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Dj Bueno

#127256 Mon, 15 Aug 05 03:25 PM

Intelligence Test

This has got to be one of the most interesting intelligence tests I have ever seen. It's very short, so try it. You may be amazed.
Don't cheat! Because if you do, the test would be no fun.
I promise, there are no tricks to the test.

Read this sentence:

FINISHED FILES ARE NOT THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.

Now count ALOUD the F's in that sentence.
Count them ONLY ONCE: do not go back and count them again.

Now see the answer below:

The answer is...
There are six F's in the sentence. One of average intelligence finds three of them. If you spotted four, you're above average.
If you got five, you can turn your nose at most anybody. If you caught six, you are a genius.

There is no catch. Many people forget the "OF's". The human brain tends to see them as V's and not F's. Pretty weird, huh?

It fools almost everybody.

Dj Bueno

Joined on Mon, Jul 18 2005

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pieanne

#127312 Mon, 15 Aug 05 06:34 PM

Hey, DjB,

I guess I'm under average... Where do you find these tests? they're great!

pieanne

Joined on Thu, Jan 20 2005

South of France ...But I'm Belgian!

Veteran Member (7,512)

I'm glad to help, but I'm not a native! And please excuse my typos...

Dj Bueno

#127347 Mon, 15 Aug 05 08:50 PM

Thanks pieanne..Let me give the website for YOU then -->> www.puffun.com Wink [;)]

have nice wend

Dj Bueno

pieanne

#127351 Mon, 15 Aug 05 09:04 PM

Thank you, Dj! Have a nice week-end too (though it's the end of Monday here Sad [:(] )

pieanne

Dj Bueno

#127356 Mon, 15 Aug 05 09:26 PM

The same here Smile [:)]

Dj Bueno

Deryaa

#130680 Thu, 25 Aug 05 06:40 PM

in fact I have counted 7 "f"s.

what am I? lazy?

Deryaa

Joined on Wed, Aug 17 2005

türkiye

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HERE I AM....

miriam

#130874 Fri, 26 Aug 05 12:02 PM

I counted 6, but I'm sure I'm not a genius. It may very well be that I don't have a "human brain"!! hehehe.

I'll explain: The "human brain" that tends to consider the "f" in "of" as a "v" is surely the human brain of a native speaker of English -or any other languages in which that consonant can be pronounced "v". I'm a native speaker of Spanish, and in my mother tongue the letter "f" sounds /f/; that is probably why I did not miss any of them.

This test does not show how intelligent or dumb I am, but it surely reminds me that, no matter how good my English may be, I did not simply "acquire" it easily but I "learned" it, meaning I had to study hard! In my Spanish-speaker brain, it seems an F is still an F. Smile [:)]

Interesting, huh?

Elena (and any other speakers of ESL or EFL) what do you think? Do you agree with me?

Miriam