McKenna/In the Valley of Novelty

Number of characters       : 889
Number of words            : 44
Percent of complex words   : 47.73
Average syllables per word : 2.9091
Number of sentences        : 32
Average words per sentence : 1.3750
Number of text lines       : 10
Number of blank lines      : 2
Number of paragraphs       : 1


READABILITY INDICES

Fog                        : 19.6409
Flesch                     : -40.6697
Flesch-Kincaid             : 19.2735


The Fog index, developed by Robert Gunning, is a well known and simple formula for measuring readability. The index indicates the number of years of formal education a reader of average intelligence would need to read the text once and understand that piece of writing with its word sentence workload.

(words_per_sentence + percent_complex_words) * 0.4

  • 18 unreadable
  • 14 difficult
  • 12 ideal
  • 10 acceptable
  • 8 childish

    This text: 19.6409


    The Flesch reading ease score rates text on a 100 point scale. The higher the score, the easier it is to understand the text. A score of 60 to 70 is considered to be optimal.

    206.835 - (1.015 * words_per_sentence) - (84.6 * syllables_per_word)

    This text: -40.6697


    The Flesch-Kincaid grade level score rates text on U.S. grade school level. So a score of 8.0 means that the document can be understood by an eighth grader. A score of 7.0 to 8.0 is considered to be optimal.

    (11.8 * syllables_per_word) + (0.39 * words_per_sentence) - 15.59

    This text: 19.2735


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