1 | Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace #196 Then that overfull heat in various cranial meatus. | | 100.00% | 197.78 WPM | 756pp weighted 100% | |
2 | The Fifth Season
N. K. Jemisin #1 The people we love are the ones who hurt us the most, after all. | | 100.00% | 213.43 WPM | 688pp weighted 95% | |
3 | Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace #34 One kid makes you ask him to please commit a crime. | | 100.00% | 197.82 WPM | 648pp weighted 90% | |
4 | War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy #8 The girl lost her hat and her long hair came down. | | 100.00% | 206.60 WPM | 614pp weighted 86% | |
5 | This Earth of Mankind
Pramoedya Ananta Toer #6 One day the notes would be of use to me, as they are now. | | 100.00% | 214.97 WPM | 564pp weighted 81% | |
6 | Sing
Garth Jennings #1 Don't let fear stop you from doing the thing you love. | | 100.00% | 217.43 WPM | 524pp weighted 77% | |
7 | Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky #112 Let him please himself, it's nothing to do with me. | | 100.00% | 198.28 WPM | 495pp weighted 74% | |
8 | Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky #37 It was four months since they had seen each other. | | 100.00% | 194.96 WPM | 471pp weighted 70% | |
9 | Borderline
Madonna #1 You just keep on pushing my love over the borderline. | | 100.00% | 186.32 WPM | 445pp weighted 66% | |
10 | Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky #115 And from those eyes alone he saw at once that she knew. | | 100.00% | 192.85 WPM | 420pp weighted 63% | |
11 | Game of Thrones
David Benioff, DB Weiss #3 Leave one wolf alive and the sheep are never safe. | | 100.00% | 195.15 WPM | 397pp weighted 60% | |
12 | Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky #83 I've found out where those mothers live and in what surroundings. | | 100.00% | 197.53 WPM | 377pp weighted 57% | |
13 | Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky #95 I know that she too may love you and perhaps does love you already. | | 100.00% | 198.00 WPM | 353pp weighted 54% | |
14 | War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy #87 It was plain that he did not quite grasp where he was. | | 100.00% | 189.34 WPM | 335pp weighted 51% | |
15 | This Earth of Mankind
Pramoedya Ananta Toer #43 It's clear from what you've told me that her mother is fond of you. | | 100.00% | 192.56 WPM | 318pp weighted 49% | |
16 | Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
Randall Munroe #1 To make power, people try to put pieces of this metal close enough together that they make heat fast, but not so close that they go out of control and blow up. This is very hard, but there is so much heat and power stored in this metal that some people have wanted to try anyway. | | 99.64% | 154.05 WPM | 301pp weighted 46% | |
17 | Naruto Shippuden
Masashi Kishimoto #1 If you don't like the hand that fate's dealt you with, fight for a new one. | | 100.00% | 175.35 WPM | 285pp weighted 44% | |
18 | Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu
Michael Hegner, Tommy Andreasen #1 Even lessons learned the hard way are lessons learned. | | 100.00% | 183.23 WPM | 269pp weighted 42% | |
19 | Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky #101 Walk about a bit, you won't be able to walk too far. | | 100.00% | 192.27 WPM | 255pp weighted 40% | |
20 | A Game of Thrones
George R. R. Martin #1 When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives. | | 100.00% | 168.16 WPM | 241pp weighted 38% | |
21 | Red vs. Blue
Rooster Teeth #5 I have a first place ribbon in doing nothing... it's the same ribbon as last place. | | 100.00% | 168.03 WPM | 229pp weighted 36% | |
22 | War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy #191 He asks you to come to him at once on a very important matter. | | 100.00% | 185.55 WPM | 217pp weighted 34% | |
23 | Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace #64 You believe you would die twice for another but in truth would die only for your alone self, its sentiment. | | 100.00% | 166.55 WPM | 206pp weighted 32% | |
24 | Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace #75 I walk around with my arms out straight in front of me and recite these cliches. | | 100.00% | 172.42 WPM | 196pp weighted 31% | |
25 | Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln #1 Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate - we can not consecrate - we can not hallow - this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. | | 95.39% | 118.64 WPM | 185pp weighted 29% | |
26 | Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky #86 He had set down a good many points against him of late. | | 100.00% | 176.85 WPM | 175pp weighted 28% | |
27 | Game of Thrones
David Benioff, DB Weiss #5 When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground. | | 100.00% | 176.30 WPM | 166pp weighted 26% | |
28 | War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy #206 He felt that the more he valued her the less he loved her. | | 100.00% | 189.05 WPM | 158pp weighted 25% | |
29 | Backseat Freestyle
Kendrick Lamar #1 All my life I want money and power, respect my mind or die from lead shower. | | 100.00% | 170.06 WPM | 150pp weighted 24% | |
