Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn"t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is that the frist and lsat ltteer are in the rghit pclae.

The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by istlef but the wrod as a wlohe.



P.S. Do you happen to knwo the link to the original site where this was written?

No, but I remember it being famous filler text for CMS web packages.

Oh, and do you go copy/paste/troll all the Totse boards, or just the ones I frequent?

"Aoccdrnig to a 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 toatl 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."

Looks very similar to what you wrote...hmmm.

Anyway, some info can be found on http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/~mattd/Cmabrigde/

He admits he doesn't know where the research originated, but because of the popularity he has tried to understand the phenomenon, and with other languages too.

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn"t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is that the frist and lsat ltteer are in the rghit pclae.

The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by istlef but the wrod as a wlohe.



P.S. Do you happen to knwo the link to the original site where this was written?

I think the researchers are incorrect in their assumptions. I would have reason to believe the human mind was built for things such as security engineering and encryption. Throughout history, we have seen people such as the Mayans and alchemists encrypt their belongings so that people can not read them.

It is very simple to understand, if you knwo a little bit of how human brain works. The fact is, that written language has to do with sight, and human brain recognises trough sight only shapes in the first place, and only after the shape was recognized, human brain is filling the shape winth particulars that are inside the shape.

To better understand it, think about how people draw, first peope draw a shape, and after fills it with other particulars that are inside the whole picture.

Logically in the situation when your brain has all the letters at the ebginning and the end of th eword, reading is not so difficult, as your brain recognizez the shape of th eword that you allready knwo, and using logic and memory reconstructs the correct order of th eletter not visually, biut inside your brain, using only memory.

A very good examplke is to write two paragraphs, one paragraph, is wrotten using the system described at th ebeginning. The second paragraph is written with all th eletters in th ecorrect prder, but instead with misplaced spaces between words.

You will see that is way easier to read faster when only letters are misplaced, and is harder when the spaces netween correctly written words are misplaced.

It is very simple to understand, if you knwo a little bit of how human brain works. The fact is, that written language has to do with sight, and human brain recognises trough sight only shapes in the first place, and only after the shape was recognized, human brain is filling the shape winth particulars that are inside the shape.

To better understand it, think about how people draw, first peope draw a shape, and after fills it with other particulars that are inside the whole picture.

Logically in the situation when your brain has all the letters at the ebginning and the end of th eword, reading is not so difficult, as your brain recognizez the shape of th eword that you allready knwo, and using logic and memory reconstructs the correct order of th eletter not visually, biut inside your brain, using only memory.

A very good examplke is to write two paragraphs, one paragraph, is wrotten using the system described at th ebeginning. The second paragraph is written with all th eletters in th ecorrect prder, but instead with misplaced spaces between words.

You will see that is way easier to read faster when only letters are misplaced, and is harder when the spaces netween correctly written words are misplaced.

i had to actually slow down a bit to read this. i ad to stop on a few words to figure it out you put in extra letters unlike the first post

A tad off-topic, but this is why it is so darn hard to proof-read quickly and accurately--the brain auto-edits.

Best way around this is start at the bottom and read backwards. Seriously.