| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
120.02 |
0.9299 |
-0.9416 |
168 |
1 |
120.02 |
2014-04-28 |
| 2. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
115.77 |
1.0800 |
-1.0900 |
129 |
1 |
115.77 |
2014-04-28 |
| 3. |
You know a dream is like a river ever changing as it flows a... |
114.08 |
1.0862 |
-1.0903 |
259 |
1 |
114.08 |
2020-09-15 |
| 4. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
112.53 |
1.1093 |
-1.1191 |
220 |
2 |
108.67 |
2011-08-04 |
| 5. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
111.03 |
1.0362 |
-1.0364 |
437 |
2 |
96.57 |
2014-03-27 |
| 6. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
110.96 |
1.0845 |
-1.0905 |
212 |
1 |
110.96 |
2014-04-04 |
| 7. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
110.68 |
1.0418 |
-1.0461 |
214 |
1 |
110.68 |
2011-08-04 |
| 8. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
110.67 |
1.0082 |
-1.0162 |
212 |
1 |
110.67 |
2013-05-24 |
| 9. |
We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all... |
110.10 |
1.1024 |
-1.1002 |
194 |
1 |
110.10 |
2018-05-29 |
| 10. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
109.59 |
1.0234 |
-1.0258 |
392 |
1 |
109.59 |
2014-04-04 |
| 11. |
Esteban stood at the front of the room, staring at the page.... |
108.66 |
1.0586 |
-1.0690 |
327 |
1 |
108.66 |
2021-02-22 |
| 12. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
107.97 |
1.0543 |
-1.0580 |
360 |
1 |
107.97 |
2011-07-09 |
| 13. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
107.25 |
1.0208 |
-1.0263 |
231 |
1 |
107.25 |
2011-08-04 |
| 14. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
106.50 |
1.1138 |
-1.1113 |
341 |
3 |
96.43 |
2014-04-28 |
| 15. |
Well, you've cracked the sky, scrapers fill the air, but wil... |
106.47 |
1.0299 |
-1.0327 |
232 |
1 |
106.47 |
2016-10-24 |
| 16. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
105.18 |
1.0665 |
-1.0694 |
210 |
1 |
105.18 |
2014-09-19 |
| 17. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
103.04 |
1.0128 |
-1.0130 |
369 |
1 |
103.04 |
2013-05-24 |
| 18. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
103.00 |
1.0743 |
-1.0791 |
297 |
1 |
103.00 |
2010-04-08 |
| 19. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
102.10 |
0.9727 |
-0.9733 |
442 |
2 |
99.20 |
2013-11-07 |
| 20. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
101.68 |
0.9402 |
-0.9481 |
310 |
1 |
101.68 |
2011-07-22 |
| 21. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
101.64 |
1.0404 |
-1.0425 |
406 |
1 |
101.64 |
2014-04-04 |
| 22. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
100.92 |
1.0243 |
-1.0243 |
153 |
1 |
100.92 |
2011-07-09 |
| 23. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
99.92 |
0.9736 |
-0.9737 |
378 |
1 |
99.92 |
2014-04-04 |
| 24. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
99.85 |
1.0427 |
-1.0477 |
269 |
1 |
99.85 |
2011-07-09 |
| 25. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
99.62 |
1.0682 |
-1.0729 |
266 |
1 |
99.62 |
2014-09-19 |
| 26. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
99.07 |
0.9932 |
-0.9920 |
281 |
1 |
99.07 |
2014-04-04 |
| 27. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
98.36 |
1.0836 |
-1.0850 |
206 |
1 |
98.36 |
2014-09-19 |
| 28. |
So I've spent the last few months running down leads, trying... |
98.20 |
0.9865 |
-1.0139 |
427 |
1 |
98.20 |
2018-05-29 |
| 29. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
97.79 |
1.0511 |
-1.0549 |
252 |
1 |
97.79 |
2011-07-09 |
| 30. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
97.65 |
1.0194 |
-1.0266 |
224 |
1 |
97.65 |
2014-09-19 |
| 31. |
When you lose control, you'll reap the harvest you have sown... |
97.10 |
1.0337 |
-1.0475 |
273 |
1 |
97.10 |
2020-09-15 |
| 32. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
97.01 |
0.9949 |
-0.9911 |
304 |
2 |
90.05 |
2020-09-15 |
| 33. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
