125 |
260 |
2 |
85.83 |
2010-12-12 |
| 19. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
95.80 |
1.0524 |
0.0592 |
177 |
1 |
95.80 |
2010-12-11 |
| 20. |
All we need for morality is contained in these words: make o... |
95.08 |
1.0747 |
0.0368 |
191 |
1 |
95.08 |
2017-02-27 |
| 21. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
94.74 |
0.9873 |
0.1127 |
274 |
1 |
94.74 |
2011-12-07 |
| 22. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
94.40 |
0.8787 |
0.2163 |
443 |
1 |
94.40 |
2017-02-27 |
| 23. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
94.22 |
1.0607 |
0.0379 |
357 |
2 |
92.20 |
2011-10-13 |
| 24. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
94.06 |
0.9783 |
0.1228 |
273 |
1 |
94.06 |
2010-12-12 |
| 25. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
93.62 |
1.0590 |
0.0281 |
250 |
1 |
93.62 |
2010-12-11 |
| 26. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
93.24 |
1.0481 |
0.0285 |
255 |
1 |
93.24 |
2010-12-12 |
| 27. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
93.05 |
1.0562 |
0.0307 |
360 |
1 |
93.05 |
2010-06-22 |
| 28. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
92.80 |
1.0288 |
0.0453 |
166 |
1 |
92.80 |
2010-12-12 |
| 29. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
92.51 |
1.0506 |
0.0242 |
259 |
1 |
92.51 |
2010-12-12 |
| 30. |
Don't practice too much at first, or you're likely to develo... |
92.11 |
0.9931 |
0.0902 |
381 |
1 |
92.11 |
2012-05-20 |
| 31. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
91.98 |
1.0403 |
0.0270 |
234 |
1 |
91.98 |
2010-12-11 |
| 32. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
90.71 |
0.9673 |
0.0893 |
292 |
1 |
90.71 |
2010-12-11 |
| 33. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
90.36 |
0.9271 |
0.1254 |
323 |
2 |
88.46 |
2010-12-12 |
| 34. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
89.86 |
1.0033 |
0.0412 |
203 |
1 |
89.86 |
2010-12-11 |
| 35. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
89.65 |
0.9931 |
0.0450 |
218 |
2 |
86.41 |
2010-06-23 |
| 36. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
89.60 |
1.0492 |
-0.0028 |
284 |
1 |
89.60 |
2010-06-23 |
| 37. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
89.41 |
1.0057 |
0.0364 |
382 |
2 |
87.79 |
2011-10-13 |
| 38. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
89.41 |
0.9709 |
0.0668 |
264 |
1 |
89.41 |
2010-12-12 |
| 39. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
89.26 |
1.0192 |
0.0235 |
243 |
1 |
89.26 |
2010-12-12 |
| 40. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
89.22 |
0.9885 |
0.0549 |
469 |
1 |
89.22 |
2010-12-11 |
| 41. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
89.07 |
0.9403 |
0.1034 |
307 |
1 |
89.07 |
2010-12-11 |
| 42. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
89.04 |
0.9864 |
0.0521 |
292 |
1 |
89.04 |
2011-12-07 |
| 43. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
88.49 |
1.0588 |
-0.0307 |
281 |
1 |
88.49 |
2010-06-23 |
| 44. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
88.43 |
1.0628 |
-0.0331 |
363 |
1 |
88.43 |
2010-06-23 |
| 45. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
88.30 |
0.9703 |
0.0625 |
394 |
1 |
88.30 |
2011-12-07 |
| 46. |
What I want you to be - I don't mean physically but morally,... |
88.22 |
1.0057 |
0.0236 |
389 |
1 |
88.22 |
2017-02-27 |
| 47. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
88.05 |
1.0476 |
-0.0342 |
110 |
1 |
88.05 |
2011-12-07 |
| 48. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
88.04 |
1.0472 |
-0.0304 |
149 |
2 |
82.83 |
2011-12-07 |
| 49. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
87.97 |
1.0800 |
-0.0608 |
213 |
1 |
87.97 |
2010-12-11 |
| 50. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
