| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
In any war, there are calms between storms. There will be da... |
143.03 |
1.1162 |
0.0537 |
192 |
1 |
143.03 |
2022-12-22 |
| 2. |
Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop bei... |
129.15 |
1.1111 |
-0.0613 |
284 |
1 |
129.15 |
2017-12-31 |
| 3. |
I had considered how the things that never happen are often ... |
127.76 |
1.1085 |
-0.0709 |
134 |
1 |
127.76 |
2019-09-21 |
| 4. |
After others have talked about themselves, a point will be r... |
141.51 |
1.0996 |
0.0511 |
153 |
1 |
141.51 |
2017-02-01 |
| 5. |
Five thousand of my men are out there in the freezing mud. T... |
133.60 |
1.0953 |
-0.0107 |
202 |
1 |
133.60 |
2020-04-05 |
| 6. |
Baby, ever wondered why I could make you laugh and cry? Ecli... |
119.47 |
1.0891 |
-0.1073 |
224 |
1 |
119.47 |
2016-03-03 |
| 7. |
Everyone gets everything he wants. I wanted a mission, and f... |
136.25 |
1.0870 |
0.0203 |
204 |
1 |
136.25 |
2017-02-01 |
| 8. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
118.70 |
1.0845 |
-0.1204 |
212 |
1 |
118.70 |
2016-03-03 |
| 9. |
In short, our gentleman became so caught up in reading that ... |
129.53 |
1.0799 |
-0.0265 |
253 |
1 |
129.53 |
2019-09-21 |
| 10. |
Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and figh... |
136.03 |
1.0797 |
0.0286 |
218 |
1 |
136.03 |
2018-09-01 |
| 11. |
In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside... |
132.03 |
1.0773 |
-0.0043 |
215 |
1 |
132.03 |
2019-09-21 |
| 12. |
You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the ... |
126.60 |
1.0741 |
-0.0423 |
317 |
1 |
126.60 |
2017-11-15 |
| 13. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
146.57 |
1.0686 |
0.1239 |
354 |
1 |
146.57 |
2016-03-03 |
| 14. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
111.83 |
1.0667 |
-0.1495 |
308 |
1 |
111.83 |
2012-10-10 |
| 15. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
139.18 |
1.0600 |
0.0721 |
351 |
1 |
139.18 |
2012-10-10 |
| 16. |
Communication with others takes place when they understand w... |
143.25 |
1.0581 |
0.1090 |
321 |
1 |
143.25 |
2017-11-15 |
| 17. |
Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means every... |
122.62 |
1.0577 |
-0.0625 |
165 |
1 |
122.62 |
2017-02-01 |
| 18. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
126.24 |
1.0562 |
-0.0245 |
360 |
1 |
126.24 |
2016-03-03 |
| 19. |
It's been a long day without you, my friend, and I'll tell y... |
143.20 |
1.0548 |
0.1113 |
140 |
1 |
143.20 |
2022-12-22 |
| 20. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
111.06 |
1.0529 |
-0.1488 |
373 |
1 |
111.06 |
2012-10-08 |
| 21. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
134.51 |
1.0524 |
0.0445 |
177 |
1 |
134.51 |
2017-11-15 |
| 22. |
Looking back I know of one opportunity where an engineer cam... |
136.53 |
1.0520 |
0.0565 |
515 |
1 |
136.53 |
2022-09-21 |
| 23. |
Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and ... |
119.14 |
1.0503 |
-0.0832 |
276 |
1 |
119.14 |
2017-02-01 |
| 24. |
A question in your nerves is lit, yet you know there is no a... |
122.10 |
1.0499 |
-0.0575 |
203 |
1 |
122.10 |
2022-12-22 |
| 25. |
I've been alone with you inside my mind and in my dreams I'v... |
142.26 |
1.0488 |
0.1049 |
391 |
1 |
142.26 |
