| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Hanging by threads of palest silver, I could have stayed tha... |
155.84 |
1.0327 |
0.2603 |
226 |
1 |
155.84 |
2016-03-09 |
| 2. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
154.96 |
1.1138 |
0.1756 |
341 |
1 |
154.96 |
2016-03-09 |
| 3. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
154.89 |
1.0543 |
0.2271 |
233 |
1 |
154.89 |
2014-02-26 |
| 4. |
The dispositions of agents, their habitus, that is, the ment... |
147.68 |
1.0490 |
0.1572 |
204 |
1 |
147.68 |
2021-01-22 |
| 5. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
146.37 |
1.0698 |
0.1469 |
303 |
1 |
146.37 |
2014-02-26 |
| 6. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
146.36 |
0.9917 |
0.2199 |
317 |
1 |
146.36 |
2021-01-22 |
| 7. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
146.21 |
1.0178 |
0.1890 |
207 |
2 |
133.18 |
2016-03-09 |
| 8. |
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and... |
145.33 |
1.0873 |
0.1195 |
219 |
1 |
145.33 |
2016-03-09 |
| 9. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
145.23 |
1.1093 |
0.0855 |
220 |
2 |
136.93 |
2021-01-22 |
| 10. |
I only lose my fear when I run. I won't lose a tear when I r... |
144.50 |
1.0792 |
0.1159 |
131 |
1 |
144.50 |
2017-04-01 |
| 11. |
Sometimes you concentrate more on racing the cars around you... |
142.89 |
1.0791 |
0.1146 |
365 |
1 |
142.89 |
2016-02-26 |
| 12. |
Every single night I endure the fight of little wings of whi... |
142.56 |
1.0250 |
0.1553 |
354 |
1 |
142.56 |
2021-01-22 |
| 13. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
142.11 |
0.9989 |
0.1827 |
282 |
1 |
142.11 |
2014-02-26 |
| 14. |
I remember the night you were charged with practicing iambic... |
141.77 |
1.0225 |
0.1390 |
90 |
1 |
141.77 |
2021-01-22 |
| 15. |
If I ruled the world, every man would see the world was his ... |
141.27 |
1.0351 |
0.1292 |
224 |
1 |
141.27 |
2021-01-22 |
| 16. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
139.08 |
0.9852 |
0.1633 |
235 |
1 |
139.08 |
2014-02-26 |
| 17. |
Take care where you're going, doing all the things you do. E... |
138.88 |
1.0416 |
0.1102 |
289 |
1 |
138.88 |
2016-03-09 |
| 18. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
138.83 |
1.0101 |
0.1385 |
336 |
1 |
138.83 |
2021-01-22 |
| 19. |
Oh... and how is education supposed to make me feel smarter?... |
138.64 |
1.0294 |
0.1155 |
222 |
1 |
138.64 |
2021-01-22 |
| 20. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
138.44 |
1.0302 |
0.1277 |
550 |
2 |
134.00 |
2016-02-26 |
| 21. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
138.24 |
1.0320 |
0.1161 |
401 |
1 |
138.24 |
2014-02-26 |
| 22. |
Man, don't tell me how good I was. I just got away with it b... |
137.81 |
1.0717 |
0.0669 |
158 |
1 |
137.81 |
2021-01-22 |
| 23. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
137.60 |
1.0877 |
0.0457 |
129 |
1 |
137.60 |
2021-01-27 |
| 24. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
136.84 |
1.1095 |
0.0236 |
252 |
1 |
136.84 |
2014-02-26 |
| 25. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
136.06 |
0.9400 |
0.1866 |
434 |
1 |
136.06 |
2014-02-26 |
| 26. |
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most ... |
134.80 |
1.0481 |
0.0691 |
369 |
1 |
134.80 |
2021-01-22 |
| 27. |
It's one thing to question your mind; it's another to questi... |
134.48 |
1.0187 |
0.0610 |
293 |
1 |
134.48 |
2021-01-22 |
| 28. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
133.88 |
1.0504 |
0.0575 |
225 |
2 |
131.82 |
2016-03-09 |
| 29. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
132.99 |
0.9985 |
0.1122 |
392 |
1 |
132.99 |
2014-02-26 |
| 30. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
132.65 |
1.1198 |
-0.0249 |
247 |
2 |
