The number of words aren’t intuitive to me. Adults tend to read non-fiction at 238 words per minute. So a good test for how appropriate a piece of writing is, “Can the writer cover X in N minutes?”
Hugo uses 213 WPM, while Medium uses 265 WPM, suggesting Medium has a bias for skimming over close reading.
I wonder if a browser extension that rates the appropriateness of articles given their subject and their word count is a feasible/desirable thing. Then again, we have Twitter with 140 characters ლ(ಠ_ಠ ლ)
The number of words aren’t intuitive to me. Adults tend to read non-fiction at 238 words per minute. So a good test for how appropriate a piece of writing is, “Can the writer cover X in N minutes?”
Hugo uses 213 WPM, while Medium uses 265 WPM, suggesting Medium has a bias for skimming over close reading.
I wonder if a browser extension that rates the appropriateness of articles given their subject and their word count is a feasible/desirable thing. Then again, we have Twitter with 140 characters ლ(ಠ_ಠ ლ)
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