| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
128.98 |
1.0873 |
0.2043 |
243 |
1 |
128.98 |
2013-07-25 |
| 2. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
123.43 |
1.0178 |
0.2191 |
207 |
1 |
123.43 |
2011-01-23 |
| 3. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
121.86 |
1.0279 |
0.1891 |
172 |
1 |
121.86 |
2013-07-19 |
| 4. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
120.53 |
1.1095 |
0.1021 |
252 |
1 |
120.53 |
2013-07-25 |
| 5. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
120.50 |
1.0664 |
0.1461 |
389 |
1 |
120.50 |
2013-07-24 |
| 6. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
120.03 |
1.0426 |
0.1577 |
131 |
1 |
120.03 |
2011-01-23 |
| 7. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
117.60 |
1.0753 |
0.1114 |
206 |
1 |
117.60 |
2013-06-16 |
| 8. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
116.70 |
1.0567 |
0.1137 |
314 |
1 |
116.70 |
2009-08-04 |
| 9. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
116.34 |
0.9763 |
0.1903 |
143 |
1 |
116.34 |
2010-03-13 |
| 10. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
116.22 |
1.0487 |
0.1150 |
253 |
1 |
116.22 |
2009-08-04 |
| 11. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
115.35 |
1.0165 |
0.1398 |
316 |
1 |
115.35 |
2013-07-25 |
| 12. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
115.19 |
1.0669 |
0.0918 |
379 |
3 |
107.30 |
2013-07-24 |
| 13. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
115.13 |
1.0509 |
0.1181 |
430 |
1 |
115.13 |
2013-06-16 |
| 14. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
114.68 |
1.0600 |
0.0906 |
351 |
2 |
111.97 |
2009-12-21 |
| 15. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
114.60 |
1.0960 |
0.0576 |
315 |
1 |
114.60 |
2011-01-23 |
| 16. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
114.20 |
0.9801 |
0.1651 |
289 |
1 |
114.20 |
2013-07-25 |
| 17. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
113.52 |
1.0479 |
0.0891 |
205 |
2 |
105.58 |
2013-07-25 |
| 18. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
113.45 |
1.0529 |
0.0876 |
373 |
3 |
99.97 |
2009-09-04 |
| 19. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
112.90 |
1.0698 |
0.0695 |
303 |
1 |
112.90 |
2011-01-29 |
| 20. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
111.89 |
1.0039 |
0.1245 |
255 |
1 |
111.89 |
2013-07-25 |
| 21. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
111.78 |
1.0628 |
0.0603 |
363 |
1 |
111.78 |
2009-12-24 |
| 22. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
111.75 |
0.9680 |
0.1529 |
256 |
4 |
96.73 |
2013-07-24 |
| 23. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
111.56 |
0.9987 |
0.1246 |
236 |
1 |
111.56 |
2013-06-16 |
| 24. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
110.99 |
1.1070 |
0.0050 |
265 |
1 |
110.99 |
2010-08-18 |
| 25. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
110.95 |
1.0576 |
0.0523 |
231 |
2 |
97.50 |
2009-12-24 |
| 26. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
110.59 |
0.9981 |
0.1101 |
211 |
1 |
110.59 |
2009-12-21 |
| 27. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
109.83 |
1.0511 |
0.0521 |
252 |
1 |
109.83 |
2009-08-04 |
| 28. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
109.80 |
1.0588 |
0.0424 |
281 |
2 |
98.24 |
2009-12-24 |
| 29. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
107.36 |
0.9749 |
0.1107 |
337 |
2 |
105.99 |
2010-08-18 |
| 30. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
106.53 |
1.0736 |
-0.0029 |
350 |
3 |
102.26 |
2010-08-18 |
| 31. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
105.71 |
1.0601 |
-0.0034 |
256 |
2 |
105.12 |
2009-08-04 |
| 32. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
105.67 |
0.9809 |
0.0747 |
209 |
1 |
105.67 |
2010-08-18 |
| 33. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
105.28 |
0.9500 |
0.1072 |
287 |
1 |
105.28 |
2009-08-04 |
| 34. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
105.23 |
0.9918 |
0.0703 |
400 |
1 |
105.23 |
2013-07-24 |
| 35. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
104.93 |
1.0450 |
0.0123 |
358 |
1 |
104.93 |
2010-08-18 |
| 36. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
104.73 |
1.0101 |
0.0417 |
336 |
1 |
104.73 |
2009-05-16 |
| 37. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
104.73 |
1.0462 |
0.0068 |
340 |
2 |
99.65 |
2009-05-16 |
| 38. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
104.68 |
1.0106 |
0.0379 |
302 |
1 |
104.68 |
2013-07-24 |
| 39. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
104.59 |
1.0033 |
0.0456 |
203 |
2 |
101.15 |
2009-05-15 |
| 40. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
104.10 |
0.9996 |
0.0515 |
483 |
2 |
103.54 |
2013-07-25 |
