| 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... |
100.68 |
1.1016 |
0.2821 |
233 |
17 |
75.37 |
2009-01-16 |
| 2. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
95.27 |
1.0398 |
0.2583 |
110 |
18 |
74.80 |
2009-06-10 |
| 3. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
92.19 |
1.0993 |
0.1644 |
265 |
14 |
76.70 |
2009-01-08 |
| 4. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
91.00 |
1.0516 |
0.1973 |
281 |
14 |
69.11 |
2009-04-16 |
| 5. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
90.88 |
1.1018 |
0.1395 |
220 |
11 |
79.96 |
2009-01-02 |
| 6. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
89.14 |
1.0521 |
0.1666 |
171 |
6 |
76.69 |
2009-04-16 |
| 7. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
87.97 |
1.0033 |
0.1973 |
189 |
7 |
76.82 |
2009-04-16 |
| 8. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
87.79 |
1.0788 |
0.1204 |
171 |
13 |
74.11 |
2009-02-05 |
| 9. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
87.74 |
1.0462 |
0.1518 |
184 |
13 |
74.92 |
2010-02-04 |
| 10. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
87.69 |
1.0214 |
0.1766 |
166 |
16 |
69.46 |
2009-04-20 |
| 11. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
87.61 |
0.9893 |
0.2131 |
323 |
7 |
67.96 |
2009-02-03 |
| 12. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
87.47 |
1.0799 |
0.1168 |
243 |
10 |
72.09 |
2009-10-26 |
| 13. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
86.81 |
1.0565 |
0.1321 |
247 |
21 |
74.50 |
2009-04-08 |
| 14. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
85.93 |
1.0796 |
0.0946 |
129 |
14 |
71.34 |
2009-10-26 |
| 15. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
85.77 |
1.0068 |
0.1733 |
358 |
14 |
68.19 |
2009-04-16 |
| 16. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
85.31 |
0.9675 |
0.2124 |
383 |
5 |
61.34 |
2008-12-10 |
| 17. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
85.30 |
1.0183 |
0.1464 |
191 |
25 |
72.96 |
2009-04-08 |
| 18. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
84.94 |
1.0334 |
0.1254 |
131 |
9 |
74.82 |
2009-04-16 |
| 19. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
84.92 |
1.0444 |
0.1140 |
197 |
18 |
72.50 |
2009-04-20 |
| 20. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
84.78 |
1.0463 |
0.1122 |
182 |
7 |
73.51 |
2009-04-16 |
| 21. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
84.71 |
1.0445 |
0.1185 |
373 |
11 |
74.81 |
2009-02-02 |
| 22. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
84.35 |
1.0668 |
0.0928 |
350 |
12 |
72.82 |
2010-02-04 |
| 23. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
84.28 |
0.9884 |
0.1669 |
233 |
13 |
69.39 |
2009-04-16 |
| 24. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
84.08 |
1.0885 |
0.0681 |
315 |
18 |
72.39 |
2009-04-16 |
| 25. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
83.93 |
1.0596 |
0.0896 |
239 |
15 |
71.01 |
2010-02-05 |
| 26. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
83.70 |
1.0368 |
0.1122 |
276 |
6 |
70.62 |
2009-06-10 |
| 27. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
83.22 |
1.0523 |
0.0848 |
256 |
8 |
71.21 |
2008-12-31 |
| 28. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
83.09 |
1.0567 |
0.0835 |
303 |
12 |
71.91 |
2009-01-22 |
| 29. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
82.78 |
1.0528 |
0.0775 |
201 |
11 |
70.51 |
2009-04-16 |
| 30. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
82.63 |
1.0251 |
0.1059 |
261 |
8 |
66.87 |
2009-02-02 |
| 31. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
82.29 |
1.0696 |
0.0554 |
226 |
8 |
75.06 |
2009-01-16 |
| 32. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
81.95 |
1.0797 |
0.0385 |
210 |
13 |
65.61 |
2009-02-05 |
| 33. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
81.85 |
1.0613 |
0.0620 |
266 |
12 |
72.51 |
2010-02-05 |
| 34. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
81.81 |
1.0396 |
0.0751 |
149 |
9 |
73.05 |
2008-12-22 |
| 35. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
81.63 |
0.9811 |