118.46 |
2014-02-26 |
| 31. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
132.60 |
1.0836 |
0.0152 |
206 |
3 |
126.77 |
2016-02-26 |
| 32. |
He also swore himself by a binding oath that whatever wife h... |
131.96 |
1.0348 |
0.0621 |
162 |
1 |
131.96 |
2021-01-22 |
| 33. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
131.66 |
1.0074 |
0.0942 |
410 |
1 |
131.66 |
2014-02-26 |
| 34. |
OK, let me get something straight: this is a journal, not a ... |
130.88 |
1.0000 |
0.0840 |
299 |
1 |
130.88 |
2021-01-22 |
| 35. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
130.12 |
0.9258 |
0.1537 |
184 |
1 |
130.12 |
2021-01-22 |
| 36. |
Source routing is a way of moving a packet through a network... |
130.04 |
1.0527 |
0.0256 |
408 |
1 |
130.04 |
2017-04-01 |
| 37. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
130.04 |
1.0881 |
-0.0179 |
210 |
2 |
124.19 |
2016-02-26 |
| 38. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
129.82 |
1.1086 |
-0.0360 |
233 |
1 |
129.82 |
2014-02-26 |
| 39. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
129.71 |
1.0427 |
0.0294 |
269 |
1 |
129.71 |
2013-06-03 |
| 40. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
129.32 |
0.9561 |
0.1137 |
362 |
1 |
129.32 |
2014-02-26 |
| 41. |
It is no worse because I write of it. It would be no better ... |
128.10 |
1.0534 |
0.0101 |
163 |
1 |
128.10 |
2017-04-01 |
| 42. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
127.91 |
0.9070 |
0.1445 |
192 |
1 |
127.91 |
2014-02-26 |
| 43. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
126.52 |
0.9873 |
0.0680 |
396 |
1 |
126.52 |
2014-02-26 |
| 44. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
126.14 |
0.9636 |
0.0767 |
281 |
1 |
126.14 |
2014-02-26 |
| 45. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
125.56 |
1.0472 |
-0.0164 |
149 |
1 |
125.56 |
2014-02-26 |
| 46. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
125.40 |
1.0616 |
-0.0193 |
304 |
1 |
125.40 |
2014-02-26 |
| 47. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
125.13 |
1.0412 |
-0.0029 |
205 |
1 |
125.13 |
2014-02-26 |
| 48. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
124.77 |
1.0521 |
-0.0274 |
197 |
1 |
124.77 |
2014-02-26 |
| 49. |
The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and ba... |
124.54 |
1.0724 |
-0.0442 |
264 |
1 |
124.54 |
2021-01-22 |
| 50. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
124.34 |
0.9162 |
0.1117 |
401 |
1 |
124.34 |
2016-03-24 |
| 51. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
124.21 |
1.0461 |
-0.0156 |
286 |
1 |
124.21 |
2016-02-26 |
| 52. |
They discussed its ramifications. Possession of grain alcoho... |
124.09 |
0.9082 |
0.1174 |
266 |
1 |
124.09 |
2021-01-22 |
| 53. |
It's easy to complain about your life - how tough it is, how... |
123.72 |
1.0342 |
-0.0235 |
395 |
1 |
123.72 |
2021-01-22 |
| 54. |
For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be mu... |
123.70 |
1.0580 |
-0.0371 |
235 |
1 |
123.70 |
2017-04-01 |
| 55. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
123.35 |
0.9737 |
0.0474 |
237 |
1 |
123.35 |
2016-03-24 |
| 56. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
123.02 |
1.0615 |
-0.0487 |
201 |
1 |
123.02 |
2014-02-26 |
| 57. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
122.84 |
1.0419 |
-0.0182 |
323 |
1 |
122.84 |
2013-06-05 |
| 58. |
Living men are bound by time... Thus, their lives have an ur... |
122.65 |
0.9925 |
0.0262 |
365 |
1 |
122.65 |
2016-02-26 |
| 59. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
121.34 |
0.9434 |
0.0627 |
367 |
2 |
116.46 |
2014-02-26 |
| 60. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
120.88 |
0.9660 |
0.0390 |
258 |
2 |
118.16 |
2014-02-26 |
| 61. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
