If it's any consolation, it's just calculating that it takes 7 - 10 years of education to understand you, not that you are writing like a middle schooler.

By the way, Oliver Willis:

Gunning Fog Index 7.97
Flesch Reading Ease 70.18
Flesch-Kincaid Grade 5.27

Charitable - I guess there is little to no analysis of syntax or grammar.

And Hundredpercenter's site is about the lowest on record, though it may be influenced by Blogspot graphics or some shit. According to the program, his blog is written on a second-grade reading level. Not surprising, as his site has that "Ted Kacinski scrawling 'See Spot Run' on the wall of his tin shack in poo" theme going for it ...

I know, but that's about the same thing.

Readability is good, but when 7th graders, who the past twenty years have read on a 3rd grade level, can easily understand you, you're doing something wrong.

I've got to start larding this site up with SAT vocabulary.

It's fun-- and educational!

5.43 baby!

I is learning!

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

God, I remember an old word-processing program that would do this back in the early 90's. Might have been Lotus, I don't remember what my dad was using. I remember running all my middle/high school papers through it to see how I did.

Yeah, I saw this on Geekpress yesterday.

My first impression is that it's interesting, but primitive. It over-penalizes for long sentences. So I guess if your target audience is the barely literate, it's great.

And as Bill pointed, no grammar analysis.

Pointed out, dammit.

Penalize me!! ALL YOUR READABILITY ARE BELONG TO US!!

As my Pappy used to say, grammar is for fags.

I don't know - I ran an HTML version of Plato's dialog Protagoras through and it came out as 3.89 on the grade scale, and a reading ease of 80.93. Too many one-syllable words, I guess.

I wouldn't call Protagoras light reading, but the possibility exists that I'm an idiot.

Gunning-Fog: 7.1
Reading Ease: 80
Flesh-Kincaid: 4.21

I wonder if it ignores hyperlinks. The old proggy I remember just counted everything. Since it appears this thing takes into account multi-syllable words, blogrolls are gonna f*ck it up seriously. Let's be honest, we're all link-whores, so that's gonna mess us up... lemme go re-read what the alogrithm uses...

Man, you should change your name to Idiot Kid.

I'm sorry that you consider your blog a representative writing sample ;) I sure as shit don't.

Maybe you should change your name to "Humorless Kid."

I guess VDH is right -- there really is no respect for classical philosophy anymore.

BLOG WAR!! BLOG WAR!! BLOG WAR!!

fatkid, are you going to take that shit? I think that calls for a de-linking followed by a self-righteous John Hawkins-esque "I did NOT think that was funny!"rant on your blog.

Plus, you know what they say about people who use big words.... it's just like people who drive Lamborghini's or International CXT's (like ashton doucher, one would think banging demi moore would be enough to prove you have a big dick. apparently not)

Didn't your mother ever tell you (talldave) not to make fun of retards? ;)

I guess ace missed my sarcasm in the previous post. It must be b/c of that 4th grade reading level. Now you see why I "write down" for my audience. Those 3-4 syllable words can be doozies.

Ace inflates his score with creative compounding descriptions. I mean, "slicin' like a frickin' hammer" and "Gyllenhyllenahaallenhallyl" picked him up at least two letter grades.

I intentionally try to sound as smart as my wife and still just missed 6th grade level. Bah. Stupid quiz. I bet it's rigged.

Yes, and I intentionally do run-ons and over-complex sentences constantly interrupted by asides and qualifications.

So?

I'm still smarter than you are. INTERNET says so.

I ran this through a couple of days ago and scored:

Gunning-Fog: 9.30
Reading Ease: 70.82
Flesh-Kincaid: 6.20

Not bad, I say.

Don't worry, I'll definitely be the smart one. :-)

You gonna smarten-up in ten days?

Ace - This post is irony/sarcasm free. Seriously.

Actually 7th grade is almost exactly the writing level you want to aim for when writing for a mass audience. Your scores are very good and show that you are on target for your writing's larger audience.

Gunning Fog: 6.27 (No surprise)
Flesch Reading Ease: 83.56 (Lots of "little words")

But check this out:

Flesch-Kincaid: 3.43

I think we have a winner! Take that, bi-atches!

What were we talking about?

Gunning Fog Index: 7.11
Flesch Reading Ease: 80.11
Flesch-Kincaid Grade: 3.96

3.96, baby! Suck on that one! Boo-yah!

I am teh smart! S-M-R-T!

Gunning Fog Index 8.03
Flesch Reading Ease 76.36
Flesch-Kincaid Grade: 5.23

I guess the question to ask is whether or not we want out stuff easily read for pleasure or intensely read for serious information.

The point of my blog at least is fun, mostly for me, so working hard enough to get a grade level 10 is just not in the cards.

Plus I think you got more points for all your made up words like gylenhallahiena. Where as i feel I lose points every time I type Kicky Monkey or Cocksucker.

just for you Ace,

Here are are the results for Rosie's Blog

Gunning Fog Index 4.48
Flesch Reading Ease 91.34
Flesch-Kincaid Grade 1.86

Your scores are very good and show that you are on target for your writing's larger audience.

Certainly I'm on target for this audience.

Although I think I have to retard-it-up a little more for them sometimes.

Crap...

My Blog

Gunning Fog Index 9.40
Flesch Reading Ease 68.09
Flesch-Kincaid Grade 6.32

I have got to start using much bigger words. I'm gettin' me a thesaurus...

Tina Fey is smart?

You guys are just a whiny bunch of sore winners.

Admit it, I lost.

Deal with it.

WuzzaDem:

Hey, you only beat me because you worked in more poop jokes. I call my stuff "scatalogical humor" and got dinged a couple of points.

Comment re: Instapundit's numbrs

All the "Heh" and "Indeeds" obviously brought him down.

He obviously needs to start using "Of Course you blithering idiots." or "Well isn't that as obvious as the nose on your face." or just for you Ace, "Well it's as obvious as the width of Ace's ass."

Monty,

Come on, dude, this is right from your blog:

"unambiguous horribleness"

That torpedoed you right there. Plus, you used the word "Episcopalian". Does anyone even know what that means?

I need a freaking dictionary just to read one of your posts.