Count the F's

I know this test has probably been here before, but I couldn’t find it after a search. Anyway maybe there are some new members who haven’t seen it. I also don’t understand how it “works”. Any one know? Don’t cheat and scroll down too quickly.

Count every " F" in the following text:

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI
FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS…
(SEE BELOW)

HOW MANY ?

WRONG, THERE ARE 6 – no joke.
READ IT AGAIN !
Really, go Back and Try to find the 6 F’s before you scroll down

Incredible or what? Go back and look again!!

Anyone who counts all 6 “F’s” on the first go is a genius.

Three is normal, four is quite rare.

Well, then, I’m a genius.

How does it ‘work’? Do you mean ‘Why do people not find six "F"s the first time?’ I would assume it’s because the 'F’s in ‘OF’ sound like Vs.

I assume it’s just that

people ignore the Fs in the word OF because OF is small and easily passed over. Also, the Fs are at the end of the word.

MPSIMS at best. Moved.

samclem. GQ moderator

the "F"s in the word “of” are pronounced as a V sound and psychologically a lot easier to miss.

Regards
FML

What a let down! I counted 6 and was wondering what I missed. I just looked for the letter. I didn’t do the reading version of the search. I don’t even know what the thing says at this moment.

There is one F in this thread title. I win.

It’s a fairly standard “test”. The way I was shown it was to count them reading forward, most people miss the "of"s. But if you count them reading backward you pick up all of them.

Ok, help me out. I see five in the text presented, so which one am I missing?

Did you get all three "of"s? If so, there’s two in the first line, one other in the third.

For those having trouble counting:

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI
FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS…

I got all six. I guess that makes me a genius. Only I can’t be a genius because I am too stupid to see how finding out I am genius is going to get me pussy.

Oh well.

I got all 6, but I already knew I’m a genius.

Damn, our standards are low if being able to read and count to six are the benchmarks of genius.

Look! I tied my shoes! Where’s my Nobel?

I got seven! I’m smarter than all of y’all!

I got six also. Very lame. I want my five seconds back.

Um. Sure, but you’ve tied the left to the right. :confused:

I thought I seen it here before…
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I’ve taken it before, did it again and still got three. I “win”. :smack:

Have seen it several times before, don’t know how many F’s I counted the first time, but less than 6, I think.
I also showed this to my father a while back, and he easily counted 6 F’s, and I believe this is because he doesn’t speak very good english, and so he never bothered to really read the sentence, he just looked at the letters. Maybe the ones who counted 6 F’s did that too, even though they speak and read english well?