| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
70.48 |
1.0788 |
0.3359 |
171 |
5 |
53.72 |
2014-02-17 |
| 2. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
67.44 |
0.9899 |
0.3638 |
163 |
5 |
52.32 |
2014-03-21 |
| 3. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
65.21 |
1.0797 |
0.2280 |
210 |
2 |
59.92 |
2014-01-13 |
| 4. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
65.19 |
1.0644 |
0.2849 |
257 |
2 |
62.55 |
2014-02-07 |
| 5. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
65.05 |
1.0205 |
0.2823 |
179 |
1 |
65.05 |
2013-12-10 |
| 6. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
64.22 |
0.8884 |
0.4045 |
135 |
3 |
51.49 |
2013-10-25 |
| 7. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
63.97 |
1.0523 |
0.2315 |
256 |
2 |
56.83 |
2013-12-03 |
| 8. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
63.85 |
1.0799 |
0.2019 |
243 |
5 |
54.60 |
2014-01-17 |
| 9. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
63.58 |
0.8793 |
0.4016 |
157 |
4 |
48.90 |
2013-12-13 |
| 10. |
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly... |
62.70 |
1.0314 |
0.2271 |
172 |
1 |
62.70 |
2014-03-21 |
| 11. |
Being comfortable in the car is critical. If you're not comf... |
62.67 |
0.9911 |
0.2669 |
212 |
4 |
53.37 |
2014-02-06 |
| 12. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
62.45 |
1.0485 |
0.2429 |
153 |
2 |
61.28 |
2013-09-23 |
| 13. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
62.38 |
1.0993 |
0.1544 |
265 |
1 |
62.38 |
2014-01-10 |
| 14. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
61.93 |
1.0240 |
0.2194 |
256 |
3 |
56.02 |
2014-01-09 |
| 15. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
61.40 |
1.0547 |
0.2159 |
257 |
2 |
55.79 |
2013-12-22 |
| 16. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
61.36 |
1.0531 |
0.2200 |
272 |
1 |
61.36 |
2013-10-11 |
| 17. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
61.25 |
0.9897 |
0.2406 |
274 |
2 |
56.18 |
2014-01-31 |
| 18. |
How do I live without the ones I love? Time still turns the ... |
61.22 |
1.0381 |
0.1830 |
170 |
2 |
58.60 |
2014-03-21 |
| 19. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
61.12 |
1.0696 |
0.1571 |
226 |
3 |
51.23 |
2013-10-11 |
| 20. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
61.11 |
1.0074 |
0.2239 |
242 |
9 |
54.86 |
2014-02-07 |
| 21. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
61.03 |
1.0463 |
0.1772 |
182 |
2 |
59.95 |
2014-03-06 |
| 22. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
60.85 |
1.0725 |
0.1777 |
233 |
1 |
60.85 |
2014-01-10 |
| 23. |
First of all, you must be comfortable, otherwise it will be ... |
60.68 |
0.9831 |
0.2346 |
222 |
1 |
60.68 |
2014-03-06 |
| 24. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
59.87 |
1.1014 |
0.1409 |
273 |
1 |
59.87 |
2014-02-07 |
| 25. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
59.80 |
1.0487 |
0.1494 |
231 |
4 |
53.22 |
2014-01-17 |
| 26. |
I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They ... |
59.72 |
0.9774 |
0.2229 |
196 |
1 |
59.72 |
2014-03-07 |
| 27. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
59.42 |
1.0565 |
0.1361 |
247 |
2 |
55.10 |
2014-01-17 |
| 28. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
59.26 |
1.0151 |
0.1677 |
152 |
3 |
54.17 |
2013-12-17 |
| 29. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
59.15 |
0.9161 |
0.2714 |
200 |
2 |
52.68 |
2013-09-24 |
| 30. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
59.06 |
0.9729 |
0.2152 |
255 |
1 |
59.06 |
2013-11-22 |
| 31. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
58.88 |
1.0615 |
0.1485 |
305 |
1 |
58.88 |
2014-03-21 |
| 32. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
58.73 |
0.9790 |
0.2431 |
311 |
1 |
58.73 |
2014-03-12 |
| 33. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