2018-09-01 |
| 26. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
122.45 |
1.0483 |
-0.0477 |
305 |
1 |
122.45 |
2017-02-01 |
| 27. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
142.64 |
1.0466 |
0.1136 |
230 |
1 |
142.64 |
2012-12-17 |
| 28. |
I was standing all alone in the world outside. You were sear... |
133.21 |
1.0462 |
0.0366 |
188 |
1 |
133.21 |
2017-11-24 |
| 29. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
120.36 |
1.0427 |
-0.0646 |
269 |
1 |
120.36 |
2012-10-10 |
| 30. |
So I walk into the sun. I thought you'd be there, but you co... |
102.07 |
1.0422 |
-0.2184 |
139 |
1 |
102.07 |
2019-09-21 |
| 31. |
Well, all I can say Gerry is that some marches are for thing... |
135.16 |
1.0403 |
0.0605 |
482 |
1 |
135.16 |
2017-11-12 |
| 32. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
122.99 |
1.0392 |
-0.0330 |
258 |
1 |
122.99 |
2012-10-10 |
| 33. |
In Newton's time it was possible for an educated person to h... |
125.41 |
1.0388 |
-0.0177 |
373 |
1 |
125.41 |
2019-10-06 |
| 34. |
I loved Jordan Catalano so much, and talked about him so muc... |
121.06 |
1.0382 |
-0.0586 |
213 |
1 |
121.06 |
2018-09-01 |
| 35. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
112.08 |
1.0372 |
-0.1267 |
249 |
1 |
112.08 |
2012-10-08 |
| 36. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
139.48 |
1.0362 |
0.0999 |
437 |
1 |
139.48 |
2018-09-01 |
| 37. |
The naked cannot clothe the poor in spirit with oxygen, and ... |
111.58 |
1.0360 |
-0.1312 |
203 |
1 |
111.58 |
2019-09-21 |
| 38. |
And now the end is near, and so I face the final curtain. My... |
132.12 |
1.0355 |
0.0402 |
242 |
1 |
132.12 |
2019-09-21 |
| 39. |
It's a human sign when things go wrong, when the scent of he... |
126.98 |
1.0350 |
-0.0021 |
182 |
1 |
126.98 |
2017-11-15 |
| 40. |
You like boats but not the ocean. You go to a lake in the su... |
149.55 |
1.0327 |
0.1815 |
399 |
1 |
149.55 |
2018-09-01 |
| 41. |
The evolution of language marked a great leap forward for ou... |
104.42 |
1.0295 |
-0.1850 |
309 |
1 |
104.42 |
2019-09-21 |
| 42. |
We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be ... |
109.58 |
1.0289 |
-0.1366 |
351 |
1 |
109.58 |
2019-09-21 |
| 43. |
I may be younger but I'll look after you. We're not in love ... |
143.78 |
1.0284 |
0.1380 |
203 |
1 |
143.78 |
2022-09-21 |
| 44. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
145.87 |
1.0283 |
0.1638 |
272 |
1 |
145.87 |
2016-03-03 |
| 45. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
146.36 |
1.0264 |
0.1622 |
191 |
1 |
146.36 |
2012-10-10 |
| 46. |
Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that... |
134.89 |
1.0258 |
0.0704 |
269 |
1 |
134.89 |
2022-03-10 |
| 47. |
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelli... |
107.96 |
1.0249 |
-0.1477 |
148 |
1 |
107.96 |
2017-02-01 |
| 48. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
116.80 |
1.0243 |
-0.0685 |
153 |
1 |
116.80 |
2012-10-10 |
| 49. |
In all the houses keys to memorizing objects and feelings ha... |
135.21 |
1.0216 |
0.0776 |
277 |
1 |
135.21 |
2022-03-10 |
| 50. |
The robins were singing vespers in the high tree-tops, filli... |
116.07 |
1.0214 |
-0.0759 |
287 |
1 |
116.07 |
2017-02-01 |
| 51. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
