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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| Rank | Username | WPM | Accuracy | Date |
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| 11421. | Trevor (nithalak) | 88.00 | — | 2010-07-10 |
| 11422. | 牛牛 (luojiaxuanwu) | 88.00 | 91% | 2011-07-23 |
| 11423. | Ket (ket93) | 88.00 | 96.3% | 2021-02-24 |
| 11424. | Rataro (yuugokku) | 87.99 | 99% | 2024-09-08 |
| 11425. | Kermilian Nguyen (kermilian... | 87.99 | 97.5% | 2025-04-29 |
| 11426. | :) (nogameplan) | 87.99 | 97% | 2021-03-03 |
| 11427. | Avneet (avneet91@gmail.com) | 87.99 | 95% | 2012-02-02 |
| 11428. | Justin (justinv) | 87.98 | 98% | 2013-05-31 |
| 11429. | Alex (alexbigtypa) | 87.98 | 97% | 2024-11-12 |
| 11430. | giorgi (archangel2535) | 87.98 | 98% | 2022-02-19 |
| 11431. | Daaaaa (dadaloh) | 87.98 | 98% | 2023-08-01 |
| 11432. | amprex575 (amprex575) | 87.98 | 97.2% | 2023-10-28 |
| 11433. | Swags (emquinlisk) | 87.98 | 96% | 2013-01-21 |
| 11434. | dom (d0msan) | 87.98 | 98% | 2021-03-13 |
| 11435. | Jacob (highlift) | 87.98 | 93% | 2017-04-21 |
| 11436. | Sir (sirezekiel) | 87.98 | — | 2010-06-10 |
| 11437. | PiPiMachine (pipimachine) | 87.97 | 97% | 2024-09-11 |
| 11438. | mo (ceiba) | 87.97 | 98% | 2014-07-01 |
| 11439. | JV (jibs12) | 87.97 | 98.1% | 2024-04-04 |
| 11440. | trileafu (frostingbit) | 87.97 | 97.7% | 2025-01-26 |
| 11441. | Daniel (vugla1994) | 87.97 | 97% | 2021-06-15 |
| 11442. | Joey (jdawg94) | 87.97 | 97% | 2018-02-28 |
| 11443. | Violet (nidtsg1113) | 87.97 | 96% | 2019-02-28 |
| 11444. | Your (nova_byrdy) | 87.96 | 97.6% | 2025-02-19 |
| 11445. | Christian (cjlax18) | 87.96 | 95% | 2020-10-13 |
| 11446. | Tull (torfindel) | 87.95 | 96% | 2018-02-13 |
| 11447. | ivan (ivanferraro) | 87.95 | 97% | 2024-06-19 |
| 11448. | John (g_fuel) | 87.95 | 98% | 2023-02-03 |
| 11449. | Marcel (nerias) | 87.95 | 98% | 2016-02-02 |
| 11450. | Buppy (buppy212) | 87.94 | 95.9% | 2025-03-06 |
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