Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
95.43 |
1.1198 |
0.0303 |
247 |
6 |
85.17 |
2008-12-09 |
2. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
94.33 |
1.0743 |
0.0646 |
297 |
5 |
84.71 |
2008-12-04 |
3. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
94.11 |
1.0873 |
0.0448 |
243 |
6 |
86.09 |
2009-01-12 |
4. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
94.06 |
1.0341 |
0.0998 |
273 |
7 |
84.06 |
2009-01-05 |
5. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
93.47 |
1.0419 |
0.0885 |
341 |
11 |
81.35 |
2009-01-02 |
6. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
92.91 |
1.0600 |
0.0609 |
351 |
5 |
84.51 |
2009-01-03 |
7. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
92.63 |
1.0498 |
0.0686 |
261 |
7 |
79.85 |
2009-01-18 |
8. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
92.05 |
1.0960 |
0.0182 |
315 |
5 |
82.10 |
2009-01-03 |
9. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
91.97 |
1.0881 |
0.0172 |
210 |
3 |
87.49 |
2008-11-26 |
10. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
91.58 |
1.0736 |
0.0334 |
350 |
6 |
87.48 |
2009-01-04 |
11. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
91.41 |
1.0418 |
0.0614 |
214 |
6 |
79.39 |
2009-01-02 |
12. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
91.11 |
1.0103 |
0.0827 |
209 |
7 |
80.65 |
2008-12-14 |
13. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
90.96 |
1.0426 |
0.0503 |
131 |
6 |
82.14 |
2009-01-12 |
14. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
90.77 |
1.0333 |
0.0562 |
176 |
7 |
81.64 |
2009-01-04 |
15. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
90.57 |
1.0288 |
0.0587 |
166 |
8 |
82.89 |
2008-12-04 |
16. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
90.52 |
1.0291 |
0.0604 |
240 |
4 |
82.49 |
2008-12-14 |
17. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
90.30 |
1.0557 |
0.0344 |
289 |
3 |
88.11 |
2008-11-21 |
18. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
90.13 |
1.0800 |
-0.0002 |
129 |
7 |
82.84 |
2008-11-28 |
19. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
90.04 |
1.0351 |
0.0545 |
276 |
7 |
80.33 |
2009-01-04 |
20. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
89.95 |
1.0057 |
0.0819 |
382 |
8 |
80.08 |
2009-01-02 |
21. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
89.90 |
1.0270 |
0.0576 |
303 |
5 |
85.72 |
2008-12-14 |
22. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
89.69 |
1.0334 |
0.0475 |
261 |
6 |
82.12 |
2008-12-03 |
23. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
89.68 |
1.0403 |
0.0394 |
234 |
7 |
77.14 |
2008-12-04 |
24. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
89.54 |
1.0588 |
0.0210 |
281 |
5 |
85.44 |
2009-01-07 |
25. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
89.28 |
1.0208 |
0.0556 |
231 |
7 |
80.15 |
2009-01-03 |
26. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
89.22 |
1.0540 |
0.0168 |
184 |
4 |
81.54 |
2009-01-02 |
27. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
89.08 |
0.9809 |
0.0893 |
209 |
6 |
83.48 |
2009-01-02 |
28. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
89.05 |
0.9957 |
0.0778 |
323 |
6 |
82.03 |
2009-01-12 |
29. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
88.85 |
0.9756 |
0.0950 |
223 |
8 |
81.07 |
2008-12-14 |
30. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
88.85 |
1.0576 |
0.0109 |
231 |
1 |
88.85 |
2008-12-03 |
31. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
88.80 |
1.0777 |
-0.0091 |
226 |
8 |
83.52 |
2009-01-02 |
32. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
88.59 |
1.1070 |
-0.0399 |
265 |
5 |
84.72 |
2008-12-03 |
33. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
88.55 |
1.0638 |
0.0019 |
247 |
5 |
81.71 |
2009-01-04 |
34. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
88.54 |
1.0189 |
0.0481 |
290 |
1 |
88.54 |
2009-01-02 |
35. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
88.54 |
1.0059 |
0.0629 |
283 |
8 |
77.03 |
2009-01-02 |
36. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
88.52 |
1.0682 |
0.0002 |
266 |
5 |
80.54 |
2008-12-03 |
37. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
88.37 |
0.9631 |
0.1019 |
273 |
3 |
83.28 |
2008-11-21 |
38. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
88.14 |
1.0466 |
0.0157 |
230 |
3 |
81.10 |
2008-12-03 |
39. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
88.07 |
1.0676 |
-0.0011 |
456 |
5 |
83.14 |
2009-01-07 |
40. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
87.97 |
1.0472 |
0.0071 |
149 |
8 |
83.27 |
2009-01-02 |
41. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
87.86 |
1.0082 |
0.0461 |
212 |
5 |
81.12 |
2009-01-03 |
42. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
87.78 |
1.0865 |
-0.0284 |
237 |
5 |
79.08 |
2009-02-07 |
43. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
87.76 |
0.9927 |
0.0621 |
234 |
8 |
81.19 |
2009-01-01 |
44. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
87.64 |
1.0432 |
0.0140 |
276 |
8 |
82.77 |
2009-01-04 |
45. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
87.47 |
1.0506 |
0.0036 |
259 |
6 |
83.69 |
2009-01-02 |
46. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
87.39 |
0.9841 |
0.0679 |
263 |
7 |
79.17 |
2009-01-04 |
47. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
87.36 |
1.0279 |
0.0196 |
172 |
3 |
83.92 |
2008-12-09 |
48. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
87.23 |
1.0178 |
0.0322 |
207 |
5 |
82.05 |
2009-01-02 |
49. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
87.22 |
1.0095 |
0.0406 |
211 |
5 |
77.71 |
2009-01-03 |
50. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
87.16 |
1.0479 |
0.0013 |
205 |
3 |
84.99 |
2008-12-03 |
51. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
87.15 |
1.0669 |
-0.0130 |
379 |
4 |
85.14 |
2008-11-25 |
52. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
87.13 |
1.0590 |
-0.0096 |
250 |
5 |
81.58 |
2009-01-03 |
53. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
87.07 |
1.0521 |
-0.0080 |
197 |
9 |
76.73 |
2009-02-07 |
54. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
87.07 |
1.0487 |
-0.0012 |
253 |
2 |
84.86 |
2008-12-04 |
55. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
87.00 |
1.0529 |
-0.0014 |
373 |
2 |
84.56 |
2008-11-27 |
56. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
86.97 |
1.0461 |
0.0046 |
318 |
5 |
81.82 |
2008-12-14 |
57. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
86.87 |
1.0877 |
-0.0438 |
129 |
2 |
80.55 |
2009-01-03 |
58. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
86.76 |
1.0101 |
0.0377 |
336 |
3 |
83.24 |
2008-12-04 |
59. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
86.67 |
1.0543 |
-0.0071 |
360 |
7 |
79.24 |
2009-01-02 |
60. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
86.65 |
1.0267 |
0.0210 |
261 |
3 |
83.65 |
2008-12-14 |
61. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
86.62 |
0.9866 |
0.0581 |
308 |
4 |
80.47 |
2008-12-04 |
62. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
86.61 |
1.1093 |
-0.0707 |
220 |
6 |
82.77 |
2009-02-07 |
63. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
86.60 |
1.0511 |
-0.0053 |
252 |
10 |
78.28 |
2009-01-12 |
64. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
86.53 |
0.9974 |
0.0419 |
163 |
4 |
80.29 |
2009-01-07 |
65. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
86.32 |
0.9681 |
0.0781 |
392 |
6 |
80.61 |
2009-01-03 |
66. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
86.28 |
1.0607 |
-0.0178 |
357 |
5 |
80.95 |
2009-01-02 |
67. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
86.24 |
1.0464 |
-0.0017 |
294 |
3 |
79.02 |
2008-12-04 |
68. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
86.18 |
1.0194 |
0.0174 |
224 |
1 |
86.18 |
2009-01-05 |
69. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
86.13 |
0.9736 |
0.0718 |
378 |
5 |
78.82 |
2009-01-07 |
70. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
86.06 |
1.0272 |
0.0082 |
226 |
10 |
78.97 |
2009-01-02 |
71. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
85.99 |
0.9981 |
0.0376 |
211 |
5 |
80.16 |
2009-01-02 |
72. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
85.95 |
0.9841 |
0.0487 |
217 |
7 |
77.49 |
2008-12-14 |
73. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
85.92 |
1.0628 |
-0.0250 |
363 |
4 |
82.43 |
2008-12-03 |
74. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
85.85 |
0.9931 |
0.0463 |
339 |
8 |
81.63 |
2009-01-03 |
75. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
