| 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... |
137.67 |
0.9523 |
0.0552 |
576 |
2 |
133.15 |
2011-08-18 |
| 2. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
134.32 |
1.0302 |
-0.0444 |
550 |
1 |
134.32 |
2010-07-21 |
| 3. |
Right, I am going to tell you how this works. You're going i... |
145.02 |
1.0444 |
0.0182 |
487 |
1 |
145.02 |
2010-07-25 |
| 4. |
Finally, gentlemen, there are people with an hereditary anim... |
127.73 |
0.9346 |
-0.0002 |
471 |
1 |
127.73 |
2011-07-21 |
| 5. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
160.59 |
1.0676 |
0.0998 |
456 |
2 |
157.64 |
2010-02-27 |
| 6. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
145.35 |
1.0362 |
0.0219 |
437 |
2 |
137.07 |
2009-02-12 |
| 7. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
130.96 |
0.8955 |
0.0616 |
436 |
1 |
130.96 |
2011-07-21 |
| 8. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
141.84 |
0.9603 |
0.0715 |
430 |
1 |
141.84 |
2010-02-27 |
| 9. |
Danger is a topic you're often asked about as a sprinter. Th... |
167.05 |
0.9591 |
0.2653 |
428 |
1 |
167.05 |
2011-08-18 |
| 10. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
136.30 |
0.8794 |
0.1132 |
427 |
2 |
132.33 |
2011-07-21 |
| 11. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
116.41 |
0.9451 |
-0.0960 |
419 |
1 |
116.41 |
2009-04-07 |
| 12. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
131.92 |
1.0350 |
-0.0664 |
416 |
1 |
131.92 |
2011-07-21 |
| 13. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
157.66 |
1.0404 |
0.1060 |
406 |
3 |
147.27 |
2009-04-07 |
| 14. |
If you want to drive a race car well, whether to win an Indy... |
130.27 |
1.0228 |
-0.0676 |
405 |
1 |
130.27 |
2011-09-14 |
| 15. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
145.99 |
1.0320 |
0.0305 |
401 |
3 |
134.79 |
2010-08-01 |
| 16. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
143.21 |
0.9162 |
0.1213 |
401 |
1 |
143.21 |
2009-04-07 |
| 17. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
119.23 |
0.9114 |
-0.0422 |
399 |
1 |
119.23 |
2009-01-22 |
| 18. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
133.64 |
0.9644 |
0.0053 |
398 |
3 |
115.66 |
2009-04-04 |
| 19. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
130.11 |
0.9119 |
0.0333 |
396 |
2 |
128.19 |
2010-02-20 |
| 20. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
124.32 |
0.9726 |
-0.0686 |
396 |
1 |
124.32 |
2009-10-26 |
| 21. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
126.88 |
0.9703 |
-0.0463 |
394 |
1 |
126.88 |
2009-01-22 |
| 22. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
133.29 |
0.9135 |
0.0594 |
393 |
2 |
126.69 |
2009-04-07 |
| 23. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
132.71 |
0.9673 |
-0.0036 |
393 |
2 |
130.91 |
2010-02-20 |
| 24. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
100.04 |
0.9029 |
-0.1782 |
393 |
1 |
100.04 |
2009-01-22 |
| 25. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
145.43 |
0.9678 |
0.0889 |
392 |
2 |
140.80 |
2009-04-07 |
| 26. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
124.62 |
0.9681 |
-0.0616 |
392 |
1 |
124.62 |
2009-01-22 |
| 27. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
139.56 |
1.0234 |
-0.0096 |
392 |
1 |
139.56 |
2009-01-22 |
| 28. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
97.53 |
0.9698 |
-0.2610 |
389 |
1 |
97.53 |
2008-11-19 |
| 29. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
122.46 |
0.9833 |
-0.0957 |
387 |
1 |
122.46 |
2009-02-12 |
| 30. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
139.05 |
0.9719 |
0.0413 |
383 |
2 |
129.37 |
2009-01-22 |
| 31. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
152.05 |
1.0057 |
0.0978 |
382 |
1 |
152.05 |
2009-04-07 |
| 32. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
161.79 |
1.0669 |
0.1078 |
379 |
2 |
147.88 |
2011-08-18 |
| 33. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
155.91 |
1.0227 |
0.1121 |
378 |
1 |
155.91 |
2009-04-04 |
| 34. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
123.49 |
1.0529 |
-0.1576 |
373 |
1 |
123.49 |