96.99 |
0.9609 |
-0.9628 |
331 |
1 |
96.99 |
2014-04-04 |
| 34. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
96.97 |
1.0901 |
-1.0940 |
288 |
1 |
96.97 |
2011-07-09 |
| 35. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
96.91 |
0.9631 |
-0.9691 |
273 |
1 |
96.91 |
2014-04-04 |
| 36. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
96.45 |
1.0521 |
-1.0624 |
197 |
2 |
89.03 |
2010-04-16 |
| 37. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
95.80 |
1.0125 |
-1.0219 |
171 |
1 |
95.80 |
2011-08-04 |
| 38. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
95.71 |
1.0873 |
-1.0944 |
243 |
1 |
95.71 |
2009-12-18 |
| 39. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
95.20 |
1.0059 |
-1.0103 |
283 |
1 |
95.20 |
2011-08-04 |
| 40. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
95.06 |
1.0006 |
-1.0062 |
311 |
1 |
95.06 |
2014-04-04 |
| 41. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
94.91 |
1.0736 |
-1.0770 |
350 |
1 |
94.91 |
2016-06-27 |
| 42. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
94.85 |
0.9451 |
-0.9449 |
419 |
1 |
94.85 |
2014-04-04 |
| 43. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
94.83 |
1.0464 |
-1.0482 |
294 |
1 |
94.83 |
2013-11-07 |
| 44. |
Right, I am going to tell you how this works. You're going i... |
94.48 |
1.0444 |
-1.0388 |
487 |
1 |
94.48 |
2011-08-12 |
| 45. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
94.15 |
1.0543 |
-1.0619 |
182 |
1 |
94.15 |
2014-09-19 |
| 46. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
94.09 |
1.0672 |
-1.0732 |
239 |
2 |
93.26 |
2010-04-16 |
| 47. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
94.07 |
0.9206 |
-0.9253 |
317 |
1 |
94.07 |
2014-09-27 |
| 48. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
93.84 |
0.9228 |
-0.9247 |
305 |
1 |
93.84 |
2014-04-04 |
| 49. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
93.74 |
0.9762 |
-0.9811 |
249 |
2 |
89.06 |
2013-11-07 |
| 50. |
Like frozen sentries of the Serengeti, the century-old termi... |
93.68 |
0.8742 |
-0.8984 |
202 |
1 |
93.68 |
2018-05-29 |
| 51. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
93.64 |
1.0800 |
-1.0883 |
213 |
1 |
93.64 |
2011-08-04 |
| 52. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
92.46 |
0.9330 |
-0.9279 |
341 |
1 |
92.46 |
2009-12-18 |
| 53. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
92.28 |
1.0759 |
-1.0753 |
273 |
1 |
92.28 |
2009-12-18 |
| 54. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
92.05 |
1.0332 |
-1.0384 |
267 |
1 |
92.05 |
2009-12-18 |
| 55. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
91.93 |
1.0086 |
-1.0168 |
218 |
1 |
91.93 |
2014-05-06 |
| 56. |
One just can't imagine what prison is like from outside. You... |
91.54 |
1.0389 |
-1.0378 |
271 |
1 |
91.54 |
2016-10-24 |
| 57. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
91.45 |
0.9332 |
-0.9388 |
267 |
2 |
86.32 |
2011-08-04 |
| 58. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
91.43 |
0.9046 |
-0.8995 |
448 |
2 |
90.83 |
2014-05-06 |
| 59. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
91.11 |
1.0035 |
-1.0088 |
310 |
1 |
91.11 |
2016-06-27 |
| 60. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
89.77 |
0.9885 |
-0.9888 |
469 |
1 |
89.77 |
2014-03-27 |
| 61. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
89.64 |
1.0403 |
-1.0479 |
234 |
1 |
89.64 |
2010-04-16 |
| 62. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
89.56 |
1.0130 |
-1.0179 |
288 |
1 |
89.56 |
2013-05-24 |
| 63. |
Oh, no, sir. I'm sorry, sir. I could never answer to a whist... |
89.26 |
0.9795 |
-0.9753 |
190 |
1 |
89.26 |
2016-10-24 |
| 64. |
I watched a bear once. His leg was in a steel trap. It chewe... |
89.13 |
0.9877 |
-0.9909 |
359 |
1 |
89.13 |
2016-10-24 |
| 65. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
88.73 |
1.0557 |
-1.0600 |
289 |
1 |
88.73 |
2011-08-04 |
