Stupid Email

[Eight-Bit]

Only great minds can read this

This is weird, but interesting!


fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too  
 
Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
 
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 forwrad it

I can read it, but I suppose many years of online gaming have gotten me used to reading words from jumbled messes of letters.

[miltonyorkcastle]

Yeah, not too bad. I'm a bit surprised how quickly I was able to process and read that.

[Stephen_Zuckerman]

I could process that just as easily as normal text.

But it made me want to strangle the person typing it.

[Hellblazer]

hummmm okay I was able to read that without a problem... I guess that's sad

[s0ulz]

This is so old it practically has a foot of dust on it, but yeah, the brain processes only the first and last letter to make "an educated guess" based on your vocabulary. Doesn't quite work on words you haven't seen before.

It's like a windows shortcut combo.

[Filatus]

The 55 in every 100 people sounds fishy..

[s0ulz]

Pretty much everyone can who does not have any conditions to prohibit it or do not know the vocabulary. 55 part is incorrect.

[aragwen]

Also have seen this before and could read it as if it was normal text.
 
 I think there is one other thing which needs to be in order as well and that is the length of the word. Else you will not be able to read it.
 
 Another thing that makes it possible to read it without issue, is that one's brain also uses predictive reading I think. Certain words would logically follow on others.
 
 But quite interesting.

[Eight-Bit]

This is so old it practically has a foot of dust on it,

These kinds of emails are why I hate that all my courses post your email on the class website.

[Stephen_Zuckerman]

The 55 in every 100 people sounds fishy..

Didn't you know that 73% of all statistics are made up on the spot?

[Eight-Bit]

And everything in ridiculous chain letters are true!

[Weeblie]

The 55% is actually true.

The rest 67% wouldn't even bother... :p

[Marswipp]

Some of the misspelled words create other words, which can throw some for a loop.