| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Sometimes a little discomfort in the beginning can save a wh... |
54.94 |
1.0384 |
0.5608 |
90 |
1 |
54.94 |
2023-06-02 |
| 2. |
The time has come for man to plant the seed of his highest h... |
49.55 |
0.8953 |
0.5470 |
193 |
1 |
49.55 |
2023-06-02 |
| 3. |
The stuff we call "software" is not like anything that human... |
47.10 |
1.0634 |
0.3076 |
305 |
1 |
47.10 |
2023-06-02 |
| 4. |
For it was said that they had become like those peculiar dem... |
46.33 |
0.9604 |
0.3882 |
122 |
1 |
46.33 |
2019-09-30 |
| 5. |
I have to disagree. I make good life choices. Mostly because... |
46.18 |
1.0203 |
0.3239 |
244 |
1 |
46.18 |
2023-06-02 |
| 6. |
Those who proceed only very slowly can make much greater pro... |
46.18 |
0.8666 |
0.4776 |
150 |
1 |
46.18 |
2017-07-10 |
| 7. |
And he told us of his life in the land of submarines. |
45.97 |
1.1621 |
0.1760 |
53 |
1 |
45.97 |
2017-07-10 |
| 8. |
Dawn was close. The weaker stars had already disappeared, an... |
42.24 |
0.9112 |
0.3183 |
110 |
1 |
42.24 |
2023-06-02 |
| 9. |
It's a thousand pages, give or take a few. I'll be writing m... |
42.14 |
1.0691 |
0.1575 |
187 |
1 |
42.14 |
2017-07-03 |
| 10. |
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will b... |
41.81 |
1.0444 |
0.1726 |
186 |
1 |
41.81 |
2017-07-03 |
| 11. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
41.27 |
0.9873 |
0.2140 |
155 |
1 |
41.27 |
2017-04-03 |
| 12. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
41.21 |
0.9260 |
0.2736 |
243 |
1 |
41.21 |
2017-07-03 |
| 13. |
Reading is not a natural process; the habits necessary for e... |
40.97 |
1.0207 |
0.1719 |
218 |
1 |
40.97 |
2017-07-10 |
| 14. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
40.88 |
0.9353 |
0.2546 |
177 |
1 |
40.88 |
2017-07-10 |
| 15. |
She can kill with a smile, she can wound with her eyes, she ... |
40.47 |
1.0735 |
0.1045 |
205 |
1 |
40.47 |
2019-09-30 |
| 16. |
To the extent that experience is the sum of our memories and... |
40.37 |
1.0882 |
0.0869 |
191 |
1 |
40.37 |
2019-09-30 |
| 17. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
40.35 |
1.0263 |
0.1482 |
267 |
1 |
40.35 |
2017-07-10 |
| 18. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
40.10 |
1.0232 |
0.1440 |
236 |
2 |
38.47 |
2017-07-10 |
| 19. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
39.91 |
0.9710 |
0.1907 |
173 |
1 |
39.91 |
2017-07-10 |
| 20. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
39.71 |
1.0429 |
0.1130 |
259 |
1 |
39.71 |
2017-04-08 |
| 21. |
If you have to choose between me and her, choose her. Becaus... |
39.70 |
1.0629 |
0.0927 |
121 |
1 |
39.70 |
2023-06-02 |
| 22. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
39.38 |
1.0515 |
0.0948 |
250 |
1 |
39.38 |
2017-07-03 |
| 23. |
Getting into trouble is not a bad thing. It's proof that som... |
39.22 |
1.0356 |
0.1060 |
150 |
1 |
39.22 |
2023-06-02 |
| 24. |
Duty bound, Aeneas, though he struggled with desire to calm ... |
39.19 |
1.0511 |
0.0897 |
271 |
1 |
39.19 |
2017-07-03 |
| 25. |
Do you buy all these books retail or do you send away for li... |
39.08 |
0.9464 |
0.1912 |
119 |
1 |
39.08 |
2017-07-10 |
| 26. |
If you're feeling fancy free, come wander through the world ... |
38.79 |
1.0119 |
0.1172 |
254 |
1 |
38.79 |
2019-08-01 |
| 27. |
If all else perished, and he remained, I should still contin... |
38.63 |
1.0365 |
0.0880 |
166 |
1 |
38.63 |
2017-04-03 |
| 28. |
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all do... |
38.51 |
1.0394 |
0.0816 |
239 |
1 |
38.51 |
2017-07-10 |
| 29. |
I've never really had much of an imagination. But still I wo... |
38.48 |
1.0865 |
0.0336 |
168 |
1 |
38.48 |
2017-07-03 |
| 30. |
There is so much darkness in Ember, Lina. It's not just outs... |
38.39 |
