Can you read this?

[cateyes1]

This is amazing that I was able to read this without stopping—try it & surprise yourself!!





 





 Here's another trick of Doctor Dementia to test your skills....





































 




I've  seen this with the letters out of order, but this  is the first time I've seen it with numbers. Good  example of a Brain Study: If you can read this OUT LOUD,  you have a strong mind. And better than that:



 




Alzheimer's is a long long, way down the road before it ever gets anywhere near you.




 




 

7H15      M3554G3

53RV35      7O PR0V3

H0W      0UR M1ND5 C4N

D0      4M4Z1NG 7H1NG5!

1MPR3551V3      7H1NG5!

1N      7H3 B3G1NN1NG

17      WA5 H4RD BU7

N0W,      0N 7H15 LIN3

Y0UR      M1ND 1S

R34D1NG      17

4U70M471C4LLY

W17H      0U7 3V3N

7H1NK1NG      4B0U7 17,

B3      PROUD! 0NLY

C3R741N      P30PL3 C4N

R3AD      7H15.

PL3453      F0RW4RD 1F

U      C4N R34D 7H15.

 





To my 'selected' strange-minded friends: If you can read the following paragraph, forward it on to  your friends with 'yes' in the subject line. Only great minds can read this. This is weird, but interesting!




 





If you can read this, you have a strange mind, too.




 





Can you read this? Only 55 people out of 100  can.




 





I cdnuolt  blveiee  that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I  was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of   the hmuan  mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it  dseno't  mtaetr in what oerdr the ltteres in a word are, the olny iproamtnt  tihng is that the frsit and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset  can  be a taotl mses and you can still raed it  whotuit a pboerlm. This is  bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey  lteter by istlef, but the word as  a wlohe.  Azanmig  huh?  Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!




 





If  you can raed  this frowrad it.


 

[gaylasue]

It is amazing what the mind can do when it is in correct working order.

[msmoneybags48]

I was able to read the message with miminal difficulty.  You are right, it is interesting.  I didn't expect this.

[articx]

Yes, I was able to read it.

[ljrjess69]

yes I have seen this on facebook and can read it! 

[queenofnines]

This was neat, but please don't use it as an excuse for improper spelling, people!

[bhiett]

That was not difficult to read.  The surprise to me was the statement that only 55 out of 100 can read it.  Do you think that figure is accurate?

[lvstephanie]

I've also seen this on FB and was able to read it without difficulty. I actually doubt the claim that only a few people with strong minds are able to read it, however... On FB, that post traveled around a bunch of my friends, and all of them were able to read it fine. I tend to think it more like what the 2nd example states, in that the human mind is really just that powerful, that it tries to make sense out of what seems to be random characters. Also, with the first example with numbers, I noticed that the numbers that they used were very similar to the actual replaced letters, giving the "word" an even more familiar look that our minds can more easily parse.

In fact I've even heard that a universal character replacement scheme for coming up with a password is now being condemned as being too easy for hackers to crack. A universal character replacement is where certain letters are replaced by a different character that has a similar structure to the original letter. More sites are requiring "strong" passwords which is usually defines as having a mixture of letters, numbers, and maybe even other characters. But people still try to come up with a password that they would be able to remember, so people are starting to use this universal character replacement system to come up with a "strong" password according to the requirements yet is still easy for the person to remember. Unfortunately the problem is that certain characters are almost always used as the replacement for some other character (hence why it is defined as a "universal replacement" in that everyone using the same alphabet tend to use the same replacements). For example, '@' is often the replacement for an 'a', '$' for 's', '!' for 'i', '3' for 'E' etc. As a result, it's fairly easy for a hack to just start using these alternate replacement characters in trying to crack a person's password. For example if a person decides to use their cat's name as a password, it would take a hacker too long to come up with G@rf!31d as the character replacement equivalence for Garfield...

[lucky382001]

I had no problem reading it. Not sure if I should admit that or not. 

[ancmetro]

    It is all in your mind and what you do with it!

[kapeh12]

I think that was the first one with numbers I've seen.  No issues reading that or the second paragraph that was mixed letters only.

I recalled in college, there was a campus paper article that someone wrote in a similar manner using the greek alphabet.  I remember my friends (all math and physics majors) and I took time to "read" that one.  I admit, that was a bit more challenging than these examples.  Mostly because we had to figure out what the English equivalent was to some of the lesser used Greek letters were.  Alpha, Beta, Delta, Gamma, Epsilon, Sigma - those were easy...but Upsilon, Phi, Psi - those were a little tougher.

[alice44]

I have seen this and was amazed that I could read it.  The mind is a curious thing 

[de3ik]

I've also seen this on FB and was able to read it without difficulty. I actually doubt the claim that only a few people with strong minds are able to read it, however... On FB, that post traveled around a bunch of my friends, and all of them were able to read it fine. I tend to think it more like what the 2nd example states, in that the human mind is really just that powerful, that it tries to make sense out of what seems to be random characters. Also, with the first example with numbers, I noticed that the numbers that they used were very similar to the actual replaced letters, giving the "word" an even more familiar look that our minds can more easily parse.

In fact I've even heard that a universal character replacement scheme for coming up with a password is now being condemned as being too easy for hackers to crack. A universal character replacement is where certain letters are replaced by a different character that has a similar structure to the original letter. More sites are requiring "strong" passwords which is usually defines as having a mixture of letters, numbers, and maybe even other characters. But people still try to come up with a password that they would be able to remember, so people are starting to use this universal character replacement system to come up with a "strong" password according to the requirements yet is still easy for the person to remember. Unfortunately the problem is that certain characters are almost always used as the replacement for some other character (hence why it is defined as a "universal replacement" in that everyone using the same alphabet tend to use the same replacements). For example, '@' is often the replacement for an 'a', '$' for 's', '!' for 'i', '3' for 'E' etc. As a result, it's fairly easy for a hack to just start using these alternate replacement characters in trying to crack a person's password. For example if a person decides to use their cat's name as a password, it would take a hacker too long to come up with G@rf!31d as the character replacement equivalence for Garfield...

I have never seen that before, but I too was able to read it. That is a very interesting puzzle. I'll try to pass it on to someone else and see if they can read it too.

I thanked you and the OP of this thread. First for their puzzle and secondly for your information on character replacement. I had never heard of that before, but that makes excellent sense. That information helped me understand this better. I'll let others know about that as well. Thanks for the heads up.

[luvh8tragedy87]

That was pretty cool. It's incredible what our minds can do.

[jmc1982]

I was able to read both!