| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
108.81 |
0.9772 |
0.4044 |
217 |
1 |
108.81 |
2010-05-13 |
| 2. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
96.88 |
1.0666 |
0.1627 |
297 |
3 |
88.45 |
2010-10-14 |
| 3. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
96.28 |
1.0596 |
0.1623 |
239 |
1 |
96.28 |
2009-08-08 |
| 4. |
The way to turn an ex-lover into a friend is to never stop l... |
94.34 |
1.1213 |
0.0784 |
243 |
1 |
94.34 |
2024-11-08 |
| 5. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
94.09 |
0.9710 |
0.2232 |
173 |
1 |
94.09 |
2010-05-13 |
| 6. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
92.39 |
1.0183 |
0.1539 |
191 |
2 |
83.34 |
2010-10-15 |
| 7. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
92.28 |
1.0173 |
0.1724 |
268 |
2 |
87.74 |
2024-11-08 |
| 8. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
92.21 |
1.1068 |
0.0760 |
393 |
1 |
92.21 |
2010-05-13 |
| 9. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
91.99 |
1.0218 |
0.1452 |
268 |
1 |
91.99 |
2009-08-09 |
| 10. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
90.90 |
1.0516 |
0.1019 |
281 |
1 |
90.90 |
2010-05-13 |
| 11. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
90.86 |
1.0095 |
0.1435 |
316 |
1 |
90.86 |
2010-05-13 |
| 12. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
90.73 |
1.0523 |
0.0989 |
256 |
2 |
89.99 |
2010-10-15 |
| 13. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
90.36 |
1.0483 |
0.0980 |
227 |
2 |
88.13 |
2010-10-15 |
| 14. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
90.19 |
1.0711 |
0.0731 |
213 |
2 |
87.89 |
2010-05-13 |
| 15. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
89.97 |
1.0767 |
0.0649 |
212 |
2 |
86.65 |
2009-08-09 |
| 16. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
88.75 |
1.0073 |
0.1192 |
369 |
1 |
88.75 |
2010-05-13 |
| 17. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
88.46 |
1.1018 |
0.0206 |
220 |
1 |
88.46 |
2010-10-14 |
| 18. |
Cause the world might do me in. It's all right cause I'm wit... |
87.94 |
1.0596 |
0.0564 |
238 |
1 |
87.94 |
2024-11-08 |
| 19. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
87.31 |
1.0993 |
0.0083 |
265 |
1 |
87.31 |
2009-08-08 |
| 20. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
87.28 |
0.9514 |
0.1561 |
237 |
1 |
87.28 |
2009-08-08 |
| 21. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
86.82 |
1.0883 |
0.0256 |
303 |
1 |
86.82 |
2024-11-08 |
| 22. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
86.20 |
0.9786 |
0.1151 |
193 |
1 |
86.20 |
2010-10-15 |
| 23. |
Wish I could say the same, but I must say, with all due resp... |
86.00 |
1.0313 |
0.0614 |
389 |
1 |
86.00 |
2024-11-08 |
| 24. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
85.50 |
1.0565 |
0.0283 |
247 |
1 |
85.50 |
2010-10-14 |
| 25. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
85.36 |
1.0004 |
0.0824 |
212 |
1 |
85.36 |
2010-05-13 |
| 26. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
84.78 |
1.0412 |
0.0338 |
225 |
1 |
84.78 |
2010-05-13 |
| 27. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
84.49 |
0.9866 |
0.0856 |
218 |
2 |
77.67 |
2010-10-14 |
| 28. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
84.25 |
0.9964 |
0.0724 |
203 |
2 |
69.24 |
2010-05-13 |
| 29. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
84.21 |
1.1081 |
-0.0243 |
206 |
1 |
84.21 |
2010-09-22 |
| 30. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
84.09 |
0.9786 |
0.0883 |
235 |
1 |
84.09 |
2009-08-09 |
| 31. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
84.05 |
1.0531 |
0.0279 |
272 |
1 |
84.05 |
2010-10-14 |
| 32. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
83.94 |
1.0203 |
0.0447 |
261 |
2 |
80.79 |
2009-08-09 |
| 33. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
83.77 |
1.0941 |
-0.0176 |
256 |
2 |
82.68 |
2010-10-15 |
| 34. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
