Sep 10, 2006
Brain exercise: brain teaser
By: Alvaro Fernandez
Quick! Count the number of times that the letter F appears in the following sentence: “Finished files are the result of years of scientific study combined with the experience of years
How many did you find? Check the solution and explanation.
There are 6
[…] 9. Count the Fs in this sentence. […]
ha, this test will fail on South Asians where ‘of’ is usually pronounced as ‘off’ and not ‘ov’
Hello Shahzad, you’re right. Feel free to propose other teasers you have seen may work better with South Asians!
I counted 7.
I FOUND 7
Take you time.. there are 6.
6 f’s
i found 6 easily
i found six!
There are 9 f’s
there are defin. 6 f’s in the sentence. it’s the f’s in the ‘of’ we humans find it hard to count.
too many blonds are reading this
Hey its terrell owens and i counted 6
I’m blond & I counted 6. If you count the preceding sentence there are 9.
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Yeah I found 6 quite easily. How did you guys get 7, I’m curious?
There Are 6! Greetings from Great Serbia
I wonder if it’s also true that we tend to ignore little words without much meaning or emotional content.
There are 6.
Whitne: good point. You can try this other exercise to see how we tend to ignore little objects without much meaning…
Can you, from memory, draw a penny (or any other small coin) and all its elements? Try to do so…and then compare with a real one.
I counted 1 (one).
I reckon if we need to count the “following” sentence then the sentence to be counted is [How many did you find?] = 1
Hello Adrian, very good to think out of the box, but that would be the “following paragraph”, wouldn’t it?
A very interesting cognitive skill is called “theory of mind”, in which one can ascertain the intentions of other person. Which “sentence” do you think we mean?
Hi Alvaro, thanx for the reply. I’m a bit rough on grammar but I thought anything after the colon would be considered the ‘same’ sentence, not the ‘following’ sentence. Maybe I’m thinking too hard about this one. Cheers.
Helo Adrian-well, thinking hard is more than welcome in this blog
There are 6 as it clearly states “..in the FOLLOWING sentence..”
i found four f’s. i promise you there are four f’s.
6
there is actually only one ‘F’
rest five are’f’s
see in the question he aasked ‘F’s but not ‘f’s
The person who makes me has no need for me The person who buys me doesn’t use me The person who is using me doesn’t know What am I?
six. the reason people were meant to count less is because our minds aren’t supposed to translate the F’s in the word OF
I found 6 first try and actually when I initially started counting I glossed over the of but then stopped, went back and included the of’s in the count THEN read the explanation and had a chuckle. Quite the little mental trick!
NEED TO PRACTICE AND GET SHARPER.
six it is
7
i counted six
It is never good to complicate a simple thing. How about we change the intro to say,… “read aloud, the words you see below.“
“Finished files are the result of years of scientific study combined with the experience of years  Then ask how many times the letter after the letter E in the english alphabet is used in what you just said?
Hello from the Bahamas.
There are 6 f’s in the sentence. It’s basically here to say that the human brain doesn’t take in the word “of” as a word with f because it is said as “ov”.
i found 4
no wait i found 8
6. There are only 6. Show me the others.
At fist I counted 3, not even acknologing the F’s in the words like “of”. I then recounted it, and I counted 6.
I found 16
Whats the answer to the riddle. tasha
i cant count
3