| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
85.71 |
1.0515 |
0.1295 |
166 |
1 |
85.71 |
2010-08-20 |
| 2. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
85.26 |
1.0567 |
0.1264 |
303 |
3 |
77.85 |
2009-12-15 |
| 3. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
84.91 |
1.0483 |
0.1263 |
227 |
2 |
79.34 |
2009-12-02 |
| 4. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
83.92 |
1.0679 |
0.1161 |
177 |
1 |
83.92 |
2010-08-24 |
| 5. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
83.02 |
1.0296 |
0.1279 |
437 |
4 |
74.49 |
2011-06-28 |
| 6. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
82.84 |
1.0343 |
0.1517 |
242 |
2 |
79.20 |
2010-08-23 |
| 7. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
82.67 |
1.0768 |
0.1095 |
295 |
3 |
77.83 |
2010-08-24 |
| 8. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
82.51 |
1.0574 |
0.1144 |
205 |
1 |
82.51 |
2011-01-22 |
| 9. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
82.02 |
1.1114 |
0.0230 |
247 |
2 |
80.90 |
2009-12-12 |
| 10. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
81.80 |
1.0390 |
0.0912 |
205 |
1 |
81.80 |
2010-08-23 |
| 11. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
81.40 |
0.9899 |
0.1338 |
163 |
3 |
71.48 |
2010-08-24 |
| 12. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
81.16 |
1.0696 |
0.0519 |
226 |
4 |
72.30 |
2010-03-04 |
| 13. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
81.14 |
1.0774 |
0.0767 |
304 |
5 |
77.72 |
2011-06-16 |
| 14. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
81.08 |
1.0795 |
0.0749 |
226 |
2 |
77.41 |
2010-11-03 |
| 15. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
81.01 |
0.9986 |
0.1249 |
283 |
4 |
75.69 |
2009-12-14 |
| 16. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
80.84 |
1.0711 |
0.0443 |
213 |
3 |
68.20 |
2009-12-10 |
| 17. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
80.74 |
1.0515 |
0.0657 |
250 |
1 |
80.74 |
2010-08-21 |
| 18. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
80.72 |
1.0445 |
0.0752 |
373 |
4 |
76.94 |
2011-06-26 |
| 19. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
80.33 |
1.0429 |
0.0691 |
259 |
2 |
76.11 |
2011-06-13 |
| 20. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
80.28 |
1.0555 |
0.0586 |
363 |
1 |
80.28 |
2009-11-24 |
| 21. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
80.20 |
1.0379 |
0.1086 |
245 |
1 |
80.20 |
2010-08-18 |
| 22. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
80.09 |
1.0251 |
0.0827 |
261 |
1 |
80.09 |
2010-11-29 |
| 23. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
80.01 |
1.0124 |
0.0941 |
204 |
1 |
80.01 |
2009-12-12 |
| 24. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
79.83 |
1.0941 |
0.0435 |
256 |
3 |
75.27 |
2010-08-18 |
| 25. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
79.82 |
1.0666 |
0.0397 |
297 |
1 |
79.82 |
2009-12-15 |
| 26. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
79.76 |
1.0944 |
0.0558 |
308 |
1 |
79.76 |
2009-12-10 |
| 27. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
79.47 |
1.0477 |
0.0560 |
360 |
5 |
75.82 |
2011-06-16 |
| 28. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
79.35 |
0.9811 |
0.1212 |
272 |
1 |
79.35 |
2009-12-10 |
| 29. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
79.18 |
1.1016 |
-0.0042 |
233 |
1 |
79.18 |
2010-11-29 |
| 30. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
79.10 |
1.0917 |
0.0279 |
243 |
1 |
79.10 |
2011-06-13 |
| 31. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
79.08 |
1.0213 |
0.0714 |
240 |
1 |
79.08 |
2010-08-21 |
| 32. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
78.99 |
1.0669 |
0.0600 |
286 |
1 |
78.99 |
2011-06-12 |
