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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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21564. | Trang (sara_kitten1993) | 75.40 | 95% | 2012-02-23 |
| 21565. | Csabo (csabo85) | 75.40 | 94% | 2012-05-23 |
| 21566. | rbruk (rbruk4) | 75.39 | 98% | 2025-09-04 |
| 21567. | meowmingsi (meowmingsi) | 75.39 | 97.9% | 2024-04-09 |
| 21568. | Ivan (hurricane14) | 75.39 | 96% | 2020-10-10 |
| 21569. | Sheng Yuan (xspeech32) | 75.39 | 97% | 2015-10-18 |
| 21570. | Spy (lightningspy) | 75.39 | — | 2011-02-19 |
| 21571. | Rojas (bad_attyping) | 75.38 | 97% | 2024-04-02 |
| 21572. | Corin McCollum (neuralink_1) | 75.38 | 96% | 2024-09-08 |
| 21573. | penguin (pen77guin) | 75.38 | 96.4% | 2023-12-08 |
| 21574. | wai ming (wmtai) | 75.38 | 98.5% | 2023-12-02 |
| 21575. | Lam (lam_blue) | 75.38 | 98% | 2011-11-22 |
| 21576. | kerem (cattle61) | 75.38 | 99% | 2011-07-25 |
| 21577. | OOZE (wizard_of_ooze) | 75.38 | 97% | 2017-06-22 |
| 21578. | Pavel (trialtry) | 75.38 | 99% | 2017-02-02 |
| 21579. | Quan (b3cta3) | 75.38 | 98% | 2011-11-06 |
| 21580. | Twig (twig________) | 75.37 | 96% | 2025-06-13 |
| 21581. | Polechka (polechklaaa) | 75.37 | 96% | 2024-02-29 |
| 21582. | Mix (mixcow) | 75.37 | 98% | 2024-02-26 |
| 21583. | Ho C (andrewchc) | 75.37 | 95% | 2024-05-05 |
| 21584. | Nshoe (nshoe) | 75.37 | 96% | 2024-03-20 |
| 21585. | Minnie (minniemouselondon) | 75.37 | 98% | 2021-10-11 |
| 21586. | Mohammad (alamin_typist) | 75.37 | 95% | 2017-04-27 |
| 21587. | Ablay (teskoo) | 75.36 | 98% | 2023-05-03 |
| 21588. | Dan (danmckillop) | 75.36 | 97% | 2021-10-24 |
| 21589. | René (rene_) | 75.36 | 97% | 2012-12-07 |
| 21590. | Noah (typer_noah) | 75.35 | 97.7% | 2024-04-26 |
| 21591. | Lucas (123timmy321) | 75.35 | 97% | 2024-10-25 |
| 21592. | Zhuojun (zhuojun_12) | 75.35 | 94.7% | 2024-04-23 |
| 21593. | C (chautran97) | 75.35 | 96.5% | 2024-09-01 |
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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 |