| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
58.84 |
0.9482 |
0.2066 |
476 |
1 |
58.84 |
2011-06-08 |
| 2. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
45.66 |
0.9775 |
-0.0741 |
473 |
1 |
45.66 |
2011-09-24 |
| 3. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
64.35 |
0.9885 |
0.2755 |
469 |
1 |
64.35 |
2011-03-15 |
| 4. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
45.21 |
1.0362 |
-0.1484 |
437 |
1 |
45.21 |
2009-07-31 |
| 5. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
54.68 |
0.9400 |
0.1301 |
434 |
2 |
51.86 |
2010-01-21 |
| 6. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
50.49 |
0.9926 |
0.0038 |
413 |
1 |
50.49 |
2011-09-24 |
| 7. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
59.64 |
1.0482 |
0.1297 |
407 |
1 |
59.64 |
2011-06-14 |
| 8. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
37.92 |
1.0404 |
-0.2971 |
406 |
1 |
37.92 |
2009-04-29 |
| 9. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
41.95 |
0.9145 |
-0.0935 |
404 |
1 |
41.95 |
2009-07-31 |
| 10. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
38.46 |
1.0320 |
-0.2770 |
401 |
1 |
38.46 |
2010-02-06 |
| 11. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
46.37 |
0.9517 |
-0.0393 |
397 |
1 |
46.37 |
2010-08-19 |
| 12. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
50.42 |
0.9726 |
0.0164 |
396 |
1 |
50.42 |
2009-12-18 |
| 13. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
48.16 |
1.0234 |
-0.0799 |
392 |
2 |
41.79 |
2010-02-21 |
| 14. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
57.43 |
0.9698 |
0.1567 |
389 |
1 |
57.43 |
2011-03-07 |
| 15. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
29.09 |
0.9745 |
-0.4074 |
388 |
1 |
29.09 |
2009-08-25 |
| 16. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
56.11 |
0.9833 |
0.1147 |
387 |
2 |
49.88 |
2011-03-06 |
| 17. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
47.57 |
0.9404 |
-0.0030 |
383 |
2 |
46.21 |
2011-07-17 |
| 18. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
52.96 |
0.9719 |
0.0690 |
383 |
1 |
52.96 |
2011-03-15 |
| 19. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
72.11 |
1.0669 |
0.3460 |
379 |
4 |
59.73 |
2011-06-08 |
| 20. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
53.32 |
0.9736 |
0.0743 |
378 |
1 |
53.32 |
2011-06-08 |
| 21. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
53.03 |
1.0529 |
-0.0152 |
373 |
1 |
53.03 |
2009-08-25 |
| 22. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
56.87 |
1.0132 |
0.0979 |
371 |
1 |
56.87 |
2010-08-19 |
| 23. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
68.13 |
1.0538 |
0.2901 |
367 |
2 |
65.74 |
2011-05-25 |
| 24. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
54.72 |
0.9434 |
0.1294 |
367 |
1 |
54.72 |
2010-04-17 |
| 25. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
44.96 |
0.9561 |
-0.0721 |
364 |
1 |
44.96 |
2009-10-28 |
| 26. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
55.89 |
0.9787 |
0.1159 |
364 |
1 |
55.89 |
2011-05-25 |
| 27. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
32.50 |
1.0628 |
-0.4288 |
363 |
1 |
32.50 |
2009-04-08 |
| 28. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
47.85 |
0.8986 |
0.0398 |
363 |
1 |
47.85 |
2009-12-17 |
| 29. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
51.31 |
0.9810 |
0.0253 |
362 |
4 |
43.62 |
2011-09-24 |
| 30. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
45.08 |
0.9392 |
-0.0541 |
360 |
1 |
45.08 |
2010-04-24 |
| 31. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
52.30 |
1.0543 |
-0.0313 |
360 |
2 |
51.76 |
2010-05-04 |
| 32. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
60.89 |
1.0135 |
0.1792 |
358 |
2 |
57.41 |
2011-09-25 |
| 33. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
62.31 |
1.0450 |
0.1776 |
358 |
1 |
62.31 |
2011-03-07 |