2009-02-12 |
| 35. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
150.42 |
1.0132 |
0.0762 |
371 |
4 |
137.83 |
2010-07-21 |
| 36. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
149.94 |
0.9740 |
0.1146 |
371 |
1 |
149.94 |
2009-04-04 |
| 37. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
123.84 |
0.8856 |
0.0173 |
369 |
1 |
123.84 |
2011-09-14 |
| 38. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
127.32 |
1.0538 |
-0.1209 |
367 |
1 |
127.32 |
2010-07-16 |
| 39. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
136.76 |
0.8993 |
0.0928 |
366 |
2 |
135.84 |
2009-04-07 |
| 40. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
146.30 |
0.9561 |
0.1101 |
364 |
1 |
146.30 |
2010-07-25 |
| 41. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
137.09 |
0.9810 |
0.0157 |
362 |
1 |
137.09 |
2009-04-07 |
| 42. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
140.08 |
0.9392 |
0.0804 |
360 |
2 |
132.95 |
2010-02-27 |
| 43. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
147.28 |
1.0135 |
0.0557 |
358 |
3 |
116.99 |
2010-02-20 |
| 44. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
157.90 |
1.0607 |
0.0853 |
357 |
2 |
143.77 |
2009-04-07 |
| 45. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
133.07 |
0.9359 |
0.0273 |
355 |
1 |
133.07 |
2011-07-21 |
| 46. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
147.77 |
0.9885 |
0.0811 |
355 |
1 |
147.77 |
2010-02-20 |
| 47. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
141.52 |
0.9574 |
0.0698 |
354 |
2 |
135.05 |
2009-02-12 |
| 48. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
117.71 |
0.9824 |
-0.1188 |
352 |
1 |
117.71 |
2011-07-21 |
| 49. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
155.37 |
1.0600 |
0.0651 |
351 |
1 |
155.37 |
2009-02-12 |
| 50. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
141.20 |
0.9101 |
0.1154 |
351 |
2 |
135.57 |
2010-02-20 |
| 51. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
134.28 |
1.0736 |
-0.0997 |
350 |
1 |
134.28 |
2009-02-12 |
| 52. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
123.10 |
0.9136 |
-0.0204 |
348 |
1 |
123.10 |
2010-07-25 |
| 53. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
144.41 |
0.9650 |
0.0827 |
347 |
1 |
144.41 |
2009-01-22 |
| 54. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
136.15 |
0.8936 |
0.0902 |
346 |
1 |
136.15 |
2009-04-07 |
| 55. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
130.03 |
0.9284 |
0.0156 |
346 |
1 |
130.03 |
2010-02-20 |
| 56. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
140.41 |
1.0411 |
-0.0234 |
341 |
1 |
140.41 |
2009-04-07 |
| 57. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
124.19 |
0.9682 |
-0.0600 |
341 |
1 |
124.19 |
2010-02-27 |
| 58. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
156.48 |
1.0462 |
0.0897 |
340 |
2 |
154.02 |
2009-04-06 |
| 59. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
143.22 |
0.9931 |
0.0477 |
339 |
2 |
138.51 |
2010-02-20 |
| 60. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
134.93 |
0.9849 |
-0.0077 |
337 |
1 |
134.93 |
2010-02-20 |
| 61. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
145.07 |
1.0253 |
0.0275 |
337 |
1 |
145.07 |
2010-02-20 |
| 62. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
126.53 |
1.0101 |
-0.0934 |
336 |
2 |
125.39 |
2011-08-21 |
| 63. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
115.73 |
0.9842 |
-0.1458 |
335 |
1 |
115.73 |
2009-01-22 |
| 64. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
138.23 |
0.9515 |
0.0586 |
334 |
2 |
136.26 |
2010-07-16 |
| 65. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
148.67 |
1.0387 |
0.0415 |
333 |
1 |
148.67 |
2009-03-24 |
| 66. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
127.34 |
1.0495 |
-0.1293 |
323 |
1 |
127.34 |
2009-02-26 |
| 67. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
125.63 |
0.9271 |
-0.0163 |
323 |
1 |
125.63 |
2011-07-21 |
| 68. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
154.95 |
0.9519 |
0.1737 |
323 |
2 |
102.46 |
2009-04-04 |
| 69. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
