| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
128.36 |
1.0608 |
0.2735 |
258 |
2 |
117.47 |
2024-01-10 |
| 2. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
125.81 |
1.0711 |
0.2066 |
213 |
1 |
125.81 |
2012-12-18 |
| 3. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
120.23 |
0.9899 |
0.2322 |
163 |
1 |
120.23 |
2012-12-18 |
| 4. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
118.85 |
1.0053 |
0.2030 |
232 |
1 |
118.85 |
2012-12-17 |
| 5. |
It just so happens that your friend here is only mostly dead... |
117.75 |
1.0560 |
0.1423 |
279 |
1 |
117.75 |
2024-01-10 |
| 6. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
116.63 |
1.0619 |
0.1242 |
354 |
2 |
108.51 |
2015-12-16 |
| 7. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
116.09 |
1.0138 |
0.1664 |
231 |
1 |
116.09 |
2012-12-19 |
| 8. |
The day is made up of 24 hours and an infinite number of mom... |
115.12 |
1.0529 |
0.1196 |
200 |
1 |
115.12 |
2016-12-09 |
| 9. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
115.00 |
1.0257 |
0.1441 |
401 |
1 |
115.00 |
2012-12-19 |
| 10. |
Daddy's flown across the ocean. Leaving just a memory. A sna... |
114.67 |
0.9750 |
0.1925 |
256 |
1 |
114.67 |
2016-12-09 |
| 11. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
113.72 |
1.1215 |
0.0568 |
200 |
1 |
113.72 |
2012-12-17 |
| 12. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
112.27 |
0.9672 |
0.1756 |
396 |
2 |
103.90 |
2015-12-16 |
| 13. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
112.16 |
1.0038 |
0.1619 |
237 |
1 |
112.16 |
2015-12-16 |
| 14. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
111.63 |
1.0254 |
0.1481 |
217 |
1 |
111.63 |
2012-12-19 |
| 15. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
110.78 |
1.0016 |
0.1243 |
218 |
1 |
110.78 |
2012-12-17 |
| 16. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
110.34 |
0.9697 |
0.1546 |
266 |
1 |
110.34 |
2015-02-04 |
| 17. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
110.16 |
0.9697 |
0.1504 |
249 |
1 |
110.16 |
2015-12-16 |
| 18. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
110.08 |
0.9897 |
0.1295 |
274 |
1 |
110.08 |
2012-12-18 |
| 19. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
109.91 |
1.1296 |
0.0145 |
252 |
1 |
109.91 |
2013-11-20 |
| 20. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
109.63 |
1.0615 |
0.0729 |
305 |
1 |
109.63 |
2012-12-17 |
| 21. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
109.61 |
0.9636 |
0.1506 |
254 |
1 |
109.61 |
2012-12-19 |
| 22. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
109.59 |
0.9670 |
0.1805 |
307 |
1 |
109.59 |
2012-12-17 |
| 23. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
109.18 |
1.0972 |
0.0374 |
251 |
1 |
109.18 |
2012-12-17 |
| 24. |
I find it's best when dealing with any unfamiliar bully to s... |
108.62 |
0.9305 |
0.1758 |
179 |
1 |
108.62 |
2020-04-03 |
| 25. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
106.96 |
1.0829 |
0.0038 |
288 |
1 |
106.96 |
2012-12-19 |
| 26. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
106.81 |
1.0141 |
0.0974 |
304 |
2 |
96.47 |
2015-12-16 |
| 27. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
106.63 |
1.0167 |
0.0678 |
378 |
1 |
106.63 |
2012-12-17 |
| 28. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
105.81 |
1.0042 |
0.0997 |
352 |
2 |
102.68 |
2012-12-18 |
| 29. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
105.70 |
1.0613 |
0.0134 |
456 |
1 |
105.70 |
2012-12-17 |
| 30. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
104.88 |
1.0714 |
-0.0074 |
129 |
1 |
104.88 |
2015-12-16 |
| 31. |
Finally, gentlemen, there are people with an hereditary anim... |
104.81 |
0.9383 |
0.1373 |
471 |
1 |
104.81 |
