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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12177. | n00b (gimape07) | 82.74 | 98% | 2024-01-15 |
12178. | Sven (svendiamond) | 82.74 | 97% | 2019-10-06 |
12179. | Stephen (nothamlet) | 82.74 | 99% | 2019-03-26 |
12180. | storm-gg (waytooclose) | 82.74 | 100% | 2017-03-10 |
12181. | Hung (hungbui081189) | 82.74 | 97% | 2013-04-10 |
12182. | Levi (leviberdin91) | 82.73 | 97% | 2019-09-16 |
12183. | Victor (erick45642) | 82.73 | 96% | 2024-01-09 |
12184. | Evan (evanr10190) | 82.73 | 97.9% | 2021-01-31 |
12185. | LEntless (lentless) | 82.73 | 98% | 2017-09-23 |
12186. | javed (m.javediqbal51214@gm... | 82.73 | 96% | 2017-06-11 |
12187. | Annabelle (anuhbell) | 82.73 | 98% | 2015-11-03 |
12188. | jazzy (typergal025) | 82.72 | 98% | 2024-04-21 |
12189. | Zhaux (zhaux) | 82.72 | 90% | 2014-08-04 |
12190. | saksham (saksham1) | 82.72 | 94.7% | 2023-11-18 |
12191. | ref (rwef) | 82.72 | 97% | 2021-04-21 |
12192. | Ricky (chelsky) | 82.72 | 95% | 2016-11-23 |
12193. | bevoveb (bevoveb) | 82.71 | 96% | 2024-04-17 |
12194. | Aditya (adityabj) | 82.71 | 98% | 2024-01-28 |
12195. | Keshav (keshav55) | 82.71 | 95% | 2012-04-17 |
12196. | Your (nova_byrdy) | 82.71 | 98% | 2024-01-10 |
12197. | planetcall (planetcall) | 82.71 | 94% | 2012-05-04 |
12198. | Thomas (jukeno) | 82.71 | 91% | 2013-04-14 |
12199. | Lam (eeric) | 82.71 | — | 2011-02-22 |
12200. | Adriana (speedyalmond) | 82.70 | 96% | 2023-04-11 |
12201. | Matthew (applesloth) | 82.70 | 98% | 2022-03-31 |
12202. | Shawn (faketypewriter) | 82.70 | 98% | 2020-02-27 |
12203. | I'mSlow (alwaystooslow) | 82.70 | 95% | 2021-04-16 |
12204. | 𝐊 𝐑 𝐀 𝐊 𝐄 ... | 82.70 | 97% | 2021-05-17 |
12205. | Hamza (hums) | 82.70 | 97% | 2020-10-03 |
12206. | qwerty (jowk) | 82.70 | 98% | 2021-04-07 |
Universe | Races | Average WPM | First Race |
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Default (English) | 70,097 | 81.38 | June 9, 2010 |
Long Texts | 89 | 92.00 | December 30, 2016 |
Instant Death Mode | 49 | 84.87 | July 2, 2010 |
##typeracer | 4 | 75.56 | January 9, 2021 |
Walsh Middle School | 1 | 81.61 | November 28, 2011 |
Smoke Rise Prep | 0 | 0.00 | January 1, 1970 |