| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
168.00 |
1.0506 |
0.2846 |
259 |
1 |
168.00 |
2014-10-09 |
| 2. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
164.89 |
1.0877 |
0.2225 |
129 |
1 |
164.89 |
2013-03-28 |
| 3. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
160.47 |
0.9829 |
0.2925 |
229 |
1 |
160.47 |
2017-01-22 |
| 4. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
159.94 |
1.1086 |
0.1627 |
233 |
2 |
139.95 |
2014-10-09 |
| 5. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
158.51 |
1.0471 |
0.2168 |
406 |
2 |
146.88 |
2014-08-09 |
| 6. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
156.51 |
1.0192 |
0.2287 |
243 |
1 |
156.51 |
2016-07-20 |
| 7. |
And now it's time for Silly Songs with Larry, the part of th... |
155.45 |
0.9914 |
0.2430 |
112 |
1 |
155.45 |
2023-11-05 |
| 8. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
155.28 |
0.9824 |
0.2562 |
352 |
1 |
155.28 |
2013-03-28 |
| 9. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
153.23 |
1.0753 |
0.1470 |
206 |
1 |
153.23 |
2016-03-25 |
| 10. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
153.20 |
0.9915 |
0.2261 |
281 |
1 |
153.20 |
2017-01-22 |
| 11. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
153.06 |
1.0562 |
0.1637 |
360 |
1 |
153.06 |
2014-08-09 |
| 12. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
152.64 |
1.0588 |
0.1543 |
281 |
1 |
152.64 |
2014-08-09 |
| 13. |
We passionately long that there may be another life in which... |
151.91 |
1.0870 |
0.1197 |
298 |
1 |
151.91 |
2017-01-22 |
| 14. |
A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the dif... |
149.57 |
1.0465 |
0.1412 |
258 |
1 |
149.57 |
2023-11-05 |
| 15. |
If you want to drive a race car well, whether to win an Indy... |
149.09 |
1.0228 |
0.1639 |
405 |
1 |
149.09 |
2014-08-09 |
| 16. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
147.99 |
1.0464 |
0.1336 |
213 |
1 |
147.99 |
2013-03-28 |
| 17. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
147.87 |
1.0615 |
0.1132 |
201 |
1 |
147.87 |
2016-03-25 |
| 18. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
146.76 |
1.0472 |
0.1187 |
149 |
1 |
146.76 |
2013-02-08 |
| 19. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
146.21 |
1.0427 |
0.1194 |
269 |
1 |
146.21 |
2014-08-09 |
| 20. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
145.83 |
1.0320 |
0.1272 |
401 |
1 |
145.83 |
2014-10-09 |
| 21. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
145.79 |
1.0392 |
0.1237 |
258 |
1 |
145.79 |
2015-08-20 |
| 22. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
145.24 |
1.0082 |
0.1458 |
212 |
2 |
127.09 |
2015-08-20 |
| 23. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
145.23 |
1.0265 |
0.1277 |
375 |
2 |
139.85 |
2014-08-09 |
| 24. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
145.21 |
0.9884 |
0.1658 |
267 |
1 |
145.21 |
2012-12-28 |
| 25. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
144.98 |
1.0791 |
0.0770 |
259 |
1 |
144.98 |
2014-08-09 |
| 26. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
144.94 |
1.0270 |
0.1253 |
303 |
1 |
144.94 |
2013-03-28 |
| 27. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
144.68 |
1.0370 |
0.1125 |
262 |
2 |
133.54 |
2014-08-08 |
| 28. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
144.07 |
1.0101 |
0.1346 |
336 |
1 |
144.07 |
2013-01-07 |
| 29. |
Somebody said you got a new friend. But does she love you be... |
143.85 |
1.0157 |
0.1260 |
227 |
1 |
143.85 |
2023-11-05 |
| 30. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
142.86 |
0.9841 |
0.1511 |
217 |
2 |
129.66 |
2014-08-09 |
| 31. |
Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himsel... |
142.18 |
1.0654 |
0.0636 |
263 |
1 |
142.18 |
2017-01-16 |
| 32. |
The universe is true for us all and dissimilar to each of us... |
141.67 |
0.9646 |
0.1646 |
386 |
1 |
141.67 |
2019-04-02 |
| 33. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
140.56 |
1.0529 |
0.0637 |
373 |
1 |
140.56 |
2017-01-22 |
| 34. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
140.46 |
1.0197 |
0.0963 |
204 |
1 |
140.46 |
2014-10-09 |
| 35. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
139.13 |
