Textual difficulty

What readability tests do is give people an idea about the density of air writing. Readability tests can not tell am how easily the reader can understand the information in the text.

A person can perform readability tests himself by counting and doing some math, or by using word-processing software. There are several popular readability scales, for example:

• Flesch-Kincaid Reading Level (Flesch-Kincaid Grade Index)
• Flesch Reading Ease (Flesch Readability Test)
• Fog Index
• Gunning Fog Index
• SMOG Index
• Spache

External links

• Developer Gnome
• Writing Sample Analyzer, reports on the Flesch Reading Ease, Fog Scale Level, and Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level for the given piece of text.
• Online Textual Difficulty Calculator - reports ARI, SMOG, Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test, Coleman-Liau Index, Gunning-Fog Index, etc.