| 41. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
103.73 |
1.0472 |
0.0034 |
397 |
1 |
103.73 |
2010-06-23 |
| 42. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
103.60 |
0.9685 |
0.0708 |
304 |
1 |
103.60 |
2009-05-15 |
| 43. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
102.91 |
0.9917 |
0.0420 |
317 |
1 |
102.91 |
2013-06-16 |
| 44. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
102.75 |
1.0069 |
0.0264 |
242 |
1 |
102.75 |
2010-08-18 |
| 45. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
102.59 |
1.0086 |
0.0155 |
218 |
2 |
98.60 |
2009-05-16 |
| 46. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
102.56 |
1.0272 |
-0.0012 |
226 |
1 |
102.56 |
2009-08-04 |
| 47. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
102.09 |
0.9787 |
0.0481 |
364 |
1 |
102.09 |
2009-08-04 |
| 48. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
102.09 |
1.0035 |
0.0205 |
310 |
1 |
102.09 |
2009-08-04 |
| 49. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
101.86 |
0.9709 |
0.0488 |
264 |
1 |
101.86 |
2009-12-21 |
| 50. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
101.53 |
1.0243 |
-0.0028 |
153 |
1 |
101.53 |
2010-03-13 |
| 51. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
101.40 |
1.0042 |
0.0084 |
168 |
1 |
101.40 |
2009-09-04 |
| 52. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
101.34 |
0.9561 |
0.0630 |
291 |
1 |
101.34 |
2013-07-25 |
| 53. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
101.04 |
1.0403 |
-0.0292 |
234 |
1 |
101.04 |
2008-08-31 |
| 54. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
100.77 |
0.9632 |
0.0481 |
287 |
1 |
100.77 |
2013-07-25 |
| 55. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
100.65 |
0.9839 |
0.0247 |
308 |
2 |
94.97 |
2013-06-16 |
| 56. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
100.62 |
0.9804 |
0.0283 |
227 |
1 |
100.62 |
2010-08-18 |
| 57. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
100.49 |
1.0582 |
-0.0541 |
180 |
1 |
100.49 |
2013-06-16 |
| 58. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
100.12 |
1.0115 |
-0.0132 |
189 |
2 |
98.17 |
2009-05-16 |
| 59. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
100.11 |
1.0059 |
-0.0013 |
283 |
2 |
94.23 |
2009-05-15 |
| 60. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
100.09 |
1.0495 |
-0.0468 |
323 |
1 |
100.09 |
2009-08-04 |
| 61. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
100.07 |
1.0404 |
-0.0325 |
406 |
1 |
100.07 |
2009-09-04 |
| 62. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
99.95 |
0.8986 |
0.1015 |
205 |
2 |
93.57 |
2009-08-04 |
| 63. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
99.75 |
1.0060 |
-0.0055 |
225 |
4 |
90.88 |
2009-05-15 |
| 64. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
99.56 |
0.9869 |
0.0074 |
193 |
1 |
99.56 |
2009-05-16 |
| 65. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
99.15 |
1.1093 |
-0.1212 |
220 |
2 |
99.06 |
2008-09-07 |
| 66. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
98.87 |
1.0639 |
-0.0719 |
303 |
2 |
94.97 |
2008-09-14 |
| 67. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
98.67 |
0.9817 |
0.0126 |
304 |
1 |
98.67 |
2009-12-21 |
| 68. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
98.66 |
0.8974 |
0.1033 |
365 |
2 |
95.28 |
2010-08-18 |
| 69. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
98.51 |
1.0082 |
-0.0259 |
212 |
1 |
98.51 |
2009-05-16 |
| 70. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
98.40 |
1.0881 |
-0.1058 |
210 |
1 |
98.40 |
2008-09-07 |
| 71. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
98.31 |
0.9762 |
0.0090 |
249 |
3 |
97.54 |
2013-06-16 |
| 72. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
98.16 |
1.0743 |
-0.0895 |
297 |
1 |
98.16 |
2008-09-14 |
| 73. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
98.00 |
0.9621 |
0.0171 |
201 |
1 |
98.00 |
2009-05-15 |
| 74. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
97.63 |
0.9780 |
-0.0058 |
173 |
2 |
94.67 |
2008-09-14 |
| 75. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
97.44 |
1.0800 |
-0.1064 |
213 |
1 |
97.44 |
2009-05-16 |
| 76. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
97.08 |
1.0250 |
-0.0493 |
271 |
2 |
91.60 |
2008-08-09 |
| 77. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
96.89 |
1.0461 |
-0.0730 |
318 |
1 |
96.89 |
2009-05-15 |
| 78. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
96.37 |
0.9833 |
-0.0152 |
387 |
1 |
96.37 |
2009-05-15 |
| 79. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
95.98 |
0.9783 |
-0.0091 |
273 |
1 |
95.98 |
2013-07-25 |
| 80. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
95.78 |
0.9374 |
0.0250 |
232 |
1 |
95.78 |
2010-08-18 |