0.9530 |
0.1561 |
445 |
2 |
120.46 |
2013-03-28 |
| 36. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
138.91 |
1.0466 |
0.0572 |
230 |
1 |
138.91 |
2013-02-08 |
| 37. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
138.09 |
1.1095 |
-0.0079 |
252 |
1 |
138.09 |
2012-12-19 |
| 38. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
137.78 |
1.1070 |
-0.0121 |
265 |
1 |
137.78 |
2013-02-06 |
| 39. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
137.76 |
0.9842 |
0.1110 |
335 |
1 |
137.76 |
2013-03-28 |
| 40. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
137.71 |
1.0521 |
0.0413 |
197 |
1 |
137.71 |
2013-01-07 |
| 41. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
137.62 |
0.9761 |
0.1205 |
227 |
2 |
130.90 |
2013-01-07 |
| 42. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
137.50 |
1.0090 |
0.0873 |
300 |
1 |
137.50 |
2013-02-05 |
| 43. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
137.08 |
0.9974 |
0.0914 |
163 |
1 |
137.08 |
2015-08-20 |
| 44. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
136.95 |
0.9374 |
0.1557 |
232 |
1 |
136.95 |
2013-03-28 |
| 45. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
135.37 |
1.0418 |
0.0335 |
214 |
1 |
135.37 |
2013-01-07 |
| 46. |
And that's what this whole thing is about. Calling home. Ins... |
135.05 |
0.9601 |
0.1129 |
340 |
2 |
128.42 |
2016-03-25 |
| 47. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
135.03 |
1.0341 |
0.0388 |
273 |
1 |
135.03 |
2012-12-15 |
| 48. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
134.76 |
1.0131 |
0.0618 |
245 |
1 |
134.76 |
2014-08-08 |
| 49. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
134.71 |
1.0412 |
0.0325 |
205 |
1 |
134.71 |
2014-08-09 |
| 50. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
134.25 |
1.0291 |
0.0375 |
240 |
1 |
134.25 |
2016-07-20 |
| 51. |
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and... |
134.21 |
1.0873 |
-0.0209 |
219 |
1 |
134.21 |
2015-08-20 |
| 52. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
132.80 |
0.9797 |
0.0789 |
269 |
1 |
132.80 |
2014-08-09 |
| 53. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
132.45 |
1.0845 |
-0.0326 |
212 |
1 |
132.45 |
2012-12-18 |
| 54. |
I sing the body electric, the armies of those I love engirth... |
132.08 |
1.0514 |
-0.0019 |
217 |
1 |
132.08 |
2017-01-22 |
| 55. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
131.90 |
0.9632 |
0.0851 |
287 |
1 |
131.90 |
2012-12-15 |
| 56. |
When we got to the Mint I parked on the street in front of t... |
130.79 |
1.0511 |
-0.0127 |
158 |
1 |
130.79 |
2023-11-05 |
| 57. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
130.01 |
0.9932 |
0.0450 |
281 |
2 |
127.91 |
2013-01-08 |
| 58. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
129.97 |
0.9926 |
0.0445 |
413 |
1 |
129.97 |
2014-08-09 |
| 59. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
129.55 |
1.0873 |
-0.0586 |
243 |
1 |
129.55 |
2012-12-15 |
| 60. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
129.34 |
1.0165 |
0.0110 |
316 |
1 |
129.34 |
2016-07-20 |
| 61. |
For one who contradicts emptiness there would be nothing tha... |
129.29 |
1.0123 |
0.0136 |
143 |
1 |
129.29 |
2017-01-22 |
| 62. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
128.91 |
0.9809 |
0.0430 |
209 |
1 |
128.91 |
2013-01-07 |
| 63. |
For the sake of all that we ourselves hold dear, is it unthi... |
128.89 |
0.9961 |
0.0319 |
596 |
1 |
128.89 |
2017-02-24 |
| 64. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
127.43 |
0.9698 |
0.0433 |
389 |
1 |
127.43 |
2012-12-28 |
| 65. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
127.41 |
0.9479 |
0.0647 |
317 |
1 |
127.41 |
2015-08-20 |
| 66. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
127.31 |
0.9631 |
0.0487 |
273 |
1 |
127.31 |
2013-03-28 |
| 67. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
126.66 |
1.0194 |
-0.0135 |
224 |
1 |
126.66 |
2013-01-07 |
| 68. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
126.58 |
0.9817 |
0.0283 |
304 |
1 |
126.58 |
2016-03-25 |
| 69. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
126.42 |
1.0195 |
-0.0117 |
239 |
2 |
118.78 |
2014-08-09 |
