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People Can Read this.. this is wierd
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! if you can raed tihs rpsoet it.

ONLY REPOST IF YOU CAN READ THIS...Udtpae the nbuemr(at the top) boefe rpotsineg
 
There's been a lot of research into this, God knows why it's a waste of funding. But yeah, I can understand that.

I couldnt believe that I could actually understand what I was reading. The phenominal power oft he human mind, according to reasearch at Cambridge university, it doesn't matter in what order the letters in a word are, the only important thing is that the first and last letter be in the right place. The rest can be a total mess and you can still read it without a problem. This is because the human mind does not read every letter by itself, but the word as a whole. Amazing huh? Yeah and I always thought spelling was important!

Spelling is important, sure people who have a clear understanding of writen English can understand that, people who don't won't have a clue what you typed. Also some words can have different meanings if you re-arrange the middle two letters, ie salt and slat, but the spelling errors that make the biggest difference when only people with a good understanding of that language are the ones where people miss a key letter out or add an extra letter creating a different word entirely. Or if they do that stupid internet talk whatever you call it, h0w r u do1n.
 
I've seen similar things done before, I figured you hadn't made it up.
 
Yup,

This one has made the email circuit plenty of times. It's cool, but I don't find it all the amazing. A lot of it has to do with shapes of words - it's harder (though not impossible) to do this experiment when the letters are all caps.
 
Your reading class gave you this with "Udtpae the nbuemr(at the top) boefe rpotsineg" at the end? What is your teacher, spawn of the chain letter devil?
 
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People Can Read this.. this is wierd
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! if you can raed tihs rpsoet it.

ONLY REPOST IF YOU CAN READ THIS...Udtpae the nbuemr(at the top) boefe rpotsineg
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Ok, then.

I couldn't believe that I could actually understand what I was reading. The phenomenal power of the human mind, according to a research at Cambridge University, it doesn't matter in what order the letters in a word are, the only important thing is that the first and last letter be in the right place. The rest can be a total mess and you can still read it without a problem. This is because the human minddoes not read every letter by itself, but thw word as a whole. Amazing huh? Yeah and I always thought spelling was important! If you can read this repost it.
 
I've read this in an email before, but I can read this jumbled mess aloud faster than I can read normal words from a book. Can someone explain that?
 
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People Can Read this.. this is wierd
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! if you can raed tihs rpsoet it.

ONLY REPOST IF YOU CAN READ THIS...Udtpae the nbuemr(at the top) boefe rpotsineg
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I couldn't believe that I could actually understand what I was reading. The phenomenal power of the human mind, according to a researcher at Cambridge University, it doesn't matter in what order the letters in a word are, the only important thing is that the first and last letter be in the right place. The rest can be a total mess and you can still read it without a problem. This is because the human mind does not read every letter by itself but the word as a whole. Amazing huh? Yeah and I always thought spelling was important? If you can read this repost it.

There was another one of these in my e-mail. It was find the amount of 'F's in this statement. It's the one where most count 3 or 4 but if you count 6 you're genius.
 
It's kind of neat, sure, but it's been known for years that the brain takes a countless number of shortcuts each day. Whoever conned someone into giving them a grant to do this is laughing all the way to the bank...in their new Ferrari.
 
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Does this work in any other langugage?
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Sure. I find myself constantly making mistakes in French because I'm used to reading words with the same start and finish letter.



The principle makes sense. You can tell when someone reads poorly because, for every word, they read every letter, and it seems to drag on and on. However, everyone does it when learning.
 
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Cool! Thats how speed reading works... recognising the first and last letters.
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This is a common misconception. Whilst it is often easier to infer what a word is if you have the first and last letters than if you have any other two letters, this is not how reading works, and therefore does not affect reading performance.

Experiments with "PRIME" and "TARGET" where you can 'prime' the visual system with words prior to sending the 'target' word (which is to be identified), shows that overall word shape is significantly more important than the first and last letters of the word.

However, your eyes move so fast, and your brain processes in parallel so efficiently, that it can read all letters of a word (up to about 7-letter words) simultaneously. If the letters are out of place, the brain can re-arrange them dynamically, most often by searching for the presence of common letter groups, such as "re-", "-ing" etc.

Anyone interested in this should read Vicki Bruce's excellent book Visual Perception.
 

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