Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
99.37 |
1.1086 |
0.4976 |
233 |
2 |
92.81 |
2014-12-25 |
2. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
97.21 |
1.0090 |
0.5686 |
300 |
2 |
83.65 |
2014-12-25 |
3. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
92.17 |
1.0504 |
0.4425 |
225 |
1 |
92.17 |
2010-10-06 |
4. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
88.35 |
1.0567 |
0.3712 |
314 |
3 |
66.47 |
2012-03-08 |
5. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
88.06 |
1.0540 |
0.3675 |
184 |
3 |
60.64 |
2016-06-18 |
6. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
86.18 |
0.9841 |
0.4082 |
263 |
3 |
63.91 |
2012-03-08 |
7. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
85.65 |
1.0617 |
0.3233 |
171 |
2 |
70.73 |
2014-12-25 |
8. |
Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It's ab... |
85.08 |
1.0390 |
0.3414 |
260 |
1 |
85.08 |
2012-03-21 |
9. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
84.60 |
0.9787 |
0.3903 |
364 |
1 |
84.60 |
2012-03-21 |
10. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
83.41 |
1.0588 |
0.2896 |
281 |
1 |
83.41 |
2012-03-08 |
11. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
83.41 |
0.9421 |
0.4015 |
173 |
1 |
83.41 |
2014-12-25 |
12. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
83.29 |
1.0676 |
0.2803 |
456 |
1 |
83.29 |
2012-03-21 |
13. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
83.19 |
1.0272 |
0.3164 |
226 |
1 |
83.19 |
2012-03-21 |
14. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
82.05 |
1.0509 |
0.2817 |
295 |
1 |
82.05 |
2014-12-25 |
15. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
81.39 |
1.0561 |
0.2586 |
227 |
2 |
70.63 |
2013-08-29 |
16. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
81.38 |
1.0482 |
0.2742 |
407 |
1 |
81.38 |
2012-03-21 |
17. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
81.25 |
1.0800 |
0.2314 |
213 |
1 |
81.25 |
2012-02-01 |
18. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
81.13 |
1.1062 |
0.2097 |
200 |
1 |
81.13 |
2014-02-20 |
19. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
81.00 |
0.9824 |
0.3360 |
352 |
1 |
81.00 |
2012-03-21 |
20. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
78.90 |
1.0881 |
0.1853 |
210 |
3 |
68.06 |
2009-12-05 |
21. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
78.81 |
0.9136 |
0.3614 |
348 |
3 |
57.78 |
2014-12-25 |
22. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
78.38 |
1.0865 |
0.1804 |
237 |
2 |
66.77 |
2009-12-05 |
23. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
77.25 |
1.0082 |
0.2388 |
212 |
1 |
77.25 |
2012-03-08 |
24. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
76.90 |
0.9791 |
0.2594 |
154 |
1 |
76.90 |
2010-10-06 |
25. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
76.85 |
1.0004 |
0.2413 |
373 |
1 |
76.85 |
2011-02-06 |
26. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
76.59 |
0.9931 |
0.2467 |
339 |
4 |
60.61 |
2010-10-14 |
27. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
76.55 |
1.0039 |
0.2389 |
255 |
2 |
65.18 |
2010-11-09 |
28. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
76.52 |
1.0682 |
0.1689 |
266 |
1 |
76.52 |
2014-02-20 |
29. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
76.51 |
0.9271 |
0.3092 |
295 |
1 |
76.51 |
2014-12-25 |
30. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
75.99 |
1.0178 |
0.2106 |
207 |
2 |
64.42 |
2014-12-25 |
31. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
75.96 |
1.0079 |
0.2192 |
273 |
3 |
62.27 |
2010-01-02 |
32. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
75.84 |
0.9801 |
0.2530 |
282 |
1 |
75.84 |
2012-03-08 |
33. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
75.74 |
0.9113 |
0.3183 |
318 |
2 |
68.41 |
2014-12-25 |
34. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
75.35 |
1.0483 |
0.1747 |
305 |
1 |
75.35 |
2012-02-01 |
35. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
75.28 |
0.9352 |
0.2800 |
194 |
2 |
64.01 |
2012-03-08 |
36. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
75.12 |
0.9380 |
0.2750 |
284 |
2 |
62.89 |
2013-08-29 |
37. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
75.08 |
1.0506 |
