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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| 3163. | Manze (manze) | 110.30 | 97% | 2022-06-10 |
| 3164. | Brian (dolphine73) | 110.28 | 98.8% | 2024-09-06 |
| 3165. | Rob (pitzthistlewits) | 110.28 | 96% | 2019-09-23 |
| 3166. | rufat (vimeo) | 110.28 | 98% | 2022-12-26 |
| 3167. | cardinalland (cardinalland) | 110.28 | 99% | 2021-03-26 |
| 3168. | Cephiro (cephiro) | 110.28 | 94% | 2011-05-23 |
| 3169. | Vecna (vecnaalwayswins) | 110.27 | 98% | 2023-12-29 |
| 3170. | (dragusprime) | 110.27 | 99% | 2023-09-07 |
| 3171. | Nexus (popcornman) | 110.25 | 99% | 2025-05-15 |
| 3172. | TheBossOfTheBoss (thebossof... | 110.25 | 98.8% | 2024-06-22 |
| 3173. | Michael (additive) | 110.25 | 95% | 2013-05-06 |
| 3174. | Kiyan (kzdxblord) | 110.24 | 97.9% | 2025-05-13 |
| 3175. | Nakuj (nakuj) | 110.24 | 97% | 2019-11-16 |
| 3176. | Your Mom (imgonnalose69) | 110.24 | 97% | 2020-12-26 |
| 3177. | Nick (nickmac) | 110.24 | 91% | 2016-06-14 |
| 3178. | (´・_・｀) (sinji) | 110.24 | — | 2011-01-13 |
| 3179. | noogit (burz7) | 110.23 | 98% | 2022-06-19 |
| 3180. | PizzaBeast (pizzabeast) | 110.23 | 97% | 2016-03-01 |
| 3181. | TheyGotAlex (harshbarger.a@... | 110.23 | 97% | 2019-06-04 |
| 3182. | Rachel (rachelemma) | 110.23 | 97% | 2014-09-19 |
| 3183. | Chris (oxfordbags) | 110.22 | 98% | 2021-01-16 |
| 3184. | Musically (musically_ut) | 110.22 | 99% | 2017-03-31 |
| 3185. | issa (issa_) | 110.21 | 97.8% | 2025-02-06 |
| 3186. | haryson (xooflo) | 110.21 | 97% | 2020-12-21 |
| 3187. | Maija (maijakarina) | 110.21 | — | 2010-08-12 |
| 3188. | ᚨᛚᚠᚨᛞᚺᛁᚱ (h... | 110.21 | 99% | 2019-12-27 |
| 3189. | Adéla (adela29) | 110.20 | 98.2% | 2024-11-26 |
| 3190. | Adam (w0nsh) | 110.20 | 99% | 2020-03-28 |
| 3191. | Minh (mn99) | 110.20 | 98.8% | 2023-12-28 |
| 3192. | jiff (bobbymole) | 110.20 | 99% | 2012-05-08 |
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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 |
| Smoke Rise Prep | 12 | 71.91 | January 1, 2024 |
| ##typeracer | 4 | 75.56 | January 9, 2021 |
| Walsh Middle School | 1 | 81.61 | November 28, 2011 |