For anyone who has regularly thought Charles Dickens was lurking inside his or her prose, a new website states it can find out your inner author.

The recently launched I Write Like has one simple gimmick: You paste a few paragraphs so exemplify your writing, then click “analyze” and — poof! — you get a badge telling you that you produce want Stephen King or Ernest Hemingway or Chuck Palahniuk.

The site’s traffic has soared in recent days and its arrival has lit up the blogosphere. Gawker tried a transcript from one of the leaked Mel Gibson phone calls. The implied author: Margaret Atwood.

The New Yorker found so an invitation to a birthday party was James Joycean. Many others were aghast to decide properties wrote similarly to “The Da Vinci Code” scribe Dan Brown.

The New York Times tried putting in actual novels, such as “Moby-Dick.” Herman Melville, it turns out, puts less like himself as opposed to King, according to I Write Like.

Atwood, herself, tried the site only to discover she also apparently writes like King. “Who knew?” she tweeted.

Obviously, I Write Like sucker an exact science. But simply the idea of an algorithm that can reveal traces of influence in writing has proven wildly popular.

Though the site might seem the idle dalliance of an English professor on summer break, it was created by Dmitry Chestnykh, a 27-year-old Russian software programmer already living in Montenegro. Though he speaks English reasonably well, it’s his instant language.

“I wanted it to be an educational worry and furthermore to aide people write better,” he said.

Chestnykh modeled the site on application for e-mail spam filters. This means such a the site’s text analysis is largely keyword based. Even if you spit out in short, declarative, Hemingwayesque sentences, its your word choice the present may determine your comparison.

Most writers will notify you, though, such a the most telling signs of influence arrive from punctuation, rhythm and structure. I Write Like performs account for a small amount of components of style by things such as number of words per sentence.

Chestnykh has uploaded works by about 50 authors — three books for each, he said. That, too, explains some of its shortcomings. Melville, for example, sucker in the system.

But Chestnykh never supposed the sudden success of the site and he plans to improve its accuracy by as well as greater number of books and putting in a probability percentage for every result. He hopes it can eventually be profitable.

“I agree that people really like to know how they write, even if it’s not accurate results,” believed Chestnykh. “Still it’s fun for them.”

It’s easy to find a laugh. Obama’s Oval Office speech in June? David Foster Wallace. Lady Gaga’s lyrics to “Alejandro”? William Shakespeare.

Whatever the deficiencies of I Write Like, it performs exude a love of creating and its many techniques. The site’s blog updates through inspiring quotations of writers, and Chestnykh — whose company, Coding Robots, is in addition working on blog editing and diary writing software — suggests a sttink of literature. He counts Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Agatha Christie among his favorites.

“I had a typewriter when I was 6 years old,” he said. “But I’m not a published writer and I don’t believe I write essentially good.”