1.0039 |
0.1136 |
260 |
2 |
32.34 |
2017-07-03 |
| 31. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
38.35 |
0.9729 |
0.1434 |
255 |
1 |
38.35 |
2017-07-03 |
| 32. |
If you know what you're worth then go out and get what you'r... |
38.23 |
1.0239 |
0.0889 |
272 |
1 |
38.23 |
2019-09-30 |
| 33. |
Whoever talks about what does not concern him often hears wh... |
37.97 |
0.9966 |
0.1086 |
83 |
1 |
37.97 |
2017-04-08 |
| 34. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
37.86 |
1.0214 |
0.0806 |
166 |
1 |
37.86 |
2017-07-10 |
| 35. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
37.86 |
0.9316 |
0.1704 |
287 |
1 |
37.86 |
2017-07-10 |
| 36. |
Sometimes you are too ashamed to leave. That was true now. A... |
37.72 |
1.0636 |
0.0344 |
146 |
1 |
37.72 |
2017-04-08 |
| 37. |
Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himsel... |
37.54 |
1.0595 |
0.0332 |
263 |
1 |
37.54 |
2017-04-08 |
| 38. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
37.43 |
0.8792 |
0.2103 |
296 |
1 |
37.43 |
2017-07-10 |
| 39. |
My hours of leisure I spent in reading the best authors, anc... |
37.42 |
0.9917 |
0.0975 |
305 |
1 |
37.42 |
2017-07-10 |
| 40. |
As to my own part, having turned my thoughts for many years ... |
37.19 |
1.0144 |
0.0681 |
214 |
1 |
37.19 |
2023-06-02 |
| 41. |
I felt dull and somnolent, for daytime sleep is like the sin... |
36.86 |
0.9706 |
0.1023 |
173 |
1 |
36.86 |
2017-07-03 |
| 42. |
I don't want to talk if it makes you feel sad, and I underst... |
36.80 |
1.0316 |
0.0396 |
150 |
1 |
36.80 |
2023-06-02 |
| 43. |
At least he had a BMW. He might live in a dump, but the worl... |
36.67 |
0.8544 |
0.2130 |
190 |
1 |
36.67 |
2017-07-03 |
| 44. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
36.60 |
1.0608 |
0.0046 |
258 |
1 |
36.60 |
2017-07-03 |
| 45. |
He also swore himself by a binding oath that whatever wife h... |
36.54 |
1.0304 |
0.0332 |
162 |
1 |
36.54 |
2017-04-08 |
| 46. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
36.34 |
1.1018 |
-0.0440 |
220 |
1 |
36.34 |
2017-04-03 |
| 47. |
Under the lights when everything goes. Nowhere to hide when ... |
36.08 |
1.0686 |
-0.0184 |
119 |
1 |
36.08 |
2023-06-02 |
| 48. |
I have never done a day's work in my life - honest or dishon... |
36.07 |
0.9581 |
0.0918 |
196 |
1 |
36.07 |
2017-07-10 |
| 49. |
And it says to you love when you can, cry when you have to, ... |
35.88 |
1.0595 |
-0.0151 |
177 |
1 |
35.88 |
2019-08-01 |
| 50. |
There will come a dawn or sunset or high noon when a man wil... |
34.99 |
0.9861 |
0.0324 |
156 |
1 |
34.99 |
2017-03-30 |
| 51. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. |
34.82 |
1.1855 |
-0.1720 |
54 |
1 |
34.82 |
2017-07-03 |
| 52. |
I wish I could just make you turn around and see me cry. The... |
34.61 |
1.0863 |
-0.0789 |
162 |
1 |
34.61 |
2017-07-10 |
| 53. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
34.61 |
1.0516 |
-0.0442 |
281 |
1 |
34.61 |
2017-07-03 |
| 54. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
34.56 |
1.0343 |
-0.0283 |
242 |
1 |
34.56 |
2017-04-08 |
| 55. |
Like I said, my uncle used to drive his truck and drink Old ... |
34.54 |
0.9574 |
0.0480 |
312 |
1 |
34.54 |
2017-04-03 |
| 56. |
One mile to the west, Emerson Cod was also not thrilled. Dur... |
34.46 |
0.9333 |
0.0698 |
204 |
1 |
34.46 |
2019-09-30 |
| 57. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
34.43 |
1.0031 |
-0.0009 |
304 |
1 |
34.43 |
2017-04-08 |
| 58. |
My life seems unreal, my crime an illusion, a scene badly wr... |
34.34 |
0.9865 |
0.0131 |
173 |
1 |
34.34 |
2017-07-10 |
| 59. |
Coleslaw! Envisioning bland mounds of limp cabbage? You're n... |
34.21 |
0.8929 |
0.1029 |
244 |
1 |
34.21 |
2019-09-30 |
| 60. |
I can and do say that nothing human beings have ever before ... |
34.21 |