87.91 |
1.0538 |
-0.0197 |
367 |
1 |
87.91 |
2010-06-23 |
| 51. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
87.79 |
1.0743 |
-0.0529 |
297 |
1 |
87.79 |
2010-06-23 |
| 52. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
86.54 |
1.0543 |
-0.0480 |
233 |
1 |
86.54 |
2010-12-12 |
| 53. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
86.33 |
1.0427 |
-0.0390 |
269 |
2 |
82.26 |
2014-01-16 |
| 54. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
86.28 |
1.0042 |
-0.0055 |
168 |
1 |
86.28 |
2010-12-11 |
| 55. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
85.83 |
0.9632 |
0.0352 |
287 |
1 |
85.83 |
2010-12-11 |
| 56. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
85.51 |
1.0576 |
-0.0670 |
231 |
1 |
85.51 |
2010-12-11 |
| 57. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
85.45 |
1.0465 |
-0.0624 |
183 |
1 |
85.45 |
2010-06-23 |
| 58. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
85.33 |
0.9829 |
0.0077 |
229 |
1 |
85.33 |
2010-12-11 |
| 59. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
85.05 |
1.0582 |
-0.0734 |
180 |
1 |
85.05 |
2010-06-23 |
| 60. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
84.57 |
0.9719 |
0.0176 |
383 |
1 |
84.57 |
2010-06-23 |
| 61. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
84.34 |
1.0253 |
-0.0428 |
337 |
1 |
84.34 |
2014-01-16 |
| 62. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
83.94 |
0.8887 |
0.1005 |
464 |
1 |
83.94 |
2010-12-11 |
| 63. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
83.49 |
0.9884 |
-0.0159 |
267 |
1 |
83.49 |
2010-06-23 |
| 64. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
83.28 |
0.9404 |
0.0363 |
383 |
1 |
83.28 |
2010-06-23 |
| 65. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
83.24 |
1.0144 |
-0.0466 |
162 |
1 |
83.24 |
2014-01-16 |
| 66. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
82.96 |
0.9980 |
-0.0252 |
341 |
1 |
82.96 |
2010-12-11 |
| 67. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
82.82 |
1.0128 |
-0.0438 |
369 |
1 |
82.82 |
2011-10-05 |
| 68. |
OK, let me get something straight: this is a journal, not a ... |
82.29 |
1.0000 |
-0.0415 |
299 |
1 |
82.29 |
2017-11-29 |
| 69. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
82.09 |
0.9985 |
-0.0328 |
392 |
1 |
82.09 |
2010-06-23 |
| 70. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
82.01 |
0.9909 |
-0.0343 |
334 |
1 |
82.01 |
2011-12-07 |
| 71. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
81.69 |
1.0131 |
-0.0611 |
245 |
1 |
81.69 |
2010-12-11 |
| 72. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
81.37 |
0.9866 |
-0.0409 |
308 |
1 |
81.37 |
2010-12-11 |
| 73. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
80.99 |
0.9660 |
-0.0182 |
258 |
1 |
80.99 |
2011-12-07 |
| 74. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
80.98 |
1.0124 |
-0.0666 |
275 |
1 |
80.98 |
2010-12-11 |
| 75. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
80.79 |
0.9681 |
-0.0242 |
392 |
1 |
80.79 |
2010-06-23 |
| 76. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
80.09 |
1.0103 |
-0.0860 |
209 |
1 |
80.09 |
2010-06-23 |
| 77. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
80.01 |
1.0800 |
-0.1580 |
129 |
2 |
74.41 |
2011-11-12 |
| 78. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
79.95 |
1.0086 |
-0.0846 |
218 |
1 |
79.95 |
2010-12-12 |
| 79. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
79.35 |
0.9422 |
-0.0258 |
190 |
1 |
79.35 |
2011-12-07 |
| 80. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
78.77 |
1.0960 |
-0.1774 |
315 |
1 |
78.77 |
2010-12-12 |
| 81. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
78.19 |
0.9538 |
-0.0458 |
276 |
1 |
78.19 |
2010-12-11 |
