Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
53.22 |
0.9650 |
-0.0117 |
347 |
10 |
46.54 |
2009-03-09 |
2. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
65.16 |
1.0654 |
0.0974 |
247 |
10 |
58.07 |
2009-03-12 |
3. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
59.25 |
0.9884 |
0.0731 |
267 |
9 |
51.97 |
2009-03-19 |
4. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
57.65 |
1.0427 |
-0.0116 |
269 |
9 |
52.52 |
2009-06-10 |
5. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
57.85 |
0.9434 |
0.0949 |
367 |
9 |
47.36 |
2009-06-10 |
6. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
51.37 |
0.8936 |
0.0226 |
346 |
9 |
47.48 |
2009-01-13 |
7. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
61.55 |
0.9952 |
0.1076 |
220 |
9 |
53.72 |
2009-01-13 |
8. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
62.77 |
1.0264 |
0.0917 |
191 |
8 |
51.31 |
2009-01-13 |
9. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
56.59 |
0.9574 |
0.0570 |
354 |
8 |
53.31 |
2009-01-29 |
10. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
49.85 |
0.8624 |
0.0229 |
174 |
8 |
41.37 |
2009-03-03 |
11. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
51.41 |
0.9762 |
-0.0581 |
249 |
8 |
46.89 |
2009-01-09 |
12. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
60.27 |
0.9673 |
0.1122 |
292 |
8 |
46.82 |
2009-03-11 |
13. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
68.26 |
1.0881 |
0.1290 |
210 |
8 |
57.61 |
2009-03-20 |
14. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
66.64 |
1.0414 |
0.1496 |
234 |
7 |
57.34 |
2009-06-10 |
15. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
66.01 |
1.0600 |
0.1208 |
351 |
7 |
56.43 |
2009-05-11 |
16. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
66.48 |
1.0506 |
0.1380 |
259 |
7 |
56.51 |
2009-09-05 |
17. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
54.94 |
0.8988 |
0.0827 |
216 |
7 |
48.23 |
2009-01-20 |
18. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
59.15 |
0.9839 |
0.0731 |
308 |
7 |
52.95 |
2009-03-12 |
19. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
55.88 |
1.0462 |
-0.0448 |
340 |
7 |
51.88 |
2009-06-10 |
20. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
53.54 |
0.9927 |
-0.0358 |
276 |
7 |
50.22 |
2009-03-13 |
21. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
57.44 |
0.9519 |
0.0785 |
323 |
7 |
53.03 |
2009-03-20 |
22. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
58.03 |
0.8603 |
0.1767 |
270 |
7 |
52.14 |
2009-03-20 |
23. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
61.82 |
1.0059 |
0.1005 |
283 |
7 |
50.19 |
2009-03-13 |
24. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
59.54 |
1.0607 |
0.0063 |
357 |
7 |
50.38 |
2009-05-11 |
25. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
60.01 |
0.9809 |
0.0879 |
209 |
7 |
52.02 |
2009-05-06 |
26. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
71.13 |
1.0411 |
0.2333 |
341 |
7 |
57.20 |
2009-03-11 |
27. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
59.46 |
0.8959 |
0.1723 |
328 |
7 |
51.25 |
2009-01-13 |
28. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
60.18 |
1.0197 |
0.0542 |
204 |
7 |
49.98 |
2009-06-09 |
29. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
62.66 |
0.9922 |
0.1287 |
264 |
6 |
47.14 |
2009-03-07 |
30. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
56.02 |
0.9726 |
0.0335 |
396 |
6 |
50.44 |
2009-06-09 |
31. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
57.75 |
0.9963 |
0.0333 |
274 |
6 |
53.65 |
2009-03-07 |
32. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
62.06 |
1.0272 |
0.0802 |
226 |
6 |
52.63 |
2009-03-09 |
33. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
57.70 |
0.9880 |
0.0389 |
199 |
6 |
51.68 |
2009-06-09 |
34. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
58.97 |
1.0582 |
-0.0073 |
180 |
6 |
52.47 |
2009-01-13 |
35. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
54.11 |
1.0035 |
-0.0363 |
310 |
6 |
49.00 |
2009-03-03 |
36. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
60.88 |
0.9869 |
0.0978 |
193 |
6 |
51.16 |
2009-01-17 |
37. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
64.82 |
0.9980 |
0.1633 |
295 |
6 |
53.77 |
2009-03-09 |
38. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
62.03 |
0.9010 |
0.2105 |
266 |
6 |
53.07 |
2009-06-10 |
39. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
60.83 |
1.0800 |
0.0004 |
129 |
6 |
53.40 |
2009-06-09 |
40. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
49.87 |
0.8656 |
0.0260 |
242 |
6 |
45.29 |
2009-05-11 |
41. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
64.90 |
1.0521 |
0.1029 |
197 |
6 |
54.85 |
2009-01-20 |
42. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
55.94 |
0.9974 |
-0.0018 |
163 |
6 |
47.54 |
2009-03-13 |
43. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
54.48 |
0.9068 |
0.0645 |
212 |
6 |
45.09 |
2009-03-12 |
44. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
51.56 |
0.9698 |
-0.0440 |
389 |
6 |
48.28 |
2009-03-12 |
45. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
73.95 |
1.1198 |
0.2025 |
247 |
6 |
56.52 |
2009-03-20 |
46. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
60.56 |
1.0132 |
0.0700 |
371 |
6 |
51.71 |
2009-03-17 |
47. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
65.91 |
1.0498 |
0.1301 |
261 |
6 |
56.30 |
2009-02-03 |
48. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
55.26 |
0.9981 |
-0.0117 |
211 |
6 |
47.69 |
2009-01-29 |
49. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
58.72 |
1.0006 |
0.0489 |
311 |
6 |
50.58 |
2009-05-11 |
50. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
56.05 |
0.9346 |
0.0640 |
211 |
6 |
44.59 |
2009-02-16 |
51. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
53.92 |
0.9500 |
0.0149 |
287 |
6 |
44.63 |
2009-03-12 |
52. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
55.20 |
0.9315 |
0.0565 |
273 |
5 |
47.58 |
2009-01-16 |
53. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
54.91 |
1.0082 |
-0.0322 |
212 |
5 |
48.97 |
2009-05-11 |
54. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
61.07 |
1.0057 |
0.0889 |
382 |
5 |
52.45 |
2009-07-31 |
55. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
58.02 |
0.9909 |
0.0506 |
293 |
5 |
51.60 |
2009-01-31 |
56. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
56.93 |
0.9636 |
0.0523 |
281 |
5 |
52.44 |
2009-01-16 |
57. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
58.78 |
1.0334 |
0.0166 |
261 |
5 |
45.13 |
2009-06-10 |
58. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
56.41 |
1.0419 |
-0.0309 |
341 |
5 |
47.15 |
2009-06-09 |
59. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
53.48 |
0.9271 |
0.0307 |
323 |
5 |
46.79 |
2009-01-22 |
60. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
55.63 |
0.9841 |
0.0065 |
217 |
5 |
48.98 |
2009-04-24 |
61. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
52.01 |
0.9332 |
-0.0044 |
267 |
5 |
42.50 |
2009-01-10 |
62. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
52.97 |
0.9632 |
-0.0159 |
287 |
5 |
44.22 |
2009-06-06 |
63. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
57.08 |
0.9779 |
0.0406 |
255 |
5 |
51.37 |
2009-03-07 |
64. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
58.28 |
1.0432 |
-0.0010 |
276 |
5 |
51.39 |
2009-01-10 |
65. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
49.93 |
0.9357 |
-0.0465 |
204 |
5 |
44.82 |
2009-01-16 |
66. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
52.98 |
1.0194 |
-0.0752 |
224 |
5 |
50.41 |
2009-03-20 |
67. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
51.56 |
1.0418 |
-0.1202 |
214 |
5 |
48.52 |
2009-01-01 |
68. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
60.17 |
1.0253 |
0.0532 |
337 |
5 |
54.04 |
2009-09-05 |
69. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
