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Cool Mind Test! Canyou read this?

Duane C. JohnsonDuane C. Johnson Posts: 955
edited 2013-10-16 08:41 in General Discussion
Here's a trick of Doctor Dementia to test your skills ...
Can you meet this challenge?

I've seen this with the letters out of order, but this is the first time I've seen it with numbers.
Good example of a Brain Study: If you can read this OUT LOUD you have a strong mind.
And better than that: Alzheimer's is a long long, way down the road before it ever gets anywhere near you.

7H15 M3554G3 53RV35 7O PR0V3 H0W 0UR M1ND5 C4N D0 4M4Z1NG 7H1NG5! 1MPR3551V3 7H1NG5! 1N 7H3 B3G1NN1NG 17 WA5 H4RD BU7 N0W, 0N 7H15 LIN3 Y0UR M1ND 1S R34D1NG 17 4U70M471C4LLY W17H 0U7 3V3N 7H1NK1NG 4B0U7 17, B3 PROUD! 0NLY C3R741N P30PL3 C4N R3AD 7H15.
PL3453 F0RW4RD 1F U C4N R34D 7H15.

To my 'selected' strange-minded friends: Only great minds can
read this. This is weird, but interesting!

If you can raed this, you have a sgtrane mnid, too.

Can you raed this? Olny 55 people out of 100 can.

I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in what oerdr the ltteres in a word are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is that the frsit and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it whotuit a pboerlm. This is bcuseaethe huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the word as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! If you can raed this forwrad it.

Prety cool huh?

Duane J

Comments

  • ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
    edited 2013-10-15 19:46
    I'm persimsed.
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2013-10-15 19:50
    That last example is one reason my proof-reading skills are so abysmal. My fingers are dyslexic, but the transposed letters still look okay to me.

    -Phil
  • mindrobotsmindrobots Posts: 6,506
    edited 2013-10-15 20:25
    The waist is a terrible thing to mind.
  • Peter KG6LSEPeter KG6LSE Posts: 1,383
    edited 2013-10-15 20:58
    so what you are saying is that Really in the end We have one Heck of a CRC reed-solomon in our heads ..
  • kwinnkwinn Posts: 8,697
    edited 2013-10-15 22:00
    I'm not sure if I have a strange mind or I am just adapting to atrocious spelling but after taking a bit of time puzzling out the first three or four words the rest was pretty easy.
  • ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
    edited 2013-10-15 22:05
    kwinn wrote: »
    I'm not sure if I have a strange mind or I am just adapting to atrocious spelling....

    Hanging out on this forum helps to develop both.
  • localrogerlocalroger Posts: 3,451
    edited 2013-10-15 22:43
    It's basically image recognition at the word rather than character level.
  • kwinnkwinn Posts: 8,697
    edited 2013-10-15 22:55
    ElectricAye wrote: »
    Hanging out on this forum helps to develop both.

    Good point.
  • kwinnkwinn Posts: 8,697
    edited 2013-10-15 22:59
    localroger wrote: »
    It's basically image recognition at the word rather than character level.

    True, and that is something people develop in order to read at reasonably high speeds.
  • GadgetmanGadgetman Posts: 2,436
    edited 2013-10-15 23:45
    Duane C. Johnson wrote: »
    7H15 M3554G3 53RV35 7O PR0V3 H0W 0UR M1ND5 C4N D0 4M4Z1NG 7H1NG5! 1MPR3551V3 7H1NG5! 1N 7H3 B3G1NN1NG 17 WA5 H4RD BU7 N0W, 0N 7H15 LIN3 Y0UR M1ND 1S R34D1NG 17 4U70M471C4LLY W17H 0U7 3V3N 7H1NK1NG 4B0U7 17, B3 PROUD! 0NLY C3R741N P30PL3 C4N R3AD 7H15.
    PL3453 F0RW4RD 1F U C4N R34D 7H15.

    Actually, there's a typo in that 'text'...
    There's "W17H 0U7", but it should have been "W17H0U7"...
    Also, I'm so very ashamed to admit that I could read it.

    Two points;
    1. Most posts here are actually pretty decent. Even those who has poor English skills seems to make an effort.
    2. Anyone trying to write '1337' on any forum I do any moderation on would have been banned so fast that they'd still be wondering what to replace the '?' with...
  • Ahle2Ahle2 Posts: 1,179
    edited 2013-10-16 03:45
    After struggling with the first few words, I read the remaining text almost at normal reading speed. I was amazed that I was able to read it so easily. I seldom excel at new things. I wonder if it would be easier or harder to do this in Swedish. I have read that a secondary language uses different parts of the brain to some extent. I wonder if that might have helped in this case?!

    Does this prove that I'm crazy?

    /Johannes
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2013-10-16 03:58
    This sort of thing has been circulating for years. I never heard of anyone who could not read it.
  • Duane C. JohnsonDuane C. Johnson Posts: 955
    edited 2013-10-16 04:00
    Hi kwinn;
    kwinn wrote: »
    I'm not sure if I have a strange mind or I am just adapting to atrocious spelling but after taking a bit of time puzzling out the first three or four words the rest was pretty easy.
    Ya, same with me. At first everything looked like gibberish. In just a few seconds I got the first word then all of a sudden everything else seemed to fall in place.

