So, the other day, I bumped into this thing called “ught score.” Never heard of it before, but I got curious. It’s like a way to see how much you use certain words in your writing. Kinda neat, I guess.
First, I had to find some text to test it on. I just grabbed a bunch of stuff I wrote a while back—some blog posts, emails, you name it. Dumped it all into one big file. Figured that would give me a good mix to work with.
Next, I needed to pick out the words I wanted to check. I went with a list of common words that people use a lot, like “the,” “a,” “and,” stuff like that. Nothing too fancy, just wanted to see how often I used these filler words.
Counting the Words
Then came the fun part—counting. I used a Python script, it’s not perfect, but it did the job. I used some basic codes in Python to check word frequency, like:
words = *()
word_counts = {}
for word in words:
word_counts[word] = word_*(word, 0) + 1
Just ran the script on my big text file, and it spat out a list of how many times each word showed up. Simple enough.
Scoring
After getting all the counts, I had to figure out the “ught score” part. Basically, I calculated the percentage of each word I picked out of all the words in my text. The higher the percentage, the more I used that word. The formula I used is like:
for word, count in word_*():
if word in target_words:
percentage = (count / total_words) 100
print(f”{word}: {percentage:.2f}%”)
I played around with the numbers a bit. Tried different words, different texts, just to see what would happen. It was kinda interesting to see how my word usage changed depending on what I was writing about.
Putting It Together
Finally, I threw all the results into a spreadsheet. Made some charts and graphs, you know, to make it look all official. It was kinda cool to see my “ught score” laid out like that.
In the end, this whole “ught score” thing was just a fun little experiment. Not sure if it’s super useful or anything, but it was a good way to kill some time and learn a thing or two about my writing habits. Might try it again sometime, maybe with some different words or something. Who knows?