116.65 |
1.0208 |
-0.0734 |
231 |
1 |
116.65 |
2012-10-10 |
| 52. |
It was about this time I conceived the bold and arduous proj... |
110.14 |
1.0201 |
-0.1245 |
453 |
1 |
110.14 |
2017-06-08 |
| 53. |
I didn't know the girl, but I knew her family. All their liv... |
128.94 |
1.0198 |
0.0281 |
203 |
1 |
128.94 |
2022-12-22 |
| 54. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
126.78 |
1.0194 |
0.0092 |
224 |
1 |
126.78 |
2016-03-03 |
| 55. |
When a child enters school for the first time he will encoun... |
115.53 |
1.0186 |
-0.0807 |
243 |
1 |
115.53 |
2017-11-15 |
| 56. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
111.51 |
1.0181 |
-0.1116 |
276 |
2 |
111.37 |
2012-10-10 |
| 57. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
142.11 |
1.0178 |
0.1383 |
207 |
2 |
129.91 |
2016-03-03 |
| 58. |
On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I ... |
124.64 |
1.0169 |
-0.0061 |
226 |
1 |
124.64 |
2017-11-12 |
| 59. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
122.31 |
1.0165 |
-0.0222 |
316 |
1 |
122.31 |
2012-10-10 |
| 60. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
129.51 |
1.0125 |
0.0400 |
232 |
1 |
129.51 |
2012-10-10 |
| 61. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
140.76 |
1.0086 |
0.1344 |
218 |
1 |
140.76 |
2012-10-08 |
| 62. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
128.79 |
1.0082 |
0.0375 |
212 |
1 |
128.79 |
2012-10-08 |
| 63. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
139.49 |
1.0079 |
0.1259 |
273 |
1 |
139.49 |
2019-09-26 |
| 64. |
It's an odd feeling, farewell. There is such envy in it. Men... |
118.79 |
1.0072 |
-0.0413 |
194 |
1 |
118.79 |
2017-02-01 |
| 65. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
141.47 |
1.0069 |
0.1499 |
242 |
1 |
141.47 |
2012-10-10 |
| 66. |
Hope you're feeling better now, hope you got my letter, how ... |
121.29 |
1.0065 |
-0.0117 |
251 |
1 |
121.29 |
2022-09-21 |
| 67. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
123.83 |
1.0060 |
0.0004 |
225 |
1 |
123.83 |
2016-03-03 |
| 68. |
Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly qu... |
79.92 |
1.0060 |
-0.3583 |
155 |
1 |
79.92 |
2018-06-03 |
| 69. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
118.73 |
1.0060 |
-0.0338 |
244 |
1 |
118.73 |
2016-03-03 |
| 70. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
124.56 |
1.0018 |
0.0103 |
246 |
1 |
124.56 |
2016-03-03 |
| 71. |
As it fades, I see the truth - in plain sight, yet hidden al... |
129.98 |
1.0011 |
0.0531 |
278 |
1 |
129.98 |
2020-04-05 |
| 72. |
He's not afraid of losing. He's afraid of losing your love. ... |
119.78 |
1.0008 |
-0.0290 |
163 |
1 |
119.78 |
2022-12-22 |
| 73. |
Mature affection, homage, devotion, does not easily express ... |
127.87 |
0.9974 |
0.0426 |
246 |
1 |
127.87 |
2017-02-01 |
| 74. |
My feeling is if you're the CEO of a company and you're dumb... |
137.09 |
0.9972 |
0.1181 |
275 |
1 |
137.09 |
2018-09-01 |
| 75. |
When a man's an empty kettle, he should be on his mettle, an... |
137.35 |
0.9939 |
0.1189 |
159 |
1 |
137.35 |
2022-12-22 |
| 76. |
My life's work is teaching. And I believed that if you boys ... |
114.11 |
0.9938 |
-0.0716 |
458 |
1 |
114.11 |
2017-11-15 |
| 77. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
