What grade level do you write in? Let's get our Flesch Kincaid Scores.

[entremet]

*https://readability-score.com

Copy and paste a longer post or yours to the link above and to see the readability of your writing.

Incidentally, a higher level doesn't mean more clear writing.

Some of the best works of literature like Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Hemingway's Old Man and The Sea are written below an 8th grade reading level.

Copywriting is also written at low grade level since it needs to catch your attention quickly.

*The grade levels are based on the American Educational system.

*This post is written at a 9th grade reading level.

*I didn't count anything with asterisks.

 

[CrimzonSamurai]

Ha, 3.4.

 

[entremet]

Ha, 3.4.

Remember the a low grade level isn't a bad thing.

Being easier to read is a good thing in certain contexts. You're not writing a PhD dissertation.

 

[jmood88]

Nice to know that one of my grad school papers is actually at the grad school level.

 

[DJ_Lae]

9 seems to be the magic mark (8.9, actually).

Tried clips of a report I did recently for work and got a little over 12. If it's at all accurate, that's not exactly ideal for its purposes.

17.5 for one of my university papers. It's a verbose piece of shit.

 

[CrimzonSamurai]

Remember the a low grade level isn't a bad thing.

Being easier to read is a good thing in certain contexts. You're not writing a PhD dissertation.

Well, I'm glad my poignant discourse on GAF is so universally digestible.

 

[ClayKavalier]

4.2 for one of my posts.

14.7 for an assignment I did recently. I'm in grad school, not sure if that's good or not.

8.1 for one of my longer posts.

 

[Sch1sm]

7.7. True parity.

 

[entremet]

9 seems to be the magic mark (8.9, actually).

Tried clips of a report I did recently for work and got a little over 12. If it's at all accurate, that's not exactly ideal for its purposes.

17.5 for one of my university papers. It's a verbose piece of shit.

That's almost grad school level. What subject matter?

 

[AxeMan]

6.9 for one of my longer posts

15.6 for part of a response to selection criteria from years ago

 

[Vengrim]

I went through a few lengthy posts from other forums and the average was 9.3ish with readability scores in the 65-89 range. Not sure if that is good.

 

[Dad]

Between 9-14 on a few of the GotY write ups I did. Essay from college scored 17.1. What merits is this thing assessing writing on?

 

[DJ_Lae]

That's almost grad school level. What subject matter?

Neutral network forecasting with instrumental variables. I was short on time for my big computational economics paper years ago so I just mashed together one of the earlier projects with some econometrics.

I think its score on that site gets inflated by some of the econometrics vocabulary, and maybe some of the formulas too.

 

[terrisus]

You're not writing a PhD dissertation.

Maybe you're not... :þ


Edit: Not on my computer anymore for tonight, but tomorrow I should try submitting one of the papers I wrote for my PhD program.

Spoiler

Sadly, ended up having to drop it before starting my dissertation =(

 

[crazy monkey]

30.5 for the report.

 

[Kite]

Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease 64.7
Average Grade Level 8.5

 

[Apt101]

I can't find a long post, so I'll go with a random medium-sized one:
Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease: 47.7
Average Grade Level: 12.1

Here are the results for a random personal story I found, written in narrative form for a general audience (podcast):

Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease: 80.9

Average Grade Level: 6.8

Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 6.1
Gunning-Fog Score: 8.8
Coleman-Liau Index: 7.7
SMOG Index: 5.8
Automated Readability Index: 5.7​

Text Statistics

Character Count 3,002
Syllable Count 969
Word Count 752
Sentence Count 45
Characters per Word 4.0
Syllables per Word 1.3
Words per Sentence 16.7​

For shits and giggles I tried a brief technical writing regarding the design of a small storage network - the audience technically informed but not subject matter experts:

Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease: 59.7

Average Grade Level: 10.1

Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 8.5
Gunning-Fog Score: 11.4
Coleman-Liau Index: 12.9
SMOG Index: 8.8
Automated Readability Index: 8.8​

Text Statistics

Character Count 2,470
Syllable Count 792
Word Count 506
Sentence Count 35
Characters per Word 4.9
Syllables per Word 1.6
Words per Sentence 14.5​

 

[Delta Assault]

Well, there's a score and a grade. I dunno what to...

Eh.

Score: 61.2
Grade: 9.8

 

[entremet]

This is what gets your scores up.

Bigger words.

More complex sentences.

Longer and more complex paragraphs.