| 70. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
125.62 |
0.9957 |
0.0025 |
323 |
1 |
125.62 |
2017-01-22 |
| 71. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
124.81 |
1.0387 |
-0.0474 |
333 |
1 |
124.81 |
2015-08-20 |
| 72. |
We want a good life with a nose for things, the fresh wind a... |
124.44 |
1.0534 |
-0.0658 |
193 |
1 |
124.44 |
2017-01-16 |
| 73. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
124.33 |
0.9468 |
0.0414 |
318 |
1 |
124.33 |
2013-02-06 |
| 74. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
124.16 |
0.9704 |
0.0161 |
254 |
1 |
124.16 |
2012-12-28 |
| 75. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
123.95 |
1.0672 |
-0.0825 |
239 |
1 |
123.95 |
2013-01-07 |
| 76. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
123.57 |
0.9787 |
0.0032 |
364 |
2 |
119.84 |
2014-08-09 |
| 77. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
122.90 |
0.8986 |
0.0777 |
205 |
1 |
122.90 |
2014-08-09 |
| 78. |
I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the sens... |
122.64 |
1.0131 |
-0.0391 |
214 |
1 |
122.64 |
2015-08-20 |
| 79. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
122.57 |
0.9643 |
0.0140 |
282 |
1 |
122.57 |
2014-08-09 |
| 80. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
122.24 |
0.9657 |
0.0100 |
424 |
1 |
122.24 |
2013-03-28 |
| 81. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
121.84 |
1.0095 |
-0.0418 |
211 |
2 |
108.04 |
2014-10-09 |
| 82. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
121.83 |
1.0759 |
-0.1039 |
273 |
1 |
121.83 |
2013-03-02 |
| 83. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
121.55 |
1.0667 |
-0.0962 |
308 |
1 |
121.55 |
2013-03-02 |
| 84. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
121.50 |
0.9854 |
-0.0173 |
174 |
1 |
121.50 |
2014-08-09 |
| 85. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
121.08 |
0.9070 |
0.0546 |
192 |
1 |
121.08 |
2013-03-28 |
| 86. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
119.07 |
0.9269 |
0.0238 |
269 |
1 |
119.07 |
2013-01-07 |
| 87. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
118.60 |
1.0686 |
-0.1263 |
354 |
1 |
118.60 |
2013-02-08 |
| 88. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
118.57 |
1.0004 |
-0.0580 |
373 |
1 |
118.57 |
2013-01-07 |
| 89. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
118.31 |
1.0010 |
-0.0576 |
213 |
1 |
118.31 |
2013-02-06 |
| 90. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
118.20 |
1.0543 |
-0.1156 |
182 |
1 |
118.20 |
2012-12-26 |
| 91. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
117.23 |
0.9996 |
-0.0678 |
483 |
1 |
117.23 |
2017-02-24 |
| 92. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
116.99 |
1.0481 |
-0.1177 |
255 |
1 |
116.99 |
2013-03-02 |
| 93. |
I had the same room which Finny and I had shared during the ... |
116.75 |
0.9725 |
-0.0410 |
329 |
1 |
116.75 |
2017-02-24 |
| 94. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
116.60 |
0.9392 |
-0.0125 |
360 |
1 |
116.60 |
2012-12-15 |
| 95. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
116.28 |
0.8880 |
0.0364 |
296 |
1 |
116.28 |
2014-09-24 |
| 96. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
116.19 |
0.9145 |
0.0090 |
404 |
1 |
116.19 |
2014-10-09 |
| 97. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
115.67 |
0.9948 |
-0.0761 |
233 |
1 |
115.67 |
2014-08-09 |
| 98. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
114.32 |
0.9265 |
-0.0184 |
254 |
1 |
114.32 |
2012-12-15 |
| 99. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
114.30 |
1.0350 |
-0.1225 |
416 |
1 |
114.30 |
2013-02-08 |
| 100. |
It is no worse because I write of it. It would be no better ... |
114.18 |
1.0534 |
-0.1471 |
163 |
1 |
114.18 |
2017-01-22 |
| 101. |
Don't practice too much at first, or you're likely to develo... |
113.80 |
0.9931 |
-0.0848 |
381 |
1 |
113.80 |
2014-08-08 |
| 102. |
Races are not won in the first corner; however, they are oft... |
113.79 |
1.0346 |
-0.1274 |
326 |
1 |
113.79 |
2012-12-15 |
| 103. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
113.63 |
0.9857 |
-0.0780 |
268 |
1 |
113.63 |
2014-08-09 |
| 104. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
