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As a rough guide, US grade level 1 corresponds to ages 6 to 8. Reading level grade 8 corresponds to the typical reading level of a 14 year-old US child. Grade 12, the highest US secondary school grade before college, corresponds to the reading level of a 17 year-old.

Unlike the other indices, the ARI, along with the Coleman-Liau, relies on a factor of characters per word, instead of the usual syllables per word. Although opinion varies on its accuracy as compared to the syllables/word and complex words indices, characters/word is often faster to calculate, as the number of characters is more readily and accurately counted by computer programs than syllables. In fact, this index was designed for real-time monitoring of readability on electric typewriters.<ref>{{cite journal

| author = Senter, R.J.

| coauthors = Smith, E.A.

| date = November, 1967

| title = Automated Readability Index.

| url = http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=AD0667273

| publisher = [[Wright-Patterson Air Force Base]]

| id = AMRL-TR-6620

| page = iii

| accessdate = 2012-03-18

}}</ref>

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