| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
150.47 |
1.1018 |
0.0754 |
220 |
1 |
150.47 |
2010-08-21 |
| 2. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
148.75 |
1.0719 |
0.1257 |
360 |
1 |
148.75 |
2012-04-25 |
| 3. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
147.73 |
0.9684 |
0.1961 |
388 |
1 |
147.73 |
2012-10-04 |
| 4. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
147.25 |
0.9213 |
0.2373 |
295 |
1 |
147.25 |
2010-08-07 |
| 5. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
146.89 |
1.0349 |
0.1197 |
234 |
1 |
146.89 |
2012-04-25 |
| 6. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
146.61 |
1.0662 |
0.1244 |
407 |
2 |
143.10 |
2012-10-04 |
| 7. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
143.47 |
1.0391 |
0.0951 |
358 |
1 |
143.47 |
2010-05-29 |
| 8. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
140.81 |
1.0389 |
0.0697 |
318 |
1 |
140.81 |
2012-10-04 |
| 9. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
140.62 |
1.0498 |
0.0507 |
180 |
2 |
131.89 |
2010-05-29 |
| 10. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
140.12 |
1.0917 |
0.0332 |
243 |
1 |
140.12 |
2012-04-06 |
| 11. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
139.82 |
0.9330 |
0.1727 |
360 |
1 |
139.82 |
2012-04-18 |
| 12. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
139.55 |
0.9682 |
0.1269 |
143 |
1 |
139.55 |
2010-03-14 |
| 13. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
138.90 |
0.9997 |
0.0955 |
382 |
1 |
138.90 |
2010-03-14 |
| 14. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
137.24 |
1.0907 |
-0.0094 |
303 |
1 |
137.24 |
2010-03-14 |
| 15. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
136.96 |
1.0232 |
0.0990 |
350 |
1 |
136.96 |
2010-08-22 |
| 16. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
135.91 |
1.0352 |
0.0359 |
341 |
1 |
135.91 |
2010-08-21 |
| 17. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
135.58 |
1.0444 |
0.0142 |
197 |
1 |
135.58 |
2010-03-14 |
| 18. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
134.54 |
1.0787 |
-0.0230 |
237 |
1 |
134.54 |
2010-03-14 |
| 19. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
134.43 |
0.9942 |
0.0707 |
483 |
3 |
128.32 |
2011-05-20 |
| 20. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
132.22 |
0.9532 |
0.0842 |
258 |
1 |
132.22 |
2012-10-04 |
| 21. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
131.89 |
0.9851 |
0.0532 |
317 |
1 |
131.89 |
2010-08-21 |
| 22. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
131.64 |
0.9597 |
0.0784 |
347 |
1 |
131.64 |
2010-03-14 |
| 23. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
130.09 |
0.9672 |
0.0610 |
396 |
1 |
130.09 |
2011-12-25 |
| 24. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
129.74 |
1.0534 |
-0.0322 |
357 |
1 |
129.74 |
2012-04-06 |
| 25. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
129.21 |
0.9109 |
0.1063 |
401 |
1 |
129.21 |
2010-03-14 |
| 26. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
129.13 |
1.0008 |
0.0562 |
473 |
1 |
129.13 |
2012-04-25 |
| 27. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
128.63 |
1.0168 |
-0.0054 |
271 |
1 |
128.63 |
2012-10-04 |
| 28. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
126.99 |
0.9786 |
0.0132 |
193 |
1 |
126.99 |
2011-05-20 |
| 29. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
126.85 |
1.0487 |
-0.0580 |
231 |
1 |
126.85 |
2010-03-22 |
| 30. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
125.20 |
1.0740 |
-0.0531 |
264 |
1 |
125.20 |
2010-03-14 |
| 31. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
125.13 |
0.9567 |
0.0678 |
184 |
1 |
125.13 |
2012-10-04 |
| 32. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
124.85 |
0.9965 |
-0.0160 |
277 |
1 |
124.85 |
2011-09-29 |
| 33. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
124.81 |
1.0361 |
-0.0555 |
269 |
1 |
124.81 |
2010-03-22 |
| 34. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
124.77 |
0.9653 |
0.0224 |
394 |
3 |
121.87 |
2012-04-25 |
| 35. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
124.32 |
0.9863 |
-0.0062 |
339 |
1 |
124.32 |
2010-08-21 |