157.87 |
0.9957 |
0.1471 |
323 |
1 |
157.87 |
2009-04-07 |
| 70. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
154.06 |
0.9957 |
0.1236 |
323 |
1 |
154.06 |
2009-03-19 |
| 71. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
125.22 |
0.9011 |
0.0074 |
322 |
1 |
125.22 |
2009-04-06 |
| 72. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
158.79 |
0.9012 |
0.2520 |
322 |
3 |
142.65 |
2009-04-07 |
| 73. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
152.18 |
0.9424 |
0.1617 |
320 |
2 |
142.19 |
2011-08-18 |
| 74. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
131.38 |
0.9468 |
0.0032 |
318 |
1 |
131.38 |
2009-04-07 |
| 75. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
132.32 |
0.9339 |
0.0289 |
317 |
1 |
132.32 |
2009-01-22 |
| 76. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
143.42 |
0.9917 |
0.0482 |
317 |
1 |
143.42 |
2009-01-22 |
| 77. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
139.35 |
0.9206 |
0.0881 |
317 |
4 |
132.58 |
2009-04-07 |
| 78. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
134.03 |
1.0165 |
-0.0479 |
316 |
3 |
127.22 |
2009-03-04 |
| 79. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
161.64 |
1.0188 |
0.1609 |
316 |
2 |
150.70 |
2011-08-18 |
| 80. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
126.55 |
1.0960 |
-0.1769 |
315 |
1 |
126.55 |
2009-10-16 |
| 81. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
171.98 |
1.0567 |
0.1887 |
314 |
4 |
158.09 |
2011-07-21 |
| 82. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
132.91 |
0.9827 |
-0.0205 |
314 |
1 |
132.91 |
2009-02-26 |
| 83. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
142.42 |
1.0006 |
0.0299 |
311 |
4 |
129.94 |
2010-02-20 |
| 84. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
126.38 |
1.0035 |
-0.0891 |
310 |
1 |
126.38 |
2010-07-16 |
| 85. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
139.66 |
0.9402 |
0.0683 |
310 |
1 |
139.66 |
2010-08-22 |
| 86. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
111.76 |
0.9839 |
-0.1768 |
308 |
1 |
111.76 |
2009-02-12 |
| 87. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
138.19 |
0.9183 |
0.0823 |
308 |
2 |
127.50 |
2010-02-20 |
| 88. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
106.66 |
0.9658 |
-0.1919 |
308 |
1 |
106.66 |
2009-01-22 |
| 89. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
102.58 |
0.9403 |
-0.1911 |
307 |
1 |
102.58 |
2011-07-21 |
| 90. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
126.99 |
0.9228 |
-0.0001 |
305 |
2 |
123.06 |
2010-07-16 |
| 91. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
74.34 |
1.0639 |
-0.5279 |
303 |
1 |
74.34 |
2009-03-19 |
| 92. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
167.91 |
1.0270 |
0.1897 |
303 |
3 |
155.18 |
2011-07-21 |
| 93. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
76.82 |
1.0106 |
-0.4586 |
302 |
1 |
76.82 |
2009-03-24 |
| 94. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
117.56 |
0.9143 |
-0.0637 |
300 |
1 |
117.56 |
2010-02-20 |
| 95. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
165.93 |
1.0090 |
0.1983 |
300 |
1 |
165.93 |
2011-08-18 |
| 96. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
102.56 |
0.9820 |
-0.2332 |
297 |
1 |
102.56 |
2010-02-20 |
| 97. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
148.59 |
1.0743 |
0.0022 |
297 |
2 |
144.20 |
2010-02-27 |
| 98. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
144.81 |
0.9980 |
0.0521 |
295 |
1 |
144.81 |
2011-07-21 |
| 99. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
142.71 |
1.0509 |
-0.0108 |
295 |
1 |
142.71 |
2011-07-21 |
| 100. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
135.79 |
0.9332 |
0.0505 |
295 |
3 |
114.23 |
2011-07-21 |
| 101. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
142.08 |
0.9271 |
0.1005 |
295 |
2 |
132.08 |
2010-02-20 |
| 102. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
156.15 |
1.0464 |
0.0891 |
294 |
4 |
145.97 |
2009-10-16 |
| 103. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
154.37 |
0.9909 |
