| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
It's a funny thing, but people mostly have it backward. They... |
144.18 |
1.0612 |
0.1736 |
173 |
1 |
144.18 |
2016-07-12 |
| 2. |
I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live i... |
140.12 |
1.1180 |
0.0889 |
144 |
1 |
140.12 |
2016-06-29 |
| 3. |
I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not ... |
139.22 |
1.1182 |
0.0787 |
164 |
1 |
139.22 |
2016-08-02 |
| 4. |
May your hands always be busy, may your feet always be swift... |
138.56 |
1.0169 |
0.1749 |
222 |
3 |
126.33 |
2016-07-13 |
| 5. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
137.87 |
1.0714 |
0.1013 |
129 |
2 |
126.30 |
2016-07-28 |
| 6. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
136.84 |
1.0829 |
0.0914 |
288 |
1 |
136.84 |
2016-07-01 |
| 7. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
132.32 |
1.1162 |
0.0587 |
189 |
1 |
132.32 |
2016-07-09 |
| 8. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
130.59 |
1.0337 |
0.0842 |
214 |
1 |
130.59 |
2016-07-11 |
| 9. |
All life's battles teach us something, even those we lose. W... |
130.48 |
1.0087 |
0.1164 |
291 |
2 |
124.22 |
2016-07-06 |
| 10. |
As much money and life as you could want! The two things mos... |
129.99 |
1.0438 |
0.0729 |
198 |
1 |
129.99 |
2016-08-02 |
| 11. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
129.00 |
1.0797 |
0.0197 |
210 |
1 |
129.00 |
2016-07-03 |
| 12. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
128.95 |
1.0677 |
0.0670 |
284 |
1 |
128.95 |
2016-07-11 |
| 13. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
128.56 |
1.0679 |
0.0532 |
177 |
1 |
128.56 |
2016-07-12 |
| 14. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
128.44 |
1.0567 |
0.0443 |
303 |
1 |
128.44 |
2016-07-12 |
| 15. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
127.84 |
1.0203 |
0.0779 |
261 |
1 |
127.84 |
2016-07-24 |
| 16. |
While you were sleeping, you tossed, you turned. You rolled ... |
126.02 |
0.8614 |
0.2152 |
172 |
1 |
126.02 |
2016-07-19 |
| 17. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
125.46 |
1.0993 |
-0.0271 |
265 |
1 |
125.46 |
2016-07-03 |
| 18. |
The men in the room suddenly realized that they didn't want ... |
125.32 |
1.0319 |
0.0485 |
215 |
2 |
123.70 |
2016-08-02 |
| 19. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
125.26 |
1.0787 |
-0.0077 |
237 |
2 |
115.57 |
2016-08-02 |
| 20. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
124.51 |
1.0529 |
0.0130 |
351 |
1 |
124.51 |
2016-08-02 |
| 21. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
124.03 |
1.0016 |
0.0556 |
218 |
1 |
124.03 |
2016-07-13 |
| 22. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
123.57 |
1.0403 |
0.0324 |
193 |
1 |
123.57 |
2016-07-09 |
| 23. |
Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very ... |
123.56 |
1.0323 |
0.0308 |
224 |
1 |
123.56 |
2016-07-09 |
| 24. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
123.54 |
0.9699 |
0.0869 |
269 |
1 |
123.54 |
2016-07-13 |
| 25. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
123.50 |
1.0555 |
0.0033 |
363 |
1 |
123.50 |
2016-07-25 |
| 26. |
We live in an age when people do more writing than they have... |
123.49 |
1.0298 |
0.0327 |
280 |
1 |
123.49 |
2016-07-11 |
| 27. |
Take my love, take my land, take me where I cannot stand. I ... |
123.37 |
1.0141 |
0.0382 |
176 |
2 |
118.14 |
2016-06-30 |
| 28. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
122.94 |
1.0972 |
-0.0152 |
251 |
1 |
122.94 |
2016-07-06 |
| 29. |
Don't bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everythin... |
122.30 |
0.9895 |
0.0447 |
240 |
1 |
122.30 |
2016-07-06 |
| 30. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
121.98 |
1.0521 |
-0.0131 |
171 |
1 |
121.98 |
2016-07-25 |
| 31. |
Never give up on everything if one thing is too hard. Never ... |
121.41 |
