Only Great Minds Can Read This?

[mrdreamjeans]

This is weird, but interesting! My brother sent it to me. Both of us could read it easily. Can you? No use to spell check! :)


fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too.


Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.


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 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 sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

Comments

[scottokc.livejournal.com]

Srue, taht's esay for you to say! I'm one of the 55 who can read it.

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

I barely slow down when reading that. Yeah, it's strange, but so am I.

Hmmmmm...

[becker-boy.livejournal.com]

Heeheehee....at frist gcanle, I tghhuot you mhgit be plulnig a Lordeano DnaicVi on us, wtih the wrdos all smpily slpeled brawkcdas...wchih wloud pbbloray maen we are all dslxyiec. (...hcihw yb eht yaw I ma, a elttil...hcihw si yhw I evah on melborp gnidear siht rehtie!)

Of crosue, it's eiaesr to mseplsil tighns wehn one werits lkie tihs...so, dno't ask how mnay temis I ckeched it...

Hgus!

I am a killjoy!

[emramesha.livejournal.com]

Have a look here for more on this :-)

[mikeybill.livejournal.com]

Nd f crs yu cn jst drp vwls nd stll ndrstnd wht s bng wrttn

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

Count me in there too, I can read that without barely slowing up for the most part. now to type it, that's a nutha matter. I'm known for typing so fast on crappy keyboards that I tend to mispell when I don't mean to! :-)

Re: I am a killjoy!

[becker-boy.livejournal.com]

Hi there....

LOL Yeah....you are a killjoy. And obviously Jeffrey has a lot of free time on his hands (oops...hold on...making sure "emramesha" isn't "Jeffrey") Whew!

It's only a suggestion...But I wonder how much context has something to do why a lot of people can read this stuff as easily as they claim to....

[beartech420.livejournal.com]

This is what dylestic see when they read! Makes you realize how tough it is.

[tbone1961.livejournal.com]

well then. from one great mind to another..*wink*

As I recall, it's only because the first and last letters are in the proper place. The rest can be scrambled in any way, shape, or form.!

[tbone1961.livejournal.com]

OH DUH. I didn't even read the whole paragraph before making my comment!!

As Randy would say, there goes that ADD again@@

[mountdfw.livejournal.com]

I used to do that back in High School when I was competing in Extemporaneous speaking.. You were allowed 15 minutes of research and one 3"x5" card of notes, and BOY did dropping vowels make more info fit the card..

[faghatesgods.livejournal.com]

interesting test...

Those words put in a list would be unreadable.

But in the context of standard sentence, they barely come accross as anagrams

[theoctothorpe.livejournal.com]

I am surprised that the 55% number is so low.

Funny thing however, I can't read "txt-speek" well at all, and yet most (who do that sort of thing) find it quite simple. I suppose it has to do with abbreviations, whereas this is all about transposition. You don't need an external context to read the paragraph.

[elfkat.livejournal.com]

I suspect any highly fluent reader, or some one who reads things like music would have very little trouble reading it. The brain untangles stuff like this once it's been trained with enough practice.

Re: Hmmmmm...

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm .... I bet you just typed this right out without thinking, didn't you? :) I was able to read it easily too. I guess all of my friends have great minds, as everyone so far has been able to read it:)

HUGS!

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

A shorthand of your own ...

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

Hehehe!

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

Well, the 55% certainly isn't valid when sampled by my LJ friends. Everyone who has responded has easily deciphered the message:)

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

I believe you're correct. My brother and I ...you .. the folks who have responded are avid readers or musicians or both:)

Hope your week ends better than it started. I'm keeping you in my thoughts and creating vengeful scenarios where your sneaky,backstabbing boss gets hers! :) HUGS!

Re: I am a killjoy!

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

It's to be expected that I'm repeating information. I received this example in an email from my brother:) YOU beat me too it, but it's still fun for folks who missed your post. Thanks for drawing my attention to the source! HUGS!

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

It's like reading a cutom license plate ... or someone's screen name:)

[elfkat.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I think anyone who can read the tenor clef which used to give me headaches could probably read this and wonder why it was a problem. LOL

[mikeybill.livejournal.com]

Now call me picky - but if you're allowed to prepare and have notes, is that really extemporaneous ? ;-)

[bismrkbear.livejournal.com]

While I was "courting" George we had a long distance relationship. I would pass the time on the seven hour trip by reading the road signs backwards. It all started when I drove through Avon (Nova) MN, though the trip through Remer added nothing to my talents. My ability to read upside down has also come in handy at work, especially when I don't let others in on my talent. This posting was not a problem for me.

Now, on the other hand, I sometimes am at a loss for the right word and think what I say looks a lot like the paragraph above.

[labeartorycub.livejournal.com]

Yay, I'm one of the 55%! Of course, everyone has always thought I was strange.

[mountdfw.livejournal.com]

the extemp part was that you had NO idea what the subject would be until the competition started.

[perkk.livejournal.com]

The error tolerance of the human mind, when applied thusly, is why spam is occasionally so successful. We can filter on words like Viagra. But when there becomes thousands of ways to spell it, many of which do not match our definitions of proper word construction, and are yet "readable" by a human eye, then our programmatic approaches to finding and blocking them fail. And that's just from a lexical point of view. Then there's obfuscation techniques and other tricks to complicate things further.

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

I love your explanations:) Just want I expect from you.

I must be chopped liver as I called you the other day and you didn't call me back as promised. No rush, but I want you to know that I remember:) I shouldn't have been calling during our working hours anyway. *grin*

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

That must be a real advantage, being able to read both backward and upside down. WOW!