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Post by wilderbean on Jan 19, 2007 19:08:43 GMT -5
I wanted to share this with you guys, cos I think it's friggin brilliant and I wanted to see if it worked.
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ALZHEIMERS' EYE TEST
Count every " F " in the following text:
"FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS..."
HOW MANY F's did you count?
WRONG, THERE ARE 6 -- no joke. READ IT AGAIN !
Really, go back and try to find the 6 F's before you keep reading.
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. Send this to your friends. It will drive them crazy.! And keep them occupied For several minutes...
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Post by Roha on Jan 19, 2007 22:44:01 GMT -5
I got all 6. Does that make me a genius or just a thorough reader?
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Post by wilderbean on Jan 19, 2007 22:57:19 GMT -5
Dunno....I got all six as well, and I'm thinking 'what's the big deal?', but when the family tried it drove 'em crazy. It was hilarious!!
Possibly, all smart-arses are able to process 'OF', like a package deal. And we are definetely smart-arses.
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Post by wilderbean on Jan 19, 2007 23:03:51 GMT -5
What about this one???
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O lny srmat poelpe can raed tihs. 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 deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huam n mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs psas it on !!
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Post by The Star Fox on Jan 20, 2007 13:50:14 GMT -5
Yupp I got all six and can read that. But is does take a little more time for me to read it..
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Post by redsky on Jan 25, 2007 16:23:21 GMT -5
Yeah, the reading takes a lot longer than normal. That is, a lot by brain standards (a couple of milliseconds), anyway, being able to read at all is a lot more amazing than being able to read jumbled up words.
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Post by child-of-fae on Jan 26, 2007 7:33:11 GMT -5
I've read the letters thing more than once so i almost had it memorized.
I only counted five Fs on my first try......stupid scientific.
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Post by sakura on Jan 26, 2007 19:19:07 GMT -5
I'm a genius! XD
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Post by Jones on Jan 28, 2007 18:29:29 GMT -5
I wonder if the jumbled up word thing works with longer words as well? Or is it easier with short words that we can process more quickly?
Adsenitisbetlasmhannisiatirm
........ Yeah, I don't think that one goes over so well.
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Post by The Star Fox on Jan 28, 2007 18:35:03 GMT -5
GAHH... mmmmmmy mimiminnnddd melmelmeltmeltedmelteded...
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Post by wilderbean on Jan 29, 2007 17:01:59 GMT -5
*very frightened*
Now did you just make that up or is that actually a real word? First person to figure out the word gets a virtual cookie.
My attempt: Adbetlasmr...hanni...isia..tim...oh, frig it.
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Post by Clover on Jan 29, 2007 23:40:17 GMT -5
Okay.. I wasn't able to get all six F's on first go.. I got three, I think... which isn't so hot. I'm normally better at word games like that. On the other hand... that garbed passage was, for whatever reason, no problem. I just sped through it. Which is a little disconcerting, because it's really the strangest thing. Wierd, that I was able to read the muck with the same speed I normally can---but was pretty bad at the detection bit. What does that mean, you think?
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Post by Trey on Jan 30, 2007 3:12:49 GMT -5
that's a relatively old test... It's just an optical illusion. On the other hand, I had a REAL eye test today! Good news, my eyes have no glass in them!
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Post by konran on Feb 1, 2007 0:02:31 GMT -5
The reason everybody's getting them so easily is because you left out one small step. They must read it aloud while trying to keep count. Otherwise, people are just scanning it for the letter F rather than listening for it as they sa the words. The trick is that you say "of" with a V sound instead of an F sound, like "oven" without the N.
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Post by Trey on Feb 1, 2007 2:58:44 GMT -5
Konran..... *gives you a golden spleen sticker*
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