![]() ![]() That’s one of the factors explaining why we can “magically” read the message. Here’s what Davis believes the email got right: unless you have a rare brain disorder, people read words as whole units, not letter-by-letter. Matt Davis, a researcher at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at Cambridge University, helped us sort it out. Is typoglycemia real or a trick?ĭoes it take you nanoseconds to solve a Word Jumble? No? While your brain can breeze through some word scrambles, it’s more complicated than that viral email suggests. Still, though the word may sometimes be referenced in actual research, it’s not a formal term, nor is it all that commonly used outside the context of such memes. ![]() Typoglycemia can refer to to the phenomenon in which words can be read despite being jumbles, or it can refer to the ability to read such texts. ![]() The word-scrambling phenomenon has a punny name: typoglycemia, playing with typo and glycemia(the condition of having low blood sugar). Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.Ĭould you read it? Even with a mistake in this viral email (the letters in rscheearch cannot spell researcher), the truth is that most fluent English speakers can read and understand it. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. That viral email tested our ability to read scrambled words. Here’s what it looks like:Īoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. There’s more to scrambled words than meets the eye. However, as interesting as the original email was, it didn’t actually tell the whole truth. Starting around 2003, an email began to circulate claiming that scrambled English words are just as easy to read as the original words. Ever heard of typoglycemia? Even if you haven’t, chances are you’ll recognize one of the viral puzzles used to demonstrate the phenomenon. ![]()
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