Brain Excercises

[Neuqua]

Personally I love these kinds of things. Post your best brain excercises, let's see which one of us will cause the most headaches!

Here's mine:


The F Illusion
How many Fs do you see in the text below?

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-

SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF-

IC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE

EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.














After you counted the Fs, scroll down...














How many did you count? 3?

Wrong, there were 6. Don't believe it?
Scroll back up and check. Or scroll down
for the solution...

Our brains are trained to overlook the word OF.

If you saw all 6 Fs right away, you're a genius.

Most people see only 3 Fs. Some people see 4.


Neuqua

[ACStrider]

Yeah, I actually counted 6, but that's because I caught myself skipping over the "of"s partway through. Hehe..clever.

[Neuqua]

Ugh. And before anyone mentions it, I KNOW how to spell 'Exercises'.

I need sleep.

Neuqua

[sterlingice]

I confess, I saw three. But I won IWS 28 because

"I am so smart!
I am so smart!
I am so smart!
I am so smart!
S-M-R-T!
I mean, S-M-A-R-T..."

SI

[Chief Rum]

Originally posted by ACStrider
Yeah, I actually counted 6, but that's because I caught myself skipping over the "of"s partway through. Hehe..clever.

Heh...that's exactly what happened to me, AC. I think I would have missed it if I hadn't felt that I had raced through the second line, or if there hadn't been two "OF's" that stood out to me when I went back to that line. :)

So I guess I'm smart. ;)

Chief Rum

[vex]

Sad thing is, I knew that there was more than 3 because I've done this before. So first, I carefully went over the words. 3. I must have missed something, so I go over it again, spelling out each word. 3.

"Of" is evil.

[sachmo71]

Does noticing OF make you a genius, or a freak who refuses to follow the norm? You can be stoned for that, you know...

[JeeberD]

Damn, only saw the three. Even read over it twice. Tricky, tricky trickery...

[Bee]

I sent it to my wife and she said there were 6 and she didn't understand why I was asking. :(

[vex]

You married a genius!

[Bee]

The fact she married me seems to argue against that. ;)

[Neuqua]

Dr. Seuss' Lost Tongue Twister



See if you can do this. Read each line aloud.

This is this cat
This is is cat
This is how cat
This is to cat
This is keep cat
This is a cat
This is dumbass cat
This is busy cat
This is for cat
This is forty cat
This is seconds cat





Now go back and read the THIRD word
in each line from the top.

:)