58.36 |
1.0214 |
0.1949 |
281 |
1 |
58.36 |
2014-05-05 |
| 34. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
58.31 |
0.9820 |
0.1905 |
274 |
2 |
55.25 |
2014-01-10 |
| 35. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
57.99 |
1.0403 |
0.1408 |
193 |
2 |
52.48 |
2014-02-07 |
| 36. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
57.90 |
1.0515 |
0.1109 |
250 |
4 |
52.72 |
2014-03-21 |
| 37. |
Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, foc... |
57.82 |
1.0673 |
0.1373 |
230 |
3 |
54.19 |
2014-04-04 |
| 38. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
57.82 |
0.9792 |
0.2221 |
265 |
2 |
54.18 |
2014-01-21 |
| 39. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
57.78 |
1.0677 |
0.1247 |
284 |
3 |
54.71 |
2013-12-13 |
| 40. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
57.70 |
1.0533 |
0.1341 |
257 |
2 |
51.96 |
2013-12-13 |
| 41. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
57.67 |
1.0361 |
0.1246 |
269 |
2 |
52.98 |
2013-11-04 |
| 42. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
57.65 |
1.0183 |
0.1358 |
191 |
2 |
52.59 |
2013-10-25 |
| 43. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
57.40 |
1.0375 |
0.1627 |
200 |
3 |
47.63 |
2013-12-03 |
| 44. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
57.29 |
1.0388 |
0.1451 |
243 |
2 |
51.93 |
2014-01-10 |
| 45. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
57.11 |
0.9649 |
0.1828 |
193 |
2 |
52.78 |
2014-02-21 |
| 46. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
57.04 |
1.1162 |
0.0721 |
189 |
3 |
53.74 |
2013-11-05 |
| 47. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
56.95 |
0.9769 |
0.1664 |
263 |
2 |
53.04 |
2014-03-07 |
| 48. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
56.95 |
1.0398 |
0.0945 |
110 |
2 |
53.33 |
2014-01-10 |
| 49. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
56.88 |
0.9740 |
0.1655 |
209 |
4 |
47.81 |
2013-09-18 |
| 50. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
56.34 |
1.0905 |
0.0739 |
210 |
2 |
52.67 |
2013-11-07 |
| 51. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
56.08 |
1.0385 |
0.0872 |
230 |
2 |
49.12 |
2014-01-17 |
| 52. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
55.91 |
0.9576 |
0.1705 |
212 |
2 |
50.28 |
2013-12-09 |
| 53. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
55.86 |
0.9697 |
0.1575 |
266 |
1 |
55.86 |
2014-04-16 |
| 54. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
55.46 |
1.0944 |
0.0650 |
308 |
1 |
55.46 |
2014-04-04 |
| 55. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
55.31 |
0.8533 |
0.2594 |
232 |
2 |
52.57 |
2013-12-17 |
| 56. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
55.19 |
0.9207 |
0.1908 |
174 |
1 |
55.19 |
2014-03-07 |
| 57. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
55.06 |
0.9886 |
0.1206 |
220 |
2 |
52.47 |
2014-02-06 |
| 58. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
54.96 |
0.9688 |
0.1350 |
217 |
1 |
54.96 |
2013-09-18 |
| 59. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
54.90 |
0.9266 |
0.1767 |
267 |
1 |
54.90 |
2013-12-16 |
| 60. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
54.68 |
0.9097 |
0.1893 |
153 |
2 |
49.09 |
2014-03-06 |
| 61. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
54.50 |
1.0863 |
0.0439 |
210 |
1 |
54.50 |
2013-10-10 |
| 62. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
54.49 |
1.0515 |
0.0355 |
166 |
3 |
49.07 |
2013-12-02 |
| 63. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
54.40 |
0.9353 |
0.1535 |
177 |
3 |
47.87 |
2014-02-21 |
| 64. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
54.00 |
1.1323 |
-0.0132 |
341 |
1 |
54.00 |
2013-12-17 |
| 65. |
While you were sleeping, you tossed, you turned. You rolled ... |
53.87 |
0.8614 |
0.2186 |
172 |
1 |
53.87 |
