An interesting Study

[Corey Woods]

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a tatol mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

[ChokeOnSmoke]

wow thats neat
Never noticed till now

[J-Man]

the only word I messed up on was "iprmoetnt." I thought it was prominent, or impotent or something.

[roesencrantz]

haha i saw impotent too...

[LadyHawke]

wow, thats wild, i had no problem reading that at all

[C.m.pyrrhus]

Pnsoernanly I do not buy it for one scaond. How cluod tahy fnid tihs out? And you blieeve tehm? Waht a way to wsatse vaulblae tmie and mneoy!!!!! Tehy cloud be sepdnig the menoy on how mcuh tmie it tkaeks for ktcheup to raceh the bttoom of the bltote wehn it cmeos out of the fgidre at 45° in my oipneoin. You konw taht is sethomnig we all wnat to konw.

[Zoe]

Lol good point man, I did NOT understand most of that!!!

Zoe

[mykee]

Wow, so most of the people who spell like crap on here aren't doing such a disservice after all....

[imp_star]

this is fun to read..more more

[JeffT]

now that is an interesting study

[stevesemerko]

Tahts pterty cool. I had no pobrelms rdaenig taht ehiter.

Sevte:D

[Tim_Cranwill]

Interesting....

A buddy of mine studied speed reading a while back and he said that when people first learn to read that is letter recognition that they learn first and then we move to word recognition. We don't really READ each word, we just recognize them. For this type of speed reading they were told that they would be able to recognize sentences after a while and then even groups of sentences.... not sure if this is how it really works but that's what I was told... :)

[maiden_canada]

yeah cranwill, but if i don't read each word sometimes i'll have a tough time understanding, or comprehending

[Slannesh]

I've seen this before recently... The thing that really amuses me is the only words I personally stumble over are the ones that don't have the correct letters.

iprmoetnt in Corey's post is missing an 'a' to be important and has an 'e' it shouldn't :) There were a few others as well in other posts. But it's definately an amusing thing to observe!

[Linds]

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