0.1626 |
259 |
2 |
63.73 |
2010-10-14 |
38. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
74.90 |
1.0753 |
0.1423 |
206 |
2 |
72.62 |
2014-02-20 |
39. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
74.30 |
0.9536 |
0.2536 |
311 |
1 |
74.30 |
2012-03-08 |
40. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
73.81 |
1.0867 |
0.1037 |
171 |
2 |
67.90 |
2014-12-25 |
41. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
73.67 |
1.0128 |
0.1799 |
369 |
1 |
73.67 |
2012-02-06 |
42. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
73.65 |
1.1093 |
0.0779 |
220 |
2 |
65.11 |
2009-02-12 |
43. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
73.65 |
0.9827 |
0.2077 |
314 |
4 |
58.93 |
2011-02-06 |
44. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
73.51 |
1.0291 |
0.1583 |
240 |
2 |
63.85 |
2016-06-18 |
45. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
73.36 |
1.0265 |
0.1605 |
375 |
1 |
73.36 |
2010-10-14 |
46. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
73.35 |
1.0461 |
0.1398 |
318 |
3 |
57.44 |
2012-03-21 |
47. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
73.04 |
1.0253 |
0.1563 |
337 |
1 |
73.04 |
2010-10-23 |
48. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
72.90 |
1.0067 |
0.1797 |
422 |
1 |
72.90 |
2012-03-21 |
49. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
72.76 |
1.0461 |
0.1354 |
286 |
1 |
72.76 |
2013-08-29 |
50. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
72.48 |
0.9517 |
0.2254 |
397 |
1 |
72.48 |
2013-08-29 |
51. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
72.40 |
1.0010 |
0.1741 |
213 |
1 |
72.40 |
2016-06-18 |
52. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
72.24 |
0.9810 |
0.1881 |
362 |
1 |
72.24 |
2010-10-14 |
53. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
71.93 |
0.9597 |
0.2028 |
251 |
2 |
69.20 |
2012-03-08 |
54. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
71.65 |
1.0960 |
0.0627 |
315 |
5 |
59.99 |
2009-09-13 |
55. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
71.42 |
0.9203 |
0.2332 |
350 |
1 |
71.42 |
2014-12-25 |
56. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
71.40 |
0.9917 |
0.1625 |
317 |
2 |
63.31 |
2010-10-14 |
57. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
70.96 |
1.1070 |
0.0396 |
265 |
3 |
61.42 |
2009-03-11 |
58. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
70.95 |
1.0672 |
0.0789 |
239 |
3 |
59.71 |
2010-10-14 |
59. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
70.91 |
1.0414 |
0.1032 |
234 |
3 |
61.33 |
2016-07-02 |
60. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
70.67 |
1.0607 |
0.0821 |
357 |
3 |
61.39 |
2010-10-14 |
61. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
70.63 |
1.0194 |
0.1198 |
224 |
1 |
70.63 |
2009-03-10 |
62. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
70.60 |
0.9918 |
0.1545 |
400 |
1 |
70.60 |
2014-02-20 |
63. |
Don't practice too much at first, or you're likely to develo... |
70.45 |
0.9931 |
0.1538 |
381 |
1 |
70.45 |
2012-02-01 |
64. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
70.39 |
1.0511 |
0.0865 |
252 |
3 |
61.21 |
2009-03-02 |
65. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
70.12 |
1.0845 |
0.0478 |
212 |
1 |
70.12 |
2009-03-18 |
66. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
70.04 |
1.0462 |
0.0868 |
340 |
3 |
59.92 |
2009-12-05 |
67. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
69.89 |
0.9980 |
0.1381 |
341 |
1 |
69.89 |
2012-02-01 |
68. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
69.86 |
0.9632 |
0.1655 |
287 |
1 |
69.86 |
2010-10-06 |
69. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
69.70 |
1.0060 |
0.1271 |
244 |
1 |
69.70 |
2013-08-29 |
70. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
69.66 |
1.0020 |
0.1291 |
411 |
1 |
69.66 |
2014-02-20 |
71. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
69.62 |
0.9315 |
0.1925 |
273 |
3 |
60.23 |
2009-03-02 |
72. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
69.35 |
0.9931 |
0.1249 |
218 |
2 |
60.01 |
2014-12-25 |
73. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
69.32 |
1.0600 |
0.0603 |
351 |
3 |
65.28 |
2009-12-05 |
74. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
69.24 |
1.0144 |
0.1126 |
356 |
1 |
69.24 |
2009-12-05 |
75. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
69.02 |
1.0362 |
0.0813 |
437 |
2 |
64.75 |
2009-12-05 |
76. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
68.56 |
0.9631 |
0.1442 |
273 |
2 |
63.44 |
2012-03-21 |
77. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
68.39 |
0.9737 |
0.1361 |
237 |
1 |
68.39 |
2010-10-10 |
78. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
68.22 |
1.0115 |
0.0885 |
189 |
1 |
68.22 |
2009-03-09 |
79. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
67.94 |
1.0411 |
0.0564 |
341 |
3 |
62.13 |
2008-12-20 |
80. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
67.60 |
0.9519 |
0.1409 |
323 |
1 |
67.60 |
2012-03-08 |
81. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
67.39 |
1.0125 |
0.0733 |
171 |
1 |
67.39 |
2012-03-21 |
82. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
67.31 |
0.9996 |
0.0894 |
483 |
3 |
62.04 |
2011-02-28 |
83. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
67.29 |
1.0287 |
0.0587 |
269 |
2 |
63.21 |
2014-02-20 |
84. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
66.78 |
0.9980 |
0.0819 |
295 |
3 |
55.91 |
2016-06-18 |
85. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
66.77 |
1.0640 |
0.0212 |
210 |
1 |
66.77 |
2012-02-01 |
86. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
66.76 |
1.0192 |
0.0654 |
243 |
1 |
66.76 |
2009-12-05 |
87. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
66.73 |
1.0427 |
0.0353 |
269 |
1 |
66.73 |
2009-03-09 |
88. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
66.49 |
1.0582 |
0.0144 |
180 |
2 |
64.94 |
2016-07-02 |
89. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
66.30 |
1.0372 |
0.0335 |
249 |
4 |
55.52 |
2014-02-20 |
90. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
66.21 |
1.0628 |
0.0084 |
363 |
2 |
65.42 |
2009-02-16 |
91. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
66.20 |
1.0042 |
0.0641 |
168 |
3 |
61.65 |
2011-01-26 |
92. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
66.02 |
0.9839 |
0.0825 |
308 |
1 |
66.02 |
2010-10-14 |
93. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
65.97 |
1.0543 |
0.0093 |
182 |
2 |
64.41 |
2016-06-25 |
94. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
65.90 |
1.0059 |
0.0593 |
283 |
3 |
59.32 |
2009-02-12 |
95. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
65.87 |
0.9503 |
0.1118 |
211 |
2 |
55.18 |
2012-02-01 |
96. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
65.86 |
0.8880 |
0.1764 |
296 |
3 |
58.07 |
2012-03-08 |
97. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
65.24 |
0.9851 |
0.0743 |
237 |
1 |
65.24 |
2011-01-26 |
98. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
65.07 |
1.0125 |
0.0382 |
232 |
1 |
65.07 |
2009-12-05 |
99. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
64.92 |
0.8721 |
0.1839 |
231 |
1 |
64.92 |
2012-02-06 |
100. |
In most cases, there is more to be gained by maximizing the ... |
64.92 |
1.0665 |
-0.0229 |
196 |
1 |
64.92 |
2013-08-29 |
101. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
64.87 |
0.9070 |
0.1386 |
192 |
2 |
53.51 |
2012-02-06 |
102. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
64.78 |
1.0267 |
0.0216 |
261 |
1 |
64.78 |
2009-03-09 |
103. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
64.37 |
0.9927 |
0.0468 |
276 |
2 |
53.78 |
2008-12-19 |
104. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
64.31 |
0.9101 |
0.1297 |
351 |
2 |
59.39 |
2016-06-25 |
105. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
64.20 |
1.0493 |
-0.0046 |
264 |
1 |
64.20 |
2009-12-05 |
106. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
63.97 |
1.0288 |
0.0026 |
166 |
2 |
59.99 |
2009-05-23 |
107. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
63.89 |
1.0404 |
-0.0065 |
406 |
2 |
60.08 |
2010-02-05 |
108. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
63.83 |
0.9852 |
0.0455 |
235 |
3 |
57.68 |
2010-10-14 |
109. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
63.64 |
1.0094 |
0.0183 |
256 |
3 |
51.57 |
2008-12-26 |
110. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
63.20 |
1.0016 |
0.0182 |
