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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| 18478. | Shashank (same_lame_name) | 79.66 | 97.9% | 2024-12-26 |
| 18479. | txbklyn (txbklyn) | 79.66 | 98% | 2019-03-19 |
| 18480. | King (kingmaverick07) | 79.66 | 98% | 2025-09-07 |
| 18481. | idk (tooezzz) | 79.66 | 98% | 2022-07-15 |
| 18482. | Paxton (pswongaa) | 79.66 | 98.3% | 2023-11-16 |
| 18483. | rime (zeliboid8) | 79.66 | 94% | 2013-05-19 |
| 18484. | singhvaibhav100@gmail.com (... | 79.66 | 98% | 2014-08-03 |
| 18485. | akashah (type_akashah) | 79.65 | 98% | 2024-06-17 |
| 18486. | Shallan Davar (shallan_davar) | 79.65 | 97.9% | 2024-10-15 |
| 18487. | kt (ktwizfan) | 79.65 | 88% | 2017-02-08 |
| 18488. | Kotaro (kotaro_qwerty) | 79.65 | 97% | 2022-01-31 |
| 18489. | Duckytype-8 (dummy_2) | 79.65 | 97% | 2021-03-26 |
| 18490. | . (offoff) | 79.65 | 91% | 2014-01-27 |
| 18491. | Vincent (vminjares) | 79.65 | 95% | 2012-03-25 |
| 18492. | sunny (sunxuz) | 79.65 | — | 2010-12-15 |
| 18493. | Mark (markxing) | 79.65 | 91% | 2011-06-23 |
| 18494. | vladyslav (supercoldv) | 79.64 | 97% | 2025-02-28 |
| 18495. | kramton (kramnot) | 79.64 | 96.6% | 2024-09-25 |
| 18496. | Eugene (rawners) | 79.64 | 99% | 2025-12-18 |
| 18497. | Siddhartha (gravito12345) | 79.64 | 94.6% | 2023-12-08 |
| 18498. | Bob (bobvance69) | 79.63 | 95.5% | 2024-02-09 |
| 18499. | Milan (themilan) | 79.63 | 97.3% | 2024-07-07 |
| 18500. | CopyRited (copyrited) | 79.63 | 96.1% | 2025-02-18 |
| 18501. | Skellyfingers (skellyfingers) | 79.63 | 97% | 2025-02-06 |
| 18502. | Eugene (eugene121) | 79.63 | 97.9% | 2024-06-21 |
| 18503. | Abhi (notthebeees1) | 79.63 | 96% | 2022-10-02 |
| 18504. | Johannes (nachobar) | 79.63 | 97% | 2024-04-18 |
| 18505. | sharp (quotextx) | 79.63 | 98% | 2020-08-15 |
| 18506. | UnreliableSpare (unreliable... | 79.63 | 98% | 2026-03-01 |
| 18507. | (based) (not_medicine) | 79.63 | 96% | 2019-02-12 |
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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 |