83.65 |
1.0390 |
0.0215 |
205 |
1 |
83.65 |
2009-08-08 |
| 35. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
83.41 |
1.0669 |
0.0045 |
286 |
1 |
83.41 |
2010-10-15 |
| 36. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
83.13 |
0.9754 |
0.0798 |
362 |
1 |
83.13 |
2010-10-15 |
| 37. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
83.10 |
1.0684 |
-0.0022 |
253 |
1 |
83.10 |
2010-09-27 |
| 38. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
82.98 |
1.0062 |
0.0467 |
288 |
1 |
82.98 |
2009-09-10 |
| 39. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
82.97 |
1.0257 |
0.0271 |
401 |
2 |
81.70 |
2009-08-09 |
| 40. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
82.92 |
0.9309 |
0.1211 |
284 |
2 |
82.24 |
2010-10-15 |
| 41. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
82.59 |
1.0337 |
0.0138 |
214 |
1 |
82.59 |
2010-10-15 |
| 42. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
82.15 |
0.9426 |
0.1002 |
317 |
1 |
82.15 |
2009-08-31 |
| 43. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
82.12 |
0.9673 |
0.0925 |
232 |
1 |
82.12 |
2010-09-27 |
| 44. |
Sometimes you concentrate more on racing the cars around you... |
82.07 |
1.0968 |
-0.0444 |
365 |
1 |
82.07 |
2024-11-08 |
| 45. |
But look at me now, I'm on a cloud. All of my walls are crum... |
82.02 |
0.9814 |
0.0581 |
176 |
1 |
82.02 |
2024-11-08 |
| 46. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
81.93 |
1.0529 |
-0.0137 |
351 |
1 |
81.93 |
2009-08-08 |
| 47. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
81.69 |
0.8947 |
0.1425 |
366 |
2 |
77.71 |
2010-09-27 |
| 48. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
81.66 |
1.0719 |
-0.0260 |
360 |
1 |
81.66 |
2010-10-14 |
| 49. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
81.65 |
1.0943 |
-0.0459 |
206 |
1 |
81.65 |
2010-10-14 |
| 50. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
81.63 |
1.0396 |
-0.0040 |
149 |
2 |
78.57 |
2010-05-13 |
| 51. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
81.62 |
1.0444 |
-0.0092 |
197 |
2 |
80.23 |
2010-10-15 |
| 52. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
81.52 |
1.0441 |
-0.0100 |
252 |
2 |
81.43 |
2009-08-09 |
| 53. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
81.31 |
0.9532 |
0.0785 |
258 |
1 |
81.31 |
2009-08-08 |
| 54. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
81.15 |
0.9429 |
0.0867 |
287 |
1 |
81.15 |
2010-10-14 |
| 55. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
80.11 |
1.0138 |
0.0026 |
231 |
1 |
80.11 |
2010-09-27 |
| 56. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
80.09 |
1.0788 |
-0.0632 |
171 |
1 |
80.09 |
2009-08-09 |
| 57. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
80.06 |
0.9852 |
0.0306 |
264 |
1 |
80.06 |
2009-08-09 |
| 58. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
80.03 |
1.0399 |
-0.0245 |
294 |
1 |
80.03 |
2009-08-08 |
| 59. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
80.02 |
1.0109 |
0.0157 |
400 |
1 |
80.02 |
2010-09-27 |
| 60. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
79.72 |
0.9697 |
0.0418 |
249 |
1 |
79.72 |
2009-08-09 |
| 61. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
79.66 |
1.0515 |
-0.0412 |
250 |
1 |
79.66 |
2009-08-08 |
| 62. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
79.57 |
0.9651 |
0.0562 |
389 |
2 |
72.53 |
2024-11-08 |
| 63. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
79.57 |
0.9202 |
0.0893 |
254 |
1 |
79.57 |
2009-08-09 |
| 64. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
79.30 |
1.0141 |
0.0030 |
304 |
1 |
79.30 |
2009-09-10 |
| 65. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
79.18 |
0.9278 |
0.0772 |
295 |
1 |
79.18 |
2009-08-31 |
| 66. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
79.08 |
1.0117 |
0.0096 |
297 |
1 |
79.08 |
2010-05-13 |
| 67. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
78.78 |
1.0042 |
0.0076 |
352 |
1 |
78.78 |
