| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
100.53 |
1.0725 |
0.2176 |
233 |
1 |
100.53 |
2010-10-22 |
| 2. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
97.89 |
1.0033 |
0.2208 |
189 |
2 |
86.43 |
2009-09-15 |
| 3. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
97.53 |
1.0213 |
0.2017 |
240 |
3 |
82.94 |
2009-09-10 |
| 4. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
96.23 |
1.1068 |
0.1432 |
393 |
1 |
96.23 |
2010-10-22 |
| 5. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
95.87 |
0.9843 |
0.2158 |
234 |
2 |
86.70 |
2009-08-30 |
| 6. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
94.07 |
1.0368 |
0.1463 |
276 |
1 |
94.07 |
2009-09-06 |
| 7. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
93.81 |
1.0131 |
0.1619 |
225 |
1 |
93.81 |
2010-04-23 |
| 8. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
93.63 |
1.0565 |
0.1176 |
247 |
2 |
92.50 |
2010-01-16 |
| 9. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
92.62 |
1.0797 |
0.0785 |
210 |
1 |
92.62 |
2009-09-10 |
| 10. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
91.98 |
1.0485 |
0.1419 |
153 |
1 |
91.98 |
2010-04-23 |
| 11. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
91.96 |
1.0993 |
0.0540 |
265 |
1 |
91.96 |
2010-04-23 |
| 12. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
91.96 |
0.9567 |
0.1985 |
273 |
1 |
91.96 |
2009-08-30 |
| 13. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
91.86 |
1.0523 |
0.0976 |
256 |
1 |
91.86 |
2009-09-15 |
| 14. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
91.57 |
1.0696 |
0.0774 |
226 |
1 |
91.57 |
2009-08-30 |
| 15. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
91.47 |
1.0666 |
0.0827 |
297 |
1 |
91.47 |
2009-08-30 |
| 16. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
91.32 |
1.0138 |
0.1331 |
231 |
2 |
85.46 |
2009-09-12 |
| 17. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
91.16 |
1.0486 |
0.0975 |
289 |
1 |
91.16 |
2009-08-30 |
| 18. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
90.72 |
1.1016 |
0.0382 |
233 |
2 |
88.92 |
2010-01-16 |
| 19. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
89.06 |
1.0498 |
0.0640 |
180 |
1 |
89.06 |
2009-08-30 |
| 20. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
88.97 |
1.0168 |
0.1021 |
271 |
1 |
88.97 |
2009-09-13 |
| 21. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
88.49 |
1.0515 |
0.0580 |
250 |
1 |
88.49 |
2009-09-12 |
| 22. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
87.62 |
1.0412 |
0.0585 |
225 |
2 |
82.08 |
2009-08-28 |
| 23. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
87.14 |
1.0340 |
0.0654 |
406 |
1 |
87.14 |
2009-09-12 |
| 24. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
87.09 |
0.9814 |
0.1516 |
364 |
1 |
87.09 |
2010-04-23 |
| 25. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
87.02 |
0.9769 |
0.1137 |
263 |
2 |
78.58 |
2009-08-31 |
| 26. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
86.94 |
1.0613 |
0.0354 |
456 |
1 |
86.94 |
2011-07-14 |
| 27. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
86.84 |
0.9540 |
0.1346 |
285 |
1 |
86.84 |
2010-04-23 |
| 28. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
86.22 |
0.9997 |
0.0864 |
382 |
1 |
86.22 |
2009-08-31 |
| 29. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
86.17 |
0.9852 |
0.0970 |
264 |
3 |
77.71 |
2009-10-13 |
| 30. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
85.83 |
1.0297 |
0.0467 |
249 |
1 |
85.83 |
2009-08-30 |
| 31. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
85.68 |
0.9894 |
0.0907 |
323 |
1 |
85.68 |
2010-04-23 |
| 32. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
85.66 |
0.9612 |
0.1142 |
256 |
1 |
85.66 |
2009-08-31 |
| 33. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
85.65 |
0.9776 |
0.0979 |
308 |
1 |
85.65 |
2010-04-23 |
| 34. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
85.48 |
0.9699 |
0.1026 |
269 |
1 |
85.48 |
2010-04-23 |
| 35. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
85.43 |
1.0441 |
0.0299 |
252 |
1 |
85.43 |
2009-09-10 |
| 36. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
85.30 |
1.0124 |
0.0560 |
204 |
1 |
85.30 |
2009-09-06 |
| 37. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
