| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
154.52 |
1.0178 |
0.2586 |
207 |
1 |
154.52 |
2009-07-30 |
| 2. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
150.75 |
1.0370 |
0.2095 |
262 |
2 |
135.75 |
2009-07-16 |
| 3. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
148.99 |
1.1070 |
0.1240 |
265 |
2 |
137.52 |
2010-01-06 |
| 4. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
147.02 |
0.9763 |
0.2389 |
143 |
1 |
147.02 |
2009-03-28 |
| 5. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
146.35 |
1.0865 |
0.1234 |
237 |
1 |
146.35 |
2009-03-28 |
| 6. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
145.06 |
0.9762 |
0.2232 |
249 |
3 |
137.15 |
2009-07-30 |
| 7. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
143.34 |
1.0588 |
0.1264 |
281 |
1 |
143.34 |
2009-03-28 |
| 8. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
143.04 |
1.0561 |
0.1246 |
227 |
2 |
132.17 |
2011-05-22 |
| 9. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
140.64 |
1.0873 |
0.0724 |
243 |
2 |
131.76 |
2010-01-06 |
| 10. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
139.67 |
0.9917 |
0.1650 |
317 |
2 |
129.99 |
2009-07-16 |
| 11. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
139.53 |
1.0194 |
0.1320 |
224 |
3 |
126.96 |
2009-07-16 |
| 12. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
139.15 |
1.0250 |
0.1282 |
271 |
1 |
139.15 |
2009-03-28 |
| 13. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
138.50 |
1.0540 |
0.0859 |
184 |
1 |
138.50 |
2009-03-28 |
| 14. |
Sitting in the morning sun, I'll be sitting when the evening... |
138.21 |
1.0597 |
0.0804 |
244 |
1 |
138.21 |
2018-03-13 |
| 15. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
137.75 |
1.0372 |
0.1011 |
249 |
1 |
137.75 |
2010-01-06 |
| 16. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
137.06 |
0.9765 |
0.1557 |
269 |
2 |
133.08 |
2014-07-23 |
| 17. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
136.43 |
1.0736 |
0.0567 |
350 |
2 |
133.46 |
2017-04-21 |
| 18. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
135.58 |
0.9952 |
0.1278 |
220 |
1 |
135.58 |
2009-03-28 |
| 19. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
135.10 |
1.0253 |
0.0943 |
337 |
1 |
135.10 |
2017-04-21 |
| 20. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
134.77 |
1.1086 |
0.0057 |
233 |
1 |
134.77 |
2009-12-16 |
| 21. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
134.76 |
1.0018 |
0.1123 |
246 |
2 |
127.56 |
2009-07-30 |
| 22. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
133.70 |
1.0267 |
0.0814 |
261 |
2 |
133.04 |
2009-07-30 |
| 23. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
133.68 |
1.0414 |
0.0625 |
234 |
2 |
131.55 |
2009-03-28 |
| 24. |
I'm DEFINITELY NOT saying that Edley isn't a star, but I do ... |
133.51 |
0.9533 |
0.1265 |
331 |
1 |
133.51 |
2018-03-13 |
| 25. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
133.14 |
1.0189 |
0.0809 |
290 |
1 |
133.14 |
2009-07-16 |
| 26. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
132.76 |
1.0426 |
0.0506 |
131 |
1 |
132.76 |
2014-07-23 |
| 27. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
132.42 |
0.9726 |
0.1270 |
396 |
1 |
132.42 |
2010-01-06 |
| 28. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
132.37 |
0.9884 |
0.1081 |
267 |
1 |
132.37 |
2009-03-28 |
| 29. |
For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? O... |
132.23 |
1.0162 |
0.0806 |
244 |
1 |
132.23 |
2017-04-21 |
| 30. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
132.22 |
0.9930 |
0.1087 |
350 |
1 |
132.22 |
2014-07-23 |
| 31. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
131.90 |
1.0427 |
0.0483 |
269 |
1 |
131.90 |
2009-07-16 |
| 32. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
131.73 |
0.9928 |
0.0952 |
293 |
1 |
131.73 |
2010-01-06 |
| 33. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
131.49 |
0.9857 |
0.1068 |
268 |
1 |
131.49 |
2009-12-16 |
| 34. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
