| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
It all began ages ago, when man's ancestor picked up a shard... |
137.20 |
0.9541 |
0.3909 |
221 |
1 |
137.20 |
2020-04-02 |
| 2. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
133.68 |
1.1323 |
0.1782 |
341 |
1 |
133.68 |
2015-06-20 |
| 3. |
You're missing the point. There's no throne, there is no ver... |
132.80 |
1.0446 |
0.2573 |
258 |
1 |
132.80 |
2020-04-02 |
| 4. |
Don't tell me what's in, don't tell me how to write, don't t... |
132.45 |
1.0695 |
0.2289 |
183 |
1 |
132.45 |
2015-06-19 |
| 5. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
124.56 |
1.0074 |
0.2137 |
242 |
1 |
124.56 |
2013-01-29 |
| 6. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
124.25 |
1.0496 |
0.1685 |
314 |
1 |
124.25 |
2013-11-10 |
| 7. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
124.10 |
1.0349 |
0.1817 |
234 |
1 |
124.10 |
2013-01-29 |
| 8. |
I don't understand you people! I mean all these picky little... |
121.85 |
0.9731 |
0.2214 |
411 |
1 |
121.85 |
2017-12-18 |
| 9. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
120.90 |
0.9622 |
0.2230 |
392 |
1 |
120.90 |
2013-11-10 |
| 10. |
With all due respect ma'am, I'm done wasting my breath on yo... |
119.39 |
1.0207 |
0.1497 |
228 |
1 |
119.39 |
2018-11-16 |
| 11. |
Poppy: You can't imagine what an unrelenting nightmare MIT h... |
119.13 |
0.9449 |
0.2230 |
503 |
1 |
119.13 |
2020-03-20 |
| 12. |
Ever had the urge to dig around in your neighbor's trash? Ew... |
118.65 |
0.9253 |
0.2379 |
255 |
1 |
118.65 |
2020-03-20 |
| 13. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
118.48 |
1.0714 |
0.0901 |
129 |
1 |
118.48 |
2013-11-10 |
| 14. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
117.62 |
0.9897 |
0.1634 |
274 |
1 |
117.62 |
2017-12-18 |
| 15. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
117.46 |
0.9722 |
0.1793 |
283 |
1 |
117.46 |
2013-11-10 |
| 16. |
Noontime, and I'm still pushing myself along the road, the d... |
116.54 |
1.0201 |
0.1224 |
257 |
1 |
116.54 |
2020-03-20 |
| 17. |
That's too bad, I said lunch meet. You want a drink? Lose th... |
116.11 |
0.9436 |
0.1947 |
415 |
1 |
116.11 |
2020-03-19 |
| 18. |
Sometimes you concentrate more on racing the cars around you... |
115.95 |
1.0968 |
0.0399 |
365 |
1 |
115.95 |
2013-11-10 |
| 19. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
115.87 |
0.9851 |
0.1508 |
317 |
1 |
115.87 |
2013-11-10 |
| 20. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
114.16 |
1.0608 |
0.0583 |
258 |
1 |
114.16 |
2015-06-18 |
| 21. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
113.96 |
0.9912 |
0.1260 |
237 |
1 |
113.96 |
2015-06-18 |
| 22. |
Love in the nineties is paranoid. On sunny beaches, take you... |
113.85 |
1.0433 |
0.0728 |
231 |
1 |
113.85 |
2020-04-02 |
| 23. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
113.29 |
1.0025 |
0.1081 |
256 |
1 |
113.29 |
2015-06-18 |
| 24. |
Estella, to the last hour of my life, you cannot choose but ... |
113.20 |
1.0234 |
0.0863 |
372 |
1 |
113.20 |
2023-06-28 |
| 25. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
112.02 |
1.0109 |
0.0873 |
276 |
1 |
112.02 |
2013-11-10 |
| 26. |
Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I hones... |
111.65 |
1.0227 |
0.0718 |
272 |
1 |
111.65 |
2015-06-20 |
| 27. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
111.22 |
0.9681 |
0.1222 |
378 |
2 |
104.04 |
2015-06-19 |
| 28. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
110.63 |
0.8971 |
0.1874 |
266 |
1 |
110.63 |
2013-01-29 |
| 29. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
110.57 |
0.8533 |
0.2306 |
232 |
1 |
110.57 |
2013-01-29 |
| 30. |
Once more into the fray. Into the last good fight I'll ever ... |
109.81 |
0.9595 |
0.1170 |
117 |
1 |
109.81 |
2019-07-24 |
| 31. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
108.87 |
1.0516 |
0.0157 |
281 |
1 |
108.87 |
2017-12-18 |
| 32. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
108.69 |
0.9597 |
0.1058 |
347 |
1 |
108.69 |
2015-06-20 |
| 33. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
108.60 |
1.0863 |
-0.0217 |
210 |
1 |
108.60 |
2015-06-19 |
| 34. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