 

[threetri333]

Mark happily insisted in opening the wooden heavy doors.

Readability Formula Score
Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease 37.9

Grade Levels

A grade level (based on the USA education system) is equivalent to the number of years of education a person has had. Scores over 22 should generally be taken to mean graduate level text.

Readability Formula Grade
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level 10.2
Gunning-Fog Score 16.9
Coleman-Liau Index 14.9
SMOG Index 10.1
Automated Readability Index 7.7
Average Grade Level 12.0
Text Statistics

Character Count 47
Syllable Count 17
Word Count 9
Sentence Count 1
Characters per Word 5.2
Syllables per Word 1.9
Words per Sentence 9.0

 

[SteveWinwood]

i copied a graduate level text and it said it was 11th grade

 

[besada]

For a piece of short fiction, 7.7 average grade level, with an 80.8 readability.

For a post I made recently regarding bipolar II, 9.3 average grade level, with a 64.1 readability.

 

[Dad]

I typed in "The intelligent man intelligently insisted on his intelligence in an intelligent manner."

17.4 average grade level
-2.7 reading ease

What.

 

[zulux21]

heh posted some snippets from stories I wrote.

readability tends to be 65-80
grade tends to be 9-12

which given my writing is typically aimed at young adult seems about where I would want it to score with something like this

I typed in "The intelligent man intelligently insisted on his intelligence in an intelligent manner."

17.4 average grade level
-2.7 reading ease

What.

heh

like the exact opposite

the phrase "I am not a cat" is negative grades lol.

 

[TMC]

Copied an essay from my freshman year in college:

Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level 11

 

[CarpeDeezNutz]

Pre K

 

[Princess Viola]

I just pasted something I wrote for a newspaper for my made-up nation on the game NationStates. (So basically, a made-up newspaper article)

Average Grade Level 20.5
Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease 16.9

 

[The Llama]

I just copied the first paragraph of a cover letter I wrote recently, got 12.3. I guess that's pretty good, for a cover letter.

 

[Conor_Fool]

Readability was 36.7 for the last paper I wrote, average grade level was 15.1. Well, the grade level score seems pretty decent.

EDIT: Got a 15.5 and 31.7 readability on the essay I wrote before it which was in the exact same format. At least it's consistent.

 

[Damaniel]

15.1 by Flesch-Kincaid, 18.3 by Gunning-Fog, and a 15.6 overall average. I used a 20 page paper I wrote for one of my graduate classes (about malware detection and prevention techniques on mobile operating systems).

EDIT: The readability score was 37. I guess that makes sense for graduate level work.

 

[twobear]

i got a 19.9 for a piece of graduate level text i put in

this just really confirms my imposter syndrome tbh

 

[guek]

One of my posts was had an average grade level of 8l. One of my graduate papers had a 30.3 average grade level and a readability of -23.6

Guess that makes sense.

 

[Akahige]

Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease - 58.8

Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level - 12.9
Gunning-Fog Score - 15.5
Coleman-Liau Index - 8.5
SMOG Index - 9.3
Automated Readability Index - 13.8
Average Grade Level - 12.0


Good I guess, I never claim to be smart.

 

[Burritoad]

Copied an essay I wrote for an anthropology class from a year ago

Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease - 46.1

Average Grade Level - 12.9


Is that good?

 

[human onion]

Three of my longer posts scored around 9-10, and a paper I wrote for my freshman english class got a 13. I really have no idea how this actually quantifies anything, but it makes me feel like a true patrician, and that's all that matters.

 

[zulux21]

heh I was trying to copy

it instead came out

depresseddisappointeddisturbeddowngravemelancholymiserablesadserioussorrowfultroubledunfriendlyunhappyupsetdiscourageddissatisfiedforsakenhopelessmorosepainedunfortunateunlucky

which netted me
Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease -5039.4
Average Grade Level 518.3

 

[entremet]

For reference college papers average around a 12th grade level.

 

[Bubble Metropolis]

I don't really post at length here, so the second paragraph to the only college essay I still have sitting around on this computer:

Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease 51.1
Average Grade Level 12.1

Text Statistics

Character Count 970
Syllable Count 348
Word Count 226
Sentence Count 9
Characters per Word 4.3
Syllables per Word 1.5
Words per Sentence 25.1

My most lengthy, recent GAF post

Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease 65.9
Average Grade Level 10.0

Character Count 439
Syllable Count 146
Word Count 109
Sentence Count 4
Characters per Word 4.0
Syllables per Word 1.3
Words per Sentence 27.3

 

[MoG EclipsE]

Grade level: 15.3

 

[entremet]

heh I was trying to copy


it instead came out


which netted me
Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease -5039.4
Average Grade Level 518.3

That's not a sentence, silly ;P

 

[Kevyt]

I copied and pasted one of my posts and got a 3.9. I then proceeded to remove the smiley and the score increased to 4.7 on the grade scale.

