diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 37834c8..2e0219e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 
 ## Comparison with wc.
 
-The GNU utils version ([github](https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/tree/master/src/wc), [savannah](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=blob;f=src/wc.c;hb=HEAD)) is a bit over 1K lines of C. It does many things and checks many possible failure modes.
+The GNU utils version ([github](https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/tree/master/src/wc.c), [savannah](http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=blob;f=src/wc.c;hb=HEAD)) is a bit over 1K lines of C. It does many things and checks many possible failure modes.
 
 The busybox version ([git.busybox.net](https://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/coreutils/wc.c)) of wc is much shorter, at 257 lines, while striving to be [POSIX-compliant](https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/), meaning it has flags.
 
@@ -35,4 +35,4 @@ The plan9port version of wc ([github](https://github.com/9fans/plan9port/blob/ma
     - If it doesn't have arguments, read from stdin. 
   - [ ] Open files, read characters.
 - [ ] Write version that counts lines
-- [ ] 
+- [ ] Document reading from user-inputed stdin (end with Ctrl+D)
diff --git a/ww b/ww
index 9f8de9b..2ad1347 100755
Binary files a/ww and b/ww differ
diff --git a/ww.c b/ww.c
index 1bd42fd..2d969a1 100644
--- a/ww.c
+++ b/ww.c
@@ -1,50 +1,47 @@
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
 
-int process_fn(int fn)
+int wc(FILE* fp)
 {
     char c[1];
-    int seen_word = 0;
-    int seen_sep_after_word = 0;
-    int num_words = 0;
+    int seen_word = 0, seen_sep_after_word = 0, num_words = 0;
+	  int fn = fileno(fp);
     while (read(fn, c, sizeof(c)) > 0) {
-        if (*c != '\n' && *c != ' ' && *c != '\t') {
-            seen_word = 1;
-        } else if (seen_word) {
-            seen_sep_after_word = 1;
+        if (*c == '\n' || *c == ' ' || *c == '\t') {
+            if (seen_word) {
+                seen_sep_after_word = 1;
+            }
         } else {
-            // see a separator, but haven't seen a word: do nothing
-            // exercise: what happens if you only track seen_sep,
-            // instead of seen_sep_after_word?
-            // test with: $ echo " x x" | ./wc
+            seen_word = 1;
         }
+        // exercise: what happens if you only track seen_sep,
+        // instead of seen_sep_after_word?
+        // test with: $ echo "	hello world" | ./wc
         if (seen_word && seen_sep_after_word) {
             num_words++;
             seen_sep_after_word = seen_word = 0;
         }
     }
-    if (seen_word) {
-        num_words++;
-    }
+		num_words+=seen_word;
     printf("%i\n", num_words);
     return 0;
 }
 
 int main(int argc, char** argv)
 {
-    if (!isatty(STDIN_FILENO)) {
-        return process_fn(STDIN_FILENO);
+    if (argc == 1) {
+        return wc(stdin);
     } else if (argc > 1) {
         FILE* fp = fopen(argv[1], "r");
         if (!fp) {
             perror("Could not open file");
             return 1;
         }
-				fclose(fp);
-        return process_fn(fileno(fp));
+				return wc(fp) && fclose(fp);
     } else {
         printf("Usage: ww file.txt\n");
         printf("   or: cat file.txt | ww\n");
+        printf("   or: ww # read from user-inputted stdin\n");
     }
     return 0;
 }