0.1312 |
293 |
2 |
143.58 |
2009-04-07 |
| 104. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
144.38 |
0.9928 |
0.0514 |
293 |
2 |
144.00 |
2009-01-22 |
| 105. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
123.69 |
0.9673 |
-0.0709 |
292 |
1 |
123.69 |
2009-02-19 |
| 106. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
127.94 |
0.9864 |
-0.0575 |
292 |
3 |
112.40 |
2010-07-16 |
| 107. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
158.82 |
1.0557 |
0.0954 |
289 |
3 |
135.63 |
2011-09-14 |
| 108. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
136.55 |
1.0130 |
-0.0251 |
288 |
2 |
127.19 |
2009-04-07 |
| 109. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
149.84 |
1.0901 |
-0.0036 |
288 |
1 |
149.84 |
2009-01-22 |
| 110. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
136.41 |
0.9500 |
0.0385 |
287 |
1 |
136.41 |
2009-03-19 |
| 111. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
118.04 |
1.0461 |
-0.1882 |
286 |
1 |
118.04 |
2010-02-20 |
| 112. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
122.24 |
0.9604 |
-0.0789 |
285 |
1 |
122.24 |
2009-01-22 |
| 113. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
122.49 |
0.8778 |
0.0094 |
285 |
1 |
122.49 |
2009-04-04 |
| 114. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
132.88 |
0.9380 |
0.0216 |
284 |
2 |
131.67 |
2011-07-21 |
| 115. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
137.39 |
1.0059 |
-0.0108 |
283 |
1 |
137.39 |
2010-08-22 |
| 116. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
131.23 |
0.9915 |
-0.0433 |
281 |
2 |
126.47 |
2011-09-14 |
| 117. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
159.59 |
1.0036 |
0.1529 |
277 |
3 |
145.56 |
2010-02-20 |
| 118. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
126.35 |
1.0338 |
-0.1150 |
277 |
1 |
126.35 |
2010-07-21 |
| 119. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
140.69 |
0.9538 |
0.0639 |
276 |
3 |
134.19 |
2009-04-06 |
| 120. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
125.11 |
1.0181 |
-0.1123 |
276 |
1 |
125.11 |
2009-02-26 |
| 121. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
153.48 |
1.0351 |
0.0798 |
276 |
4 |
140.59 |
2009-04-07 |
| 122. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
91.70 |
0.9927 |
-0.3308 |
276 |
1 |
91.70 |
2010-07-21 |
| 123. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
136.04 |
1.0432 |
-0.0585 |
276 |
2 |
129.24 |
2011-07-21 |
| 124. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
145.96 |
0.9963 |
0.0576 |
274 |
1 |
145.96 |
2010-02-27 |
| 125. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
147.16 |
1.0341 |
0.0303 |
273 |
2 |
144.56 |
2009-04-07 |
| 126. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
159.50 |
0.9631 |
0.1913 |
273 |
1 |
159.50 |
2009-04-07 |
| 127. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
155.24 |
1.0250 |
0.1017 |
271 |
1 |
155.24 |
2011-09-14 |
| 128. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
133.24 |
1.0301 |
-0.0677 |
268 |
1 |
133.24 |
2009-03-24 |
| 129. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
135.60 |
0.9023 |
0.0772 |
268 |
1 |
135.60 |
2009-03-19 |
| 130. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
120.74 |
0.8437 |
0.0283 |
268 |
1 |
120.74 |
2009-04-07 |
| 131. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
126.39 |
0.9884 |
-0.0721 |
267 |
2 |
97.59 |
2010-07-21 |
| 132. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
159.10 |
1.0332 |
0.1181 |
267 |
1 |
159.10 |
2009-02-12 |
| 133. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
142.51 |
0.9332 |
0.0980 |
267 |
1 |
142.51 |
2009-03-19 |
| 134. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
161.87 |
1.0682 |
0.1050 |
266 |
3 |
144.92 |
2009-04-07 |
| 135. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
151.29 |
1.1070 |
-0.0130 |
265 |
3 |
140.79 |
2010-07-25 |
| 136. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
109.14 |
0.9922 |
-0.2033 |
264 |
1 |
109.14 |
2009-01-22 |
| 137. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
161.39 |
1.0493 |
0.1262 |
264 |