30 | Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie #4 It's easy to tell when a question is coming from a good place. | | 100.00% | 181.68 WPM | 142pp weighted 23% | |
31 | Three Amigos
John Landis #1 Well, you told me I have a plethora. And I just would like to know if you know what a plethora is. I would not like to think that a person would tell someone he has a plethora, and then find out that that person has no idea what it means to have a plethora. | | 99.61% | 161.92 WPM | 135pp weighted 21% | |
32 | Heart and Soul
Joy Division #4 The past is now part of my future, the present is well out of hand. | | 100.00% | 177.14 WPM | 127pp weighted 20% | |
33 | Ecclesiastes 3
Solomon #1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. | | 96.69% | 129.09 WPM | 120pp weighted 19% | |
34 | Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky #114 You would run like this to me and hug me and kiss me. | | 100.00% | 188.00 WPM | 114pp weighted 18% | |
35 | Songs the Night Sings
The Dark Element #1 I wanna live the stories I write, see the whole world with my own eyes, take the unknown trail and hear the songs the night sings. I wanna feel the flame when it burns, wanna feel the pain when it hurts, take the unknown trail and hear the songs the night sings. | | 99.24% | 145.92 WPM | 108pp weighted 17% | |
36 | Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky #3 He had counted them once when he had been lost in dreams. | | 100.00% | 179.77 WPM | 103pp weighted 17% | |
37 | Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes #49 Talk of other dainties, if you please, and don't ask for hens again. | | 100.00% | 162.81 WPM | 97pp weighted 16% | |
38 | The Twelve Tables
Ancient Rome (unknown?) #1 Whatever the people ordain last shall be legally valid. | | 100.00% | 166.79 WPM | 92pp weighted 15% | |
39 | The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern #2 Secrets have power, and that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them. Writing them down is worse, because who can tell how many eyes might see them inscribed on paper, no matter how careful you might be with it. So it's really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours. | | 98.66% | 132.85 WPM | 87pp weighted 14% | |
40 | Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace #210 He was nodding both while he wrote and when he looked up. | | 100.00% | 170.47 WPM | 83pp weighted 14% | |
41 | Ferris Bueller's Day Off
John Hughes #1 Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. | | 100.00% | 167.29 WPM | 78pp weighted 13% | |
42 | Animal Farm
George Orwell #1 The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. | | 100.00% | 150.45 WPM | 74pp weighted 12% | |
43 | Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky #68 The same thing has been printed and read a thousand times before. | | 100.00% | 183.38 WPM | 71pp weighted 12% | |
44 | Death Note
Tsugumi Ohba #1 The human whose name is written in this note shall die. | | 100.00% | 177.58 WPM | 67pp weighted 11% | |
45 | SpongeBob Squarepants
Stephen Hillenberg #1 Why, once I met this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy's cousin. | | 99.00% | 149.85 WPM | 64pp weighted 10% | |
46 | The Second Forty Years
Edward J. Stieglitz #1 And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. | | 100.00% | 180.40 WPM | 60pp weighted 10% | |
47 | Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
Benjamin Dreyer #3 I had no idea what I wanted to be when I grew up, which is a problem when you've already grown up. | | 100.00% | 157.61 WPM | 57pp weighted 9% | |
48 | War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy #94 But even it does not exist, there is nothing but quiet and peace. | | 100.00% | 177.20 WPM | 54pp weighted 9% | |
49 | Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky #28 And by now he was near; here was the house, here was the gate. | | 100.00% | 170.03 WPM | 51pp weighted 9% | |
50 | War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy #124 There are many laws but no one to carry out the old ones. | | 100.00% | 174.77 WPM | 49pp weighted 8% | |
51 | War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy #59 It's as if it had been done on purpose, on purpose. | | 100.00% | 165.70 WPM | 46pp weighted 8% | |
52 | Dear John
Taylor Swift #1 Long were the nights when my days once revolved around you. | | 100.00% | 172.23 WPM | 44pp weighted 7% | |
53 | Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky #61 I thought it over at night, and found out the mistake. | | 100.00% | 191.91 WPM | 42pp weighted 7% | |
54 | Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Angela Duckworth #3 Whether we realize it or not, the culture in which we live, and with which we identify, powerfully shapes just about every aspect of our being. | | 100.00% | 149.57 WPM | 39pp weighted 7% | |
55 | BoJack Horseman
Raphael Bob-Waksberg #1 In the great grand scheme of things, we're just tiny specks that will one day be forgotten. So, it doesn't matter what we did in the past, or how we'll be remembered. The only thing that matters is right now: this moment, this one spectacular moment we are sharing together. | | 99.28% | 137.16 WPM | 37pp weighted 6% | |
56 | 5,001 Wisdom Quotations of Mike Murdock
