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Penguin13 Offline
#1 Posted: Fri, Sep 12 2003, 8:12 AM EST
Joined: 07-26-2002
Posts: 1,546
Friday Brain teaser:

Count the "F's" in the following text:

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...
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Managed it ? Scroll down only after you have counted them, okay?
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Do you think there are three?
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Wrong, there are 6 !!--no joke.
Read it again.


The reasoning behind is 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.

I got this as an email and thought it was pretty cool. Don't know abou the whole "Brain not processing OF" but I only got four the first time :)

KC
rasdas Offline
#2 Posted: Fri, Sep 12 2003, 8:28 AM EST
Joined: 03-13-2003
Posts: 4,716
Got 6...this time...the first time i ever saw this i didn't get the "of's"...

RasDas
plabonte Offline
#3 Posted: Fri, Sep 12 2003, 8:45 AM EST
Joined: 09-11-2000
Posts: 2,131
I counted two in Rasdas's post and none in mine.
tonester666 Offline
#4 Posted: Fri, Sep 12 2003, 10:51 AM EST
Joined: 05-07-2003
Posts: 1,324
Sorry KC, I am no genius but I counted all 6 the first time. I would call it 'paying attention to detail'. It is not that the brain doesn't process the 'of's but that they are like 'the' or 'if', we take them for granted and look past them. Happens to most prepositions.
xibbumbero Offline
#5 Posted: Fri, Sep 12 2003, 11:16 AM EST
Joined: 01-25-2002
Posts: 12,535
I gots six the first time. X
jd1 Offline
#6 Posted: Fri, Sep 12 2003, 2:03 PM EST
Joined: 02-14-2001
Posts: 3,118
I read it as a studder...I got 15...
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