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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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25295. | smooll (smoollbrain) | 72.26 | 96.4% | 2024-11-29 |
| 25296. | Shmomo (shmomo) | 72.26 | 97% | 2024-04-19 |
| 25297. | Khamza Shagdar (hamzacer) | 72.26 | 96% | 2025-09-29 |
| 25298. | Gina (borbinon) | 72.26 | 95% | 2020-08-18 |
| 25299. | Loren (lbrindze) | 72.26 | 95% | 2013-11-19 |
| 25300. | cowboy (cowboy1) | 72.26 | — | 2010-06-26 |
| 25301. | sappy (qndrezito) | 72.25 | 99.5% | 2025-04-02 |
| 25302. | TaoZ (tao24k) | 72.25 | 95.8% | 2023-11-16 |
| 25303. | DJCheeseburger1 (djcheesebu... | 72.25 | 98.8% | 2024-01-18 |
| 25304. | Heufy (heufy) | 72.25 | 96% | 2022-01-13 |
| 25305. | Elite (getgoodelite) | 72.25 | 97.1% | 2023-11-11 |
| 25306. | raphael (rfal10) | 72.25 | 96% | 2012-07-06 |
| 25307. | Raz (adashi) | 72.25 | 98.8% | 2025-02-21 |
| 25308. | william (iamzyva) | 72.25 | 96% | 2019-07-19 |
| 25309. | Oscar (nacl322) | 72.25 | 89% | 2016-03-03 |
| 25310. | Wroom (a_a_a) | 72.25 | 96% | 2013-03-12 |
| 25311. | Samuel (samess) | 72.24 | 97.7% | 2024-02-09 |
| 25312. | Later (nottypingrn) | 72.24 | 98% | 2023-07-27 |
| 25313. | walid (walda) | 72.24 | 98.1% | 2023-11-11 |
| 25314. | Anton (antonjr04) | 72.24 | 94% | 2021-12-11 |
| 25315. | Emanuel (mak6872123eo) | 72.24 | 97% | 2018-12-31 |
| 25316. | PUBALO (pubalo_) | 72.24 | 95% | 2013-02-19 |
| 25317. | Kyle (jak_racer) | 72.24 | 93% | 2016-03-01 |
| 25318. | leah (henrytheelectron) | 72.24 | 96% | 2018-12-01 |
| 25319. | Alex (auft) | 72.24 | 94% | 2018-10-13 |
| 25320. | Alvin (alvinpiter) | 72.24 | 97% | 2021-07-03 |
| 25321. | Seth (sethrylan) | 72.23 | 95% | 2022-01-22 |
| 25322. | Kian Wee (mrnkw) | 72.23 | 95.3% | 2025-01-01 |
| 25323. | Dann1boi (notdaniel69420) | 72.23 | 98.5% | 2024-06-13 |
| 25324. | Patrick (patisawesomein1) | 72.23 | 97% | 2018-11-17 |
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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 |