| 82. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
78.15 |
1.0130 |
-0.1056 |
288 |
1 |
78.15 |
2011-09-09 |
| 83. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
77.62 |
0.8964 |
0.0021 |
199 |
2 |
74.97 |
2011-10-05 |
| 84. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
77.54 |
0.9517 |
-0.0434 |
397 |
1 |
77.54 |
2010-06-22 |
| 85. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
77.38 |
0.9885 |
-0.0898 |
355 |
1 |
77.38 |
2010-06-23 |
| 86. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
77.28 |
0.9564 |
-0.0655 |
263 |
1 |
77.28 |
2010-06-23 |
| 87. |
Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentimen... |
77.24 |
1.0514 |
-0.1403 |
181 |
1 |
77.24 |
2017-02-27 |
| 88. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. The work was generall... |
76.58 |
0.9692 |
-0.0638 |
405 |
1 |
76.58 |
2011-12-07 |
| 89. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
76.09 |
0.9561 |
-0.0653 |
364 |
1 |
76.09 |
2010-12-11 |
| 90. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
75.92 |
0.9726 |
-0.0859 |
396 |
1 |
75.92 |
2010-06-23 |
| 91. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
75.86 |
0.9765 |
-0.0968 |
269 |
1 |
75.86 |
2010-06-23 |
| 92. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
75.72 |
1.0462 |
-0.1643 |
340 |
1 |
75.72 |
2010-06-23 |
| 93. |
Anyone seen this before? The Laffer curve. Anyone know what ... |
75.09 |
0.8353 |
0.0207 |
331 |
1 |
75.09 |
2017-11-29 |
| 94. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
75.09 |
0.9598 |
-0.0859 |
209 |
1 |
75.09 |
2010-06-22 |
| 95. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
74.50 |
0.7923 |
0.0731 |
316 |
2 |
73.24 |
2011-11-12 |
| 96. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
74.50 |
1.0082 |
-0.1485 |
212 |
1 |
74.50 |
2010-12-12 |
| 97. |
While there are few problems in today's world that the Unite... |
74.44 |
1.0519 |
-0.1823 |
152 |
1 |
74.44 |
2017-11-29 |
| 98. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
74.28 |
0.9329 |
-0.0564 |
345 |
1 |
74.28 |
2010-06-23 |
| 99. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
73.83 |
0.8913 |
-0.0327 |
201 |
1 |
73.83 |
2010-12-11 |
| 100. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
72.99 |
0.8856 |
-0.0310 |
369 |
1 |
72.99 |
2011-10-05 |
| 101. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
72.95 |
0.8437 |
0.0026 |
268 |
1 |
72.95 |
2010-12-11 |
| 102. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
72.80 |
0.9927 |
-0.1511 |
234 |
1 |
72.80 |
2010-06-23 |
| 103. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
72.10 |
0.8656 |
-0.0275 |
242 |
1 |
72.10 |
2010-06-23 |
| 104. |
This is the story of two sisters, Jessica Tate and Mary Camp... |
71.56 |
0.9203 |
-0.1133 |
511 |
1 |
71.56 |
2017-11-29 |
| 105. |
Tonight I'm making deals with the devil, and I know it's gon... |
71.45 |
1.0750 |
-0.2499 |
118 |
1 |
71.45 |
2017-11-29 |
| 106. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
71.16 |
0.9761 |
-0.1456 |
227 |
1 |
71.16 |
2010-12-12 |
| 107. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
70.98 |
0.9380 |
-0.1160 |
284 |
1 |
70.98 |
2010-06-23 |
| 108. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
70.49 |
0.9736 |
-0.1486 |
378 |
1 |
70.49 |
2010-06-23 |
| 109. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
69.56 |
1.0315 |
-0.2254 |
193 |
1 |
69.56 |
2011-10-05 |
| 110. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
68.58 |
0.8328 |
-0.0333 |
343 |
1 |
68.58 |
2010-12-12 |
| 111. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
66.70 |
0.9346 |
-0.1637 |
211 |
1 |
66.70 |
2010-12-11 |
| 112. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
64.17 |
0.9869 |
-0.2463 |
193 |
1 |
64.17 |
2010-06-22 |