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If you are fascinated with perceptual tricks and brain games just remain on this page for a little bit longer. Sit back and enjoy a very interesting experience.

Can you raed tihs?

If you can raed tihs you rpereesnt 55 percnet of the ppoultaion. Do you rmeember the tgnuoe-rloling tset in shcool? In taht csae if you cuold rlol yuor tnouge you had the tougne-rloling gnee. Myabe not, psosibly it was a laerned rseposne rtaher tahn one taht was gneetiaclly dteremined.

So if you are one of 55 out of 100 peploe who are raednig tihs atricle jsut fnie, do you hvae the usncrabmled wrod gnee? Or is yuor barin caabple of laernnig ptaterns qiuclky?

If you were not able to read the previous paragraphs – maybe you can study them for a little bit longer. Give your brain time to learn.

Take the time.

Tihs fnid is not new - it culraiectd aurnod the Itenernt six yraes ago. Rtnceley, I rivceeed the eiaml aigan. The wodner and fsntaociian hit as it did bcak tehn.

Ins’t it amazing?

The onarigil eamil satetd:
[Collected on the Internet, 2003]

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteres are at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a tatol mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.

One theory kicking around is that the brain can determine the sentence pattern as long as the words are not too long and overly scrambled.

As an example, let’s look at some simple sentences with minimal scramble.

It was a ncie day in Jnue. The florwes wree coolrful and the btuterflies wree mnay. It was a day for a wlak in a maedow.

Now if we create a more complicated sentence and use a higher degree of scramble, the degree of ease in reading changes.

Wlhie the tonruudhes eoepratavd mrtsuioe owlhrevmeed the hevanes, the dgeere of tirouml on the penlat meliilutpd beonyd the seulatipcons of mnkanid.

Remember that the amount of scramble and recognition of a word is similar to how our spell checkers work on our computers. If you misspell outrageously, your spell checker does not have a chance at recognition; whereas, a few letters mixed up does not pose a problem.

The brain can unscramble up to a point. Here is a great link to play around with scrambling. Go ahead and play with your brain. Who knows maybe you are doing some good for yourself. Who said only muscles need exercise?

Word Scrambler Link