| 33. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
78.88 |
0.9863 |
0.1111 |
339 |
3 |
74.19 |
2011-06-12 |
| 34. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
78.85 |
0.9785 |
0.1173 |
335 |
2 |
72.42 |
2011-06-16 |
| 35. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
78.73 |
1.0714 |
0.0106 |
129 |
2 |
72.89 |
2009-12-09 |
| 36. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
78.73 |
1.0016 |
0.0847 |
218 |
3 |
71.17 |
2010-08-30 |
| 37. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
78.67 |
1.0025 |
0.0885 |
336 |
4 |
72.88 |
2010-08-24 |
| 38. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
78.65 |
1.0177 |
0.1103 |
392 |
2 |
74.88 |
2011-06-12 |
| 39. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
78.60 |
1.0595 |
0.0321 |
379 |
4 |
74.41 |
2009-12-14 |
| 40. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
78.51 |
1.0529 |
0.0349 |
351 |
3 |
74.96 |
2011-06-30 |
| 41. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
78.45 |
1.0787 |
0.0070 |
237 |
3 |
73.03 |
2011-01-14 |
| 42. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
78.43 |
0.9997 |
0.0906 |
382 |
3 |
75.17 |
2010-11-03 |
| 43. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
78.29 |
1.0498 |
0.0302 |
180 |
2 |
71.66 |
2009-12-15 |
| 44. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
78.28 |
1.0197 |
0.0620 |
226 |
2 |
72.24 |
2010-11-18 |
| 45. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
78.09 |
1.0506 |
0.0602 |
277 |
1 |
78.09 |
2011-06-16 |
| 46. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
78.04 |
1.1018 |
-0.0269 |
220 |
2 |
77.07 |
2010-08-21 |
| 47. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
77.97 |
1.0463 |
0.0294 |
182 |
1 |
77.97 |
2009-12-18 |
| 48. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
77.81 |
0.9567 |
0.1211 |
273 |
2 |
72.17 |
2010-08-21 |
| 49. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
77.81 |
0.9540 |
0.1222 |
285 |
1 |
77.81 |
2009-12-16 |
| 50. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
77.74 |
0.9994 |
0.1083 |
269 |
1 |
77.74 |
2010-08-23 |
| 51. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
77.63 |
0.9831 |
0.1004 |
469 |
2 |
76.54 |
2010-08-23 |
| 52. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
77.59 |
0.9684 |
0.1093 |
388 |
1 |
77.59 |
2010-10-26 |
| 53. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
77.56 |
1.0943 |
0.0128 |
206 |
1 |
77.56 |
2010-08-21 |
| 54. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
77.53 |
1.0577 |
0.0129 |
247 |
2 |
68.67 |
2009-12-09 |
| 55. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
77.52 |
1.0029 |
0.0647 |
209 |
1 |
77.52 |
2009-12-07 |
| 56. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
77.45 |
1.0521 |
0.0161 |
171 |
1 |
77.45 |
2011-06-13 |
| 57. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
77.45 |
1.0454 |
0.0239 |
255 |
1 |
77.45 |
2009-12-16 |
| 58. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
77.42 |
0.9938 |
0.0796 |
339 |
2 |
76.53 |
2010-08-23 |
| 59. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
77.39 |
1.0314 |
0.0800 |
452 |
1 |
77.39 |
2010-08-21 |
| 60. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
77.11 |
0.9168 |
0.1527 |
240 |
1 |
77.11 |
2009-12-15 |
| 61. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
76.94 |
1.0496 |
0.0155 |
314 |
2 |
75.03 |
2009-12-18 |
| 62. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
76.88 |
1.0099 |
0.0522 |
207 |
2 |
76.87 |
2010-08-23 |
| 63. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
76.87 |
0.9820 |
0.0857 |
267 |
1 |
76.87 |
2011-06-13 |
| 64. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
76.82 |
1.0328 |
0.0695 |
356 |
1 |
76.82 |