57.62 |
1.0320 |
0.0037 |
401 |
5 |
50.78 |
2009-01-20 |
70. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
63.78 |
1.0103 |
0.1244 |
209 |
5 |
55.63 |
2009-09-07 |
71. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
57.03 |
0.9780 |
0.0349 |
173 |
5 |
48.83 |
2008-12-31 |
72. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
56.73 |
0.9594 |
0.0525 |
258 |
5 |
47.81 |
2009-03-13 |
73. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
51.97 |
0.9807 |
-0.0642 |
129 |
5 |
47.77 |
2009-03-13 |
74. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
51.15 |
0.9890 |
-0.0717 |
272 |
5 |
47.61 |
2009-03-20 |
75. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
47.87 |
0.7923 |
0.0627 |
316 |
5 |
39.68 |
2009-03-13 |
76. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
54.22 |
0.9392 |
0.0355 |
360 |
5 |
51.60 |
2009-01-09 |
77. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
58.54 |
0.9644 |
0.0849 |
398 |
5 |
50.58 |
2009-03-13 |
78. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
63.97 |
1.0901 |
0.0558 |
288 |
5 |
55.38 |
2009-05-11 |
79. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
52.34 |
0.9162 |
0.0198 |
401 |
5 |
48.90 |
2009-05-11 |
80. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
54.98 |
1.0033 |
-0.0208 |
203 |
5 |
50.45 |
2009-03-07 |
81. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
56.67 |
1.0529 |
-0.0377 |
373 |
5 |
51.21 |
2009-03-12 |
82. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
54.97 |
0.9931 |
-0.0065 |
339 |
5 |
45.50 |
2009-01-15 |
83. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
61.70 |
1.0682 |
0.0359 |
266 |
5 |
56.27 |
2009-03-07 |
84. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
57.97 |
1.0265 |
0.0132 |
375 |
5 |
49.87 |
2009-03-11 |
85. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
60.47 |
1.0639 |
0.0181 |
303 |
5 |
51.24 |
2009-03-11 |
86. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
53.81 |
1.1070 |
-0.1469 |
265 |
5 |
48.08 |
2009-01-02 |
87. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
60.74 |
1.0189 |
0.0663 |
290 |
5 |
51.19 |
2009-03-07 |
88. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
50.08 |
0.8437 |
0.0497 |
268 |
5 |
43.34 |
2009-03-07 |
89. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
63.37 |
1.0576 |
0.0727 |
231 |
5 |
52.92 |
2009-03-09 |
90. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
58.36 |
1.0590 |
-0.0171 |
250 |
5 |
55.07 |
2009-01-15 |
91. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
61.50 |
0.9685 |
0.1317 |
304 |
5 |
50.17 |
2009-01-15 |
92. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
53.91 |
0.9583 |
0.0052 |
237 |
5 |
50.25 |
2009-02-26 |
93. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
46.87 |
0.8381 |
0.0019 |
283 |
5 |
43.61 |
2009-03-11 |
94. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
56.64 |
1.0567 |
-0.0449 |
314 |
5 |
49.01 |
2009-01-15 |
95. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
55.86 |
1.0672 |
-0.0703 |
239 |
4 |
51.40 |
2009-06-09 |
96. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
52.81 |
1.0181 |
-0.0736 |
276 |
4 |
51.10 |
2009-03-12 |
97. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
52.45 |
0.9841 |
-0.0489 |
263 |
4 |
46.19 |
2009-03-07 |
98. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
61.90 |
1.0199 |
0.0829 |
225 |
4 |
56.08 |
2009-03-20 |
99. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
59.39 |
0.9400 |
0.1241 |
434 |
4 |
52.81 |
2009-03-12 |
100. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
56.03 |
1.0016 |
-0.0021 |
217 |
4 |
50.08 |
2009-06-09 |
101. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
62.47 |
1.0372 |
0.0793 |
249 |
4 |
50.88 |
2009-03-11 |
102. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
54.09 |
0.8964 |
0.0669 |
199 |
4 |
48.94 |
2009-05-11 |
103. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