0.1410 |
272 |
12 |
70.19 |
2009-04-20 |
| 36. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
81.56 |
1.0787 |
0.0384 |
237 |
16 |
72.91 |
2009-04-16 |
| 37. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
81.49 |
0.9833 |
0.1357 |
355 |
14 |
72.36 |
2009-04-20 |
| 38. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
81.41 |
1.0714 |
0.0360 |
129 |
15 |
67.88 |
2009-02-06 |
| 39. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
80.94 |
1.0426 |
0.0665 |
323 |
12 |
66.59 |
2009-10-26 |
| 40. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
80.88 |
1.0483 |
0.0577 |
227 |
15 |
67.85 |
2008-12-28 |
| 41. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
80.77 |
1.0390 |
0.0646 |
205 |
10 |
68.73 |
2009-04-16 |
| 42. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
80.65 |
1.0391 |
0.0728 |
358 |
10 |
69.53 |
2009-04-16 |
| 43. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
80.65 |
0.9756 |
0.1289 |
229 |
13 |
68.79 |
2009-05-12 |
| 44. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
80.65 |
1.0343 |
0.1089 |
242 |
1 |
80.65 |
2009-10-26 |
| 45. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
80.60 |
1.0666 |
0.0386 |
297 |
11 |
70.25 |
2009-04-16 |
| 46. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
80.56 |
0.9632 |
0.1477 |
392 |
10 |
67.56 |
2009-02-23 |
| 47. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
80.18 |
1.0829 |
0.0178 |
288 |
12 |
69.93 |
2009-02-02 |
| 48. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
80.12 |
1.0257 |
0.0791 |
401 |
3 |
75.91 |
2009-05-12 |
| 49. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
80.05 |
1.0125 |
0.0826 |
224 |
1 |
80.05 |
2009-01-03 |
| 50. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
80.05 |
1.0013 |
0.0952 |
273 |
5 |
68.09 |
2009-01-08 |
| 51. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
79.98 |
1.0711 |
0.0203 |
213 |
7 |
72.08 |
2009-06-10 |
| 52. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
79.95 |
1.0534 |
0.0449 |
357 |
16 |
72.37 |
2009-01-16 |
| 53. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
79.83 |
1.0361 |
0.0593 |
269 |
3 |
74.23 |
2010-02-08 |
| 54. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
79.71 |
1.0417 |
0.0485 |
253 |
16 |
69.66 |
2009-04-16 |
| 55. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
79.31 |
1.0025 |
0.0856 |
336 |
13 |
72.35 |
2009-04-16 |
| 56. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
79.25 |
1.0454 |
0.0372 |
255 |
9 |
71.27 |
2009-02-23 |
| 57. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
79.05 |
1.0577 |
0.0224 |
247 |
9 |
70.00 |
2009-04-16 |
| 58. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
78.91 |
0.9682 |
0.1115 |
143 |
11 |
68.87 |
2009-07-03 |
| 59. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
78.89 |
0.9795 |
0.1019 |
308 |
9 |
70.56 |
2009-04-16 |
| 60. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
78.83 |
1.0337 |
0.0462 |
214 |
17 |
70.19 |
2009-04-16 |
| 61. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
78.82 |
1.0613 |
0.0241 |
456 |
13 |
70.22 |
2009-05-12 |
| 62. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
78.70 |
1.0063 |
0.0728 |
371 |
17 |
69.10 |
2009-02-23 |
| 63. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
78.59 |
0.9941 |
0.0807 |
217 |
5 |
67.10 |
2008-12-17 |
| 64. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
78.24 |
0.9468 |
0.1250 |
276 |
13 |
68.81 |
2009-10-26 |
| 65. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
78.15 |
1.0389 |
0.0346 |
340 |
11 |
70.97 |
2009-04-16 |
| 66. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
78.06 |
1.0529 |
0.0168 |
351 |
14 |
70.30 |
2009-05-12 |
| 67. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
78.04 |
1.0515 |
0.0162 |
250 |
14 |
68.11 |
2009-04-16 |
| 68. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
78.01 |
0.9905 |
0.0864 |
377 |
18 |
67.80 |
2009-02-03 |
| 69. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
77.92 |
1.0131 |
0.0509 |
225 |
14 |
65.13 |
2009-01-04 |