| 66. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
88.71 |
0.9809 |
-0.9893 |
209 |
1 |
88.71 |
2010-04-16 |
| 67. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
88.56 |
1.0333 |
-1.0422 |
176 |
1 |
88.56 |
2011-08-04 |
| 68. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
88.03 |
0.8880 |
-0.8937 |
296 |
1 |
88.03 |
2013-05-24 |
| 69. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
87.73 |
1.0617 |
-1.0674 |
171 |
1 |
87.73 |
2014-09-27 |
| 70. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
87.69 |
1.0095 |
-1.0160 |
211 |
1 |
87.69 |
2011-07-09 |
| 71. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
87.62 |
0.9851 |
-0.9850 |
237 |
1 |
87.62 |
2016-06-27 |
| 72. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
87.55 |
1.0165 |
-1.0219 |
316 |
1 |
87.55 |
2011-07-09 |
| 73. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
87.16 |
0.9519 |
-0.9548 |
323 |
1 |
87.16 |
2014-09-27 |
| 74. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
86.90 |
1.0181 |
-1.0224 |
276 |
1 |
86.90 |
2014-09-19 |
| 75. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
86.89 |
1.0411 |
-1.0458 |
341 |
1 |
86.89 |
2011-08-04 |
| 76. |
The idea of "Mr. Right" has been passed down over the genera... |
86.87 |
0.9630 |
-0.9576 |
379 |
1 |
86.87 |
2011-08-04 |
| 77. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
86.84 |
1.0101 |
-1.0143 |
336 |
1 |
86.84 |
2011-08-04 |
| 78. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
86.62 |
0.9740 |
-0.9772 |
371 |
1 |
86.62 |
2010-04-08 |
| 79. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
86.36 |
0.9791 |
-0.9899 |
154 |
1 |
86.36 |
2009-12-18 |
| 80. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
86.25 |
0.9329 |
-0.9259 |
345 |
1 |
86.25 |
2010-04-16 |
| 81. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
85.60 |
1.0060 |
-1.0122 |
260 |
1 |
85.60 |
2014-09-19 |
| 82. |
Men always believe that. With a law degree you're taking on ... |
85.49 |
1.0610 |
-1.0678 |
132 |
1 |
85.49 |
2018-05-29 |
| 83. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
84.67 |
1.0639 |
-1.0684 |
303 |
1 |
84.67 |
2010-04-16 |
| 84. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
84.10 |
0.9947 |
-0.9915 |
346 |
1 |
84.10 |
2011-08-04 |
| 85. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
83.95 |
0.9108 |
-0.9164 |
235 |
2 |
78.88 |
2014-04-04 |
| 86. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
83.84 |
1.0590 |
-1.0651 |
250 |
1 |
83.84 |
2014-09-19 |
| 87. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
82.90 |
0.9820 |
-0.9794 |
297 |
1 |
82.90 |
2013-05-24 |
| 88. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
82.82 |
1.1062 |
-1.1079 |
200 |
1 |
82.82 |
2011-07-22 |
| 89. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
82.54 |
0.9996 |
-0.9994 |
483 |
1 |
82.54 |
2011-07-09 |
| 90. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
82.48 |
1.0199 |
-1.0285 |
225 |
1 |
82.48 |
2010-04-16 |
| 91. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
82.25 |
0.8328 |
-0.8342 |
343 |
2 |
79.54 |
2014-04-04 |
| 92. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
82.16 |
0.8984 |
-0.8966 |
267 |
1 |
82.16 |
2013-05-24 |
| 93. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
82.15 |
0.9698 |
-0.9722 |
389 |
1 |
82.15 |
2013-05-24 |
| 94. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
81.98 |
1.0640 |
-1.0626 |
210 |
1 |
81.98 |
2014-04-04 |
| 95. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
81.93 |
0.8966 |
-0.9046 |
366 |
1 |
81.93 |
2010-04-16 |
| 96. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
81.89 |
1.0351 |
-1.0378 |
276 |
1 |
81.89 |
2013-05-24 |
| 97. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
81.69 |
1.0028 |
-1.0096 |
259 |
1 |
81.69 |
2011-07-22 |
| 98. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
81.44 |
0.9243 |
-0.9278 |
240 |
1 |
81.44 |
2011-08-04 |
| 99. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
