I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd tihs....

[PhilBy]

The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in what oredr the ltteers in a word are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is that the first and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it wouthit a porbelm This is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the word as a wlohe.

[kempie]

dj�� vu

[Catso]

But surely, that only works if in a coherent sentence?

mldrdmaae? sinistect?

(Hope I've done them right)

[stressed out]

Omg! I read that 1st time and understood it! How strange.

[antiguru]

I rely on this technique when reading many of the posts on this site.

[mibn2cweus]

umop 3p!sdn

[rojash]

Unfortunately, antiguru, some of the posters on this site can't even get the first and last letters correct!

[antiguru]

Quite true, rojash. And the stream of consciousness approach gets a little hard to read too. Do people not use full stops because they�re hard to find on a mobile, which is the only other place they type, I wonder?

[antiguru]

lovely example.....

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Home-and-Garden /Question314309.html

[mibn2cweus]

Catso,
melddrama? scientist?

[kempie]

...or is it marmaldde?

[SarahSam]

This is very true, unless the person reading is dyslexic, in which case most of us just get a headache.
On a more serious note this type of thing can infact be very use full to older people trying to over come dyslexia, as it can train the brain to see past the letters being confused. My boyfriend has spent several years learning to over come his problem using this very technique.

[markja]

bllokocs !
unfortunately the education system is not teaching our children the basics as we were taught. i.e. the three 'R's and my son of fifteen thinks it's ok to have a reading age of Mc Donalds menu and maths age of how much credit is left on his phone !!
so it's lucky in a way that we possess this ability to read twoddle or half of us would loss the ability to communicate with our children.

[Catso]

It was supposed to be marmalade & scientist.

But isn't it a LOT harder when the words aren't in a sentence to give them context and a 'crib' to crack them. Really, you have to treat them as anagrams.

[kempie]

"...and now, the science bit"

http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/~mattd/Cmabrigde/

[knobbynonuts]

wry is it taht I can raed tihs prpoaly wehn I am durnk bat nit wehn I is sbeor