1.0751 |
-0.0257 |
323 |
2 |
119.85 |
2016-07-06 |
| 32. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
121.33 |
1.0125 |
0.0236 |
224 |
1 |
121.33 |
2016-07-13 |
| 33. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
121.28 |
1.0398 |
-0.0126 |
110 |
1 |
121.28 |
2016-07-24 |
| 34. |
I just want to tell you how I'm feeling. Gotta make you unde... |
121.26 |
1.0302 |
0.0187 |
245 |
1 |
121.26 |
2016-07-12 |
| 35. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
121.02 |
1.0365 |
0.0290 |
162 |
1 |
121.02 |
2016-08-13 |
| 36. |
But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To kno... |
120.98 |
1.0686 |
-0.0274 |
255 |
3 |
114.22 |
2016-08-02 |
| 37. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
120.89 |
1.0768 |
-0.0024 |
295 |
1 |
120.89 |
2016-08-02 |
| 38. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
120.75 |
1.0214 |
0.0544 |
281 |
1 |
120.75 |
2016-07-13 |
| 39. |
Suppose you suggest to your husband that subsidized llama fa... |
120.69 |
0.9336 |
0.1065 |
255 |
1 |
120.69 |
2016-08-02 |
| 40. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
120.11 |
1.0711 |
-0.0485 |
213 |
2 |
114.20 |
2016-07-10 |
| 41. |
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and... |
120.02 |
1.0827 |
-0.0472 |
219 |
1 |
120.02 |
2016-07-06 |
| 42. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
119.93 |
1.0419 |
-0.0158 |
261 |
1 |
119.93 |
2016-07-25 |
| 43. |
A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppress... |
119.77 |
1.0617 |
-0.0278 |
247 |
1 |
119.77 |
2016-07-09 |
| 44. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
119.26 |
0.8785 |
0.1381 |
172 |
1 |
119.26 |
2016-06-29 |
| 45. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
118.47 |
1.0444 |
-0.0372 |
197 |
1 |
118.47 |
2016-07-25 |
| 46. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
118.41 |
1.0885 |
-0.0722 |
315 |
1 |
118.41 |
2016-08-02 |
| 47. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
117.99 |
1.0684 |
-0.0288 |
253 |
1 |
117.99 |
2016-06-29 |
| 48. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
117.97 |
0.9485 |
0.0625 |
236 |
1 |
117.97 |
2016-07-12 |
| 49. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
117.89 |
1.0389 |
-0.0285 |
318 |
1 |
117.89 |
2016-07-25 |
| 50. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
117.59 |
1.0289 |
-0.0184 |
276 |
1 |
117.59 |
2016-07-11 |
| 51. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
117.19 |
1.0429 |
-0.0418 |
259 |
1 |
117.19 |
2016-07-10 |
| 52. |
It's really hard to do nothing totally. Even just sitting he... |
117.18 |
1.0424 |
-0.0361 |
171 |
1 |
117.18 |
2016-07-11 |
| 53. |
Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It ... |
117.16 |
1.0153 |
-0.0083 |
261 |
1 |
117.16 |
2016-07-10 |
| 54. |
Take care where you're going, doing all the things you do. E... |
117.12 |
1.0366 |
-0.0280 |
289 |
1 |
117.12 |
2016-07-03 |
| 55. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
116.91 |
1.0795 |
-0.0490 |
226 |
1 |
116.91 |
2016-07-09 |
| 56. |
The number one challenge I've seen with myself and with othe... |
116.86 |
1.0117 |
-0.0070 |
239 |
2 |
116.04 |
2016-07-07 |
| 57. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
116.08 |
1.1018 |
-0.1155 |
220 |
1 |
116.08 |
2016-07-07 |
| 58. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
115.94 |
0.9925 |
0.0360 |
247 |
1 |
115.94 |
2016-07-11 |
| 59. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
115.92 |
0.9897 |
-0.0005 |
274 |
1 |
115.92 |
2016-07-06 |
| 60. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
115.90 |
1.0669 |
-0.0432 |
286 |
1 |
115.90 |
2016-07-03 |
| 61. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
115.71 |
1.0555 |
-0.0357 |
323 |
1 |
115.71 |
2016-07-09 |
| 62. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
115.51 |
1.0288 |
-0.0085 |
300 |
2 |
115.21 |
