An Eye Test.

[stewey]

This is quite interesting:

Count every "F" in the following text:



FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI
FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.....

How many do you get?

[boxtops]

4

[boxtops]

hang on - no - 6 !!

[mccfluff]

6

[LyndaB]

6

[Tilly2]

6

[excelsior-1]

six

[RATTER15]

It is very clever, this has been doing the rounds for about twenty years now.

[Sharingan]

3

[Tilly2]

Have we all been tricked?

[tonyav]

I only see 3.

[aelmpvw]

the f in of is usually missed

[stewey]

Well, I guess it wasn't that interesting:). Yes, six. The portion that I posted is part of a longer piece which tends to confuse you in the counting. Anyway, off to the bar soon...Cheers!

[boxtops]

I missed the two "of"s - busy counting the big words!

[tonyav]

Now I see 4, thanks aelmpvw.

[Tilly2]

I, being really anxious about it, wrote it out onto paper and highlighted all the 'fs'
with a highlighter pen. That's the sort of time wasting thing I do.

[Sharingan]

Now I see 6- I missed the ones in 'of' too.

[x-ray]

F ing clever

[stewey]

Here's a good one. Write the numeral 7 on a piece of paper, and then say to someone: " I am going to read your mind, but first you have to quickly answer some simple questions. What is five times five? What is six times six? What is your favourite colour? Now pick a number between five and ten" The majority of people will say "seven", then you show them your written seven.

[netibiza]

.5

[excelsior-1]

In a similar vein stewey, if you bombard someone with maths questions to which the answer is '6' (what is half of twelve...what is 3+3...what is 4+2 etc) in quick succession - making them answer '6' each time, and then say "quickly name a vegetable" .. they will invariably respond with "carrot" - which you will have written down at the start