217 |
1 |
63.20 |
2010-02-05 |
111. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
63.11 |
1.0466 |
-0.0270 |
230 |
2 |
60.46 |
2009-02-16 |
112. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
62.96 |
0.9637 |
0.0615 |
342 |
1 |
62.96 |
2010-01-10 |
113. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
62.90 |
1.0189 |
-0.0027 |
290 |
2 |
54.22 |
2008-12-05 |
114. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
62.77 |
1.0543 |
-0.0397 |
360 |
1 |
62.77 |
2008-10-31 |
115. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
62.23 |
1.0557 |
-0.0502 |
289 |
2 |
56.69 |
2009-03-11 |
116. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
62.14 |
1.0472 |
-0.0470 |
149 |
3 |
57.04 |
2008-11-29 |
117. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
61.95 |
1.0743 |
-0.0741 |
297 |
3 |
55.49 |
2009-02-10 |
118. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
61.79 |
0.9046 |
0.1010 |
448 |
1 |
61.79 |
2010-10-23 |
119. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
61.73 |
0.9869 |
0.0096 |
193 |
2 |
56.32 |
2009-07-18 |
120. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
61.73 |
0.9849 |
0.0120 |
337 |
3 |
54.24 |
2009-03-21 |
121. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
61.72 |
0.9909 |
0.0068 |
293 |
2 |
60.29 |
2009-07-21 |
122. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
61.71 |
1.0419 |
-0.0394 |
323 |
1 |
61.71 |
2012-02-01 |
123. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
61.58 |
0.9963 |
-0.0030 |
274 |
3 |
57.30 |
2009-09-13 |
124. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
61.29 |
0.7923 |
0.1983 |
316 |
4 |
47.42 |
2012-03-21 |
125. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
61.14 |
0.9604 |
0.0263 |
285 |
3 |
53.01 |
2009-03-08 |
126. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
60.25 |
0.9809 |
-0.0096 |
209 |
2 |
52.93 |
2008-12-30 |
127. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
60.24 |
0.9841 |
-0.0121 |
217 |
1 |
60.24 |
2010-01-02 |
128. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
60.13 |
1.0601 |
-0.0899 |
256 |
2 |
53.09 |
2008-12-05 |
129. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
60.09 |
0.9451 |
0.0289 |
419 |
2 |
57.61 |
2009-03-18 |
130. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
59.93 |
1.0426 |
-0.0762 |
131 |
1 |
59.93 |
2008-12-17 |
131. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
59.66 |
1.0576 |
-0.0948 |
231 |
1 |
59.66 |
2008-12-05 |
132. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
59.63 |
1.0800 |
-0.1193 |
129 |
1 |
59.63 |
2009-02-12 |
133. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
59.50 |
0.8856 |
0.0815 |
369 |
1 |
59.50 |
2012-03-08 |
134. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
59.44 |
0.9768 |
-0.0193 |
237 |
1 |
59.44 |
2009-01-09 |
135. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
59.39 |
0.9765 |
-0.0179 |
269 |
2 |
58.58 |
2009-02-23 |
136. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
59.33 |
1.0057 |
-0.0463 |
382 |
3 |
57.38 |
2009-03-08 |
137. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
59.23 |
1.0464 |
-0.0892 |
294 |
1 |
59.23 |
2008-12-07 |
138. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
59.20 |
0.9745 |
-0.0181 |
388 |
2 |
56.37 |
2009-03-02 |
139. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
59.20 |
1.0033 |
-0.0476 |
203 |
2 |
58.30 |
2009-07-21 |
140. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
59.03 |
0.9561 |
0.0041 |
364 |
1 |
59.03 |
2010-02-05 |
141. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
58.98 |
1.0132 |
-0.0607 |
371 |
1 |
58.98 |
2008-12-17 |
142. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
58.79 |
0.9780 |
-0.0317 |
173 |
1 |
58.79 |
2008-12-05 |
143. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
58.61 |
1.0487 |
-0.1033 |
253 |
2 |
54.06 |
2008-12-19 |
144. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
58.44 |
1.0341 |
-0.0904 |
273 |
3 |
54.09 |
2009-07-21 |
145. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
58.29 |
0.8624 |
0.0771 |
174 |
2 |
51.40 |
2010-03-19 |
146. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
58.22 |
1.0165 |
-0.0763 |
316 |
1 |
58.22 |
