diff --git a/collects/tests/racket/benchmarks/shootout/auto.rkt b/collects/tests/racket/benchmarks/shootout/auto.rkt
index 6fb2940d01..3466ba0749 100755
--- a/collects/tests/racket/benchmarks/shootout/auto.rkt
+++ b/collects/tests/racket/benchmarks/shootout/auto.rkt
@@ -129,6 +129,7 @@ exec racket -qu "$0" ${1+"$@"}
       moments
       nbody
       nestedloop
+      nothing
       nsieve
       nsievebits
       partialsums
diff --git a/collects/tests/racket/benchmarks/shootout/nothing.rkt b/collects/tests/racket/benchmarks/shootout/nothing.rkt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e5a3b58314
--- /dev/null
+++ b/collects/tests/racket/benchmarks/shootout/nothing.rkt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+#lang racket/base
+1
diff --git a/collects/tests/racket/benchmarks/shootout/run.rkt b/collects/tests/racket/benchmarks/shootout/run.rkt
index 83e698cba9..6d659491d2 100644
--- a/collects/tests/racket/benchmarks/shootout/run.rkt
+++ b/collects/tests/racket/benchmarks/shootout/run.rkt
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
       ("moments" #f ,(lambda () (mk-sumcol-input)))
       ("nbody" "20000000")
       ("nestedloop" "18")
+      ("nothing" "")
       ("nsieve" "9")
       ("nsievebits" "11")
       ("partialsums" "2500000")
diff --git a/collects/tests/racket/benchmarks/shootout/typed/nothing-non-optimizing.rkt b/collects/tests/racket/benchmarks/shootout/typed/nothing-non-optimizing.rkt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0b3ff32449
--- /dev/null
+++ b/collects/tests/racket/benchmarks/shootout/typed/nothing-non-optimizing.rkt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+
+(module nothing-non-optimizing "wrap-typed-non-optimizing.ss")
diff --git a/collects/tests/racket/benchmarks/shootout/typed/nothing-optimizing.rkt b/collects/tests/racket/benchmarks/shootout/typed/nothing-optimizing.rkt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f8ec47a340
--- /dev/null
+++ b/collects/tests/racket/benchmarks/shootout/typed/nothing-optimizing.rkt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+
+(module nothing-optimizing "wrap-typed-optimizing.ss")
diff --git a/collects/tests/racket/benchmarks/shootout/typed/nothing.rktl b/collects/tests/racket/benchmarks/shootout/typed/nothing.rktl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d00491fd7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/collects/tests/racket/benchmarks/shootout/typed/nothing.rktl
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+1