1.0296 |
-0.0338 |
306 |
1 |
34.21 |
2017-07-10 |
| 61. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
33.71 |
0.9722 |
0.0090 |
283 |
1 |
33.71 |
2017-07-03 |
| 62. |
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear t... |
33.49 |
1.0189 |
-0.0441 |
265 |
1 |
33.49 |
2017-04-03 |
| 63. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
33.28 |
1.0403 |
-0.0716 |
193 |
1 |
33.28 |
2017-04-08 |
| 64. |
Days can be sunny, with never a sigh, don't need what money ... |
33.01 |
0.9965 |
-0.0356 |
235 |
1 |
33.01 |
2023-06-02 |
| 65. |
Plato is always concerned to advocate views that will make p... |
32.77 |
0.9609 |
-0.0070 |
206 |
1 |
32.77 |
2017-04-08 |
| 66. |
We didn't start the fire. It was always burning since the wo... |
32.73 |
0.9048 |
0.0479 |
155 |
1 |
32.73 |
2017-07-03 |
| 67. |
Dave, although you took very thorough precautions in the pod... |
32.61 |
1.0109 |
-0.0617 |
112 |
1 |
32.61 |
2017-04-03 |
| 68. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
32.52 |
0.8958 |
0.0508 |
322 |
1 |
32.52 |
2017-03-30 |
| 69. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
32.51 |
1.0125 |
-0.0662 |
224 |
1 |
32.51 |
2017-03-22 |
| 70. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
32.30 |
1.0596 |
-0.1194 |
239 |
1 |
32.30 |
2017-04-08 |
| 71. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
32.22 |
1.0459 |
-0.1080 |
200 |
1 |
32.22 |
2017-07-03 |
| 72. |
We're knights of the Round Table, we dance whene'er we're ab... |
31.93 |
0.8811 |
0.0483 |
187 |
1 |
31.93 |
2017-07-03 |
| 73. |
Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise ... |
31.90 |
0.9423 |
-0.0137 |
172 |
1 |
31.90 |
2017-03-30 |
| 74. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
31.86 |
0.9125 |
0.0149 |
308 |
1 |
31.86 |
2017-07-03 |
| 75. |
I pulled up to the house about 7 or 8, and I yelled to the c... |
31.83 |
0.8797 |
0.0468 |
184 |
1 |
31.83 |
2017-07-03 |
| 76. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
31.54 |
0.8809 |
0.0372 |
127 |
1 |
31.54 |
2017-03-30 |
| 77. |
I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the sens... |
31.49 |
1.0084 |
-0.0918 |
214 |
1 |
31.49 |
2017-04-03 |
| 78. |
No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-se... |
31.37 |
0.9283 |
-0.0152 |
232 |
1 |
31.37 |
2017-04-08 |
| 79. |
I've sold monorails to Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haver... |
31.35 |
0.8313 |
0.0812 |
208 |
1 |
31.35 |
2017-07-10 |
| 80. |
Something just came out of the back of a helicopter. It's a ... |
31.35 |
0.9283 |
-0.0158 |
285 |
1 |
31.35 |
2019-08-01 |
| 81. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
31.28 |
1.0767 |
-0.1662 |
212 |
1 |
31.28 |
2017-03-30 |
| 82. |
So don't be afraid; your heart is in me, and it's racing so ... |
31.23 |
0.9833 |
-0.0742 |
150 |
1 |
31.23 |
2017-07-03 |
| 83. |
We sat and drank with the sun on our shoulders and felt like... |
31.22 |
1.0335 |
-0.1247 |
294 |
1 |
31.22 |
2017-07-10 |
| 84. |
The TV ad featured Jamie on drums, bashing out a pukka rhyth... |
31.07 |
0.8999 |
0.0045 |
274 |
1 |
31.07 |
2017-03-22 |
| 85. |
That person tried to send poison to you and if you take it p... |
30.99 |
0.9400 |
-0.0379 |
118 |
1 |
30.99 |
2017-03-22 |
| 86. |
When you have children, you always have family. They will al... |
30.96 |
0.9884 |
-0.0872 |
261 |
1 |
30.96 |
2017-04-03 |
| 87. |
I only lose my fear when I run. I won't lose a tear when I r... |
30.72 |
1.0715 |
-0.1773 |
131 |
1 |
30.72 |
2017-04-08 |
| 88. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
30.62 |
1.0077 |
-0.1164 |
250 |
1 |
30.62 |
2017-04-08 |
| 89. |
I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repel... |
30.53 |
0.7935 |
0.0952 |
101 |
1 |
30.53 |
2017-03-30 |
| 90. |
You can't look me in the eye and say that you love me and yo... |
