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Answer» Can you read this?
I lost or forgot my password to a site I seldom visit.
Then they want me to read this so I can get the password.
I fail and fail time and again. I need some help in knowing how to read this. I am a sight reader, but also can read phonetically, but neither SKILL can help me here.
What am I doing wrong? Well, these things can drive PEOPLE crazy sometimes. Here's what I see in that captcha:
havicli myth,
Apparently, a comma is that last character but I wouldn't bet on my interpretation of any captcha. I don't recall seeing PUNCTUATION marks used in them so I may be wrong about the comma; maybe it's just stray mark ADDED to confuse people. I also see havicli myth, and I too am uncertain about the comma. I would expect the site to say something like "Please enter the characters you see including any punctuation" if such was liable to appear. If I were you, and had problems seeing the captcha, I would just click on Audio to get an audio challenge.Many of the sites that use captcha have a button that lets you retrieve another group of letters, and I've had to do that several times when I couldn't make out what the letters were. Some of them are very difficult to read even if you have good eyesight.Capchas can be terrible to decipher if you are using an LCD screen at other than native resolution. Thanks fellows. I finally decided to just get a new hotmail account.
And this time I ignored spaces and figures scrambled beyond human recognition. And it worked. I will just forget my old account.
As for the audio, I must have seven audio codes on this machine, and it tells me to down load another player for a WAV file. Like I never before ever played a WAV file? An the audio was at first clear, then very poor.
There has to be a better way.
Maybe it should ask you to open your microphone - and o SING a few bars of - "You are my Sunshine."
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