| 34. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
44.87 |
0.9359 |
-0.0604 |
355 |
1 |
44.87 |
2009-05-16 |
| 35. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
64.20 |
0.9824 |
0.2850 |
352 |
2 |
62.76 |
2011-03-09 |
| 36. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
40.83 |
0.9101 |
-0.1107 |
351 |
2 |
39.85 |
2010-04-29 |
| 37. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
51.14 |
1.0600 |
-0.0617 |
351 |
1 |
51.14 |
2009-10-24 |
| 38. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
46.26 |
1.0736 |
-0.1689 |
350 |
1 |
46.26 |
2009-12-17 |
| 39. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
52.35 |
0.9203 |
0.1042 |
350 |
1 |
52.35 |
2011-05-25 |
| 40. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
52.08 |
1.0139 |
0.0155 |
349 |
1 |
52.08 |
2011-03-15 |
| 41. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
52.81 |
0.8936 |
0.1361 |
346 |
2 |
43.83 |
2011-03-07 |
| 42. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
54.09 |
0.9329 |
0.1374 |
345 |
1 |
54.09 |
2010-02-03 |
| 43. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
48.00 |
0.9403 |
0.0087 |
345 |
1 |
48.00 |
2009-12-24 |
| 44. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
45.70 |
0.9137 |
-0.0206 |
342 |
2 |
41.97 |
2010-08-16 |
| 45. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
58.66 |
1.0419 |
0.1068 |
341 |
1 |
58.66 |
2010-02-20 |
| 46. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
43.69 |
0.9682 |
-0.1061 |
341 |
1 |
43.69 |
2011-03-06 |
| 47. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
41.35 |
0.9931 |
-0.1829 |
339 |
1 |
41.35 |
2010-04-29 |
| 48. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
62.55 |
0.9849 |
0.2383 |
337 |
2 |
54.69 |
2011-07-17 |
| 49. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
66.21 |
1.0253 |
0.2716 |
337 |
1 |
66.21 |
2011-07-31 |
| 50. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
44.48 |
1.0101 |
-0.1411 |
336 |
5 |
38.78 |
2009-10-27 |
| 51. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
42.24 |
0.9909 |
-0.1638 |
334 |
1 |
42.24 |
2009-07-24 |
| 52. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
41.83 |
0.9609 |
-0.1409 |
331 |
1 |
41.83 |
2010-08-09 |
| 53. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
55.90 |
0.8959 |
0.2009 |
328 |
2 |
52.54 |
2011-05-23 |
| 54. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
54.24 |
0.9957 |
0.0629 |
323 |
3 |
48.46 |
2011-03-06 |
| 55. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
49.03 |
1.0495 |
-0.0935 |
323 |
3 |
43.44 |
2011-03-07 |
| 56. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
38.73 |
0.9011 |
-0.1436 |
322 |
1 |
38.73 |
2009-10-26 |
| 57. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
40.13 |
0.9468 |
-0.1652 |
318 |
3 |
37.70 |
2010-04-29 |
| 58. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
60.69 |
1.0461 |
0.1416 |
318 |
2 |
59.60 |
2011-09-20 |
| 59. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
40.77 |
0.9339 |
-0.1338 |
317 |
1 |
40.77 |
2009-07-19 |
| 60. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
33.28 |
0.9206 |
-0.2728 |
317 |
1 |
33.28 |
2009-05-16 |
| 61. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
35.29 |
1.0165 |
-0.3306 |
316 |
1 |
35.29 |
2009-04-09 |
| 62. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
39.87 |
0.7923 |
-0.0150 |
316 |
1 |
39.87 |
2009-10-27 |
| 63. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
79.62 |
1.0960 |
0.4653 |
315 |
3 |
61.48 |
2011-05-25 |
| 64. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
44.43 |
1.0006 |
-0.1344 |
311 |
2 |
40.31 |
2009-10-24 |
| 65. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
50.15 |
0.9402 |
0.0364 |
310 |
1 |
50.15 |
2010-04-30 |
| 66. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
53.64 |
1.0035 |
0.0442 |
310 |
