DO NOT CHEAT FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS, It's Funny!!!

 

 

 

 

 

Quick Eye Exam...

 

 

 

This will blow your mind...!

 

 

 

Just do it -- don't cheat!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

Try this its actually quite good.

 

 

 

But don't cheat!

 

 

 

Count the number of F's in the following text:

 

 

 

FINISHED FILES ARE THE

 

RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC

 

STUDY COMBINED WITH THE

 

EXPERIENCE OF YEARS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Managed it?

 

 

 

Scroll down only after you have counted them!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OK?

 

 

 

 

 

How many?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Three?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wrong, there are six -- no joke!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read again!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FINISHED FILES ARE THE

 

RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC

 

STUDY COMBINED WITH THE

 

EXPERIENCE OF YEARS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The reasoning is further down...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The brain cannot process the word "OF".

 

 

 

 

 

Incredible or what?

 

 

 

Anyone who counts all six F's on the first go is a genius

 

Three is normal.

I am a genius.

ditto, I got all 6 too, does using the mouse pointer to count them class as cheating tho?

The brain cannot process the word "".

 

What does that weird sentence mean?

 

i got 5 lol

I got five too. i browsed over "of" too fast..

 

pretty neat exploiting us quick readers :/

yeah, i only saw three, and i used the mouse cursor like YT! lol.

 

The brain cannot process the word "".

 

What does that weird sentence mean?

 

I think what it means is that normally we tend to skip over the word "of" when we read. As we become familiar with reading, our minds get used to patterns and we learn to process these patterns rather than the letters themselves. "OF" is so short and so prevelent in english that you mind recognizes extrememly fast -- so fast that it usualy does not even register.

 

I think this is a similar phenomenon to that one research article that talked about how all the human mind really needs to recongnze a word is the first and last letters. All the other letters of a word can be scrambled around and you will still understand what the word is, pretty easily too.

 

So i think that is the point. People who have alot of expreience reading recongnize word patterns so well that the letters of the words loose their meaning. Cool.

VendingMenace said in post #7 :

stuff

You didn't get it then

I actualy think it`s a little more simple than that even, the OF has a distinct V sound when reading it, and so wouldn`t pass as a eF sound.

you may not read aloud with our mouths, but we MAY read aloud mentaly

yeah, i got six too

I think its a combination of the "v" sound in "of" and the fact that usually the word is so short and common that we just fly over it.

yeah, making it a multi-faceted "trick" would explain the variety of difference in the experience and results.

it has to be a combination, else it would fall on 2 distinct sides, and it clearly doesn`t. It`ll be interesting to see other results as time goes on

All of my friends use me to edit anything they've ever written because of my ability to catch everything like that....

 

 

it would've been an embarrassment to everyone in my family (except me) if I'd have not yoinked six F's outta that sucker

You didn't get it then

 

Nope, i only counted 3. Oh well, i guess i am not a genius after all

I got it but I've edited court transcripts in the past. If it was natural not to make certain mistakes though, I never would have had to edit as much as I did.

Just aman

VendingMenace said in post #14 :

Nope, i only counted 3. Oh well, i guess i am not a genius after all

No, I mean when I put 'The brain cannot process the word ""', there was nothing between the quotes because my brain can't process that word "" :-D

I got 3 but I think that skipping the word OF is Genius!

 

Pincho.

No, I mean when I put 'The brain cannot process the word ""', there was nothing between the quotes because my brain can't process that word ""

 

LOL! i get it now. Ok, that was funny. Thanks for putting up with me.

I'm with pinch. Skipping over "" is a true sign of genius.

LOL, awsome. I only got three. Here's something along the same lines that yall might find interesting.

 

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are in; the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

I only found one :uhh:

 

is anyone surprised?

 

jk of course.

yeah, that was exactly what i was reffering to earlier, but i couldn't find it! Thanks muffin! Sweet!

I hated that article, it does horrible thing to an editor

Muffin said in post #20 :

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are in; the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

lol, i didn't even realise everything was misspelled until half way through the paragraph.

 

and i got 3 f's the first time too

I only spot 2 `F`s in that one! LOL