Can you read this?
By Humbug25
@Humbug25 (12540)
December 5, 2008 10:40am CST
I got an email from a friend the other day that I found really interesting. This was it, let me know what you think:-
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!
Could you read this?
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30 responses
@munhozmib (3836)
• Sao Paulo, Brazil
8 Dec 08
Hlelo!
I cluod raed tihs. I had no pobrlmes, it was atcalluy pterty esay to do. Taht is an old e-mial, tgouhh. They say that only some people can read it, but I guess that everybody is able to. This has been proved already, and it really is an old e-mail. It is not as easy as reading common words, but it is still easy. Do you read it as quick as you do read normal words?
Respectfully,
Munhozmib.
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@kenchiprincess (5296)
• Philippines
6 Dec 08
yup, i was able to read it and i ever understood it. that was fun. thanks for sharing. have a great day!!!
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@sacmom (14192)
• United States
6 Dec 08
Is this correct?
[b]"If you can read this, you have a strange mind too
Can you read this? Only 55 people out of 100 can.[/b]
I couldn't believe that I cloud actually understand what I was reading. The phenomenal power of the human mind, according to a research at Cambridge University, it doesn't matter in what order the letterers in a word are, the only important thing is that the first and last letter be in the right place. The rest can be a total mess and you can still read it without a problem. This is because the human mind does not read every letter by itself, but the word as a whole. Amazing huh? Yeah and I always thought spelling was important!"
There was one word that stumped me and that was "sgtrane". So I used spell check on it. LOL Everything else I could read with no problem.
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@Humbug25 (12540)
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6 Dec 08
Hi sacmom
Well that is what the email said, 55 people out of 100 but I am thinking that it is more than that. I don't know when the research was done so the statistics might be dated. The longer the word the harder it is to understand it I guess and the word strange was probably the longest word in the text though I have not checked that.
Thanks for your response 
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@aidenw (632)
• United States
5 Dec 08
yes hubmug, i cluod raed it!
. the human brain can still figure out a word even if the letters are jumbled up as long as the first and last letters remain the same. so yeah, i'm also surprised that only 55% could read it. perhaps they don't speak english very well?
. the human brain can still figure out a word even if the letters are jumbled up as long as the first and last letters remain the same. so yeah, i'm also surprised that only 55% could read it. perhaps they don't speak english very well?1 person likes this
@antioxidant (438)
• Australia
6 Dec 08
Haha, yea i can read the whole thing pretty smoothly. It's like reading a book, you don't read a whole page word for word, or every letter for that matter. Cool stuff, as long as the words contain every letter and it seems like the correct length it contributes to being able to read he word as well.
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@sarawaken (360)
• Malaysia
6 Dec 08
I got that email back in 2006. It just goes to show that humans can live with imperfection and mistakes
@Tango2003 (18)
• India
6 Dec 08
dear humbug25
make it 56 out of 100 i could actually read it but dont ask me to write it im not very good with keyboard
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@hiddenwing (3719)
• China
6 Dec 08
Yeah, I can! The guy just got the order of the characters mixed up! Haha,
Have a great day!
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@idcoder (382)
• India
6 Dec 08
hey that was pretty good one..i could read it..some googling about this i found that, since we always read write, sometimes if a spell mistake , we can still read it, it is our brain which reads what the word meant even though it was spelt incorrectly..
that was actually great email...i had never though about it..thanks
happy mylotting
@kellyduff2008 (13)
• China
6 Dec 08
yeah, I am able to read it, haha. It is very fun for us to read this email. Just the sequence of the letters were diorder, but we can read and understant it.
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@cassandralynn (1084)
• United States
6 Dec 08
I can read it. Since "Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 " can read this I was wondering which age group & demographics they based this research testing on to conclude that only great minds can read this. Children? Adults? single people?..LOL..Hmmmm.. Pretty interesting and fun!
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@jewilim (495)
• Philippines
6 Dec 08
Thats really cool, i could still understand even if some letters are mixed. hehe. Its actually my first time to read such jumbled words. hehe. I think it has some similarity with texting, like in texting we omit some letters but we could still understand the word but with this the letters are still there but they are just jumbled.hehe. Nice one.. hehe
@chellymarz (408)
• Philippines
6 Dec 08
i can read it! so i belong to the group that have a strange mind? 
that was fun reading words in wrong spelling.
that was fun reading words in wrong spelling. 1 person likes this
@ladymingler (182)
• Philippines
6 Dec 08
I have also received this email before and I can perfectly read the sentence.. This is because our mind need only the first and the last letter to know the word written.. See how amazing our minds are?!
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