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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| 9142. | (unbreakse) | 93.04 | 98.8% | 2024-03-29 |
| 9143. | (angels2002) | 93.04 | 99% | 2016-05-13 |
| 9144. | (aventus) | 93.04 | 92% | 2015-07-10 |
| 9145. | (dvorak_only_challenge) | 93.03 | 97% | 2025-09-22 |
| 9146. | (sjtype11) | 93.03 | 98% | 2024-02-27 |
| 9147. | Heathe (hwhl) | 93.03 | 97% | 2021-06-28 |
| 9148. | (muchinchai) | 93.03 | 99% | 2023-07-19 |
| 9149. | (nickbiiy) | 93.03 | 97% | 2022-05-30 |
| 9150. | (apeninspaaace) | 93.03 | 96% | 2023-02-21 |
| 9151. | Irrestructable (limjacky) | 93.03 | 95% | 2015-08-09 |
| 9152. | (8lava) | 93.03 | 95% | 2016-06-21 |
| 9153. | (goonercorweem) | 93.02 | 97% | 2025-03-24 |
| 9154. | (beba23) | 93.02 | 98% | 2026-05-21 |
| 9155. | (iasbihtdtty) | 93.02 | 98.1% | 2024-11-29 |
| 9156. | Sylvester (sylvestertyper) | 93.02 | 99% | 2021-10-11 |
| 9157. | (gerpaderp) | 93.02 | 90% | 2015-11-17 |
| 9158. | (pianokid88) | 93.01 | 93% | 2016-03-03 |
| 9159. | (sgpthomas) | 93.01 | 99% | 2025-07-20 |
| 9160. | toomuchads (toomuchads) | 93.01 | 98.1% | 2024-01-24 |
| 9161. | (tom_shipley) | 93.01 | 98% | 2025-11-26 |
| 9162. | (perplexenigma) | 93.01 | 97% | 2020-12-02 |
| 9163. | (djex808) | 93.01 | 98% | 2021-11-02 |
| 9164. | Yogi v2 (wintersnowmagick) | 93.01 | 95% | 2013-01-04 |
| 9165. | Benji (helmdaddy) | 93.01 | — | 2010-07-26 |
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| 9167. | (justkanji) | 93.00 | 97% | 2020-07-01 |
| 9168. | (gamer95) | 93.00 | 100% | 2022-05-26 |
| 9169. | (emeraldshield) | 93.00 | 97% | 2021-11-24 |
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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 |