Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Read This

Can you raed tihs? Olny srmat poelpe 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 deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wourhit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! If you can raed tihs psas it on.

2 comments:

melissa said...

I could totally read it! or...
I culod tlaltoy raed it!

very cool! that's why in school my teacher told us to proof read backwards for spelling b/c once you start reading your mind just doesn't pick things up!!

Sarah said...

The first time I read about this I was totally blown away. Of course it makes sense that a quick reader sees the word as a whole rather than a string of consecutive letters but still, our brains are freaking awesome!