| 70. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
77.89 |
1.0201 |
0.0406 |
172 |
14 |
70.44 |
2009-04-16 |
| 71. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
77.89 |
1.0419 |
0.0256 |
261 |
6 |
69.76 |
2008-12-20 |
| 72. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
77.89 |
0.9710 |
0.0900 |
173 |
11 |
68.34 |
2008-12-31 |
| 73. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
77.85 |
0.9233 |
0.1353 |
168 |
22 |
66.72 |
2009-06-10 |
| 74. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
77.79 |
0.9965 |
0.0702 |
277 |
3 |
72.86 |
2009-02-03 |
| 75. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
77.77 |
1.1114 |
-0.0483 |
247 |
9 |
72.67 |
2009-02-02 |
| 76. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
77.73 |
1.0555 |
0.0112 |
363 |
11 |
65.90 |
2009-01-08 |
| 77. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
77.67 |
1.0165 |
0.0518 |
392 |
17 |
69.66 |
2009-04-16 |
| 78. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
77.63 |
1.0477 |
0.0186 |
360 |
8 |
66.86 |
2009-04-08 |
| 79. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
77.51 |
1.0261 |
0.0342 |
273 |
15 |
71.03 |
2009-04-11 |
| 80. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
77.49 |
1.0296 |
0.0387 |
437 |
13 |
69.77 |
2008-12-28 |
| 81. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
77.44 |
1.0498 |
0.0066 |
180 |
13 |
67.75 |
2009-05-12 |
| 82. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
77.40 |
1.0168 |
0.0453 |
271 |
11 |
67.78 |
2009-04-16 |
| 83. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
77.33 |
0.9731 |
0.0741 |
129 |
17 |
64.91 |
2009-04-16 |
| 84. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
77.23 |
1.0441 |
0.0157 |
252 |
17 |
69.34 |
2009-04-16 |
| 85. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
77.15 |
1.0349 |
0.0216 |
234 |
6 |
71.42 |
2009-01-17 |
| 86. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
76.73 |
1.0496 |
0.0011 |
314 |
14 |
67.23 |
2009-04-16 |
| 87. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
76.71 |
0.9780 |
0.0741 |
337 |
10 |
66.98 |
2009-04-16 |
| 88. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
76.65 |
1.0062 |
0.0441 |
288 |
11 |
67.04 |
2009-05-12 |
| 89. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
76.64 |
1.0487 |
-0.0036 |
231 |
9 |
69.10 |
2009-01-08 |
| 90. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
76.52 |
1.0201 |
0.0324 |
375 |
13 |
69.24 |
2009-02-27 |
| 91. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
76.47 |
1.0316 |
0.0200 |
333 |
5 |
71.54 |
2009-07-30 |
| 92. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
76.42 |
0.9768 |
0.0729 |
387 |
9 |
68.16 |
2009-01-03 |
| 93. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
76.31 |
1.0095 |
0.0350 |
316 |
8 |
66.02 |
2009-02-27 |
| 94. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
76.21 |
1.0385 |
0.0039 |
230 |
11 |
68.29 |
2009-04-16 |
| 95. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
76.15 |
1.0340 |
0.0145 |
406 |
5 |
69.55 |
2009-01-08 |
| 96. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
76.13 |
0.9734 |
0.0694 |
289 |
10 |
68.55 |
2008-12-21 |
| 97. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
76.12 |
1.0252 |
0.0112 |
176 |
12 |
65.84 |
2009-04-16 |
| 98. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
75.75 |
1.0429 |
-0.0065 |
259 |
12 |
69.78 |
2009-04-16 |
| 99. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
75.65 |
0.9687 |
0.0724 |
371 |
12 |
67.90 |
2009-04-16 |
| 100. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
75.63 |
0.8941 |
0.1440 |
216 |
2 |
67.74 |
2008-12-04 |
| 101. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
75.62 |
0.9841 |
0.0557 |
334 |
6 |
67.57 |
2008-12-12 |
| 102. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
75.57 |
0.9966 |
0.0381 |
259 |
14 |
66.12 |
2009-04-16 |
| 103. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
75.09 |
0.9965 |
0.0324 |
310 |
10 |
64.54 |
2008-12-20 |
| 104. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
75.08 |
0.9202 |
0.1076 |
254 |