111.07 |
0.9930 |
-0.0825 |
350 |
1 |
111.07 |
2015-03-29 |
| 78. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
123.23 |
0.9928 |
0.0089 |
293 |
1 |
123.23 |
2012-10-08 |
| 79. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
109.23 |
0.9909 |
-0.1026 |
293 |
1 |
109.23 |
2016-03-03 |
| 80. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
114.34 |
0.9880 |
-0.0604 |
199 |
1 |
114.34 |
2015-03-29 |
| 81. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
127.70 |
0.9841 |
0.0537 |
263 |
1 |
127.70 |
2012-10-10 |
| 82. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
113.35 |
0.9807 |
-0.0638 |
129 |
1 |
113.35 |
2012-10-10 |
| 83. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
111.94 |
0.9763 |
-0.0664 |
143 |
1 |
111.94 |
2016-03-03 |
| 84. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
126.17 |
0.9761 |
0.0549 |
227 |
1 |
126.17 |
2012-10-10 |
| 85. |
You're not a mech, but you're enough of a machine to need re... |
114.40 |
0.9744 |
-0.0469 |
207 |
1 |
114.40 |
2019-09-21 |
| 86. |
We often believe the more we practice a skill or technique -... |
110.38 |
0.9743 |
-0.0701 |
397 |
1 |
110.38 |
2012-10-10 |
| 87. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
138.96 |
0.9727 |
0.1596 |
442 |
1 |
138.96 |
2012-12-17 |
| 88. |
You sit around here and you spin your little webs and you th... |
140.48 |
0.9677 |
0.1714 |
241 |
1 |
140.48 |
2017-11-15 |
| 89. |
Do you wanna come with me? 'Cause if you do then I should wa... |
138.00 |
0.9667 |
0.1488 |
312 |
1 |
138.00 |
2019-07-06 |
| 90. |
Well we've never done a day's work in our life and our recor... |
150.82 |
0.9660 |
0.2571 |
236 |
1 |
150.82 |
2017-11-12 |
| 91. |
Years ago, I was an angry young man. And I'd pretend that I ... |
131.21 |
0.9645 |
0.0944 |
155 |
1 |
131.21 |
2017-11-15 |
| 92. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
132.57 |
0.9631 |
0.1142 |
273 |
1 |
132.57 |
2012-10-10 |
| 93. |
Danger is a topic you're often asked about as a sprinter. Th... |
119.46 |
0.9591 |
0.0206 |
428 |
1 |
119.46 |
2012-10-10 |
| 94. |
It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind h... |
96.63 |
0.9576 |
-0.1724 |
235 |
1 |
96.63 |
2017-11-15 |
| 95. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
127.97 |
0.9543 |
0.0923 |
265 |
3 |
123.51 |
2016-03-03 |
| 96. |
You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain; too much love d... |
115.65 |
0.9538 |
-0.0190 |
242 |
1 |
115.65 |
2019-09-21 |
| 97. |
She couldn't understand a vocation. Some people can't; at be... |
141.13 |
0.9522 |
0.1964 |
138 |
1 |
141.13 |
2017-11-15 |
| 98. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
131.33 |
0.9517 |
0.1216 |
397 |
1 |
131.33 |
2014-10-21 |
| 99. |
Conceptually, to communicate, procedures must send messages ... |
122.05 |
0.9503 |
0.0386 |
373 |
1 |
122.05 |
2019-09-21 |
| 100. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
120.69 |
0.9494 |
0.0387 |
397 |
1 |
120.69 |
2016-03-03 |
| 101. |
Clinging to a shaky line, insecure about what I will see. Mo... |
148.09 |
0.9466 |
0.2535 |
200 |
1 |
148.09 |
2019-10-25 |
| 102. |
Those of you who do not read, attend the theater, listen to ... |
110.85 |
0.9463 |
-0.0512 |
342 |
1 |
110.85 |
2019-09-21 |
| 103. |
