aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

I know its old, but some people may not have seen it

Hdant seen taht, but it got esaeir to raed as I wnet aolng. Tkaes a lnog tmie to tpye tohugh!

I saw it in Spanish at an airport So it works in other languages too!

Hmm. It would be interesting to know how this concept translates into sight reading for musical instruments...

I often get all the notes in the wrong order.

Like Eric Morecambe in his famous confrontation with Andre Previn. !

I think it could only translate roughly in certain circumstances; such as, for example, seeing C-E-G-C and reading this as a chord or arpeggio of C major. However I don't think it can translate directly, as, unlike, say, 'crhod' or 'ntoe' which aren't actually words, C-G-E-C or G-C-E-C still make perfect musical sense.

This is why it's very important to write musical notation clearly (if you're doing it by hand) as the brain can't fill in the gaps in the same way - and also why reading music is often the first thing you notice becoming blurry if your eyesight is deteriorating.

Interesting. I note that it is harder to read if you slow down and try and figure out each word. Sort of obvious I know, but the point is that meaning is also coming from phrases and sentences, and so as you skim a word you might not know what it says immediately, but once the later context is known, your brain realises what that word should be and fills it in. All of this of course is happening in a nanosecond.

No doubt it takes longer to write jumbling the letters up than if you just put them in the right order in the first place.

I know a japanese version of it.

I've not seen it before and found it really easy to read.

I did also read once the bottom parts of letters that are more important that the tops - so if you cover the top half of a line of type you can usually still fathom it out but it's more difficult if you cover the bottom half. It was also connected with memory - so for example in an exam you might remember revising what you now need to recall and will be able to remember where it was on the page and the basic 'shape' of the text i.e. how many letters went below the line (like g and y)



I certainly fill in missing notes in runs e.g. play A B C D E F G when the writted notes are A B C E F G. The reassuring part about that is I spot it if I'm counting properly - but not if I'm not counting.

Could the OP write his post in proper english please?

I read words as a whole. This is bad at the opticians when they ask me to read words and not just letters.