    I'm old school and try my best to keep the spelling correct.
    Maybe the future of good spelling only requires that the "Shape" of a word needs to be maintained.

    CUL8TER
    Duane J
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2013-10-16 04:43
    I think I have just realized why this "cool mind test" is so impressive to people now a days.

    In the good old days we used to write by hand. You know, with a pen or pencil on sheets of paper. Crude by modern standards but effective. Of course every bodies hand writing was different and ranged from extremely neat and orderly to totally illegible scrawl. Somehow we managed to do quite a good job of reading each others handwriting. Nobody ever thought that it, was cool that we could do that it was just something we did.

    Today, no body writes by hand and we hardly ever have to read handwriting. Everything is printed or on screen in very nice legible fonts. So it comes as a bit of a surprise when people discover examples like we have seen here and realize they can read it.

    Still, shows how amazing the human brain is.
  • prof_brainoprof_braino Posts: 4,313
    edited 2013-10-16 05:02
    I wonder if this be good enough to confuse machines? I know my kids and their friends use it when texting to confuse parents. Its fun to pretend its unreadable.

    For me, I leave spelling to the spell checker. Until we agree to spell correctly (phonetically) its not worth the effort.
  • ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
    edited 2013-10-16 05:45
    prof_braino wrote: »
    ...Until we agree to spell correctly (phonetically) its not worth the effort.

    Would that be the Arkansas phonetically or the Brooklyn phonetically or the Yorkshire phonetically or the Cleveland phonetically or the Kiwi phonetically or the.............???


    :)
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2013-10-16 06:46
    Braino,
    I leave spelling to the spell checker. Until we agree to spell correctly (phonetically) its not worth the effort.
    Inn that case yew ah going too right gibberish and your knot going two no. :)

    I think it is very discourteous to make ones readers work harder than they should have to by being lazy and sloppy in ones writing. Care with spelling, punctuation and grammar smooths the flow of information from one mind to another. If ones ideas have any value at all they deserve framing nicely.
  • Beau SchwabeBeau Schwabe Posts: 6,566
    edited 2013-10-16 06:54
    I'll be sure and apply this to my code commentary from this point forward. :-)
  • ctwardellctwardell Posts: 1,716
    edited 2013-10-16 07:08
    prof_braino wrote: »
    Until we agree to spell correctly (phonetically) its not worth the effort.

    <SOAPBOX>

    That's just plain lazy. If a person can't be bothered to learn the language correctly there is no need to communicate with them.

    This is similar to the new idea in teaching math that the correct answer isn't as important as how the student approached the problem.

    We need some absolutes methods of communication or we don't have a functional society.

    </SOAPBOX>

    C.W.
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    edited 2013-10-16 07:20
    Not sure if this is a valid dementia or IQ test. It's certainly interesting, but not new. I haven't heard of anyone not being able to understand it.
  • Alexander (Sandy) HapgoodAlexander (Sandy) Hapgood Posts: 360
    edited 2013-10-16 07:35
    Maybe I'll do "Mrery Chsmraits" in Christmas lights this year and see who notices!
  • Matt GillilandMatt Gilliland Posts: 1,406
    edited 2013-10-16 07:37
    Really in the end We have one Heck of a CRC reed-solomon in our heads
    +1!
    -MattG
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2013-10-16 08:29
    ctwardell,
    This is similar to the new idea in teaching math that the correct answer isn't as important as how the student approached the problem.
    How new an idea is that? It was certainly how we were assessed in maths examinations back in...well a very long time ago.

    I think it is quite reasonable. If you spend a few pages showing how you tackled a problem that demonstrates you have a grasp of the techniques you were supposed to have learned. Clearly a little mistake along the way can end up with an incorrect result. That's no big deal and is only worth marking down a few percent.

    Conversly you could just write down the correct answer, that tells the examiner nothing.
  • ctwardellctwardell Posts: 1,716
    edited 2013-10-16 08:38
    Heater. wrote: »
    ctwardell,

    How new an idea is that? It was certainly how we were assessed in maths examinations back in...well a very long time ago.

    I think it is quite reasonable. If you spend a few pages showing how you tackled a problem that demonstrates you have a grasp of the techniques you were supposed to have learned. Clearly a little mistake along the way can end up with an incorrect result. That's no big deal and is only worth marking down a few percent.

    Conversly you could just write down the correct answer, that tells the examiner nothing.

    I'm not talking about higher level multiple step problems as much as letting elementary school students get by with saying 2 + 2 = 5 because they sold you a good story on why that is their answer.

    C.W.
  • mindrobotsmindrobots Posts: 6,506
    edited 2013-10-16 08:41
    Now days, it's not a matter of show your work for partial credit, it's that you approached the problem with good self-esteem while still recognizing and appreciating the diversity of your classmates except of course for those that understand the concepts and have the correct answer because they are obviously flaunting their knowledge at the expense of the class feeling.
  • GadgetmanGadgetman Posts: 2,436
    edited 2013-10-16 08:41
    Beau Schwabe (Parallax) wrote: »
    I'll be sure and apply this to my code commentary from this point forward. :-)

    First rule of Programmers:
    "If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand"...
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