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CaliforniaPeggy

(149,525 posts)
Wed Jul 14, 2021, 01:13 AM Jul 2021

Here's a trick of Doctor Dementia to test your skills...


Can you meet these 2 challenges?

We've seen this with the letters out of order, but this is with numbers. Good example of a Brain Study: If you can read this OUT LOUD you have a strong mind. And better than that: Alzheimer's is a long long, way down the road before it ever gets anywhere near you.
7H15 M3554G3

53RV35 7O PR0V3

H0W 0UR M1ND5 C4N
>
> D0 4M4Z1NG 7H1NG5!
>
> 1MPR3551V3 7H1NG5!
>
> 1N 7H3 B3G1NN1NG
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> 17 WA5 H4RD BU7
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> N0W, 0N 7H15 LIN3
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> Y0UR M1ND 1S
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> R34D1NG 17 4U70M471C4LLY
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> W17H0U7 3V3N
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> 7H1NK1NG 4B0U7 17,
>
> B3 PROUD! 0NLY
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> C3R741N P30PL3 C4N
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> R3AD 7H15!
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> PL3453 F0RW4RD 1F
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> U C4N R34D 7H15.
>
>
> To my 'selected' strange-minded friends: If you can read the following paragraph, why not forward it on to your friends with 'yes' in the subject line? I'd like to think only great minds can read this. This is weird, but interesting!
>
> If you can raed this, you have a sgtrane mnid, too.
>
> Can you raed this? Olny 55 people out of 100 can.
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> I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in what oerdr the ltteres in a word are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is that the frsit and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it whotuit a pboerlm. This is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the word as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! If you can raed this forwrad it.
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Here's a trick of Doctor Dementia to test your skills... (Original Post) CaliforniaPeggy Jul 2021 OP
I guess I am okay? Had no problem reading all of it. But the editor in me was niyad Jul 2021 #1
+1 2naSalit Jul 2021 #14
Lol, Peggy SheltieLover Jul 2021 #2
Can't wait to see the spelling nazis react. littlemissmartypants Jul 2021 #3
I'm very certain my internal organs will fail me long before my brain ... Hugh_Lebowski Jul 2021 #4
Read it with no problem but NJCher Jul 2021 #5
Thank you the correction there! GeoWilliam750 Jul 2021 #6
-- NJCher Jul 2021 #9
I know, right? 2naSalit Jul 2021 #15
No problem here, but.... SergeStorms Jul 2021 #7
I love the jumble, too NJCher Jul 2021 #10
I'm hooked on deciphering cryptograms in the wnylib Jul 2021 #12
I always liked the Jumble because... 2naSalit Jul 2021 #16
I read it. ShazzieB Jul 2021 #8
Mind Blown! I read it all the way through, with comprehension amb123 Jul 2021 #11
The same ability that allows us wnylib Jul 2021 #13
This might sound strange but I have always been good at reading jumbled words. Ka-Dinh Oy Jul 2021 #17
W41T W84T 1ph... Layzeebeaver Jul 2021 #18
Strangely, read it without hestitation. Duppers Jul 2021 #19
We are all learning to read auto correct and voice to text Walleye Jul 2021 #20
Why read it out loud? Had no problem reading it, otherwise... question everything Jul 2021 #21
easy peasy Bird Lady Jul 2021 #22
Amazing! djm5971 Jul 2021 #23
Taht was fun & esay! KS Toronado Aug 2021 #24
 

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
4. I'm very certain my internal organs will fail me long before my brain ...
Wed Jul 14, 2021, 01:29 AM
Jul 2021

My liver in particular, but kidneys and heart are definite candidates

NJCher

(35,621 posts)
5. Read it with no problem but
Wed Jul 14, 2021, 01:29 AM
Jul 2021

Decades of teaching English will do that for you. I shudder when I think of some of the writing I had to work with.

Errr, with which I had to work.

GeoWilliam750

(2,521 posts)
6. Thank you the correction there!
Wed Jul 14, 2021, 03:21 AM
Jul 2021

So much more pleasant to read.

Poor grammar is something up with which I shall not put!

SergeStorms

(19,186 posts)
7. No problem here, but....
Wed Jul 14, 2021, 03:26 AM
Jul 2021

I'm a 'Jumble' fanatic, a crossword addict, and will try any new word problem test on the planet.

It's been a passion since I was a kid, so I'm not sure if it's as good a thing as they say it is. It seems a bit obsessive at times.

wnylib

(21,345 posts)
12. I'm hooked on deciphering cryptograms in the
Wed Jul 14, 2021, 03:59 AM
Jul 2021

newspaper. I've been doing them for so long that sometimes I can read whole phrases quickly, by the size of the word and the patterns of the letters. Those are fairly easy ones, though.

2naSalit

(86,332 posts)
16. I always liked the Jumble because...
Wed Jul 14, 2021, 04:30 AM
Jul 2021

I'm dyslexic and when I look at the letters, they arrange themselves and I can see the word right away. The whole puzzle usually takes me as long as it takes to write the letters in the spaces.


ShazzieB

(16,281 posts)
8. I read it.
Wed Jul 14, 2021, 03:32 AM
Jul 2021

No real problems, but it took ne a little longer than with "regular" English. I'm normally a speed reader, but not with this!

wnylib

(21,345 posts)
13. The same ability that allows us
Wed Jul 14, 2021, 04:07 AM
Jul 2021

to read those messages can work against us in some circumstances. For example, if you witness an accident or a crime, you can end up describing what you expected to see rather than what actually happened. Your mind orders things according to what it knows or believes. A good witness sees only what is there, without filling in gaps or expectations.

Ka-Dinh Oy

(11,686 posts)
17. This might sound strange but I have always been good at reading jumbled words.
Wed Jul 14, 2021, 04:41 AM
Jul 2021

I actually think it could be my dyslexia that makes it easy.

Duppers

(28,117 posts)
19. Strangely, read it without hestitation.
Wed Jul 14, 2021, 05:49 AM
Jul 2021

But I know I'm losing my marbles/my short-term memory. I'm concerned but husband's seriously worried about me!

At this rate, I'll be ready for "memory care" by age 85.

question everything

(47,437 posts)
21. Why read it out loud? Had no problem reading it, otherwise...
Wed Jul 14, 2021, 03:06 PM
Jul 2021

Last edited Wed Jul 14, 2021, 06:50 PM - Edit history (1)

(have to edit, my iPad has a mind of its own)

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