1 |
53.64 |
2011-03-07 |
| 67. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
44.61 |
0.9658 |
-0.0924 |
308 |
1 |
44.61 |
2010-10-29 |
| 68. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
52.88 |
0.9866 |
0.0459 |
308 |
3 |
45.23 |
2010-08-14 |
| 69. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
42.68 |
0.9839 |
-0.1523 |
308 |
2 |
41.59 |
2010-10-29 |
| 70. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
58.00 |
0.9183 |
0.2153 |
308 |
2 |
53.98 |
2011-03-08 |
| 71. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
40.31 |
0.9403 |
-0.1463 |
307 |
1 |
40.31 |
2009-12-10 |
| 72. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
50.96 |
0.9228 |
0.0761 |
305 |
5 |
43.95 |
2009-12-17 |
| 73. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
37.68 |
1.0639 |
-0.3291 |
303 |
1 |
37.68 |
2009-04-10 |
| 74. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
63.41 |
1.0969 |
0.1442 |
303 |
1 |
63.41 |
2010-04-26 |
| 75. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
52.17 |
1.0106 |
0.0066 |
302 |
2 |
46.98 |
2010-04-29 |
| 76. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
51.96 |
0.8830 |
0.1336 |
300 |
3 |
41.92 |
2011-07-26 |
| 77. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
42.50 |
0.8880 |
-0.0596 |
296 |
1 |
42.50 |
2009-12-19 |
| 78. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
29.43 |
0.9980 |
-0.4241 |
295 |
1 |
29.43 |
2009-04-10 |
| 79. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
55.49 |
1.0509 |
0.0400 |
295 |
2 |
51.37 |
2012-07-20 |
| 80. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
52.55 |
0.9271 |
0.0981 |
295 |
3 |
43.37 |
2010-10-29 |
| 81. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
54.37 |
1.0464 |
0.0200 |
294 |
1 |
54.37 |
2011-03-06 |
| 82. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
43.85 |
0.9928 |
-0.1386 |
293 |
1 |
43.85 |
2009-07-28 |
| 83. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
38.60 |
0.9673 |
-0.2134 |
292 |
1 |
38.60 |
2009-07-29 |
| 84. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
32.52 |
0.9864 |
-0.3503 |
292 |
1 |
32.52 |
2009-04-09 |
| 85. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
58.62 |
0.9801 |
0.1644 |
289 |
2 |
52.50 |
2009-12-21 |
| 86. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
48.61 |
1.0901 |
-0.1398 |
288 |
1 |
48.61 |
2009-10-26 |
| 87. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
54.92 |
0.9632 |
0.1102 |
287 |
3 |
48.39 |
2011-09-24 |
| 88. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
61.34 |
1.0461 |
0.1569 |
286 |
2 |
52.90 |
2011-05-23 |
| 89. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
49.50 |
0.9604 |
0.0033 |
285 |
3 |
44.72 |
2011-09-24 |
| 90. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
37.46 |
0.8778 |
-0.1467 |
285 |
1 |
37.46 |
2010-04-29 |
| 91. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
48.90 |
0.8381 |
0.1195 |
283 |
2 |
43.40 |
2010-08-22 |
| 92. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
33.89 |
1.0059 |
-0.3455 |
283 |
1 |
33.89 |
2009-04-10 |
| 93. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
54.18 |
0.8847 |
0.1708 |
282 |
3 |
46.36 |
2010-08-14 |
| 94. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
53.88 |
0.9989 |
0.0600 |
282 |
2 |
52.71 |
2010-08-14 |
| 95. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
42.36 |
0.9636 |
-0.1394 |
281 |
2 |
38.30 |
2009-12-21 |
| 96. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
57.98 |
0.9915 |
0.1399 |
281 |
2 |
49.89 |
2009-12-18 |
| 97. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
46.40 |
1.0588 |
-0.1538 |
281 |
2 |
39.21 |
2009-07-19 |
| 98. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
52.17 |
0.9310 |
0.0867 |
278 |
1 |
52.17 |
2009-10-28 |
| 99. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
61.90 |
1.0036 |