59.19 |
1.0615 |
-0.0066 |
201 |
4 |
51.13 |
2009-01-13 |
104. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
64.18 |
1.0588 |
0.0889 |
281 |
4 |
56.19 |
2009-03-11 |
105. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
59.71 |
1.0287 |
0.0375 |
269 |
4 |
57.25 |
2009-03-11 |
106. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
49.82 |
0.8993 |
-0.0070 |
366 |
4 |
44.76 |
2008-12-31 |
107. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
54.80 |
0.9425 |
0.0372 |
248 |
4 |
51.17 |
2009-01-15 |
108. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
56.27 |
1.0362 |
-0.0245 |
437 |
4 |
48.08 |
2009-06-10 |
109. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
54.60 |
0.9810 |
-0.0006 |
362 |
4 |
51.25 |
2009-03-11 |
110. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
65.34 |
1.0060 |
0.1632 |
225 |
4 |
50.76 |
2009-03-26 |
111. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
54.76 |
0.9909 |
-0.0087 |
334 |
4 |
47.42 |
2008-12-30 |
112. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
61.30 |
1.0234 |
0.0766 |
392 |
4 |
53.78 |
2009-03-12 |
113. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
69.83 |
1.0333 |
0.2108 |
176 |
4 |
54.36 |
2009-06-10 |
114. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
56.27 |
1.0227 |
-0.0112 |
378 |
4 |
51.14 |
2009-03-18 |
115. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
56.23 |
0.9704 |
0.0343 |
254 |
4 |
49.52 |
2009-03-07 |
116. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
54.71 |
0.9631 |
0.0138 |
273 |
4 |
52.16 |
2009-03-13 |
117. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
62.46 |
1.0267 |
0.0931 |
261 |
4 |
58.59 |
2009-03-07 |
118. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
55.26 |
0.9402 |
0.0452 |
310 |
4 |
50.60 |
2009-09-05 |
119. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
54.46 |
0.8986 |
0.0726 |
205 |
4 |
44.44 |
2009-09-05 |
120. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
66.06 |
1.0960 |
0.0895 |
315 |
4 |
62.24 |
2009-03-12 |
121. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
49.75 |
0.8572 |
0.0293 |
232 |
4 |
47.40 |
2008-12-31 |
122. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
60.88 |
0.9422 |
0.1410 |
190 |
4 |
54.51 |
2009-03-13 |
123. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
50.98 |
0.9541 |
-0.0432 |
236 |
4 |
47.07 |
2009-03-07 |
124. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
60.08 |
1.0165 |
0.0566 |
316 |
4 |
49.74 |
2009-06-09 |
125. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
61.75 |
1.0115 |
0.0872 |
189 |
4 |
56.54 |
2009-03-19 |
126. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
57.11 |
0.9108 |
0.1096 |
235 |
4 |
46.60 |
2009-03-12 |
127. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
54.57 |
1.0130 |
-0.0380 |
288 |
4 |
50.56 |
2008-12-24 |
128. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
55.90 |
0.9927 |
0.0028 |
234 |
4 |
48.57 |
2009-02-02 |
129. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
54.16 |
0.9468 |
0.0205 |
318 |
4 |
48.08 |
2009-01-19 |
130. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
53.79 |
0.9763 |
-0.0160 |
143 |
4 |
46.22 |
2009-03-07 |
131. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
50.51 |
0.9833 |
-0.0790 |
387 |
4 |
44.62 |
2009-01-17 |
132. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
58.47 |
1.0028 |
0.0411 |
259 |
4 |
49.77 |
2009-03-07 |
133. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
59.54 |
1.0086 |
0.0513 |
218 |
4 |
52.26 |
2009-03-04 |
134. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
61.05 |
1.0095 |
0.0805 |
211 |
4 |
50.08 |
2009-03-04 |
135. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
48.05 |
0.8986 |
-0.0360 |
363 |
4 |
43.94 |
2009-02-03 |
136. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
54.75 |
0.9084 |
0.0712 |
271 |
4 |
49.02 |
2009-01-20 |
137. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
62.04 |
0.9768 |
0.1337 |
237 |
4 |
54.55 |
2009-01-01 |
138. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
57.84 |
1.0543 |
-0.0183 |
360 |
4 |
55.02 |
2009-01-20 |
139. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
50.03 |
0.9206 |
-0.0269 |
317 |
4 |
47.11 |
2009-02-03 |
140. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
52.01 |
0.9023 |
0.0251 |
268 |
4 |
49.76 |
2009-01-22 |
141. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
58.06 |
1.0279 |
0.0040 |
172 |
4 |
56.35 |
2009-01-31 |
142. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
54.21 |
0.9745 |
-0.0040 |
388 |
4 |
49.84 |
2009-01-15 |
143. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
56.00 |
1.0472 |
-0.0529 |
149 |
4 |
50.27 |
2009-03-03 |
144. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
59.31 |
0.9597 |
0.1006 |
251 |
4 |
53.00 |
2009-01-15 |
145. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
61.91 |
1.0511 |
0.0575 |
252 |
3 |
56.34 |
2009-03-07 |
146. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
60.05 |
1.0042 |
0.0654 |
168 |
3 |
53.45 |
2009-03-04 |
147. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
60.63 |
1.0487 |
0.0329 |
253 |
3 |
48.15 |
2009-03-09 |
148. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
54.19 |
0.9265 |
0.0404 |
254 |
3 |
46.54 |
2009-03-03 |
149. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
52.95 |
1.0106 |
-0.0659 |
302 |
3 |
47.39 |
2009-03-11 |
150. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
55.00 |
0.9849 |
-0.0011 |
337 |
3 |
48.17 |
2009-03-17 |
151. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
54.25 |
0.9011 |
0.0712 |
322 |
3 |
45.64 |
2009-03-12 |
152. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
49.86 |
0.9673 |
-0.0732 |
393 |
3 |
48.18 |
2009-02-16 |
153. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
54.39 |
1.0638 |
-0.0942 |
247 |
3 |
51.93 |
2009-01-17 |
154. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
48.06 |
0.9260 |
-0.0652 |
348 |
3 |
42.40 |
2009-02-21 |
155. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
60.87 |
1.0404 |
0.0526 |
406 |
3 |
57.09 |
2009-03-11 |
156. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
51.72 |
0.9917 |
-0.0660 |
317 |
3 |
46.60 |
2009-03-13 |
157. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
55.51 |
0.9284 |
0.0671 |
346 |
3 |
52.38 |
2009-03-12 |
158. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
58.68 |
0.8847 |
0.1619 |
282 |
3 |
46.39 |
2008-12-31 |
159. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
48.90 |
0.9128 |
-0.0427 |
237 |
3 |
44.88 |
2009-03-13 |
160. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
62.80 |
1.0743 |
0.0496 |
297 |
3 |
60.66 |
2009-01-29 |
161. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
59.58 |
1.0125 |
0.0475 |
171 |
3 |
51.78 |
2009-03-20 |
162. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
53.96 |
0.9827 |
-0.0179 |
314 |
3 |
53.53 |
2009-03-09 |
163. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
54.49 |
1.0018 |
-0.0281 |
246 |
3 |
46.29 |
2009-01-29 |
164. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
62.20 |
1.0561 |
0.0540 |
227 |
3 |
55.39 |
2009-06-10 |
165. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
47.94 |
0.8666 |
-0.0134 |
206 |
3 |
45.54 |
2009-06-10 |
166. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
58.54 |
1.0094 |
0.0369 |
256 |
3 |
45.98 |
2009-03-03 |
167. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
48.98 |
0.9479 |
-0.0718 |
317 |
3 |
48.75 |
2008-12-30 |
168. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
53.66 |
1.0208 |
-0.0624 |
231 |
3 |
49.41 |
2009-07-31 |
169. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
65.22 |
1.0461 |
0.1224 |
318 |
3 |
54.99 |
2009-09-05 |
170. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
58.09 |
0.9801 |
0.0577 |
289 |
3 |
54.59 |