2010-09-22 |
| 68. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
78.77 |
0.9941 |
0.0050 |
217 |
2 |
74.99 |
2010-10-15 |
| 69. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
78.71 |
0.9841 |
0.0144 |
334 |
1 |
78.71 |
2010-10-15 |
| 70. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
78.62 |
1.0025 |
-0.0051 |
256 |
1 |
78.62 |
2009-08-31 |
| 71. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
78.49 |
1.0669 |
-0.0581 |
213 |
1 |
78.49 |
2010-09-21 |
| 72. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
78.42 |
1.0365 |
-0.0271 |
162 |
1 |
78.42 |
2010-10-14 |
| 73. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
78.42 |
0.9734 |
0.0214 |
289 |
2 |
76.54 |
2010-09-27 |
| 74. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
78.33 |
1.0252 |
-0.0319 |
176 |
1 |
78.33 |
2009-08-08 |
| 75. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
78.23 |
0.9922 |
0.0140 |
341 |
2 |
71.67 |
2024-11-08 |
| 76. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
78.04 |
0.8961 |
0.0943 |
189 |
1 |
78.04 |
2009-08-31 |
| 77. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
77.88 |
0.8981 |
0.0905 |
393 |
1 |
77.88 |
2009-08-08 |
| 78. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
77.56 |
0.9513 |
0.0329 |
354 |
1 |
77.56 |
2010-10-14 |
| 79. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
77.52 |
1.0621 |
-0.0699 |
263 |
1 |
77.52 |
2010-10-14 |
| 80. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
77.40 |
1.0334 |
-0.0524 |
131 |
1 |
77.40 |
2009-08-09 |
| 81. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
77.30 |
0.9504 |
0.0306 |
263 |
1 |
77.30 |
2010-09-27 |
| 82. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
77.18 |
1.0555 |
-0.0681 |
323 |
1 |
77.18 |
2024-11-08 |
| 83. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
77.11 |
1.0125 |
-0.0222 |
413 |
1 |
77.11 |
2010-10-15 |
| 84. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
76.96 |
0.9879 |
-0.0112 |
450 |
2 |
74.58 |
2010-10-15 |
| 85. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
76.94 |
0.9905 |
-0.0143 |
377 |
1 |
76.94 |
2009-09-10 |
| 86. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
76.84 |
0.9684 |
0.0065 |
388 |
1 |
76.84 |
2009-08-09 |
| 87. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
76.62 |
1.0498 |
-0.0783 |
180 |
1 |
76.62 |
2009-08-08 |
| 88. |
It's okay to be scared. It's natural to doubt yourself, but ... |
76.41 |
1.0766 |
-0.1061 |
140 |
1 |
76.41 |
2024-11-08 |
| 89. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
76.29 |
0.9897 |
-0.0217 |
274 |
1 |
76.29 |
2010-10-14 |
| 90. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
76.16 |
0.9398 |
0.0267 |
419 |
1 |
76.16 |
2009-08-08 |
| 91. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
76.16 |
1.0201 |
-0.0541 |
172 |
1 |
76.16 |
2010-10-14 |
| 92. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
76.02 |
0.9965 |
-0.0324 |
277 |
1 |
76.02 |
2010-05-13 |
| 93. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
75.74 |
1.0261 |
-0.0656 |
273 |
1 |
75.74 |
2009-08-08 |
| 94. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
75.66 |
0.8956 |
0.0646 |
322 |
2 |
74.33 |
2010-10-14 |
| 95. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
75.44 |
0.9769 |
-0.0200 |
263 |
1 |
75.44 |
2010-10-15 |
| 96. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
75.24 |
0.9461 |
0.0086 |
276 |
1 |
75.24 |
2010-09-27 |
| 97. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
74.69 |
0.9468 |
0.0007 |
276 |
1 |
74.69 |
2009-08-08 |
| 98. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
74.60 |
0.9831 |
-0.0364 |
469 |
1 |
74.60 |
2009-08-08 |
| 99. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
74.43 |
0.9289 |
0.0152 |
204 |
1 |
74.43 |
2009-08-08 |
| 100. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
74.28 |
1.0667 |
-0.1130 |
406 |
1 |
74.28 |
2024-11-08 |
| 101. |
I want you to know that the day you saw something in me, my ... |