0.2066 |
277 |
1 |
61.90 |
2011-03-08 |
| 100. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
43.33 |
0.9538 |
-0.1094 |
276 |
1 |
43.33 |
2009-08-25 |
| 101. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
64.47 |
1.0181 |
0.2429 |
276 |
1 |
64.47 |
2011-06-08 |
| 102. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
37.72 |
0.9927 |
-0.2576 |
276 |
2 |
36.32 |
2009-04-10 |
| 103. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
60.20 |
1.0124 |
0.1688 |
275 |
2 |
59.18 |
2011-05-25 |
| 104. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
72.89 |
1.0341 |
0.3903 |
273 |
3 |
55.32 |
2011-07-26 |
| 105. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
61.60 |
1.0759 |
0.1331 |
273 |
1 |
61.60 |
2009-12-17 |
| 106. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
56.04 |
1.0079 |
0.0853 |
273 |
2 |
52.26 |
2009-12-19 |
| 107. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
51.23 |
0.8901 |
0.1089 |
273 |
3 |
46.02 |
2011-05-23 |
| 108. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
61.15 |
0.9315 |
0.2648 |
273 |
3 |
52.73 |
2010-04-26 |
| 109. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
62.85 |
0.9631 |
0.2643 |
273 |
2 |
48.08 |
2011-10-29 |
| 110. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
37.91 |
0.9890 |
-0.2469 |
272 |
1 |
37.91 |
2009-04-09 |
| 111. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
66.77 |
1.0283 |
0.2832 |
272 |
1 |
66.77 |
2011-10-21 |
| 112. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
48.12 |
0.9084 |
0.0318 |
271 |
2 |
45.86 |
2010-04-30 |
| 113. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
75.66 |
1.0250 |
0.4573 |
271 |
2 |
75.44 |
2011-05-25 |
| 114. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
49.52 |
0.9103 |
0.0557 |
269 |
2 |
43.47 |
2010-08-16 |
| 115. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
53.12 |
0.9765 |
0.0596 |
269 |
1 |
53.12 |
2010-02-06 |
| 116. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
56.46 |
0.9857 |
0.1226 |
268 |
1 |
56.46 |
2011-09-25 |
| 117. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
69.25 |
1.1070 |
0.2455 |
265 |
2 |
62.30 |
2010-02-16 |
| 118. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
64.45 |
0.9922 |
0.2677 |
264 |
1 |
64.45 |
2011-03-08 |
| 119. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
43.36 |
1.0493 |
-0.1972 |
264 |
1 |
43.36 |
2009-12-10 |
| 120. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
31.33 |
0.9841 |
-0.3767 |
263 |
1 |
31.33 |
2009-04-09 |
| 121. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
49.26 |
1.0370 |
-0.0762 |
262 |
1 |
49.26 |
2010-02-04 |
| 122. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
48.49 |
0.9927 |
-0.0449 |
262 |
1 |
48.49 |
2009-05-16 |
| 123. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
48.58 |
1.0267 |
-0.0759 |
261 |
1 |
48.58 |
2010-04-29 |
| 124. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
40.38 |
1.0334 |
-0.2473 |
261 |
1 |
40.38 |
2009-04-10 |
| 125. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
55.58 |
1.0060 |
0.0805 |
260 |
1 |
55.58 |
2009-12-18 |
| 126. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
39.33 |
1.0506 |
-0.2849 |
259 |
2 |
36.53 |
2009-04-10 |
| 127. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
32.89 |
1.0028 |
-0.3643 |
259 |
1 |
32.89 |
2009-04-10 |
| 128. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
40.50 |
0.9594 |
-0.1722 |
258 |
1 |
40.50 |
2009-07-24 |
| 129. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
57.36 |
1.0094 |
0.1108 |
256 |
4 |
48.51 |
2011-03-07 |
| 130. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
52.87 |
1.0601 |
-0.0314 |
256 |
1 |
52.87 |
2009-12-20 |
| 131. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
70.70 |
1.0736 |
0.3124 |
256 |
2 |
69.96 |
2011-07-31 |
| 132. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
