Only Great Minds Can Read This

[Truth2Tell]

At least according to an email I got:

fi yuo cna
raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too

Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe
out of 100 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 dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod
are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit
pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm..
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the
wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

Hmmm.

[greenbriar]

1. I get papers like this actually

so I could read it fine

[marketcrazy1]

2. cool

I was surprised how fast and easy that was to read.....

[burythehatchet]

3. I freak people out when they see me do the Jumble in the newspaper.

[UndertheOcean]

4. boring...seen it a million times

[BlooInBloo]

5. Our pattern completion abilities, and the information-theoretic redundancy of natural language....

Are both very well-known.

[Sebastian Doyle]

6. I can read it, but it gives me a fucking headache.

trnaslating form freper to enlgish can do taht to yuo.

[ZombieHorde]

7. I imagine the vast majority of English speaking adults can read that. nt

[Truth2Tell]

8. Agreed. nt

[jkshaw]

9. I've had my ability to read anguished English sharpened

more than I'd ever believed I could, just by reading comments on the Internet.

[nc4bo]

10. Seen this a few times around the net and it never fails to amaze me

what our brains can do.

I always feel like 1/2 of my mind reads it on autopilot and the other 1/2 can't believe how easy it is to read?

Tis cool.

[flor de jasmim]

11. It's faster reading than many of my university students' papers! Hmmm....

[Peace_Sells]

12. Wow.

Taht was aolt eeisar to raed tahn i tuohgt.

[femmocrat]

13. No problem! It looks just like my typing!

:)

[ColbertWatcher]

14. Only 55 out of 100? Hmm. n/t

[sam sarrha]

15. i have Aspergers Syndrome.. i believe it is often only important to OCD's with an attitude, if they

could understand it to spell it right and use it to try to humiliate me.. why bother.? pity the emotionally disturbed,

i have an IQ of 164 but am only functionally literate.. i have good verbal skills, but my syntax is mostly stream of thought, enhanced with spell check and a number of Thesauri

[Mike 03]

16. Great boost to my self esteem, because I can certainly read it, but I feel

bad that I have to stoop this low to feel good about myself.

[no_hypocrisy]

17. Isn't the OP the way that readers with dyslexia perceive words when they read?