108.46 |
1.0023 |
0.0610 |
211 |
1 |
108.46 |
2015-06-20 |
| 35. |
He rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' ... |
108.36 |
1.0502 |
0.0121 |
535 |
1 |
108.36 |
2018-11-16 |
| 36. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
107.46 |
1.0788 |
-0.0253 |
171 |
1 |
107.46 |
2015-06-19 |
| 37. |
First of all, you must be comfortable, otherwise it will be ... |
106.74 |
0.9831 |
0.0633 |
222 |
1 |
106.74 |
2015-06-19 |
| 38. |
Listen, where I'm from there's a saying, "Three heads are be... |
106.53 |
0.9897 |
0.0546 |
278 |
1 |
106.53 |
2023-06-28 |
| 39. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
106.09 |
0.9468 |
0.0932 |
276 |
1 |
106.09 |
2013-11-10 |
| 40. |
Opening your eyes is all that is needing. The heart lies and... |
104.51 |
1.0281 |
-0.0036 |
293 |
1 |
104.51 |
2023-06-28 |
| 41. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
104.42 |
1.0905 |
-0.0668 |
210 |
1 |
104.42 |
2015-06-18 |
| 42. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
104.31 |
0.9339 |
0.0887 |
310 |
1 |
104.31 |
2015-06-18 |
| 43. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
104.17 |
1.0031 |
0.0181 |
304 |
1 |
104.17 |
2013-11-10 |
| 44. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
103.95 |
0.9461 |
0.0730 |
276 |
1 |
103.95 |
2015-06-18 |
| 45. |
Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very ... |
103.64 |
1.0323 |
-0.0163 |
224 |
1 |
103.64 |
2015-06-18 |
| 46. |
Increasingly, tourists exchange money not at the retail deal... |
103.46 |
0.9250 |
0.0892 |
366 |
1 |
103.46 |
2018-11-16 |
| 47. |
She, who always seems so happy in a crowd, whose eyes can be... |
102.73 |
1.0413 |
-0.0342 |
254 |
1 |
102.73 |
2017-12-18 |
| 48. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
102.36 |
1.0403 |
-0.0368 |
275 |
1 |
102.36 |
2015-06-20 |
| 49. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
102.27 |
1.0454 |
-0.0428 |
255 |
1 |
102.27 |
2015-06-18 |
| 50. |
Purity in body and heart may please some - as for me, I make... |
101.98 |
1.0406 |
-0.0409 |
191 |
1 |
101.98 |
2020-03-20 |
| 51. |
A notereader is not yet a court reporter, but knows enough g... |
101.60 |
0.9398 |
0.0562 |
478 |
1 |
101.60 |
2020-03-20 |
| 52. |
Everywhere I go in this state people are talking about chang... |
101.57 |
0.9190 |
0.0767 |
723 |
1 |
101.57 |
2020-03-20 |
| 53. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
101.50 |
1.0565 |
-0.0615 |
247 |
1 |
101.50 |
2015-06-20 |
| 54. |
Tim and the Princess lounge in the castle garden, laughing t... |
101.33 |
1.0152 |
-0.0218 |
192 |
1 |
101.33 |
2015-06-19 |
| 55. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
101.29 |
1.0621 |
-0.0691 |
263 |
1 |
101.29 |
2013-11-10 |
| 56. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
100.82 |
0.8615 |
0.1269 |
110 |
1 |
100.82 |
2013-01-29 |
| 57. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
100.64 |
1.0138 |
-0.0272 |
231 |
1 |
100.64 |
2015-06-19 |
| 58. |
All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.... |
100.36 |
0.9819 |
0.0020 |
297 |
1 |
100.36 |
2020-03-20 |
| 59. |
Natural selection can act only by the preservation and accum... |
99.91 |
0.9319 |
0.0475 |
454 |
1 |
99.91 |
2020-04-02 |
| 60. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
98.76 |
1.0169 |
-0.0487 |
346 |
1 |
98.76 |
2019-03-20 |
| 61. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
98.68 |
1.0667 |
-0.0993 |
406 |
1 |
98.68 |
2015-06-20 |
| 62. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
98.56 |
1.0944 |
-0.1282 |
308 |
1 |
98.56 |
2013-11-10 |
| 63. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
98.53 |
0.8996 |
0.0663 |
192 |
1 |
98.53 |
2013-11-11 |
| 64. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
98.50 |
0.8382 |
0.1274 |
268 |
1 |
98.50 |
2013-11-10 |
| 65. |
Okay, I don't know you, but I do know that you can fix your ... |
97.24 |
1.0273 |
-0.0740 |
288 |
1 |
97.24 |
2018-11-16 |
| 66. |
Why study science? Science, more than any other discipline, ... |
97.04 |
0.9592 |
-0.0079 |
359 |
1 |
97.04 |
2020-04-02 |
| 67. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
96.44 |
1.0387 |
-0.0933 |
239 |
1 |
96.44 |
2015-06-18 |
| 68. |