49.85 |
0.9680 |
0.0047 |
256 |
1 |
49.85 |
2010-04-30 |
| 133. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
47.49 |
1.0304 |
-0.1070 |
256 |
1 |
47.49 |
2009-12-21 |
| 134. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
46.29 |
1.0039 |
-0.0950 |
255 |
1 |
46.29 |
2010-04-26 |
| 135. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
52.49 |
0.9704 |
0.0541 |
254 |
2 |
45.95 |
2011-03-08 |
| 136. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
30.92 |
0.9265 |
-0.3267 |
254 |
1 |
30.92 |
2009-07-19 |
| 137. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
59.36 |
0.9597 |
0.1999 |
251 |
1 |
59.36 |
2010-08-14 |
| 138. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
46.15 |
0.9809 |
-0.0731 |
250 |
1 |
46.15 |
2010-02-06 |
| 139. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
55.88 |
1.0590 |
0.0309 |
250 |
1 |
55.88 |
2010-04-24 |
| 140. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
45.35 |
0.9762 |
-0.0919 |
249 |
1 |
45.35 |
2009-10-26 |
| 141. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
62.31 |
1.0638 |
0.1515 |
247 |
2 |
60.67 |
2011-03-06 |
| 142. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
63.07 |
1.1198 |
0.1114 |
247 |
2 |
57.81 |
2011-03-07 |
| 143. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
57.01 |
1.0192 |
0.0993 |
243 |
2 |
55.79 |
2011-03-08 |
| 144. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
62.61 |
1.0873 |
0.1329 |
243 |
3 |
46.00 |
2011-03-08 |
| 145. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
45.38 |
1.0069 |
-0.1187 |
242 |
1 |
45.38 |
2009-08-25 |
| 146. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
52.94 |
1.0291 |
0.0021 |
240 |
3 |
46.65 |
2011-03-09 |
| 147. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
40.30 |
0.9243 |
-0.1371 |
240 |
1 |
40.30 |
2010-05-02 |
| 148. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
69.39 |
1.0672 |
0.2879 |
239 |
2 |
57.24 |
2011-03-07 |
| 149. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
50.62 |
0.8845 |
0.1046 |
239 |
3 |
49.04 |
2010-08-16 |
| 150. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
60.72 |
0.9768 |
0.2106 |
237 |
3 |
46.94 |
2010-04-26 |
| 151. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
57.05 |
1.0865 |
0.0273 |
237 |
1 |
57.05 |
2010-08-16 |
| 152. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
44.27 |
0.9583 |
-0.0947 |
237 |
2 |
43.42 |
2009-07-29 |
| 153. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
44.00 |
0.9541 |
-0.0957 |
236 |
2 |
38.79 |
2009-05-16 |
| 154. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
45.27 |
1.0414 |
-0.1596 |
234 |
2 |
40.07 |
2009-07-24 |
| 155. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
52.66 |
1.0403 |
-0.0142 |
234 |
2 |
51.87 |
2009-10-27 |
| 156. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
53.27 |
0.9927 |
0.0438 |
234 |
1 |
53.27 |
2011-03-07 |
| 157. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
63.59 |
1.1086 |
0.1342 |
233 |
2 |
58.46 |
2011-05-25 |
| 158. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
37.42 |
1.0125 |
-0.2854 |
232 |
1 |
37.42 |
2009-04-09 |
| 159. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
56.88 |
0.9243 |
0.1866 |
231 |
3 |
53.76 |
2010-04-29 |
| 160. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
39.18 |
1.0466 |
-0.2839 |
230 |
1 |
39.18 |
2009-04-10 |
| 161. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
46.04 |
0.9804 |
-0.0824 |
227 |
1 |
46.04 |
2011-03-07 |
| 162. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
53.70 |
1.0561 |
-0.0098 |
227 |
2 |
48.97 |
2009-12-06 |
| 163. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
64.65 |
1.0199 |
0.2395 |
225 |
1 |
64.65 |
2011-03-08 |
| 164. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
44.92 |
1.0194 |
-0.1457 |
224 |
1 |