2009-03-07 |
171. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
51.88 |
1.0476 |
-0.1305 |
110 |
3 |
47.52 |
2009-01-20 |
172. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
56.72 |
0.9680 |
0.0456 |
256 |
3 |
52.27 |
2009-01-19 |
173. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
53.57 |
1.0125 |
-0.0571 |
232 |
3 |
50.08 |
2009-01-01 |
174. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
41.17 |
0.8172 |
-0.0875 |
204 |
3 |
37.87 |
2009-01-01 |
175. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
59.97 |
1.0628 |
0.0111 |
363 |
3 |
49.83 |
2009-03-13 |
176. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
49.75 |
0.9339 |
-0.0399 |
317 |
3 |
47.14 |
2009-03-07 |
177. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
63.20 |
1.0873 |
0.0397 |
243 |
3 |
48.68 |
2009-09-05 |
178. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
60.70 |
1.0669 |
0.0214 |
379 |
3 |
58.84 |
2009-02-03 |
179. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
54.16 |
0.9145 |
0.0565 |
404 |
3 |
49.55 |
2009-01-19 |
180. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
55.06 |
1.0557 |
-0.0708 |
289 |
3 |
53.14 |
2008-12-30 |
181. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
60.17 |
1.0291 |
0.0443 |
240 |
3 |
54.13 |
2009-02-02 |
182. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
58.33 |
1.0777 |
-0.0373 |
226 |
3 |
51.16 |
2009-01-01 |
183. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
49.42 |
0.9359 |
-0.0529 |
355 |
3 |
48.34 |
2009-01-19 |
184. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
66.02 |
1.1086 |
0.0725 |
233 |
3 |
59.80 |
2009-03-07 |
185. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
52.03 |
0.9271 |
0.0017 |
295 |
3 |
44.55 |
2009-01-02 |
186. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
52.60 |
0.9012 |
0.0417 |
322 |
3 |
44.58 |
2009-01-02 |
187. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
55.97 |
1.0351 |
-0.0312 |
276 |
3 |
51.09 |
2009-03-07 |
188. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
55.43 |
0.9957 |
-0.0056 |
323 |
3 |
51.38 |
2009-01-17 |
189. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
54.57 |
1.0464 |
-0.0665 |
294 |
3 |
50.08 |
2009-01-02 |
190. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
55.56 |
1.0800 |
-0.0902 |
213 |
3 |
40.83 |
2009-01-02 |
191. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
50.01 |
0.9380 |
-0.0466 |
284 |
3 |
46.29 |
2009-01-17 |
192. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
60.02 |
1.0250 |
0.0507 |
271 |
3 |
52.84 |
2009-01-13 |
193. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
55.41 |
1.0135 |
-0.0202 |
358 |
3 |
49.86 |
2009-01-09 |
194. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
66.72 |
1.1093 |
0.0784 |
220 |
3 |
57.05 |
2009-01-01 |
195. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
48.54 |
0.9228 |
-0.0518 |
305 |
3 |
47.07 |
2009-01-12 |
196. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
53.75 |
0.8845 |
0.0769 |
239 |
3 |
50.26 |
2009-01-09 |
197. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
56.69 |
1.0288 |
-0.0205 |
166 |
3 |
49.65 |
2009-01-13 |
198. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
48.95 |
0.9243 |
-0.0484 |
240 |
3 |
40.59 |
2009-01-15 |
199. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
53.02 |
1.0341 |
-0.0877 |
273 |
3 |
49.47 |
2009-01-16 |
200. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
49.32 |
0.9027 |
-0.0257 |
189 |
3 |
39.86 |
2009-01-16 |
201. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
64.77 |
1.0877 |
0.0671 |
129 |
3 |
61.03 |
2009-01-13 |
202. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
51.55 |
0.9101 |
0.0144 |
351 |
2 |
46.71 |
2009-03-13 |
203. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
56.29 |
0.9538 |
0.0518 |
276 |
2 |
55.17 |
2009-03-11 |
204. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
54.19 |
1.0601 |