85.67 |
1.0132 |
0.0202 |
371 |
7 |
79.19 |
2008-12-14 |
76. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
85.63 |
1.0639 |
-0.0305 |
303 |
3 |
81.18 |
2008-11-28 |
77. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
85.61 |
1.0320 |
0.0060 |
401 |
6 |
83.07 |
2008-12-04 |
78. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
85.54 |
1.0125 |
0.0172 |
232 |
7 |
80.81 |
2008-11-27 |
79. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
85.53 |
1.0199 |
0.0074 |
225 |
5 |
76.18 |
2009-01-02 |
80. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
85.53 |
1.1086 |
-0.0771 |
233 |
2 |
82.29 |
2009-01-01 |
81. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
85.50 |
1.0130 |
0.0178 |
288 |
6 |
82.23 |
2009-01-07 |
82. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
85.47 |
0.9425 |
0.0885 |
248 |
10 |
77.27 |
2009-01-05 |
83. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
85.31 |
0.9780 |
0.0442 |
173 |
8 |
76.59 |
2009-01-03 |
84. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
85.30 |
1.0567 |
-0.0287 |
314 |
6 |
81.09 |
2009-01-05 |
85. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
85.20 |
1.0495 |
-0.0229 |
323 |
6 |
80.66 |
2008-12-03 |
86. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
85.20 |
1.0086 |
0.0142 |
218 |
3 |
78.61 |
2009-01-01 |
87. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
85.07 |
0.9402 |
0.0834 |
310 |
6 |
81.12 |
2008-12-04 |
88. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
85.04 |
0.9909 |
0.0388 |
293 |
4 |
79.42 |
2009-01-02 |
89. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
84.86 |
0.9541 |
0.0694 |
236 |
5 |
72.80 |
2008-12-03 |
90. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
84.86 |
0.9380 |
0.0834 |
284 |
7 |
76.38 |
2008-12-03 |
91. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
84.81 |
1.0079 |
0.0134 |
273 |
6 |
80.05 |
2009-01-02 |
92. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
84.80 |
1.0601 |
-0.0411 |
256 |
3 |
80.34 |
2008-12-03 |
93. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
84.68 |
0.9561 |
0.0662 |
362 |
3 |
81.76 |
2008-11-28 |
94. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
84.50 |
0.9909 |
0.0316 |
334 |
5 |
77.06 |
2008-11-25 |
95. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
84.48 |
0.9604 |
0.0558 |
285 |
5 |
81.29 |
2008-11-29 |
96. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
84.48 |
1.0561 |
-0.0397 |
227 |
6 |
81.96 |
2009-01-03 |
97. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
84.47 |
0.9928 |
0.0248 |
293 |
4 |
78.12 |
2009-01-03 |
98. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
84.38 |
0.9346 |
0.0796 |
211 |
4 |
74.59 |
2008-12-14 |
99. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
84.35 |
1.0450 |
-0.0230 |
358 |
3 |
82.00 |
2008-12-04 |
100. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
84.33 |
1.0265 |
-0.0063 |
375 |
7 |
80.25 |
2009-01-02 |
101. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
84.16 |
0.9833 |
0.0335 |
387 |
5 |
78.63 |
2008-12-04 |
102. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
84.16 |
0.9890 |
0.0293 |
272 |
4 |
78.39 |
2008-12-09 |
103. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
84.13 |
1.0411 |
-0.0252 |
341 |
9 |
77.87 |
2008-12-04 |
104. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
84.10 |
1.0582 |
-0.0476 |
180 |
4 |
75.09 |
2008-12-01 |
105. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
84.08 |
1.0042 |
0.0055 |
168 |
3 |
82.17 |
2008-11-21 |
106. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
84.07 |
0.9434 |
0.0744 |
367 |
10 |
78.95 |
2009-01-05 |
107. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
83.99 |
0.9357 |
0.0745 |
204 |
3 |
77.51 |
2008-12-14 |
108. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
83.98 |
0.9842 |
0.0303 |
335 |
6 |
78.24 |
2009-01-04 |
109. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
83.93 |
1.0800 |
-0.0713 |
213 |
3 |
78.60 |
2008-12-03 |
110. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
83.93 |
1.0332 |
-0.0222 |
267 |
4 |
81.60 |
2008-12-14 |
111. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
83.91 |
0.9933 |
0.0255 |
450 |
4 |
78.74 |
2008-11-16 |
112. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
83.84 |
0.9719 |
0.0459 |
383 |
3 |
78.24 |
2009-01-02 |
113. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
83.81 |
0.9673 |
0.0451 |
292 |
9 |
76.26 |
2009-01-07 |
114. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
83.67 |
1.0106 |
-0.0031 |
302 |
7 |
79.82 |
2009-01-02 |
115. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
83.66 |
0.9966 |
0.0190 |
377 |
4 |
82.10 |
2008-12-14 |
116. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
83.59 |
1.0287 |
-0.0223 |
269 |
3 |
76.34 |
2008-11-27 |
117. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
83.49 |
0.9839 |
0.0222 |
308 |
5 |
80.85 |
2008-12-14 |
118. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
83.47 |
1.0253 |
-0.0162 |
337 |
2 |
76.44 |
2009-01-02 |
119. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
83.45 |
0.9917 |
0.0162 |
317 |
5 |
82.29 |
2009-01-02 |
120. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
83.38 |
0.9068 |
0.0963 |
212 |
6 |
73.61 |
2008-12-01 |
121. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
83.31 |
0.9332 |
0.0723 |
295 |
6 |
77.92 |
2008-12-03 |
122. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
83.28 |
1.0372 |
-0.0338 |
249 |
4 |
73.52 |
2008-11-19 |
123. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
83.23 |
0.9762 |
0.0270 |
249 |
5 |
78.12 |
2009-01-04 |
124. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
83.19 |
1.0128 |
-0.0033 |
369 |
6 |
80.10 |
2008-12-14 |
125. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
83.18 |
0.9884 |
0.0167 |
267 |
6 |
78.17 |
2009-01-02 |
126. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
83.16 |
0.9801 |
0.0219 |
289 |
6 |
77.42 |
2009-01-03 |
127. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
83.07 |
1.0901 |
-0.0869 |
288 |
5 |
82.12 |
2009-01-02 |
128. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
83.02 |
1.0404 |
-0.0349 |
406 |
3 |
79.89 |
2008-11-16 |
129. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
82.85 |
0.9594 |
0.0374 |
258 |
6 |
80.23 |
2009-02-07 |
130. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
82.79 |
1.0462 |
-0.0454 |
340 |
4 |
81.20 |
2009-01-05 |
131. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
82.77 |
1.0227 |
-0.0190 |
378 |
8 |
79.26 |
2009-01-02 |
132. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
82.74 |
0.9996 |
0.0051 |
483 |
6 |
78.96 |
2008-12-03 |
133. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
82.74 |
1.0033 |
-0.0058 |
203 |
8 |
77.82 |
2009-01-02 |
134. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
82.57 |
0.9849 |
0.0115 |
337 |
4 |
79.94 |
2009-01-02 |
135. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
82.56 |
0.9864 |
0.0124 |
292 |
8 |
77.25 |
2009-01-05 |
136. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
82.54 |
1.0686 |
-0.0702 |
354 |
2 |
79.38 |
2008-11-28 |
137. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
82.52 |
0.9880 |
0.0023 |
199 |
3 |
76.85 |
2009-01-01 |
138. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
82.49 |
0.9952 |
0.0014 |
220 |
5 |
74.60 |
2008-12-04 |
139. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
82.39 |
0.9931 |
-0.0040 |
218 |
7 |
77.81 |
2009-01-02 |
140. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
82.39 |
0.9680 |
0.0251 |
256 |
3 |
80.51 |
2009-01-02 |
141. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
82.38 |
0.9885 |
0.0111 |
469 |
9 |
79.27 |
2009-01-02 |
142. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
82.37 |
1.0135 |
-0.0175 |
358 |
4 |
79.35 |
2008-11-27 |
143. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
82.15 |
0.9922 |
-0.0015 |
264 |
4 |
78.79 |
2009-01-03 |
144. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
82.15 |
0.9422 |
0.0428 |
190 |
8 |
74.71 |
2009-01-02 |
145. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
82.13 |
0.9609 |
0.0337 |
331 |
4 |
74.81 |
2009-01-02 |
146. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
81.98 |
1.0414 |
-0.0543 |
234 |
3 |
78.68 |
2008-12-03 |
147. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
81.98 |
0.9479 |
0.0418 |
317 |
5 |
76.80 |
2009-01-01 |
148. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
81.89 |
1.0654 |
-0.0810 |
247 |
4 |
78.62 |
2008-12-03 |
149. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
81.85 |
0.9451 |
0.0492 |
419 |
8 |
76.70 |
2009-01-07 |
150. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
81.77 |
1.0481 |
-0.0703 |
255 |
6 |
78.33 |
2009-01-01 |
151. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
81.62 |
0.9704 |
0.0132 |
254 |
5 |
75.57 |
2008-12-03 |
152. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
81.53 |
0.9787 |
0.0072 |
364 |
6 |
76.19 |
2009-01-02 |
153. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
81.45 |
0.9963 |
-0.0171 |
274 |
4 |
80.14 |
2008-12-09 |
154. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
81.44 |
1.0035 |
-0.0214 |
310 |
4 |
77.17 |
2009-01-03 |
155. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
81.26 |
0.9114 |
0.0754 |
399 |
7 |
76.34 |
2008-11-29 |
156. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
81.21 |
1.0234 |
-0.0406 |
392 |
2 |
80.37 |
2008-11-27 |
157. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
81.19 |
0.9763 |
0.0016 |
143 |
6 |
76.90 |
2009-01-18 |
158. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
81.17 |
0.8986 |
0.0802 |
216 |
7 |
73.02 |
2009-01-05 |
159. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
81.15 |
0.9810 |
0.0019 |
362 |
6 |
77.14 |
2009-01-02 |
160. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
81.00 |
0.9827 |
-0.0057 |
314 |
4 |
74.76 |
2009-01-04 |
161. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
80.96 |
0.9836 |
-0.0079 |
289 |
6 |
76.80 |
2008-12-09 |
162. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
80.90 |
1.0264 |
-0.0557 |
191 |
3 |
79.04 |
2009-01-02 |
163. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
80.89 |
0.8986 |
0.0745 |
205 |
11 |
75.86 |
2008-12-04 |
164. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
80.78 |
0.9807 |
-0.0189 |
129 |
6 |
75.53 |
2008-12-04 |
165. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
80.72 |
0.9727 |
0.0067 |
442 |
4 |
76.89 |
2008-12-29 |
166. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
80.65 |
0.9400 |
0.0345 |
434 |
5 |
76.21 |
2009-01-01 |
167. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
80.59 |
0.9424 |
0.0312 |
320 |
4 |
76.23 |
2009-01-05 |
168. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
80.50 |
0.9206 |
0.0500 |
317 |
3 |
74.76 |
2008-11-27 |
169. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
80.35 |
1.0362 |
-0.0617 |
437 |
3 |
78.10 |
2009-01-12 |
170. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
80.35 |
0.9658 |
0.0061 |
308 |
6 |
76.25 |
2008-12-14 |
171. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
80.31 |
0.9011 |
0.0698 |
322 |
8 |
73.43 |
2009-01-07 |
172. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
80.30 |
0.9829 |
-0.0160 |
229 |
2 |
76.53 |
2008-11-18 |
173. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
80.24 |
0.9538 |
0.0129 |
276 |
4 |
77.04 |
2008-11-27 |
174. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
80.20 |
1.0197 |
-0.0551 |
204 |
4 |
74.83 |
2008-12-03 |
175. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
80.16 |
0.9980 |
-0.0299 |
295 |
6 |
75.07 |
2008-12-04 |
176. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
80.13 |
0.9698 |
0.0008 |
389 |
4 |
72.82 |
2009-01-05 |
177. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
80.11 |
0.9392 |
0.0322 |
360 |
8 |
75.10 |
2009-01-02 |
178. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
80.10 |
0.9271 |
0.0406 |
323 |
6 |
74.13 |
2009-02-07 |
179. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
80.04 |
0.9636 |
-0.0005 |
281 |
7 |
75.75 |
2009-01-03 |
180. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
79.97 |
0.8666 |
0.0945 |
206 |
9 |
69.50 |
2009-01-05 |
181. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
79.96 |
1.0165 |
-0.0538 |
316 |
2 |
72.92 |
2008-11-29 |
182. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
79.94 |
0.9703 |
-0.0004 |
394 |
1 |
79.94 |
2008-11-21 |
183. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
79.80 |
0.9673 |
-0.0018 |
393 |
1 |
79.80 |
2008-11-16 |
184. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
79.78 |
1.0016 |
-0.0419 |
217 |
5 |
72.78 |
2008-12-14 |
185. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
79.70 |
1.0672 |