7 |
66.08 |
2009-10-26 |
| 105. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
75.01 |
1.0767 |
-0.0514 |
212 |
3 |
67.44 |
2009-04-08 |
| 106. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
75.00 |
1.0034 |
0.0225 |
302 |
12 |
68.01 |
2009-06-10 |
| 107. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
74.96 |
0.9907 |
0.0345 |
211 |
8 |
69.68 |
2009-01-08 |
| 108. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
74.82 |
1.0004 |
0.0184 |
212 |
16 |
65.30 |
2009-04-16 |
| 109. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
74.79 |
1.0214 |
0.0014 |
269 |
7 |
66.94 |
2009-04-16 |
| 110. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
74.66 |
0.9084 |
0.1161 |
300 |
3 |
61.62 |
2008-12-10 |
| 111. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
74.63 |
1.0331 |
-0.0130 |
234 |
13 |
69.04 |
2008-12-17 |
| 112. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
74.47 |
0.9570 |
0.0647 |
287 |
5 |
66.26 |
2008-12-24 |
| 113. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
74.31 |
0.9846 |
0.0321 |
281 |
10 |
63.84 |
2009-07-03 |
| 114. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
74.24 |
0.9899 |
0.0223 |
163 |
7 |
63.57 |
2009-04-20 |
| 115. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
74.19 |
0.9724 |
0.0474 |
237 |
1 |
74.19 |
2008-11-20 |
| 116. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
74.11 |
0.9831 |
0.0400 |
469 |
8 |
68.82 |
2009-01-04 |
| 117. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
74.08 |
1.0124 |
-0.0002 |
204 |
8 |
63.69 |
2009-05-12 |
| 118. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
73.84 |
1.0138 |
-0.0029 |
231 |
8 |
60.26 |
2008-12-17 |
| 119. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
73.82 |
0.9676 |
0.0517 |
442 |
7 |
65.01 |
2009-02-27 |
| 120. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
73.78 |
1.0023 |
0.0063 |
211 |
8 |
62.90 |
2008-12-20 |
| 121. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
73.74 |
1.0595 |
-0.0471 |
379 |
7 |
66.16 |
2009-04-08 |
| 122. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
73.62 |
1.0109 |
-0.0018 |
276 |
11 |
65.86 |
2008-12-22 |
| 123. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
73.60 |
0.9429 |
0.0664 |
287 |
10 |
65.46 |
2008-12-31 |
| 124. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
73.60 |
0.9635 |
0.0499 |
389 |
11 |
67.80 |
2009-05-12 |
| 125. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
73.58 |
1.0679 |
-0.0399 |
177 |
1 |
73.58 |
2010-02-04 |
| 126. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
73.49 |
0.9275 |
0.0757 |
211 |
9 |
64.30 |
2008-12-21 |
| 127. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
73.46 |
0.9942 |
0.0206 |
483 |
15 |
66.96 |
2008-12-22 |
| 128. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
73.45 |
0.9772 |
0.0252 |
217 |
12 |
64.78 |
2009-01-22 |
| 129. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
73.39 |
1.0240 |
-0.0215 |
256 |
1 |
73.39 |
2010-02-04 |
| 130. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
73.30 |
1.0399 |
-0.0309 |
294 |
5 |
67.88 |
2008-12-17 |
| 131. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
73.28 |
1.0213 |
-0.0210 |
240 |
15 |
65.62 |
2009-02-05 |
| 132. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
73.24 |
1.0352 |
-0.0291 |
341 |
13 |
68.08 |
2009-04-16 |
| 133. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
73.21 |
0.9986 |
0.0046 |
283 |
10 |
64.55 |
2009-04-16 |
| 134. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
73.10 |
0.9168 |
0.0855 |
240 |
13 |
64.73 |
2009-01-08 |
| 135. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
73.03 |
1.0263 |
-0.0270 |
267 |
8 |
59.43 |
2008-12-09 |
| 136. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
73.02 |
0.9681 |
0.0401 |
378 |
9 |
67.52 |
2009-04-16 |
| 137. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
72.93 |
0.9339 |
0.0633 |
310 |
8 |
67.57 |
2009-10-26 |
| 138. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
72.81 |
0.9513 |
0.0495 |
354 |
3 |
64.40 |
2008-12-20 |