Mike Murdock #1 The people with ideas have no power and the people with power have no ideas. | | 100.00% | 193.13 WPM | 35pp weighted 6% | |
57 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams #6 The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't. | | 100.00% | 169.34 WPM | 34pp weighted 6% | |
58 | Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky #26 He would of course have to go by and wait till she went out again. | | 100.00% | 172.10 WPM | 32pp weighted 5% | |
59 | Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky #67 You see that there is nothing particularly new in all that. | | 100.00% | 185.60 WPM | 30pp weighted 5% | |
60 | War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy #85 He asked him to tell them how and where he got his wound. | | 100.00% | 175.91 WPM | 29pp weighted 5% | |
61 | Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky #53 That's what they regard as the highest point of progress. | | 100.00% | 167.28 WPM | 27pp weighted 5% | |
62 | Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace #155 That kid's been hanging from the bottom of the ladder by his nails since he was nine. | | 100.00% | 152.77 WPM | 26pp weighted 4% | |
63 | Chess
Benny Andersson #1 One town's very like another when your head's down over your pieces, brother. | | 100.00% | 161.27 WPM | 24pp weighted 4% | |
64 | War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy #90 He even thought something moved on that white spot. | | 100.00% | 190.41 WPM | 23pp weighted 4% | |
65 | War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy #192 The major raised his hand to his cap with a smile. | | 100.00% | 168.67 WPM | 22pp weighted 4% | |
66 | Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes #34 Thus, sirs, you are bound to keep quiet by human and divine law. | | 100.00% | 155.58 WPM | 21pp weighted 4% | |
67 | The Fifth Season
N. K. Jemisin #4 There passes a time of happiness in your life, which I will not describe to you. It is unimportant. Perhaps you think it wrong that I dwell so much on the horrors, the pain, but pain is what shapes us, after all. We are creatures born of heat and pressure and grinding, ceaseless movement. To be still is to be... not alive. But what is important is that you know it was not all terrible. There was peace in long stretches, between each crisis. A chance to cool and solidify before the grind resumed. Here is what you need to understand. In any war, there are factions: those wanting peace, those wanting more war for a myriad of reasons, and those whose desires transcend either. And this is a war with many sides, not just two. | | 96.49% | 120.19 WPM | 20pp weighted 3% | |
68 | War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy #194 The prisoners had to be counted before being let out. | | 100.00% | 172.42 WPM | 19pp weighted 3% | |
69 | Incubus Dreams
Laurell K. Hamilton #1 There comes a point when you just love someone. Not because they're good, or bad, or anything really. You just love them. It doesn't mean you'll be together forever. It doesn't mean you won't hurt each other. It just means you love them. Sometimes in spite of who they are, and sometimes because of who they are. And you know that they love you, sometimes because of who you are, and sometimes in spite of it. | | 97.88% | 139.72 WPM | 18pp weighted 3% | |
70 | The Holy Bible
John #1 Then I saw another beast that rose out of the earth; it had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon. It exercises all the authority of the first beast on its behalf, and it makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose mortal wound had been healed. It performs great signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in the sight of all; and by the signs that it is allowed to perform on behalf of the beast, it deceives the inhabitants of earth, telling them to make an image for the beast that had been wounded by the sword, and yet lived; and it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast so that the image of the beast could even speak and cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell who does not have the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name. This calls for wisdom: let anyone with understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a person. Its number is six hundred sixty-six. | | 96.01% | 114.22 WPM | 17pp weighted 3% | |
71 | Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky #12 People seemed to be playing cards and drinking tea there. | | 100.00% | 161.81 WPM | 16pp weighted 3% | |
72 | Practical Demonkeeping
Christopher Moore #1 If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them. | | 100.00% | 184.48 WPM | 15pp weighted 3% | |
73 | Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky #76 That's the sort of man he is, if you care to know. | | 100.00% | 177.48 WPM | 14pp weighted 2% | |
74 | Moby Dick; Or, The Whale
Herman Melville #13 They are the lads that always live before the wind. | | 100.00% | 190.90 WPM | 13pp weighted 2% | |
75 | Autumn Leaves
André Gide #1 It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. | | 100.00% | 184.79 WPM | 13pp weighted 2% | |
76 | Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky #111 I know what she said to you, you need not tell me. | | 100.00% | 183.23 WPM | 12pp weighted 2% | |
