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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12097. | Drei (dreilacadin) | 82.77 | 98% | 2021-05-22 |
12098. | pap (papasi) | 82.77 | 98% | 2013-10-01 |
12099. | Russell (redsnake02) | 82.77 | 95% | 2017-05-03 |
12100. | Courtney (courtney_p86) | 82.77 | 97% | 2012-11-04 |
12101. | Dxstiny (saadgodly) | 82.76 | 95% | 2021-04-02 |
12102. | flaskur (flaskur) | 82.76 | 98% | 2021-01-27 |
12103. | DeeFly (deefly) | 82.76 | 96% | 2019-12-04 |
12104. | Annonymous (shahzad458) | 82.76 | 94% | 2015-04-11 |
12105. | Joe (rocco53) | 82.76 | — | 2010-09-22 |
12106. | Joshua (bigj0sh) | 82.76 | 98% | 2016-01-27 |
12107. | Shaur (shaur_herng) | 82.75 | 97.1% | 2023-11-29 |
12108. | use an appropriate name (ar... | 82.75 | 97.3% | 2023-12-04 |
12109. | hot (hotsingle) | 82.75 | 98.3% | 2023-12-10 |
12110. | iam rock (iam_rock) | 82.75 | 96.3% | 2024-03-13 |
12111. | Georgi (cybersicherheit) | 82.75 | 95% | 2015-04-03 |
12112. | Spaaaaaagheti (spagheti) | 82.75 | 96% | 2019-07-23 |
12113. | Tae (fartbox18) | 82.74 | 98% | 2021-12-08 |
12114. | n00b (gimape07) | 82.74 | 98% | 2024-01-15 |
12115. | Sven (svendiamond) | 82.74 | 97% | 2019-10-06 |
12116. | Stephen (nothamlet) | 82.74 | 99% | 2019-03-26 |
12117. | storm-gg (waytooclose) | 82.74 | 100% | 2017-03-10 |
12118. | Hung (hungbui081189) | 82.74 | 97% | 2013-04-10 |
12119. | Levi (leviberdin91) | 82.73 | 97% | 2019-09-16 |
12120. | Victor (erick45642) | 82.73 | 96% | 2024-01-09 |
12121. | Evan (evanr10190) | 82.73 | 97.9% | 2021-01-31 |
12122. | LEntless (lentless) | 82.73 | 98% | 2017-09-23 |
12123. | javed (m.javediqbal51214@gm... | 82.73 | 96% | 2017-06-11 |
12124. | Annabelle (anuhbell) | 82.73 | 98% | 2015-11-03 |
12125. | jazzy (typergal025) | 82.72 | 98% | 2024-04-21 |
12126. | Zhaux (zhaux) | 82.72 | 90% | 2014-08-04 |
Universe | Races | Average WPM | First Race |
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Default (English) | 70,097 | 81.38 | June 9, 2010 |
Long Texts | 89 | 92.00 | December 30, 2016 |
Instant Death Mode | 49 | 84.87 | July 2, 2010 |
##typeracer | 4 | 75.56 | January 9, 2021 |
Walsh Middle School | 1 | 81.61 | November 28, 2011 |
Smoke Rise Prep | 0 | 0.00 | January 1, 1970 |