Splash

The Splash texts are the 220 randomly selected yellow lines of text with often humorous content on the title screen. The splashes are defined in a plain-text file within minecraft.jar (minecraft.jar/title/splashes.txt).

Tempo
The tempo of the splashes calculated in BPM is 120. This was first claimed by the user RRAANDOOOOMM, when he was listening to the house song "Who's Afraid of Detroit?" by Claude vonStroke while also watching the beating of the "Oh man!" splash. He told his older DJ'ing brother who was sitting next to him, how the splash seemed to sync with the beat of "Who's Afraid of Detroit?". But the brother (having the beat reading skills of a DJ) told him that, the splash was beating slower than the song. The two brothers later researched the beats by using a metronome app for iPhone by Steinway & Sons and also by comparing other songs to the splash. The BPM of the splash proved to be 120, while that of "Who's afraid of Detroit?" was 125.

Special splashes
Occasionally Notch replaces all the regular splashes with a single splash visible for a set time.