| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
142.07 |
1.0331 |
0.1885 |
234 |
1 |
142.07 |
2012-03-10 |
| 2. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
141.86 |
0.9731 |
0.2432 |
129 |
1 |
141.86 |
2009-05-27 |
| 3. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
136.29 |
0.9966 |
0.1771 |
259 |
1 |
136.29 |
2009-05-27 |
| 4. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
135.93 |
1.0523 |
0.1166 |
256 |
3 |
124.47 |
2014-05-12 |
| 5. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
134.08 |
1.0343 |
0.1604 |
242 |
1 |
134.08 |
2014-05-09 |
| 6. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
133.71 |
1.0444 |
0.1032 |
197 |
2 |
126.31 |
2009-05-27 |
| 7. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
133.59 |
0.9857 |
0.1646 |
293 |
1 |
133.59 |
2008-10-22 |
| 8. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
132.64 |
1.0714 |
0.0667 |
129 |
2 |
118.60 |
2008-10-16 |
| 9. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
130.87 |
1.0567 |
0.0708 |
303 |
2 |
128.76 |
2013-10-18 |
| 10. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
130.86 |
1.0797 |
0.0435 |
210 |
1 |
130.86 |
2010-01-02 |
| 11. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
130.26 |
1.0038 |
0.1487 |
237 |
2 |
121.29 |
2014-05-06 |
| 12. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
130.25 |
1.0529 |
0.0684 |
351 |
5 |
123.10 |
2009-02-20 |
| 13. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
129.93 |
1.1016 |
0.0159 |
233 |
3 |
124.01 |
2014-05-27 |
| 14. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
129.93 |
1.0445 |
0.0745 |
373 |
1 |
129.93 |
2009-12-03 |
| 15. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
128.89 |
1.0441 |
0.1042 |
316 |
1 |
128.89 |
2012-03-10 |
| 16. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
128.72 |
0.9681 |
0.1435 |
378 |
4 |
119.15 |
2008-10-26 |
| 17. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
128.70 |
0.9820 |
0.1276 |
267 |
3 |
115.23 |
2013-10-17 |
| 18. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
127.73 |
1.0396 |
0.0556 |
149 |
5 |
116.29 |
2014-05-09 |
| 19. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
127.70 |
1.0515 |
0.0464 |
250 |
1 |
127.70 |
2014-05-27 |
| 20. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
127.59 |
0.8770 |
0.2230 |
300 |
2 |
122.03 |
2010-04-29 |
| 21. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
127.56 |
1.0486 |
0.0495 |
289 |
1 |
127.56 |
2008-12-28 |
| 22. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
127.50 |
1.0829 |
0.0149 |
288 |
2 |
109.61 |
2014-05-30 |
| 23. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
127.45 |
1.0214 |
0.0731 |
166 |
1 |
127.45 |
2008-10-16 |
| 24. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
127.34 |
1.0534 |
0.0431 |
357 |
2 |
121.33 |
2009-02-22 |
| 25. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
126.65 |
1.0183 |
0.0689 |
191 |
1 |
126.65 |
2014-05-13 |
| 26. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
126.27 |
1.0352 |
0.0523 |
341 |
2 |
123.78 |
2012-03-10 |
| 27. |
Races are not won in the first corner; however, they are oft... |
126.23 |
1.0535 |
0.0654 |
326 |
1 |
126.23 |
2014-05-10 |
| 28. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
124.93 |
1.0555 |
0.0459 |
323 |
2 |
119.34 |
2014-05-10 |
| 29. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
124.35 |
1.0004 |
0.0672 |
212 |
2 |
118.11 |
2009-05-27 |
| 30. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
124.23 |
0.9936 |
0.0754 |
311 |
1 |
124.23 |
2013-10-02 |
| 31. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
123.16 |
1.0630 |
0.0262 |
397 |
1 |
123.16 |
2014-05-27 |
| 32. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
123.05 |
1.0711 |
-0.0163 |
213 |
2 |
122.77 |
2013-10-17 |
| 33. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
122.97 |
1.1296 |
-0.0397 |
252 |
1 |
122.97 |
2014-05-27 |
| 34. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
122.87 |
1.0417 |
0.0143 |
253 |
2 |
115.14 |
2008-12-28 |
| 35. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
122.59 |
0.9622 |
0.0952 |
392 |
1 |
122.59 |
2008-11-09 |
| 36. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
122.52 |
1.0385 |
0.0147 |
230 |
1 |
122.52 |
2008-10-06 |
| 37. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
122.46 |
1.0462 |
0.0042 |
184 |
1 |
122.46 |
2008-10-26 |
| 38. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
122.23 |
0.9893 |
0.0627 |
323 |
1 |
122.23 |
