According to the Blog Readability Test, here's how smart (or dumb) you are provided you read any of the following popular gaming blogs:
• Kotaku: Junior High
• Destructoid: Junior High
• PlayStation.blog: Junior High
• GayGamer: Junior High
• MTV Multiplayer: Junior High
• Game|Life: High School
• Slashdot: High School
• Joystiq: College
• Level Up: Genius
• Ars Technica: Genius
Game|Life explains how the readability test works and has a link to the test site.
Kudos to Joystiq for beating Kotaku and Destructoid.
Level Up and Ars Technica are the top of class :)
They forgot N4G: Grade school
Working in advertising, the general (possibly unofficial) rule for copywriting was to reach an audience with an elementary school reading level. I've heard it's similar for most newspapers. Scary thing is, that's the average reading level for the US
The way this thing works is likely by analyzing sentence length, number of syllables per word and possibly overall vocabulary. It doesn't really say much about how well written any of it is, or even what education level it's aimed at; just a purely technical count of how hard a computer thinks it is to understand.
buhhhhhhh..............47
Destructoid's freaking hilarious, but I do prefer Ars Technica over the rest.