| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
158.28 |
1.1014 |
0.3313 |
273 |
2 |
143.73 |
2012-09-02 |
| 2. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
157.27 |
1.0454 |
0.3368 |
255 |
1 |
157.27 |
2010-12-18 |
| 3. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
156.98 |
1.0714 |
0.3030 |
129 |
7 |
125.59 |
2010-11-15 |
| 4. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
154.12 |
1.0398 |
0.3075 |
110 |
3 |
144.22 |
2010-11-17 |
| 5. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
153.53 |
1.0993 |
0.2512 |
265 |
5 |
134.43 |
2012-09-02 |
| 6. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
153.11 |
1.0214 |
0.3221 |
166 |
2 |
134.70 |
2010-11-26 |
| 7. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
150.32 |
1.0197 |
0.3014 |
226 |
3 |
136.69 |
2012-09-02 |
| 8. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
146.99 |
1.1018 |
0.1861 |
220 |
3 |
129.76 |
2012-09-01 |
| 9. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
145.91 |
1.0797 |
0.1995 |
210 |
4 |
127.85 |
2010-11-16 |
| 10. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
145.66 |
1.1081 |
0.2090 |
206 |
5 |
119.61 |
2010-11-16 |
| 11. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
144.68 |
1.0462 |
0.2215 |
184 |
4 |
122.48 |
2010-11-26 |
| 12. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
144.01 |
1.0943 |
0.2062 |
206 |
1 |
144.01 |
2012-08-30 |
| 13. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
142.75 |
1.0099 |
0.2439 |
207 |
2 |
129.52 |
2010-11-17 |
| 14. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
141.32 |
1.0498 |
0.1894 |
180 |
1 |
141.32 |
2010-11-16 |
| 15. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
140.44 |
1.0331 |
0.2009 |
234 |
3 |
129.74 |
2012-09-02 |
| 16. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
140.35 |
0.9286 |
0.3059 |
194 |
1 |
140.35 |
2012-09-01 |
| 17. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
140.29 |
1.0941 |
0.1720 |
256 |
1 |
140.29 |
2012-08-30 |
| 18. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
139.48 |
1.0463 |
0.1767 |
182 |
1 |
139.48 |
2010-11-15 |
| 19. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
139.12 |
0.9786 |
0.2452 |
235 |
2 |
117.54 |
2012-09-02 |
| 20. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
136.04 |
1.0799 |
0.1136 |
243 |
2 |
125.64 |
2012-09-01 |
| 21. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
136.01 |
1.0004 |
0.1903 |
212 |
3 |
124.97 |
2012-09-01 |
| 22. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
135.68 |
1.0679 |
0.1461 |
177 |
1 |
135.68 |
2010-11-12 |
| 23. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
135.64 |
1.0577 |
0.1322 |
247 |
1 |
135.64 |
2010-11-18 |
| 24. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
135.23 |
1.0396 |
0.1430 |
149 |
2 |
117.85 |
2010-11-14 |
| 25. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
134.15 |
1.0565 |
0.1211 |
247 |
4 |
108.90 |
2011-12-30 |
| 26. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
134.00 |
1.0213 |
0.1545 |
240 |
2 |
127.70 |
2010-11-15 |
| 27. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
133.51 |
1.0711 |
0.0983 |
213 |
2 |
117.86 |
2010-11-15 |
| 28. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
133.46 |
1.0621 |
0.1314 |
263 |
1 |
133.46 |
2011-12-30 |
| 29. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
133.40 |
1.0033 |
0.1635 |
189 |
2 |
133.06 |
2010-11-14 |
| 30. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
133.28 |
1.0403 |
0.1471 |
193 |
7 |
125.50 |
2010-11-15 |
| 31. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
133.20 |
1.0349 |
0.1362 |
234 |
1 |
133.20 |
2010-11-11 |
| 32. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
132.18 |
1.0796 |
0.0782 |
129 |
5 |
125.61 |
2010-11-12 |
| 33. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
132.02 |
1.0917 |
0.0931 |
243 |
1 |
132.02 |
2010-11-02 |
| 34. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
131.65 |
1.1114 |
0.0440 |
247 |
3 |
129.24 |
2011-12-28 |
| 35. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
130.98 |
1.1215 |