85.10 |
1.0218 |
0.0436 |
268 |
2 |
78.58 |
2009-09-10 |
| 38. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
84.92 |
0.9851 |
0.0831 |
317 |
2 |
73.38 |
2010-01-16 |
| 39. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
84.83 |
0.9330 |
0.1385 |
360 |
1 |
84.83 |
2010-04-26 |
| 40. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
84.80 |
0.9942 |
0.0791 |
483 |
2 |
84.59 |
2010-01-16 |
| 41. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
84.49 |
1.0214 |
0.0374 |
269 |
1 |
84.49 |
2009-08-30 |
| 42. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
84.48 |
1.0477 |
0.0151 |
360 |
1 |
84.48 |
2009-08-28 |
| 43. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
83.98 |
1.0829 |
-0.0273 |
288 |
1 |
83.98 |
2010-01-22 |
| 44. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
83.86 |
0.9309 |
0.1197 |
284 |
1 |
83.86 |
2009-08-31 |
| 45. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
83.81 |
1.0292 |
0.0214 |
262 |
2 |
79.79 |
2010-04-23 |
| 46. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
83.66 |
1.0767 |
-0.0289 |
212 |
2 |
82.89 |
2010-04-23 |
| 47. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
83.44 |
1.0496 |
-0.0031 |
314 |
1 |
83.44 |
2009-08-28 |
| 48. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
83.09 |
0.9740 |
0.0646 |
209 |
2 |
77.64 |
2009-09-12 |
| 49. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
82.76 |
0.9820 |
0.0568 |
274 |
1 |
82.76 |
2009-09-10 |
| 50. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
82.32 |
1.0320 |
0.0383 |
293 |
1 |
82.32 |
2009-09-12 |
| 51. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
81.92 |
1.0454 |
-0.0212 |
255 |
2 |
75.30 |
2010-04-23 |
| 52. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
81.51 |
1.0167 |
0.0128 |
378 |
1 |
81.51 |
2009-08-31 |
| 53. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
81.48 |
1.0567 |
-0.0338 |
303 |
1 |
81.48 |
2010-04-23 |
| 54. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
81.23 |
0.9279 |
0.0977 |
317 |
1 |
81.23 |
2009-09-20 |
| 55. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
81.15 |
1.0352 |
-0.0145 |
341 |
1 |
81.15 |
2009-09-10 |
| 56. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
81.03 |
0.9109 |
0.1083 |
401 |
3 |
79.52 |
2010-04-23 |
| 57. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
81.02 |
0.9202 |
0.0955 |
254 |
1 |
81.02 |
2010-04-26 |
| 58. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
80.97 |
1.0529 |
-0.0372 |
351 |
1 |
80.97 |
2009-08-28 |
| 59. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
80.93 |
1.0334 |
-0.0246 |
131 |
2 |
72.34 |
2010-10-22 |
| 60. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
80.71 |
0.9905 |
0.0534 |
337 |
1 |
80.71 |
2011-04-28 |
| 61. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
80.68 |
0.9786 |
0.0330 |
235 |
1 |
80.68 |
2011-07-14 |
| 62. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
80.67 |
1.0740 |
-0.0237 |
264 |
1 |
80.67 |
2010-04-23 |
| 63. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
80.60 |
0.9763 |
0.0343 |
289 |
1 |
80.60 |
2009-08-30 |
| 64. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
80.43 |
0.9485 |
0.0622 |
236 |
2 |
77.03 |
2009-09-06 |
| 65. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
80.33 |
0.9831 |
0.0326 |
469 |
1 |
80.33 |
2009-08-30 |
| 66. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
80.03 |
0.9125 |
0.0932 |
308 |
1 |
80.03 |
2010-04-23 |
| 67. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
79.87 |
0.9636 |
0.0381 |
254 |
1 |
79.87 |
2009-08-31 |
| 68. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
79.73 |
1.0034 |
-0.0048 |
302 |
2 |
76.71 |
2009-09-10 |
| 69. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
79.69 |
0.9372 |
0.0664 |
320 |
2 |
70.84 |
2009-09-12 |
| 70. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
79.57 |
1.0029 |
-0.0113 |
209 |
1 |
79.57 |
2009-08-28 |
| 71. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
79.57 |
0.9619 |
0.0413 |
393 |
1 |
79.57 |
2009-09-15 |
| 72. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
79.01 |
0.9879 |
0.0117 |
450 |
1 |
79.01 |
2009-09-10 |
| 73. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