2010-11-03 |
| 65. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
76.61 |
1.0125 |
0.0464 |
224 |
3 |
71.48 |
2009-12-15 |
| 66. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
76.61 |
1.0613 |
0.0049 |
456 |
4 |
72.68 |
2010-07-31 |
| 67. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
76.43 |
1.1068 |
-0.0078 |
393 |
1 |
76.43 |
2009-12-10 |
| 68. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
76.35 |
0.9485 |
0.1108 |
236 |
1 |
76.35 |
2010-08-24 |
| 69. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
76.23 |
0.9820 |
0.0741 |
274 |
1 |
76.23 |
2010-10-26 |
| 70. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
76.18 |
1.0125 |
0.0805 |
413 |
1 |
76.18 |
2010-08-23 |
| 71. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
76.16 |
1.0763 |
0.0201 |
367 |
1 |
76.16 |
2010-08-24 |
| 72. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
76.14 |
1.0907 |
-0.0334 |
303 |
1 |
76.14 |
2009-12-12 |
| 73. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
76.11 |
0.8996 |
0.1491 |
192 |
2 |
74.22 |
2011-05-31 |
| 74. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
76.07 |
0.9844 |
0.0740 |
293 |
3 |
70.83 |
2010-08-22 |
| 75. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
76.03 |
1.0621 |
0.0104 |
263 |
1 |
76.03 |
2010-11-03 |
| 76. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
75.90 |
1.0013 |
0.0491 |
273 |
2 |
59.64 |
2010-11-29 |
| 77. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
75.85 |
1.0368 |
0.0147 |
276 |
3 |
74.87 |
2010-10-26 |
| 78. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
75.83 |
1.0257 |
0.0310 |
401 |
1 |
75.83 |
2010-08-20 |
| 79. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
75.82 |
0.9668 |
0.1259 |
383 |
2 |
74.61 |
2010-08-24 |
| 80. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
75.68 |
0.9795 |
0.0687 |
308 |
1 |
75.68 |
2010-10-26 |
| 81. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
75.67 |
1.0297 |
0.0171 |
249 |
1 |
75.67 |
2009-12-18 |
| 82. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
75.38 |
1.0211 |
0.0536 |
213 |
1 |
75.38 |
2009-12-12 |
| 83. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
75.21 |
1.0668 |
-0.0227 |
350 |
2 |
74.05 |
2010-08-23 |
| 84. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
75.11 |
1.0183 |
0.0163 |
191 |
3 |
73.55 |
2009-12-18 |
| 85. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
75.10 |
0.9780 |
0.0630 |
337 |
3 |
71.38 |
2011-06-16 |
| 86. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
75.03 |
1.0375 |
0.0476 |
200 |
1 |
75.03 |
2010-11-18 |
| 87. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
75.01 |
1.0334 |
-0.0011 |
131 |
2 |
74.67 |
2011-06-30 |
| 88. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
74.82 |
1.0141 |
0.0583 |
304 |
3 |
65.93 |
2011-06-12 |
| 89. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
74.65 |
1.0150 |
0.0677 |
325 |
1 |
74.65 |
2010-11-18 |
| 90. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
74.59 |
0.9740 |
0.0548 |
209 |
2 |
70.14 |
2009-12-09 |
| 91. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
74.48 |
1.0885 |
-0.0222 |
341 |
1 |
74.48 |
2010-08-20 |
| 92. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
74.43 |
1.0412 |
-0.0111 |
225 |
2 |
71.18 |
2009-12-07 |
| 93. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
74.39 |
1.0062 |
0.0239 |
288 |
5 |
72.12 |
2011-06-16 |
| 94. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
74.38 |
0.9865 |
0.0446 |
276 |
3 |
71.39 |
2010-08-24 |
| 95. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
74.23 |
0.9805 |
0.0520 |
292 |
1 |
74.23 |
2011-06-30 |
| 96. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
74.10 |
1.0677 |
-0.0113 |
