William Strunk, Jr.

This quote was added by mhill
A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

Train on this quote


Rate this quote:
3.2 out of 5 based on 37 ratings.

Edit Text

Edit author and title

(Changes are manually reviewed)

or just leave a comment:


Test your skills, take the Typing Test.

Score (WPM) distribution for this quote. More.

Best scores for this typing test

Name WPM Accuracy
eventlogging 170.00 100%
samuraininja 134.77 94.5%
dcb87 117.19 99.5%
user366883 112.82 99.5%
raul32 112.76 96.9%
user40438 111.28 97.9%
saustintaylor 110.45 99.5%
kyle_w 106.87 99.0%
jan_londen 106.64 100%
andrewmabon 105.07 98.4%

Recently for

Name WPM Accuracy
user109859 82.35 98.4%
rohitbalaji_123 97.62 97.9%
user108036 43.42 97.4%
user90946 48.79 95.5%
kyle_w 106.87 99.0%
user108888 33.92 94.5%
savagekaidoz 50.54 91.7%
ozymandias037 84.51 97.9%