by | April 5, 2011 · 2:06 AM
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Letters Don’t Matter As Much As You Think

Aoccdrnig to 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 at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

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6 Responses to Letters Don’t Matter As Much As You Think

  1. Patrick
    April 5, 2011 at 6:43 AM

    I had less trouble reading that then I thought I would.

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  2. Gay State Girl
    April 5, 2011 at 12:23 PM

    Me too. I always remember the first digit rather than all the others.

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  3. Dota-Player
    April 5, 2011 at 2:29 PM

    Very interesting post. This just proves that humans tend to view things from the top down. Maybe this is why we always generalize and have an obsession with classification.

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  4. Hacienda
    April 5, 2011 at 7:52 PM

    LOL. Taht’s jsut fcuknig azaming.

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  5. An Unmarried Man
    April 5, 2011 at 9:17 PM

    This is essentially what speed reading is, I guess. And when you stop at a stop sign, do you consciously read the word “STOP?” Still, I could never read an entire book written like this or I’d lose my sanity, what’s left of it.

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  6. Reality Check
    April 5, 2011 at 9:40 PM

    This only works for those who have attained an automatic reading fluency.

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