2013-11-22 |
| 66. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
53.78 |
0.9636 |
0.1168 |
254 |
2 |
48.33 |
2014-02-07 |
| 67. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
53.74 |
1.0787 |
-0.0003 |
237 |
2 |
52.63 |
2014-01-10 |
| 68. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
53.66 |
1.1215 |
-0.0194 |
200 |
4 |
45.94 |
2013-11-07 |
| 69. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
53.58 |
0.8951 |
0.1838 |
193 |
3 |
48.79 |
2013-12-17 |
| 70. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
53.55 |
1.0528 |
0.0186 |
201 |
1 |
53.55 |
2014-03-21 |
| 71. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
53.30 |
1.0668 |
0.0064 |
350 |
1 |
53.30 |
2013-12-17 |
| 72. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
53.21 |
0.9572 |
0.1104 |
201 |
3 |
48.01 |
2013-11-18 |
| 73. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
53.15 |
1.0270 |
0.0768 |
255 |
4 |
47.87 |
2014-04-17 |
| 74. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
53.13 |
1.0390 |
0.0248 |
205 |
4 |
51.09 |
2014-01-17 |
| 75. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
53.04 |
1.0034 |
0.0611 |
302 |
2 |
49.94 |
2013-12-17 |
| 76. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
52.98 |
1.0252 |
0.0327 |
176 |
2 |
48.94 |
2013-10-04 |
| 77. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
52.94 |
0.9226 |
0.1449 |
177 |
1 |
52.94 |
2013-10-15 |
| 78. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
52.87 |
0.8811 |
0.1853 |
239 |
4 |
42.65 |
2014-03-21 |
| 79. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
52.83 |
1.0486 |
0.0135 |
289 |
3 |
50.49 |
2014-04-16 |
| 80. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
52.78 |
0.9706 |
0.0936 |
216 |
2 |
52.77 |
2013-12-06 |
| 81. |
Some drivers actually perform best when there is a little ex... |
52.78 |
0.9632 |
0.0948 |
240 |
1 |
52.78 |
2013-09-06 |
| 82. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
52.74 |
1.0608 |
0.0320 |
258 |
1 |
52.74 |
2013-12-13 |
| 83. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
52.61 |
1.0429 |
0.0125 |
259 |
2 |
52.01 |
2013-11-08 |
| 84. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
52.55 |
0.8996 |
0.1506 |
192 |
2 |
51.02 |
2014-03-07 |
| 85. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
52.49 |
0.9281 |
0.1311 |
273 |
3 |
46.06 |
2014-03-21 |
| 86. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
52.44 |
1.0099 |
0.0404 |
207 |
3 |
47.92 |
2013-12-17 |
| 87. |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy c... |
52.43 |
0.9310 |
0.1175 |
188 |
1 |
52.43 |
2013-09-27 |
| 88. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
52.42 |
0.9871 |
0.1023 |
209 |
1 |
52.42 |
2013-10-03 |
| 89. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
52.34 |
0.9965 |
0.0503 |
168 |
2 |
44.93 |
2013-09-30 |
| 90. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
52.28 |
0.9904 |
0.1002 |
203 |
2 |
49.33 |
2014-01-09 |
| 91. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
52.19 |
1.1018 |
-0.0601 |
220 |
1 |
52.19 |
2013-10-03 |
| 92. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
52.03 |
1.0796 |
-0.0399 |
129 |
1 |
52.03 |
2013-12-09 |
| 93. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
51.89 |
0.8382 |
0.2051 |
268 |
1 |
51.89 |
2013-12-17 |
| 94. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
51.88 |
1.0684 |
0.0037 |
253 |
4 |
45.63 |
2013-11-04 |
| 95. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
51.87 |
0.9786 |
0.0582 |
193 |
1 |
51.87 |
2013-11-22 |
| 96. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
51.81 |
1.0602 |
-0.0157 |
389 |
2 |
46.40 |
2013-10-03 |
| 97. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
51.79 |
0.9697 |
0.0707 |
249 |
1 |
51.79 |
2013-09-20 |
| 98. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