2012-12-19 |
| 32. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
104.71 |
0.9965 |
0.0667 |
168 |
2 |
95.07 |
2012-12-18 |
| 33. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
104.30 |
1.0567 |
0.0028 |
303 |
1 |
104.30 |
2012-12-18 |
| 34. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
104.09 |
0.9632 |
0.0967 |
392 |
1 |
104.09 |
2012-12-18 |
| 35. |
The way you walked was thorny, through no fault of your own,... |
103.96 |
1.0262 |
0.0300 |
216 |
1 |
103.96 |
2024-03-18 |
| 36. |
If I had been downright honest with myself, I would have see... |
103.52 |
1.0323 |
0.0219 |
538 |
1 |
103.52 |
2016-12-09 |
| 37. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
103.48 |
1.0201 |
0.0313 |
303 |
1 |
103.48 |
2012-12-17 |
| 38. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
103.39 |
0.9243 |
0.1528 |
448 |
1 |
103.39 |
2012-12-18 |
| 39. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
102.71 |
1.1016 |
-0.0582 |
233 |
1 |
102.71 |
2012-12-18 |
| 40. |
The men in the room suddenly realized that they didn't want ... |
102.43 |
1.0319 |
0.0097 |
215 |
1 |
102.43 |
2015-06-10 |
| 41. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
102.35 |
0.9342 |
0.1067 |
434 |
1 |
102.35 |
2012-12-17 |
| 42. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
102.27 |
1.0477 |
-0.0084 |
360 |
1 |
102.27 |
2015-12-16 |
| 43. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
101.98 |
1.0025 |
0.0328 |
336 |
1 |
101.98 |
2012-12-19 |
| 44. |
It's close to midnight and something evil's lurking in the d... |
101.81 |
1.1225 |
-0.0878 |
195 |
1 |
101.81 |
2024-01-10 |
| 45. |
Let folly be our cloak, a veil before the eyes of the Enemy!... |
101.75 |
0.9734 |
0.0641 |
404 |
1 |
101.75 |
2017-12-18 |
| 46. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
101.72 |
1.0331 |
0.0000 |
234 |
1 |
101.72 |
2015-06-10 |
| 47. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
101.62 |
0.9513 |
0.0819 |
354 |
1 |
101.62 |
2012-12-18 |
| 48. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
101.54 |
1.0368 |
-0.0048 |
276 |
1 |
101.54 |
2016-12-09 |
| 49. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
101.10 |
1.0419 |
-0.0159 |
261 |
1 |
101.10 |
2012-12-18 |
| 50. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
100.70 |
1.0574 |
-0.0114 |
205 |
2 |
99.43 |
2012-12-18 |
| 51. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
100.29 |
1.0008 |
0.0482 |
473 |
1 |
100.29 |
2012-12-17 |
| 52. |
I often see racers, particularly at the back of the pack in ... |
100.16 |
1.0004 |
0.0283 |
469 |
1 |
100.16 |
2012-12-18 |
| 53. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
100.08 |
1.0165 |
0.0001 |
392 |
1 |
100.08 |
2012-12-22 |
| 54. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
99.81 |
0.9365 |
0.0782 |
248 |
1 |
99.81 |
2012-12-18 |
| 55. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
99.70 |
1.0445 |
-0.0333 |
373 |
1 |
99.70 |
2012-12-17 |
| 56. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
99.51 |
0.9673 |
0.0803 |
232 |
1 |
99.51 |
2015-06-10 |
| 57. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
99.14 |
1.0214 |
-0.0148 |
269 |
1 |
99.14 |
2013-11-20 |
| 58. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
98.84 |
0.9508 |
0.0754 |
384 |
1 |
98.84 |
2012-12-18 |
| 59. |
The universe divided as the heart and mind collided with the... |
98.49 |
0.9767 |
0.0274 |
429 |
1 |
98.49 |
2017-12-18 |
| 60. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
97.55 |
0.9964 |
-0.0057 |
203 |
1 |
97.55 |
2012-12-18 |
| 61. |
I looked at the captain. That terrible avenger, like an arch... |
97.22 |
0.9577 |
0.0330 |
326 |
1 |
97.22 |
2017-12-18 |
| 62. |
