Can you count? Are you sure?

32

32

36. I knew to count the “f’s” in “of” Have a great day!

I have 38.

I got 29,
Shirley

36 – amazing how easy it was to miss the F’s!

I got 35, But reading the post some says 36, so I need to count every line again and count F’s by line. And finally I found the F’s missing.
36 is my number.
Good excersice. If we can’t count properly, imagine when we ask the people in the shopfoor they pay attention and found the failing parts!!

I got 36. I think some of the people who got 35 may be missing one of the “of’s” or the second “f” in “forefathers”. Nice exercise!

The question is ambiguous. The “next paragraph” could refer to the one about farm hands or this one:

“Post your guess, I mean answer, in comments section. Ready? Go!”

In case the latter, the correct answer is zero.

0 or 36, depending on the actual next paragraph, or the inferred paragraph.

We used to do something similar during Kaizen training, and the trick is not to read the words, either count backwards or turn the paragraph upside down.

36 times the letter “f” is used….hope i am correct… every time we count we have different answer…looks like continuous improvement

Ron,

I have worked in various industries, in various quality roles, i.e. Quality Engineer to Quality Manager. During that time, we have had to find a way to proof materials that people read. The best and most accurate way we have found is to actually, read the test backwards. Start at the last word and go backwards word by word. The reason for this is the human brain “fills in” words for us. Not sure if you have ever seen the paragraph written with only first and last letter of certain words and the letters in-between mixed up, but people are still able to read that paragraph normally, and understand the context. We read backwards as the brain then does not “fill in” the missing letters since it is not used to reading in this matter. It allowed us to catch mistakes, quickly and easily and not require someone manually typing it into another tool to do the work. I hope this helps if anyone else is doing this type of work, as this is a quick solution. Suggest using a piece of paper to help people move backwards in the paragraph as well instead of letting natural habits take over and “read” normally.

Thanks,

Sean

i got 31….. looking at everyone’s answers i must be close.

then 36 when studied slowly!

36

36. My eyes are now trained to recognize that “of” has an F in it. Just like they are trained to pick up when a word is doubled such as the “a bird in the bush” illusion.

It’s 48