| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
125.38 |
1.0128 |
0.2087 |
369 |
1 |
125.38 |
2014-03-07 |
| 2. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
123.15 |
1.0135 |
0.1827 |
358 |
3 |
108.62 |
2014-02-27 |
| 3. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
120.51 |
1.0582 |
0.1054 |
180 |
3 |
118.74 |
2014-03-14 |
| 4. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
120.28 |
1.0479 |
0.1157 |
205 |
7 |
107.49 |
2014-02-27 |
| 5. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
120.02 |
1.0777 |
0.0826 |
226 |
3 |
109.18 |
2013-04-12 |
| 6. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
119.42 |
1.0426 |
0.1097 |
131 |
2 |
114.07 |
2014-02-28 |
| 7. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
118.98 |
1.0682 |
0.0851 |
266 |
2 |
116.68 |
2014-03-14 |
| 8. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
118.94 |
1.0576 |
0.0914 |
231 |
1 |
118.94 |
2013-04-08 |
| 9. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
118.47 |
0.9915 |
0.1544 |
281 |
1 |
118.47 |
2014-02-08 |
| 10. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
117.84 |
1.0883 |
0.0592 |
189 |
3 |
114.72 |
2014-02-07 |
| 11. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
117.75 |
0.9963 |
0.1413 |
274 |
1 |
117.75 |
2014-02-28 |
| 12. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
117.68 |
1.0506 |
0.0884 |
259 |
2 |
115.29 |
2013-04-17 |
| 13. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
117.30 |
1.0616 |
0.0811 |
304 |
1 |
117.30 |
2013-04-25 |
| 14. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
117.03 |
0.9680 |
0.1656 |
256 |
1 |
117.03 |
2013-04-18 |
| 15. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
116.26 |
1.0521 |
0.0678 |
197 |
2 |
109.18 |
2014-05-21 |
| 16. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
115.78 |
1.0279 |
0.0875 |
172 |
1 |
115.78 |
2014-02-28 |
| 17. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
115.70 |
1.1062 |
0.0159 |
200 |
4 |
108.60 |
2014-02-08 |
| 18. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
114.96 |
1.1138 |
0.0080 |
341 |
1 |
114.96 |
2014-02-28 |
| 19. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
113.51 |
1.0060 |
0.0936 |
225 |
1 |
113.51 |
2013-02-27 |
| 20. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
113.09 |
1.0197 |
0.0732 |
204 |
1 |
113.09 |
2014-02-08 |
| 21. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
112.70 |
1.0617 |
0.0267 |
171 |
1 |
112.70 |
2013-03-07 |
| 22. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
112.23 |
0.9957 |
0.0947 |
323 |
1 |
112.23 |
2014-03-14 |
| 23. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
112.08 |
1.0341 |
0.0500 |
273 |
3 |
101.14 |
2014-02-27 |
| 24. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
111.95 |
0.9839 |
0.0995 |
308 |
1 |
111.95 |
2013-04-23 |
| 25. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
111.28 |
1.0557 |
0.0225 |
289 |
1 |
111.28 |
2014-02-27 |
| 26. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
110.73 |
1.0010 |
0.0747 |
213 |
1 |
110.73 |
2013-04-23 |
| 27. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
110.57 |
1.0403 |
0.0281 |
234 |
1 |
110.57 |
2013-03-07 |
| 28. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
110.37 |
1.0561 |
0.0099 |
227 |
1 |
110.37 |
2013-04-17 |
| 29. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
110.29 |
0.9713 |
0.0950 |
193 |
2 |
103.04 |
2014-02-28 |
| 30. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
110.17 |
1.0562 |
0.0161 |
360 |
1 |
110.17 |
2013-03-08 |
| 31. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
109.63 |
1.0845 |
-0.0247 |
212 |
2 |
107.76 |
2013-04-16 |
