By Vurdlak on April 25, 2006, with 124 Comments
Acocdrnig to an elgnsih unviesitry sutdy the oredr of letetrs in a wrod dosen’t mttaer, the olny thnig thta’s iopmrantt is that the frsit and lsat ltteer of eevry word is in the crcreot ptoision. The rset can be jmbueld and one is stlil able to raed the txet wiohtut dclftfuiiy.
Now read this text again, paying attention to each word and you’ll probably notice “some” typing errors ;)
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If you completely randomized the order of the letters, it probably wouldn’t be readable. They changed some of the positions, but not all — just enough that your brain can correct for the mistakes. For example, look at “unviesitry”. It’s not a completely random order, like “utienrisvy”. They kept the n in the right spot, the v near the beginning, the t near the end, etc. So what they’re saying is misleading. It should be no surprise that the brain can correct for a few mistakes. Otherwise you wouldn’t be able to read sentences with typos.
You sound like my anoying friend who’s name will not be mentioned.
And the biran does fgirue it out
I tinhk its aewosme…i’ve been uesnig it on my firedns a lot. Tehy seem to tihnk i’m czray but tehy hvanet seen it yet so thx for the luahgs!
It’s because your brain is reading using the “lexical” and “semantycal” ways (i don’t know how to spell it correctly in English) instead of the phonological way. The lexical and semanthycal way consist of every word you ever heard and they’r meaning. The phonogical way is the way that you use when you learn new words (it’s matching the letters to the sounds)
Wow thats werid
I read the whole thing then I saw the”Now read this text again, paying attention to each word and you’ll probably notice “some” typing errors ;)”
Man that is weird
I dnot udestnand waht im mnet to be dniog heer lol!!!
jkoe
i ttly noticed the typing answers right away but could still read it fine
thats the 10th million time ive seen that on the internet!!!!!!!
so asewmoe! nveer seen taht beofre! so wried…
Damm man,whrilly cool:D
seen it bofer
I knew there was spelling mistakes, but I still knew what the words said. too easy. ;)
I tinhk taht is rlaey kool!!! But is taht an iuslioln?
omg, this is SOO easy to me
yae i funod the mastikes saitrght aawy too, and slitl cluod raed it. kwel!!! P; srroy i maen ;P
theres an add like that, it tells us about it, but its all written down wrong
this is silly. of course, i usually neurotically correct other people’s spelling mistakes so… this just irritates me. even if it is readable
tihs is a vrey good iulsilon
i saw it like 100000 times on otha sites…..its AWESOME!!
i saw it lkie 100000 tmeis on ohta seits…..its AEOSMWE!!
lol
fakey fakey!
ugh. readable, but painful. I can’t believe anyone wouldn’t notice the errors the first time around.
hey tht x ray pic of a head look like homer simpson from the simpsons!!! lol
^ | | maybe thats why the brain is so small
tihs is the way polepe raed cumopetr sapek
i nitoecd in 3 soencds. ^_^
hahaha. very funny
Amit Patel – not sure if you noticed, but you spelt university wrong XD
I notice taht the words were mispell half way through me reading taht was weird
sweet
wow wehn i frsit straetd raednig tihs i dnidt eevn notcie lol but tehn i firgued it out :-D
i read that lik i was in the 10 grade it was 2 easy
Wooooow, this is soooo cool! Although ther are a lot of mistakes, i couldent find trouble reading them at all.
1 time to figure it out
Is that Homer Simpsons’brain?
Ithink it is ^_^
Amit Patel, I’m sure its really scrambled. Or is it a conspersity? *waves hands in air* Why else would a university say that if it isn’t true? Jeez… Ttahs on the wlal of my old taeehcr’s room. ITS TURE! RLEALY! IT TTOLALY TURE! RGIHT?
hloy suht taht is so aewosme and taht lkoos eaxtcly lkie hmoer spsimon’s haed bcaesue of the mutoh and nsoe
Cool! I love this trick but I alredy read it in the newspaper.
WTF IS THE DEAL WITH THAT PICTURE VURDLAK WHAT THE HECK!
omg taht is awoseme!
haha lol thats how my righting looks like at school :P
Somebody sent the same thing to me in an email. Lame, really.
It works alright!
The x-ray looks like homer simpson lol
What the heck? I already saw the spelling errors, quit saying i missed something, when i didn’t I notice that stuff all the time. I’m a “professional” speller and i have alots of friends on AIM who do that.. It’s kind of anonynig soemtmies. I htae it.
how big are homers teeth?
Its funny but biaised….
Wehn the lttrees are clmpoety rzenanoidd our biran is silrutgnegg and no ssnee can be dteudced, hsloetny :)
bull shit. just becasue you type in siht does not mean it’s some kind of illision or “weird phonemoneaoeaseon.. ” OH WOW, LOOK MOMY I CAN READ WHEN THE LETTERS ARE MIXED UP AS LONG AS THE LENGHT AND FIRST AND LAST LETTER ARE CORRECT.. NO SIHT SUHUROCLK
you know the skelton in the picture next to the mixed words(which i could read fine,i am 12) I think that the skelton looks like Homer Simpson – i dont wach that show but from the movie previews it looks like him < lol
haha aww i feel dumb some of them it took me time to figure out what they meant but it was obvious to me that they were mispelled
I could read it through the first time and only stumbled once. I could tell that everything was spelled weird but i could still read it. Does that mean there’s something wrong with me or something??????
no, that is the illusion. although the letters in the middle are all jumbled up, you can still see the words.