284 |
1 |
74.10 |
2010-08-20 |
| 97. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
74.10 |
0.9109 |
0.1177 |
401 |
1 |
74.10 |
2010-08-20 |
| 98. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
74.07 |
1.0799 |
-0.0580 |
243 |
1 |
74.07 |
2009-12-08 |
| 99. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
73.99 |
1.0109 |
0.0144 |
276 |
3 |
71.27 |
2009-12-14 |
| 100. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
73.98 |
1.0168 |
0.0089 |
271 |
2 |
72.45 |
2009-12-22 |
| 101. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
73.94 |
1.0292 |
-0.0067 |
262 |
2 |
70.79 |
2009-12-10 |
| 102. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
73.91 |
1.0534 |
-0.0278 |
357 |
2 |
71.26 |
2010-03-04 |
| 103. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
73.79 |
1.1162 |
-0.0535 |
189 |
3 |
62.67 |
2009-12-15 |
| 104. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
73.63 |
1.0346 |
0.0268 |
244 |
2 |
71.43 |
2009-12-12 |
| 105. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
73.41 |
0.9905 |
0.0337 |
377 |
3 |
71.12 |
2010-11-18 |
| 106. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
73.38 |
1.0389 |
-0.0206 |
340 |
2 |
71.41 |
2011-06-12 |
| 107. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
73.32 |
0.9084 |
0.1085 |
300 |
1 |
73.32 |
2011-06-12 |
| 108. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
73.29 |
0.9148 |
0.1013 |
317 |
4 |
67.88 |
2010-08-21 |
| 109. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
73.25 |
0.9578 |
0.0558 |
281 |
3 |
69.58 |
2009-12-12 |
| 110. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
73.06 |
0.9430 |
0.0713 |
297 |
5 |
68.87 |
2011-06-12 |
| 111. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
73.05 |
1.0033 |
0.0013 |
189 |
3 |
70.32 |
2010-08-21 |
| 112. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
72.98 |
0.9697 |
0.0408 |
249 |
1 |
72.98 |
2009-12-14 |
| 113. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
72.83 |
0.9653 |
0.0512 |
394 |
1 |
72.83 |
2009-12-10 |
| 114. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
72.80 |
1.0797 |
-0.0775 |
210 |
1 |
72.80 |
2009-11-03 |
| 115. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
72.76 |
0.9286 |
0.0776 |
194 |
3 |
68.73 |
2010-08-20 |
| 116. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
72.75 |
0.9682 |
0.0370 |
143 |
1 |
72.75 |
2011-06-01 |
| 117. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
72.66 |
0.9841 |
0.0255 |
334 |
1 |
72.66 |
2009-12-13 |
| 118. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
72.57 |
0.9508 |
0.0870 |
384 |
1 |
72.57 |
2011-06-13 |
| 119. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
72.57 |
1.0361 |
-0.0305 |
269 |
1 |
72.57 |
2009-12-13 |
| 120. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
72.56 |
0.9426 |
0.0649 |
317 |
4 |
65.82 |
2009-12-17 |
| 121. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
72.37 |
1.0214 |
-0.0213 |
269 |
1 |
72.37 |
2009-12-24 |
| 122. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
72.31 |
0.9894 |
0.0159 |
323 |
4 |
68.16 |
2010-08-30 |
| 123. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
72.23 |
0.9814 |
0.0578 |
364 |
3 |
66.69 |
2009-12-11 |
| 124. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
72.07 |
0.9675 |
0.0396 |
383 |
3 |
68.12 |
2011-05-31 |
| 125. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
72.07 |
1.0289 |
-0.0269 |
276 |
1 |
72.07 |
2009-12-12 |
| 126. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
71.87 |
1.0365 |
-0.0118 |
162 |
1 |
71.87 |
2010-08-20 |
| 127. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
71.85 |
0.9365 |
0.0594 |
248 |
2 |
68.64 |
2009-12-11 |
| 128. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