| 32. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
109.60 |
1.0543 |
0.0070 |
233 |
1 |
109.60 |
2014-02-07 |
| 33. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
109.15 |
0.9763 |
0.0801 |
143 |
3 |
106.06 |
2013-04-24 |
| 34. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
109.04 |
0.9809 |
0.0818 |
250 |
1 |
109.04 |
2014-03-14 |
| 35. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
108.76 |
1.0069 |
0.0488 |
242 |
1 |
108.76 |
2013-04-08 |
| 36. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
108.59 |
1.0672 |
-0.0176 |
239 |
1 |
108.59 |
2014-02-27 |
| 37. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
108.24 |
1.0857 |
-0.0256 |
393 |
3 |
104.09 |
2013-03-07 |
| 38. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
108.19 |
1.1198 |
-0.0738 |
247 |
1 |
108.19 |
2013-04-18 |
| 39. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
107.99 |
1.0901 |
-0.0431 |
288 |
1 |
107.99 |
2014-05-21 |
| 40. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
107.91 |
1.0567 |
-0.0127 |
314 |
1 |
107.91 |
2014-02-27 |
| 41. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
107.75 |
0.9807 |
0.0502 |
129 |
1 |
107.75 |
2013-04-05 |
| 42. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
107.54 |
1.0042 |
0.0330 |
168 |
2 |
107.39 |
2014-02-07 |
| 43. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
107.44 |
1.0144 |
0.0393 |
356 |
1 |
107.44 |
2014-02-28 |
| 44. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
107.09 |
1.0250 |
0.0149 |
271 |
2 |
102.00 |
2014-02-08 |
| 45. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
107.03 |
0.9765 |
0.0584 |
269 |
1 |
107.03 |
2014-02-07 |
| 46. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
106.81 |
1.0881 |
-0.0582 |
210 |
1 |
106.81 |
2014-02-07 |
| 47. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
106.60 |
1.0125 |
0.0139 |
171 |
1 |
106.60 |
2013-04-18 |
| 48. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
106.42 |
0.9357 |
0.0919 |
204 |
2 |
102.18 |
2014-05-21 |
| 49. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
104.92 |
0.9762 |
0.0388 |
249 |
2 |
99.62 |
2014-05-21 |
| 50. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
104.73 |
1.0800 |
-0.0699 |
213 |
1 |
104.73 |
2013-02-26 |
| 51. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
104.47 |
1.0333 |
-0.0277 |
176 |
2 |
99.95 |
2013-04-18 |
| 52. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
104.36 |
0.9980 |
0.0213 |
341 |
1 |
104.36 |
2013-03-14 |
| 53. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
103.97 |
1.0016 |
0.0027 |
217 |
2 |
102.46 |
2013-04-09 |
| 54. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
103.74 |
1.0192 |
-0.0101 |
243 |
1 |
103.74 |
2013-04-11 |
| 55. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
103.63 |
1.0392 |
-0.0314 |
258 |
1 |
103.63 |
2013-04-10 |
| 56. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
103.51 |
1.0524 |
-0.0530 |
177 |
2 |
98.97 |
2013-04-11 |
| 57. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
103.03 |
0.9698 |
0.0327 |
389 |
3 |
92.93 |
2014-03-14 |
| 58. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
103.00 |
1.0144 |
-0.0172 |
162 |
1 |
103.00 |
2014-03-14 |
| 59. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
102.65 |
0.9780 |
0.0088 |
173 |
1 |
102.65 |
2014-05-21 |
| 60. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
102.46 |
1.0483 |
-0.0514 |
305 |
2 |
101.37 |
2014-02-27 |
| 61. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
102.26 |
0.9880 |
-0.0030 |
199 |
1 |
102.26 |
2014-02-27 |
| 62. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
102.21 |
0.9422 |
0.0417 |
190 |
2 |
98.36 |
