It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produce a calorie of food. From the standpoint of industrial efficiency, it's too bad we can't simply drink the petroleum directly, because there's a lot less energy in a bushel of corn (measured in calories) than there is in the half gallon or so of oil required to produce it. Ecologically this is a fabulously expensive way to produce food.
—from The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, a book by Michael Pollan
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| 43796. | yuzo (chomezo) | 52.13 | 95% | 2016-06-14 |
| 43797. | Shu (shuhang1106) | 52.13 | 95% | 2016-11-05 |
| 43798. | Jan Aaron S. La Guardia (la... | 52.12 | 97% | 2025-05-14 |
| 43799. | Jake Flickinger (jflick) | 52.12 | 94% | 2024-03-17 |
| 43800. | Crank (cr4nk_) | 52.12 | 96% | 2024-08-24 |
| 43801. | Eritrea (robellanche) | 52.12 | 94% | 2024-02-21 |
| 43802. | Abel (doubleaa_13) | 52.12 | 93% | 2014-12-06 |
| 43803. | Dustin (dustin099) | 52.12 | 95% | 2018-04-01 |
| 43804. | Cuong (cuongle1911) | 52.12 | 90% | 2014-06-07 |
| 43805. | Gaurav_GS (gsingh01234) | 52.12 | 95% | 2018-02-06 |
| 43806. | thyleak (tleak) | 52.12 | 94% | 2012-04-03 |
| 43807. | Bhuwan (bhuwan_sh) | 52.11 | 94.1% | 2024-07-16 |
| 43808. | Cyrus (cyrus101) | 52.11 | 93% | 2024-02-29 |
| 43809. | David (punchbonzaii) | 52.11 | 96% | 2024-06-24 |
| 43810. | Nuoni (oceanpony) | 52.11 | 93% | 2015-03-16 |
| 43811. | Vance (vanceblack) | 52.11 | 97% | 2017-01-08 |
| 43812. | Golu (golumolu) | 52.10 | 97.7% | 2025-03-17 |
| 43813. | Garrett (baxt45) | 52.10 | 95% | 2024-09-12 |
| 43814. | Dhairy (enter_a_typing_race) | 52.10 | 94% | 2025-03-15 |
| 43815. | ABD (abd786) | 52.10 | 94.8% | 2024-10-08 |
| 43816. | deep (deep_pen) | 52.10 | 95% | 2024-11-05 |
| 43817. | Rehan Shakeel (rehanmemon) | 52.10 | 94.1% | 2024-10-08 |
| 43818. | Brokelyn (brokelynprincess) | 52.10 | 94% | 2018-03-13 |
| 43819. | jorge (jluissuzuki) | 52.10 | 88% | 2012-02-25 |
| 43820. | Theresa (theresa4) | 52.09 | 98% | 2025-09-26 |
| 43821. | Ranjan (ranjankarmahe) | 52.09 | 97% | 2025-05-29 |
| 43822. | Raees (raees01) | 52.09 | 97% | 2025-05-24 |
| 43823. | Háns (callumf726) | 52.09 | 94.5% | 2025-05-29 |
| 43824. | Hannah (daughterofchrist) | 52.09 | 96% | 2019-08-09 |
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| Default (English) | 101,604 | 78.55 | June 9, 2010 |
| Long Texts | 153 | 84.32 | December 30, 2016 |
| Instant Death Mode | 49 | 84.87 | July 2, 2010 |
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| ##typeracer | 4 | 75.56 | January 9, 2021 |
| Walsh Middle School | 1 | 81.61 | November 28, 2011 |