120.78 |
1.1070 |
-0.1109 |
265 |
1 |
120.78 |
2013-06-05 |
| 62. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
120.35 |
0.9339 |
0.0652 |
317 |
1 |
120.35 |
2014-02-26 |
| 63. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
120.18 |
0.9915 |
-0.0002 |
281 |
1 |
120.18 |
2014-02-26 |
| 64. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
119.86 |
1.0582 |
-0.0718 |
180 |
1 |
119.86 |
2014-02-26 |
| 65. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
118.45 |
0.9265 |
0.0504 |
254 |
1 |
118.45 |
2014-02-26 |
| 66. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
118.15 |
1.0338 |
-0.0531 |
277 |
1 |
118.15 |
2014-02-26 |
| 67. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
117.79 |
1.0543 |
-0.0851 |
182 |
1 |
117.79 |
2013-06-05 |
| 68. |
I don't care who you are, where you're from, what you did, a... |
117.26 |
1.1211 |
-0.1554 |
238 |
1 |
117.26 |
2021-01-22 |
| 69. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
117.22 |
0.9673 |
0.0040 |
393 |
1 |
117.22 |
2014-02-26 |
| 70. |
I wish that I was born a thousand years ago. I wish that I'd... |
117.04 |
1.0627 |
-0.1107 |
282 |
1 |
117.04 |
2021-01-22 |
| 71. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
116.42 |
1.0042 |
-0.0471 |
168 |
1 |
116.42 |
2014-02-26 |
| 72. |
I just want to tell you how I'm feeling. Gotta make you unde... |
115.96 |
1.0348 |
-0.0698 |
245 |
1 |
115.96 |
2016-03-09 |
| 73. |
Charge 'em for the lice, extra for the mice, two percent for... |
115.48 |
1.0528 |
-0.1077 |
247 |
1 |
115.48 |
2021-01-22 |
| 74. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
115.19 |
0.9594 |
-0.0103 |
258 |
1 |
115.19 |
2014-02-26 |
| 75. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
115.16 |
0.9650 |
-0.0119 |
347 |
1 |
115.16 |
2014-02-26 |
| 76. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
115.16 |
0.9403 |
0.0226 |
345 |
1 |
115.16 |
2014-02-26 |
| 77. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
114.99 |
0.9787 |
-0.0262 |
364 |
1 |
114.99 |
2014-02-26 |
| 78. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
114.75 |
1.0464 |
-0.0945 |
294 |
2 |
114.44 |
2016-03-09 |
| 79. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
114.70 |
1.0139 |
-0.0544 |
349 |
1 |
114.70 |
2013-06-05 |
| 80. |
Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It's ab... |
114.68 |
1.0390 |
-0.0873 |
260 |
1 |
114.68 |
2014-02-26 |
| 81. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
114.62 |
1.0791 |
-0.1278 |
259 |
1 |
114.62 |
2014-02-26 |
| 82. |
I love bagels even though they are one of mankind's most dan... |
114.50 |
1.0448 |
-0.0991 |
321 |
1 |
114.50 |
2021-01-23 |
| 83. |
Most laymen assume that the care label instructions for rain... |
114.39 |
0.9413 |
-0.0135 |
389 |
1 |
114.39 |
2017-04-01 |
| 84. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
114.37 |
0.9561 |
-0.0088 |
291 |
1 |
114.37 |
2014-02-26 |
| 85. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
114.16 |
1.0509 |
-0.0949 |
430 |
1 |
114.16 |
2014-02-26 |
| 86. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
113.26 |
0.9271 |
0.0098 |
323 |
1 |
113.26 |
2013-06-03 |
| 87. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
112.64 |
1.0288 |
-0.1040 |
166 |
1 |
112.64 |
2014-02-26 |
| 88. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
112.62 |
0.9243 |
0.0072 |
240 |
1 |
112.62 |
2014-02-26 |
| 89. |
However, let us leave aside the philosophical, social, and e... |
112.56 |
0.9524 |
-0.0084 |
410 |
1 |
112.56 |
2013-06-03 |
| 90. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
112.19 |
1.0060 |
-0.0793 |
225 |
1 |
112.19 |
2013-06-03 |
| 91. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
112.04 |
0.9338 |
0.0007 |
326 |
1 |
112.04 |