| 139. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
72.76 |
1.0486 |
-0.0515 |
289 |
8 |
66.98 |
2009-04-16 |
| 140. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
72.74 |
1.0619 |
-0.0623 |
354 |
6 |
66.34 |
2009-04-11 |
| 141. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
72.70 |
0.9532 |
0.0410 |
258 |
14 |
60.53 |
2009-05-12 |
| 142. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
72.59 |
0.9342 |
0.0633 |
434 |
11 |
65.07 |
2009-04-08 |
| 143. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
72.52 |
1.0352 |
-0.0396 |
341 |
9 |
65.84 |
2008-12-11 |
| 144. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
72.33 |
0.9965 |
-0.0109 |
168 |
11 |
63.30 |
2009-04-16 |
| 145. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
72.32 |
0.9636 |
0.0265 |
254 |
5 |
60.45 |
2009-02-09 |
| 146. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
72.26 |
1.0167 |
-0.0205 |
378 |
13 |
66.58 |
2009-01-08 |
| 147. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
72.25 |
0.9946 |
-0.0055 |
246 |
18 |
65.90 |
2009-02-05 |
| 148. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
72.10 |
0.9164 |
0.0756 |
305 |
5 |
59.17 |
2009-04-08 |
| 149. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
71.79 |
1.0120 |
-0.0299 |
290 |
9 |
63.39 |
2009-06-10 |
| 150. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
71.58 |
0.9769 |
0.0010 |
263 |
11 |
66.99 |
2009-04-11 |
| 151. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
71.57 |
1.0218 |
-0.0449 |
268 |
2 |
69.03 |
2009-02-02 |
| 152. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
71.32 |
0.9527 |
0.0236 |
251 |
15 |
64.30 |
2009-04-16 |
| 153. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
71.31 |
1.0073 |
-0.0231 |
369 |
7 |
62.26 |
2008-12-09 |
| 154. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
71.30 |
1.0289 |
-0.0484 |
276 |
10 |
68.16 |
2009-02-03 |
| 155. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
71.19 |
1.0201 |
-0.0452 |
303 |
12 |
65.09 |
2008-12-19 |
| 156. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
70.94 |
1.0297 |
-0.0598 |
249 |
11 |
68.99 |
2009-04-16 |
| 157. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
70.89 |
0.9964 |
-0.0259 |
203 |
12 |
64.84 |
2009-06-10 |
| 158. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
70.78 |
0.9740 |
-0.0092 |
209 |
8 |
61.81 |
2010-02-04 |
| 159. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
70.70 |
0.9763 |
-0.0090 |
289 |
4 |
66.12 |
2008-12-20 |
| 160. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
70.69 |
1.0016 |
-0.0386 |
218 |
9 |
64.74 |
2009-02-05 |
| 161. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
70.56 |
0.9691 |
-0.0038 |
223 |
10 |
63.15 |
2009-04-16 |
| 162. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
70.40 |
1.0389 |
-0.0736 |
318 |
9 |
65.55 |
2009-04-16 |
| 163. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
70.15 |
0.9514 |
0.0090 |
237 |
8 |
61.03 |
2008-12-22 |
| 164. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
70.11 |
0.9936 |
-0.0343 |
311 |
8 |
64.97 |
2009-01-04 |
| 165. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
70.04 |
1.0197 |
-0.0640 |
226 |
6 |
64.79 |
2009-04-16 |
| 166. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
69.97 |
0.9540 |
0.0018 |
285 |
3 |
62.41 |
2008-12-10 |
| 167. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
69.96 |
1.0053 |
-0.0498 |
232 |
3 |
67.77 |
2009-02-23 |
| 168. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
69.90 |
0.9500 |
0.0089 |
362 |
2 |
64.11 |
2008-12-08 |
| 169. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
69.90 |
0.9646 |
-0.0088 |
264 |
12 |
62.84 |
2009-05-12 |
| 170. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
69.67 |
0.9597 |
-0.0021 |
347 |
6 |
62.20 |
2008-12-11 |
| 171. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
69.65 |
0.9758 |
-0.0219 |
314 |
9 |
62.17 |
2009-04-16 |
| 172. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
69.65 |
0.9330 |
0.0268 |
360 |
9 |
61.19 |
2008-12-17 |
| 173. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
