post written by: Marc
Can you read this?
Here’s a goodie for you:
Cna yuo raed tihs? Suteids sohw taht olny aoubt 55 prcenet of plepoe can (atculley trheer is no scuh sudty). I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. Tihs sohws us the phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid. Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mtaetr waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are in, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer are in the rghit pclae. The rset of the txet 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 isntaed rades the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? Yaeh and we awlyas tghuhot slpelnig was ipmorantt!
Pretty interesting… I’m not exactly sure who wrote it. I originally saw this a few months ago inserted as the test blog entry in a fresh installation of the Joomla content management system (so maybe a Joomla programmer wrote it). Now it seems to be spreading around in chain mail as well… thanks Ash ;-) I looked into it far enough to confirm that there is absolutely no such study on this topic at an English university. Anyway, it was interesting enough to post. Okay, now everyone quickly send this to your favorite English teacher… I mean… Oaky, now erveoyne, qciukly sned tihs to yuor fvaortie Eginslh tahceer.
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12 Comments
December 1st, 2006 at 11:28 pm
The study is weird and incredible at the same time. I’ve known about this study for a few years now after it was done at Stanford, but it’s still a great study and proves that the human brain uses recognition more than anything.
September 6th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
This study is awesome! I wish they made books like this.
April 9th, 2009 at 11:13 pm
This is sooooooooooooo kool.
September 26th, 2009 at 2:56 am
AWesOm!!!
March 24th, 2010 at 5:00 am
It is kinda awesome, but if im not mistaken. I have found atleast 3 miss spelling in the text. Its kinda anoying
April 22nd, 2011 at 3:10 pm
can you raed tihs if you can tlel me it’s so aomewse
i am not kdidnig rbloox is cool too aynawys i’ve been wnodrenig if ’s can be in a dfifeernt pcale lkie don’t = dn’ot pelase rpley to me!
December 5th, 2011 at 4:26 am
Actually, english is not my first language. Croatian is, and I was perfectly able to read this. I was surprised.
December 10th, 2011 at 2:37 pm
Thsi is cool, I nvere tuoght that I cuold raed thsi.
February 24th, 2012 at 8:13 am
This is pretty cool…
April 22nd, 2012 at 11:16 pm
Neat. I can read it!
June 23rd, 2012 at 6:31 am
Well, I am a teacher of English. In Latvia
Will try this on my students 
Sure of the same good result 
February 2nd, 2013 at 6:05 am
Wow, this is amazing. But it’s still good spelling the words correctly. Correct spelling dignifies a language, wrong spellings humiliates it. well, but for the sake of laughter and fun, hmm, i like it. Teh Gyu taht ivnented tihs soulhd kepe it up!!!!!
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