2008-10-27 |
| 39. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
122.05 |
0.9907 |
0.0582 |
211 |
2 |
120.59 |
2008-10-22 |
| 40. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
122.04 |
1.0441 |
0.0060 |
252 |
2 |
121.52 |
2009-02-20 |
| 41. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
121.77 |
1.0062 |
0.0419 |
288 |
1 |
121.77 |
2008-10-22 |
| 42. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
121.58 |
1.1014 |
-0.0175 |
273 |
1 |
121.58 |
2013-10-02 |
| 43. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
120.89 |
1.0390 |
-0.0017 |
205 |
2 |
114.24 |
2008-10-26 |
| 44. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
119.53 |
0.9740 |
0.0524 |
209 |
1 |
119.53 |
2008-10-27 |
| 45. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
119.41 |
0.9941 |
0.0313 |
217 |
1 |
119.41 |
2012-03-10 |
| 46. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
119.36 |
1.0885 |
-0.0290 |
341 |
1 |
119.36 |
2014-05-30 |
| 47. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
119.09 |
1.0073 |
0.0206 |
369 |
1 |
119.09 |
2009-05-27 |
| 48. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
118.68 |
0.8467 |
0.1987 |
343 |
2 |
110.55 |
2013-10-18 |
| 49. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
118.41 |
1.0595 |
-0.0403 |
379 |
2 |
113.98 |
2009-05-27 |
| 50. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
118.38 |
1.0506 |
-0.0028 |
277 |
1 |
118.38 |
2014-05-08 |
| 51. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
118.33 |
0.9739 |
0.0763 |
412 |
1 |
118.33 |
2014-05-09 |
| 52. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
118.21 |
1.0150 |
0.0473 |
325 |
1 |
118.21 |
2014-05-05 |
| 53. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
118.14 |
0.9938 |
0.0222 |
339 |
1 |
118.14 |
2010-03-04 |
| 54. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
118.00 |
1.0296 |
-0.0121 |
437 |
1 |
118.00 |
2013-10-02 |
| 55. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
117.33 |
1.0454 |
-0.0377 |
255 |
2 |
114.19 |
2012-03-10 |
| 56. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
117.28 |
0.9997 |
0.0110 |
382 |
1 |
117.28 |
2013-10-02 |
| 57. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
117.23 |
1.0034 |
0.0040 |
302 |
1 |
117.23 |
2008-10-22 |
| 58. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
116.89 |
1.0095 |
-0.0044 |
316 |
1 |
116.89 |
2008-10-22 |
| 59. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
116.75 |
1.0619 |
-0.0573 |
354 |
2 |
116.65 |
2009-03-19 |
| 60. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
116.64 |
1.0016 |
-0.0005 |
218 |
1 |
116.64 |
2009-05-27 |
| 61. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
116.49 |
1.0138 |
-0.0128 |
231 |
1 |
116.49 |
2008-10-16 |
| 62. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
116.43 |
1.0165 |
-0.0141 |
392 |
1 |
116.43 |
2008-11-09 |
| 63. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
116.39 |
1.0197 |
-0.0206 |
226 |
1 |
116.39 |
2010-01-02 |
| 64. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
115.97 |
1.0565 |
-0.0612 |
247 |
1 |
115.97 |
2008-10-27 |
| 65. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
115.93 |
0.9376 |
0.0620 |
367 |
1 |
115.93 |
2008-10-26 |
| 66. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
115.77 |
1.0679 |
-0.0474 |
177 |
2 |
114.81 |
2013-10-09 |
| 67. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
115.48 |
0.9148 |
0.0799 |
317 |
2 |
110.48 |
2008-10-27 |
| 68. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
115.27 |
0.9811 |
0.0110 |
272 |
1 |
115.27 |
2009-12-03 |
| 69. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
115.22 |
0.9855 |
0.0386 |
258 |
1 |
115.22 |
2012-03-10 |
| 70. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
115.20 |
0.9426 |
0.0488 |
317 |
1 |
115.20 |
2009-05-27 |
| 71. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
115.09 |
0.9780 |
0.0115 |
337 |
1 |
115.09 |
2010-08-19 |
| 72. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
115.05 |
0.9899 |
-0.0034 |
163 |
1 |
115.05 |
2014-05-06 |
| 73. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
114.61 |
1.0109 |
-0.0254 |
276 |
2 |
109.61 |
2013-10-02 |
| 74. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
114.61 |
0.9168 |
0.0688 |
240 |
2 |
110.00 |
2009-05-27 |
| 75. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
114.40 |
0.9795 |
0.0042 |
308 |
1 |
114.40 |
2008-10-22 |
| 76. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
114.34 |
0.9852 |
