Can you count like a genius?

Undercoverguy

Test your eyes.

Count every "F" in the following text:

"Finished files are the result of years of scientific study combined with the experience of years...."

So how many did you get?

Make your guess then Click Here !


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LadyJ

wow i'm a genius!

OY

I am no genius!
Or am i just an idiot?
That is cool though..

Shabadu

18! I r teh w!nnor.

gaui3d0pnbz86o

pretty easy, also should could not be count?

Squirrel

I must be a real genius, I counted 6, but left out some of the "F"s. How odd

Daelus

That is interesting. I only counted 3!

4Xcut

That's cool. 6 first time. Didn't even read with my finger or notin'

JackKelly

hmm. I got 5? What does that make me?

MrPinK

TimAy wrote:

hmm. I got 5? What does that make me?

Special

Rhyme

6! In your face Harvard...

OY

Daelus wrote:

That is interesting. I only counted 3!

Good man, one other person willing to stand up and say yes, i may be stupid!

Lets get retarded in here!

sionnach

"Your a Genius!!"

well he clearly isn't

Smellyirishman

A genius maybe.
A savant, no.

Rabies

Wow, lessons in counting, grammer and spelling all in one.
My life is complete

JohnCleary

I'm a genius... read it backwards

Shabadu

suineg a m'I?

Lump

6... I'm Great.

John

mp3guy

6, looks like theres alot of genius's,

Waltons

It would appear that the brain can process "of". I got 6 as well

angelofdeath

i got 3

briano

Sorry Geniuses, There is only one 'F'.

There are five 'f's though...

Tar.Aldarion

angelofdeath wrote:

i got 3

hehe if some1 askes you to count the amount of f's you be careful like

rugbug86

6 - oh yeah!

PHB

I got 5 aswell
Processed the ofs until the last one when i seemed to trail off.
I guess that makes me a genius who can't concentrate for that long

Pythia

It's cos you read 'of' as 'ov' because that's how you pronounce it, so you don't count it.

Lump

I counted it.... cause the question was "How many f's are in this sentence"

Hence when I saw of.... I counted one f.... Not rocket science.

John

Larianne

I counted 4... my brain could process one of the 'of's but not the other too. How strange.. must have got brainier while readig the sentance!! :rolleyes:

angelofdeath

it's quite cool, if you look at the sentence, the F's that the dumber of us only saw are very loud and sharp, and the f's in the of's (pronounced as said 'ov') are kinda mellower (sp?) sounding so when we're asked to count the f's we don't read the letters one by one but the whole words

those who counted 6, how many times did you look over the sentence? i read it once

it's purely a trick, it has no bearing on how intelligent you are

Tar.Aldarion

just once but i like looked at the words!
it's not because it's a soft f it's because it's the word 'of' which people will mentally skip over due to familiarity,people just don't automatically go oh of nothing there,they skip by it without reading it while their mind does process it.

it's like that thing they did on brainiac where the showed you a paragraph with the letters of all the words jumbled up(with the first and last letter of each word being correct).there were no words yet you had no trouble reading the paragraph due to your mind processing words that you have seen before and are similar etc. essentially it was like the letters were not jumbled and i thought it was cool!

Lump

angelofdeath wrote:

those who counted 6, how many times did you look over the sentence? i read it once

it's purely a trick, it has no bearing on how intelligent you are

Once.

John

angelofdeath

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

it's like that thing they did on brainiac where the showed you a paragraph with the letters of all the words jumbled up(with the first and last letter of each word being correct).there were no words yet you had no trouble reading the paragraph due to your mind processing words that you have seen before and are similar etc. essentially it was like the letters were not jumbled and i thought it was cool!

yeah i seen that, that was pretty cool alright

Tar.Aldarion

angelofdeath wrote:

yeah i seen that, that was pretty cool alright

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

Hell ya

Lump

you scuk. Waht a good exmalpe tohugh.

John

Tar.Aldarion

Lump wrote:

you scuk. Waht a good exmalpe tohugh.

John

i dnot scuk! jhon

Rhyme

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

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

Hell ya

I love that, someone has it in their sig too.

Its an ejnoyblee ramble in the hmaun mnid

Ozzy

****e! I wanted to feel unique and special but I only got three. I'll go stand over with the other dumbasses...

Daelus

Join us!

I read about that jumbled up letters thing in the newspaper a while ago,
very interesting.

Le Rack

its not that hard to just get the six first time off... is it?

gobby

Genius I am

*Angel*

6 :d

Tar.Aldarion

Rhyme wrote:

I love that, someone has it in their sig too.

Its an ejnoyblee ramble in the hmaun mnid

we could make a new language...and publish a dictionary ....and all the meanings would be jubmled up too.....

SouperComputer

6...hmmmm

iornman

i got 4..whatever that means

MrJoeSoap

If you liked that try this. I saw it a while back in a magazine and it worked on me, so I drew it up quickly in paint there. Don't know if it will work or not though.

Basically, read the attachment.

There are two 'the's' in the sentence

Tar.Aldarion

nearly worked but i was too carefull as i knew there ws a trick

MrJoeSoap

Yeah that doesn't help.

Tar.Aldarion

MrJoeSoap wrote:

Yeah that doesn't help.

what?