Hwo coem yuo cna raed thsi?

Question

Daer to knwo!

Wiennr taesk ti lla!0!

serach ppl, yuo era giong ot heav ot od brtte thna thta!0!

nad pu ot nwo yuo thuohgt yuo rdae whti yruo eyse uhu

I geuss I cna wreti leki tish fmro wno no!0!

Answer 1

I believe it's called "gestalt thinking".

People look for words in the series of letters they look at, instead of reading each letter and making a word out of it. I.e. they look for a "whole" rather than each part when they look at something. The letters don't make up words in that order, but our minds can match those letters with words we know and it makes sense.

Answer 2

It's not too surprising if you're keen to the ways in which the human brain works. People are accustomed to thinking in their own minds in a linear fashion, so they tend to assume that is how their brains work as well. But can you imagine how inefficient that would be - if each brain cell was just waiting in a chain millions of cells long?

Instead, your brain has a marked tendancy to consider many things simultanously, if not everything at once. It isn't generally trained to look at first a, then b, then c, but just at whatever makes the most difference. This is a pretty handy survival trait: if you notice the big things first, you can probably avoid disasters long enough to pay attention to details.

So it goes with reading. While any amount of jumbling DOES slow reading down and require more processing time (link 1), some transpositions are much more significant than others. For example, I note that even you included all the spaces... even if nothing else is changed, omitting or moving spaces can make sentances very difficult to read. Following the spaces, next in siginificance is the initial and final letter each word. Compared to these two things, everything else (orderwise) pales in significance.

Which suggests a lot about how your brain processes written language. It sees a word first as an intrinsic grouping, then it emphasizes first and last letters, then all the other letters in a word have a registered presence, and finally there is a preferred order for all those internal letters.

Consider grdean and dnegar. These actually contain all the same letters, but most people will probably process them as different words: garden and danger. This just underscores how some things are more important in a word than letter order. Throw in some context and you can skew the interpretation one way or the other (with the help of other parts of the brain that are also simultanously handling meaning and relevance).

You can actually do the same thing with whole sentances and some people (with practice) can do the same with entire paragraphs and pages. A sort of skimming can 'see' everything simultaneously and pick out the more important words and concepts from the entire whole. As with the word jumbles, some language constructs (and even whole languages) are more conducive to this process than others. And don't expect to catch too many spelling errors when you're looking at less and less of the actual text!

It works in the other direction as well. Most people can read words with the bottom half covered up. One can accumulate enough stimuli for your brain to draw its own conclusions about what's in front of you.

The staggering part of all this is the consideration that your brain does this not just with letters, but with EVERYTHING. If you look at a jumbled word and still see the meaning, how much of what you THINK you are percieving about the world around you is really just gaps being filled in by your brain? This is the kind of thing it is difficult for anyone to know...

Answer 3

Well its a neurological question. The brain is very good at finding shortcuts. When a person is used to reading a lot, they actually stop having to discern each individual letter, instead they can look as the basic 'shape' of a word, the 1st letter perhaps, and fill in the rest. If a person was reading very quickly, they might not even notice that you had switched the letters around.

Answer 4

The human brain does not "read" everything that it looks at. As long as the first and last letter are in the correct order, the remaining letters can be scrambled in any order and the brain will still be able to interpret what is written.

Answer 5

I can read this because it's not that hard. All of your words have the last letter before the middle word or in between the words.
Basically, what you're saying is, "How come you can read this? Dare to know! Winner takes it all!0! Search ppl, you are going to have to do better than that!0!"

Answer 6

The human mind does not need to see the correct sequencing of the letters to understand the intention of the meaningful word. It only needs to see the he correct first, middle, an the end and t hen it fills in the gap in between to decide the intent of the world is.

Answer 7

I think the brain has some sort of thing where it automatically looks for meanings in things so we look at something with the letters all messed up and attatch the meaning that seems the most likely. Its some sort of .... brain... thing.

Answer 8

winner takes it all you say? Well, I can read that because the brain, when reading, doesn't fully look over every word, it simply recognizes the first couple and the last couple, and figures it out by itself. Pretty amazing, huh?

Answer 9

your brain is basically like a computer, it sees all the right letters and unscrambles them to find a logical order (like spell check). your brain just works so fast you aren't conscious of the way it functions.

Answer 10

Eye cn redd itt cuz eye cnt spl ethr.

Love and blessings Don