A little test for the eye

[Theo]

Sorry if it's been posted already, it's a good 'un anyway. Quick as you can, (I'll give you less than 10 seconds), count the number of times the letter F occurs in this short passage:


"FINISHED FILES ARE THE
RE
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF
IC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERINCED OF YEARS"

And tell me how many you see.

[Skeps]

6, seen this before, wont ruin it for everyone else though

[Howard]

4

[Shogun]

erm 3?

[Sair33]

3.... I've seen this before though and know there is something weird about it... just can't remember what! ... am I being blind????!

[pickers]

6, people don't count the 'f's in of.

[elglg]

6

[Sair33]

WIERD!!!! I read that about five times to see what the catch was. That's mad!!!
....feel a bit silly now!!

[turkster]

yeah I got 5. counted two of the ofs but not the other. Very strange

[DeludedGuy]

yeh, i also counted 5, i honestly didnt see the other "OF"

[da_ging]

missed that last OF aswell

[Moonshade]

6

[Skeps]

Aparrently the brain just naturally bypasses small words such as of, if etc, hence you not seeinf the f's

[mike_w]

First time I did it I got 3, kept missing the OFs until pickers pointed out the mistake I was making!

[Agent]

6. notepad told me so.
'ave it.

[blockers]

Got 3 the first time, the read the replies, adn realised my mistake. That is pretty crazy really