Hanging by threads of palest silver, I could have stayed tha... |
97.15 |
1.0282 |
-0.0392 |
226 |
1 |
97.15 |
2015-12-16 |
| 63. |
You cannot pass! I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder ... |
96.87 |
0.9198 |
0.0652 |
173 |
1 |
96.87 |
2016-12-09 |
| 64. |
What is my perfect crime? I break into Tiffany's at midnight... |
96.67 |
0.9153 |
0.0707 |
776 |
1 |
96.67 |
2020-02-03 |
| 65. |
Dear Mr. Vernon, We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice... |
96.60 |
0.9575 |
0.0269 |
491 |
1 |
96.60 |
2024-01-10 |
| 66. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
96.34 |
0.9886 |
-0.0099 |
220 |
1 |
96.34 |
2012-12-18 |
| 67. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
95.85 |
0.9681 |
0.0066 |
378 |
1 |
95.85 |
2012-12-19 |
| 68. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
95.84 |
1.0263 |
-0.0531 |
267 |
1 |
95.84 |
2012-12-17 |
| 69. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
95.82 |
0.9820 |
-0.0085 |
267 |
1 |
95.82 |
2012-12-17 |
| 70. |
When I was a kid, I thought Zootopia was this perfect place,... |
95.74 |
0.9799 |
-0.0051 |
700 |
1 |
95.74 |
2019-10-10 |
| 71. |
I know you didn't do this. You're a good boy. But I want you... |
95.67 |
1.0412 |
-0.0694 |
384 |
1 |
95.67 |
2017-12-18 |
| 72. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
95.20 |
0.9936 |
-0.0068 |
227 |
1 |
95.20 |
2015-12-16 |
| 73. |
I don't remember the moment that changed my life 4 years ago... |
95.12 |
0.8907 |
0.0784 |
256 |
1 |
95.12 |
2020-04-03 |
| 74. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
94.80 |
1.0169 |
-0.0252 |
346 |
1 |
94.80 |
2012-12-19 |
| 75. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
94.44 |
0.9776 |
-0.0181 |
308 |
1 |
94.44 |
2012-12-18 |
| 76. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
94.12 |
0.9884 |
-0.0322 |
233 |
1 |
94.12 |
2015-12-16 |
| 77. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
93.89 |
1.0787 |
-0.1263 |
237 |
2 |
92.25 |
2016-12-09 |
| 78. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
93.87 |
0.9723 |
-0.0187 |
364 |
2 |
92.74 |
2012-12-18 |
| 79. |
Final lap, I'm on top of the world, and I will never rest fo... |
93.68 |
0.9829 |
-0.0277 |
452 |
1 |
93.68 |
2019-10-10 |
| 80. |
The feeling of having no power over people and events is gen... |
93.65 |
0.9850 |
-0.0309 |
384 |
1 |
93.65 |
2015-12-16 |
| 81. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
93.29 |
0.9857 |
-0.0387 |
293 |
1 |
93.29 |
2012-12-18 |
| 82. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
92.96 |
0.9855 |
-0.0153 |
258 |
1 |
92.96 |
2012-12-18 |
| 83. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
92.89 |
1.0232 |
-0.0487 |
236 |
1 |
92.89 |
2012-12-18 |
| 84. |
Colonel! Can you possibly imagine what is going to happen to... |
92.75 |
0.9082 |
0.0365 |
305 |
1 |
92.75 |
2017-12-18 |
| 85. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
92.43 |
0.9266 |
0.0121 |
267 |
1 |
92.43 |
2012-12-18 |
| 86. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
92.21 |
0.7876 |
0.1507 |
316 |
1 |
92.21 |
2012-12-18 |
| 87. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
91.64 |
0.9485 |
-0.0169 |
236 |
2 |
89.82 |
2015-12-16 |
| 88. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
91.49 |
1.0398 |
-0.1119 |
110 |
1 |
91.49 |
2012-12-17 |
| 89. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
91.47 |
0.8602 |
0.0688 |
206 |
1 |
91.47 |
2012-12-18 |
| 90. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
91.10 |
0.8826 |
0.0437 |
296 |
1 |
91.10 |
2015-12-16 |
| 91. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
91.09 |
0.9339 |
-0.0086 |
310 |
1 |
91.09 |
2012-12-18 |
| 92. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
