There's this thing going around on Facebook suggesting you are smart if you can read a paragaph where the middle letters of the words are scrambled.
Everything old is new again, since I remember reading about this in 2003. As far as I remember being able to read the scrambled text was not related to intelligence in any way.
Anyway, as a Friday afternoon distraction I wrote a little javascript to scramble text.
| Plain | Scrambled |
| Hello This is a paragraph that you will still be able to read even after it is scrambled, the only rule being the first and last letters remain in place. This javascript will try and be fairly smart about not moving around non-alphabetic characters too. |
Ahh, the good-olde Fisher-Yates shuffle algorithm, friend of the first year tutorial!