80.89 |
0.9931 |
-0.9951 |
339 |
1 |
80.89 |
2009-12-18 |
| 100. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
80.57 |
0.8981 |
-0.8955 |
255 |
2 |
75.23 |
2014-09-19 |
| 101. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
80.41 |
0.9284 |
-0.9318 |
346 |
2 |
79.47 |
2021-02-22 |
| 102. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
80.26 |
1.0462 |
-1.0489 |
340 |
1 |
80.26 |
2013-05-24 |
| 103. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
80.26 |
0.9980 |
-1.0023 |
295 |
1 |
80.26 |
2014-04-28 |
| 104. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
79.95 |
0.9136 |
-0.9172 |
348 |
1 |
79.95 |
2011-07-14 |
| 105. |
I been doin' this a long time. I ain't never said nothin' to... |
79.76 |
1.0218 |
-1.0414 |
68 |
1 |
79.76 |
2020-09-15 |
| 106. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
79.54 |
0.9880 |
-0.9972 |
199 |
1 |
79.54 |
2011-07-09 |
| 107. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
79.50 |
0.9810 |
-0.9828 |
362 |
1 |
79.50 |
2011-07-09 |
| 108. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
78.96 |
0.8787 |
-0.8856 |
443 |
1 |
78.96 |
2016-10-24 |
| 109. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
78.57 |
0.9143 |
-0.9191 |
300 |
1 |
78.57 |
2009-12-18 |
| 110. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
78.36 |
0.9765 |
-0.9823 |
269 |
1 |
78.36 |
2011-08-04 |
| 111. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
78.09 |
1.0270 |
-1.0315 |
303 |
1 |
78.09 |
2010-04-16 |
| 112. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
77.99 |
0.9604 |
-0.9669 |
285 |
1 |
77.99 |
2010-04-16 |
| 113. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
77.67 |
0.8964 |
-0.9039 |
199 |
1 |
77.67 |
2014-04-04 |
| 114. |
We often believe the more we practice a skill or technique -... |
77.50 |
0.9743 |
-0.9700 |
397 |
1 |
77.50 |
2014-09-19 |
| 115. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
77.14 |
0.9479 |
-0.9529 |
317 |
1 |
77.14 |
2011-07-09 |
| 116. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
77.12 |
0.9183 |
-0.9233 |
308 |
1 |
77.12 |
2011-07-09 |
| 117. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
76.69 |
1.0792 |
-1.0788 |
251 |
1 |
76.69 |
2014-09-19 |
| 118. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
76.62 |
1.0042 |
-1.0116 |
168 |
1 |
76.62 |
2011-08-04 |
| 119. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
76.42 |
0.9123 |
-0.9093 |
351 |
2 |
75.87 |
2013-11-07 |
| 120. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
75.98 |
0.9833 |
-0.9870 |
387 |
1 |
75.98 |
2011-08-04 |
| 121. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
75.94 |
0.9380 |
-0.9448 |
284 |
1 |
75.94 |
2011-07-09 |
| 122. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
73.52 |
0.8718 |
-0.8761 |
318 |
1 |
73.52 |
2009-12-18 |
| 123. |
He guessed as well as he could, and crawled along for a good... |
73.21 |
1.0498 |
-1.0502 |
347 |
1 |
73.21 |
2018-05-29 |
| 124. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
72.21 |
0.9606 |
-0.9618 |
203 |
1 |
72.21 |
2011-07-09 |
| 125. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
71.24 |
0.9873 |
-0.9833 |
396 |
1 |
71.24 |
2013-05-23 |
| 126. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
71.15 |
0.9807 |
-0.9949 |
129 |
1 |
71.15 |
2014-04-04 |
| 127. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
68.70 |
1.0476 |
-1.0598 |
110 |
1 |
68.70 |
2011-08-04 |
| 128. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
65.82 |
0.9761 |
-0.9757 |
227 |
1 |
65.82 |
2011-07-09 |
| 129. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
64.26 |
0.9377 |
-0.9362 |
198 |
1 |
64.26 |
2011-08-04 |
| 130. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
63.94 |
1.0881 |
-1.0958 |
210 |
1 |
63.94 |
2010-04-16 |
| 131. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
53.62 |
0.9763 |
-0.9825 |
143 |
1 |
53.62 |
2011-07-12 |