69.54 |
0.9997 |
-0.0444 |
382 |
10 |
60.32 |
2009-02-09 |
| 174. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
69.51 |
0.9785 |
-0.0241 |
335 |
3 |
63.76 |
2008-12-17 |
| 175. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
69.40 |
1.0060 |
-0.0610 |
171 |
12 |
62.61 |
2009-02-27 |
| 176. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
69.36 |
0.9612 |
-0.0120 |
256 |
3 |
68.13 |
2009-01-06 |
| 177. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
69.33 |
0.9786 |
-0.0350 |
193 |
12 |
65.25 |
2009-02-02 |
| 178. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
69.30 |
0.9886 |
-0.0378 |
220 |
6 |
63.53 |
2008-12-19 |
| 179. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
69.16 |
0.9863 |
-0.0355 |
339 |
8 |
62.39 |
2008-12-15 |
| 180. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
69.14 |
0.8553 |
0.0857 |
174 |
7 |
61.41 |
2009-01-08 |
| 181. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
69.11 |
1.0029 |
-0.0636 |
209 |
9 |
62.90 |
2008-12-26 |
| 182. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
68.87 |
1.0203 |
-0.0745 |
261 |
5 |
63.76 |
2008-12-11 |
| 183. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
68.84 |
0.9430 |
-0.0083 |
211 |
4 |
62.97 |
2009-04-16 |
| 184. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
68.73 |
0.9649 |
-0.0256 |
193 |
7 |
63.36 |
2009-02-27 |
| 185. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
68.64 |
0.9857 |
-0.0475 |
293 |
5 |
61.82 |
2009-04-11 |
| 186. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
68.61 |
0.9991 |
-0.0598 |
225 |
9 |
62.13 |
2009-04-16 |
| 187. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
68.56 |
0.9266 |
0.0116 |
267 |
3 |
64.62 |
2008-12-17 |
| 188. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
68.21 |
0.9672 |
-0.0275 |
396 |
4 |
66.30 |
2008-12-09 |
| 189. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
68.20 |
0.9074 |
0.0322 |
396 |
1 |
68.20 |
2008-12-08 |
| 190. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
68.04 |
0.9866 |
-0.0594 |
218 |
7 |
60.87 |
2008-12-10 |
| 191. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
67.80 |
0.9776 |
-0.0499 |
308 |
6 |
61.54 |
2008-12-20 |
| 192. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
67.79 |
0.8916 |
0.0361 |
216 |
5 |
57.97 |
2009-01-03 |
| 193. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
67.78 |
0.9553 |
-0.0208 |
430 |
4 |
62.51 |
2008-12-05 |
| 194. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
67.73 |
0.8722 |
0.0573 |
285 |
3 |
64.06 |
2009-04-08 |
| 195. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
67.68 |
0.9485 |
-0.0209 |
236 |
7 |
57.95 |
2008-12-09 |
| 196. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
67.50 |
0.9411 |
-0.0169 |
318 |
11 |
62.33 |
2009-04-16 |
| 197. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
67.38 |
0.9843 |
-0.0676 |
234 |
6 |
63.43 |
2008-12-19 |
| 198. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
67.35 |
0.9798 |
-0.0642 |
199 |
6 |
64.10 |
2008-12-18 |
| 199. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
67.16 |
0.9844 |
-0.0609 |
293 |
7 |
61.85 |
2008-12-09 |
| 200. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
67.13 |
0.9879 |
-0.0610 |
450 |
3 |
66.67 |
2009-02-03 |
| 201. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
66.86 |
0.9619 |
-0.0422 |
393 |
5 |
61.79 |
2009-02-03 |
| 202. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
66.78 |
0.9894 |
-0.0716 |
323 |
5 |
62.60 |
2008-12-09 |
| 203. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
66.75 |
0.9309 |
-0.0198 |
284 |
5 |
56.83 |
2008-12-11 |
| 204. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
66.66 |
0.9293 |
-0.0168 |
355 |
5 |
63.28 |
2009-06-10 |
| 205. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
66.59 |
0.9852 |
-0.0742 |
264 |
4 |
57.68 |
2008-12-10 |
| 206. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
66.26 |
1.0292 |
-0.1243 |
262 |
2 |
65.29 |
2009-04-11 |
| 207. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
