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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28131. | CodyP (suspicious_clam) | 55.12 | 94% | 2024-01-09 |
28132. | Amr (jaaba) | 55.12 | 96.8% | 2024-01-08 |
28133. | Keely (ladysongbird) | 55.12 | — | 2011-02-05 |
28134. | Alex (esquiaqui) | 55.11 | 94% | 2023-09-06 |
28135. | catalin (q0werty) | 55.11 | 96% | 2021-02-11 |
28136. | Surajit (surajit) | 55.11 | 98% | 2017-07-24 |
28137. | RoCio (rocio123) | 55.11 | 93% | 2015-09-16 |
28138. | adgi (cooladgi) | 55.10 | 96% | 2024-01-03 |
28139. | Shyam (shyambkn) | 55.10 | 93% | 2015-05-26 |
28140. | Mike (perforatesquid) | 55.10 | 89% | 2016-11-09 |
28141. | defiant (aarav1) | 55.10 | 98% | 2020-06-26 |
28142. | Dragit (dragit) | 55.10 | 89% | 2015-09-25 |
28143. | Serenity (serenity420) | 55.09 | 95.6% | 2023-12-15 |
28144. | nomer (nomerodin) | 55.09 | 94% | 2022-08-20 |
28145. | benjamin (hombreba) | 55.09 | 97.3% | 2021-02-15 |
28146. | Deepak (deepakgupta) | 55.09 | 91% | 2014-11-14 |
28147. | Nishant Deo (nishantdeo08) | 55.08 | 94.9% | 2023-12-27 |
28148. | Nourhan (nourhan_hanna) | 55.08 | 96% | 2022-03-19 |
28149. | Blixtkatt (blixtkatt) | 55.08 | 90% | 2014-09-27 |
28150. | Tobias (tobbemias) | 55.08 | 90% | 2014-07-30 |
28151. | Sherzodbek (sherzodbek) | 55.08 | 86% | 2015-05-06 |
28152. | ElderlySnail (littleerika1017) | 55.08 | 95% | 2019-09-15 |
28153. | Kai Wenn (rizzz_king) | 55.07 | 95% | 2024-03-08 |
28154. | Viru (virulentis) | 55.07 | 95% | 2018-12-11 |
28155. | Tanver (tanverrupos) | 55.07 | 96% | 2020-03-24 |
28156. | Atabek (atabekarapov14) | 55.06 | 93% | 2020-12-04 |
28157. | thanh (hust9x) | 55.06 | 96% | 2022-10-21 |
28158. | syed (alishah110) | 55.06 | 94% | 2017-09-13 |
28159. | arman (sjraja) | 55.05 | 95.9% | 2024-01-21 |
28160. | Bunky (bunky) | 55.05 | 93% | 2013-10-29 |
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 |