2013-04-15 |
| 63. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
102.17 |
0.9727 |
0.0227 |
442 |
2 |
95.02 |
2014-02-27 |
| 64. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
102.10 |
1.0509 |
-0.0560 |
295 |
1 |
102.10 |
2013-04-09 |
| 65. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
102.07 |
0.9339 |
0.0598 |
317 |
1 |
102.07 |
2013-04-05 |
| 66. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
101.54 |
1.0867 |
-0.1090 |
171 |
1 |
101.54 |
2013-04-26 |
| 67. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
101.33 |
1.0338 |
-0.0483 |
277 |
1 |
101.33 |
2014-05-21 |
| 68. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
101.31 |
0.9632 |
0.0183 |
287 |
1 |
101.31 |
2014-03-14 |
| 69. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
101.29 |
0.9985 |
-0.0059 |
392 |
1 |
101.29 |
2014-02-27 |
| 70. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
101.22 |
1.0291 |
-0.0519 |
240 |
2 |
99.82 |
2014-02-07 |
| 71. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
101.08 |
1.0404 |
-0.0573 |
406 |
1 |
101.08 |
2013-04-10 |
| 72. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
101.00 |
1.0481 |
-0.0780 |
255 |
1 |
101.00 |
2013-02-27 |
| 73. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
100.93 |
1.0669 |
-0.0872 |
379 |
1 |
100.93 |
2013-02-26 |
| 74. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
100.93 |
1.1070 |
-0.1316 |
265 |
1 |
100.93 |
2013-02-26 |
| 75. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
100.49 |
1.0873 |
-0.1184 |
243 |
1 |
100.49 |
2013-02-13 |
| 76. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
100.17 |
1.0736 |
-0.1005 |
256 |
1 |
100.17 |
2013-04-18 |
| 77. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
99.92 |
0.9966 |
-0.0223 |
377 |
2 |
95.74 |
2014-02-07 |
| 78. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
99.87 |
1.0471 |
-0.0682 |
406 |
3 |
98.30 |
2013-04-05 |
| 79. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
99.66 |
1.0408 |
-0.0688 |
257 |
2 |
98.81 |
2014-05-21 |
| 80. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
99.46 |
1.0079 |
-0.0470 |
273 |
1 |
99.46 |
2014-02-28 |
| 81. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
99.12 |
1.0472 |
-0.0769 |
397 |
1 |
99.12 |
2013-04-22 |
| 82. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
99.12 |
0.9402 |
0.0166 |
310 |
1 |
99.12 |
2013-03-04 |
| 83. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
99.11 |
0.9922 |
-0.0329 |
264 |
2 |
98.60 |
2013-04-23 |
| 84. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
98.91 |
1.0302 |
-0.0581 |
550 |
1 |
98.91 |
2013-02-27 |
| 85. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
98.31 |
0.9890 |
-0.0341 |
272 |
1 |
98.31 |
2014-03-14 |
| 86. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
98.23 |
0.9183 |
0.0325 |
308 |
1 |
98.23 |
2014-03-14 |
| 87. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
97.68 |
0.9682 |
-0.0131 |
341 |
1 |
97.68 |
2013-04-03 |
| 88. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
97.34 |
1.0351 |
-0.0895 |
276 |
1 |
97.34 |
2014-02-28 |
| 89. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
97.31 |
1.1095 |
-0.1663 |
252 |
1 |
97.31 |
2013-02-12 |
| 90. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
96.87 |
0.9841 |
-0.0503 |
217 |
1 |
96.87 |
2014-03-12 |
| 91. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
96.79 |
1.0188 |
-0.0733 |
316 |
1 |
96.79 |
2013-03-04 |
| 92. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
96.69 |
0.9434 |
-0.0037 |
367 |
1 |
96.69 |
2014-02-27 |
| 93. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
96.43 |
0.9676 |
-0.0298 |
247 |
1 |
96.43 |
2013-02-12 |
