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Originally Posted by robocop
I count the number of letters in words. Been doing it since I was a kid, I break them into parts of 3 letters and count the sets of 3 and add any remainders. I can count the letters in most words in under a second.
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I used to do something similar, as a child. Usually I did it when I was bored.
I would look at a word and try to find a way to make each letter's number, so to speak, from the addition or subtraction of two other letters in that word. For example, the word
collection: c = 3, I can make that from o (15) and l (12). so c, o, and l are done. e = 5. i can make that from t (20) and o (15).....continue. I would get pretty annoyed/upset if I could do any of the letters in a word with this method, and would have to move onto another word.
Thankfully I grew out of that.