0.0545 |
200 |
4 |
121.01 |
2012-08-30 |
| 36. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
130.84 |
1.0666 |
0.0843 |
297 |
3 |
122.91 |
2010-11-15 |
| 37. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
130.60 |
1.0883 |
0.0925 |
303 |
2 |
119.36 |
2010-11-15 |
| 38. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
130.30 |
1.0109 |
0.1360 |
276 |
1 |
130.30 |
2010-11-10 |
| 39. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
129.81 |
0.9758 |
0.1665 |
314 |
2 |
122.64 |
2012-01-06 |
| 40. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
129.06 |
1.0725 |
0.0882 |
233 |
2 |
124.73 |
2010-11-09 |
| 41. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
127.95 |
0.9786 |
0.1413 |
193 |
2 |
125.22 |
2010-11-12 |
| 42. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
126.71 |
1.0863 |
0.0626 |
210 |
3 |
114.37 |
2010-11-06 |
| 43. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
126.39 |
1.0596 |
0.0495 |
239 |
2 |
120.97 |
2012-02-10 |
| 44. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
126.37 |
1.0696 |
0.0379 |
226 |
2 |
114.19 |
2010-11-14 |
| 45. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
126.19 |
1.0613 |
0.0490 |
266 |
3 |
117.83 |
2010-11-10 |
| 46. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
124.95 |
1.0388 |
0.0913 |
243 |
2 |
99.88 |
2010-11-09 |
| 47. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
124.77 |
1.0555 |
0.0712 |
323 |
1 |
124.77 |
2011-08-31 |
| 48. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
123.30 |
1.0214 |
0.1048 |
281 |
2 |
121.95 |
2010-11-11 |
| 49. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
122.62 |
0.9907 |
0.0855 |
211 |
2 |
120.03 |
2010-11-07 |
| 50. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
122.37 |
1.1068 |
0.0091 |
393 |
3 |
110.18 |
2011-12-10 |
| 51. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
121.70 |
1.0740 |
0.0338 |
264 |
3 |
114.60 |
2010-11-10 |
| 52. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
120.49 |
0.9865 |
0.0733 |
276 |
3 |
107.05 |
2010-11-05 |
| 53. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
120.47 |
1.0487 |
0.0048 |
231 |
2 |
112.43 |
2010-11-11 |
| 54. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
120.21 |
1.0668 |
-0.0079 |
350 |
2 |
108.00 |
2010-11-04 |
| 55. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
119.21 |
0.9731 |
0.0618 |
129 |
2 |
117.40 |
2010-11-09 |
| 56. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
118.34 |
1.0389 |
0.0032 |
340 |
3 |
103.91 |
2010-11-06 |
| 57. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
118.03 |
1.0567 |
-0.0191 |
303 |
2 |
112.52 |
2010-10-29 |
| 58. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
117.93 |
1.0095 |
0.0253 |
316 |
1 |
117.93 |
2010-10-29 |
| 59. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
117.54 |
1.0768 |
-0.0042 |
295 |
1 |
117.54 |
2012-06-06 |
| 60. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
117.08 |
1.0445 |
-0.0151 |
373 |
3 |
107.99 |
2010-10-29 |
| 61. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
116.78 |
1.0168 |
0.0103 |
271 |
2 |
113.41 |
2010-11-11 |
| 62. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
116.74 |
1.0368 |
-0.0104 |
276 |
2 |
115.68 |
2010-10-28 |
| 63. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
116.31 |
1.0429 |
-0.0228 |
259 |
1 |
116.31 |
2010-11-03 |
| 64. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
115.71 |
1.0767 |
-0.0628 |
212 |
1 |
115.71 |
2010-10-30 |
| 65. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
115.60 |
1.0662 |
-0.0132 |
407 |
1 |
115.60 |
2011-12-30 |
| 66. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
114.65 |
1.0124 |
-0.0079 |
204 |
4 |
107.09 |
2010-11-07 |
| 67. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
113.83 |
1.0795 |
-0.0495 |
226 |
2 |
102.14 |
2010-11-04 |
| 68. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
113.78 |
1.0561 |
-0.0309 |
430 |
1 |
113.78 |
2010-10-30 |
| 69. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
113.76 |
1.0189 |
-0.0167 |
337 |
1 |
113.76 |
2010-11-03 |
