Thread: The ordering of the letters doesn't matter

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

In a letter to New Scientist in the 29 May 1999 issue Graham Rawlinson commented on research [1] by Kourosh Saberi and David Perrott and illustrated how randomising letters in the middle of words has little effect on its understandability.

His research for a PhD at Nottingham University had shown that skilled readers could read and understand entire pages filled with text in which letters within words had been swapped around.

He demonstrated this with the following paragraphs in his letter:

"This is easy to denmtrasote. In a puiltacibon of New Scnieitst you could ramdinose all the letetrs, keipeng the first two and last two the same, and reibadailty would hadrly be aftcfeed. My ansaylis did not come to much beucase the thoery at the time was for shape and senqeuce retigcionon. Saberi's work sugsegts we may have some pofrweul palrlael prsooscers at work.

The resaon for this is suerly that idnetiyfing coentnt by paarllel prseocsing speeds up regnicoiton. We only need the first and last two letetrs to spot chganes in meniang.

well, for reading materials it may not matter, but for SEO stuffs, it does...
graet aritcle tohugh

I have seen something similar to this before - it is amazing how fast I can read it - almost as if it takes hardly any more effort than reading normal text.

i read that a few years ago

still impressiv though

the human brain is really amazing

I have read this somewhere on the net, and the first time I saw it
was really made me amaze. Didn't know that humans had an
ability to read those twisted words

Originally Posted by racheldarcy

I have seen something similar to this before - it is amazing how fast I can read it - almost as if it takes hardly any more effort than reading normal text.

I remember the first time I came across this, I was reading it and did not even notice the words were messed up till about half way through.

I can read it, but as I face the wrong spelling I get a short pause. At first I thought you made spelling mistake on the first post