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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22342. | Take Em Back (thankful) | 68.31 | — | 2011-03-14 |
22343. | rayn (brassmanry) | 68.31 | 97% | 2024-01-15 |
22344. | Mark (carluver69) | 68.31 | — | 2009-10-24 |
22345. | daneth (daneth) | 68.31 | 97% | 2013-06-20 |
22346. | Jack (jackbiscegliaa) | 68.31 | 95% | 2021-05-16 |
22347. | Zaki (menza_zm) | 68.31 | 95.2% | 2023-12-07 |
22348. | Dylan (thedylan186) | 68.31 | 97% | 2020-06-02 |
22349. | Mohammad (11osos11) | 68.30 | 97% | 2017-08-09 |
22350. | Blaze (klblaz) | 68.30 | 95% | 2021-10-24 |
22351. | Reilly (reilly0) | 68.30 | 95% | 2022-04-04 |
22352. | fast (yahya_iyaseh) | 68.30 | 97.3% | 2024-01-24 |
22353. | kevin chen (kevinchen_) | 68.30 | 97.5% | 2024-01-06 |
22354. | Berto (bertoisfast) | 68.30 | 96% | 2022-02-28 |
22355. | Virginia (iknowyourmom) | 68.30 | 96% | 2023-09-22 |
22356. | Robert (stanford4modesto) | 68.30 | 98% | 2014-01-10 |
22357. | JoshAlfred (joshalfred) | 68.30 | 95% | 2012-07-19 |
22358. | BK (bk_hapdiem) | 68.29 | 95% | 2012-11-28 |
22359. | Blane (bparker) | 68.29 | 90% | 2013-02-22 |
22360. | Nicholas (nicklucia@comcast... | 68.29 | 96% | 2014-05-02 |
22361. | Ravana (ajitsharma) | 68.29 | 98.7% | 2023-11-26 |
22362. | Arhan kamra (arhan) | 68.29 | 98% | 2018-02-01 |
22363. | Caleb (keyslayer17) | 68.29 | 91% | 2016-09-13 |
22364. | hai (nothing101) | 68.28 | 94% | 2012-02-22 |
22365. | blitter (blitter56) | 68.28 | 98.7% | 2021-03-02 |
22366. | Pab (punchmonk) | 68.28 | 93% | 2014-09-27 |
22367. | salem (salem_coder) | 68.28 | 95.4% | 2024-02-06 |
22368. | Amber (amberlim) | 68.28 | 97% | 2023-04-20 |
22369. | parker (po0ks) | 68.28 | 95% | 2017-12-02 |
22370. | John (miracle_sheep) | 68.28 | 96.8% | 2023-11-15 |
22371. | Sam (sam1490) | 68.28 | 96% | 2024-05-16 |
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 |