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10-22-2003, 06:16 PM
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@Frogus and Zelgadis: It is easier to read because it is longer, more words to derive context understanding from. I don't know whether the intermediate letters in the particular text in the first post were randomly organised or not, but there are several experiments done in this field that demonstrate that the order of all letters except the first and last, make no significant difference.  Quote: Originally posted by Vicsun
On topic: did anyone notice that if you reverse the first and last letters but leave all other letters alone it's actually harder to read even though more letters are unchanged? | Yes, that is according to the theory - the human brain uses the first and last letters as cues to identify a word, just as we use certain features but not others to identify any object.
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