| 70. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
113.42 |
0.9798 |
0.0104 |
199 |
2 |
101.53 |
2010-12-19 |
| 71. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
113.29 |
1.0201 |
-0.0321 |
172 |
1 |
113.29 |
2010-11-03 |
| 72. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
113.16 |
1.0365 |
-0.0131 |
162 |
2 |
103.34 |
2010-10-29 |
| 73. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
112.90 |
1.0125 |
-0.0235 |
224 |
2 |
112.74 |
2010-11-07 |
| 74. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
111.53 |
1.0669 |
-0.0555 |
286 |
1 |
111.53 |
2010-11-02 |
| 75. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
111.32 |
1.0441 |
-0.0654 |
252 |
1 |
111.32 |
2010-10-28 |
| 76. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
109.07 |
1.0787 |
-0.1228 |
237 |
1 |
109.07 |
2010-10-26 |
| 77. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
108.77 |
1.0774 |
-0.0935 |
304 |
3 |
105.76 |
2010-11-15 |
| 78. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
108.46 |
0.9946 |
-0.0429 |
246 |
1 |
108.46 |
2010-11-01 |
| 79. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
108.15 |
1.0063 |
-0.0568 |
371 |
1 |
108.15 |
2010-10-27 |
| 80. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
108.02 |
1.0613 |
-0.1084 |
456 |
1 |
108.02 |
2010-10-28 |
| 81. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
107.94 |
1.0334 |
-0.0928 |
131 |
3 |
107.27 |
2010-10-28 |
| 82. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
107.74 |
1.0165 |
-0.0673 |
392 |
2 |
107.26 |
2010-10-30 |
| 83. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
106.47 |
1.0270 |
-0.0568 |
255 |
1 |
106.47 |
2010-10-26 |
| 84. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
105.53 |
0.9756 |
-0.0511 |
229 |
1 |
105.53 |
2010-10-29 |
| 85. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
105.44 |
1.0426 |
-0.1184 |
323 |
1 |
105.44 |
2010-10-30 |
| 86. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
104.86 |
1.0444 |
-0.1313 |
197 |
1 |
104.86 |
2010-10-28 |
| 87. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
104.00 |
1.0347 |
-0.0970 |
550 |
1 |
104.00 |
2010-10-28 |
| 88. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
102.96 |
0.9841 |
-0.0774 |
334 |
1 |
102.96 |
2010-10-29 |
| 89. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
101.77 |
0.9886 |
-0.0939 |
220 |
1 |
101.77 |
2010-10-29 |
| 90. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
101.57 |
1.0292 |
-0.1401 |
262 |
1 |
101.57 |
2010-10-26 |
| 91. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
100.70 |
1.0177 |
-0.0969 |
392 |
1 |
100.70 |
2010-10-29 |
| 92. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
100.58 |
1.0240 |
-0.1449 |
256 |
1 |
100.58 |
2010-10-24 |
| 93. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
100.52 |
1.0595 |
-0.1757 |
379 |
1 |
100.52 |
2010-10-27 |
| 94. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
100.24 |
1.0218 |
-0.1462 |
268 |
2 |
93.84 |
2010-10-26 |
| 95. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
99.59 |
1.0677 |
-0.1645 |
284 |
1 |
99.59 |
2010-10-29 |
| 96. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
99.56 |
1.0555 |
-0.1815 |
363 |
1 |
99.56 |
2010-11-23 |
| 97. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
99.29 |
0.9994 |
-0.0986 |
269 |
2 |
98.71 |
2010-11-07 |
| 98. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
99.12 |
1.0314 |
-0.1236 |
452 |
1 |
99.12 |
2010-10-26 |
| 99. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
98.91 |
1.0077 |
-0.0997 |
250 |
1 |
98.91 |
2010-10-28 |
| 100. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
98.57 |
1.0251 |
-0.1634 |
261 |
1 |
98.57 |
2010-10-26 |
| 101. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
98.45 |
0.8852 |
-0.0203 |
201 |
1 |
98.45 |
2010-10-29 |
| 102. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
98.23 |
1.0297 |
-0.1701 |
249 |
1 |
98.23 |
2010-10-26 |
| 103. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
94.34 |
0.9884 |
-0.1629 |
233 |
1 |
94.34 |
2010-10-26 |
| 104. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
