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To make power, people try to put pieces of this metal close enough together that they make heat fast, but not so close that they go out of control and blow up. This is very hard, but there is so much heat and power stored in this metal that some people have wanted to try anyway.

—from Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words, a book by Randall Munroe

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Universe Races Average WPM First Race
Default (English) 33,852 91.89 February 1, 2019
Instant Death Mode 87 103.97 February 24, 2020
ᗜ Stenography 3 124.39 July 19, 2021