Cool Brain stuff

[Jo Blose]

There's plenty of optical illusions and visual tests out there that help illustrate functioning of the human mind and human brain that we're not conscious of! I thought I'd kick off this thread with one the spelling challenged among us will enjoy...


Olny srmat poelpe can raed tihs.
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs psas it on !!

[Strange2]

Count the Fs


Read this sentence:

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF-
IC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.

Now count the F's in that sentence. Count them only once: do not go back and count them again.

[Shazzoir]

Five?

Shazzoir

[_Daniel_]

3

[Strange2]

I only got three the first time too Danial. Shazz well done, you are well above the average...

Answer:
There are six F's in the sentence.

The "average" person finds three.

Many people do not see the Fs in the word "OF". It has been argued that the human brain tends to see them as Vs and not Fs.

I'm happy being an average Joe...

[Strange2]

There's plenty of optical illusions and visual tests out there that help illustrate functioning of the human mind and human brain that we're not conscious of! I thought I'd kick off this thread with one the spelling challenged among us will enjoy...


Olny srmat poelpe can raed tihs.
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs psas it on !!

It's amazing that I could actualy make sence of it since your silepling si so trirelbe Mr Balck...lol

[Jo Blose]

Daniel,

I only got 3 the first time also! Average joe black am I!

Ysesreie, Srtnage2, my sepllilg anit lkiley 2 ipmovre etiehr!

Try this one where you have to say out aloud the actual colors of each word (not the words themselves) as fast as you can:

[Shazzoir]

In that vein, Joe, try this little game.... and see how far you get!

http://www2.b3ta.com/clickthecolour/

It's much harder than you think!

I got up to level seven. My heart rate got much higher trying to get it done in time!

Shazz

[mikka]

Joe your first post reminds me of my speeling


Shazz I had a go at your link but our 8week old kitten seems to have other ideas with my hand, will have to have a go when he is sleeping or not being a terrorist

[Shazzoir]

Aww.... Mikka, please take a photo of your kitty!!!!!

This is the Off Topic section, so a little bit of fluff won't annoy anyone. There is nothing like a kitten to make you feel all mushy and warm inside.

Pics please!


Shazz

[forestguy]

8 weeks you say... sounds about the right age for bait...

[Shazzoir]

You...you... take that back!

Bad man!

[mikka]

Will do Shazz, have pictures since he was 4 weeks old when we got him.


Forest you read my mind



Anyways back on topic, I would love to see some more brain teasers

[lil foot]

8 weeks you say... sounds about the right age for bait...

that reminds me of a true story i was told years back of an old fella who went to the pound picked himself a nice lil jack or foxy took him to the tathra pier and in front of kiddys having agreat day fishing, put a huge shark hook through the side of the dog and threw it over the side as live shark bait................the problem was, it was the wrong tide and he didnt even get a bite.

[Strange2]

Now back to testing your Brains and not shark fishing using live bait...

In the picture below there are more than 100 known world personalities... look carefully at them...
If you can recognize at least 25 of them, then consider yourself a fairly well cultured individual.

[mikka]

Strange2 that picture ive also found could be a age tester, im sure alot of the younger generation wouldnt know who they where even if you named them.


Bruice Lee is the best btw

[Jo Blose]

27.... and that was a struggle! Does that make me an old fart?

[Shazzoir]

OK, challenge on! I guess I did less than average, though! I found 42 (answer to everything, surely? LOL):
Bill gates
Lenin
Pele
Adolf Hitler
Audrey Hepburn
Ghengis Khan
Charlie Chaplin
Chairman Mao
Ill Duce
Saddam Hussein
Bill Clinton
Columbus
Margaret Thatcher
The mate who wrote "Alice in Wonderland"
Alexander Putin
Shirley Temple
Einstein
Queen Eliz II
Matthew Flinders
Elvis
Winston Churchill
Bruce Lee
Will Shakespeare
Mozart
Aristotle
Abe Lincoln
Stalin
Mahatma Ghandi
Vincent Van Gogh
Ayatollah Khomeni
Marilyn Monroe
Marlon Brando
Fidel Castro
Che Guevarre
Julius Caesar
Prince Charles
Pavarotti
Picasso
Magic Johnson (I think)
Toulouse Lautrec
Mother Theresa.

Suspected a few of the others, but couldn't think of the names.

Shazz

[Strange2]

27.... and that was a struggle! Does that make me an old fart?

Not at all Joe.... early stages of Alzheimer’s folks...

[Strange2]

OK, challenge on! I guess I did less than average, though! I found 42 (answer to everything, surely? LOL):
Bill gates
Lenin
Pele
Adolf Hitler
Audrey Hepburn
Ghengis Khan
Charlie Chaplin
Chairman Mao
Ill Duce
Saddam Hussein
Bill Clinton
Columbus
Margaret Thatcher
The mate who wrote "Alice in Wonderland"
Alexander Putin
Shirley Temple
Einstein
Queen Eliz II
Matthew Flinders
Elvis
Winston Churchill
Bruce Lee
Will Shakespeare
Mozart
Aristotle
Abe Lincoln
Stalin
Mahatma Ghandi
Vincent Van Gogh
Ayatollah Khomeni
Marilyn Monroe
Marlon Brando
Fidel Castro
Che Guevarre
Julius Caesar
Prince Charles
Pavarotti
Picasso
Magic Johnson (I think)
Toulouse Lautrec
Mother Theresa.

Suspected a few of the others, but couldn't think of the names.

Shazz

Not bad Shaz...a few more to add to the list

Socrates
Cui Jian (father of Chinese rock music)
Ramses or King Solomon or Sinuhe of Egypt
Tsar Peter The Great Of Russia
Charles de Gaulle
Ulysses S. Grant
Raphael Sanzio or Matisse (French Painter)
Robert Oppenheimer
William Shakespeare
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Genghis Kahn
Napoleon Bonaparte
Lao zi or Hokusai
Yassar Arafat
Mike Tyson
George W. Bush
Salvador Dali
Empress CiXi
Liu Xiang
Kofi Annan
Ariel Sharon
Ho Chi Minh or Qi Baishi (Chinese painter)
Osama Bin Laden
Qin Shi Huang
Mikhail Gorbachev
Song Qingling
Otto Von Bismarck
Saint Peter or Rabindranath Tagore
Li ZhenSheng
Voltaire
President Hu Jintao
Dante Alighieri or Julius Caesar
Pu-Yi or Dai Dudu
Saloth Sar (Pol Pot)
Yi Sun-sin líder or Yue Fei
Michael Angelo
Hideki Tojo 0r Hiro Hito
Michael Jordan
Dwight Eisenhower or John Calvin Coolidge
Corneliu Baba, Romanian painter
Claude Monet
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Marcel Duchamp
Confucius
Noah
Li Bai the Chinese Poet or Caravaggio
Mao Zhedong
Johan Wolfgang von Goethe, German Writer
Zhou Enlai
Marie Curie
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen Spielberg
Freidrich Nietzsche
Karl Marx
Leonardo Da Vinci
Lu Xun, Chinese Comunist Writer
Jose Francisco San Martín
Deng Xiaoping
Sun Yat-Sen
Theodore Roosevelt or Gen George Custer or Maxim
Benito Mussolini
Guan Yu
Ludwig Van Beethoven or Chopin
Henry Ford
Lei Feng
Victor babes or Norman Bethun
Mike Tyson
Sigmund Freud
Erich Honecker (leader of the GDR from 71-89)
Vladimir Putin
Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Caroll)
Chang Kai Chek
Leo Tolstoy
Ernest Hemingway
Franklin Roosevelt
Dolly (maybe)