131.41 |
1.0419 |
0.0472 |
341 |
2 |
130.42 |
2014-07-23 |
| 35. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
130.93 |
1.0036 |
0.0794 |
277 |
2 |
130.54 |
2010-01-06 |
| 36. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
130.30 |
0.9400 |
0.1394 |
434 |
1 |
130.30 |
2009-07-16 |
| 37. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
130.19 |
0.9827 |
0.0940 |
314 |
1 |
130.19 |
2009-07-16 |
| 38. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
130.00 |
1.0404 |
0.0388 |
406 |
2 |
125.63 |
2009-07-16 |
| 39. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
129.38 |
1.0800 |
-0.0138 |
213 |
2 |
114.97 |
2010-01-06 |
| 40. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
129.17 |
0.9709 |
0.0952 |
264 |
1 |
129.17 |
2010-01-06 |
| 41. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
128.90 |
0.9933 |
0.0792 |
450 |
2 |
123.07 |
2010-03-03 |
| 42. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
127.79 |
1.0462 |
0.0127 |
340 |
1 |
127.79 |
2009-12-16 |
| 43. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
127.28 |
0.9864 |
0.0691 |
292 |
2 |
124.62 |
2009-12-16 |
| 44. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
127.27 |
1.0094 |
0.0423 |
256 |
1 |
127.27 |
2009-03-28 |
| 45. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
127.21 |
1.0057 |
0.0483 |
382 |
1 |
127.21 |
2009-12-16 |
| 46. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
126.93 |
0.9801 |
0.0683 |
289 |
2 |
120.48 |
2011-05-22 |
| 47. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
126.44 |
0.9974 |
0.0434 |
163 |
1 |
126.44 |
2009-03-28 |
| 48. |
There are perhaps twenty regular posters on the forum, and s... |
126.30 |
1.0520 |
0.0039 |
392 |
1 |
126.30 |
2017-04-21 |
| 49. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
126.26 |
1.0607 |
-0.0147 |
357 |
1 |
126.26 |
2009-07-16 |
| 50. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
125.64 |
0.9869 |
0.0475 |
193 |
2 |
121.77 |
2014-07-23 |
| 51. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
125.59 |
1.0106 |
0.0260 |
302 |
1 |
125.59 |
2009-03-28 |
| 52. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
125.48 |
0.9183 |
0.1193 |
308 |
3 |
117.66 |
2009-07-16 |
| 53. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
124.53 |
1.0128 |
0.0228 |
369 |
2 |
121.51 |
2009-07-30 |
| 54. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
124.19 |
0.9927 |
0.0339 |
276 |
1 |
124.19 |
2009-07-16 |
| 55. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
123.70 |
0.9703 |
0.0582 |
394 |
2 |
122.82 |
2010-01-06 |
| 56. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
123.46 |
0.9841 |
0.0325 |
217 |
1 |
123.46 |
2009-07-16 |
| 57. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
123.45 |
1.0181 |
0.0030 |
276 |
1 |
123.45 |
2009-03-28 |
| 58. |
Three changes occur while the stacked disk structure equilib... |
123.43 |
0.9324 |
0.0999 |
440 |
1 |
123.43 |
2011-05-22 |
| 59. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
123.19 |
0.9981 |
0.0187 |
211 |
2 |
119.88 |
2009-07-16 |
| 60. |
The paint and paper look as if a boys' school had used it. I... |
122.98 |
0.9795 |
0.0065 |
341 |
1 |
122.98 |
2018-03-13 |
| 61. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
122.60 |
1.0135 |
0.0026 |
358 |
1 |
122.60 |
2009-07-30 |
| 62. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
122.08 |
0.9538 |
0.0544 |
276 |
1 |
122.08 |
2009-07-16 |
| 63. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
121.60 |
0.9603 |
0.0496 |
430 |
1 |
121.60 |
2009-07-16 |
| 64. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
121.52 |
1.0461 |
-0.0401 |
318 |
1 |
121.52 |
2010-01-06 |
| 65. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
120.88 |
0.9996 |
0.0064 |
483 |
1 |
120.88 |
2014-07-23 |
| 66. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
120.87 |
0.9849 |
0.0147 |
337 |
1 |
120.87 |
2009-03-28 |
| 67. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