78.78 |
1.0398 |
-0.0623 |
110 |
1 |
78.78 |
2009-08-30 |
| 74. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
78.61 |
0.8878 |
0.0978 |
346 |
2 |
70.15 |
2009-08-30 |
| 75. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
78.45 |
1.0429 |
-0.0605 |
259 |
1 |
78.45 |
2010-04-23 |
| 76. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
78.22 |
1.0197 |
-0.0417 |
226 |
1 |
78.22 |
2009-09-15 |
| 77. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
78.03 |
0.9509 |
0.0660 |
225 |
1 |
78.03 |
2010-01-16 |
| 78. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
77.75 |
1.0487 |
-0.0788 |
231 |
1 |
77.75 |
2009-09-10 |
| 79. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
77.69 |
0.9097 |
0.1060 |
464 |
1 |
77.69 |
2011-04-28 |
| 80. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
77.62 |
0.9884 |
-0.0159 |
233 |
1 |
77.62 |
2009-08-30 |
| 81. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
77.47 |
1.0463 |
-0.0796 |
182 |
1 |
77.47 |
2009-09-12 |
| 82. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
77.05 |
1.0109 |
-0.0120 |
400 |
2 |
76.30 |
2010-10-22 |
| 83. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
76.82 |
0.9785 |
-0.0122 |
335 |
1 |
76.82 |
2009-08-31 |
| 84. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
76.81 |
0.9583 |
0.0484 |
341 |
1 |
76.81 |
2009-09-01 |
| 85. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
76.37 |
0.9485 |
0.0113 |
291 |
1 |
76.37 |
2009-09-10 |
| 86. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
76.35 |
0.9672 |
-0.0036 |
396 |
2 |
73.45 |
2009-09-07 |
| 87. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
76.02 |
0.8602 |
0.0905 |
206 |
1 |
76.02 |
2009-09-10 |
| 88. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
75.81 |
0.9243 |
0.0653 |
448 |
1 |
75.81 |
2011-04-28 |
| 89. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
75.79 |
1.0154 |
-0.0156 |
351 |
1 |
75.79 |
2010-01-16 |
| 90. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
75.78 |
0.9293 |
0.0214 |
355 |
1 |
75.78 |
2009-08-28 |
| 91. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
75.53 |
0.9684 |
-0.0190 |
388 |
1 |
75.53 |
2009-08-28 |
| 92. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
75.53 |
0.9597 |
-0.0089 |
347 |
2 |
73.46 |
2010-04-23 |
| 93. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
75.45 |
0.8961 |
0.0462 |
189 |
1 |
75.45 |
2009-09-10 |
| 94. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
74.93 |
0.9567 |
0.0246 |
184 |
1 |
74.93 |
2010-01-22 |
| 95. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
74.76 |
1.0768 |
-0.0998 |
295 |
1 |
74.76 |
2010-01-16 |
| 96. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
74.54 |
0.9168 |
0.0186 |
240 |
2 |
71.94 |
2009-09-07 |
| 97. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
74.49 |
0.9411 |
-0.0068 |
318 |
2 |
71.12 |
2009-09-10 |
| 98. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
74.46 |
1.0441 |
-0.0697 |
316 |
1 |
74.46 |
2009-08-30 |
| 99. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
74.38 |
0.9756 |
-0.0448 |
229 |
1 |
74.38 |
2009-08-30 |
| 100. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
74.26 |
0.8382 |
0.0929 |
268 |
3 |
68.51 |
2011-04-28 |
| 101. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
74.12 |
0.8933 |
0.0419 |
363 |
2 |
73.65 |
2010-04-23 |
| 102. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
73.82 |
0.9675 |
-0.0330 |
383 |
1 |
73.82 |
2009-08-28 |
| 103. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
73.82 |
0.9429 |
-0.0166 |
287 |
1 |
73.82 |
2009-09-10 |
| 104. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
73.82 |
0.9768 |
-0.0492 |
387 |
1 |
73.82 |
2009-09-06 |
| 105. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
73.53 |
0.9908 |
-0.0236 |
342 |
1 |
73.53 |
2010-04-23 |
| 106. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
73.39 |
1.0343 |
-0.0774 |
242 |
1 |
73.39 |
2010-01-16 |
| 107. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
73.27 |
0.8845 |
0.0339 |
273 |
3 |
66.22 |
2009-09-15 |
| 108. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
73.11 |
0.9991 |
-0.0826 |
225 |
1 |
73.11 |
2009-09-14 |
| 109. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
