Readability

I came across Readbility-Score.com today. It uses a variety of readability indices such as Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level, Gunning-Fog Score, Coleman-Liau Index, SMOG Index, and Automated Readability Index to assign an overall average readability score, both on an index of 0-100 as well as in terms of average grade level readability. Wide circulation magazines such as Time or Newsweek are supposed to have average readability scores around the 5-6th grade level. Higher brow papers such as New York Times or The Atlantic are supposed to be higher.

I used a half a dozen blog posts to see where I stood in terms of writing. All of them came in between 11-13th grade. I don't think that is necessarily good or bad, just interesting.