The Human Mind

[Melleth]

Cna yuo raed tihs?
Olny 55% of plepoe 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!
fi yuo cna raed tihs, palce it in yuor porfiel.

 

[Marcena]

Sewet.

 

[elliotbay]

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You only get to the good stfuf aubot hwaflay dwon, whree he dcpomoeses that (or one lkie it) senntcee by senctnee.

W'thas new to me for that paagparrh is the scoend secntene, wchih I fnid hilghy spuesct. It seems way too low if y'uore olny takinlg about esgilnh serkepas, and too high if y'orue tliakng aoubt the wlohe wlrod. Do mroe tahn 55% of the wro'lds pioloaptun read Elingsh fulelnty? Of cusroe, "Can you raed tihs" was not eevn razodenimd with the aarioprtppe rule.

If yr'oue iesrneettd in sneeig how you do with atirrraby text, I jsut worte a llttie wgdeit at hjdsfi/xm.h:ts.iopeyl.hu./ce/rneu/hp~mugfotp

http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/~mattd/Cmabrigde/

You only get to the good stuff about halfway down, where he decomposes that (or one like it) sentence by sentence.

What's new to me for that paragraph is the second sentence, which I find highly suspect. It seems way too low if you're only talking about english speakers, and too high if you're talking about the whole world. Do more than 55% of the world's population read English fluently? Of course, "Can you read this" was not even randomized with the appropriate rule.

If you're interested in seeing how you do with arbitrary text, I just wrote a little widget at http://ix.cs.uoregon.edu/~jimmyh/shuffle.php

edit: Here's one I found that treats punctuation as word barriers. I counted punctuation as part of a word if it fell between the first and last letters.