71.80 |
0.9943 |
0.0027 |
373 |
1 |
71.80 |
2010-08-21 |
| 129. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
71.74 |
1.0167 |
-0.0170 |
378 |
1 |
71.74 |
2009-12-15 |
| 130. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
71.71 |
0.9916 |
0.0435 |
282 |
2 |
69.54 |
2009-12-15 |
| 131. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
71.64 |
0.9330 |
0.0651 |
360 |
1 |
71.64 |
2010-10-26 |
| 132. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
71.57 |
0.9886 |
0.0045 |
220 |
1 |
71.57 |
2009-12-08 |
| 133. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
71.51 |
0.9756 |
0.0128 |
229 |
3 |
70.91 |
2010-11-03 |
| 134. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
71.44 |
1.0596 |
-0.0730 |
239 |
2 |
70.88 |
2009-12-16 |
| 135. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
71.38 |
0.9157 |
0.0771 |
350 |
4 |
68.66 |
2010-08-21 |
| 136. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
71.35 |
0.9965 |
-0.0084 |
277 |
2 |
70.14 |
2009-12-22 |
| 137. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
71.24 |
0.9213 |
0.0651 |
295 |
1 |
71.24 |
2010-08-21 |
| 138. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
71.16 |
0.9846 |
-0.0009 |
281 |
3 |
67.66 |
2010-08-25 |
| 139. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
71.14 |
0.9216 |
0.1018 |
255 |
1 |
71.14 |
2010-08-21 |
| 140. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
71.12 |
0.9699 |
0.0137 |
269 |
2 |
70.15 |
2009-12-18 |
| 141. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
71.12 |
0.9681 |
0.0244 |
378 |
1 |
71.12 |
2010-08-18 |
| 142. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
71.05 |
0.9266 |
0.0568 |
267 |
1 |
71.05 |
2010-08-18 |
| 143. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
71.00 |
0.9089 |
0.0776 |
342 |
3 |
68.49 |
2009-12-14 |
| 144. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
70.73 |
0.9893 |
-0.0104 |
323 |
2 |
65.35 |
2009-12-15 |
| 145. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
70.70 |
0.9866 |
-0.0119 |
218 |
1 |
70.70 |
2009-12-14 |
| 146. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
70.33 |
1.0399 |
-0.0615 |
294 |
1 |
70.33 |
2009-12-18 |
| 147. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
70.31 |
1.0120 |
-0.0399 |
290 |
2 |
68.17 |
2009-12-16 |
| 148. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
70.29 |
0.9461 |
0.0263 |
276 |
1 |
70.29 |
2009-12-12 |
| 149. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
70.27 |
1.0391 |
-0.0607 |
358 |
1 |
70.27 |
2009-12-11 |
| 150. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
70.18 |
0.8981 |
0.0776 |
393 |
2 |
66.02 |
2010-08-24 |
| 151. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
70.15 |
0.9922 |
0.0195 |
341 |
1 |
70.15 |
2010-08-19 |
| 152. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
70.03 |
1.0796 |
-0.1154 |
129 |
1 |
70.03 |
2009-11-10 |
| 153. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
69.98 |
0.9665 |
0.0511 |
326 |
2 |
67.27 |
2011-05-31 |
| 154. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
69.92 |
0.9726 |
-0.0116 |
154 |
1 |
69.92 |
2009-11-23 |
| 155. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
69.83 |
0.9597 |
0.0106 |
347 |
3 |
65.10 |
2009-12-17 |
| 156. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
69.79 |
0.9309 |
0.0328 |
284 |
1 |
69.79 |
2009-12-10 |
| 157. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
69.68 |
0.9619 |
0.0074 |
393 |
1 |
69.68 |
2009-12-11 |
| 158. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
69.54 |
1.0012 |
-0.0358 |
260 |
1 |
69.54 |
2009-12-15 |
| 159. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
69.51 |
0.9500 |
0.0139 |
362 |
