VendingMenace Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 I am a genius. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YT2095 Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 ditto, I got all 6 too, does using the mouse pointer to count them class as cheating tho? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 The brain cannot process the word "". What does that weird sentence mean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfson Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 i got 5 lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blike Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 I got five too. i browsed over "of" too fast.. pretty neat exploiting us quick readers :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VendingMenace Posted December 5, 2003 Author Share Posted December 5, 2003 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 VendingMenace said in post #7 :stuff You didn't get it then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YT2095 Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aommaster Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 yeah, i got six too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blike Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YT2095 Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dudde Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VendingMenace Posted December 5, 2003 Author Share Posted December 5, 2003 You didn't get it then Nope, i only counted 3. Oh well, i guess i am not a genius after all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aman Posted December 6, 2003 Share Posted December 6, 2003 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted December 6, 2003 Share Posted December 6, 2003 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinch Paxton Posted December 6, 2003 Share Posted December 6, 2003 I got 3 but I think that skipping the word OF is Genius! Pincho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VendingMenace Posted December 6, 2003 Author Share Posted December 6, 2003 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blike Posted December 6, 2003 Share Posted December 6, 2003 I'm with pinch. Skipping over "" is a true sign of genius. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muffin Posted December 6, 2003 Share Posted December 6, 2003 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matter Posted December 6, 2003 Share Posted December 6, 2003 I only found one :uhh: is anyone surprised? jk of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VendingMenace Posted December 6, 2003 Author Share Posted December 6, 2003 yeah, that was exactly what i was reffering to earlier, but i couldn't find it! Thanks muffin! Sweet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dudde Posted December 6, 2003 Share Posted December 6, 2003 I hated that article, it does horrible thing to an editor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iglak Posted December 7, 2003 Share Posted December 7, 2003 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YT2095 Posted December 7, 2003 Share Posted December 7, 2003 I only spot 2 `F`s in that one! LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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