74.22 |
1.0479 |
-0.1061 |
227 |
1 |
74.22 |
2024-11-08 |
| 102. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
74.15 |
0.8933 |
0.0477 |
363 |
1 |
74.15 |
2009-08-09 |
| 103. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
73.95 |
1.0131 |
-0.0751 |
225 |
1 |
73.95 |
2009-08-09 |
| 104. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
73.91 |
0.9682 |
-0.0312 |
143 |
3 |
67.45 |
2010-10-14 |
| 105. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
73.46 |
0.9567 |
-0.0247 |
273 |
1 |
73.46 |
2009-08-09 |
| 106. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
73.29 |
0.9833 |
-0.0533 |
355 |
1 |
73.29 |
2010-05-13 |
| 107. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
73.00 |
1.0201 |
-0.0945 |
303 |
1 |
73.00 |
2010-09-27 |
| 108. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
72.85 |
0.9632 |
-0.0385 |
392 |
1 |
72.85 |
2009-08-08 |
| 109. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
72.65 |
1.0109 |
-0.0896 |
276 |
1 |
72.65 |
2009-09-10 |
| 110. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
72.64 |
1.0025 |
-0.0816 |
336 |
1 |
72.64 |
2009-08-09 |
| 111. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
72.62 |
1.0615 |
-0.1319 |
305 |
1 |
72.62 |
2024-11-08 |
| 112. |
And who are you, the proud lord said, that I must bow so low... |
72.55 |
1.0250 |
-0.1045 |
122 |
1 |
72.55 |
2024-11-08 |
| 113. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
72.52 |
0.9798 |
-0.0605 |
199 |
1 |
72.52 |
2009-08-09 |
| 114. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
71.84 |
0.9994 |
-0.0767 |
269 |
1 |
71.84 |
2024-11-08 |
| 115. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
71.46 |
1.0083 |
-0.0846 |
273 |
1 |
71.46 |
2010-09-27 |
| 116. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
70.95 |
0.9074 |
-0.0069 |
396 |
1 |
70.95 |
2009-08-31 |
| 117. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
70.74 |
0.9168 |
-0.0197 |
240 |
2 |
70.04 |
2010-10-14 |
| 118. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
70.71 |
0.9646 |
-0.0675 |
264 |
1 |
70.71 |
2009-08-09 |
| 119. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
70.22 |
0.9088 |
-0.0177 |
348 |
2 |
66.24 |
2010-09-27 |
| 120. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
69.86 |
0.9148 |
-0.0285 |
317 |
1 |
69.86 |
2009-08-09 |
| 121. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
69.82 |
1.0714 |
-0.1864 |
129 |
1 |
69.82 |
2010-09-27 |
| 122. |
Look, you've convinced yourself that you've traded away your... |
69.31 |
1.0304 |
-0.1535 |
269 |
1 |
69.31 |
2024-11-08 |
| 123. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
69.16 |
0.9731 |
-0.0962 |
129 |
1 |
69.16 |
2009-08-09 |
| 124. |
It is not hard to make money in the market. What is hard to ... |
68.83 |
1.0228 |
-0.1390 |
215 |
1 |
68.83 |
2024-11-08 |
| 125. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
68.33 |
0.9739 |
-0.0959 |
412 |
1 |
68.33 |
2010-05-13 |
| 126. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
68.10 |
0.8852 |
-0.0214 |
201 |
1 |
68.10 |
2009-09-10 |
| 127. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
67.22 |
0.8753 |
-0.0221 |
427 |
1 |
67.22 |
2009-08-08 |
| 128. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
66.46 |
0.9176 |
-0.0631 |
365 |
1 |
66.46 |
2010-09-21 |
| 129. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
66.37 |
0.9529 |
-0.0960 |
269 |
1 |
66.37 |
2010-10-14 |
| 130. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
66.28 |
1.0232 |
-0.1680 |
236 |
1 |
66.28 |
2024-11-08 |
| 131. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
59.89 |
0.9339 |
-0.1745 |
310 |
1 |
59.89 |
2010-09-21 |
| 132. |
I have my books and my poetry to protect me; I am shielded i... |
58.07 |
0.9633 |
-0.2259 |
231 |
1 |
58.07 |
2024-11-08 |
| 133. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
56.23 |
0.9912 |
-0.2672 |
237 |
1 |
56.23 |
2010-05-13 |