Calculate the reading age of your writing - General

[QUOTE=Jad Hinto;27022992][quote] Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? “No.” Says the man in Washington, “It belongs to the poor!” “No!” Says the man in the Vatican. “It belongs to God!” “No!” Says the man in Moscow, “It belongs to the poor.” I, rejected these ideals. Instead, I chose the impossible. I chose... Rapture. A city where the artist would not fear censor, where the scientist would not be bound my petty morality, where the great would not be constrained by the small. And with the sweat of your brow, Rapture, can become your city as well.[/quote] 4.08 I digress.[/QUOTE] Probably because you typed it wrong.

It doesn't want to work for me in Word 2010. :(

Flesch Easy Reading Formula: 42.49 which is rated GOOD Flesch Kincaid Formula: 13.73 which is rated CHALLENGING According to the OpenOffice plugin. It's my personal statement for uni which is the only piece of writing I've done recently that's worth analysing.

Copy and paste /b/ in there and watch it break.

My posts on Facepunch: 6,2 :saddowns:

[quote=upgrade123;27026162]copy and paste /b/ in there and watch it break.[/quote] "lolmudkipsmudkipsmudkipstitsmudkips" -7.2 I don't think MS Word deserves that.

[quote] Flesch Easy Reading Formula: 45.20 which is rated GOOD Flesch Kincaid Formula: 11.83 which is rated GOOD FOG Index: 12.69 which is rated GOOD SMOG Index: 11.93 which is rated GOOD Automated Readability Index: 12.14 which is rated GOOD [/quote] English essay I did a couple months back.

11.32 Cool

[IMG]http://i54.tinypic.com/amp7o7.png[/IMG] Eh, a term paper from 8th grade, the only thing I have one this computer. I don't know how to read the statistics, but I am a little interested. Any benchmarks to compare to? EDIT: Wikipedia helps, it appears lower scores are better for the Flesch Reading Ease value. [img]http://i56.tinypic.com/2mo33tj.png[/img]

[quote]Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.[/quote] Got a 22.9 and 0.0 reading ease

16.7 on an essay about one of the ranks for the USMC

[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5483751/photos/2010-12-28_1811.png[/img] That's on steam's Third pary legal notice in the steam folder.

A higher number is not necessarily a good thing. News papers generally have their readability at a 7th or 8th grade level. You have to know your target audience. Also just because it's a higher score doesn't mean you're smarter.

doesn't worl on Mac, can't rate my story :(

My physics lab reports are solid 12.0's on the reading grade. Word 03. Reading Ease is also about 25. For those who want to know what that means: [url]http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesch_Reading_Ease[/url] For those too lazy to look: [quote=Flesch Reading Ease]The Flesch Reading Ease Scale measures readability as follows: 100: Very easy to read. Average sentence length is 12 words or fewer. No words of more than two syllables. 65: Plain English. Average sentence is 15 to 20 words long. Average word has two syllables. 30: A little hard to read. Sentences will have mostly 25 words. Two syllables usually. 0: Very hard to read. Average sentence is 37 words long. Average word has more than two syllables.[/quote]

Someone try the lyrics for bill nye the science guy

[QUOTE=onforty;27032685]Someone try the lyrics for bill nye the science guy[/QUOTE] Sure thing. [img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/readability2.jpg[/img]

Spelling and Grammar just does a quick check. What is OP on about?

[QUOTE=Coffee;27032946]Spelling and Grammar just does a quick check. What is OP on about?[/QUOTE] Look again, it tells you to change the settings.

