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Speed Reading

BADHABITBADHABIT Posts: 138
edited 2009-09-08 03:03 in General Discussion
I don't know how any of you reacted when reading the following, but when I did it seemed as if I could read it faster than normal text.
and of course...Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. said...
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I'm wondering if the Cmabrigde Uinervtisy study went on to see if reading rates were increased, then if a program was created to convert text into this form of writing.

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  • Clock LoopClock Loop Posts: 2,069
    edited 2009-09-06 06:42
    I had to read it twice to see what your talking about.

    Although this IS neat, it belongs in the sandbox.
  • Toby SeckshundToby Seckshund Posts: 2,027
    edited 2009-09-06 10:28
    As long as the first and last letters are correct and the word lenth is correct, the letters in the centre do not have to be right (but it help to speed up the reading)

    I type this way.

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  • HollyMinkowskiHollyMinkowski Posts: 1,398
    edited 2009-09-06 10:40
    I geuss tihs is why it's so hrad to poorfread docuemnts.
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  • James NewmanJames Newman Posts: 133
    edited 2009-09-06 15:52
    Not sure what it means, but I stumbled on most of the words that were screwed up. In Hollys post I read most of it fine except 'hrad' and 'poorfread'.
  • JavalinJavalin Posts: 892
    edited 2009-09-07 12:49
    The brain seems to read it correctly! Interesting how the brain work's hey?

    Several years ago there were adverts on the (London) Tube based on this.

    James
  • Erik FriesenErik Friesen Posts: 1,071
    edited 2009-09-07 14:26
    That is interesting that some have a more difficult time with it. I wonder if it depends on whether you learned to sight read or phonics?
  • James NewmanJames Newman Posts: 133
    edited 2009-09-07 14:30
    I dunno, I definitely thought 'poor-feed' on that one. Maybe this is why I can't read too quick?
  • HumanoidoHumanoido Posts: 5,770
    edited 2009-09-07 15:08
    Why don't you provide the links to the Cambridge University study and perhaps with the proper search wording, a program can be found on the internet. What would you call this English pseudo language? TYPO? It would not be too difficult to develop a program to exhibit these language changes provided there are string handling capabilities in the programming language. The algorithm would keep the same word character length but have rules to juxtapose and substitute characters. That would simplify programming by precluding a database of all English words. It would be an interesting experiment. I think one could also write this sample code using an ascii-number algorithm and a Basic Stamp or Propeller chip.

    humanoido
  • LeonLeon Posts: 7,620
    edited 2009-09-07 15:22
    Javalin said...
    The brain seems to read it correctly! Interesting how the brain work's hey?

    Several years ago there were adverts on the (London) Tube based on this.

    James

    I think that was the Speedwriting shorthand system.

    Leon

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  • heichheich Posts: 26
    edited 2009-09-07 15:37
    I think my brain has something wrong...

    Everytime i see that kind of legends (p.e. National Geographic advertisements) it gives me headaches.
    I prefer not to read them

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    Hector

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  • SeariderSearider Posts: 290
    edited 2009-09-08 02:57
    While an interesting trick, it would sure make finding things with a search engine a challenge.


    Years ago I took the Evelyn Wood Speed Reading course. They taught us was how to entire lines of text without looking at individual words. Just like reading a word without looking at the individual letters. ·Took quite a bit of practice but you could read incredibly fast once you got the hang of it.

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    Post Edited (Searider) : 9/8/2009 3:03:22 AM GMT
  • P!-RoP!-Ro Posts: 1,189
    edited 2009-09-08 03:03
    I wonder what would happen if computers could understand language in the same way...

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