51.75 |
1.0004 |
0.0329 |
212 |
1 |
51.75 |
2013-12-16 |
| 99. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
51.45 |
0.9731 |
0.0476 |
129 |
1 |
51.45 |
2014-02-07 |
| 100. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
51.26 |
1.0025 |
0.0265 |
256 |
2 |
49.79 |
2014-04-04 |
| 101. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
51.08 |
1.0349 |
-0.0102 |
234 |
2 |
49.91 |
2013-12-04 |
| 102. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
51.06 |
0.9916 |
0.0765 |
282 |
4 |
43.31 |
2013-11-15 |
| 103. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
51.04 |
0.9798 |
0.0396 |
199 |
1 |
51.04 |
2013-08-28 |
| 104. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
50.99 |
0.9763 |
0.0471 |
289 |
4 |
38.34 |
2014-04-17 |
| 105. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
50.83 |
1.0399 |
-0.0137 |
294 |
2 |
45.67 |
2014-02-21 |
| 106. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
50.82 |
1.0297 |
-0.0103 |
249 |
3 |
46.67 |
2013-11-04 |
| 107. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
50.79 |
0.9938 |
0.0263 |
339 |
3 |
46.66 |
2013-10-03 |
| 108. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
50.77 |
1.0795 |
-0.0298 |
226 |
2 |
47.11 |
2013-11-15 |
| 109. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
50.74 |
1.1081 |
-0.0550 |
206 |
1 |
50.74 |
2013-09-27 |
| 110. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
50.72 |
1.0516 |
-0.0338 |
281 |
2 |
47.91 |
2013-10-15 |
| 111. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
50.62 |
1.0941 |
-0.0463 |
256 |
2 |
45.12 |
2013-09-12 |
| 112. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
50.60 |
0.9368 |
0.0791 |
173 |
1 |
50.60 |
2013-12-06 |
| 113. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
50.57 |
1.0419 |
-0.0267 |
261 |
1 |
50.57 |
2013-10-11 |
| 114. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
50.54 |
1.0917 |
-0.0534 |
243 |
4 |
47.45 |
2014-01-10 |
| 115. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
50.44 |
0.9710 |
0.0354 |
173 |
2 |
45.84 |
2013-09-16 |
| 116. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
50.42 |
0.9286 |
0.0826 |
194 |
2 |
49.66 |
2013-12-13 |
| 117. |
In most cases, there is more to be gained by maximizing the ... |
50.39 |
1.0598 |
-0.0540 |
196 |
2 |
49.86 |
2013-09-18 |
| 118. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
50.37 |
0.9682 |
0.0416 |
143 |
2 |
46.52 |
2013-09-20 |
| 119. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
50.16 |
0.9578 |
0.0491 |
281 |
1 |
50.16 |
2013-09-18 |
| 120. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
50.16 |
0.8961 |
0.1077 |
189 |
4 |
46.53 |
2014-03-12 |
| 121. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
50.04 |
0.9485 |
0.0579 |
236 |
1 |
50.04 |
2013-12-16 |
| 122. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
50.01 |
0.9559 |
0.0503 |
195 |
1 |
50.01 |
2014-03-07 |
| 123. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
49.99 |
1.0203 |
-0.0132 |
261 |
3 |
44.18 |
2013-11-07 |
| 124. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
49.97 |
1.1296 |
-0.0973 |
252 |
1 |
49.97 |
2013-08-28 |
| 125. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
49.91 |
0.9127 |
0.0863 |
252 |
2 |
48.97 |
2014-04-16 |
| 126. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
49.83 |
1.1114 |
-0.1137 |
247 |
1 |
49.83 |
2013-11-22 |
| 127. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
49.82 |
0.9461 |
0.0499 |
193 |
1 |
49.82 |
2013-09-25 |
| 128. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
49.70 |
0.9691 |
0.0281 |
223 |
1 |
49.70 |
2013-12-06 |
| 129. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
49.56 |
0.9202 |
0.0744 |
254 |
4 |
45.88 |
2013-12-17 |
| 130. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
49.32 |
1.0379 |
-0.0133 |
