Some one e-mailed me this - very interesting...

[mousey]

Can
you meet this challenge?





I've
seen this with the letters out of order, but this is the first time I've seen
it with numbers. Good example of a Brain Study: If you can read this OUT LOUD
you have a strong mind. And better than that: Alzheimer's is (probably) a long
long, way down the road before it ever gets anywhere near you.






7H15
M3554G3

53RV35
7O PR0V3​

H0W
0UR M1ND5 C4N​

D0
4M4Z1NG 7H1NG5!​

1MPR3551V3
7H1NG5!​

1N
7H3 B3G1NN1NG​

17
WA5 H4RD BU7​

N0W,
0N 7H15 LIN3​

Y0UR
M1ND 1S​

R34D1NG
17​

4U70M471C4LLY​

W17H
0U7 3V3N​

7H1NK1NG
4B0U7 17,​

B3
PROUD! 0NLY​

C3R741N
P30PL3 C4N​

R3AD
7H15.​

PL3453
F0RW4RD 1F​

U
C4N R34D 7H15.​

​

To my
'selected' strange-minded friends: If you can read the following paragraph,
forward it on to your friends with 'yes' in the subject line. Only great minds
can read this. This is weird, but interesting!





If
you can raed this, you have a sgtrane mnid, too.


Can
you raed this? Olny 55 people out of 100 can.


I
cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg. The
phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde
Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in what oerdr the ltteres in a word are, the olny
iproamtnt tihng is that the frsit and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The
rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it whotuit a pboerlm. This is
bcuseaethe huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the word as a
wlohe. Azanmig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! If you
can raed this forwrad it.

 

[Man of Tanith]

yup.
I have a strange mind

 

[Mesquite]

yup.
I have a strange mind

Me too... read them both without any trouble at all

 

[northumbrian]

aye mines a bit weird too ! lol

 

[Toddy]

Ditto

M

 

[crosslandkelly]

I udrenotsod it as wlel.

 

[rik_uk3]

IIRC its all to do with the shape of words and how our brain guesses at the meaning.

 

[mousey]

I'd imagine it'd make reading alot harder for foreign folks.

But on the up shot at least the odds have increased for all those monkeys bashing away to type a line of coherent Shakespeare...

 

[Goatboy]

I oto hvea a srtnge mdin. Tohguh I ptu ti donw to seepd raeingd & bingee aleb to raed @ an erlay aeg. Chrees fro potsign.

 

[Coldfeet]

In fact I don't think I've seen a person ever not be able to read those things, well, no one who's first language is English at least.

 

[oldtimer]

Altzeimers has not clicked in yet then. I found this challenge easy, but do find txt spk decoding hard!

Try covering the top half of a line of type and attempt to read it.
Now try covering the bottom half of another line and read that.
Which is easier, only the top half or only the bottom half?

I have found challenges like this fascinating since I trained as a primary school teacher when research into how we learn to read was still at an early stage. I could read long before I went to school and too young to remember how I did so. Trying to read modern greek when I already had a smattering of spoken greek gave me a real insight into how hard learning to read can be and sympathy for those with dislexia.

I envy and respect those who can not only speak, but read and write in languages other than their mother-tongue. We are fotunate in having plenty of such people contributing to this site.

 

[John Fenna]

What was hard about that?
The words were spelled pretty much how I would write things if it were not for Spell-check!

 

[Mesquite]

Let's face it... I reckon most of the people on here are considered 'strange minded' by everyone else because we like our hobby

 

[crosslandkelly]

Let's face it... I reckon most of the people on here are considered 'strange minded' by everyone else because we like our hobby

That's for sure.

 

[Goatboy]

That's for sure.

What is a collection of Bushcrafters called? A fash of 'crafters? A cordage? A feather stick of Crafters? Hmm maybe a competition in the brewing there. (Though a bedlam of Bushies sounds about right)

 

[presterjohn]

Sadly the reality is that most people can read these because we are wired that way. When these things turn up they like to push the "special" people only angle to make you feel good about yourself. The reality is that we are all pretty amazing when it comes to deciphering what is going on in the world.

 

[mousey]

Yep - completely agree with what folks are saying - nothing overly smart or more inteligent in being able to read this. I don't consider myself clever in any shape or form but could read it pretty well. Did it make me feel smarter??? ......... no.

In my small office of 7 - everyone could read it.

Still it didn't stop me from being amazed the amount of error you can cope with when dealing with the written word.

I seem to remember my old english teacher saying there is no bad use of language / spelling/ grammar etc - the aim of it is to communicate and if you manage to achieve that, then it's all good - I wonder what he would have made of this though....

 

[Macaroon]

The thing is, you can only read all those because you've learned all the rules in the first place and learned to know the accepted standard; the problems come when there's a mixture of the different forms, then it all goes to pot.

You find the same in music, in order to break the rules and go your own way you first have to learn the rules and master them.......................

 

[HillBill]

Aynnoe woh cna raed cna udrentsnad waht it syas, oru barins relaly olny raed teh fsirt and lsat lteters aynawy.

 

[Tor helge]

I'd imagine it'd make reading alot harder for foreign folks.

But on the up shot at least the odds have increased for all those monkeys bashing away to type a line of coherent Shakespeare...

Nope. It isn`t. The letters are the same. Even my father who doesn`t speak English could read it allthough not understand it.