Doing repairs on the outside of a rocket in mid-air is a tic... |
117.82 |
0.9456 |
0.0090 |
345 |
1 |
117.82 |
2017-11-12 |
| 104. |
And high above, depicted in a tower, sat Conquest, robed in ... |
126.86 |
0.9453 |
0.0866 |
163 |
1 |
126.86 |
2018-09-01 |
| 105. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
87.87 |
0.9422 |
-0.2311 |
190 |
1 |
87.87 |
2017-02-01 |
| 106. |
Morale was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian's fault. T... |
105.13 |
0.9386 |
-0.0834 |
183 |
1 |
105.13 |
2019-09-21 |
| 107. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
87.27 |
0.9377 |
-0.2244 |
198 |
1 |
87.27 |
2017-02-01 |
| 108. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
100.46 |
0.9332 |
-0.1169 |
267 |
1 |
100.46 |
2012-10-08 |
| 109. |
Do you know why you're not afraid to die, Spock? You're more... |
126.38 |
0.9301 |
0.0939 |
277 |
1 |
126.38 |
2018-09-01 |
| 110. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
113.75 |
0.9269 |
0.0049 |
269 |
1 |
113.75 |
2012-10-15 |
| 111. |
I was eleven years old and when I was strong enough I dedica... |
118.99 |
0.9251 |
0.0382 |
257 |
1 |
118.99 |
2017-11-15 |
| 112. |
Beta flecks, another type of imperfection, are small regions... |
100.86 |
0.9225 |
-0.1045 |
343 |
1 |
100.86 |
2017-06-08 |
| 113. |
To be fair, English is full of booby traps for the unwary fo... |
106.17 |
0.9215 |
-0.0590 |
240 |
1 |
106.17 |
2016-03-03 |
| 114. |
Hero - not the champion player who plays the perfect game. N... |
130.59 |
0.9179 |
0.1403 |
141 |
1 |
130.59 |
2019-06-03 |
| 115. |
Just observation and deduction. I see a propensity for obesi... |
124.82 |
0.9167 |
0.0941 |
261 |
1 |
124.82 |
2017-11-12 |
| 116. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
103.06 |
0.9143 |
-0.0766 |
300 |
1 |
103.06 |
2017-02-01 |
| 117. |
I mean I look at a piano, I see a bunch of keys, three pedal... |
113.06 |
0.9120 |
0.0034 |
244 |
1 |
113.06 |
2017-11-15 |
| 118. |
The rooster stared back at me, his power and confidence almo... |
117.46 |
0.8976 |
0.0557 |
213 |
1 |
117.46 |
2019-09-15 |
| 119. |
I know what you're thinking, how the heck does a 52-year-old... |
110.16 |
0.8950 |
-0.0020 |
239 |
1 |
110.16 |
2019-09-26 |
| 120. |
Talking away. I don't know what I'm to say, I'll say it anyw... |
142.13 |
0.8846 |
0.2635 |
146 |
1 |
142.13 |
2019-09-21 |
| 121. |
We're knights of the Round Table, we dance whene'er we're ab... |
96.08 |
0.8722 |
-0.0940 |
544 |
1 |
96.08 |
2018-09-01 |
| 122. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
102.59 |
0.8718 |
-0.0384 |
318 |
1 |
102.59 |
2019-09-29 |
| 123. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
110.33 |
0.8656 |
0.0312 |
242 |
2 |
105.69 |
2022-12-22 |
| 124. |
For a time, pink was preferred for boys, because it was "a d... |
98.31 |
0.8563 |
-0.0608 |
331 |
1 |
98.31 |
2019-09-21 |
| 125. |
By the end of the nineteenth century, nearly all of the majo... |
113.06 |
0.8550 |
0.0590 |
336 |
1 |
113.06 |
2018-09-01 |
| 126. |
Good news, kiddies! Time for another exclusive WBBY "Waterga... |
104.99 |
0.8020 |
0.0515 |
434 |
1 |
104.99 |
2019-09-21 |
| 127. |
Scissors cuts paper. Paper covers rock. Rock crushes lizard.... |
94.92 |
0.7946 |
-0.0235 |
244 |
1 |
94.92 |
2017-02-01 |