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

FINISHED FILES ARE THE
RE-SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF- IC STUDY
COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS

Managed it ? Scroll down only after you have counted them, okay?

How many ? 3?







Wrong, there are 6 !!--no joke.  Read it again.


The reasoning behind is further down.


The brain cannot process "OF".
Incredible or what ?
Anyone who counts all 6 "F's" on the first go is a genius. Three is normal, four is quite rare.  

I own a Restaurant Bar and have been using this for years to mess with peoples minds. It's a great one. Every now and then someone gets close, but no one has ever gotten it correct the first time.

I'm not a linguist but the "f" in "of" is different from the f in "finished" or "scientific". It's very soft, like "v" in "love". So it doesnt surprise me that people miss it. I caught the second "of" but missed the other two.

Same here, I missed the first 2 *of*'s but got the last one. Wonder why ?

HEY but I got 4 so I'm on of the rare ones and I like that.  

RED

-- Modified on 5/9/2002 11:38:07 AM

Which is mind blowing, because this kind of crap is right up my alley.  It seems to me this test has to do more with STYLE of thinking rather than a person's intelligence quotient.  Very cool though.  I really didn't think it would get me...