| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
171.05 |
0.9763 |
0.3914 |
143 |
1 |
171.05 |
2012-03-31 |
| 2. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
164.97 |
1.1198 |
0.1980 |
247 |
1 |
164.97 |
2014-03-07 |
| 3. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
162.35 |
1.0230 |
0.2761 |
200 |
1 |
162.35 |
2012-03-31 |
| 4. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
159.93 |
1.0791 |
0.2046 |
259 |
1 |
159.93 |
2014-04-23 |
| 5. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
159.02 |
1.0585 |
0.2153 |
226 |
1 |
159.02 |
2012-02-22 |
| 6. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
157.74 |
1.0472 |
0.2074 |
149 |
2 |
146.07 |
2014-02-19 |
| 7. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
156.11 |
1.0464 |
0.2065 |
294 |
1 |
156.11 |
2012-02-23 |
| 8. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
153.63 |
1.0562 |
0.1770 |
360 |
1 |
153.63 |
2014-03-07 |
| 9. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
149.25 |
1.0426 |
0.1460 |
131 |
3 |
117.34 |
2012-04-11 |
| 10. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
148.52 |
1.0403 |
0.1447 |
234 |
2 |
142.11 |
2014-03-07 |
| 11. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
146.62 |
1.0301 |
0.1401 |
268 |
1 |
146.62 |
2012-02-23 |
| 12. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
146.05 |
1.0332 |
0.1328 |
267 |
1 |
146.05 |
2014-05-28 |
| 13. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
145.21 |
1.0676 |
0.0977 |
456 |
2 |
103.18 |
2014-03-07 |
| 14. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
144.87 |
1.0471 |
0.1230 |
406 |
2 |
106.51 |
2014-03-07 |
| 15. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
144.30 |
1.0350 |
0.1325 |
416 |
1 |
144.30 |
2014-04-23 |
| 16. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
143.96 |
1.0482 |
0.1153 |
407 |
1 |
143.96 |
2012-03-01 |
| 17. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
143.47 |
0.9841 |
0.1608 |
263 |
1 |
143.47 |
2012-03-03 |
| 18. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
143.29 |
1.0178 |
0.1249 |
207 |
1 |
143.29 |
2014-03-24 |
| 19. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
142.51 |
1.0125 |
0.1245 |
232 |
1 |
142.51 |
2012-04-11 |
| 20. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
141.57 |
1.0464 |
0.0904 |
213 |
1 |
141.57 |
2014-05-28 |
| 21. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
141.30 |
1.1093 |
0.0135 |
220 |
2 |
132.67 |
2014-05-28 |
| 22. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
140.96 |
0.9660 |
0.1674 |
258 |
1 |
140.96 |
2012-03-31 |
| 23. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
139.56 |
1.0372 |
0.0770 |
249 |
1 |
139.56 |
2012-03-31 |
| 24. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
139.21 |
1.0036 |
0.1093 |
277 |
1 |
139.21 |
2014-05-28 |
| 25. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
138.52 |
1.0144 |
0.0927 |
162 |
1 |
138.52 |
2012-04-11 |
| 26. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
138.40 |
1.0736 |
0.0358 |
256 |
1 |
138.40 |
2014-03-07 |
| 27. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
137.94 |
1.1062 |
-0.0026 |
200 |
1 |
137.94 |
2012-03-31 |
| 28. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
137.29 |
0.9849 |
0.1128 |
337 |
1 |
137.29 |
2012-04-11 |
| 29. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
137.10 |
1.0060 |
0.0956 |
244 |
1 |
137.10 |
2014-03-06 |
| 30. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
136.45 |
1.0315 |
0.0575 |
193 |
1 |
136.45 |
2012-03-01 |
| 31. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
136.11 |
1.0432 |
0.0442 |
276 |
1 |
136.11 |
2012-05-09 |
| 32. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
136.10 |
1.0253 |
0.0644 |
337 |
1 |
136.10 |
2014-03-07 |
| 33. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
135.91 |
0.9931 |
0.0968 |
339 |
1 |
135.91 |
2012-02-22 |
| 34. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
135.24 |
1.0665 |
0.0143 |
210 |
1 |
135.24 |
2014-04-23 |
| 35. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
135.20 |
1.0524 |
0.0251 |
177 |
1 |
135.20 |
