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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24014. | John Anthony (therewere3) | 71.63 | 96.3% | 2025-03-26 |
| 24015. | Crow (hayday1) | 71.63 | 96% | 2019-05-15 |
| 24016. | Alex (p08r) | 71.63 | 97% | 2019-11-19 |
| 24017. | Chris (cheekcn) | 71.63 | — | 2010-11-14 |
| 24018. | solodolo (solomcfrolo) | 71.62 | 95% | 2025-05-24 |
| 24019. | Qunetin (speedyreeves) | 71.62 | 96% | 2024-11-12 |
| 24020. | Ethan (im_getting_better) | 71.62 | 95.9% | 2024-11-14 |
| 24021. | Miklas (milink) | 71.62 | 94% | 2017-04-01 |
| 24022. | Fastest (ocamld) | 71.62 | 96% | 2024-05-08 |
| 24023. | Anh (_azh_) | 71.62 | 96% | 2021-12-21 |
| 24024. | Charles (armdev) | 71.62 | 95.7% | 2024-01-09 |
| 24025. | Ketamine (ketamine) | 71.62 | 97% | 2013-01-14 |
| 24026. | Chaddog (svd997) | 71.62 | 98% | 2020-09-15 |
| 24027. | Daniel (mickeyyaya) | 71.62 | 98% | 2021-04-14 |
| 24028. | Krzysztof (nightmarekiller) | 71.62 | 95% | 2016-03-25 |
| 24029. | Quench (quench) | 71.62 | 96% | 2019-05-14 |
| 24030. | PAKISTAN (mirtyping) | 71.61 | 97.6% | 2025-02-22 |
| 24031. | Andrej (andrej_tepa) | 71.61 | 98% | 2025-01-01 |
| 24032. | Zinedine Sedan (zinedine_se... | 71.61 | 97% | 2024-11-21 |
| 24033. | Joshua (blink180dude) | 71.61 | 91% | 2014-09-28 |
| 24034. | Vinit (vinit_007) | 71.61 | 99% | 2024-09-25 |
| 24035. | quitlesspogspeed (pogspeed) | 71.61 | 95% | 2022-04-26 |
| 24036. | Buruiana (sebihp2007) | 71.61 | 94% | 2013-05-23 |
| 24037. | Nah (halo375) | 71.61 | 94% | 2023-09-10 |
| 24038. | YurQ (yurq) | 71.61 | 94% | 2017-01-11 |
| 24039. | Steffen (steffen_2) | 71.61 | 95% | 2013-07-14 |
| 24040. | Mark Egan (ehgan) | 71.61 | 95% | 2016-08-25 |
| 24041. | long as (jennifersbody) | 71.60 | 97% | 2024-01-24 |
| 24042. | Aaron (aaron5457) | 71.60 | 93.5% | 2025-03-05 |
| 24043. | mauvieira (mauvieira) | 71.60 | 97% | 2022-05-19 |
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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 |