I am bizarrely talented. Dropped my reading speed to probably around 25-30% of normal, but still very readable.
I was a weird kid: I used to read the paper at the same time as my parents, and therefore read its upside-down and at an angle. You pick up weird skills that way.
Literally no one in the world cares. Also, literally everyone that can read forwards can read this backwards. You are not bizarrely, or even normally talented. You can read.
Thank you for stroking my ego. I can also write upside down and backwards. I never really considered it a talent. I just got board on day in class and started writing that way. I stopped because I was reading glass exit doors backwards and started to think if I continued I would get a little confused.
BORED. Unless you actually got the board in class one day. You know, heaved it off the wall and made your escape.
Incidentally, reading upside down *is* a useful skill. You’ll realise this when you try to read a book with pictures to a class of 7 year olds and want them to see the pictures as you read :)
Seeing patterns is a built-in ability, and those who can read backwards are just better at it than most. I can read and write backwards, and considering the West’s most able backward writer was Leonardo Da Vinci, you can harp all you want about how pointless you think it is. There are many ideas about the importance of recognizing patterns, some of which aren’t just hang-overs from when we were prey animals ourselves.
This is why I hate the internet. Yes, all of you are talented, just like everyone else EVER. Wow what an awesome skill that I developed doing quirky stuff when I was a kid cause I’m so unique and creative! Good lord. Hey can you guys walk backwards? WOW!! I bet you learned how to do that when you were a kid and you always wanted to confuse the people hot o your tail by walking backwards so they track the footprints the wrong way! Golly gee willikers I wish I was as fun and mischievous and imaginative as you…
Many ways to train your brain. These things are not as useless as they might seem. Every challenge you put your brain go through makes it faster and better. :)
Mirror reading and writing are far from pointless. Talents and aptitudes come in different flavours, and we are still learning about the benefits of mirror reading practice. There’s plenty of attention from researchers around the world focusing on neuroplasticity and right brain cortical growth and MR. Definitely not just kidstuff, and much more than Leonardo. I welcome anyone interested in the topic to contact me at Shelagh@mirrorread.com
I am bizarrely talented. Dropped my reading speed to probably around 25-30% of normal, but still very readable.
I was a weird kid: I used to read the paper at the same time as my parents, and therefore read its upside-down and at an angle. You pick up weird skills that way.
sorry for breaking your heart but its really just the way your brain perceives it. most people should be able to read it…
LOL
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You are right. It was easy.
Literally no one in the world cares. Also, literally everyone that can read forwards can read this backwards. You are not bizarrely, or even normally talented. You can read.
But someone does care that you cant use the word ‘literally’ accurately.
No, really LITERALLY no one cares.
I care. Logic = flawed.
Wow, Steve is a TROLL! Unless it’s a different Steve every time, all he does is correct, correct, and tell people they’re wrong. Get a life, Steve.
The correct term is “Shut up, Steve.” Every time you see one online, anywhere, and to anything that they say, it’s the only proper response.
Yep. Can do. Developed when I wanted to know the answer to the Encyclopedia Brown mystery but didn’t have a mirror handy.
Sounds like Laura and Chris here fell for it. Talent.
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The sad thing is, Robert, I can actually sign my name that way. ‘~’
You can, I do. When I signed up for my bank account, Bank of America actually accepted Z J Kolk backwards as my legal signature.
Thank you for stroking my ego. I can also write upside down and backwards. I never really considered it a talent. I just got board on day in class and started writing that way. I stopped because I was reading glass exit doors backwards and started to think if I continued I would get a little confused.
Lonnie…work on your spelling…!
BORED. Unless you actually got the board in class one day. You know, heaved it off the wall and made your escape.
Incidentally, reading upside down *is* a useful skill. You’ll realise this when you try to read a book with pictures to a class of 7 year olds and want them to see the pictures as you read :)
Shut up, Steve!
I can kill two stones with one bird.
Now THAT is a talent.
I can kill two pigs with one bird.
Lol
Its not pointless if you’re left handed and your name is Leonardo.
Indeed John.
http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/LeonardoRighttoLeft.html
I felt proud of myself for reading that so fast, until I got to the last part. . . ha.
Not only do I have no trouble reading backwards; I am also quite skilled at WRITING backwards. #uselesstalentsFTW
There is actually a tool to type in upside-down text http://www.upsidedowntext.com/
:-p
It’s handy for reading in mirrors and windows without turning your head. Private investigators everywhere weep.
Or…you might make an excellent Hebrew scholar.
That’s not reading backwards, that’s reading *forwards* right to left.
at least I finally found something that I’m good at.
Seeing patterns is a built-in ability, and those who can read backwards are just better at it than most. I can read and write backwards, and considering the West’s most able backward writer was Leonardo Da Vinci, you can harp all you want about how pointless you think it is. There are many ideas about the importance of recognizing patterns, some of which aren’t just hang-overs from when we were prey animals ourselves.
No, the West’s most *celebrated* backwards writer was Leonardo. That doesn’t mean he was the best at it.
Very well said David, I’m happy somebody came out and said that.
I got a ton of those.
This is why I hate the internet. Yes, all of you are talented, just like everyone else EVER. Wow what an awesome skill that I developed doing quirky stuff when I was a kid cause I’m so unique and creative! Good lord. Hey can you guys walk backwards? WOW!! I bet you learned how to do that when you were a kid and you always wanted to confuse the people hot o your tail by walking backwards so they track the footprints the wrong way! Golly gee willikers I wish I was as fun and mischievous and imaginative as you…
Try reading it bottom to top left to right with out the continuity it is hard.
Turn it upside down and that is how printers used to hand set type. Individual characters would look like what you see here, backword.
Backword?? Or backward?
Ass, i thought i was gifted at first.
*Shutup Steve*
Many ways to train your brain. These things are not as useless as they might seem. Every challenge you put your brain go through makes it faster and better. :)
Reading and writing backwards did pretty well for Leonardo da Vinci!
Mirror reading and writing are far from pointless. Talents and aptitudes come in different flavours, and we are still learning about the benefits of mirror reading practice. There’s plenty of attention from researchers around the world focusing on neuroplasticity and right brain cortical growth and MR. Definitely not just kidstuff, and much more than Leonardo. I welcome anyone interested in the topic to contact me at Shelagh@mirrorread.com
how about upside down and backwards with both hands at the time,