2 |
138.22 |
2011-07-21 |
| 138. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
144.22 |
0.9841 |
0.0579 |
263 |
1 |
144.22 |
2010-02-20 |
| 139. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
148.75 |
1.0370 |
0.0394 |
262 |
1 |
148.75 |
2009-01-22 |
| 140. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
120.52 |
1.0334 |
-0.1629 |
261 |
1 |
120.52 |
2009-01-22 |
| 141. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
167.91 |
1.0267 |
0.1925 |
261 |
2 |
153.05 |
2009-04-29 |
| 142. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
140.40 |
1.0498 |
-0.0328 |
261 |
1 |
140.40 |
2009-01-22 |
| 143. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
143.87 |
1.0506 |
-0.0099 |
259 |
1 |
143.87 |
2009-04-04 |
| 144. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
126.15 |
0.9594 |
-0.0491 |
258 |
2 |
118.72 |
2009-03-24 |
| 145. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
141.09 |
1.0601 |
-0.0425 |
256 |
2 |
139.83 |
2010-07-16 |
| 146. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
163.44 |
1.0736 |
0.1139 |
256 |
1 |
163.44 |
2011-08-18 |
| 147. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
149.74 |
1.0094 |
0.0745 |
256 |
2 |
146.07 |
2009-03-19 |
| 148. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
123.28 |
0.8981 |
0.0018 |
255 |
1 |
123.28 |
2011-07-21 |
| 149. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
132.44 |
1.0481 |
-0.0979 |
255 |
2 |
132.20 |
2011-08-18 |
| 150. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
131.79 |
1.0039 |
-0.0446 |
255 |
1 |
131.79 |
2010-02-20 |
| 151. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
129.05 |
0.9265 |
0.0056 |
254 |
1 |
129.05 |
2009-01-22 |
| 152. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
138.75 |
0.9704 |
0.0334 |
254 |
1 |
138.75 |
2009-04-07 |
| 153. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
124.91 |
1.0487 |
-0.1478 |
253 |
1 |
124.91 |
2009-01-22 |
| 154. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
156.56 |
1.0511 |
0.0842 |
252 |
3 |
151.38 |
2009-04-07 |
| 155. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
158.08 |
1.1095 |
0.0373 |
252 |
1 |
158.08 |
2011-07-21 |
| 156. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
148.60 |
0.9183 |
0.1538 |
252 |
2 |
146.54 |
2010-02-27 |
| 157. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
143.33 |
0.9597 |
0.0776 |
251 |
2 |
127.88 |
2010-08-22 |
| 158. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
138.12 |
0.9762 |
0.0230 |
249 |
1 |
138.12 |
2009-04-07 |
| 159. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
137.84 |
1.0372 |
-0.0404 |
249 |
2 |
122.94 |
2009-04-07 |
| 160. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
157.54 |
1.0638 |
0.0748 |
247 |
2 |
142.59 |
2009-10-16 |
| 161. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
166.41 |
1.1198 |
0.0844 |
247 |
1 |
166.41 |
2009-02-12 |
| 162. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
156.80 |
1.0654 |
0.0673 |
247 |
1 |
156.80 |
2009-04-06 |
| 163. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
123.84 |
1.0018 |
-0.1062 |
246 |
2 |
122.05 |
2009-04-06 |
| 164. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
143.26 |
1.0873 |
-0.0537 |
243 |
3 |
132.24 |
2009-06-18 |
| 165. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
153.71 |
1.0291 |
0.0815 |
240 |
1 |
153.71 |
2009-04-04 |
| 166. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
131.80 |
0.9243 |
0.0310 |
240 |
1 |
131.80 |
2009-02-05 |
| 167. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
124.93 |
1.0865 |
-0.1835 |
237 |
1 |
124.93 |
2009-02-12 |
| 168. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
30.43 |
0.9128 |
-0.7003 |
237 |
1 |
30.43 |
2010-08-01 |
| 169. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
129.72 |
0.9737 |
-0.0329 |
237 |
1 |
129.72 |
2011-08-18 |
| 170. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
151.39 |
0.9583 |
0.1380 |
237 |
3 |
138.45 |
2011-09-14 |
| 171. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
135.02 |
0.9987 |
-0.0176 |
236 |
1 |
135.02 |
