Brain teaser...Someone emailed me this today

[Chipster]

>Count the "F's" in the following text:
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>FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-
>SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC-
>IC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE
>EXPERIENCE OF YEARS
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>Scroll down only after you have counted them.
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>Did you count 3?
>Wrong, there are 6!!
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>Read it again.
>Scroll down for the answer.
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>The brain cannot process "OF".
>Incredible or what ?
>Anyone who counts all 6 "F's" on the first go is a genius.
>Three is normal, four is quite rare.

 

[Dofuss3000]

I guess I'm a genius....

 

[Rallispec]

whoa.. .. i definetly counted 3

 

[tweakmm]

saw this last week....

 

[SyahM]

wow .. impressive, i got 4 the first time.

 

[jpsj82]

now that is interesting.

 

[Scouzer]

Got 3....

 

[Descartes]

I got 5 the first time, I missed the f in scientific.

 

[Koing]

<< whoa.. .. i definetly counted 3 >>



dumbass! 😉..j/k...

I got 6......

 

[wyvrn]

Got 6...

 

[Hubris]

I got 5. But then when I recounted before scrolling, I only saw 4. Weird.

 

[Cattlegod]

wow!! i must be a super genius!!!

i didn't even read it past the first line "Count the "F's"

and i said there was 6!!!!

 

[gopunk]

<< saw this last week.... >>

 

[rutchtkim]

oh man, i must be going nuts, i purposely tried to do good on this, but stil counted 3

 

[bunker]

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<< saw this last week.... >>

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[RSI]

I saw only 4 when I first read it. Stupid me, I missed two OFs.. but why? Why would I get one of them and not the other two? heh... oh well, redid it and obviously saw 6. interesting. 🙂

-RSI

 

[Anubis]

i counted 6 dont really see how you couldent count 6. well anyway i am a genius and this just proves it agin

Hehehehehe 🙂

 

[Dofuss3000]

<< i counted 6 dont really see how you couldent count 6. well anyway i am a genius and this just proves it agin >>



we should start a club...

😛

 

[wolfsblood]

I got 6 first time, I had to look it at closely though, kind of easy to see how alot of people would only get 3.

 

[MWink]

I've seen this trick before and I still only counted 4.

 

[Electrode]

I, too, have seen this before. I got 3 the first time. 😱:frown:

 

[DanFungus]

I counted 6....w00t! I'm a genious, ma!

 

[MrCodeDude]

Counted 6..
-- mrcodedude

 

[Zipp]

<< saw this last week.... >>

 

[Ns1]

i counted 6 and i didn't even have to scroll down