The first draft in charts and numbers
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This is an extended edition of the newsletter where I shared a few charts. The data comes from a combination of my own scripts and a service called readable.io.
Word count
Types of sentences
Word pair battles
Out of two, which word is more common?
Keys mentioned three times or more
All the keys mentioned in the first draft
First draft stats
Words: 317,564
Sentences: 15,935
Words per sentence: 19.93
Footnotes: 544
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 10.4 (meaning, you need to have finished grade 10 to enjoy this)
Cliché count: 45 (according to readable.io)
Top 20 words: the, a, and, of, to, in, it, was, that, with, for, on, you, but, as, one, keyboard, or, were, is
Top 20 uncommon words: keyboard (#17), keys (#28), key (#31), typewriter (#33), keyboards (#44), computer (#45), people (#48), typewriters (#56), first (#58), machine (#62), time (#65), typing (#67), computers (#74), new (#76), early (#85), type (#103), today (#104), word (#106), letters (#107), ibm (#113)
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