| 81. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
95.77 |
0.9727 |
-0.0064 |
442 |
1 |
95.77 |
2009-05-16 |
| 82. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
94.74 |
0.9536 |
0.0041 |
311 |
1 |
94.74 |
2013-06-16 |
| 83. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
94.15 |
0.9644 |
-0.0180 |
398 |
1 |
94.15 |
2009-05-15 |
| 84. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
94.08 |
0.9932 |
-0.0430 |
281 |
2 |
93.59 |
2011-01-23 |
| 85. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
93.29 |
1.0682 |
-0.1325 |
266 |
1 |
93.29 |
2008-08-09 |
| 86. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
92.83 |
0.9829 |
-0.0536 |
229 |
1 |
92.83 |
2008-08-09 |
| 87. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
92.20 |
1.0411 |
-0.1157 |
341 |
1 |
92.20 |
2009-05-15 |
| 88. |
I don't want to go in there. He's a dangerous bastard. Taken... |
91.27 |
0.9353 |
-0.0140 |
174 |
1 |
91.27 |
2008-08-09 |
| 89. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
90.73 |
0.9756 |
-0.0675 |
223 |
1 |
90.73 |
2009-05-16 |
| 90. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
90.30 |
0.9857 |
-0.0753 |
268 |
1 |
90.30 |
2013-06-16 |
| 91. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
89.49 |
0.9713 |
-0.0764 |
193 |
1 |
89.49 |
2010-12-23 |
| 92. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
88.49 |
1.0063 |
-0.1152 |
293 |
1 |
88.49 |
2010-08-18 |
| 93. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
88.04 |
1.0181 |
-0.1351 |
276 |
1 |
88.04 |
2009-01-03 |
| 94. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
87.52 |
1.0540 |
-0.1826 |
184 |
1 |
87.52 |
2008-09-04 |
| 95. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
87.32 |
0.9027 |
-0.0318 |
189 |
1 |
87.32 |
2009-05-15 |
| 96. |
Don't practice too much at first, or you're likely to develo... |
86.73 |
0.9931 |
-0.1122 |
381 |
1 |
86.73 |
2013-06-16 |
| 97. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
86.71 |
0.9631 |
-0.0953 |
273 |
1 |
86.71 |
2009-05-16 |
| 98. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
85.96 |
0.9359 |
-0.0745 |
355 |
1 |
85.96 |
2009-05-15 |
| 99. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
85.87 |
1.0901 |
-0.2283 |
288 |
1 |
85.87 |
2009-01-03 |
| 100. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
85.71 |
0.9422 |
-0.0891 |
190 |
1 |
85.71 |
2009-01-03 |
| 101. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
85.64 |
0.9561 |
-0.0970 |
362 |
1 |
85.64 |
2013-06-16 |
| 102. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
85.50 |
1.0615 |
-0.2084 |
201 |
1 |
85.50 |
2008-08-09 |
| 103. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
85.47 |
0.9519 |
-0.0922 |
323 |
1 |
85.47 |
2010-12-23 |
| 104. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
85.38 |
0.9574 |
-0.0993 |
354 |
1 |
85.38 |
2009-05-15 |
| 105. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
85.04 |
0.9162 |
-0.0636 |
401 |
1 |
85.04 |
2009-05-16 |
| 106. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
84.52 |
0.9157 |
-0.0569 |
353 |
1 |
84.52 |
2010-08-18 |
| 107. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
84.04 |
0.9143 |
-0.0720 |
300 |
1 |
84.04 |
2009-05-16 |
| 108. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
84.01 |
0.9948 |
-0.1549 |
233 |
1 |
84.01 |
2008-08-09 |
| 109. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
83.59 |
1.0865 |
-0.2499 |
237 |
1 |
83.59 |
2008-08-09 |
| 110. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
83.49 |
0.9673 |
-0.1293 |
292 |
1 |
83.49 |
2009-05-15 |
| 111. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
83.03 |
0.9503 |
-0.1258 |
211 |
2 |
82.88 |
2008-08-09 |
| 112. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
80.46 |
0.9068 |
-0.1035 |
212 |
1 |
80.46 |
2009-05-16 |
| 113. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
79.50 |
1.0867 |
-0.2955 |
171 |
1 |
79.50 |
2009-05-15 |
| 114. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
79.24 |
0.8172 |
-0.0286 |
204 |
1 |
79.24 |
2008-08-31 |
| 115. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
79.17 |
0.8936 |
-0.1025 |
346 |
1 |
79.17 |
2009-05-15 |
| 116. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
78.53 |
0.9012 |
-0.1119 |
322 |
1 |
78.53 |
2009-05-15 |
| 117. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
74.75 |
0.9228 |
-0.1707 |
305 |
1 |
74.75 |
2008-08-09 |
| 118. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
74.11 |
0.8830 |
-0.1393 |
300 |
1 |
74.11 |
2008-08-09 |
| 119. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
70.99 |
1.0334 |
-0.3243 |
261 |
1 |
70.99 |
2008-08-09 |
| 120. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
61.84 |
0.9909 |
-0.3688 |
293 |
1 |
61.84 |
2008-08-09 |