2016-07-25 |
| 63. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
115.39 |
1.0331 |
-0.0484 |
234 |
1 |
115.39 |
2016-06-29 |
| 64. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
115.29 |
0.9485 |
0.0402 |
291 |
1 |
115.29 |
2016-07-18 |
| 65. |
After others have talked about themselves, a point will be r... |
115.21 |
1.0948 |
-0.1050 |
153 |
1 |
115.21 |
2016-07-06 |
| 66. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
115.17 |
1.0375 |
-0.0065 |
200 |
1 |
115.17 |
2016-08-02 |
| 67. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
114.95 |
1.0719 |
-0.0610 |
360 |
1 |
114.95 |
2016-07-13 |
| 68. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
114.77 |
1.0083 |
0.0178 |
273 |
1 |
114.77 |
2016-07-03 |
| 69. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
113.95 |
1.0917 |
-0.0937 |
243 |
1 |
113.95 |
2016-06-29 |
| 70. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
113.94 |
1.0533 |
-0.0521 |
257 |
2 |
106.77 |
2016-07-06 |
| 71. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
113.89 |
1.0799 |
-0.1098 |
243 |
1 |
113.89 |
2016-07-13 |
| 72. |
If you think that you are going to love something, give it a... |
113.76 |
1.1227 |
-0.1515 |
147 |
1 |
113.76 |
2016-07-25 |
| 73. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
113.63 |
1.0523 |
-0.0848 |
256 |
1 |
113.63 |
2016-07-10 |
| 74. |
I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from natu... |
113.51 |
0.9966 |
-0.0160 |
349 |
1 |
113.51 |
2016-07-06 |
| 75. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
113.48 |
1.1016 |
-0.1314 |
233 |
1 |
113.48 |
2016-07-06 |
| 76. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
113.33 |
0.9786 |
-0.0146 |
193 |
3 |
109.51 |
2016-08-13 |
| 77. |
In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the ... |
113.14 |
0.9976 |
-0.0274 |
201 |
1 |
113.14 |
2016-07-11 |
| 78. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
112.61 |
1.0613 |
-0.0975 |
266 |
1 |
112.61 |
2016-07-09 |
| 79. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
112.28 |
1.0254 |
-0.0248 |
217 |
1 |
112.28 |
2016-07-10 |
| 80. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
111.98 |
1.0177 |
-0.0220 |
392 |
1 |
111.98 |
2016-08-02 |
| 81. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
111.75 |
1.0767 |
-0.1235 |
212 |
1 |
111.75 |
2016-07-09 |
| 82. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
111.59 |
0.9866 |
-0.0360 |
218 |
1 |
111.59 |
2016-07-06 |
| 83. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
111.08 |
1.0033 |
-0.0605 |
189 |
1 |
111.08 |
2016-07-10 |
| 84. |
There is more to color than a swatch in a book, or a pull do... |
110.81 |
0.9544 |
0.0001 |
260 |
1 |
110.81 |
2016-07-09 |
| 85. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
110.28 |
1.0486 |
-0.1051 |
289 |
2 |
107.59 |
2016-07-07 |
| 86. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
110.06 |
0.9936 |
-0.0326 |
227 |
1 |
110.06 |
2016-07-13 |
| 87. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
109.81 |
1.0396 |
-0.1081 |
149 |
1 |
109.81 |
2016-06-30 |
| 88. |
When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their padd... |
109.54 |
0.9801 |
-0.0277 |
209 |
2 |
109.48 |
2016-07-09 |
| 89. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
109.51 |
0.9468 |
-0.0108 |
276 |
1 |
109.51 |
2016-07-09 |
| 90. |
I would never want to forfeit my genders. Along with Aunt Au... |
109.05 |
0.9737 |
-0.0372 |
204 |
1 |
109.05 |
2016-08-02 |
| 91. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
108.95 |
0.9855 |
-0.0209 |
258 |
1 |
108.95 |
2016-07-06 |
| 92. |
A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, ... |
108.64 |
0.9726 |
-0.0335 |
325 |
1 |
108.64 |
2016-07-10 |
| 93. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
108.52 |
0.9798 |
-0.0580 |
199 |
1 |
108.52 |
2016-07-11 |
| 94. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