66.23 |
0.9212 |
-0.0121 |
323 |
6 |
59.75 |
2008-12-04 |
| 208. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
66.23 |
0.8996 |
0.0007 |
192 |
5 |
62.60 |
2009-04-11 |
| 209. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
66.19 |
0.9865 |
-0.0802 |
276 |
4 |
60.12 |
2008-12-11 |
| 210. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
65.88 |
0.9005 |
-0.0011 |
212 |
6 |
59.91 |
2008-12-10 |
| 211. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
65.84 |
0.9622 |
-0.0555 |
392 |
6 |
58.85 |
2009-04-08 |
| 212. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
65.82 |
0.9148 |
-0.0133 |
317 |
3 |
58.80 |
2008-12-02 |
| 213. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
65.78 |
0.9614 |
-0.0589 |
292 |
5 |
61.29 |
2009-02-27 |
| 214. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
65.62 |
0.9805 |
-0.0786 |
292 |
4 |
62.41 |
2008-12-19 |
| 215. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
65.54 |
1.0099 |
-0.1166 |
207 |
3 |
63.84 |
2009-10-26 |
| 216. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
65.48 |
0.8890 |
0.0027 |
199 |
8 |
60.14 |
2008-12-11 |
| 217. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
65.39 |
0.9754 |
-0.0752 |
362 |
3 |
64.16 |
2008-12-08 |
| 218. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
65.26 |
0.8602 |
0.0299 |
206 |
9 |
58.77 |
2008-12-20 |
| 219. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
65.21 |
0.9286 |
-0.0380 |
194 |
4 |
56.79 |
2009-10-26 |
| 220. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
65.05 |
0.9820 |
-0.0898 |
267 |
5 |
63.29 |
2008-12-22 |
| 221. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
65.05 |
0.8961 |
-0.0101 |
189 |
9 |
55.62 |
2008-12-15 |
| 222. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
65.00 |
0.9697 |
-0.0808 |
249 |
5 |
56.53 |
2008-12-20 |
| 223. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
64.86 |
0.9723 |
-0.0819 |
364 |
2 |
64.30 |
2008-12-04 |
| 224. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
64.63 |
0.8947 |
-0.0062 |
366 |
2 |
61.72 |
2008-11-26 |
| 225. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
64.25 |
0.8852 |
-0.0048 |
201 |
6 |
57.35 |
2008-12-06 |
| 226. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
64.02 |
0.9567 |
-0.0818 |
273 |
8 |
58.72 |
2008-12-20 |
| 227. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
63.91 |
0.9897 |
-0.1184 |
274 |
4 |
61.42 |
2008-12-20 |
| 228. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
63.61 |
0.9045 |
-0.0348 |
235 |
2 |
60.85 |
2008-12-04 |
| 229. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
63.20 |
1.0025 |
-0.1389 |
256 |
3 |
62.12 |
2008-12-06 |
| 230. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
63.18 |
0.9281 |
-0.0596 |
273 |
1 |
63.18 |
2008-12-04 |
| 231. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
62.93 |
0.8956 |
-0.0310 |
322 |
3 |
59.65 |
2008-11-24 |
| 232. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
62.67 |
0.8770 |
-0.0174 |
300 |
5 |
60.75 |
2008-12-06 |
| 233. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
62.40 |
0.9601 |
-0.1028 |
308 |
3 |
60.13 |
2008-12-09 |
| 234. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
62.17 |
0.8919 |
-0.0442 |
205 |
3 |
58.26 |
2008-11-30 |
| 235. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
61.91 |
0.9213 |
-0.0750 |
295 |
3 |
55.41 |
2008-12-11 |
| 236. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
61.42 |
0.8595 |
-0.0187 |
242 |
5 |
55.18 |
2008-12-10 |
| 237. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
61.29 |
0.9578 |
-0.1211 |
281 |
2 |
59.56 |
2008-12-09 |
| 238. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
61.16 |
0.9279 |
-0.0860 |
317 |
3 |
55.45 |
2009-04-16 |
| 239. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
61.06 |
0.9266 |
-0.0908 |
278 |
1 |
61.06 |
2008-11-20 |
| 240. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
60.86 |
0.9593 |
-0.1233 |
398 |
3 |
59.35 |
2008-11-26 |
| 241. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
60.84 |
0.9426 |
-0.1085 |
317 |