120.78 |
0.9604 |
0.0351 |
285 |
1 |
120.78 |
2009-07-30 |
| 68. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
120.48 |
1.0060 |
-0.0102 |
225 |
1 |
120.48 |
2009-07-16 |
| 69. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
120.41 |
0.9012 |
0.0969 |
322 |
1 |
120.41 |
2009-07-16 |
| 70. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
120.23 |
1.0132 |
-0.0195 |
371 |
1 |
120.23 |
2009-03-28 |
| 71. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
120.12 |
1.0069 |
-0.0115 |
242 |
1 |
120.12 |
2010-03-03 |
| 72. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
119.80 |
1.0800 |
-0.0975 |
129 |
1 |
119.80 |
2009-07-16 |
| 73. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
118.77 |
1.0682 |
-0.0862 |
266 |
1 |
118.77 |
2009-03-28 |
| 74. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
118.73 |
0.9070 |
0.0688 |
192 |
3 |
104.73 |
2009-12-16 |
| 75. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
118.57 |
1.0476 |
-0.0777 |
110 |
1 |
118.57 |
2009-07-16 |
| 76. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
117.70 |
0.9339 |
0.0439 |
317 |
2 |
108.30 |
2009-07-30 |
| 77. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
117.17 |
0.9991 |
-0.0321 |
339 |
1 |
117.17 |
2009-12-16 |
| 78. |
The seeds of life - fiery is their force, divine their birth... |
115.99 |
0.9825 |
-0.0216 |
318 |
1 |
115.99 |
2017-04-21 |
| 79. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
115.95 |
1.0464 |
-0.0839 |
294 |
1 |
115.95 |
2009-03-28 |
| 80. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
115.55 |
0.9243 |
0.0320 |
240 |
3 |
112.50 |
2011-05-22 |
| 81. |
I would wear the blue overalls of the fieldworker and often ... |
115.53 |
0.9350 |
0.0278 |
284 |
1 |
115.53 |
2017-04-21 |
| 82. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
115.03 |
0.9880 |
-0.0424 |
199 |
1 |
115.03 |
2009-07-16 |
| 83. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
114.83 |
0.9359 |
0.0130 |
355 |
3 |
113.78 |
2009-07-30 |
| 84. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
114.79 |
0.9780 |
-0.0364 |
173 |
1 |
114.79 |
2009-07-16 |
| 85. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
114.49 |
1.0291 |
-0.0858 |
240 |
1 |
114.49 |
2009-03-28 |
| 86. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
114.45 |
0.9650 |
-0.0173 |
347 |
1 |
114.45 |
2014-07-23 |
| 87. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
113.55 |
0.9357 |
-0.0004 |
204 |
1 |
113.55 |
2009-03-28 |
| 88. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
112.93 |
0.9787 |
-0.0429 |
364 |
2 |
109.64 |
2009-07-16 |
| 89. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
112.26 |
1.0432 |
-0.1158 |
276 |
1 |
112.26 |
2009-03-28 |
| 90. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
112.15 |
0.9673 |
-0.0392 |
292 |
1 |
112.15 |
2010-03-03 |
| 91. |
Most people overestimate what they can achieve in a day and ... |
112.02 |
0.9354 |
-0.0378 |
344 |
1 |
112.02 |
2018-03-13 |
| 92. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
111.68 |
0.9422 |
-0.0253 |
190 |
1 |
111.68 |
2010-01-06 |
| 93. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
111.55 |
1.0264 |
-0.1097 |
191 |
2 |
109.89 |
2009-12-16 |
| 94. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
111.48 |
0.9598 |
-0.0373 |
209 |
1 |
111.48 |
2011-05-22 |
| 95. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
111.33 |
0.8913 |
0.0293 |
201 |
1 |
111.33 |
2009-07-16 |
| 96. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
111.27 |
0.9854 |
-0.0655 |
174 |
1 |
111.27 |
2010-01-06 |
| 97. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
111.13 |
0.9011 |
0.0195 |
322 |
3 |
100.66 |
2009-07-16 |
| 98. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
110.79 |
1.0495 |
-0.1354 |
323 |
1 |
110.79 |
2009-07-16 |
| 99. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
110.42 |
0.9636 |
-0.0535 |
281 |
1 |
110.42 |
2009-03-28 |
| 100. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
