Can you read this?
If you can, apparently this means your brain is 50% faster than those who cannot.
if yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid, too.
Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe tuo fo 100 anc.i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset 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 the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad it.
casa azahar 
Of course, the ironic thing about “I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt” is that this proves that spelling *is* important. If you had the wong letters in there, this wouldn’t work. You can scramble them up in the middle, but if you get the wrong start/end letters, or make any mistakes with which letters are in the word, it becomes incomprehensible.
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That’s a good point. You’d have to be able to spell badly in a very specific way in order for it not to matter. So why not just spell properly?
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Well, for me, spelling problems are always the whether or not there are multiple “s”s or “m”s in a word (or other letters) – which almost always occur in the middle of the word. So I guess I don’t need to worry about that anymore!
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ps. did you guys have to slow down for the last 3 words of the 2nd sentence, 1st paragraph? Those words don’t follow the rule – the first and last letters are reversed. I did actually have to slow down and puzzle them out. But it makes sense now as to why.
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I don’t remember if I had trouble with those 3 words. Does anybody else?
I know what you mean about double letters – I always have to think twice before writing ‘unnecessary’.
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Thats because it has so many unnecessary letters in it. *badum tish!*
I think it also helps that we read many sentences by context – so even though we only really read the first few words we can pretty much know what’s coming next. Afterall, most of the phrases that we use are fairly hackneyed.
Cool post Az!
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I enjoyed this, too. I have seen this sort of exercise before, and it never ceases to amaze me how well I can decipher what is meant to be said.
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They’re quite fun, even if I have to struggle a little more when they’re in English.
…maybe that’s just making it more fun 🙂
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