2014-03-06 |
| 36. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
133.90 |
0.9809 |
0.0844 |
209 |
1 |
133.90 |
2014-07-17 |
| 37. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
133.09 |
1.0616 |
0.0081 |
304 |
1 |
133.09 |
2014-06-19 |
| 38. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
132.79 |
0.9873 |
0.0837 |
396 |
1 |
132.79 |
2012-02-23 |
| 39. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
132.40 |
1.0130 |
0.0442 |
288 |
1 |
132.40 |
2014-03-06 |
| 40. |
Buddhism addresses two major types of meditation. Vipassana ... |
131.22 |
0.8992 |
0.1605 |
320 |
1 |
131.22 |
2012-05-09 |
| 41. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
130.98 |
0.9114 |
0.1422 |
399 |
2 |
126.90 |
2014-03-07 |
| 42. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
130.54 |
0.9927 |
0.0463 |
234 |
1 |
130.54 |
2014-02-19 |
| 43. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
130.25 |
0.9948 |
0.0444 |
233 |
1 |
130.25 |
2014-03-10 |
| 44. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
130.24 |
0.9844 |
0.0676 |
351 |
1 |
130.24 |
2012-03-31 |
| 45. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
129.95 |
0.9989 |
0.0457 |
282 |
2 |
116.70 |
2014-03-06 |
| 46. |
Races are not won in the first corner; however, they are oft... |
129.69 |
1.0346 |
0.0102 |
326 |
1 |
129.69 |
2014-02-19 |
| 47. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
129.05 |
0.9869 |
0.0399 |
193 |
2 |
118.90 |
2014-03-07 |
| 48. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
128.35 |
0.9947 |
0.0398 |
346 |
1 |
128.35 |
2012-02-23 |
| 49. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
127.49 |
0.9810 |
0.0417 |
362 |
1 |
127.49 |
2014-02-19 |
| 50. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
127.18 |
0.9244 |
0.0960 |
225 |
1 |
127.18 |
2014-05-28 |
| 51. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
126.88 |
1.0125 |
-0.0045 |
171 |
1 |
126.88 |
2014-03-07 |
| 52. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
126.71 |
0.9561 |
0.0569 |
362 |
2 |
109.20 |
2014-04-23 |
| 53. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
126.41 |
0.9339 |
0.0813 |
317 |
1 |
126.41 |
2014-05-28 |
| 54. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
126.39 |
1.0857 |
-0.0641 |
393 |
1 |
126.39 |
2014-03-07 |
| 55. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
126.25 |
0.9402 |
0.0657 |
310 |
1 |
126.25 |
2014-05-28 |
| 56. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
125.68 |
1.0427 |
-0.0387 |
269 |
1 |
125.68 |
2014-03-07 |
| 57. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
125.20 |
0.9377 |
0.0693 |
198 |
1 |
125.20 |
2014-03-06 |
| 58. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
125.14 |
0.9657 |
0.0450 |
424 |
1 |
125.14 |
2014-02-19 |
| 59. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
124.90 |
0.9046 |
0.1057 |
448 |
1 |
124.90 |
2014-03-06 |
| 60. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
124.15 |
1.0341 |
-0.0439 |
273 |
1 |
124.15 |
2012-04-11 |
| 61. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
123.42 |
1.0279 |
-0.0481 |
172 |
1 |
123.42 |
2014-04-23 |
| 62. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
123.16 |
1.0020 |
-0.0063 |
411 |
1 |
123.16 |
2014-03-07 |
| 63. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
122.85 |
0.9780 |
-0.0035 |
173 |
1 |
122.85 |
2012-03-31 |
| 64. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
121.95 |
1.0543 |
-0.0802 |
233 |
1 |
121.95 |
2012-02-25 |
| 65. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
121.56 |
1.0667 |
-0.0864 |
308 |
1 |
121.56 |
2014-05-28 |
| 66. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
119.96 |
0.9011 |
0.0598 |
322 |
1 |
119.96 |
2012-04-11 |
| 67. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
119.74 |
0.8316 |
0.1269 |
304 |
1 |
119.74 |
2012-02-22 |
| 68. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
119.09 |
0.9265 |
0.0233 |
254 |
1 |
119.09 |
2014-02-19 |
| 69. |
Danger is a topic you're often asked about as a sprinter. Th... |
118.89 |
0.9591 |
0.0048 |
428 |
1 |
118.89 |
2012-02-22 |
| 70. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
