Quote from Paris in It Should've Been Lorelai
Paris: You're only doing 135 WPM. Rory: WPM? Paris: "Words per minute". Rory: Of course. Paris: That's slow. Rory: That's not slow. Paris: It's Jimmy Bob slow. Rory: I talk normally. Paris: For the average Willie Nelson roadie, yes, but not for a winning debate member. As a comparison, I speak an average of 178 WPM. Rory: Word speed isn't everything. Sometimes, I will add a dramatic pause to prove a point, undercutting my WPM. Paris: Let's not harbor any Pinteresque fantasies here, Rorie. We'll have scant minutes to argue and we have to maximize our collective WPM.