Can your brain count?

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After my other post about how the brain does strange things, I remembered this one. If you've not seen it before, all you have to do is count the number of times letter f appears in the sentence.

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After my other post about how the brain does strange things, I remembered this one. If you've not seen it before, all you have to do is count the number of times letter f appears in the sentence.

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULTS OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS

None. They are all "F"s :D
 

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I first saw it in a university rag-mag about 25 years ago and it drove me nuts.

No internet back then and I'd stare at it for ages going through it one letter at a time and could still only see 3!

I don't think I'm dumb, so don't feel bad about it Owen :)
 

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It's because you pronounce 'of' as 'ov' the brain overlooks it and ignores it as an 'f'. Unless you've seen this before you'll more than likely get it wrong.
 

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I counted none, but then I'm pedantic and the riddle was to count the number of lower case f's in the sentence, which was all in upper case.


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Well done for playing the game x
 
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