-0.1080 |
239 |
3 |
77.95 |
2008-11-21 |
186. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
79.69 |
0.9745 |
-0.0122 |
388 |
3 |
76.65 |
2008-11-21 |
187. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
79.68 |
0.9027 |
0.0539 |
189 |
2 |
76.47 |
2008-11-21 |
188. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
79.67 |
0.9644 |
-0.0013 |
398 |
4 |
74.48 |
2008-12-03 |
189. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
79.64 |
0.8986 |
0.0660 |
363 |
2 |
79.63 |
2009-01-01 |
190. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
79.60 |
0.9136 |
0.0488 |
348 |
4 |
75.66 |
2008-11-26 |
191. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
79.46 |
1.0125 |
-0.0600 |
171 |
3 |
70.56 |
2009-01-02 |
192. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
79.45 |
1.0181 |
-0.0595 |
276 |
3 |
77.45 |
2008-12-09 |
193. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
79.43 |
0.9228 |
0.0388 |
305 |
6 |
74.99 |
2009-01-18 |
194. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
79.42 |
0.9603 |
0.0022 |
430 |
2 |
78.76 |
2008-12-03 |
195. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
79.26 |
0.9709 |
-0.0172 |
264 |
3 |
76.89 |
2008-12-03 |
196. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
79.24 |
1.0250 |
-0.0673 |
271 |
1 |
79.24 |
2008-12-04 |
197. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
79.19 |
0.9740 |
-0.0165 |
371 |
5 |
73.74 |
2008-11-28 |
198. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
79.17 |
0.9678 |
-0.0096 |
392 |
4 |
75.03 |
2008-12-03 |
199. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
79.17 |
0.9597 |
-0.0056 |
251 |
5 |
75.16 |
2009-01-02 |
200. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
79.10 |
0.9948 |
-0.0428 |
233 |
2 |
73.73 |
2008-12-09 |
201. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
79.09 |
0.9503 |
-0.0040 |
211 |
8 |
74.53 |
2008-12-09 |
202. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
79.09 |
0.9359 |
0.0178 |
355 |
2 |
73.57 |
2008-12-14 |
203. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
79.03 |
0.8172 |
0.1307 |
204 |
4 |
70.22 |
2008-11-27 |
204. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
79.00 |
0.8778 |
0.0759 |
285 |
4 |
73.48 |
2008-12-29 |
205. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
78.95 |
0.9135 |
0.0466 |
393 |
4 |
73.73 |
2008-12-09 |
206. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
78.94 |
0.9468 |
0.0041 |
318 |
6 |
75.39 |
2008-12-01 |
207. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
78.79 |
0.9243 |
0.0271 |
240 |
4 |
75.30 |
2009-01-02 |
208. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
78.73 |
0.9957 |
-0.0431 |
323 |
4 |
75.89 |
2008-12-14 |
209. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
78.68 |
0.8993 |
0.0515 |
366 |
6 |
72.32 |
2009-02-07 |
210. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
78.57 |
0.9012 |
0.0489 |
322 |
6 |
74.75 |
2009-01-07 |
211. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
78.45 |
0.9915 |
-0.0472 |
281 |
1 |
78.45 |
2008-12-14 |
212. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
78.42 |
0.9519 |
-0.0032 |
323 |
4 |
76.31 |
2008-12-09 |
213. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
78.36 |
1.0006 |
-0.0565 |
311 |
3 |
77.20 |
2009-01-03 |
214. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
78.05 |
0.9070 |
0.0285 |
192 |
2 |
74.23 |
2008-12-09 |
215. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
77.98 |
0.9271 |
0.0120 |
295 |
2 |
74.25 |
2008-11-19 |
216. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
77.91 |
0.9143 |
0.0253 |
300 |
2 |
77.89 |
2008-11-25 |
217. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
77.86 |
1.0867 |
-0.1531 |
171 |
1 |
77.86 |
2008-11-12 |
218. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
77.81 |
0.9183 |
0.0200 |
308 |
7 |
73.86 |
2008-12-03 |
219. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
77.47 |
0.9352 |
-0.0030 |
194 |
6 |
73.07 |
2008-11-28 |
220. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
77.43 |
0.9101 |
0.0266 |
351 |
3 |
76.36 |
2008-12-03 |
221. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
77.38 |
0.9583 |
-0.0256 |
237 |
1 |
77.38 |
2008-11-28 |
222. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
