Excellent, pretty sure the reason people find it easy is because our brains develop extremely powerful font 'decoders' from a pretty early stage of reading, from being exposed to so many different writing styles (both printed fonts and handwriting, though the latter is much less true nowadays).
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ncie ealatxnoipn, but waht about the fact that we can esilay raed wrdos even if the lreetts are sefufhld as long as the bngniieng and the end are kpet?
I had to stare at it for a while before I could read "explanation". Seems like there's more to it than just "beginning and end".
Yep, that's kind of why I wrote my comment - it really is different. What you did (maybe?), i.e. scrambling but keeping endpoints the same, doesn't get quicker, i.e. we don't learn how to read it, we just ... can. Arguably it's a more interesting phenomenon.
Honestly I'm having trouble reading that myself even though I wrote it so maybe the phenomenon is not that interesting.