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We've just come across this blog post by a clever guy called Michael who specialises in speed reading and accelerated learning techniques. He's really good at it and could probably read this whole page from top to bottom in a just a few seconds. Like that bit in The Matrix.

Anyway he came across one of our labels (above), where we mixed all the letters up but you can still kind of read it, and thought it was interesting so has broken the science behind it down a bit. Tnakhs for yuor knid wrods Mcehail.

Comments

[Disay cosrs ( daisy Cross]

Can you raed tihs? Olny srmat poelpe 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 deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!
if you can raed tihs psas it on.

[Jen]

"Tnakhs for yuor knid wrods Mcehaeil."

There's only one 'e' in Michael. ;o)

(English teacher to be)

[ted at innocent]

Fixed now Jen. All that mixing up letters must have had me cnfoseud.

[ailbhe]

wow taht is pertty cool, hples ceher you up if yuo're fleenig sutipd!

[Rob]

This speed reading thing isn't actually always the case - consider this:

Taht is srot of ture, but it deos not tlel the wlohe sorty. It is rieealtvly esay wtih sroht wrods, but not so esay wtih legonr wdros. Msot cetonnt wdros in Esinglh are sveen leertts lnog or leognr -- the mroe leretts terhe are in a wrod, the mroe dulcifift and caipcetmold it bmeecos to cletrorcy infietdy them wehn the ltrtees are ragnearerd. Warhees, more diiivutnme and cmoomn wrdos lkie "blal" and "baer" raimen mltsoy ungnchead and esay to rizocenge, lgneor, less cmoomn wdros, like "pltlooiun" and "soulamitunes" caghne saillbattunsy to the pniot werhe rnciooitegn is srclceay pbsslioe. Fmrrhtrouee, this atiibly smtes form a garet deal of enpicerexe rindaeg cretolcry slelepd wdros -- olny plopee who can adrealy raed pelictroinfy can do this tsak. Tihs tirck does not reeavl mcuh aoubt the pscroes of lnnreaig to raed -- it only ietaindcs that hhligy slielkd rrdeaes are so pectacred wtih txet tehy can omoercve moinr informieepcts (epshaims on the word "moinr") in the pnirt to aesccs mnnaeig.

[See http://blogs.msdn.com/fontblog/archive/2005/11/16/493452.aspx#494423 for the translation...]