2010-07-25 |
| 172. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
141.59 |
0.9541 |
0.0710 |
236 |
2 |
137.50 |
2009-10-16 |
| 173. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
133.59 |
0.9108 |
0.0553 |
235 |
1 |
133.59 |
2009-01-22 |
| 174. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
144.05 |
0.9852 |
0.0566 |
235 |
1 |
144.05 |
2009-04-06 |
| 175. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
148.94 |
1.0403 |
0.0360 |
234 |
1 |
148.94 |
2009-04-04 |
| 176. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
132.10 |
0.9927 |
-0.0406 |
234 |
1 |
132.10 |
2009-01-22 |
| 177. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
156.23 |
1.0543 |
0.0776 |
233 |
1 |
156.23 |
2011-08-18 |
| 178. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
142.90 |
0.9948 |
0.0381 |
233 |
2 |
134.64 |
2009-04-07 |
| 179. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
149.90 |
0.9374 |
0.1503 |
232 |
1 |
149.90 |
2011-08-18 |
| 180. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
164.88 |
1.0125 |
0.1800 |
232 |
2 |
155.78 |
2009-04-07 |
| 181. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
134.60 |
1.0208 |
-0.0473 |
231 |
1 |
134.60 |
2009-04-07 |
| 182. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
144.27 |
1.0561 |
-0.0140 |
227 |
2 |
144.20 |
2009-04-04 |
| 183. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
156.66 |
1.0585 |
0.0785 |
226 |
2 |
141.40 |
2011-07-21 |
| 184. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
132.97 |
1.0777 |
-0.1181 |
226 |
3 |
98.94 |
2010-02-27 |
| 185. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
131.68 |
1.0272 |
-0.0770 |
226 |
1 |
131.68 |
2009-02-12 |
| 186. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
151.40 |
1.0199 |
0.0722 |
225 |
2 |
139.71 |
2010-07-21 |
| 187. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
118.82 |
1.0194 |
-0.1628 |
224 |
1 |
118.82 |
2009-06-18 |
| 188. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
104.65 |
0.9756 |
-0.2207 |
223 |
1 |
104.65 |
2009-10-16 |
| 189. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
122.15 |
0.9952 |
-0.1098 |
220 |
3 |
107.43 |
2010-02-20 |
| 190. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
136.19 |
0.9935 |
-0.0061 |
217 |
1 |
136.19 |
2011-07-21 |
| 191. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
143.95 |
0.9841 |
0.0543 |
217 |
2 |
135.91 |
2010-02-27 |
| 192. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
132.36 |
1.0016 |
-0.0459 |
217 |
2 |
122.24 |
2009-03-19 |
| 193. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
113.86 |
0.8986 |
-0.0754 |
216 |
2 |
110.66 |
2009-02-05 |
| 194. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
152.38 |
1.0800 |
0.0201 |
213 |
2 |
145.12 |
2009-04-06 |
| 195. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
136.14 |
1.0845 |
-0.1008 |
212 |
1 |
136.14 |
2009-02-12 |
| 196. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
134.62 |
0.9068 |
0.0650 |
212 |
2 |
134.29 |
2009-04-07 |
| 197. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
165.58 |
1.0082 |
0.1859 |
212 |
2 |
146.46 |
2011-08-18 |
| 198. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
152.04 |
0.9503 |
0.1435 |
211 |
3 |
136.83 |
2009-04-07 |
| 199. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
152.31 |
1.0881 |
0.0105 |
210 |
2 |
144.84 |
2009-02-26 |
| 200. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
158.81 |
0.9598 |
0.1922 |
209 |
1 |
158.81 |
2010-08-22 |
| 201. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
132.68 |
1.0103 |
-0.0564 |
209 |
2 |
120.10 |
2009-10-16 |
| 202. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
131.78 |
0.9809 |
-0.0317 |
209 |
1 |
131.78 |
2009-01-22 |
| 203. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
147.16 |
1.0178 |
0.0455 |
207 |
2 |
137.01 |
2009-01-22 |
| 204. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
110.14 |
0.8666 |
-0.0736 |
206 |
1 |
110.14 |
2009-06-18 |
| 205. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
104.43 |
0.8986 |
-0.1463 |
205 |
1 |
104.43 |