| 36. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
123.33 |
0.9371 |
0.0696 |
318 |
1 |
123.33 |
2010-09-05 |
| 37. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
123.30 |
0.9676 |
0.0084 |
442 |
1 |
123.30 |
2010-03-14 |
| 38. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
122.95 |
1.0486 |
-0.0829 |
289 |
1 |
122.95 |
2010-03-16 |
| 39. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
122.33 |
0.8722 |
0.0906 |
285 |
1 |
122.33 |
2010-05-29 |
| 40. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
122.08 |
0.9768 |
-0.0163 |
387 |
1 |
122.08 |
2010-05-29 |
| 41. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
121.58 |
0.9485 |
0.0071 |
236 |
1 |
121.58 |
2010-03-14 |
| 42. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
121.52 |
0.9710 |
-0.0239 |
173 |
1 |
121.52 |
2010-05-29 |
| 43. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
121.27 |
0.9668 |
0.0274 |
383 |
1 |
121.27 |
2011-04-06 |
| 44. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
121.16 |
1.0031 |
-0.0190 |
304 |
1 |
121.16 |
2011-05-20 |
| 45. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
121.03 |
1.0340 |
-0.0789 |
406 |
1 |
121.03 |
2011-05-20 |
| 46. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
120.83 |
0.9635 |
-0.0099 |
389 |
1 |
120.83 |
2011-05-20 |
| 47. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
120.69 |
0.9964 |
-0.0494 |
203 |
1 |
120.69 |
2010-08-21 |
| 48. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
120.46 |
0.9278 |
0.0199 |
295 |
1 |
120.46 |
2010-05-29 |
| 49. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
120.39 |
0.9527 |
-0.0082 |
251 |
3 |
111.99 |
2012-10-04 |
| 50. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
120.33 |
0.9631 |
0.0322 |
345 |
1 |
120.33 |
2010-03-14 |
| 51. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
119.77 |
1.0077 |
-0.0270 |
250 |
1 |
119.77 |
2010-03-14 |
| 52. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
119.09 |
0.9376 |
0.0319 |
360 |
1 |
119.09 |
2011-05-20 |
| 53. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
118.59 |
0.9125 |
0.0195 |
308 |
1 |
118.59 |
2011-09-29 |
| 54. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
118.40 |
0.9673 |
0.0006 |
232 |
1 |
118.40 |
2011-05-20 |
| 55. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
118.22 |
0.9833 |
-0.0544 |
355 |
1 |
118.22 |
2010-03-14 |
| 56. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
117.92 |
1.0483 |
-0.1266 |
227 |
1 |
117.92 |
2013-03-17 |
| 57. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
117.66 |
0.9907 |
-0.0694 |
211 |
1 |
117.66 |
2010-03-16 |
| 58. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
117.27 |
0.9798 |
-0.0657 |
199 |
1 |
117.27 |
2010-03-14 |
| 59. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
116.52 |
0.9570 |
-0.0416 |
287 |
1 |
116.52 |
2010-03-22 |
| 60. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
115.91 |
0.8947 |
0.0192 |
366 |
1 |
115.91 |
2011-09-29 |
| 61. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
115.72 |
0.9097 |
0.0392 |
464 |
1 |
115.72 |
2011-05-20 |
| 62. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
115.67 |
1.0060 |
-0.1038 |
171 |
1 |
115.67 |
2013-03-17 |
| 63. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
115.18 |
0.9398 |
-0.0273 |
419 |
1 |
115.18 |
2010-03-24 |
| 64. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
114.39 |
0.8826 |
0.0157 |
296 |
1 |
114.39 |
2010-03-14 |
| 65. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
113.62 |
1.0485 |
-0.1234 |
153 |
1 |
113.62 |
2010-03-14 |
| 66. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
113.20 |
1.0314 |
-0.1049 |
452 |
1 |
113.20 |
2013-03-17 |
| 67. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
107.30 |
0.8770 |
-0.0334 |
300 |
1 |
107.30 |
2010-03-22 |
| 68. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
98.66 |
0.8996 |
-0.1335 |
192 |
1 |
98.66 |
2013-03-17 |
| 69. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
95.91 |
0.8595 |
-0.1080 |
242 |
1 |
95.91 |
2010-04-08 |
| 70. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
78.26 |
1.0025 |
-0.3923 |
336 |
1 |
78.26 |
2011-05-20 |