Number of characters : 17566 Number of words : 2176 Percent of complex words : 21.14 Average syllables per word : 1.9118 Number of sentences : 246 Average words per sentence : 8.8455 Number of text lines : 182 Number of blank lines : 110 Number of paragraphs : 93 READABILITY INDICES Fog : 11.9941 Flesch : 36.1215 Flesch-Kincaid : 10.4186
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
This text: 11.9941
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: 36.1215
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: 10.4186