44.92 |
2009-12-19 |
| 165. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
42.16 |
0.9756 |
-0.1547 |
223 |
1 |
42.16 |
2009-07-28 |
| 166. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
53.32 |
1.1093 |
-0.0741 |
220 |
1 |
53.32 |
2009-07-24 |
| 167. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
39.06 |
0.9952 |
-0.2320 |
220 |
1 |
39.06 |
2010-05-21 |
| 168. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
38.48 |
0.8378 |
-0.0858 |
219 |
1 |
38.48 |
2009-10-24 |
| 169. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
53.12 |
1.0086 |
0.0239 |
218 |
1 |
53.12 |
2009-07-28 |
| 170. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
45.95 |
0.9931 |
-0.1009 |
218 |
1 |
45.95 |
2009-12-22 |
| 171. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
54.29 |
0.9935 |
0.0685 |
217 |
1 |
54.29 |
2011-03-08 |
| 172. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
60.91 |
0.9841 |
0.2024 |
217 |
1 |
60.91 |
2011-03-09 |
| 173. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
53.91 |
1.0016 |
0.0492 |
217 |
2 |
51.44 |
2010-04-30 |
| 174. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
48.77 |
0.8986 |
0.0534 |
216 |
3 |
40.04 |
2010-02-03 |
| 175. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
57.53 |
0.9756 |
0.1504 |
216 |
1 |
57.53 |
2010-08-22 |
| 176. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
46.36 |
0.8988 |
0.0053 |
216 |
2 |
39.96 |
2009-10-27 |
| 177. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
55.34 |
1.0800 |
-0.0025 |
213 |
3 |
44.86 |
2009-10-28 |
| 178. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
61.65 |
1.0010 |
0.2072 |
213 |
1 |
61.65 |
2009-12-18 |
| 179. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
59.75 |
1.0082 |
0.1538 |
212 |
1 |
59.75 |
2011-03-15 |
| 180. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
40.70 |
0.9621 |
-0.1667 |
212 |
1 |
40.70 |
2009-07-24 |
| 181. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
46.81 |
1.0845 |
-0.1727 |
212 |
3 |
40.14 |
2009-07-19 |
| 182. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
43.53 |
0.9346 |
-0.0890 |
211 |
1 |
43.53 |
2009-08-25 |
| 183. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
51.38 |
0.9598 |
0.0451 |
209 |
1 |
51.38 |
2011-03-08 |
| 184. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
45.51 |
0.9809 |
-0.0974 |
209 |
1 |
45.51 |
2009-10-26 |
| 185. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
57.95 |
1.0103 |
0.1157 |
209 |
1 |
57.95 |
2010-08-14 |
| 186. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
69.12 |
1.0836 |
0.2708 |
206 |
1 |
69.12 |
2011-03-09 |
| 187. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
50.37 |
0.8666 |
0.1137 |
206 |
1 |
50.37 |
2011-06-08 |
| 188. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
33.66 |
0.8986 |
-0.2456 |
205 |
1 |
33.66 |
2009-04-29 |
| 189. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
44.19 |
1.0479 |
-0.1880 |
205 |
1 |
44.19 |
2009-10-27 |
| 190. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
41.95 |
0.8172 |
-0.0040 |
204 |
1 |
41.95 |
2010-08-14 |
| 191. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
37.49 |
0.9357 |
-0.2080 |
204 |
1 |
37.49 |
2009-07-29 |
| 192. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
45.60 |
1.0033 |
-0.1138 |
203 |
1 |
45.60 |
2010-08-14 |
| 193. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
54.74 |
0.8913 |
0.1789 |
201 |
3 |
47.95 |
2011-08-27 |
| 194. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
52.13 |
1.0615 |
-0.0471 |
201 |
2 |
44.79 |
2010-04-17 |
| 195. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
36.50 |
0.8964 |
-0.1888 |
199 |
2 |
32.88 |
2010-04-27 |
| 196. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
39.79 |
0.9880 |
-0.2171 |
199 |
1 |
39.79 |
2009-04-10 |
| 197. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