2008-12-07 |
147. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
58.07 |
1.0529 |
-0.1132 |
373 |
2 |
55.95 |
2008-12-19 |
148. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
57.92 |
1.0333 |
-0.0998 |
176 |
1 |
57.92 |
2008-12-19 |
149. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
57.66 |
0.8986 |
0.0329 |
216 |
1 |
57.66 |
2012-03-21 |
150. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
57.46 |
0.9332 |
-0.0056 |
267 |
1 |
57.46 |
2008-12-22 |
151. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
57.12 |
0.9650 |
-0.0419 |
347 |
1 |
57.12 |
2008-12-23 |
152. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
57.08 |
1.0736 |
-0.1516 |
350 |
1 |
57.08 |
2008-12-17 |
153. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
56.97 |
0.9981 |
-0.0789 |
211 |
2 |
53.47 |
2009-07-18 |
154. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
56.76 |
1.0270 |
-0.1096 |
303 |
2 |
54.10 |
2008-12-05 |
155. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
56.24 |
0.9762 |
-0.0676 |
249 |
1 |
56.24 |
2009-09-13 |
156. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
56.04 |
1.0197 |
-0.1160 |
204 |
1 |
56.04 |
2008-12-26 |
157. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
55.90 |
0.9271 |
-0.0244 |
323 |
3 |
48.32 |
2009-02-19 |
158. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
55.85 |
1.0006 |
-0.0987 |
311 |
1 |
55.85 |
2009-07-21 |
159. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
55.83 |
0.9957 |
-0.0944 |
323 |
1 |
55.83 |
2008-12-05 |
160. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
55.41 |
0.9756 |
-0.0807 |
223 |
1 |
55.41 |
2009-02-27 |
161. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
55.32 |
0.9740 |
-0.0800 |
371 |
1 |
55.32 |
2009-07-18 |
162. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
55.31 |
1.0639 |
-0.1698 |
303 |
2 |
53.95 |
2009-02-12 |
163. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
55.30 |
1.0208 |
-0.1287 |
231 |
2 |
53.96 |
2009-03-12 |
164. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
55.25 |
0.9884 |
-0.0952 |
267 |
1 |
55.25 |
2008-12-22 |
165. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
55.18 |
0.9310 |
-0.0431 |
278 |
1 |
55.18 |
2008-12-05 |
166. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
55.18 |
1.0250 |
-0.1329 |
271 |
1 |
55.18 |
2008-12-05 |
167. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
55.15 |
0.9685 |
-0.0801 |
304 |
1 |
55.15 |
2008-12-17 |
168. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
55.14 |
0.9183 |
-0.0313 |
252 |
1 |
55.14 |
2010-01-02 |
169. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
55.10 |
0.9574 |
-0.0667 |
354 |
2 |
54.56 |
2008-12-17 |
170. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
54.92 |
0.8718 |
0.0143 |
318 |
1 |
54.92 |
2010-01-02 |
171. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
54.87 |
1.0086 |
-0.1246 |
218 |
1 |
54.87 |
2008-12-20 |
172. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
54.76 |
0.9763 |
-0.0922 |
143 |
1 |
54.76 |
2008-12-19 |
173. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
54.71 |
0.9866 |
-0.1030 |
308 |
1 |
54.71 |
2009-02-12 |
174. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
54.70 |
1.0901 |
-0.2063 |
288 |
2 |
52.44 |
2008-12-19 |
175. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
54.54 |
0.8887 |
0.0016 |
464 |
1 |
54.54 |
2009-09-13 |
176. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
53.92 |
0.8381 |
0.0321 |
283 |
1 |
53.92 |
2008-12-25 |
177. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
53.83 |
0.9673 |
-0.0969 |
393 |
2 |
49.76 |
2009-03-10 |
178. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
53.76 |
0.9103 |
-0.0442 |
269 |
1 |
53.76 |
2008-12-22 |
179. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
53.26 |
0.9644 |
-0.1041 |
398 |
1 |
53.26 |
2008-12-17 |
180. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
53.24 |
1.0615 |
-0.2025 |
201 |
2 |
52.06 |
2008-12-21 |
181. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
53.22 |
0.9402 |
-0.0824 |
310 |
2 |
49.73 |
2008-12-19 |
182. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
53.12 |
0.9673 |
-0.1101 |
292 |
1 |
53.12 |
2008-12-05 |
183. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
53.03 |
0.9143 |
-0.0582 |
300 |
1 |
53.03 |
2009-03-02 |
184. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
52.91 |
0.9927 |
-0.1395 |
234 |
2 |
49.54 |
2008-12-05 |
185. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
52.87 |
0.9952 |
-0.1414 |
220 |
2 |
48.39 |
2008-12-31 |
186. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
52.81 |
0.9392 |
-0.0839 |
360 |
2 |
50.73 |
2009-02-16 |
187. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
52.71 |
0.8993 |
-0.0468 |
366 |
2 |
52.54 |
2010-01-11 |
188. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
52.69 |
1.0199 |
-0.1719 |
225 |
1 |
52.69 |
2008-12-22 |
189. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
52.56 |
0.9145 |
-0.0645 |
404 |
1 |
52.56 |
2008-12-07 |
190. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
52.43 |
0.9068 |
-0.0607 |
212 |
1 |
52.43 |
2012-02-01 |
191. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
52.42 |
0.9500 |
-0.1033 |
287 |
2 |
52.07 |
2009-02-17 |
192. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
52.41 |
0.9265 |
-0.0806 |
254 |
1 |
52.41 |
2009-01-09 |
193. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
52.39 |
0.9243 |
-0.0778 |
240 |
1 |
52.39 |
2009-03-02 |
194. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
52.37 |
1.0279 |
-0.1848 |
172 |
2 |
51.96 |
2008-12-28 |
195. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
52.18 |
0.9709 |
-0.1297 |
264 |
2 |
47.09 |
2008-12-31 |
196. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
52.15 |
0.9309 |
-0.0817 |
376 |
1 |
52.15 |
2010-01-02 |
197. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
52.07 |
1.0135 |
-0.1713 |
358 |
2 |
51.55 |
2008-12-17 |
198. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
52.06 |
0.9927 |
-0.1535 |
262 |
1 |
52.06 |
2008-12-17 |
199. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
51.86 |
0.9890 |
-0.1500 |
272 |
1 |
51.86 |
2008-12-22 |
200. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
51.82 |
1.0181 |
-0.1813 |
276 |
1 |
51.82 |
2008-12-05 |
201. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
51.76 |
1.0590 |
-0.2242 |
250 |
1 |
51.76 |
2009-02-10 |
202. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
51.18 |
0.9119 |
-0.0846 |
396 |
1 |
51.18 |
2009-02-16 |
203. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
51.12 |
0.8986 |
-0.0710 |
363 |
1 |
51.12 |
2008-12-07 |
204. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
51.10 |
0.9948 |
-0.1715 |
233 |
2 |
50.18 |
2008-12-19 |
205. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
51.07 |
0.9538 |
-0.1300 |
276 |
2 |
48.25 |
2008-12-19 |
206. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
51.01 |
0.9864 |
-0.1621 |
292 |
1 |
51.01 |
2008-10-31 |
207. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
50.92 |
0.9594 |
-0.1388 |
258 |
1 |
50.92 |
2009-03-02 |
208. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
50.85 |
1.0101 |
-0.1882 |
336 |
1 |
50.85 |
2008-12-22 |
209. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
50.84 |
0.9084 |
-0.0888 |
271 |
2 |
48.82 |
2008-12-20 |
210. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
50.75 |
0.9726 |
-0.1521 |
396 |
2 |
47.61 |
2008-12-07 |
211. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
50.62 |
0.9885 |
-0.1721 |
355 |
1 |
50.62 |
2009-02-16 |
212. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
50.42 |
0.8847 |
-0.0731 |
282 |
2 |
48.55 |
2008-12-20 |
213. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
49.98 |
1.0227 |
-0.2140 |
378 |
2 |
47.24 |
2009-01-09 |
214. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
49.96 |
1.0103 |
-0.2061 |
209 |
2 |
46.99 |
2009-02-10 |
215. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
49.67 |
0.9332 |
-0.1312 |
295 |
1 |
49.67 |
2009-02-23 |
216. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
49.58 |
1.0018 |
-0.2022 |
246 |
1 |
49.58 |
2008-12-05 |
217. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
49.52 |
0.8964 |
-0.0982 |
199 |
3 |
44.59 |
2008-12-11 |
218. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
49.39 |
1.0419 |
-0.2437 |
341 |
1 |
49.39 |
2008-12-05 |
219. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
49.09 |
1.0777 |
-0.2862 |
226 |
1 |
49.09 |
2008-12-20 |
220. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
49.06 |
0.8474 |
-0.0572 |
265 |
1 |
49.06 |
2008-11-21 |
221. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
48.97 |
0.8603 |
-0.0719 |
270 |
1 |
48.97 |
2008-12-26 |
222. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
48.92 |
1.0418 |
-0.2526 |
214 |
1 |
48.92 |
2008-12-05 |
223. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
48.81 |
0.9027 |
-0.1155 |
189 |
1 |
48.81 |
2008-12-17 |
224. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
48.70 |
0.9922 |
-0.2063 |
264 |
2 |
46.46 |
2008-10-31 |
225. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
48.68 |
0.9833 |
-0.1966 |
387 |
1 |
48.68 |
2008-12-13 |
226. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
48.37 |
1.0479 |
-0.2681 |
205 |
1 |
48.37 |
2008-12-28 |
227. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
48.08 |
0.9880 |
-0.2144 |
199 |
1 |
48.08 |
2008-12-17 |
228. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
48.08 |
0.9541 |
-0.1792 |
236 |
2 |
46.00 |
2009-07-18 |
229. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
48.05 |
0.8913 |
-0.1162 |
201 |
2 |
48.05 |
2009-03-09 |
230. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
47.64 |
0.8666 |
-0.0990 |
206 |
1 |
47.64 |
2009-05-23 |
231. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
47.60 |
0.9842 |
-0.2156 |
335 |
2 |
46.25 |
2008-12-30 |
232. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
47.53 |
1.0669 |
-0.2988 |
379 |
1 |
47.53 |
2008-12-05 |
233. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
47.19 |
0.9434 |
-0.1804 |
367 |
1 |
47.19 |
2008-12-30 |
234. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
47.16 |
0.9801 |
-0.2199 |
289 |
2 |
45.94 |
2008-12-17 |
235. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
47.10 |
0.9228 |
-0.1614 |
305 |
1 |
47.10 |
2008-10-31 |
236. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
46.92 |
0.9346 |
-0.1788 |
211 |
1 |
46.92 |
2009-01-22 |
237. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
45.84 |
1.0351 |
-0.2949 |
276 |
1 |
45.84 |
2008-10-31 |
238. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
45.66 |
0.9909 |
-0.2531 |
334 |
2 |
44.78 |
2008-12-21 |
239. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
45.64 |
0.8959 |
-0.1599 |
328 |
1 |
45.64 |
2008-12-20 |
240. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
45.47 |
0.8988 |
-0.1685 |
193 |
1 |
45.47 |
2008-10-31 |
241. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
45.35 |
0.8986 |
-0.1675 |
205 |
3 |
42.44 |
2009-07-21 |
242. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
45.04 |
0.9658 |
-0.2383 |
308 |
1 |
45.04 |
2010-02-12 |
243. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
44.84 |
0.9928 |
-0.2693 |
293 |
1 |
44.84 |
2009-01-09 |
244. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
43.64 |
0.9339 |
-0.2280 |
317 |
1 |
43.64 |
2008-12-05 |
245. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
42.66 |
0.9957 |
-0.3061 |
323 |
1 |
42.66 |
2008-12-19 |
246. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
42.09 |
0.9011 |
-0.2217 |
322 |
1 |
42.09 |
2008-10-31 |
247. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
41.60 |
0.9128 |
-0.2442 |
237 |
2 |
40.16 |
2008-12-22 |
248. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
41.33 |
0.8830 |
-0.2157 |
300 |
2 |
40.37 |
2008-10-31 |
249. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
40.81 |
0.9357 |
-0.2788 |
204 |
1 |
40.81 |
2008-12-05 |
250. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
38.40 |
0.9636 |
-0.3467 |
281 |
1 |
38.40 |
2008-12-22 |
251. |
Question marks and exclamation points go inside quotation ma... |
37.95 |
0.8469 |
-0.2358 |
164 |
1 |
37.95 |
2008-10-31 |
252. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
37.57 |
0.8778 |
-0.2716 |
285 |
1 |
37.57 |
2008-12-22 |
253. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
37.50 |
0.9166 |
-0.3129 |
133 |
1 |
37.50 |
2008-10-31 |
254. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
31.80 |
0.9479 |
-0.4367 |
317 |
1 |
31.80 |
2008-12-22 |