That was very interesting! Yes, I could read it.

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I could read it fine. But then I get a lot of practice trying to decypher my Mum's text messages...

Very interesting.

Cool! And yes, I can!

I can, at first glance I thought you were crazy but then I realised. That is quite strange actually, interesting....

only fifty percent of people on answerbag, and the world that is, according to cambridge university will be able to read this, astonashing ithink. is that right?

What an interesting fact! Thanks.

eys.

yep. According the them, as long as the first and last word are in the correct place, you can read the word.

Yes I can. As can EVERYONE I know, I think its a made up statistic and the number is actually closer to 90% of people.

wow that was really weird, even though it was messed up i read it fluently, thats cool, good post.

Yes, and if I cover the top or bottom half of a line of type with the edge of a piece of paper I can also read it easily. Even your line - only slightly less easily than one with standard orthography! De brainz day be marbelous toolz!

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Of course. I had to think briefly about "astonishing" I think because the s was so far removed from the a, but the rest of it just looked like really bad typing skills. ;-) To be fair, I don't think AB contains a cross-section of the world's population. It clearly is heavily weighted towards adult literate people who enjoy debating and discussing topics of interest in English, have the spare time in which to do so, and the money to have a computer on which to do so. That doesn't sound like an average world inhabitant to me.

1) Translation: 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 the last letter be at the right place. The rest can be a total mess ... 2) "This is clearly wrong. For instance, compare the following three sentences: 1. A vheclie epxledod at a plocie cehckipont near the UN haduqertares in Bagahdd on Mnoday kilinlg the bmober and an Irqai polcie offceir 2. Big ccunoil tax ineesacrs tihs yaer hvae seezueqd the inmcoes of mnay pneosenirs 3. A dootcr has aimttded the magltheuansr of a tageene ceacnr pintaet who deid aetfr a hatospil durg blendur All three sentences were randomised according to the "rules" described in the meme. The first and last letters have stayed in the same place and all the other letters have been moved. However, I suspect that your experience is the same as mine, which is that the texts get progressively more difficult to read. If you get stuck, the sentences are linked to the original unscrambled texts. Hopefully, these demonstrations will have convinced you that in some cases it can be very difficult to make sense of sentences with jumbled up words. Clearly, the first and last letter is not the only thing that you use when reading text. If this really was the case, how would you tell the difference between pairs of words like "salt" and "slat"?" "This text circulated on the internet in September 2003. I first became aware of it when a journalist contacted a my colleague Sian Miller on 16th September, trying to track down the original source. It's been passed on many times, and in the way of most internet memes has mutated along the way. It struck me as interesting - especially when I received a version that mentioned Cambridge University! I work at Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, in Cambridge, UK, a Medical Research Council unit that includes a large group investigating how the brain processes language. If there's a new piece of research on reading that's been conducted in Cambridge, I thought I should have heard of it before... I've written this page, to try to explain the science behind this meme. There are elements of truth in this, but also some things which scientists studying the psychology of language (psycholinguists) know to be incorrect. I'm going to break down the meme, one line at a time to illustrate these points, pointing out what I think is the relevant research on the role of letter order on reading. Again, this is only my view of the current state of reading research, as it relates to this meme. If you think I've missed something important, let me know." Source and further information: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/~mattd/Cmabrigde/

I can read it - does that mean I am intelligent???

I can understand this, but it's completely annoying.

I can. Very interesting. I didn't have to read through it twice, so I suppose it is somewhat true.

I do believe this is a duplicate.

Yes, I can.

Yes I could.....how strange....

Wow, I can! thats too cool!

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thats cool, i got that as a myspace bulletin a long time ago though...

Yippie! i can read it

I know people who type like that all the time. They must be flippin' geniuses.

Actually it was easy and I read it quickly. :)

I can read that very easily, I am dyslexic, LOL.

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I've seen this before and it always amazed me that it was just as easy to read as if it were written correctly. I didn't mess up, but I bet most everyone can easily read it. I still think it's cool.

You type like me:)

Actually most people can read that. If the first and last letter are correct your brain starts guessing immediately at the word. Anyone above about fourth grade reading should be able to figure that out rather quickly.

YES!!

Surprisingly I could read it, even half blind! Weird.

I think I've been on AB too long, I didn't have any problem reading the question. "Only smart people can read this. 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 must have driven your spell checker crazy. Unfortunately, I think some people here will read it and not understand that the mistakes were planned. It's just normal spelling for some of us.

my mind is always scrambled.

I didn't have a problem deciphering it, but that doesn't mean I'm a genius though lol.

Dmub pleope can raed it too, slady.

yeah, i acctually understood it :) isn't the human mind amazing?

i could read it :) woop woop. its amazing how the mind only really takes notice of the first and last letters!

I'm retarded and I read it fine.

I was able to read the entire thing. I stumbled, for a second, over "actually" but recovered quickly and easily.

No. Got the whole lot easily. Just like reading normal words.

i did not mess up at all i can also read backwards and upside down

No problem reading it, what surprised me was how fast I read it.

Oh no.........did I just join the Army or something? I should of never signed anything.