4 |
57.62 |
2008-12-05 |
| 242. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
60.62 |
0.9049 |
-0.0716 |
351 |
2 |
59.56 |
2008-11-27 |
| 243. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
60.41 |
0.9278 |
-0.1001 |
295 |
3 |
50.47 |
2008-12-06 |
| 244. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
60.09 |
0.9729 |
-0.1521 |
255 |
1 |
60.09 |
2008-12-04 |
| 245. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
59.96 |
0.9125 |
-0.0919 |
308 |
1 |
59.96 |
2008-11-25 |
| 246. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
59.92 |
0.9064 |
-0.0790 |
399 |
2 |
58.58 |
2008-12-08 |
| 247. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
59.80 |
0.8810 |
-0.0636 |
282 |
2 |
57.35 |
2008-11-26 |
| 248. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
59.67 |
0.9084 |
-0.0895 |
404 |
1 |
59.67 |
2008-11-30 |
| 249. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
59.62 |
0.9289 |
-0.1171 |
204 |
2 |
58.32 |
2008-12-04 |
| 250. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
59.47 |
0.9851 |
-0.1709 |
317 |
3 |
57.34 |
2008-12-06 |
| 251. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
59.43 |
0.9109 |
-0.0969 |
401 |
2 |
57.53 |
2008-12-09 |
| 252. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
59.39 |
0.9234 |
-0.1071 |
346 |
1 |
59.39 |
2008-11-20 |
| 253. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
59.33 |
0.8826 |
-0.0712 |
296 |
3 |
54.76 |
2008-12-05 |
| 254. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
59.22 |
0.9088 |
-0.0951 |
348 |
5 |
54.34 |
2009-01-02 |
| 255. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
58.47 |
0.9351 |
-0.1425 |
190 |
2 |
58.28 |
2008-12-09 |
| 256. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
57.88 |
0.9365 |
-0.1452 |
248 |
3 |
55.29 |
2008-12-11 |
| 257. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
57.74 |
0.8811 |
-0.0885 |
239 |
2 |
53.99 |
2008-11-26 |
| 258. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
57.52 |
0.8573 |
-0.0688 |
270 |
1 |
57.52 |
2008-11-24 |
| 259. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
56.64 |
0.8105 |
-0.0421 |
204 |
3 |
51.02 |
2008-12-10 |
| 260. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
56.28 |
0.8981 |
-0.1258 |
393 |
1 |
56.28 |
2008-11-20 |
| 261. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
56.24 |
0.9684 |
-0.1985 |
388 |
2 |
55.82 |
2008-12-05 |
| 262. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
56.20 |
0.9376 |
-0.1656 |
367 |
1 |
56.20 |
2008-11-25 |
| 263. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
55.82 |
0.8958 |
-0.1298 |
322 |
2 |
54.05 |
2008-12-09 |
| 264. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
55.78 |
0.9072 |
-0.1481 |
237 |
3 |
52.80 |
2008-12-09 |
| 265. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
55.68 |
0.9372 |
-0.1738 |
320 |
2 |
52.54 |
2008-11-24 |
| 266. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
55.57 |
0.8878 |
-0.1301 |
346 |
2 |
54.23 |
2008-11-25 |
| 267. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
55.38 |
0.8933 |
-0.1316 |
363 |
2 |
54.86 |
2008-12-03 |
| 268. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
54.91 |
0.9087 |
-0.1493 |
393 |
1 |
54.91 |
2008-11-19 |
| 269. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
54.33 |
0.9464 |
-0.2006 |
323 |
1 |
54.33 |
2008-11-20 |
| 270. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
54.00 |
0.8935 |
-0.1477 |
328 |
2 |
52.68 |
2008-11-26 |
| 271. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
52.02 |
0.9048 |
-0.1916 |
271 |
1 |
52.02 |
2008-11-20 |
| 272. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
51.74 |
0.9633 |
-0.2563 |
304 |
1 |
51.74 |
2008-11-26 |
| 273. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
51.60 |
0.9653 |
-0.2542 |
394 |
1 |
51.60 |
2008-11-27 |
| 274. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
50.57 |
0.9398 |
-0.2420 |
419 |
1 |
50.57 |
2008-11-20 |
| 275. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
48.54 |
0.8533 |
-0.1918 |
232 |
1 |
48.54 |
2008-11-24 |