Spelling. A key to "speed reading".

[Raapys]

That's pretty neat. Not sure if it works well with longer words, though? Especially words we usually don't use.

[NullAshton]

You can read it like that, but not as fast as you can read words regually. Your mind has to actually note how long the words are, and figure out what word/words it could possibly be. Also, a lot of how that works is probally related to context clues.

[rdouglass]

It is a very good example as to how good of a computer our brain actually is at emplying "fuzzy logic" - not Yes or No but something in between.

Think of how long a spell checker on a decent computer would have to deal with that sentence and would not be able to decifer the messge but just guess at what the words should be. Ya, our brain guesses as well but we can put these guesses into context with other guesses and not necessarily in any linear order.

If you think of the algorythms that would be involved, our brain truly is a marvelous computer.

(But why do we still get the 'ya-hoo's firing their guns when drunk and stuff like that - see other thread.)