245 |
1 |
49.32 |
2013-12-06 |
| 131. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
49.24 |
0.9991 |
-0.0101 |
225 |
2 |
47.91 |
2013-10-03 |
| 132. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
49.13 |
1.0331 |
-0.0492 |
234 |
2 |
44.64 |
2014-01-10 |
| 133. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
49.07 |
0.9843 |
-0.0044 |
234 |
1 |
49.07 |
2013-11-22 |
| 134. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
49.04 |
1.0365 |
-0.0226 |
162 |
1 |
49.04 |
2014-03-21 |
| 135. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
48.96 |
1.0441 |
-0.0601 |
252 |
2 |
48.44 |
2013-12-03 |
| 136. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
48.93 |
0.9805 |
0.0063 |
292 |
2 |
44.85 |
2013-09-20 |
| 137. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
48.91 |
0.9570 |
0.0264 |
287 |
2 |
44.82 |
2013-12-06 |
| 138. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
48.84 |
0.9976 |
0.0030 |
174 |
1 |
48.84 |
2013-11-15 |
| 139. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
48.72 |
0.8787 |
0.1035 |
202 |
2 |
47.57 |
2013-12-17 |
| 140. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
48.66 |
0.9567 |
0.0623 |
184 |
1 |
48.66 |
2014-02-21 |
| 141. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
48.47 |
1.0038 |
-0.0008 |
237 |
2 |
45.80 |
2014-02-21 |
| 142. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
48.46 |
1.0232 |
-0.0150 |
236 |
2 |
43.02 |
2013-09-20 |
| 143. |
How many times have you seen the leader of a race have a mec... |
48.43 |
1.0155 |
-0.0429 |
232 |
1 |
48.43 |
2013-12-04 |
| 144. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
48.36 |
0.8442 |
0.1302 |
265 |
1 |
48.36 |
2013-12-02 |
| 145. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
48.35 |
0.9672 |
0.0098 |
396 |
1 |
48.35 |
2013-10-03 |
| 146. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
48.06 |
0.9084 |
0.0577 |
300 |
1 |
48.06 |
2014-02-07 |
| 147. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
47.91 |
1.0328 |
-0.0327 |
356 |
1 |
47.91 |
2013-09-27 |
| 148. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
47.80 |
0.9964 |
-0.0374 |
203 |
3 |
45.69 |
2013-12-16 |
| 149. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
47.62 |
1.0679 |
-0.0925 |
177 |
3 |
41.84 |
2013-12-11 |
| 150. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
47.53 |
0.9430 |
0.0129 |
297 |
1 |
47.53 |
2013-10-03 |
| 151. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
47.32 |
0.8852 |
0.0666 |
201 |
1 |
47.32 |
2013-11-20 |
| 152. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
47.28 |
0.9622 |
-0.0071 |
392 |
2 |
43.92 |
2013-09-06 |
| 153. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
47.23 |
1.0029 |
-0.0620 |
209 |
1 |
47.23 |
2013-08-27 |
| 154. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
47.19 |
0.9994 |
-0.0218 |
269 |
1 |
47.19 |
2013-11-07 |
| 155. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
47.17 |
1.0138 |
-0.0680 |
231 |
1 |
47.17 |
2013-10-11 |
| 156. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
47.08 |
0.9646 |
-0.0210 |
264 |
3 |
45.61 |
2013-12-04 |
| 157. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
47.08 |
0.9722 |
-0.0262 |
283 |
1 |
47.08 |
2013-08-28 |
| 158. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
47.07 |
0.9668 |
0.0200 |
383 |
1 |
47.07 |
2013-09-26 |
| 159. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
47.02 |
0.9125 |
0.0326 |
308 |
2 |
46.58 |
2013-11-04 |
| 160. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
46.94 |
1.0613 |
-0.1188 |
266 |
1 |
46.94 |
2013-12-04 |
| 161. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
46.92 |
0.9430 |
-0.0056 |
227 |
2 |
42.72 |
2013-12-13 |
| 162. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
46.76 |
1.0090 |
-0.0273 |
282 |
1 |
46.76 |
2013-09-27 |
