16
Apr
2007
Very Strange
I saw this in a Facebook comment, and I’m curious as to whether or not it’s true:
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
it’s essentially a myth/joke. The letters in that paragraph were jumbled very precisely to maintain legibility. (Also the actual research was done at Nottingham, but whatever). Anyway – link
I remember the first time I saw that a few years ago. I didn’t even realise that something was wrong until a couple lines into it, and I haven’t heard of anybody who couldn’t read it.