Flesh-Kincaid Numbers...

badducky · Nov 30, 2006

Alright folks, what grade level do you write at?

(go to the help button, and type in "Display Readability Statistics" to find out how to get this info)

I'm floating around fourth grade right now with my fiction.

That puts me between Mitch Albom and Danielle Steele according to the blog that got me frakked about something new:

http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2006/11/16/does-mitch-albom-think-hes-jesus/

WerenCole · Nov 30, 2006

Don't have any writing in front of me. . . but I once noticed that when I write papers for the university they tend to be around a 7th grade level. When I write my fiction is around 11.

Higher Education, anybody?

badducky · Nov 30, 2006

You can say that all you want, but where's the hard data!?

Show me the official results. None of this "My Word is Better than Microsoft Word" nonsense...

Sarita · Nov 30, 2006

4.2 on my Nano Novel. Around 6 1/2 on most other stuff. It's strange though because one of my short stories clocked in at 1.8 and it has words in it like painstaking, tapestries, eccentric, demeanor... What second grader knows those words?

Jaycinth · Nov 30, 2006

Book one chapter 1...7th grade ( like mid April before school goes on break)
Book 1 chapter 2...12th grade ( like when you first sit in your seat in the fall)

Thanks! I always wanted to konow what that little tool did.
HUGS!

William Haskins · Nov 30, 2006

5.9 on a short story.

10.2 on a poem.

Sarita · Nov 30, 2006

Whoa. One of my poems clocked in at 21.6. What grade is that?

William Haskins · Nov 30, 2006

senior citizen night school vocational training.

Sarita · Nov 30, 2006

Makes sense. It's the one about reincarnation.

MidnightMuse · Nov 30, 2006

I can't get the bugger to display the results. Either I'm writing at super human level, or -- more likely -- it's too simplistic to even anaylize !

Shadow_Ferret · Nov 30, 2006

I think you actually have to go through the whole process of spell checking with grammar and the Flesh-Kincaid thing on to make it display the results. I don't have time for that.

Perks · Nov 30, 2006

8.8 on chapter 1
6.1 on chapter 10

Oh dear. My story's getting dumber.

badducky · Nov 30, 2006

My business-writing is a solid 9.0. Weird, because I guarantee my books are smarter.

aghast · Nov 30, 2006

2.3 novel, 10.4 essay, 100.9 technical paper - the thing is if your novel has a lot of dialogue it will lower the score a lot - a mark twain book will probably rank at about 3rd grade

Perks · Nov 30, 2006

8.9 on an essay - ha! This is fun - sort of. I didn't know that was on Word. Great. One more thing to worry about. Thanks for nothing, badducky.

William Haskins · Nov 30, 2006

aghast said:
- a mark twain book will probably rank at about 3rd grade

i read tom sawyer and huck finn at that age and enjoyed them immensely. i think such a score is to twain's great credit.

Bartholomew · Nov 30, 2006

Uh oh... 20.4 on my Young Adult short story...

badducky · Nov 30, 2006

Perks said:
8.9 on an essay - ha! This is fun - sort of. I didn't know that was on Word. Great. One more thing to worry about. Thanks for nothing, badducky.

you're welcome.

Shadow_Ferret · Nov 30, 2006

We've had discussions on Flesch-Kincaid before.

Fer instance: http://absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40843&highlight=flesch-kincaid

arrowqueen · Nov 30, 2006

Damn! I thought this was an erotic Western thread.

Shadow_Ferret · Nov 30, 2006

arrowqueen said:
Damn! I thought this was an erotic Western thread.

I thought Thomas Kincaid was getting into erotic art.

aghast · Nov 30, 2006

i will ride if you would just plow my field

Perks · Nov 30, 2006

Shadow_Ferret said:
I thought Thomas Kincaid was getting into erotic art.

That's the most horrible thing you've ever said.

badducky · Nov 30, 2006

suddenly the flesh-kincaid rating of our messageboard ascends so high, no one is mature enough to read it.

Shadow_Ferret · Nov 30, 2006

Perks said:
That's the most horrible thing you've ever said.

Thank you. Considering my output, that says quite a lot!

Flesh-Kincaid Numbers...

No Time For Chitchat, Kemosabe.

Funny what? Do I amuse you?

No Time For Chitchat, Kemosabe.

carpe noctem

Your Cuddly Sociopathic

poet

carpe noctem

poet

carpe noctem

Midnight Reading

Court Jester

delicate #!&@*#! flower

No Time For Chitchat, Kemosabe.

delicate #!&@*#! flower

poet

Comic guy

No Time For Chitchat, Kemosabe.

Court Jester

RIP, our sarky besom

Court Jester

delicate #!&@*#! flower

No Time For Chitchat, Kemosabe.

Court Jester