diff --git a/src/core/rope.rs b/src/core/rope.rs
index 3f9e5fb..1b313f9 100644
--- a/src/core/rope.rs
+++ b/src/core/rope.rs
@@ -43,21 +43,6 @@ impl Rope {
         Rc::new(Rope::Leaf { text })
     }
 
-    /// Concatenate two Ropes without rebalancing.
-    ///
-    /// Combines to ropes by creating a new parent node and adding `left` and
-    /// `right` as children. If `right` is [None] then the resulting node will
-    /// only have one child.
-    fn join(left: Rc<Rope>, right: Option<Rc<Rope>>) -> Rc<Self> {
-        Rc::new(Rope::Branch {
-            bytes_weight: left.total_bytes(),
-            chars_weight: left.total_chars(),
-            lines_weight: left.total_lines(),
-            left,
-            right,
-        })
-    }
-
     /// Return the total number of bytes in the text.
     pub fn total_bytes(&self) -> usize {
         match self {
@@ -109,6 +94,10 @@ impl Rope {
         }
     }
 
+    pub fn concat(first: Rc<Rope>, second: Rc<Rope>) -> Rc<Rope> {
+        Rope::join(first, Some(second)).rebalance()
+    }
+
     /// Split the rope in two at character `index`.
     ///
     /// The result is two Ropes—one containing the first 'i' characters of the
@@ -152,14 +141,14 @@ impl Rope {
         }
     }
 
-    fn is_balanced(&self) -> bool {
+    pub fn is_balanced(&self) -> bool {
         match self {
             Rope::Branch { bytes_weight, .. } => fibbonacci(self.depth() + 2) <= *bytes_weight,
             Rope::Leaf { .. } => true,
         }
     }
 
-    fn rebalance(self: Rc<Rope>) -> Rc<Rope> {
+    pub fn rebalance(self: Rc<Rope>) -> Rc<Rope> {
         if self.is_balanced() {
             return self;
         }
@@ -167,7 +156,7 @@ impl Rope {
         merge(&leaf_nodes)
     }
 
-    /// Number of steps between this node and it's most distance descendant
+    /// Number of steps between this node and its most distance descendant
     ///
     /// Leaf nodes have a depth of 0 and each branch node has a depth one
     /// greater than the depth of deepest child.
@@ -190,15 +179,30 @@ impl Rope {
         }
     }
 
-    /// Returns an iterater over the leaf nodes
-    fn iter_nodes(self: Rc<Self>) -> NodeIterator {
-        NodeIterator::new(self)
-    }
-
     /// Returns an iterator over the chars of the text
     pub fn iter_chars(self: &Rc<Self>) -> CharIterator {
         CharIterator::new(self)
     }
+
+    /// Concatenate two Ropes without rebalancing.
+    ///
+    /// Combines to ropes by creating a new parent node and adding `left` and
+    /// `right` as children. If `right` is [None] then the resulting node will
+    /// only have one child.
+    fn join(left: Rc<Rope>, right: Option<Rc<Rope>>) -> Rc<Self> {
+        Rc::new(Rope::Branch {
+            bytes_weight: left.total_bytes(),
+            chars_weight: left.total_chars(),
+            lines_weight: left.total_lines(),
+            left,
+            right,
+        })
+    }
+
+    /// Returns an iterater over the leaf nodes
+    fn iter_nodes(self: Rc<Self>) -> NodeIterator {
+        NodeIterator::new(self)
+    }
 }
 
 fn merge(leaf_nodes: &[Rc<Rope>]) -> Rc<Rope> {