113.51 |
0.9736 |
-0.0715 |
378 |
1 |
113.51 |
2012-12-15 |
| 105. |
This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promonto... |
113.24 |
0.8880 |
0.0146 |
563 |
1 |
113.24 |
2017-01-22 |
| 106. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
113.04 |
1.0419 |
-0.1404 |
323 |
1 |
113.04 |
2013-02-06 |
| 107. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
112.56 |
0.8666 |
0.0278 |
206 |
1 |
112.56 |
2012-12-15 |
| 108. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
112.27 |
0.9606 |
-0.0634 |
203 |
1 |
112.27 |
2013-03-28 |
| 109. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
111.54 |
0.9609 |
-0.0743 |
331 |
1 |
111.54 |
2012-12-28 |
| 110. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
110.87 |
0.9703 |
-0.0888 |
394 |
1 |
110.87 |
2017-01-22 |
| 111. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
110.58 |
0.9422 |
-0.0641 |
190 |
2 |
97.14 |
2012-12-15 |
| 112. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
109.65 |
0.9985 |
-0.1238 |
392 |
1 |
109.65 |
2013-02-05 |
| 113. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
109.31 |
0.9068 |
-0.0386 |
212 |
1 |
109.31 |
2013-01-07 |
| 114. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
109.27 |
0.9113 |
-0.0387 |
318 |
1 |
109.27 |
2015-08-20 |
| 115. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
109.04 |
0.8887 |
-0.0175 |
464 |
1 |
109.04 |
2012-12-22 |
| 116. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
108.46 |
0.9500 |
-0.0887 |
287 |
1 |
108.46 |
2012-12-15 |
| 117. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
107.84 |
0.9935 |
-0.1319 |
217 |
2 |
104.17 |
2013-02-06 |
| 118. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
107.61 |
0.9885 |
-0.1334 |
355 |
1 |
107.61 |
2012-12-15 |
| 119. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
107.37 |
0.9809 |
-0.1233 |
250 |
1 |
107.37 |
2017-01-16 |
| 120. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
106.66 |
0.9676 |
-0.1160 |
247 |
1 |
106.66 |
2013-03-28 |
| 121. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
106.22 |
0.9359 |
-0.0921 |
355 |
1 |
106.22 |
2013-01-07 |
| 122. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
103.64 |
0.9713 |
-0.1481 |
193 |
2 |
95.21 |
2014-08-08 |
| 123. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
103.41 |
1.0540 |
-0.2330 |
184 |
1 |
103.41 |
2012-12-15 |
| 124. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
102.41 |
1.0130 |
-0.1997 |
288 |
1 |
102.41 |
2012-12-15 |
| 125. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
102.08 |
0.9673 |
-0.1557 |
393 |
1 |
102.08 |
2012-12-18 |
| 126. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
101.31 |
0.8328 |
-0.0245 |
343 |
1 |
101.31 |
2013-01-07 |
| 127. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
101.18 |
0.7923 |
0.0120 |
316 |
1 |
101.18 |
2012-12-22 |
| 128. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
99.78 |
0.9128 |
-0.1201 |
237 |
1 |
99.78 |
2015-08-20 |
| 129. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
97.89 |
0.9541 |
-0.1766 |
236 |
1 |
97.89 |
2012-12-18 |
| 130. |
Scissors cuts paper. Paper covers rock. Rock crushes lizard.... |
97.10 |
0.7946 |
-0.0227 |
244 |
1 |
97.10 |
2015-05-13 |
| 131. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
96.05 |
0.9844 |
-0.2153 |
351 |
1 |
96.05 |
2012-12-26 |
| 132. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
95.12 |
1.0208 |
-0.2655 |
231 |
1 |
95.12 |
2012-12-19 |
| 133. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
94.11 |
1.0333 |
-0.2867 |
176 |
1 |
94.11 |
2014-08-08 |
| 134. |
Scientists hypothesize that Austronesians from the Philippin... |
92.73 |
0.8262 |
-0.0868 |
291 |
1 |
92.73 |
2017-01-16 |
| 135. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
91.99 |
0.9357 |
-0.2054 |
204 |
1 |
91.99 |
2015-08-20 |
| 136. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
90.72 |
0.8913 |
-0.1710 |
201 |
1 |
90.72 |
2013-03-28 |
| 137. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
88.81 |
0.9338 |
-0.2226 |
326 |
1 |
88.81 |
2012-12-26 |
| 138. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
80.70 |
0.8981 |
-0.2530 |
255 |
1 |
80.70 |
2012-12-18 |