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Why can some solve anagrams immediately? Jumble of letters or a good read?

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jul/06/why-can-some-people-solve-anagrams-immediately
6•Bluestein•4h ago

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austin-cheney•4h ago
My son is hyper extreme dyslexic. He spent much of elementary school years unable to read. He is amazing at anagrams as though there is no secret or mystery at all, like a normal person reading normal text.
burstoflight•3h ago
Very interesting. It might even offer some clues on how to treat the dyslexia itself someday.
tocs3•2h ago
I was diagnosed with mild dyslexia in the 1980s. I mix up d and b and write some letters upside down (numbers are not a problem, 6s and 9s, but I was told that I write my 8s upside down). I was always a prolific reader but could not spell at all.

Early 2000s I read a paragraph [1] about how people can read sentences that have the letters scrambled as long as the first and last letters are in the right place. I think it is a general phenomenon (Typoglycemia on wikipedia [2]) and not just the dyslexic.

[1]: Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

[2]: Typoglycemia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transposed_letter_effect#Inter...

Elon Musk using Proton as his personal email address for his new America Party

https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00910323/1898441
2•dctoedt•46s ago•0 comments

There's no need to over engineer a URL shortener

https://www.luu.io/posts/2025-over-engineer-url-shortener
1•thunderbong•1m ago•0 comments

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https://www.browseanything.io/
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https://pamelai.net/
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GPS Week Number Rollover

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3•walterbell•9m ago•0 comments

Tech Nostalgia: Amiga Forever and C64 Forever Turn 11

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React Bits – Animated UI Components for React

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2•mpweiher•17m ago•0 comments

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https://github.com/kstonekuan/simple-chromium-ai
4•kstonekuan•19m ago•0 comments

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2•giuliomagnifico•20m ago•0 comments

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3•sarreph•28m ago•0 comments

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2•bookofjoe•33m ago•0 comments

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https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/xge-xge0001799.pdf
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3•maxloh•37m ago•1 comments

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5•Bluestein•38m ago•0 comments

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4•thm•42m ago•0 comments

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1•thm•47m ago•0 comments

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1•rntn•49m ago•0 comments

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https://signoz.io/blog/what-is-opentelemetry/
1•Bogdanp•49m ago•0 comments

Layers of Deceit (2012)

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1•Tomte•50m ago•0 comments

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https://real-glass.vercel.app/
1•explosion-s•52m ago•1 comments