-0.0953 |
256 |
2 |
50.96 |
2009-01-29 |
205. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
43.32 |
0.8880 |
-0.1153 |
296 |
2 |
39.29 |
2009-05-06 |
206. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
58.72 |
0.9948 |
0.0536 |
233 |
2 |
57.43 |
2009-01-13 |
207. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
53.95 |
0.9136 |
0.0534 |
348 |
2 |
53.64 |
2009-03-03 |
208. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
51.84 |
0.9621 |
-0.0392 |
201 |
2 |
50.59 |
2009-02-26 |
209. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
57.08 |
1.0845 |
-0.0656 |
212 |
2 |
55.92 |
2009-02-16 |
210. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
53.45 |
0.8830 |
0.0742 |
300 |
2 |
46.32 |
2009-02-09 |
211. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
63.24 |
1.0543 |
0.0731 |
182 |
2 |
59.88 |
2009-01-31 |
212. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
50.70 |
1.0387 |
-0.1292 |
333 |
2 |
50.06 |
2009-03-20 |
213. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
55.89 |
0.9703 |
0.0349 |
394 |
2 |
49.43 |
2009-03-04 |
214. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
48.61 |
0.8986 |
-0.0303 |
216 |
2 |
46.53 |
2009-06-06 |
215. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
47.15 |
0.9713 |
-0.1312 |
193 |
2 |
45.80 |
2009-04-24 |
216. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
53.46 |
0.9756 |
-0.0214 |
223 |
2 |
47.74 |
2009-01-16 |
217. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
63.84 |
0.9001 |
0.2418 |
217 |
2 |
50.76 |
2009-06-10 |
218. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
47.28 |
1.0332 |
-0.1900 |
267 |
2 |
45.00 |
2009-01-29 |
219. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
49.73 |
0.9709 |
-0.0843 |
264 |
2 |
49.58 |
2009-01-10 |
220. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
58.64 |
1.0403 |
0.0060 |
234 |
2 |
56.11 |
2009-01-22 |
221. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
50.13 |
0.8474 |
0.0481 |
265 |
2 |
42.99 |
2009-07-31 |
222. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
54.37 |
0.9299 |
0.0330 |
168 |
2 |
52.25 |
2009-01-16 |
223. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
54.75 |
1.0495 |
-0.0719 |
323 |
2 |
54.13 |
2009-06-10 |
224. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
58.76 |
1.0686 |
-0.0148 |
354 |
2 |
58.43 |
2009-01-16 |
225. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
53.15 |
0.9143 |
0.0360 |
300 |
2 |
42.73 |
2009-01-17 |
226. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
69.04 |
1.0540 |
0.1760 |
184 |
2 |
61.31 |
2009-01-20 |
227. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
55.42 |
1.0036 |
-0.0125 |
277 |
2 |
52.22 |
2009-03-09 |
228. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
61.50 |
1.0301 |
0.0681 |
268 |
2 |
56.84 |
2009-01-17 |
229. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
48.43 |
0.9310 |
-0.0670 |
278 |
2 |
48.27 |
2009-03-11 |
230. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
53.67 |
0.9829 |
-0.0249 |
229 |
2 |
45.10 |
2009-01-19 |
231. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
57.72 |
0.9603 |
0.0767 |
430 |
2 |
54.12 |
2009-09-07 |
232. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
51.74 |
1.0079 |
-0.0849 |
273 |
2 |
46.53 |
2009-01-02 |
233. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
53.43 |
1.0865 |
-0.1323 |
237 |
2 |
49.70 |
2008-12-31 |
234. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
52.37 |
0.9928 |
-0.0581 |
293 |
2 |
38.75 |
2008-12-24 |
235. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
56.07 |
1.0867 |
-0.0893 |
171 |
2 |
52.98 |
2009-01-02 |
236. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
52.30 |
0.9119 |
0.0265 |
396 |
2 |
51.72 |
2009-09-07 |
237. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
56.86 |
1.0479 |
-0.0335 |
205 |
2 |
55.38 |
2008-12-30 |
238. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
