Happy 100th Bloomsday

Posted by: Berlin Fritz on 16 June 2004

Count the F's in the following text:

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF-
IC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE
EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...(see below)



Managed it ? Scroll down only after you have counted
them, okay? Do you think there are three?


























how many ? 3?






Wrong, there are 6 !!--no joke.
Read it again.
The reasoning behind is further down.







The brain cannot process "OF".

Incredible or what ? Go back and look again!!

Anyone who counts all 6 "F's" on the first go is
a genius. Three is normal, four is quite rare.



Fritz Von Ulysses Big Grin
Posted on: 16 June 2004 by Tim Danaher
FUCK ME!

(one 'F' in that)...

Cheers,

Tim
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Posted on: 16 June 2004 by Bas V
I received this mail about two years ago and I was not a genius at the time. But now I counted 6 f's right away. Does this mean my bug is fixed? Hoorah, I am a genius!
Posted on: 16 June 2004 by Tarquin Maynard - Portly
What happens is tht the brain is very good at filtering out information that is not required. the word "of" is of very minor importance to a sentances meaning and so filtered out.

I counted 6 "f"s by reading the sentance backwards.

Try it, it works.

Regards

Mike

Spending money I don't have on things I don't need.
Posted on: 16 June 2004 by JonR
I counted 5 initially then realised there are 2 'OF's in the second line!

JonR
Posted on: 16 June 2004 by stevie d
This is a similar thing to the how many F's

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.

Strange but true

Steve