| 163. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
46.31 |
1.0334 |
-0.1112 |
131 |
1 |
46.31 |
2013-08-28 |
| 164. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
46.13 |
0.9631 |
0.0134 |
345 |
1 |
46.13 |
2013-09-16 |
| 165. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
45.99 |
0.9851 |
-0.0603 |
317 |
3 |
45.27 |
2013-09-20 |
| 166. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
45.95 |
1.0396 |
-0.1253 |
149 |
1 |
45.95 |
2013-11-04 |
| 167. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
45.87 |
0.9908 |
-0.0247 |
342 |
1 |
45.87 |
2013-11-07 |
| 168. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
45.79 |
0.9398 |
-0.0119 |
419 |
1 |
45.79 |
2013-08-30 |
| 169. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
45.62 |
0.9905 |
-0.0440 |
337 |
1 |
45.62 |
2014-01-09 |
| 170. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
45.57 |
1.0053 |
-0.0934 |
232 |
1 |
45.57 |
2013-12-04 |
| 171. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
45.46 |
0.9567 |
-0.0450 |
273 |
2 |
45.45 |
2013-09-23 |
| 172. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
45.43 |
0.9005 |
0.0089 |
212 |
1 |
45.43 |
2013-09-20 |
| 173. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
45.39 |
1.0197 |
-0.1125 |
226 |
1 |
45.39 |
2013-09-06 |
| 174. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
45.21 |
1.0545 |
-0.1072 |
416 |
1 |
45.21 |
2013-08-28 |
| 175. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
45.13 |
0.9289 |
-0.0266 |
204 |
1 |
45.13 |
2013-12-09 |
| 176. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
44.90 |
1.0477 |
-0.1454 |
360 |
1 |
44.90 |
2013-08-28 |
| 177. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
44.88 |
1.0829 |
-0.1819 |
288 |
1 |
44.88 |
2013-11-07 |
| 178. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
44.85 |
0.9168 |
-0.0161 |
240 |
2 |
41.46 |
2013-09-26 |
| 179. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
44.82 |
1.0077 |
-0.0684 |
250 |
1 |
44.82 |
2013-09-26 |
| 180. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
44.77 |
0.9776 |
-0.0797 |
308 |
1 |
44.77 |
2013-09-11 |
| 181. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
44.75 |
0.9513 |
-0.0504 |
354 |
1 |
44.75 |
2013-10-01 |
| 182. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
44.61 |
0.9411 |
-0.0460 |
318 |
1 |
44.61 |
2013-09-20 |
| 183. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
44.50 |
0.9155 |
0.0256 |
168 |
1 |
44.50 |
2013-12-16 |
| 184. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
44.32 |
1.0033 |
-0.1218 |
189 |
1 |
44.32 |
2013-12-16 |
| 185. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
44.28 |
0.7805 |
0.1024 |
154 |
1 |
44.28 |
2014-04-16 |
| 186. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
44.27 |
0.9048 |
-0.0131 |
271 |
1 |
44.27 |
2013-09-16 |
| 187. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
44.20 |
1.0719 |
-0.1581 |
360 |
1 |
44.20 |
2013-08-29 |
| 188. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
44.20 |
0.9514 |
-0.0652 |
237 |
1 |
44.20 |
2013-10-25 |
| 189. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
44.01 |
1.0459 |
-0.1330 |
200 |
1 |
44.01 |
2014-03-21 |
| 190. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
43.97 |
1.0261 |
-0.1471 |
273 |
1 |
43.97 |
2013-08-23 |
| 191. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
43.92 |
1.0125 |
-0.1349 |
224 |
1 |
43.92 |
2013-08-28 |
| 192. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
43.82 |
0.9260 |
-0.0371 |
243 |
1 |
43.82 |
2013-09-11 |
| 193. |
As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit... |
43.78 |
0.9898 |
-0.0745 |
353 |
2 |
41.26 |
2013-08-23 |
| 194. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
43.74 |
1.0201 |
-0.1429 |
303 |
1 |
43.74 |
2013-08-29 |