73.06 |
0.9351 |
-0.0253 |
190 |
2 |
67.74 |
2010-01-20 |
| 110. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
72.80 |
1.0004 |
-0.0945 |
212 |
1 |
72.80 |
2009-09-10 |
| 111. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
72.79 |
0.9339 |
-0.0235 |
310 |
1 |
72.79 |
2009-08-28 |
| 112. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
72.69 |
0.9527 |
-0.0422 |
251 |
1 |
72.69 |
2009-08-31 |
| 113. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
72.36 |
0.9925 |
-0.0494 |
247 |
1 |
72.36 |
2011-04-28 |
| 114. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
72.20 |
0.9871 |
-0.0465 |
209 |
1 |
72.20 |
2009-08-31 |
| 115. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
72.05 |
1.0060 |
-0.1082 |
171 |
1 |
72.05 |
2009-09-10 |
| 116. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
71.93 |
0.9635 |
-0.0571 |
389 |
1 |
71.93 |
2009-09-10 |
| 117. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
71.90 |
0.9365 |
-0.0345 |
248 |
2 |
71.10 |
2009-09-10 |
| 118. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
70.98 |
0.9863 |
-0.0930 |
339 |
1 |
70.98 |
2009-08-30 |
| 119. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
70.12 |
1.0349 |
-0.1576 |
234 |
1 |
70.12 |
2009-08-28 |
| 120. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
69.94 |
0.9723 |
-0.0929 |
364 |
1 |
69.94 |
2009-09-10 |
| 121. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
69.82 |
0.9886 |
-0.1119 |
220 |
1 |
69.82 |
2009-09-20 |
| 122. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
69.48 |
0.9786 |
-0.1140 |
193 |
1 |
69.48 |
2009-09-14 |
| 123. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
69.16 |
0.9088 |
-0.0378 |
348 |
1 |
69.16 |
2009-09-15 |
| 124. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
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0.8753 |
-0.0015 |
427 |
1 |
69.07 |
2009-09-07 |
| 125. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
68.45 |
0.8722 |
-0.0126 |
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1 |
68.45 |
2009-09-10 |
| 126. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
67.77 |
1.0289 |
-0.1764 |
276 |
1 |
67.77 |
2009-08-28 |
| 127. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
67.29 |
0.8770 |
-0.0318 |
300 |
2 |
65.43 |
2010-01-20 |
| 128. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
66.76 |
0.9986 |
-0.1627 |
283 |
1 |
66.76 |
2010-01-20 |
| 129. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
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0.9049 |
-0.0790 |
351 |
1 |
65.60 |
2009-08-30 |
| 130. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
64.60 |
0.9045 |
-0.0964 |
235 |
2 |
61.75 |
2009-08-28 |
| 131. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
63.13 |
0.9376 |
-0.1430 |
367 |
1 |
63.13 |
2009-09-15 |
| 132. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
62.71 |
0.9754 |
-0.1855 |
362 |
1 |
62.71 |
2010-01-16 |
| 133. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
61.30 |
1.0090 |
-0.1993 |
282 |
1 |
61.30 |
2009-08-28 |
| 134. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
61.01 |
0.9128 |
-0.1091 |
369 |
1 |
61.01 |
2010-01-16 |
| 135. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
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0.8105 |
-0.0805 |
204 |
1 |
58.81 |
2009-08-30 |
| 136. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
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0.8852 |
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201 |
1 |
58.71 |
2009-09-15 |
| 137. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
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0.9857 |
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1 |
57.64 |
2009-08-30 |
| 138. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
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0.9673 |
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232 |
1 |
53.14 |
2011-04-28 |
| 139. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
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1 |
51.90 |
2009-09-14 |
| 140. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
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2010-01-22 |