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Peteff - 8/12/04 at 11:50 AM

This is on a forum my wife reads. It took me 3 goes to get it right. How many '"f's" are in the following sentence.

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE- SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF- IC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE
EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...

I got 4 first time.

Peteff - 8/12/04 at 11:52 AM

there are 6!! --No joke. Read it again. The reasoning is explained further down.
The brain cannot process "OF". Incredible or what? Go back and look again!! Anyone who counts all 6 "F's" on the first go is a genius. Three is normal, four is quite rare.

Hellfire - 8/12/04 at 11:53 AM

4 - whats the catch?

Amazing, I never noticed the 'of', either of them!!!

[Edited on 8-12-04 by Hellfire]

locoboy - 8/12/04 at 12:07 PM

Dont want to blow my own but i got 6, i traced it with my mouse pointer and skimmed over one 'of' but went straight back to it

I admit reading it on paper would be harder though.

mookaloid - 8/12/04 at 12:15 PM

4

Not a genius then........

mangogrooveworkshop - 8/12/04 at 12:22 PM

6 with my dexy brain.

scoobyis2cool - 8/12/04 at 12:53 PM

6 but I also traced it with my mouse. I've seen this kinda thing before and I always get caught out so I went extra carefully this time

Pete

mookaloid - 8/12/04 at 01:04 PM

quote:
Originally posted by scoobyis2cool
6 but I also traced it with my mouse. I've seen this kinda thing before and I always get caught out so I went extra carefully this time

Pete

I've seen this stuff before and i STILL got caught out DOH!

scotlad - 8/12/04 at 01:32 PM

er 3- but i was night shift last night!

tom_loughlin - 8/12/04 at 01:57 PM

6 - i am always crap at these things, but was aware of the tricks to look for.
tom

Chris Green - 8/12/04 at 02:15 PM

I got 6!

Try this one too...

Cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdaneig.

THE PAOMNNEHAL PWEOR OF THE HMUAN MNID

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer
In waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is that the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl 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.

Amzanig huh?

[Edited on 8-12-04 by Chris Green]

skinny - 8/12/04 at 03:49 PM

3! i'm brilliant

oh no, i mis-read that too, i'm normal

reading it again... now that i've seen it... i am actually quite thick

[Edited on 8/12/04 by skinny]

skinny - 8/12/04 at 03:58 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Chris Green
Cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdaneig.

THE PAOMNNEHAL PWEOR OF THE HMUAN MNID

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer
In waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is that the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl 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.

actually i think it's more that this how rushed emails often look and we just get used to it!

macspeedy - 8/12/04 at 03:59 PM

5 for ages then eventualy 6 wierd

Cita - 8/12/04 at 06:17 PM

34....but i'm a stutterer

MautoK - 9/12/04 at 01:52 PM

4, then 3, then 5, 5 again, then 6