94.14 |
0.9843 |
-0.1648 |
234 |
1 |
94.14 |
2010-10-26 |
| 105. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
93.72 |
0.9527 |
-0.1321 |
251 |
1 |
93.72 |
2010-10-28 |
| 106. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
93.39 |
0.9965 |
-0.1836 |
168 |
1 |
93.39 |
2010-10-28 |
| 107. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
92.10 |
0.9734 |
-0.1675 |
289 |
1 |
92.10 |
2010-10-28 |
| 108. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
91.01 |
1.0390 |
-0.2462 |
205 |
1 |
91.01 |
2010-10-28 |
| 109. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
90.66 |
1.0150 |
-0.1724 |
325 |
2 |
89.16 |
2010-10-28 |
| 110. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
89.54 |
0.9699 |
-0.1870 |
269 |
1 |
89.54 |
2010-10-27 |
| 111. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
88.70 |
1.0944 |
-0.2735 |
308 |
1 |
88.70 |
2010-10-26 |
| 112. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
88.13 |
0.9936 |
-0.2230 |
311 |
1 |
88.13 |
2010-10-26 |
| 113. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
87.04 |
0.9814 |
-0.1806 |
364 |
1 |
87.04 |
2010-10-23 |
| 114. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
86.59 |
1.0528 |
-0.3007 |
201 |
1 |
86.59 |
2010-10-24 |
| 115. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
86.26 |
0.9275 |
-0.1765 |
211 |
1 |
86.26 |
2010-10-28 |
| 116. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
86.25 |
1.0167 |
-0.2556 |
378 |
1 |
86.25 |
2010-10-30 |
| 117. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
85.90 |
1.0485 |
-0.2627 |
153 |
1 |
85.90 |
2010-10-24 |
| 118. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
85.72 |
0.8775 |
-0.1245 |
443 |
1 |
85.72 |
2010-10-27 |
| 119. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
85.55 |
0.8961 |
-0.1515 |
189 |
1 |
85.55 |
2010-10-27 |
| 120. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
83.86 |
1.0352 |
-0.2996 |
341 |
1 |
83.86 |
2010-10-23 |
| 121. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
83.39 |
0.9897 |
-0.2633 |
274 |
1 |
83.39 |
2010-10-24 |
| 122. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
82.07 |
1.0506 |
-0.3048 |
277 |
1 |
82.07 |
2010-10-24 |
| 123. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
81.86 |
0.9691 |
-0.2543 |
223 |
1 |
81.86 |
2012-08-30 |
| 124. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
81.83 |
0.9785 |
-0.2603 |
335 |
1 |
81.83 |
2010-10-24 |
| 125. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
81.83 |
0.9846 |
-0.2708 |
281 |
1 |
81.83 |
2010-10-26 |
| 126. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
80.46 |
0.9965 |
-0.2936 |
310 |
1 |
80.46 |
2010-10-26 |
| 127. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
80.26 |
0.9640 |
-0.2337 |
334 |
1 |
80.26 |
2010-10-24 |
| 128. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
80.18 |
0.9376 |
-0.2020 |
360 |
1 |
80.18 |
2010-10-26 |
| 129. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
78.44 |
0.9567 |
-0.2721 |
273 |
1 |
78.44 |
2010-10-24 |
| 130. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
77.72 |
1.0053 |
-0.3290 |
232 |
1 |
77.72 |
2010-10-26 |
| 131. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
76.42 |
0.9084 |
-0.2398 |
300 |
1 |
76.42 |
2010-10-24 |
| 132. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
75.35 |
0.9936 |
-0.3162 |
227 |
1 |
75.35 |
2010-10-24 |
| 133. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
74.86 |
1.0477 |
-0.3924 |
360 |
1 |
74.86 |
2010-10-23 |
| 134. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
74.75 |
0.9359 |
-0.2445 |
353 |
1 |
74.75 |
2010-10-26 |
| 135. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
74.70 |
0.9670 |
-0.2734 |
307 |
1 |
74.70 |
2010-10-26 |
| 136. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
73.61 |
0.8890 |
-0.2508 |
199 |
1 |
73.61 |
2010-10-24 |
| 137. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
71.99 |
0.9905 |
-0.3553 |
377 |
1 |
71.99 |
2010-10-24 |
| 138. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
57.77 |
0.9279 |
-0.4204 |
317 |
1 |
57.77 |
2010-10-23 |