CarolAnn
02-19-2007, 09:09 AM
About 6 times a year, I get a variation of this:
I'm one of the 55. Are You?
fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too. Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
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.
What's hard to read about that? That's how I type every Monday morning!
Actually, when I first started getting back into office work, I hadn't typed since high school, about 14 years before. I was in a big room full of typewriters, taking a test for a newspaper job. There must have been 30 of us taking the test. After half a page I looked down and saw that my hands weren't on the HOME ROW! It looked like this:
gyjod od yjr yo,mr gpt s;; hppf ,rm yp vp,r yp yjr sof pg yjrot vpimytu/
I thought, what the heck! I can't possibly fix this, so I might as well freak everyone else out! I started "typing" about 200 WPM! While the others were laboring over the first page, I had mine filled up, flipped over and started down the other side! I heard groans all around me, and I knew they were thinking they were badly outclassed.
As we filed out of the room, we handed our sheets to the examiner. I watched his face when I handed him mine - and his eyebrows went WAY up!
I just smiled!
;D
I'm one of the 55. Are You?
fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too. Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
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.
What's hard to read about that? That's how I type every Monday morning!
Actually, when I first started getting back into office work, I hadn't typed since high school, about 14 years before. I was in a big room full of typewriters, taking a test for a newspaper job. There must have been 30 of us taking the test. After half a page I looked down and saw that my hands weren't on the HOME ROW! It looked like this:
gyjod od yjr yo,mr gpt s;; hppf ,rm yp vp,r yp yjr sof pg yjrot vpimytu/
I thought, what the heck! I can't possibly fix this, so I might as well freak everyone else out! I started "typing" about 200 WPM! While the others were laboring over the first page, I had mine filled up, flipped over and started down the other side! I heard groans all around me, and I knew they were thinking they were badly outclassed.
As we filed out of the room, we handed our sheets to the examiner. I watched his face when I handed him mine - and his eyebrows went WAY up!
I just smiled!
;D