[QUOTE=mobrockers;27033060]Look again, it tells you to change the settings.[/QUOTE] No it doesn't.

my english essay draft from 1st quarter is rated 13.5 my fanfic midterm is a 22.5

Decided to write in the speaking style of Skwisgaar Skwigelf. [quote]Oh hellos there! My names ams Skwisgaar Skwigelf, the leads guitar players of death metals bands, Dethklok. I ams the fastest guitars player in the whole worlds. Seconds to me ams Toki Wartooth, he is pretty goods at the guitars but will nevers be as goods as I ams because I am way more gooders than Toki. Ons the drums ams Pickle the Drummers, he ams a very goods drummers and I think he ams great. He is drunks all the times, buts he’s still amazings on drums. On bass is William Murderface no ones give a craps about hims, and on lead singing is Nathans Explosions, and he has an anger problems. We also has our favorites butlers, Charles Ofdensens. He always tells us borings crap we don’t cares abouts but we pretends to listen because then he stops talking fasters. Oh, there’s alsos dr rocksos, I hates that fucking clowns, needs to be killeds or somethings. Anyways, that ams all the times I haves to days, now leaves. [/quote] Reading Ease: 76.6 Grade Level: 6.9 also 0% passive sentences.

I checked the entirety of Earnest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. Flesch-Kincaid grade level: 3.5 Obviously this isn't a very accurate indicator of the quality of the piece.

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8.3 for a school project. Fuck you word.

Metallica's Creeping Death lyrics... 0 for both.

Why is everyone using this as a quality test? A higher score means it's simply harder to read, which isn't necessarily a good thing. If your getting in the 20-somethings for anything short of a uni report then it's just too cumbersome for your audience to read.

[quote] Traditional Metrics Flesch Easy Reading Formula: 35.89 which is rated CHALLENGING Flesch Kincaid Formula: 14.22 which is rated CHALLENGING FOG Index: 16.82 which is rated DIFFICULT SMOG Index: 15.02 which is rated CHALLENGING Automated Readability Index: 14.66 which is rated CHALLENGING Weirdness Metric Average Sentence Score: 12.78 which is rated GOOD The most readable sentence in the document according to Weirdness Metric is: "A TQM company's first and foremost goal is to satisfy the customer" The least readable sentence in the document according to Weirdness Metric is: "Firstly, I would dissolve any existing hierarchical structure and implement a team based environment, which is essential for a smooth workflow and culturing new ideas"[/quote] From an essays on how to implement TQM into a company Thanks for showing me this, it's a really great tool! It will certainly help me in my future writings.

