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Only great minds can read this!!

by KingOfContentMarketing
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Only great minds can read this!! If you can raed this, you have a sgtrane mnid, too.

Can you raed this? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can. I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in what oerdr the ltteres in a word are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is that the frsit and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it whotuit a pboerlm. This is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the word as a wlohe. Azanmig, huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! If you can raed tihs srahe it wtih yuor finreds! ;D
  • Profile picture of the author LarryC
    I've seen this before. I can read it, so I must be really brilliant! Actually, I think most literate people can read it. It's probably more of a gimmick to flatter you so you spread it. Not talking about the OP's post -this is one of those memes that's all over Facebook. But either way, it is interesting how the brain fills in the blanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author bsbear
    I thought everyone in the entire world could read it?

    Isn't the idea that our brains only look for letters and translate that into words rather than looking for whole words?
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  • Profile picture of the author Josh Monroe
    I read somewhere online a while back that if the first and last letters of the word are the same, you can read it without problem (so in this case all the first and last letters are the same only the letters in-between are different, so according to this research, all 100 people technically should be able to read it..)
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  • Profile picture of the author MoneyMagnetMagnate
    Waht I cdnuolt blveiee is "Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can?" :confused:
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    Anyone that has English as a first language can read that. It's not just the first and last letter - it has to have the letters of the original word in at least most of the words and if there are one or two that are spelled wrong when jumbled, our system of bridging assumptions will allow us to deduce the meaning.

    Why does this thing keep coming back to haunt us every few months?
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    • Profile picture of the author ThomM
      Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

      Anyone that has English as a first language can read that. It's not just the first and last letter - it has to have the letters of the original word in at least most of the words and if there are one or two that are spelled wrong when jumbled, our system of bridging assumptions will allow us to deduce the meaning.

      Why does this thing keep coming back to haunt us every few months?
      When I saw the thread title I knew what it was.
      So my first thought was, 'no a great mind would not waste it's time here'.
      Obviously mine isn't so great
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      • Profile picture of the author HeySal
        Originally Posted by ThomM View Post

        When I saw the thread title I knew what it was.
        So my first thought was, 'no a great mind would not waste it's time here'.
        Obviously mine isn't so great
        Thanks for that Thom - I was just hoping someone would come along and make me feel like an idiot the first thing in the day. :rolleyes:
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        • Profile picture of the author MoneyMagnetMagnate
          Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

          Thanks for that Thom - I was just hoping someone would come along and make me feel like an idiot the first thing in the day. :rolleyes:
          He would have done it earlier...but you slept really late...:p :rolleyes:
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        • Profile picture of the author ThomM
          Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

          Thanks for that Thom - I was just hoping someone would come along and make me feel like an idiot the first thing in the day. :rolleyes:
          Just doin what I do
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  • Profile picture of the author USNavy
    this is kind of how I read everything, as I am dyslexic. I gotta say that was pretty easy to read though haha.
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  • Profile picture of the author mohsinmallik
    I think I have read similar kind of thing before in facebook. It was there to show that human mind usually take the idea of a word by looking at the first and last letter.
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