Smileys will decrease your score

 

[Damaniel]

In addition to the paper I mentioned above, I grabbed a couple papers that I wrote back in high school (9th and 10th grade, so about 20 years ago). Both had readability scores well over 70, and the grade levels were 9.3 and 6.1. Big difference between then and now.

 

[zulux21]

That's not a sentence, silly ;P

I know it isn't, but I like to toy with stuff and see how it breaks.

for example

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is a ridiculously lengthy word.

is a completely legitimate sentence and nets me
Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease -194.1
Average Grade Level 30.1
which is just fun because it's not really all that hard to read aside from the first word

but alas, I didn't know Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis off the top of my head

 

[Fixed2BeBroken]

7.7. True parity.

heh, same

 

[More_Badass]

11

Huh, better than I expected

 

[DarkJediKnight]

Grade Levels

A grade level (based on the USA education system) is equivalent to the number of years of education a person has had. Scores over 22 should generally be taken to mean graduate level text.Readability Formula Grade
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level 15.2
Gunning-Fog Score 17.5
Coleman-Liau Index 18.1
SMOG Index 12.9
Automated Readability Index 13.9
Average Grade Level 15.5

 

[Kevyt]

For reference college papers average around a 12th grade level.

I got a 13.2 on grade scale on an essay I wrote in less than an hour for speech class. I'm surprised, I thought it was going to be a really low score like first grade level.

I feel like it's easy to get high scores so long you use fancy/academic words but that doesn't tell you much about a person's quality of writing. Heck I consider to my writing to be poor yet another one of my essays got a 24 on the grade scale. This was also one where I was pretty much bs'ing my way through, lol.

 

[supernormal]

So a post from Gaf got 11.5 grade level with 58.2 readability and a movie script I'm currently working on has 8.4 grade level with 78.2 readability.

 

[injurai]

Why? I'm saying we can gather data, fund studies to understand the human condition and how it affects the human experience, happiness, health, etc. We can then make optimizations in societal organization that would directly influence those conditions. With the understanding it would uphold a better human society.

You could do this globally where the systems equalizes and balances all nations and peoples with each other. Or you could define these systems to optimize locally. Make each subdivisions as optimized and best running as possible. Any potentially better optimizations would be contingent on another governed system feeding more resources to the system in question. They would naturally reach an equilibrium, but it would always be an equilibrium based on the values of each subdivision. This entire system can be encapsulated by game theory, where humanity is trying to arrive at the best possible outcome or boundary condition. This particular setup would be employing the mathematics behind the Nash Equilibrium.

The programming and upkeep of these systems should reflect the values of those that design them. The people that work through this problems are hopefully looking to better the human condition, not just make arbitrary numerical optimizations across the board.

So I ask you again. Why? Why reflecting empathy with the goal of valuing the human condition be a hinderance? Why would we want anything else out of our A.I. government?

Using something I wrote on gaf recently.

Readability Formula Score
Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease 47.1

Grade Levels
Readability Formula Grade
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level 9.7
Gunning-Fog Score 12.8
Coleman-Liau Index 14.7
SMOG Index 9.2
Automated Readability Index 9.1
Average Grade Level 11.1

Text Statistics
Character Count 1,201
Syllable Count 404
Word Count 232
Sentence Count 19
Characters per Word 5.2
Syllables per Word 1.7
Words per Sentence 12.2

 

[evil solrac v3.0]

I couldn't find a long post so I went with a medium one.


Readability Formula

Score

Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease 69.5

Grade Levels

A grade level (based on the USA education system) is equivalent to the number of years of education a person has had. Scores over 22 should generally be taken to mean graduate level text.


Readability Formula

Grade

Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level 7.6
Gunning-Fog Score 9
Coleman-Liau Index 10.6
SMOG Index 7.5
Automated Readability Index 7.9
Average Grade Level 8.5

Text Statistics

Character Count 736
Syllable Count 234
Word Count 164
Sentence Count 10
Characters per Word 4.5
Syllables per Word 1.4
Words per Sentence 16.4