1 |
69.51 |
2010-08-21 |
| 160. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
69.49 |
1.0320 |
-0.0333 |
293 |
2 |
69.22 |
2010-08-20 |
| 161. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
69.28 |
0.9485 |
0.0123 |
291 |
2 |
65.51 |
2009-12-17 |
| 162. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
68.93 |
0.9513 |
0.0060 |
354 |
3 |
63.81 |
2010-07-31 |
| 163. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
68.90 |
1.0385 |
-0.0872 |
230 |
2 |
60.57 |
2009-12-14 |
| 164. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
68.72 |
0.9691 |
-0.0190 |
223 |
1 |
68.72 |
2009-11-24 |
| 165. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
68.62 |
0.9646 |
-0.0163 |
264 |
2 |
64.83 |
2009-12-09 |
| 166. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
68.59 |
0.9776 |
-0.0286 |
308 |
1 |
68.59 |
2009-12-14 |
| 167. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
68.39 |
0.9908 |
0.0011 |
342 |
1 |
68.39 |
2009-12-10 |
| 168. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
68.29 |
0.9734 |
-0.0291 |
289 |
1 |
68.29 |
2009-12-10 |
| 169. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
68.26 |
1.0117 |
-0.0228 |
297 |
1 |
68.26 |
2009-12-12 |
| 170. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
68.19 |
0.9754 |
-0.0261 |
362 |
1 |
68.19 |
2010-11-18 |
| 171. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
68.19 |
1.0088 |
-0.0269 |
396 |
1 |
68.19 |
2009-11-10 |
| 172. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
68.15 |
0.8933 |
0.0557 |
363 |
1 |
68.15 |
2009-12-13 |
| 173. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
68.06 |
0.9786 |
-0.0378 |
235 |
3 |
64.14 |
2009-11-26 |
| 174. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
68.03 |
0.9912 |
-0.0234 |
237 |
1 |
68.03 |
2011-05-31 |
| 175. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
67.94 |
0.9649 |
-0.0263 |
193 |
2 |
66.20 |
2009-12-11 |
| 176. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
67.77 |
0.9509 |
0.0248 |
225 |
1 |
67.77 |
2009-12-11 |
| 177. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
67.59 |
0.9127 |
0.0198 |
252 |
2 |
65.42 |
2009-12-10 |
| 178. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
67.58 |
1.0201 |
-0.0815 |
375 |
1 |
67.58 |
2009-12-11 |
| 179. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
67.47 |
1.0619 |
-0.1252 |
354 |
1 |
67.47 |
2009-12-12 |
| 180. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
67.44 |
1.0095 |
-0.0779 |
316 |
2 |
66.68 |
2009-12-10 |
| 181. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
67.31 |
1.0885 |
-0.1544 |
315 |
1 |
67.31 |
2009-12-09 |
| 182. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
66.79 |
0.9049 |
0.0240 |
351 |
1 |
66.79 |
2009-12-16 |
| 183. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
66.78 |
0.9529 |
0.0111 |
269 |
2 |
65.73 |
2009-12-09 |
| 184. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
66.69 |
0.9023 |
0.0626 |
231 |
1 |
66.69 |
2010-08-21 |
| 185. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
66.52 |
0.9398 |
-0.0107 |
419 |
1 |
66.52 |
2009-12-16 |
| 186. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
66.50 |
0.9430 |
-0.0308 |
211 |
1 |
66.50 |
2009-12-16 |
| 187. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
66.49 |
0.8770 |
0.0455 |
300 |
2 |
64.44 |
2009-12-10 |
| 188. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
66.47 |
0.9072 |
0.0102 |
237 |
3 |
61.96 |
2009-12-17 |
| 189. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
66.45 |
0.9202 |
-0.0021 |
254 |
5 |
59.04 |
2009-12-18 |
| 190. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
66.38 |
0.9074 |
0.0169 |
396 |
1 |
66.38 |
2009-12-12 |
