Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the winter and then laying them off when the work slowed down, Jay had instituted a system of paying workers a steady wage year-round. A 1937 Fortune magazine article about this and other progressive labor policies at Hormel might well shock those familiar only with the company's labor relations in the 1980s.
—from SPAM: A Biography: The Amazing True Story of America's "Miracle Meat!", a book by Carolyn Wyman
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Rank | Username | WPM | Accuracy | Date |
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5493. | Maggs (pdolson) | 99.48 | 100% | 2011-09-21 |
5494. | Nic (scylla1) | 99.47 | 98% | 2021-05-30 |
5495. | Asan 🚗 (asan29) | 99.47 | 99% | 2022-10-10 |
5496. | penrose (penrosecat) | 99.47 | 97% | 2022-12-27 |
5497. | Hillo (hillov) | 99.47 | 97% | 2019-01-28 |
5498. | Wobble (devil23_11) | 99.46 | 98% | 2013-08-20 |
5499. | Perfect Accuracy (perfectac... | 99.46 | 99% | 2011-08-12 |
5500. | Justin (slowly_winning) | 99.46 | 98% | 2022-04-25 |
5501. | fishOil (afishoil) | 99.46 | 97% | 2021-03-23 |
5502. | yuukinoe (zaxavien) | 99.45 | 97% | 2019-05-26 |
5503. | Dan (dssl86) | 99.45 | 94% | 2015-12-20 |
5504. | John (jsnm59) | 99.44 | 97% | 2012-05-17 |
5505. | David (dashgr) | 99.44 | 93% | 2013-02-14 |
5506. | 👶 (a_baby) | 99.44 | 97% | 2013-05-01 |
5507. | Sharique (sharique) | 99.44 | 91% | 2017-05-22 |
5508. | Ray (iconoclastic) | 99.43 | 98% | 2018-07-10 |
5509. | a (aji04) | 99.42 | — | 2010-04-14 |
5510. | Jix (scug) | 99.41 | 96% | 2015-02-20 |
5511. | orange_slice (orange_slice) | 99.41 | 91% | 2011-07-31 |
5512. | tstats[montedeu] (montedeu) | 99.41 | 96% | 2023-07-15 |
5513. | DC (niketalk) | 99.39 | 95% | 2012-11-05 |
5514. | Ben (baou) | 99.39 | — | 2010-08-08 |
5515. | Etheral (etheralx7) | 99.38 | 98% | 2011-05-31 |
5516. | Rockpj (rockpj) | 99.38 | 97% | 2016-07-13 |
5517. | VK (vklaglol) | 99.37 | 93% | 2014-10-12 |
5518. | Toraneko (ookamicat) | 99.37 | 96% | 2013-08-24 |
5519. | muretan (muretan) | 99.37 | 98% | 2011-06-15 |
5520. | your (flintlok) | 99.36 | 98% | 2021-05-09 |
5521. | jero (jero32) | 99.35 | 93% | 2013-08-04 |
5522. | Charles (soju) | 99.35 | — | 2010-05-22 |
Universe | Races | Average WPM | First Race |
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Default (English) | 87,957 | 76.95 | August 20, 2009 |
Long Texts | 108 | 73.53 | December 30, 2016 |
Instant Death Mode | 86 | 79.76 | April 2, 2010 |
Riverside Middle School | 3 | 72.81 | January 25, 2011 |
##typeracer | 2 | 55.97 | January 27, 2021 |