48.08 |
0.9070 |
-0.0536 |
192 |
2 |
45.58 |
2008-12-24 |
239. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
49.93 |
0.9183 |
-0.0260 |
308 |
2 |
48.66 |
2008-12-22 |
240. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
51.15 |
0.9103 |
0.0029 |
269 |
2 |
49.40 |
2008-12-30 |
241. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
42.33 |
0.9332 |
-0.1770 |
295 |
2 |
41.97 |
2008-12-30 |
242. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
62.64 |
1.0481 |
0.0641 |
255 |
1 |
62.64 |
2009-06-09 |
243. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
42.35 |
0.8680 |
-0.1177 |
196 |
1 |
42.35 |
2008-12-20 |
244. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
51.20 |
0.9864 |
-0.0683 |
292 |
1 |
51.20 |
2008-12-20 |
245. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
36.60 |
0.9286 |
-0.2750 |
177 |
1 |
36.60 |
2008-12-20 |
246. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
48.83 |
1.0426 |
-0.1749 |
131 |
1 |
48.83 |
2009-01-09 |
247. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
47.13 |
0.9866 |
-0.1451 |
308 |
1 |
47.13 |
2009-03-07 |
248. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
60.88 |
1.0370 |
0.0511 |
262 |
1 |
60.88 |
2009-01-22 |
249. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
50.59 |
0.9915 |
-0.0891 |
281 |
1 |
50.59 |
2009-01-20 |
250. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
49.60 |
0.9836 |
-0.0980 |
289 |
1 |
49.60 |
2009-01-20 |
251. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
47.45 |
0.8778 |
-0.0291 |
285 |
1 |
47.45 |
2009-01-19 |
252. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
37.22 |
0.9166 |
-0.2511 |
133 |
1 |
37.22 |
2009-06-10 |
253. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
61.10 |
0.9933 |
0.1064 |
450 |
1 |
61.10 |
2009-09-07 |
254. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
51.35 |
0.9352 |
-0.0193 |
194 |
1 |
51.35 |
2009-01-09 |
255. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
43.47 |
0.8913 |
-0.1145 |
201 |
1 |
43.47 |
2008-12-23 |
256. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
45.77 |
0.9852 |
-0.1691 |
235 |
1 |
45.77 |
2009-01-02 |
257. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
49.96 |
0.9621 |
-0.0677 |
212 |
1 |
49.96 |
2008-12-24 |
258. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
45.35 |
0.9927 |
-0.1817 |
262 |
1 |
45.35 |
2009-01-04 |
259. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
50.86 |
0.8794 |
0.0354 |
427 |
1 |
50.86 |
2009-03-09 |
260. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
54.84 |
1.0466 |
-0.0673 |
230 |
1 |
54.84 |
2009-03-20 |
261. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
38.42 |
0.9957 |
-0.3072 |
323 |
1 |
38.42 |
2008-12-23 |
262. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
57.05 |
1.0101 |
0.0112 |
336 |
1 |
57.05 |
2008-12-31 |
263. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
56.94 |
1.0736 |
-0.0535 |
350 |
1 |
56.94 |
2008-12-23 |
264. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
44.37 |
0.9885 |
-0.1969 |
355 |
1 |
44.37 |
2009-03-20 |
265. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
42.45 |
0.8965 |
-0.1390 |
150 |
1 |
42.45 |
2008-12-20 |
266. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
55.25 |
1.0676 |
-0.0759 |
456 |
1 |
55.25 |
2009-06-09 |
267. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
37.17 |
0.9931 |
-0.3350 |
218 |
1 |
37.17 |
2008-12-20 |
268. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
51.39 |
0.8988 |
0.0181 |
193 |
1 |
51.39 |
2008-12-30 |
269. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
44.68 |
0.9324 |
-0.1323 |
246 |
1 |
44.68 |
2008-12-20 |
270. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
52.85 |
1.0270 |
-0.0825 |
303 |
1 |
52.85 |
2009-01-02 |
271. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
51.92 |
0.9842 |
-0.0548 |
335 |
1 |
51.92 |
2009-01-02 |