55.38 |
1.0521 |
0.0235 |
197 |
1 |
55.38 |
2011-03-07 |
| 198. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
50.36 |
0.9394 |
0.0417 |
195 |
1 |
50.36 |
2009-12-24 |
| 199. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
43.92 |
0.9352 |
-0.0801 |
194 |
2 |
39.05 |
2009-10-28 |
| 200. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
49.48 |
0.9530 |
0.0088 |
193 |
1 |
49.48 |
2010-10-29 |
| 201. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
38.18 |
0.9713 |
-0.2292 |
193 |
1 |
38.18 |
2009-12-23 |
| 202. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
38.89 |
0.9869 |
-0.2331 |
193 |
1 |
38.89 |
2009-10-24 |
| 203. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
50.24 |
0.8988 |
0.0807 |
193 |
2 |
48.31 |
2009-10-24 |
| 204. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
44.63 |
0.9270 |
-0.0539 |
193 |
1 |
44.63 |
2009-10-27 |
| 205. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
64.97 |
0.9070 |
0.3577 |
192 |
2 |
58.01 |
2011-03-06 |
| 206. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
50.00 |
1.0264 |
-0.0550 |
191 |
1 |
50.00 |
2010-04-29 |
| 207. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
58.26 |
0.9422 |
0.1905 |
190 |
2 |
46.28 |
2010-08-19 |
| 208. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
57.98 |
0.9027 |
0.2261 |
189 |
2 |
42.64 |
2011-03-09 |
| 209. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
55.56 |
1.0115 |
0.0681 |
189 |
1 |
55.56 |
2011-03-06 |
| 210. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
56.77 |
1.0540 |
0.0495 |
184 |
3 |
41.08 |
2009-12-17 |
| 211. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
74.00 |
1.0543 |
0.3892 |
182 |
3 |
49.38 |
2011-05-25 |
| 212. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
57.43 |
1.0268 |
0.0878 |
179 |
1 |
57.43 |
2009-08-25 |
| 213. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
58.91 |
0.9255 |
0.2257 |
174 |
1 |
58.91 |
2010-08-14 |
| 214. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
42.80 |
0.8624 |
-0.0329 |
174 |
1 |
42.80 |
2010-02-06 |
| 215. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
48.91 |
1.0279 |
-0.0794 |
172 |
2 |
47.45 |
2010-02-06 |
| 216. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
71.57 |
1.0867 |
0.3080 |
171 |
1 |
71.57 |
2011-06-08 |
| 217. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
40.95 |
1.0125 |
-0.2195 |
171 |
1 |
40.95 |
2009-04-10 |
| 218. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
45.58 |
0.9299 |
-0.0495 |
168 |
2 |
43.55 |
2010-08-14 |
| 219. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
53.32 |
1.0042 |
0.0328 |
168 |
1 |
53.32 |
2009-12-21 |
| 220. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
56.22 |
0.9974 |
0.0964 |
163 |
1 |
56.22 |
2010-08-19 |
| 221. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
43.06 |
1.0144 |
-0.1740 |
162 |
1 |
43.06 |
2010-02-06 |
| 222. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
35.98 |
0.8837 |
-0.1841 |
157 |
1 |
35.98 |
2010-08-14 |
| 223. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
75.16 |
0.9925 |
0.4729 |
155 |
2 |
60.74 |
2011-03-06 |
| 224. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
68.41 |
1.0225 |
0.3068 |
152 |
1 |
68.41 |
2011-07-17 |
| 225. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
55.46 |
0.8965 |
0.1868 |
150 |
2 |
52.74 |
2010-02-06 |
| 226. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
56.08 |
1.0472 |
0.0415 |
149 |
1 |
56.08 |
2011-09-24 |
| 227. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
51.52 |
0.8936 |
0.1109 |
135 |
1 |
51.52 |
2011-10-29 |
| 228. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
56.88 |
1.0877 |
0.0196 |
129 |
3 |
44.13 |
2009-12-19 |
| 229. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
57.46 |
0.9807 |
0.1298 |
129 |
4 |
50.21 |
2011-03-07 |