Can You Read This?

[Daryl]

From an email.

CAN YOU READ THIS?

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!

[poolhound]

Yup its amazing isnt it. The brain can process much more than we can imagine. You can extend the same principle to whole paragraphs or pages. I do a lot of reading and this is the essense of "speed reading." You can generally scan down the mid line of a page and absorb enough of the key words and phrases to get the main points from a piece of writing.

Of course, if its highly technical or the dialogue is critical you will still need to read most if not all of the words.

[Richard in Smithville]

I could read it but my eyes felt really funky by the time I was done.

[TB Roye]

My English teaching in Jr High didn't appriciate the Essay I worte that looked like that. I alway treated English as a second language.

Tom

[Crash2510]

i can read it like at my normal pace I've seen something like this in a psych class

very cool

thanks for posting

[Hellrazor]

I read that at normal speed. But I also am a speed reader. Everyone at work sticks me with researching things since I am a google guru and I can scan through documents in a flash. Did I mention I work for a school district, where you might be reading something a 5 year old wrote and 2 minutes later it's something someone with a doctorate wrote.

[crokett]

where you might be reading something a 5 year old wrote and 2 minutes later it's something someone with a doctorate wrote.

For work I read a lot of technical docs. Sometimes you know a person with a doctorate wrote it but it reads like a 5 year old did. Technical folks for the most part are very poor writers.

[Hellrazor]

For work I read a lot of technical docs. Sometimes you know a person with a doctorate wrote it but it reads like a 5 year old did. Technical folks for the most part are very poor writers.

HF Manuals?

[JoeyGee]

That reminds me of when I started reading to my kids. At first, I found it frustrating because I couldn't read it fast, and I kept messing up very simple sentences. I realized that when I read, I don't pay attention to every word. I'm no speed reader, but I think I read fairly quickly.

[crokett]

HF Manuals?

Not quite. At the moment I am reading about Brocade's implementation of FC routing via FCIP over TCP.