| 195. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
43.25 |
1.0711 |
-0.2097 |
213 |
1 |
43.25 |
2013-10-03 |
| 196. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
43.08 |
1.0168 |
-0.1519 |
271 |
2 |
41.47 |
2013-09-18 |
| 197. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
43.07 |
0.9365 |
-0.0721 |
248 |
1 |
43.07 |
2014-04-14 |
| 198. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
42.88 |
1.0320 |
-0.1358 |
293 |
2 |
40.05 |
2013-09-12 |
| 199. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
42.66 |
1.0883 |
-0.2015 |
303 |
3 |
39.58 |
2013-08-23 |
| 200. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
42.62 |
0.9164 |
-0.0574 |
305 |
1 |
42.62 |
2013-09-10 |
| 201. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
42.41 |
1.0529 |
-0.2035 |
351 |
1 |
42.41 |
2013-08-30 |
| 202. |
The forum has become one of the most consistent places in he... |
42.40 |
0.8481 |
0.0008 |
152 |
1 |
42.40 |
2013-08-14 |
| 203. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
42.34 |
0.9857 |
-0.1387 |
293 |
1 |
42.34 |
2013-10-03 |
| 204. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
42.19 |
0.9216 |
-0.0374 |
255 |
2 |
40.90 |
2013-09-27 |
| 205. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
41.99 |
0.9833 |
-0.1407 |
355 |
1 |
41.99 |
2013-08-28 |
| 206. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
41.93 |
1.0214 |
-0.1870 |
166 |
1 |
41.93 |
2013-10-07 |
| 207. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
41.83 |
0.9925 |
-0.1180 |
247 |
1 |
41.83 |
2013-08-29 |
| 208. |
This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic people ... |
41.77 |
0.9348 |
-0.0908 |
229 |
1 |
41.77 |
2013-11-04 |
| 209. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
41.77 |
0.9213 |
-0.0840 |
295 |
1 |
41.77 |
2013-11-07 |
| 210. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
41.69 |
0.9699 |
-0.1359 |
269 |
1 |
41.69 |
2013-08-27 |
| 211. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
41.67 |
1.0669 |
-0.1992 |
213 |
2 |
40.95 |
2013-08-27 |
| 212. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
41.50 |
0.8602 |
-0.0314 |
206 |
2 |
37.36 |
2013-09-27 |
| 213. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
41.49 |
0.9758 |
-0.1443 |
314 |
1 |
41.49 |
2013-08-29 |
| 214. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
41.46 |
0.9303 |
-0.1073 |
176 |
1 |
41.46 |
2013-09-30 |
| 215. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
41.45 |
0.9844 |
-0.1439 |
229 |
1 |
41.45 |
2013-08-28 |
| 216. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
41.44 |
1.0567 |
-0.2259 |
303 |
1 |
41.44 |
2013-08-16 |
| 217. |
If you begin to repeat an error, or if your concentration or... |
41.04 |
0.9505 |
-0.1293 |
204 |
1 |
41.04 |
2013-08-20 |
| 218. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
41.00 |
0.8791 |
-0.0592 |
190 |
1 |
41.00 |
2013-08-30 |
| 219. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
40.90 |
0.8968 |
-0.0814 |
186 |
1 |
40.90 |
2013-08-20 |
| 220. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
40.75 |
0.9376 |
-0.0862 |
360 |
1 |
40.75 |
2013-09-06 |
| 221. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
40.62 |
1.0088 |
-0.1570 |
396 |
1 |
40.62 |
2013-09-11 |
| 222. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
40.54 |
1.0167 |
-0.1980 |
378 |
1 |
40.54 |
2013-08-16 |
| 223. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
40.39 |
0.8520 |
-0.0433 |
202 |
1 |
40.39 |
2013-10-02 |
| 224. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
40.24 |
1.0352 |
-0.2265 |
341 |
1 |
40.24 |
2013-08-16 |
| 225. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
40.23 |
0.8629 |
-0.0534 |
299 |
1 |
40.23 |
2013-08-28 |
| 226. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
40.17 |
0.9675 |
-0.1542 |
383 |
1 |
40.17 |
2013-08-28 |