| 191. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
66.24 |
0.9612 |
-0.0454 |
256 |
2 |
63.92 |
2009-12-17 |
| 192. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
66.12 |
0.9792 |
-0.0267 |
265 |
2 |
65.92 |
2009-12-18 |
| 193. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
66.09 |
1.0528 |
-0.1441 |
201 |
1 |
66.09 |
2010-03-04 |
| 194. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
66.07 |
1.0218 |
-0.1113 |
268 |
2 |
66.06 |
2009-12-09 |
| 195. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
65.93 |
1.0252 |
-0.1202 |
176 |
1 |
65.93 |
2009-12-16 |
| 196. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
65.91 |
0.9005 |
0.0092 |
212 |
2 |
60.90 |
2009-12-15 |
| 197. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
65.88 |
1.0060 |
-0.0999 |
171 |
2 |
63.90 |
2010-08-30 |
| 198. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
65.76 |
0.9514 |
-0.0420 |
237 |
1 |
65.76 |
2010-11-29 |
| 199. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
65.74 |
0.9289 |
-0.0224 |
204 |
1 |
65.74 |
2009-11-23 |
| 200. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
65.73 |
1.0090 |
-0.0565 |
282 |
1 |
65.73 |
2009-12-07 |
| 201. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
65.59 |
0.9687 |
-0.0573 |
371 |
1 |
65.59 |
2009-12-11 |
| 202. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
65.59 |
0.9632 |
-0.0142 |
345 |
1 |
65.59 |
2009-11-26 |
| 203. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
65.56 |
0.9546 |
-0.0170 |
198 |
2 |
51.14 |
2009-11-30 |
| 204. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
65.48 |
0.9064 |
0.0080 |
399 |
2 |
62.48 |
2009-12-10 |
| 205. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
65.33 |
0.9768 |
-0.0711 |
387 |
1 |
65.33 |
2009-11-26 |
| 206. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
65.23 |
0.9527 |
-0.0511 |
251 |
1 |
65.23 |
2011-06-16 |
| 207. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
64.85 |
0.9936 |
-0.0976 |
311 |
2 |
63.85 |
2009-12-12 |
| 208. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
64.77 |
0.9964 |
-0.1011 |
203 |
2 |
61.59 |
2009-12-22 |
| 209. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
64.75 |
0.9833 |
-0.0868 |
355 |
2 |
62.91 |
2009-12-12 |
| 210. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
64.73 |
0.9991 |
-0.1039 |
225 |
1 |
64.73 |
2009-11-26 |
| 211. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
64.70 |
1.0740 |
-0.1415 |
264 |
2 |
64.41 |
2011-05-31 |
| 212. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
64.68 |
0.9635 |
-0.0641 |
389 |
1 |
64.68 |
2009-11-29 |
| 213. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
64.68 |
1.0214 |
-0.1328 |
166 |
1 |
64.68 |
2009-12-09 |
| 214. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
64.56 |
0.9758 |
-0.0828 |
314 |
1 |
64.56 |
2009-12-07 |
| 215. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
64.30 |
0.8958 |
-0.0026 |
322 |
1 |
64.30 |
2009-11-26 |
| 216. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
64.14 |
0.9723 |
-0.0822 |
364 |
2 |
60.57 |
2009-12-12 |
| 217. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
64.07 |
0.9731 |
-0.1002 |
129 |
2 |
61.78 |
2009-12-08 |
| 218. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
63.91 |
1.0201 |
-0.1437 |
172 |
1 |
63.91 |
2009-12-11 |
| 219. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
63.83 |
1.0396 |
-0.1648 |
149 |
1 |
63.83 |
2009-12-08 |
| 220. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
63.77 |
0.8961 |
-0.0183 |
189 |
2 |
61.77 |
2009-12-18 |
| 221. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
63.75 |
0.9614 |
-0.0775 |
292 |
1 |
63.75 |
2009-12-12 |
| 222. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
63.61 |