I wrote a formal composition on how you qualify someone as being educated in response to several pieces we read earlier this year. [quote] One of Definitive Qualities One Who is Educated Within our society, all generations are subject to great prejudice but most of all it is the younger generations which become a scapegoat for a most controversial subject. Many consider the younger generation to be “uneducated” without proper reason or definition. This is common because the qualities of one who is educated are unclear. Though this may be true, significant individuals such as Socrates, Postman, Buck, and King have tackled this challenge to some extent and have truly left a mark on society in their own way. The qualities of one who is educated do not very greatly and are truly simplistic in nature, however, this does not convey the fact that they may be taken to an infinite degree of severity. The qualities of an educated person include those of proper moral fibre, balanced sense of self, and extensive common knowledge. These qualities ensure an individual to not only be educated but truly noble in nature. Common knowledge is the basis of education and undoubtedly the driving force of it as well. It provides one with an extensive base of knowledge for future endeavours and proper learning. Martin Luther King Jr. expresses many of his thoughts through metaphors towards banking based on the common knowledge among his audience such as, “It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.”, (King Jr., 1963) as well as his several other mentions of the bank of justice being bankrupt and the promissory not having “come back marked ‘insufficient funds.’” (King Jr., 1963). Martin Luther King Jr. is not the only person to use such a quality to express themselves, Postman uses this quite frequently with reference to Confucius, Moses, Plato, Marx, and many other significant individuals. Not only that but he also references E.D. Hirsch’s work frequently with reference to his idea of “cultural literacy”. While not explicitly stated or explained, the basis of common knowledge exists indefinitely within King’s [I]I Have a Dream[/I] and Postman’s [I]The American Experiment[/I]. The foundation of common knowledge is extremely important because it establishes one with many pieces of work along with other individuals. For example, knowledge of the Emancipation Proclamation allows one to associate themselves with King’s work as well as bring a greater meaning towards other pieces of work which use his work as a reference. In general, having common knowledge allows an educated individual to create a large framework for their learning and association. This framework becomes increasingly large as the individual learns broader concepts and allows for the introduction of even more. This framework is necessary for any person because without it, specific information becomes essentially useless. In a more practical sense, without basic knowledge of music, one could never be able to learn how to play a musical instrument because they would not understand what notes and sheets of music are. Of course, people do not have to possess common knowledge to an extent where they would “know everything” because one has choice in the matter and this choice often involves the need for proper decision making. Decision making involves one to be in touch with the values of society and the values of what is right and wrong. The morality of an individual allows for the responsible judgement of decision making. Individuals such as Socrates and Pearl Buck explicitly agree to this concept. Within Socrates’ piece, [I]Whom, Then, Do I Call Educated?[/I], he states that those who are educated “...are decent and honourable in their relations with all men bearing easily and good-naturedly that which is unpleasant or offensive in others, and being themselves as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be.” (Socrates, 1952) Pearl Buck also expresses her opinion on the matter through her piece, [I]My Neighbour’s Son[/I]. She states, “You must [I]do[/I] right, however you [I]feel[/I]. You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you make yourself do right in spite of your feelings. And you’ll be surprised, because when you have learned the habit of saying sorry when you should be, you will actually being to feel sorry.” (Buck, 1967) This concept which she and Socrates describe is a fairly important one. If we imagine back towards the concept of a framework based on common knowledge, we can think of moral judgement to be the metal plates surrounding it, bolted on and possibly hinged. Moral judgement allows for the framework to be protected and for the interior contents of this framework (oneself) to be protected from harm. Obviously, good moral judgement allows one to direct their lives in a good manner and one that does not allow for the individual to be corrupted by the negative aspects of society and to be express it in the words of Pearl Buck it follows the “stream of life”. To bring this “stream of life” to a completion one must not only have both of these aspects of their life in order but to bring these together one must have a sense of themselves and who they are. A sense of self allows one to truly be at ease with every situation, every individual, every location, and every combination of the few. As Socrates had described, “Finally, and most important of all, those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly, as wise and sober-minded men, rejoicing no more in the good things which have come to them through chance than those which through their own nature and intelligence are theirs since birth.” (Socrates, 1952) This is possibly the most important portion of an educated person, for without a sense of who one truly is they can easily be swayed by the opinions of others and be moulded into what [I]others[/I] want them to be and not for the sake of whom they want [I]themselves[/I] to be. The need for this aspect is so large that it is easily notable in reality the persons who do not have these aspects held together are cast away from the norm. For example, one who [I]does[/I] make themselves susceptible towards the wants of others becomes an instrument for other people than an instrument of themselves. This degrades a person greatly in their sense of self; however, the most disturbing portion of this quality of an educated individual is that it is not mostly noticed by those who do become such a person. They allow themselves to be put in such a position and such a fate is most unnatural. An educated person not only shows aspects of intelligence within a varying amount of fields but also the general qualities that make up strong personal fibre. These qualities, as previously stated, are a basis of common knowledge, proper moral foundation, and a strong and determined sense of self. It is common to tell one who is educated from one who is not if one were to examine these three simple aspects. Alternatively, simply discussing a controversial subject brings all such aspects together into a basis founded on logic and a possible disagreement between the two conversationalists. It is increasingly necessary for all people to become educated, for without education should we not be one more person on this Earth of many people? [/quote]Passive Sentences: 17% Flesch Reading Ease: 44 Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 14 [editline]29th December 2010[/editline] I need less passive sentences (I should be at =<10%). Shit, this is useful. I'm going to have to use this later on.

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