110.42 |
1.0387 |
-0.1230 |
333 |
1 |
110.42 |
2014-07-25 |
| 101. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
110.19 |
1.0777 |
-0.1702 |
226 |
1 |
110.19 |
2014-07-23 |
| 102. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
110.15 |
0.9644 |
-0.0520 |
398 |
1 |
110.15 |
2009-07-16 |
| 103. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
109.78 |
1.0288 |
-0.1273 |
166 |
1 |
109.78 |
2009-03-28 |
| 104. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
109.30 |
0.7923 |
0.1105 |
316 |
2 |
102.97 |
2009-03-28 |
| 105. |
For string theory to make sense, the universe should have ni... |
109.22 |
1.0830 |
-0.1796 |
134 |
1 |
109.22 |
2017-04-21 |
| 106. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
109.20 |
0.9931 |
-0.0956 |
218 |
1 |
109.20 |
2014-07-23 |
| 107. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
108.95 |
1.0131 |
-0.1104 |
245 |
1 |
108.95 |
2010-01-06 |
| 108. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
108.27 |
0.9681 |
-0.0688 |
392 |
1 |
108.27 |
2009-03-28 |
| 109. |
If I fling one bag of trash out of my car window and onto th... |
108.11 |
1.0299 |
-0.1337 |
193 |
1 |
108.11 |
2017-04-21 |
| 110. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
107.52 |
0.9114 |
-0.0165 |
399 |
1 |
107.52 |
2009-07-30 |
| 111. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
107.32 |
1.0576 |
-0.1746 |
231 |
1 |
107.32 |
2009-03-28 |
| 112. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
107.30 |
0.9866 |
-0.1006 |
308 |
1 |
107.30 |
2009-03-28 |
| 113. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
106.46 |
1.0082 |
-0.1346 |
212 |
1 |
106.46 |
2010-03-03 |
| 114. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
105.66 |
0.9841 |
-0.1137 |
263 |
1 |
105.66 |
2018-03-13 |
| 115. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
105.60 |
0.9332 |
-0.0617 |
267 |
1 |
105.60 |
2009-07-16 |
| 116. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
105.51 |
1.0883 |
-0.2112 |
189 |
1 |
105.51 |
2014-07-25 |
| 117. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
105.18 |
0.8778 |
-0.0080 |
285 |
1 |
105.18 |
2009-03-28 |
| 118. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
105.14 |
1.0403 |
-0.1744 |
234 |
1 |
105.14 |
2009-03-28 |
| 119. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
104.30 |
1.0638 |
-0.2051 |
247 |
1 |
104.30 |
2009-07-30 |
| 120. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
102.50 |
0.9162 |
-0.0693 |
401 |
1 |
102.50 |
2010-01-06 |
| 121. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
101.75 |
0.9136 |
-0.0708 |
348 |
2 |
98.73 |
2009-07-16 |
| 122. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
101.44 |
0.9284 |
-0.0878 |
346 |
1 |
101.44 |
2009-07-30 |
| 123. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
101.17 |
0.8830 |
-0.0459 |
300 |
1 |
101.17 |
2009-03-28 |
| 124. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
97.46 |
0.8880 |
-0.0841 |
296 |
1 |
97.46 |
2009-12-16 |
| 125. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
96.64 |
0.8964 |
-0.1023 |
199 |
2 |
89.71 |
2009-03-28 |
| 126. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
95.28 |
1.0272 |
-0.2436 |
226 |
1 |
95.28 |
2009-03-28 |
| 127. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
94.41 |
0.9380 |
-0.1610 |
284 |
1 |
94.41 |
2009-03-28 |
| 128. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
93.82 |
0.9135 |
-0.1311 |
393 |
1 |
93.82 |
2009-07-30 |
| 129. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
93.46 |
0.9836 |
-0.2129 |
289 |
1 |
93.46 |
2009-07-16 |
| 130. |
Say, go through the darkest of days. Heaven's a heartbreak a... |
89.82 |
0.9608 |
-0.2206 |
161 |
1 |
89.82 |
2017-04-21 |
| 131. |
D'Artagnan stepped forward. 'Before God and men,' he said, '... |
89.15 |
0.7609 |
-0.0423 |
226 |
1 |
89.15 |
2018-03-13 |
| 132. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
61.40 |
1.0016 |
-0.4991 |
217 |
1 |
61.40 |
2009-07-17 |