-0.0022 |
264 |
1 |
114.34 |
2008-10-16 |
| 77. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
113.63 |
1.0485 |
-0.0343 |
153 |
1 |
113.63 |
2014-05-13 |
| 78. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
113.41 |
0.9814 |
0.0327 |
364 |
1 |
113.41 |
2014-05-09 |
| 79. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
113.10 |
1.0669 |
-0.0612 |
286 |
1 |
113.10 |
2012-03-10 |
| 80. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
112.82 |
0.9532 |
0.0161 |
258 |
1 |
112.82 |
2008-10-27 |
| 81. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
112.80 |
1.0677 |
-0.0671 |
284 |
1 |
112.80 |
2013-10-09 |
| 82. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
112.63 |
1.0768 |
-0.0696 |
295 |
1 |
112.63 |
2014-05-09 |
| 83. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
112.53 |
1.0053 |
-0.0387 |
232 |
1 |
112.53 |
2008-10-26 |
| 84. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
112.43 |
1.0025 |
-0.0363 |
256 |
1 |
112.43 |
2014-05-05 |
| 85. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
111.78 |
0.9769 |
-0.0173 |
263 |
1 |
111.78 |
2009-02-22 |
| 86. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
111.72 |
0.9965 |
-0.0364 |
310 |
1 |
111.72 |
2013-10-17 |
| 87. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
111.69 |
0.9570 |
0.0037 |
287 |
1 |
111.69 |
2014-05-08 |
| 88. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
111.31 |
1.0251 |
-0.0697 |
261 |
1 |
111.31 |
2008-10-16 |
| 89. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
110.87 |
0.9649 |
-0.0125 |
193 |
2 |
110.63 |
2008-10-16 |
| 90. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
110.85 |
1.0177 |
-0.0312 |
392 |
1 |
110.85 |
2013-10-18 |
| 91. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
110.78 |
0.9005 |
0.0521 |
212 |
1 |
110.78 |
2008-12-28 |
| 92. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
110.63 |
1.0426 |
-0.0913 |
323 |
1 |
110.63 |
2008-10-16 |
| 93. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
110.62 |
0.9863 |
-0.0335 |
339 |
1 |
110.62 |
2008-10-22 |
| 94. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
110.46 |
1.0060 |
-0.0592 |
171 |
1 |
110.46 |
2014-05-09 |
| 95. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
110.45 |
0.9866 |
-0.0394 |
218 |
1 |
110.45 |
2008-10-14 |
| 96. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
110.29 |
0.9734 |
-0.0260 |
289 |
1 |
110.29 |
2008-10-06 |
| 97. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
110.17 |
1.0031 |
-0.0221 |
304 |
1 |
110.17 |
2014-05-09 |
| 98. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
110.03 |
1.0389 |
-0.0924 |
340 |
2 |
108.69 |
2008-10-28 |
| 99. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
109.51 |
0.9619 |
-0.0179 |
393 |
1 |
109.51 |
2010-01-02 |
| 100. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
109.31 |
1.0763 |
-0.0989 |
367 |
1 |
109.31 |
2014-05-09 |
| 101. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
109.14 |
0.9905 |
-0.0488 |
377 |
2 |
108.33 |
2008-10-22 |
| 102. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
108.83 |
1.1162 |
-0.1406 |
189 |
1 |
108.83 |
2010-03-04 |
| 103. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
108.40 |
0.9831 |
-0.0475 |
469 |
1 |
108.40 |
2008-10-16 |
| 104. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
108.08 |
0.9614 |
-0.0320 |
292 |
2 |
106.07 |
2014-05-27 |
| 105. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
107.94 |
0.8961 |
0.0312 |
189 |
1 |
107.94 |
2008-10-14 |
| 106. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
107.94 |
1.0788 |
-0.1547 |
171 |
1 |
107.94 |
2010-01-02 |
| 107. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
107.76 |
1.0917 |
-0.1387 |
243 |
1 |
107.76 |
2014-05-27 |
| 108. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
107.64 |
1.0796 |
-0.1584 |
129 |
1 |
107.64 |
2008-10-16 |
| 109. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
107.61 |
0.9846 |
-0.0607 |
281 |
1 |
107.61 |
2009-02-20 |
| 110. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
107.33 |
0.9635 |
-0.0395 |
389 |
1 |
107.33 |
2010-04-29 |
| 111. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
106.90 |
1.0429 |
-0.1254 |
259 |
1 |
106.90 |
2008-10-13 |
| 112. |
As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit... |
106.79 |
0.9898 |
-0.0383 |
353 |
1 |
106.79 |
2013-10-18 |
| 113. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
106.69 |
0.9709 |
-0.0186 |
397 |
1 |
106.69 |
2010-04-29 |