My 7 year old could even figure this out! It’s amazing!
i tried writing jumbled words like this with a pen and paper and its way less convincing/readable than when the words are typed up.
FOR ALL THOSE PEOPLE WHO KEEP SAYING THE IMAGE LOOKS LIKE HOMER SIMPSON, IT IS HOMER SIMPSON. THE IMAGE WAS MADE AS A JOKE BY THE SIMPSONS CREATORS- LOOK HOW TINY HIS BRAIN IS! IT’S MEANT TO BE FUNNY!
SO GET IT INTO YOUR HEADS, PEOPLE…
IT IS HOMER SIMPON!
yes, yes it is.
you said homer simpon, not simpSon!
THE PICTURE IS NOT MADE BY THE CREATOR OF SIMPSONS. actually it is made by a guy in sweden who i actually know, the proof is that he is the only one who’s got a hd version of it!!
I am evil homer! I am evil homer!
No university made this test, it’s just a fake, if you move the letters more than two possitions in the word, even if the first and the last ones are in there places, you wont be able to read that word. if you dont trust me … try to read this: You may palrobby be albe to raed smoe wdros but trehe are smoe taht you cnat urantsdend
u can still read it very easily…
“You may probably be able to read some words but there are some that you can’t understand.”
Let me konw wehn you tihnk of smoe!
I can still read what you typed easily.
why do you think this is bullshit? it is perfectly beutiful!!! I can read it with the slightest effort? type one HARD one up
i can understand it… maybe there is something wrong with me though ;) xoxoxo
I dnt’o crea :p hu ho bthic peslae
It looks like someone was drunk when they wrote this…
I tnihk tihs is so esay. I aslo lvoe tnighs lkie tihs!
holy crap! I knew there was a lot of errors in it but no matter how many times I read it I fully understand it! Trippy…
the picture looks like homer from simpsons!this is michelle
It’s because your brain reads the word as a whole and not indivudually, that is when you know how to read, kids who just learned can’t read that (obious)
He looks like Homer Simpson:P
i feel as if its a rnaodm iulolisn
taht I raed ptrety eialsy. ayonne can raed tihs.
what does homer have to do with it?
My Dad boghurt tihs hmoe ocne. I ralely lkied it aolt. I hvae sowhed it to mnay of my fernids. I lvoe it!!!
kk fine some of that i cant read.
i can raed it eslaiy!
haha sorry but a lot is 2 words :P
To number 58 I can under stand every word in the sentence my Dads a teacher of little kids and he said they can read that better then they do when the letters aren’t mixed up.
Its proven by a University believe they are definitely right.
wait a sec. I CAN NOT SPELL LIKE ANYTHING!!! when my teachers look at my paper they are like “u cant spell obvious?” whitch i spelled ovious. stupid huh? well i’m not! i am in an excelerated group!!! i can read just fine!!! its the spelling that gets to me!! ok thanks any way for letting me vent. i gtg now, bye!!!!
Cool! I love it…
It’s jsut amnziag how our brnais wrok. For me it’s one of the msot incbirdele prat of our body…
Last Cmomnet!!!
patel is right… If you come to my uestriivny I will be really happy.
you guys are phonominal.This is the best illusion yet.
aggreed
in TREEHOUSE OF HORROR 2 episode his brain was bigger :/
~BACONEATER STRIKES AGAIN
scorchpow
tihs is so cool i touhgt it was graet but i hvae seen tehese bfeore
what about the word “WEIRD”?
what if you scramble it…sometimes it becomes “WIRED”….
is there another word that has the same case like this?
I leov thinsg lkie thsee. thye raelyl aer fnu to do if yuo watn, I sdujset thta yuo tyr it in teh coemmtn palce dwon theer. heav fnu!
PS THERE= THREE… harold!
ya u only mix the letters between the end and beggining.. not the end letter too! that kinda ruines the whole concept
wow tihs is rlaely aazmnig!
I saw tihs in the eccnyplodeia of iammurtiy and tgohut it was ralely cool :3
yeah i alway find it really cool,
I can read this in 1 go , yes 1 go!!!!! :)
hey, that’s an x-ray photo of Holmer Simpson!
What does it have to do with anything?!!!
to the person who commented about a study like this not ever being done:
Studys as silly as this are done all the time, that doesn’t mean you hear about it every single time in the news. And if i recall correctly i remember hearing something about this on the my local news aswell as a late night talk show, sometime in the early 90′s.
Also i could read the sentence you typed out just fine, its just how the brain works, live with it.
actually when you read something, your just looking at the word like a picture.. which means if you see ( ex ) Paint, a picture forms in our head.. that’s why we can have problems with big letters, reading everything with BIG LETTERS CAN BE IRRITATING AS EVERYTHING LOOKS STRAIGHT OUT. do you understand what i mean ? go search then, on ggoloe!
SOME people are retarded, you cant do it with a 3 letter word. dumbasses.
The picture is Homer Simpson people!