Poll: This is weird, but interesting!

[kurupt87]

I got this text today. I found it interesting and thought this forum, with its love of spelling and grammar, would be a great place to share it.

This will put your dyslexia into a catatonic fit people! To my "strange-minded" friends:

fi yuo cna raed tihs yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too. Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can. i cdnoult blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmeal pweor of the hmuan mnid. Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can slitl raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteetr by istlef but the wrod as a wlhoe. Azanmig, huh?

[sub]Second try, the first thread got eaten[/sub]

 

[Souplex]

Seems pretty easy to me. Got it on the first go.

 

[Tulks]

Still no problem reading it.

[sub][sub]How much like it? Was it the same cat?[/sub][/sub]

 

[Jim Grim]

This is something that everyone knows.

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

This is something that everyone knows.

I didn't know this. It was actually pretty interesting.

Kudos, OP. ^^ That was truly strange, but also interesting.

 

[Drakane]

I've read this before, it just goes to show that all the time I spent studying for spelling tests was wasted because it really doesn't matter

 

[rokkolpo]

Still think there isn't a person who can't read this.

Apart from the non-English speaking amongst us.

 

[MasterOfWorlds]

It's a psychological/association thing if I recall correctly. As long as the first and last letters of any word longer than three letters is the same as the unjumbled word, most people should be able to read it. Honestly, most people won't even notice the difference if they read it straight through instead of taking a second or two to analyze the text.

 

[JLML]

I have read that one like, a hundred times by now. It's not that hard for anyone without any kind of dyslexia or something like that. Or someone who doesn't understand the language that well.

 

[liveslowdiefast]

yeah, i had some insparational speaker guy come to my school and he showed us this (he was like "this is what the himan mind is capeable of"), it was lame, but i got out of maths.

 

[Ranorak]

55 out of a 100 seems a little off, considering we still have a 100% who can read it.

 

[kurupt87]

Heh, seems like Bara and I are late to a knowledge party.

I found it interesting is all, sorry for its staleness

I think we as regular internet users are at an advantage though, we read regularly every day. Your average person is likely to read less than we and so may have a touch more trouble zipping through it. Nothing to do with intelligence but more to do with exposure.

 

[Sarge034]

I have seen this before, but it is still amazing to me that the human brain can interpret this.

 

[Zechnophobe]

I got this text today. I found it interesting and thought this forum, with its love of spelling and grammar, would be a great place to share it.

This will put your dyslexia into a catatonic fit people! To my "strange-minded" friends:

fi yuo cna raed tihs yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too. Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can. i cdnoult blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmeal pweor of the hmuan mnid. Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can slitl raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteetr by istlef but the wrod as a wlhoe. Azanmig, huh?

[sub]Second try, the first thread got eaten[/sub]

This is a pretty well understood effect, and no, 55 out of 100 people is not the right figure, it is more like 99 out of 100 people.

Edit: Heh, check the results of the poll, no one yet has had issue with it.

 

[Vampire cat]

Had no problems reading it, only took me a little more time than reading the same text would if it wasn't jumbled.

 

[drbarno]

Seen this before, it's a neat liitle thing the first time you learn of it, but's there's no proper application for this sort of thing.

 

[Zechnophobe]

I got this text today. I found it interesting and thought this forum, with its love of spelling and grammar, would be a great place to share it.

This will put your dyslexia into a catatonic fit people! To my "strange-minded" friends:

fi yuo cna raed tihs yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too. Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can. i cdnoult blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmeal pweor of the hmuan mnid. Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can slitl raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteetr by istlef but the wrod as a wlhoe. Azanmig, huh?

[sub]Second try, the first thread got eaten[/sub]

Holy crap, I just realized that first two sentences break the rules stated later.

fi
yuo
cna

These all do not have the first and last letters the same.

 

[Kaytastrophe]

pselrnoaly I had aseboulty no pobrelm udsresnnadnig waht was wttiren? Hwoeevr taht aeaepprs to be the geenral ooinpn hree. Colud you cpmoeerhnd tihs? If not tehn it aaerpps the epxiermnet is flwaed.

 

[ChippedShoulder]

the thing is, it only really works on easy paragraphs like that. Try this; The stencnee you are now raniedg is medotarley dfcifilut to raed, rghit?

 

[Scarim Coral]

I was able to read it although one or two words took a bit longer to figure what it was.