| ▲ | teo_zero 2 hours ago | |
Reading through the comments, I've noticed you can tell the native speakers by their scores in the word categories. A native speaker will score 20/20 in the first two bands and progressively less in the following ones. For those who have learned English as a foreign language, the scores are more evenly distributed. So it's not uncommon to see a native English speaker totaling 90 as 20,20,19,17,14, and a foreigner reaching the same total as 18,18,18,18,18. Strangely enough, the algorithm favors the latter, because it assigns more weight to the higher-end bands. Is this of any use? I doubt so, but it was fun. P.S. of course a more reliable clue of nativeness is the use of "its" and "it's" interchangeably, a mistake EFL learners wouldn't do. | ||
| ▲ | oarla 38 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | |
Not a native speaker and my scores are 20, 19, 19, 20 and 15 for a total of 93. Maybe I should consider myself as one :) | ||
| ▲ | lekevicius 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
I'm not a native speaker (Eastern Europe), and my scores are 20, 20, 17, 18, 15 - more aligned to your native speaker model. | ||