Rdaenig jumuebld wrods

[vnx205]

O lny srmat poelpe can raed tihs.

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs psas it on !!

:p:p
I have seen this before and I think it is a fascinating phenomenon.
Do you know the source of the original information?
I would be curious to know if the study considered the possibility that good, fast readers can cope with the jumbled letters significantly better than slow, inefficient readers.
I suspect that there would be a huge difference because slower readers tend to read every word where good readers more or less just read the important words and predict the others. I would expect a similar difference with words and letters. I suspect that the better reader a person is, the more likely they are to focus on words rather than letters.

[rovercare]

:d:d:d

[scrambler]

As a quick reader, I got to be class guineapig on a little test of the "read a word" theory. Our teacher showed me a short sentence split over two lines. I had to read it 4 times before I realised that there was a word repeated - it ended the first line and started the second. As you say, a less confident/slower reader would have read each and every letter, let alone word, and discovered the error.

Computers on the other hand have trouble with jumbled words. This is what MS Word made of the original post:

I consult bleue that I cloud audacity uesdnatnrd what I was randier.

[rovercare]

Read out aloud









A


BIRD IN THE


THE BUSH




More than likely you said, "A bird in the bush," and........


if this IS what YOU said, then you failed to see


that the word THE is repeated twice!


Sorry, look again.


:)

[rovercare]

ALZHEIMERS' EYE TEST
Count every " F" in the following text:

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI
FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...

(SEE BELOW)

HOW MANY ?

WRONG, THERE ARE 6-- no joke.
READ IT AGAIN !
Really, go Back and Try to find the 6 F's before you scroll down.

The reasoning behind is further down.

The brain cannot process "OF".
Incredible or what? Go back and look again!!

Anyone who counts all 6 "F's" on the first go is a genius.

[vnx205]

OK, I admit I was fooled and I consider myself a pretty good reader.
I would not have believed that if I hadn't experienced it myself.
It might have something to do with what I mentioned above. Good readers are able to ignore the unimportant words like "of" because they quickly get the sense of the sentence and predict those words instead of reading them.
I'm impressed!
However, your comment about getting it right making you a genius might not be right. It is possible that an extremely poor reader who has not developed those skills for making reading more efficient might be more conscious of every word and every letter.

[rovercare]

OK, I admit I was fooled and I consider myself a pretty good reader.
I would not have believed that if I hadn't experienced it myself.
It might have something to do with what I mentioned above. Good readers are able to ignore the unimportant words like "of" because they quickly get the sense of the sentence and predict those words instead of reading them.
I'm impressed!
However, your comment about getting it right making you a genius might not be right. It is possible that an extremely poor reader who has not developed those skills for making reading more efficient might be more conscious of every word and every letter.

The key is to not analyse it so much;)

[mcrover]

The funny thing is that im not a fast reader and I read every word but I read that first quote with ease and faster than I would normally read.

I put this down to the fact that I had to concentrate on each and every word and my eyes didnt stray to other things on the page.

I have never been told that I had any type of dislexia or any reading difficulties but that was a trip out.

On the F's, the first read I missed the of's as would most people but then got it on the second look and as far as the the in the bird in the hand well it just looked wrong straight away.

I have never thought I was any sort of genius so I suppose this seals it for me.........Im not :D

[Utemad]

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI
FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...

This is quite interesting. The first I read it I counted 3 f's. Second time 4 f's. Third time 5 f's. Then I was about to make a fool of myself and post up saying there are only 5 f's. So I cut and pasted it into Word and Ctrl+f (ironic isn't it) to find f and there are 6 f's!!!

I missed all the 'of' words just as it said I would.

:eek::eek::eek:

I missed the second 'the' in the bird in the hand thing too.
No trouble with the jumbled letters though. Just as easy to read as any other correct sentence.

[Quiggers]

Read out aloud









A


BIRD IN THE


THE BUSH




More than likely you said, "A bird in the bush," and........


if this IS what YOU said, then you failed to see


that the word THE is repeated twice!


Sorry, look again.


:)

This is, no doubt, to confuse the illustrious presidink of the US of A...

reading jumbled words is not any more difficult than reading 'upside down'

however, look at faces upside down and try and recognise the person...

GQ

[B92 8NW]

ALZHEIMERS' EYE TEST
Count every " F" in the following text:

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI
FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...

(SEE BELOW)

HOW MANY ?

WRONG, THERE ARE 6-- no joke.
READ IT AGAIN !
Really, go Back and Try to find the 6 F's before you scroll down.

The reasoning behind is further down.

The brain cannot process "OF".
Incredible or what? Go back and look again!!

Anyone who counts all 6 "F's" on the first go is a genius.

The reason that the "OFs" are overlooked is because the brain processes it as "OV", which is how we learn to pronounce the word in English.

[timaus13]

:Dwow I lkile ti:D