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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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2540. | Stand with Israel (wercut) | 114.47 | 98% | 2023-05-16 |
| 2541. | Christina (silvertina33) | 114.47 | 98% | 2014-12-09 |
| 2542. | Patrick (dontgoslow) | 114.47 | 96% | 2013-08-22 |
| 2543. | Injustice (inj5) | 114.46 | 98.8% | 2024-03-26 |
| 2544. | klesator (klesse) | 114.46 | 95% | 2011-05-24 |
| 2545. | Ray (iconoclasm84) | 114.46 | 99% | 2016-08-08 |
| 2546. | Wesley (wangstar) | 114.45 | 98% | 2014-07-01 |
| 2547. | Julia (348753021) | 114.44 | 98% | 2025-08-11 |
| 2548. | tukae (tukae) | 114.44 | 98% | 2022-03-03 |
| 2549. | Fabijan (bifazg) | 114.44 | 99% | 2021-11-10 |
| 2550. | A (axnguyen77) | 114.44 | 97% | 2014-11-17 |
| 2551. | Ryan (potatoz10) | 114.43 | 99% | 2025-01-23 |
| 2552. | Nadia (nadia16) | 114.43 | — | 2011-03-08 |
| 2553. | sam sulek (sunaisaqt) | 114.42 | 98% | 2025-02-20 |
| 2554. | bvckspvce (slowracerx) | 114.42 | 98% | 2021-10-23 |
| 2555. | Vuong (fate616) | 114.41 | 98% | 2014-07-04 |
| 2556. | z (z4cckk) | 114.40 | 96.9% | 2024-08-27 |
| 2557. | Jake (thecrunchyalligator) | 114.39 | 99% | 2022-03-22 |
| 2558. | Tesseus (tesseus) | 114.39 | 98.1% | 2024-02-25 |
| 2559. | Chris (fogcityroller) | 114.39 | 94% | 2014-03-27 |
| 2560. | Abstraxions (abstraxions) | 114.38 | 99% | 2024-11-15 |
| 2561. | peter (pbang) | 114.37 | 99% | 2020-04-19 |
| 2562. | jsung (jsung888) | 114.36 | 98.1% | 2024-08-15 |
| 2563. | General (generalmalorn) | 114.36 | 98.1% | 2023-10-29 |
| 2564. | Katie (typerkate) | 114.36 | 95% | 2015-11-25 |
| 2565. | Cisco (typer87) | 114.35 | 97.4% | 2025-03-03 |
| 2566. | Barry (barrydeen) | 114.35 | 97% | 2013-01-10 |
| 2567. | Aleeza (abatara17) | 114.34 | 98% | 2020-06-18 |
| 2568. | Ravi (ravishankarr) | 114.32 | 98% | 2025-08-12 |
| 2569. | Efren (mewtwo98) | 114.32 | 99% | 2023-05-05 |
| Universe | Races | Average WPM | First Race |
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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 |