30.50 |
1.0884 |
-0.2006 |
205 |
1 |
30.50 |
2017-04-03 |
| 91. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
30.29 |
0.9289 |
-0.0472 |
204 |
1 |
30.29 |
2017-07-03 |
| 92. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
30.29 |
0.8914 |
-0.0097 |
366 |
1 |
30.29 |
2017-04-08 |
| 93. |
Under such circumstances I naturally gravitated to London, t... |
30.25 |
0.9442 |
-0.0637 |
157 |
1 |
30.25 |
2017-03-28 |
| 94. |
I took up my vocation, I was called by my nation. Without he... |
29.77 |
0.9852 |
-0.1186 |
188 |
1 |
29.77 |
2017-03-22 |
| 95. |
Come senators, congressmen please heed the call. Don't stand... |
29.67 |
0.9346 |
-0.0710 |
281 |
1 |
29.67 |
2017-07-03 |
| 96. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
29.65 |
0.9855 |
-0.1224 |
258 |
1 |
29.65 |
2017-04-08 |
| 97. |
Scissors cuts paper. Paper covers rock. Rock crushes lizard.... |
29.57 |
0.7918 |
0.0689 |
244 |
1 |
29.57 |
2017-07-10 |
| 98. |
Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beaut... |
29.53 |
0.9654 |
-0.1058 |
145 |
1 |
29.53 |
2017-04-08 |
| 99. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
29.52 |
0.8852 |
-0.0259 |
201 |
1 |
29.52 |
2017-04-03 |
| 100. |
Maybe you should come with me for a few weeks. See what happ... |
29.36 |
1.0285 |
-0.1739 |
124 |
1 |
29.36 |
2017-04-08 |
| 101. |
No one could figure out how I coaxed such hearty flavor out ... |
29.15 |
0.8597 |
-0.0112 |
187 |
1 |
29.15 |
2017-03-30 |
| 102. |
Say my name, say my name. If no one is around you, say, "Bab... |
29.03 |
0.8165 |
0.0285 |
198 |
1 |
29.03 |
2017-07-10 |
| 103. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
28.40 |
0.9430 |
-0.1163 |
211 |
1 |
28.40 |
2017-07-03 |
| 104. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
28.33 |
0.9740 |
-0.1494 |
209 |
1 |
28.33 |
2017-04-08 |
| 105. |
I would wear the blue overalls of the fieldworker and often ... |
28.06 |
0.9306 |
-0.1138 |
284 |
1 |
28.06 |
2017-07-03 |
| 106. |
I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cop... |
27.47 |
0.9297 |
-0.1301 |
87 |
1 |
27.47 |
2017-03-30 |
| 107. |
You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don't know wh... |
27.29 |
0.8702 |
-0.0758 |
77 |
1 |
27.29 |
2017-04-08 |
| 108. |
Then suddenly Prince Andre was speaking for himself, his acc... |
27.28 |
0.8562 |
-0.0621 |
282 |
1 |
27.28 |
2017-03-30 |
| 109. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
27.15 |
0.9396 |
-0.1493 |
119 |
1 |
27.15 |
2017-04-03 |
| 110. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
26.93 |
0.9207 |
-0.1368 |
174 |
1 |
26.93 |
2017-07-10 |
| 111. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
26.80 |
0.9904 |
-0.2103 |
203 |
1 |
26.80 |
2017-03-30 |
| 112. |
Hero - not the champion player who plays the perfect game. N... |
26.17 |
0.9110 |
-0.1492 |
141 |
1 |
26.17 |
2017-03-30 |
| 113. |
Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust ... |
26.06 |
1.0051 |
-0.2465 |
218 |
1 |
26.06 |
2017-04-03 |
| 114. |
There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just s... |
24.68 |
0.8631 |
-0.1447 |
75 |
1 |
24.68 |
2017-04-03 |
| 115. |
I was standing all alone in the world outside. You were sear... |
24.19 |
1.0406 |
-0.3365 |
188 |
1 |
24.19 |
2017-03-30 |
| 116. |
As much money and life as you could want! The two things mos... |
24.05 |
1.0438 |
-0.3437 |
198 |
1 |
24.05 |
2019-08-01 |
| 117. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
23.84 |
1.0521 |
-0.3582 |
171 |
1 |
23.84 |
2017-04-03 |
| 118. |
I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other peopl... |
22.85 |
1.0281 |
-0.3630 |
168 |
1 |
22.85 |
2017-03-30 |
| 119. |
For one, a lot of commercial cooking is designed to appeal t... |
21.03 |
0.8463 |
-0.2342 |
125 |
1 |
21.03 |
2017-03-28 |