0.8753 |
0.0129 |
427 |
1 |
63.61 |
2009-12-18 |
| 223. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
63.54 |
0.9709 |
-0.0519 |
397 |
2 |
62.57 |
2009-12-04 |
| 224. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
63.38 |
0.9342 |
-0.0550 |
434 |
1 |
63.38 |
2009-11-03 |
| 225. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
63.32 |
0.9084 |
-0.0294 |
404 |
2 |
59.67 |
2010-03-04 |
| 226. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
63.31 |
0.8595 |
0.0170 |
242 |
1 |
63.31 |
2009-12-09 |
| 227. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
63.25 |
0.9088 |
-0.0297 |
348 |
2 |
61.90 |
2009-12-08 |
| 228. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
62.79 |
1.0131 |
-0.1495 |
225 |
1 |
62.79 |
2009-11-10 |
| 229. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
62.72 |
0.9857 |
-0.1202 |
293 |
1 |
62.72 |
2009-12-08 |
| 230. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
62.66 |
0.9632 |
-0.0912 |
392 |
1 |
62.66 |
2009-11-23 |
| 231. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
62.50 |
1.0337 |
-0.1709 |
214 |
1 |
62.50 |
2009-11-19 |
| 232. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
62.39 |
0.8878 |
-0.0262 |
346 |
1 |
62.39 |
2009-11-26 |
| 233. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
62.02 |
0.8105 |
0.0419 |
204 |
2 |
58.14 |
2009-12-15 |
| 234. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
61.96 |
0.9965 |
-0.1404 |
310 |
1 |
61.96 |
2009-12-10 |
| 235. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
61.93 |
1.0829 |
-0.2260 |
288 |
1 |
61.93 |
2009-12-15 |
| 236. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
61.41 |
0.9601 |
-0.1073 |
308 |
1 |
61.41 |
2009-11-10 |
| 237. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
61.27 |
1.0165 |
-0.1665 |
392 |
1 |
61.27 |
2009-12-02 |
| 238. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
60.48 |
0.9372 |
-0.0981 |
320 |
1 |
60.48 |
2009-12-07 |
| 239. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
60.20 |
0.9429 |
-0.1105 |
287 |
1 |
60.20 |
2009-12-12 |
| 240. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
60.15 |
0.8914 |
-0.0602 |
366 |
2 |
57.16 |
2011-05-31 |
| 241. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
59.99 |
0.9233 |
-0.1034 |
168 |
1 |
59.99 |
2009-11-10 |
| 242. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
59.81 |
0.9976 |
-0.1517 |
174 |
1 |
59.81 |
2010-03-04 |
| 243. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
58.87 |
0.8602 |
-0.0499 |
206 |
1 |
58.87 |
2009-12-10 |
| 244. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
58.23 |
0.9871 |
-0.1474 |
209 |
1 |
58.23 |
2010-08-05 |
| 245. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
58.13 |
1.0545 |
-0.2117 |
416 |
1 |
58.13 |
2009-11-03 |
| 246. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
58.09 |
0.9553 |
-0.1465 |
430 |
1 |
58.09 |
2009-12-18 |
| 247. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
57.37 |
0.9087 |
-0.1065 |
393 |
1 |
57.37 |
2009-11-24 |
| 248. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
56.84 |
1.0417 |
-0.2602 |
253 |
1 |
56.84 |
2009-12-02 |
| 249. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
56.50 |
0.9359 |
-0.1171 |
353 |
1 |
56.50 |
2009-11-03 |
| 250. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
47.29 |
0.9164 |
-0.2615 |
305 |
1 |
47.29 |
2009-11-03 |
| 251. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
47.15 |
1.0154 |
-0.3174 |
351 |
1 |
47.15 |
2009-11-19 |
| 252. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
46.87 |
0.9275 |
-0.2866 |
211 |
1 |
46.87 |
2009-11-19 |
| 253. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
46.66 |
0.9798 |
-0.3442 |
199 |
1 |
46.66 |
2009-11-30 |