116.86 |
1.0018 |
-0.0689 |
246 |
1 |
116.86 |
2014-02-19 |
| 71. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
116.68 |
0.9330 |
0.0095 |
341 |
2 |
89.92 |
2012-04-11 |
| 72. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
116.63 |
0.9841 |
-0.0422 |
325 |
2 |
104.92 |
2014-03-07 |
| 73. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
116.08 |
0.9952 |
-0.0667 |
220 |
1 |
116.08 |
2014-02-19 |
| 74. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
116.05 |
0.9583 |
-0.0319 |
237 |
1 |
116.05 |
2014-03-06 |
| 75. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
115.99 |
1.0479 |
-0.1241 |
205 |
1 |
115.99 |
2014-03-07 |
| 76. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
115.70 |
1.0243 |
-0.0978 |
153 |
1 |
115.70 |
2014-04-23 |
| 77. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
115.59 |
0.9637 |
-0.0292 |
342 |
1 |
115.59 |
2014-03-11 |
| 78. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
115.37 |
0.9931 |
-0.0763 |
218 |
1 |
115.37 |
2014-03-06 |
| 79. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
114.95 |
0.9636 |
-0.0475 |
281 |
1 |
114.95 |
2012-02-23 |
| 80. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
114.55 |
1.0333 |
-0.1246 |
176 |
1 |
114.55 |
2014-03-06 |
| 81. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
114.53 |
1.0472 |
-0.1225 |
397 |
1 |
114.53 |
2014-03-07 |
| 82. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
113.62 |
0.9157 |
0.0034 |
353 |
1 |
113.62 |
2014-04-23 |
| 83. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
113.40 |
1.0115 |
-0.1121 |
189 |
1 |
113.40 |
2012-03-31 |
| 84. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
110.80 |
1.0082 |
-0.1295 |
212 |
1 |
110.80 |
2014-02-19 |
| 85. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
109.62 |
1.0411 |
-0.1651 |
341 |
1 |
109.62 |
2012-02-23 |
| 86. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
109.61 |
1.0877 |
-0.2176 |
129 |
1 |
109.61 |
2014-03-07 |
| 87. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
108.64 |
0.7923 |
0.0747 |
316 |
1 |
108.64 |
2012-02-23 |
| 88. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
105.61 |
0.9957 |
-0.1540 |
323 |
1 |
105.61 |
2012-04-11 |
| 89. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
103.06 |
0.9609 |
-0.1345 |
331 |
1 |
103.06 |
2012-04-11 |
| 90. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
102.84 |
0.9824 |
-0.1494 |
352 |
1 |
102.84 |
2014-03-07 |
| 91. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
102.65 |
0.9145 |
-0.0931 |
404 |
1 |
102.65 |
2014-05-28 |
| 92. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
102.36 |
0.9682 |
-0.1420 |
341 |
1 |
102.36 |
2012-03-31 |
| 93. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
101.26 |
0.9985 |
-0.1791 |
392 |
1 |
101.26 |
2014-05-28 |
| 94. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
100.85 |
1.0131 |
-0.2061 |
245 |
1 |
100.85 |
2012-03-31 |
| 95. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
100.69 |
1.0272 |
-0.2267 |
226 |
1 |
100.69 |
2012-04-20 |
| 96. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
96.94 |
0.8843 |
-0.1007 |
168 |
1 |
96.94 |
2012-04-11 |
| 97. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
93.29 |
1.0476 |
-0.3143 |
110 |
1 |
93.29 |
2012-05-09 |
| 98. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
92.30 |
0.9981 |
-0.2637 |
211 |
1 |
92.30 |
2014-03-06 |
| 99. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
82.79 |
1.0404 |
-0.3768 |
406 |
1 |
82.79 |
2014-05-28 |
| 100. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
76.78 |
0.8981 |
-0.2785 |
255 |
1 |
76.78 |
2014-03-07 |
| 101. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
71.16 |
0.9841 |
-0.4220 |
217 |
1 |
71.16 |
2014-04-23 |
| 102. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
55.93 |
0.9604 |
-0.5199 |
285 |
1 |
55.93 |
2014-03-07 |
| 103. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
53.65 |
0.9561 |
-0.5281 |
291 |
1 |
53.65 |
2012-03-31 |
| 104. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
52.78 |
1.0128 |
-0.5883 |
369 |
1 |
52.78 |
2012-03-31 |