| 94. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
95.77 |
1.0165 |
-0.0915 |
316 |
2 |
90.78 |
2013-04-10 |
| 95. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
95.49 |
1.0511 |
-0.1262 |
252 |
1 |
95.49 |
2013-02-13 |
| 96. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
95.03 |
1.0018 |
-0.0825 |
246 |
2 |
94.31 |
2014-02-27 |
| 97. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
94.67 |
0.9756 |
-0.0609 |
223 |
3 |
93.45 |
2014-03-07 |
| 98. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
94.58 |
0.9917 |
-0.0745 |
317 |
1 |
94.58 |
2014-03-14 |
| 99. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
94.57 |
0.9809 |
-0.0706 |
209 |
1 |
94.57 |
2014-03-07 |
| 100. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
94.26 |
1.0103 |
-0.1047 |
209 |
1 |
94.26 |
2013-02-15 |
| 101. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
94.24 |
1.0264 |
-0.1192 |
191 |
1 |
94.24 |
2013-04-23 |
| 102. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
93.99 |
0.9854 |
-0.0751 |
174 |
1 |
93.99 |
2014-02-27 |
| 103. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
93.05 |
1.0607 |
-0.1577 |
357 |
1 |
93.05 |
2013-02-12 |
| 104. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
92.98 |
1.0225 |
-0.1326 |
152 |
1 |
92.98 |
2013-02-12 |
| 105. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
92.49 |
0.9836 |
-0.0893 |
289 |
1 |
92.49 |
2013-02-27 |
| 106. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
91.94 |
1.0115 |
-0.1280 |
189 |
1 |
91.94 |
2013-04-05 |
| 107. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
91.92 |
0.9797 |
-0.0866 |
269 |
1 |
91.92 |
2013-02-27 |
| 108. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
91.66 |
0.9736 |
-0.0802 |
378 |
1 |
91.66 |
2013-02-13 |
| 109. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
91.54 |
0.8830 |
-0.0041 |
134 |
1 |
91.54 |
2013-02-12 |
| 110. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
91.40 |
1.0753 |
-0.1852 |
206 |
1 |
91.40 |
2013-02-13 |
| 111. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
91.24 |
0.8880 |
-0.0055 |
296 |
1 |
91.24 |
2013-04-22 |
| 112. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
90.55 |
1.0412 |
-0.1606 |
205 |
2 |
90.12 |
2013-02-12 |
| 113. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
89.97 |
1.0301 |
-0.1617 |
268 |
1 |
89.97 |
2013-02-13 |
| 114. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
89.87 |
0.9598 |
-0.0891 |
209 |
1 |
89.87 |
2013-03-04 |
| 115. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
89.61 |
0.9380 |
-0.0733 |
284 |
2 |
87.94 |
2014-03-12 |
| 116. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
85.64 |
0.9265 |
-0.0996 |
254 |
1 |
85.64 |
2014-02-08 |
| 117. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
83.04 |
0.9658 |
-0.1596 |
308 |
1 |
83.04 |
2013-02-15 |
| 118. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
82.81 |
0.9657 |
-0.1540 |
424 |
1 |
82.81 |
2013-02-15 |
| 119. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
82.63 |
0.9933 |
-0.1874 |
450 |
1 |
82.63 |
2013-02-13 |
| 120. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
82.58 |
0.9761 |
-0.1733 |
227 |
1 |
82.58 |
2013-02-15 |
| 121. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
82.05 |
0.8964 |
-0.1068 |
199 |
1 |
82.05 |
2014-03-07 |
| 122. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
81.26 |
1.0124 |
-0.2220 |
275 |
1 |
81.26 |
2013-02-18 |
| 123. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
78.93 |
0.9011 |
-0.1354 |
322 |
1 |
78.93 |
2013-02-13 |
| 124. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
78.75 |
0.8936 |
-0.1343 |
346 |
1 |
78.75 |
2013-02-13 |