77 | Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky #18 He used to cling close to his father, trembling all over when he met them. | | 100.00% | 159.47 WPM | 11pp weighted 2% | |
78 | The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern #3 People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see. | | 100.00% | 163.64 WPM | 11pp weighted 2% | |
79 | Life of Pi
Yann Martel #1 You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it. | | 100.00% | 190.98 WPM | 10pp weighted 2% | |
80 | Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky #92 I saw the same thing with a relative of my own not long ago. | | 100.00% | 170.39 WPM | 10pp weighted 2% | |
81 | The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde #1 You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know. | | 100.00% | 189.99 WPM | 9pp weighted 2% | |
82 | Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky #78 And he would not have denied that he knew all that at the time. | | 100.00% | 178.11 WPM | 9pp weighted 2% | |
83 | Taxi Driver
Martin Scorsese #3 Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets. | | 100.00% | 158.20 WPM | 8pp weighted 1% | |
84 | SUMMER
BROCKHAMPTON #1 In the heat of the summer, you're so different from the rest. | | 100.00% | 168.02 WPM | 8pp weighted 1% | |
85 | Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky #1 It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. | | 100.00% | 180.59 WPM | 7pp weighted 1% | |
86 | Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card #3 So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other. | | 100.00% | 179.29 WPM | 7pp weighted 1% | |
87 | Yellow Submarine
The Beatles #1 And he told us of his life in the land of submarines. | | 100.00% | 182.45 WPM | 7pp weighted 1% | |
88 | War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy #197 Please take as many as you want, or all if you like. | | 100.00% | 170.80 WPM | 6pp weighted 1% | |
89 | Cheers
James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles #1 A meal is something you eat. It's not something you name your kid. | | 100.00% | 179.93 WPM | 6pp weighted 1% | |
90 | Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky #58 So here's a chance for you to get to know her better. | | 100.00% | 176.52 WPM | 6pp weighted 1% | |
91 | War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy #45 Ah, if we had not religion to console us life would be very sad. | | 100.00% | 159.83 WPM | 5pp weighted 1% | |
92 | Arcane
Fortiche & Riot Games #14 When you're going to change the world, don't ask for permission. | | 100.00% | 167.36 WPM | 5pp weighted 1% | |
93 | Address at Rice University on America's Space Effort
John F. Kennedy #1 We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too. | | 98.11% | 129.78 WPM | 5pp weighted 1% | |
94 | Enduring Love
Ian McEwan #2 When it's gone, you'll know what a gift love was. You'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it. | | 100.00% | 145.13 WPM | 4pp weighted 1% | |
95 | Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel #1 a strange thought came to him: had Arthur seen that Clark was sleepwalking? Would this be in the letters to V.? Because he had been sleepwalking, Clark realized, moving half-asleep through the motions of his life for a while now, years; not specifically unhappy, but when had he last found real joy in his work? When was the last time he'd been truly moved by anything? When had he last felt awe or inspiration? He wished he could somehow go back and find the iPhone people whom he'd jostled on the sidewalk earlier, apologize to them-I'm sorry, I've just realized that I'm as minimally present in this world as you are, I had no right to judge | | 95.54% | 115.12 WPM | 4pp weighted 1% | |
96 | House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski #1 Then no matter where you are, in a crowded restaurant or on some desolate street or even in the comforts of your own home, you'll watch yourself dismantle every assurance you ever lived by. You'll stand aside as a great complexity intrudes, tearing apart, piece by piece, all of your carefully conceived denials, whether deliberate or unconscious. And then for better or worse you'll turn, unable to resist, though try to resist you still will, fighting with everything you've got not to face the thing you most dread, what is now, what will be, what has always come before, the creature you truly are, the creature we all are, buried in the nameless black of a name.
And then the nightmares will begin. | | 96.42% | 115.71 WPM | 4pp weighted 1% | |
97 | The Book Of Five Rings
Miyamoto Musashi #1 You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain. | | 100.00% | 176.43 WPM | 4pp weighted 1% | |
98 | Margin & Gina
Polo G #1 He was playing games, got you dancing in the middle of the club. Got you dancing in the middle of the club. | | 100.00% | 153.67 WPM | 3pp weighted 1% | |
99 | Nightcrawler
Dan Gilroy #1 My motto is if you want to win the lottery you've got to make money to buy a ticket. | | 100.00% | 151.57 WPM | 3pp weighted 1% | |
100 | Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky #116 She would write and post letters for them to their relations. | | 100.00% | 168.06 WPM | 3pp weighted 1% | |