Plaything
Write like Paul Graham.
Paste your writing, get it back in Paul Graham's style.
Paul Graham is the investor and essayist behind Y Combinator, known for clear, concise prose.
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How it works
We looked at 208 Paul Graham essays (490,813 words) and measured how he writes across sentence mechanics, word choice, rhetorical moves, and things he never does. The Voice Score shows how closely your writing matches PG's style, before and after the rewrite. Profile format inspired by jackbutcher.md.
208
essays read
490,813
words analysed
14
median words per sentence
61%
short words, 4 letters or under
3%
Latinate (fancy) words
2.8×
more ‘you’ than ‘I’