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offbeatbassline
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Registered: Feb 2003
Location: Toronto, Canada
Wink Quick Eye Exam for English-speaking TAs (this is awesome!)

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


How many did you count?


Okay, scroll down...




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There are SIX letter F's in the text. Yes, really! Look again!

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mto
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Registered: Mar 2003
Location: FL, USA

... its because most English-speaking people when reading English literature or anything written in English language tend to skip fully reading the connecting particles. Words such as 'the', 'and', and in this case 'of.'


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robbyradz
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Registered: Jul 2002
Location: .new.york.city.

I was totally off... i saw 3... the of's really caught me offguard.

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Clyde77
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ahahha good one. took me 5 minutes to just find them all! lol.


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Wretched
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Registered: May 2003
Location: Oregon, USA

SIX!

Three, but then I double checked and caught the of's.

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Konijn
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Registered: Feb 2003
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counted 5 even tho i've seen tests like these before and knew what to look for lol


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Shudder
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yup there are 6 F's. pretty hard to notice all at first but really intereting stuff. took me 3 times to find all 6


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24K
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Registered: Mar 2002
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I saw 4 the first time,,, haha now I feel dumb

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stamper
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Registered: Mar 2001
Location: Adelaide, AUSTRALIA

haha...cool i counted 4!
man thats freaky!

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AnGeLicK
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Registered: Dec 2000
Location: Planet Invol<3er

i didn't even look at the of's


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Sid
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Registered: Oct 2001
Location: Sydney, Australia

The "ofs" also caught me out !


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Cyberwoo
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Registered: Jun 2002
Location: Portland, Oregon (USA)

Damn. I fell for it too. Nice one.

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