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

Got 6...this time...the first time i ever saw this i didn't get the "of's"...

RasDas

I counted two in Rasdas's post and none in mine.

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.

I gots six the first time. X

I read it as a studder...I got 15...