91.06 |
1.0337 |
-0.1105 |
214 |
1 |
91.06 |
2015-12-16 |
| 93. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
90.73 |
0.9005 |
0.0211 |
212 |
1 |
90.73 |
2012-12-18 |
| 94. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
90.61 |
0.9049 |
0.0166 |
351 |
1 |
90.61 |
2012-12-17 |
| 95. |
French writer. Total loser. Never had a real job. Unrequited... |
90.39 |
0.9513 |
-0.0296 |
382 |
1 |
90.39 |
2017-12-18 |
| 96. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
88.92 |
1.0177 |
-0.0891 |
392 |
1 |
88.92 |
2012-12-18 |
| 97. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
88.06 |
1.0264 |
-0.1061 |
422 |
1 |
88.06 |
2015-06-10 |
| 98. |
At a peace rally in Philadelphia in 1966, a reporter asked m... |
87.78 |
0.8985 |
-0.0042 |
431 |
1 |
87.78 |
2015-12-16 |
| 99. |
Does she know what she's getting, Spock? A carcass full of m... |
87.64 |
0.8812 |
0.0120 |
232 |
1 |
87.64 |
2020-02-03 |
| 100. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
87.17 |
0.9640 |
-0.0600 |
334 |
1 |
87.17 |
2024-01-10 |
| 101. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
86.58 |
0.9263 |
-0.0462 |
188 |
1 |
86.58 |
2013-11-20 |
| 102. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
86.23 |
1.0767 |
-0.2026 |
212 |
1 |
86.23 |
2012-12-17 |
| 103. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
86.19 |
0.9074 |
-0.0304 |
396 |
1 |
86.19 |
2012-12-17 |
| 104. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
85.33 |
1.0795 |
-0.1858 |
226 |
1 |
85.33 |
2015-12-16 |
| 105. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
85.21 |
0.9364 |
-0.0409 |
351 |
1 |
85.21 |
2012-12-17 |
| 106. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
85.13 |
1.0441 |
-0.1805 |
252 |
1 |
85.13 |
2017-12-18 |
| 107. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
84.82 |
0.9430 |
-0.0806 |
297 |
1 |
84.82 |
2012-12-18 |
| 108. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
84.62 |
0.8933 |
-0.0332 |
363 |
1 |
84.62 |
2012-12-18 |
| 109. |
Whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass,... |
84.60 |
1.0091 |
-0.1491 |
246 |
1 |
84.60 |
2018-01-20 |
| 110. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
84.55 |
0.9289 |
-0.0710 |
204 |
1 |
84.55 |
2012-12-19 |
| 111. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
84.54 |
0.9614 |
-0.1027 |
292 |
1 |
84.54 |
2012-12-17 |
| 112. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
83.43 |
0.9772 |
-0.1309 |
217 |
1 |
83.43 |
2012-12-22 |
| 113. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
82.51 |
1.0358 |
-0.1701 |
349 |
1 |
82.51 |
2015-12-16 |
| 114. |
To be fair, English is full of booby traps for the unwary fo... |
79.00 |
0.9175 |
-0.1136 |
240 |
1 |
79.00 |
2015-10-25 |
| 115. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
78.66 |
1.0669 |
-0.2417 |
286 |
1 |
78.66 |
2016-01-08 |
| 116. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
78.37 |
1.0261 |
-0.2059 |
410 |
1 |
78.37 |
2012-12-18 |
| 117. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
77.90 |
1.0252 |
-0.2366 |
176 |
1 |
77.90 |
2014-06-02 |
| 118. |
Anyone seen this before? The Laffer curve. Anyone know what ... |
77.62 |
0.8331 |
-0.0415 |
331 |
1 |
77.62 |
2017-12-18 |
| 119. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
76.89 |
0.8890 |
-0.1101 |
199 |
2 |
74.86 |
2015-02-04 |
| 120. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
76.59 |
1.0232 |
-0.2097 |
350 |
1 |
76.59 |
2015-02-04 |
| 121. |
Buddhism addresses two major types of meditation. Vipassana ... |
75.91 |
0.9312 |
-0.1229 |
320 |
1 |
75.91 |
2012-12-18 |
| 122. |
In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the ... |
65.87 |
0.9976 |
-0.3284 |
201 |
1 |
65.87 |
2015-06-10 |