Count the number of F’s in the following text:
FINISHED FILES ARE THE
RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC
STUDY COMBINED WITH THE
EXPERIENCE OF YEARS
Managed it?
Three?
Wrong, there are six — no joke!
Read again!
The reasoning is further down…
The brain cannot process the word “OF”.
13 replies on “Quick Eye Exam…”
I counted Six.
Is there a catch? I had no problems counting six the first time.
Voracious Blog Reader
i showed this text to 10 persons… and none of them could come up with the number 6..
so I guess u r unique
I counted six too. So, VBR is not unique.
well..that’s bcos we pronounce ‘of’ as ‘ov’ 🙂
good, Amit 🙂
Yes.Ankur is correct. Coz’ we tend to read rather than counting the letters though we know we have to really count the F’s. In the process, we miss out. It shows that we are not kids. I am sure 10 out of 10 kids can count correct.
Good one.
:))thanks Augustin for the theory….
Amit and Voracious… i hope u both also agree to this theory
I had to read twice to count six.Good one.
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Amit and Voracious… i hope u both also agree to this theory
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What ?
You call me a kid? Duhh ! Or are you implying that I counted the Fs??? FFFFFFFFFFFFFF……. Couldn’t it be pure intelligence :p
Voracious Blog Reader
😀 it could be one of the 2 reasons or maybe even both… after all infancy and intelligence are not mutually exclusive
Wow, you are so so so so grown up !!!
Lol.
Voracious Blog Reader
got 5 of six too groggy to notice scientiFic
i know about brains word processing capabilities though
good, Prax 🙂