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One Million Beets

A WhatsApp group chasing an absurd root-vegetable goal — in numbers.

The count, as of right now

0 / 1,000,000

 

Days in the dirt

847

Since the first beet in chat

Beets per day

9.7

Last 30 days, give or take a turnip

Active farmers

211

Pulled at least one beet

In the allotment

282

Counting people who just like soil

When do we hit a million?

Rigorous, peer-reviewed-by-Greg projections. Choose your flavor of optimism.

Your personal harvest

Every "Pull a beet" you have ever clicked, remembered by your own browser. Greg sees all.

0

beets pulled by you, all-time

0this visit
0beets / min
Soil Curiousyour title

Click "Pull a beet" up top. We will wait.

Through thyme

Cumulative beets pulled. The line goes up because beets keep happening.

Milestones

Who pulled the round-number beets on the long march to a million.

Farmer of the Week

Resets every Monday. Most beets pulled this week takes the trowel.

Streaks

Consecutive days pulling at least one beet. Miss a day, lose it all.

    The Beet Variety Leaderboard

    Most-logged cultivars. No beet left behind.

      Hall of Fame

      The farmers who simply cannot be beeten.

        Photo-finish rivalries

        Farmers locked in a neck-and-neck beet-off.

        Where are they now?

        Big pullers who went quiet. We are not mad. We are just composting.

          The Borscht Index™

          Our proprietary measure of group soup-readiness. Higher is redder.

          At 100% we are legally obligated to make soup.

          The Typo Desk

          Roughly 14.7% of all logged beets began life as a typo. Greg adjudicates each one personally. These are his hardest calls.

          Disputes may be filed with Greg. Greg does not check his inbox.

          Things we noticed

          Patterns in the data that say more about us than the beets.

          Beet trivia nobody asked for

          When a beet hits

          Hour of day × day of week. Darker = more beets logged. Suspiciously, mostly Sundays.