| 114. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
106.51 |
1.0375 |
-0.0749 |
200 |
1 |
106.51 |
2009-12-03 |
| 115. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
106.46 |
0.9120 |
0.0327 |
436 |
1 |
106.46 |
2014-05-27 |
| 116. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
105.88 |
1.0201 |
-0.1096 |
303 |
1 |
105.88 |
2008-11-09 |
| 117. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
105.65 |
0.9125 |
-0.0041 |
308 |
1 |
105.65 |
2012-03-10 |
| 118. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
104.77 |
0.9485 |
-0.0463 |
291 |
1 |
104.77 |
2010-08-19 |
| 119. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
104.68 |
0.9557 |
-0.0529 |
331 |
1 |
104.68 |
2008-10-16 |
| 120. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
103.56 |
0.9468 |
-0.0580 |
276 |
1 |
103.56 |
2013-10-02 |
| 121. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
102.30 |
0.8602 |
0.0177 |
206 |
1 |
102.30 |
2008-10-16 |
| 122. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
101.65 |
0.9064 |
-0.0283 |
399 |
1 |
101.65 |
2012-03-10 |
| 123. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
101.64 |
0.7876 |
0.0881 |
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101.64 |
2008-10-06 |
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Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
101.33 |
0.9805 |
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292 |
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101.33 |
2008-12-28 |
| 125. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
101.24 |
0.9088 |
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101.24 |
2013-10-02 |
| 126. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
100.64 |
1.0477 |
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360 |
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100.64 |
2008-10-22 |
| 127. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
99.76 |
1.0169 |
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346 |
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99.76 |
2010-08-19 |
| 128. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
99.03 |
0.9109 |
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401 |
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99.03 |
2008-10-16 |
| 129. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
98.85 |
0.9675 |
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383 |
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98.85 |
2008-10-06 |
| 130. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
98.64 |
0.9464 |
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323 |
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98.64 |
2008-10-06 |
| 131. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
98.04 |
0.9976 |
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98.04 |
2012-03-10 |
| 132. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
96.72 |
0.9672 |
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396 |
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96.72 |
2008-10-06 |
| 133. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
96.32 |
0.9529 |
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269 |
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88.62 |
2014-05-09 |
| 134. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
95.47 |
0.8916 |
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216 |
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95.47 |
2012-03-10 |
| 135. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
95.35 |
0.8941 |
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216 |
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95.35 |
2008-10-06 |
| 136. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
93.41 |
1.0201 |
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172 |
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93.41 |
2008-10-06 |
| 137. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
88.47 |
0.9084 |
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404 |
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88.47 |
2008-10-22 |
| 138. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
86.30 |
1.0232 |
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350 |
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86.30 |
2010-01-02 |
| 139. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
83.19 |
0.9289 |
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83.19 |
2008-10-06 |