Scinece Pvroes taht what we raed may not be waht we see

[tgpo]

It seems that science has proven that what we are reading my not be what we are seeing. Check it out

[lordsmurf]

Believe it or not, that was proven long, long ago.

To expand on it even more, that normally only works with serif fonts like Times and not sans-serif fonts like Arial. We were mostly trained to read serif fonts (like newspapers, books, etc) and not san-serif fonts.

This is often taught in basic courses in college that cover publishing layout and design.

Because these forums use san-serif Verdana, your topic title didn't work as well as the article text. Though it did work. AT first, I thought you were trying to be Tweety bird! I taught I taw a putty tat!

Words are read as a whole, not letter at a time. In fact, speed reading deals with reading phrases as a whole.

[pacmania_2001]

I've seen this before in high school when we had a university student come in and conduct some tests to try and prove his PhD thesis.

He was using a similar technique but his was designed to help dyslexic people be able to read because they actually understand the jumbled words better than the properly spelt version.

[tenders]

@tgpo

and i taught me spilling twas bad :P :P :P

[g_shocker182]

Unbelievable...that actually sounds correct...

[tgpo]

Yeah, it was wild when I read it on slashdot. I didn't even notice that the letters were jumbled until I finished reading the article.

[Gees]

[Hardcoreruss]

Thats quite good, true you can read it but not as quick.

[i_am_dave]

Can you imagine how hard it would be to write a parser to handle this?

[tgpo]

It took me a minute to read tops. Mainly becaue so much of the letter 'p' is cut off.

[SLICK RICK]

It took me a minute to read tops. Mainly becaue so much of the letter 'p' is cut off.

At first I thought the p was an n.

SLICK RICK

[Gees]

Yeah. Like tgpo's example and lordsmurf's comments, it's probably harder or easier depending on the font used.