77.37 |
0.9500 |
-0.0162 |
287 |
3 |
72.83 |
2008-12-04 |
223. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
77.07 |
1.0028 |
-0.0754 |
259 |
4 |
76.29 |
2009-01-07 |
224. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
76.93 |
0.8964 |
0.0275 |
199 |
3 |
71.43 |
2008-12-03 |
225. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
76.92 |
0.9650 |
-0.0357 |
347 |
2 |
76.35 |
2008-11-26 |
226. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
76.71 |
0.9574 |
-0.0301 |
354 |
2 |
76.68 |
2008-11-10 |
227. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
76.62 |
0.9632 |
-0.0390 |
287 |
3 |
73.79 |
2008-12-01 |
228. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
76.55 |
0.9119 |
0.0145 |
396 |
2 |
75.89 |
2008-11-18 |
229. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
76.37 |
1.0615 |
-0.1445 |
201 |
3 |
70.44 |
2008-12-01 |
230. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
76.12 |
0.9885 |
-0.0715 |
355 |
6 |
71.25 |
2009-01-02 |
231. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
76.10 |
0.9108 |
0.0058 |
235 |
3 |
69.64 |
2008-12-03 |
232. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
75.34 |
0.9332 |
-0.0257 |
267 |
4 |
73.27 |
2008-11-16 |
233. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
75.31 |
0.9765 |
-0.0701 |
269 |
1 |
75.31 |
2009-01-01 |
234. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
75.00 |
0.8624 |
0.0363 |
174 |
6 |
72.33 |
2009-01-03 |
235. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
74.94 |
0.9162 |
-0.0124 |
401 |
3 |
73.12 |
2009-01-01 |
236. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
74.63 |
0.8936 |
0.0042 |
346 |
3 |
72.85 |
2008-12-14 |
237. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
74.27 |
0.9927 |
-0.0976 |
276 |
2 |
74.16 |
2008-12-09 |
238. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
73.62 |
0.9145 |
-0.0244 |
404 |
5 |
68.60 |
2008-12-03 |
239. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
73.28 |
1.0094 |
-0.1268 |
256 |
5 |
71.79 |
2009-01-02 |
240. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
73.12 |
0.8830 |
0.0001 |
300 |
1 |
73.12 |
2008-11-12 |
241. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
73.10 |
1.0018 |
-0.1212 |
246 |
2 |
72.78 |
2008-12-04 |
242. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
72.70 |
0.8437 |
0.0311 |
268 |
2 |
71.05 |
2008-11-25 |
243. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
72.66 |
1.0115 |
-0.1417 |
189 |
1 |
72.66 |
2009-01-02 |
244. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
72.58 |
0.8794 |
0.0012 |
427 |
3 |
66.44 |
2008-11-26 |
245. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
72.50 |
0.8880 |
-0.0149 |
296 |
4 |
64.99 |
2009-01-02 |
246. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
71.93 |
0.9128 |
-0.0495 |
237 |
4 |
70.08 |
2008-11-26 |
247. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
71.86 |
0.8656 |
0.0009 |
242 |
2 |
69.52 |
2009-01-02 |
248. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
70.92 |
0.9713 |
-0.1188 |
193 |
2 |
70.49 |
2008-11-27 |
249. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
70.88 |
0.9299 |
-0.0849 |
168 |
2 |
68.70 |
2008-11-18 |
250. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
69.21 |
0.9265 |
-0.0945 |
254 |
2 |
68.59 |
2008-11-28 |
251. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
69.15 |
0.9029 |
-0.0678 |
393 |
1 |
69.15 |
2008-11-25 |
252. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
68.88 |
0.8887 |
-0.0457 |
464 |
2 |
67.34 |
2009-01-02 |
253. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
67.19 |
1.0060 |
-0.1967 |
225 |
1 |
67.19 |
2008-11-09 |
254. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
66.72 |
0.7923 |
0.0112 |
316 |
1 |
66.72 |
2008-12-03 |
255. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
65.45 |
0.8913 |
-0.1023 |
201 |
2 |
64.65 |
2008-11-21 |
256. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
65.43 |
0.9869 |
-0.2032 |
193 |
2 |
62.32 |
2008-11-21 |
257. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
64.37 |
0.9284 |
-0.1503 |
346 |
1 |
64.37 |
2008-11-13 |
258. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
62.95 |
1.0476 |
-0.2998 |
110 |
1 |
62.95 |
2008-11-08 |