| 227. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
40.07 |
0.9485 |
-0.1440 |
291 |
1 |
40.07 |
2013-08-28 |
| 228. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
40.00 |
1.0462 |
-0.2517 |
184 |
1 |
40.00 |
2013-09-06 |
| 229. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
39.97 |
0.9350 |
-0.1349 |
195 |
1 |
39.97 |
2013-09-12 |
| 230. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
39.61 |
0.9907 |
-0.1994 |
211 |
1 |
39.61 |
2013-11-07 |
| 231. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
39.50 |
0.9912 |
-0.1740 |
237 |
1 |
39.50 |
2013-11-22 |
| 232. |
You have to be a fairly determined ecological detective to f... |
39.23 |
0.8994 |
-0.1130 |
188 |
1 |
39.23 |
2013-09-13 |
| 233. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
39.07 |
1.0169 |
-0.1965 |
346 |
1 |
39.07 |
2013-09-06 |
| 234. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
38.88 |
0.9532 |
-0.1768 |
258 |
1 |
38.88 |
2013-08-16 |
| 235. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
38.73 |
0.9768 |
-0.1992 |
387 |
1 |
38.73 |
2013-10-03 |
| 236. |
Wood and other fibrous material is mixed with liquid and mas... |
38.66 |
0.8906 |
-0.1136 |
238 |
1 |
38.66 |
2013-10-04 |
| 237. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
38.50 |
0.9279 |
-0.1511 |
317 |
1 |
38.50 |
2013-08-27 |
| 238. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
38.43 |
1.0621 |
-0.2743 |
263 |
1 |
38.43 |
2013-08-16 |
| 239. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
38.18 |
1.0060 |
-0.2474 |
171 |
1 |
38.18 |
2013-08-29 |
| 240. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
38.00 |
1.0389 |
-0.2767 |
340 |
1 |
38.00 |
2013-08-23 |
| 241. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
37.86 |
0.9509 |
-0.1557 |
225 |
1 |
37.86 |
2013-09-13 |
| 242. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
37.53 |
0.9120 |
-0.1282 |
436 |
1 |
37.53 |
2013-08-30 |
| 243. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
37.15 |
0.9785 |
-0.2330 |
335 |
1 |
37.15 |
2013-08-16 |
| 244. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
36.95 |
0.9243 |
-0.1462 |
448 |
1 |
36.95 |
2013-08-29 |
| 245. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
36.88 |
0.9936 |
-0.2365 |
227 |
1 |
36.88 |
2013-08-30 |
| 246. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
36.85 |
0.8105 |
-0.0787 |
204 |
1 |
36.85 |
2013-09-06 |
| 247. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
36.67 |
0.8958 |
-0.1581 |
322 |
2 |
36.15 |
2013-09-13 |
| 248. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
36.58 |
0.9905 |
-0.2515 |
377 |
1 |
36.58 |
2013-08-29 |
| 249. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
36.44 |
0.8722 |
-0.1410 |
285 |
1 |
36.44 |
2013-09-06 |
| 250. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
36.11 |
0.9293 |
-0.2067 |
355 |
1 |
36.11 |
2013-08-29 |
| 251. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
36.04 |
0.9527 |
-0.2326 |
251 |
1 |
36.04 |
2013-08-27 |
| 252. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
35.65 |
0.9426 |
-0.2274 |
317 |
1 |
35.65 |
2013-08-16 |
| 253. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
34.66 |
0.8916 |
-0.1992 |
216 |
1 |
34.66 |
2013-08-29 |
| 254. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
33.96 |
0.8933 |
-0.2092 |
363 |
1 |
33.96 |
2013-09-06 |
| 255. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
32.69 |
0.8096 |
-0.1499 |
209 |
1 |
32.69 |
2013-08-15 |
| 256. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
31.79 |
0.9965 |
-0.3624 |
277 |
1 |
31.79 |
2013-08-16 |
| 257. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
31.64 |
0.9811 |
-0.3480 |
272 |
1 |
31.64 |
2013-08-16 |
| 258. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
30.11 |
0.9239 |
-0.3184 |
193 |
1 |
30.11 |
2013-10-15 |