But then he'll wonder why I haven't been married. You know w... |
96.08 |
0.9790 |
-0.0371 |
201 |
1 |
96.08 |
2019-03-20 |
| 69. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
95.77 |
0.9682 |
-0.0293 |
143 |
1 |
95.77 |
2015-06-18 |
| 70. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
95.39 |
1.0201 |
-0.0850 |
375 |
1 |
95.39 |
2015-06-18 |
| 71. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
95.05 |
1.0340 |
-0.1022 |
406 |
1 |
95.05 |
2013-11-10 |
| 72. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
93.75 |
0.8956 |
0.0235 |
322 |
1 |
93.75 |
2015-06-19 |
| 73. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
93.24 |
1.0254 |
-0.1113 |
217 |
1 |
93.24 |
2013-11-10 |
| 74. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
92.94 |
0.9672 |
-0.0561 |
396 |
1 |
92.94 |
2013-11-10 |
| 75. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
92.92 |
0.9678 |
-0.0569 |
445 |
1 |
92.92 |
2015-06-20 |
| 76. |
Covert intelligence involves a lot of waiting around. Any me... |
92.79 |
0.9666 |
-0.0570 |
428 |
1 |
92.79 |
2018-11-16 |
| 77. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
92.67 |
0.9148 |
-0.0063 |
317 |
1 |
92.67 |
2015-06-20 |
| 78. |
In the past, peripheral countries have been primarily export... |
92.55 |
0.9551 |
-0.0478 |
282 |
1 |
92.55 |
2018-11-16 |
| 79. |
I was eleven years old and when I was strong enough I dedica... |
92.49 |
0.9216 |
-0.0149 |
257 |
1 |
92.49 |
2019-07-24 |
| 80. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
92.12 |
0.9212 |
-0.0181 |
323 |
1 |
92.12 |
2015-06-19 |
| 81. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
91.87 |
0.9376 |
-0.0370 |
367 |
1 |
91.87 |
2015-06-19 |
| 82. |
After others have talked about themselves, a point will be r... |
91.84 |
1.0948 |
-0.1945 |
153 |
2 |
83.15 |
2015-06-19 |
| 83. |
However, let us leave aside the philosophical, social, and e... |
90.98 |
0.9569 |
-0.0650 |
410 |
1 |
90.98 |
2015-06-20 |
| 84. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
90.27 |
0.9908 |
-0.1059 |
342 |
1 |
90.27 |
2015-06-19 |
| 85. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
89.70 |
0.9855 |
-0.1061 |
258 |
1 |
89.70 |
2015-06-19 |
| 86. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
89.64 |
0.9881 |
-0.1093 |
424 |
1 |
89.64 |
2015-06-20 |
| 87. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
89.20 |
0.9398 |
-0.0653 |
419 |
1 |
89.20 |
2015-06-19 |
| 88. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
89.19 |
0.9884 |
-0.1140 |
233 |
1 |
89.19 |
2013-11-10 |
| 89. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
88.59 |
1.0506 |
-0.1821 |
277 |
1 |
88.59 |
2013-11-10 |
| 90. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
87.22 |
1.0365 |
-0.1815 |
162 |
1 |
87.22 |
2015-06-18 |
| 91. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
87.17 |
0.9922 |
-0.1376 |
341 |
1 |
87.17 |
2015-06-18 |
| 92. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
86.54 |
0.9109 |
-0.0625 |
401 |
1 |
86.54 |
2015-06-18 |
| 93. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
85.25 |
1.0053 |
-0.1696 |
232 |
1 |
85.25 |
2013-11-10 |
| 94. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
83.55 |
1.0252 |
-0.2061 |
176 |
1 |
83.55 |
2013-11-10 |
| 95. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
83.48 |
0.9865 |
-0.1681 |
276 |
1 |
83.48 |
2015-06-18 |
| 96. |
When I close my eyes, I am at the center of the sun. And I c... |
83.48 |
1.0543 |
-0.2359 |
113 |
1 |
83.48 |
2015-06-18 |
| 97. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
82.58 |
0.9266 |
-0.1170 |
267 |
1 |
82.58 |
2015-06-19 |
| 98. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
81.42 |
0.8916 |
-0.0934 |
216 |
1 |
81.42 |
2015-06-20 |
| 99. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
79.82 |
0.9798 |
-0.1973 |
199 |
1 |
79.82 |
2015-06-19 |
| 100. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
72.56 |
1.0211 |
-0.3098 |
213 |
1 |
72.56 |
2018-11-16 |
| 101. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
70.34 |
0.7876 |
-0.0980 |
316 |
1 |
70.34 |
2013-11-10 |
| 102. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
63.23 |
0.9279 |
-0.3080 |
317 |
1 |
63.23 |
2013-11-10 |