2013-06-03 |
| 92. |
The idea of "Mr. Right" has been passed down over the genera... |
111.57 |
0.9630 |
-0.0292 |
379 |
1 |
111.57 |
2014-02-26 |
| 93. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
111.48 |
1.0873 |
-0.1702 |
243 |
1 |
111.48 |
2014-02-26 |
| 94. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
111.41 |
0.9545 |
-0.0256 |
412 |
1 |
111.41 |
2014-02-26 |
| 95. |
Three changes occur while the stacked disk structure equilib... |
111.34 |
0.9324 |
-0.0014 |
440 |
2 |
110.22 |
2016-02-26 |
| 96. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
111.33 |
0.9981 |
-0.0803 |
211 |
1 |
111.33 |
2014-02-26 |
| 97. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
111.25 |
0.9269 |
-0.0011 |
269 |
2 |
102.94 |
2016-02-26 |
| 98. |
I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an esse... |
111.09 |
1.0261 |
-0.0990 |
174 |
1 |
111.09 |
2017-04-01 |
| 99. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
110.85 |
0.9682 |
-0.0432 |
341 |
1 |
110.85 |
2016-02-26 |
| 100. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
110.79 |
0.9957 |
-0.0776 |
323 |
1 |
110.79 |
2014-02-26 |
| 101. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
110.03 |
0.9330 |
-0.0134 |
341 |
1 |
110.03 |
2014-02-26 |
| 102. |
The men in the room suddenly realized that they didn't want ... |
109.53 |
1.0378 |
-0.1283 |
215 |
1 |
109.53 |
2016-03-09 |
| 103. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
109.30 |
0.9885 |
-0.0865 |
355 |
1 |
109.30 |
2013-06-05 |
| 104. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
107.50 |
0.8656 |
0.0224 |
242 |
1 |
107.50 |
2013-06-03 |
| 105. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
107.40 |
1.0487 |
-0.1649 |
253 |
1 |
107.40 |
2014-02-26 |
| 106. |
I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissati... |
107.31 |
1.0055 |
-0.1149 |
269 |
1 |
107.31 |
2017-04-01 |
| 107. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
105.79 |
0.9678 |
-0.0909 |
392 |
1 |
105.79 |
2014-02-26 |
| 108. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
105.62 |
0.9354 |
-0.0533 |
384 |
2 |
99.72 |
2014-02-26 |
| 109. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
105.23 |
0.9108 |
-0.0431 |
235 |
1 |
105.23 |
2014-02-26 |
| 110. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
104.49 |
1.0086 |
-0.1511 |
218 |
1 |
104.49 |
2014-02-26 |
| 111. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
104.31 |
1.0243 |
-0.1602 |
153 |
1 |
104.31 |
2014-02-26 |
| 112. |
Throw your soul through every open door, count your blessing... |
104.24 |
1.0319 |
-0.1687 |
179 |
1 |
104.24 |
2021-01-22 |
| 113. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
103.82 |
0.9980 |
-0.1396 |
295 |
1 |
103.82 |
2017-04-01 |
| 114. |
It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind h... |
103.70 |
0.9576 |
-0.0953 |
235 |
1 |
103.70 |
2021-01-22 |
| 115. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
102.87 |
0.9801 |
-0.1321 |
289 |
1 |
102.87 |
2014-02-26 |
| 116. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
100.77 |
0.9011 |
-0.0670 |
322 |
1 |
100.77 |
2016-03-24 |
| 117. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
100.14 |
0.9909 |
-0.1614 |
334 |
1 |
100.14 |
2014-02-26 |
| 118. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
96.39 |
1.0279 |
-0.2389 |
172 |
1 |
96.39 |
2013-06-05 |
| 119. |
I took up my vocation, I was called by my nation. Without he... |
95.23 |
0.9909 |
-0.2002 |
188 |
1 |
95.23 |
2017-04-01 |
| 120. |
To be fair, English is full of booby traps for the unwary fo... |
91.78 |
0.9215 |
-0.1638 |
240 |
1 |
91.78 |
2017-04-01 |
| 121. |
And, anyway, it's not about making money, it's about taking ... |
89.50 |
1.0155 |
-0.2822 |
172 |
1 |
89.50 |
2017-04-01 |