108.38 |
0.9886 |
-0.0599 |
220 |
1 |
108.38 |
2016-07-03 |
| 95. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
108.19 |
1.0740 |
-0.1112 |
264 |
1 |
108.19 |
2016-07-06 |
| 96. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
107.93 |
1.0379 |
-0.0808 |
245 |
1 |
107.93 |
2016-07-11 |
| 97. |
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
107.82 |
0.9657 |
-0.0591 |
44 |
1 |
107.82 |
2016-06-29 |
| 98. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
107.59 |
0.9986 |
-0.0786 |
283 |
1 |
107.59 |
2016-07-09 |
| 99. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
107.29 |
0.9754 |
-0.0526 |
362 |
1 |
107.29 |
2016-07-06 |
| 100. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
107.22 |
0.9894 |
-0.0687 |
323 |
1 |
107.22 |
2016-07-06 |
| 101. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
107.08 |
0.9769 |
-0.0639 |
263 |
1 |
107.08 |
2016-07-09 |
| 102. |
Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It's ab... |
106.90 |
1.0604 |
-0.1137 |
260 |
1 |
106.90 |
2016-07-06 |
| 103. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
106.44 |
1.0025 |
-0.0934 |
256 |
1 |
106.44 |
2016-07-12 |
| 104. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
105.50 |
1.0073 |
-0.0978 |
369 |
1 |
105.50 |
2016-07-06 |
| 105. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
105.24 |
1.0090 |
-0.0663 |
282 |
1 |
105.24 |
2016-08-02 |
| 106. |
Well this seems to be a waste of my time. That is nine hundr... |
104.76 |
0.9731 |
-0.0429 |
307 |
1 |
104.76 |
2016-07-10 |
| 107. |
Our world, with its rules of causality, has trained us to be... |
104.59 |
0.9817 |
-0.0764 |
282 |
1 |
104.59 |
2016-06-29 |
| 108. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
103.80 |
0.9351 |
-0.0541 |
190 |
1 |
103.80 |
2016-07-07 |
| 109. |
Dear Mr. Vernon, We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice... |
102.85 |
0.9575 |
-0.0652 |
491 |
1 |
102.85 |
2016-07-09 |
| 110. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
102.24 |
1.0167 |
-0.1367 |
378 |
1 |
102.24 |
2016-07-06 |
| 111. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
102.23 |
0.9005 |
-0.0290 |
212 |
1 |
102.23 |
2016-07-06 |
| 112. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
101.93 |
0.9532 |
-0.0842 |
258 |
1 |
101.93 |
2016-07-06 |
| 113. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
101.36 |
0.9049 |
-0.0340 |
351 |
1 |
101.36 |
2016-07-03 |
| 114. |
The idea of "Mr. Right" has been passed down over the genera... |
101.31 |
0.9671 |
-0.0777 |
379 |
1 |
101.31 |
2016-07-06 |
| 115. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
101.20 |
0.9871 |
-0.1005 |
227 |
1 |
101.20 |
2016-07-09 |
| 116. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
99.43 |
0.8890 |
-0.0439 |
199 |
1 |
99.43 |
2016-07-11 |
| 117. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
98.82 |
1.0577 |
-0.2182 |
247 |
1 |
98.82 |
2016-06-29 |
| 118. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
96.92 |
0.9286 |
-0.1027 |
194 |
1 |
96.92 |
2016-07-11 |
| 119. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
96.07 |
1.0485 |
-0.1946 |
153 |
1 |
96.07 |
2016-07-10 |
| 120. |
When I close my eyes, I am at the center of the sun. And I c... |
94.83 |
1.0543 |
-0.2453 |
113 |
1 |
94.83 |
2016-07-09 |
| 121. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
94.55 |
0.9572 |
-0.1078 |
376 |
1 |
94.55 |
2016-07-03 |
| 122. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
92.96 |
0.9632 |
-0.1641 |
392 |
1 |
92.96 |
2016-07-09 |
| 123. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
92.29 |
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2016-07-09 |
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Don't practice too much at first, or you're likely to develo... |
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2016-07-07 |