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This is True, not a joke as such but its pretty cool

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  • 28-02-2003 4:12pm
    #1
    Registered Users Posts: 11,389 ✭✭✭✭


    Quick Eye Exam...



    This will blow your mind...!

    Just do it - don't cheat!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Try this its actually quite good.

    But don't cheat!





    Count the number of F's in the following text:





    FINISHED FILES ARE THE
    RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC
    STUDY COMBINED WITH THE
    EXPERIENCE OF YEARS











    Managed it?





    Scroll down only after you have counted them!











    OK?


    How many?







    Three?









    Wrong, there are six - no joke!



    Read again!




    FINISHED FILES ARE THE
    RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC
    STUDY COMBINED WITH THE
    EXPERIENCE OF YEARS



    The reasoning is further down...

    The brain cannot process the word "OF".


    Incredible or what?

    Anyone who counts all six F's on the first go is a genius
    Three is normal.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 536 ✭✭✭Spiffing


    I aer teh genius!11


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,315 ✭✭✭ballooba


    Keep getting 5 for some reason.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 144 ✭✭frood4t2


    meh brain! :eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭tman


    that's one of my favourite mind fvckery tricks


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,478 ✭✭✭tribble


    3 - freaky

    well thats my daily mindfu<k


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  • Registered Users Posts: 11,389 ✭✭✭✭Saruman


    When i did it first i thought this is easy.. i then re read it when it said 3 was wrong.. and still was like.. what???? Only when it mentioned OF did i realise i had skipped over them without knowing.. i did not read word for word i was speed reading both times.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35 kirracol


    I got 6


  • Registered Users Posts: 691 ✭✭✭BabyEater


    I got 5 missed the one in scientific


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 355 ✭✭*NemesiS*


    hmm i'm a genius!!!! :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 534 ✭✭✭bozzie


    i is also a genius keowl


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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,781 ✭✭✭eddhorse


    seen it before thats why i got 6 this time , i defo got 3 the first time , damn it


  • Registered Users Posts: 245 ✭✭Polonious


    Got 6, but i was being really careful counting it cos i knew it was a trick!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 63 ✭✭D nominater


    thats outstanding. i'd say it's just a reading thing, if you said it to people they would be much more likely to get all six. if of was in a prone position like:of all the people here who are you the son of?
    (and if the only f's were in of,as above)
    then they'd probably get it as well.
    I guess we instinctively know that of isn't really a real word.
    Sherr,course it isn't,all the things,'of' a real word, that's making fun the english language.:rolleyes:


  • Registered Users Posts: 605 ✭✭✭exiztone


    I got 4 actually.
    Guess it puts me somewhere in the middle.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 76 ✭✭Zanza


    I got 6, but in a way, I am not a genius!! =/


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,839 ✭✭✭Hobart


    Got 3. And have TBH. I read it twice (second time really carefully) because I knew there had to be a trick. Hmm v.good


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,669 ✭✭✭DMT


    Ever notice how you never actually read the damn statement.
    I will not be bwain-rashed into believing that "finished files" (whatever the hell that's supposed to mean) is the result of any amount of "scientific study" or "years of experience" (experience in what?).

    It's a conspiracy....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 489 ✭✭ironbrew


    i got 6 but only becoz ive did that b4!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    Hey, on a related note, did you know that there is in existance a book that is written entirely without the letter "E". It was originally written in french without the letter E and then translated into english without the letter e. heh.

    I got all the "F"'s but I doon't think I did the first time i saw it. It certainly does teach you to rtfm (READ THE FECKIN MANUAL) before you do anything.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 97 ✭✭lulu


    Thats freaky, explains why i miss so much in my lectures do, im missing the obvious the whole time!! Here was me blaming my lecturers, the truth hurts:(


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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,712 ✭✭✭Praetorian


    First time 3

    Second time 6

    Definitely not a genius :o


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