2009-01-22 |
| 206. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
123.81 |
1.0197 |
-0.1264 |
204 |
1 |
123.81 |
2009-02-19 |
| 207. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
115.74 |
0.8172 |
0.0148 |
204 |
2 |
115.69 |
2009-02-05 |
| 208. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
123.81 |
0.8913 |
0.0053 |
201 |
1 |
123.81 |
2009-04-07 |
| 209. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
148.66 |
1.0615 |
0.0114 |
201 |
1 |
148.66 |
2010-07-21 |
| 210. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
177.00 |
1.1062 |
0.1780 |
200 |
1 |
177.00 |
2010-07-25 |
| 211. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
150.22 |
0.9880 |
0.0951 |
199 |
1 |
150.22 |
2009-01-22 |
| 212. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
131.06 |
0.8964 |
0.0485 |
199 |
3 |
121.13 |
2011-07-21 |
| 213. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
150.29 |
1.0521 |
0.0301 |
197 |
1 |
150.29 |
2009-04-07 |
| 214. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
105.47 |
0.9352 |
-0.1748 |
194 |
1 |
105.47 |
2010-07-16 |
| 215. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
128.31 |
1.0315 |
-0.1042 |
193 |
1 |
128.31 |
2011-07-21 |
| 216. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
118.53 |
0.9869 |
-0.1339 |
193 |
1 |
118.53 |
2009-02-26 |
| 217. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
138.03 |
0.9713 |
0.0259 |
193 |
1 |
138.03 |
2011-08-18 |
| 218. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
132.32 |
0.8988 |
0.0574 |
193 |
1 |
132.32 |
2009-03-19 |
| 219. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
138.36 |
1.0264 |
-0.0296 |
191 |
2 |
137.15 |
2010-02-27 |
| 220. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
125.32 |
0.9422 |
-0.0413 |
190 |
1 |
125.32 |
2010-02-20 |
| 221. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
140.36 |
1.0115 |
-0.0012 |
189 |
2 |
134.24 |
2009-04-07 |
| 222. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
114.92 |
1.0883 |
-0.2516 |
189 |
1 |
114.92 |
2011-07-21 |
| 223. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
155.16 |
1.0543 |
0.0657 |
182 |
1 |
155.16 |
2009-04-07 |
| 224. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
147.59 |
1.0582 |
0.0069 |
180 |
2 |
143.16 |
2011-07-21 |
| 225. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
127.45 |
0.8624 |
0.0544 |
174 |
1 |
127.45 |
2009-01-22 |
| 226. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
159.01 |
0.9780 |
0.1671 |
173 |
3 |
126.14 |
2010-02-27 |
| 227. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
146.23 |
1.0279 |
0.0247 |
172 |
1 |
146.23 |
2009-01-22 |
| 228. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
126.54 |
1.0125 |
-0.1025 |
171 |
2 |
111.66 |
2009-04-07 |
| 229. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
156.53 |
1.0867 |
0.0421 |
171 |
1 |
156.53 |
2009-03-19 |
| 230. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
133.98 |
1.0617 |
-0.0945 |
171 |
1 |
133.98 |
2009-04-07 |
| 231. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
138.81 |
1.0042 |
-0.0038 |
168 |
2 |
131.24 |
2009-04-07 |
| 232. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
122.47 |
0.9299 |
-0.0530 |
168 |
1 |
122.47 |
2010-07-16 |
| 233. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
160.90 |
1.0288 |
0.1315 |
166 |
5 |
143.47 |
2011-07-21 |
| 234. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
130.29 |
1.0144 |
-0.0711 |
162 |
1 |
130.29 |
2010-02-20 |
| 235. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
143.60 |
1.0472 |
-0.0144 |
149 |
3 |
134.57 |
2009-04-06 |
| 236. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
125.67 |
0.9763 |
-0.0682 |
143 |
1 |
125.67 |
2009-01-22 |
| 237. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
152.63 |
1.0800 |
0.0178 |
129 |
1 |
152.63 |
2009-04-07 |
| 238. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
124.57 |
0.9807 |
-0.0917 |
129 |
1 |
124.57 |
2009-10-16 |
| 239. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
142.33 |
1.0476 |
-0.0271 |
110 |
4 |
125.22 |
2011-08-18 |