Brain Is a Genius? Isn’t it?

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.

homer's brainNow read this text again, paying attention to each word and you’ll probably notice “some” typing errors ;)

129 Replies to “Brain Is a Genius? Isn’t it?”

  1. 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.

  2. 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!

  3. 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)

  4. 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

  5. this is silly. of course, i usually neurotically correct other people’s spelling mistakes so… this just irritates me. even if it is readable

  6. i saw it like 100000 times on otha sites…..its AWESOME!!

    i saw it lkie 100000 tmeis on ohta seits…..its AEOSMWE!!

    lol

  7. 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?

  8. 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.

  9. Its funny but biaised….
    Wehn the lttrees are clmpoety rzenanoidd our biran is silrutgnegg and no ssnee can be dteudced, hsloetny :)

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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??????

    1. no, that is the illusion. although the letters in the middle are all jumbled up, you can still see the words.

  14. 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.

  15. 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!

    1. 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!!

  16. 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

    1. “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!

    2. why do you think this is bullshit? it is perfectly beutiful!!! I can read it with the slightest effort? type one HARD one up

  17. 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…

  18. 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)

  19. My Dad boghurt tihs hmoe ocne. I ralely lkied it aolt. I hvae sowhed it to mnay of my fernids. I lvoe it!!!

  20. 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.

  21. 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!!!!

  22. 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!!!

  23. 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?

  24. 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!

    1. ya u only mix the letters between the end and beggining.. not the end letter too! that kinda ruines the whole concept

  25. 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.

  26. 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!

  27. Hlelo tehre poelpe of Ertah. Can yuo raed tihs? If yuo cna yuo aer a wriedo. That message is for all the people with brains as big as homer’s. Who can’t be bothered finding spelling errrrrors, and are too lazy to rearrange the letters. Therefore they read it as it is.

  28. This was cool and very interesting, I wonder if everyone can read it like this. I thought this was very awesome.

  29. For people (like me) to whom English is not their first language, it’s not as easy. But I once see the same thing in French and, yes, it was easily understandable. But it takes a little much longer to read than a «normal» text.

  30. Maybe I’m wired differently than most, but I found this mess nearly impossible to read from the start. Oh, sure I could surmise what some of this should be. Like I suppose that “elgnsih unviesitry sutdy” is supposed to be “English University study”, though I’m not 100 % certain about that. But many words in this remain a complete mystery to me, even after considerable analysis. For instance I have no idea what “iopmrantt” is supposed to be. And as for what the unpronounceable “crcreot ptoision” might be, I shrug my shoulders with dismay. And what is rset, some kind of mathematical set using the letter “r” to represent it? That too is unknown to me. When I read, I read each word individually, and pronounce them in my mind, so such stuff that actually can’t be properly pronounced baffles me. Without these words actually spelled correctly I’ve got no idea what they are supposed to be. So maybe the order of letters might not matter to some people, but it matters to me. I’m serious, here.

  31. 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.

    According to an english university study the order or letters in a word doesn’t matter, the only thing that’s important is that the first and last letter of every word is in the correct position. The rest can be jumbledand one is still able to read the text without difficulty.

    :3 sry i know im not meant to, just thought id point it out that thats what it says

  32. It’s for this same reason that many adults have great difficulty pronouncing long words that they haven’t seen before (without taking time to examine the word for at least a few seconds).
    For example, my last name: Kristofferson.
    More often than not, telemarketers (and teachers) absolutely butcher this name when trying to pronounce it. They look at the word as a whole, and since their brain isn’t familiar with the word, an incorrect jumble of syllables comes out their mouth.

  33. Tihs is petry amoeswe! It’s jsut anmog the mnay finotcus of the biarn taht pploee dno’t ualsluy cdeinosr. Ahugotlh, wehn lnog egnuoh wdros or rivaleelty muonmcon wdors are benig raed tihs is not qtiue as ture, elseiclapy if the nbeumr of yellslabs is mioeidfd or the lretets are rrraagneed to look lkie tehy tancoin rael, neatruled wrdos, bsuaece the bnira’s iiscntt is to darw the msot idiatmeme lgcaiol cousinolcn fmor waht it’s piicneervg. I tnhik the fcat taht in tihs csae you wree’t “stlil able to raed the txet wiohtut dclftfuiiy” pdoeirvs aplme porof for the vdtiialy of my sentteamt.

    Yes, all of the words in this comment do contain the exact number of the precise letters they should contain and the first and last letter of every word (and every apostrophe) is in the correct position.

    1. I believe this to be true with respect to extent of someone’s vocabulary. I like to think that I have a respectable vocabulary and honestly had no trouble reading this, save for one word. “tancoin” in the piece: “look lkie tehy tancoin rael, neatruled wrdos”. I had a real hard time figuring this one out and then I realized it was supposed to be “contain,” only because it fit the sentence, but did not stick to the first and last letter format. I do find it more difficult when the words, while jumbled, create two different words that make no sense together or in the sentence, such as “boghurt” from an earlier post. Instinctively I read the two words “bog” and “hurt” instead of reading a jumbled brought. However, I did realize that “yellslabs” in your comment, did not fit the first and last letter format and could be read as “yell” and “slabs” or “yells” and “labs”, yet I did not have any trouble identifying it as syllables. Just some food for thought Mr. Thinker.

    2. Egad! You’re right, those two words were mistakes on my part. I meant to follow the first and last letter format throughout. I thus rendered my own pronouncement forfeit…

      Ah, indeed, vocabulary is, perhaps, the greatest factor. It appears I have been humbled this day; I’ll have to think thrice before making so bold a proclamation in the future.

  34. You know, I’m able to read the whole paragraph, but when I take a single word out of contex, it doens’t make sense anymore. Take “iopmrantt” for example, in the paragraph it obviously meant “important”, but by itself, it becomes a jumble of letters.

  35. This is a nice illusion.. But It only works right when you have all letters accounted for and if what you are saying makes sense. When you talk nonsense it becomes much more difficult to understand because people pay more attention to nonsense than they do sense so they will notice the misspellings far more often. For Expmale, fenrch benas lkie seupr dorgans wehn flim cemsounrs duevor alppe cencrote wcihh is prerrfeed itnelensy truhogh epruoe.

    (For Example, french beans like super dragons when film consumers devour apple concrete which is preferred intensely through europe.)

    1. It’s Hungarian, Suor de Sapo. Thank you, Google Translate: Detect Language. And thank you Right Click, for bringing us Copy and Paste.

  36. 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. what this says is: according to the English university study the order of letters in a word doesn`t matter the only thing that`s inportant is that the first and last letter of every word is in the correct position. The rest can be resembled and one is still able to read the text without difficulty. Did i get this right?

  37. I didn’t realize the letters where misplaced until noticed the spelling of ‘letetrs’. So cool. What’s more interesting English is a second language to me and I didn’t know the word ‘jumbled’ but yet managed to read it. Mind blowing. That’s why I’ll study psychology the next year!

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