Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, VIII, 51
The tests below constitute a series designed to assess your ability to produce an actual English word from a set of letters. The letters are those of the word, but their order has been changed, so that only one letter, at most, remains in its original position.
Each test has 10 items. In each item, you will see a set of clickable buttons, each containing a letter. You will also see a space for your answer. Input your answer by clicking the letter buttons in the correct order to spell out the scrambled word.
Buttons cannot be deselected by clicking them once they have been clicked. Instead, you should click the "Reset" button that has been provided.
Care has been taken to ensure that there is only one correct answer.
These tests are an assessment of the ability to quickly produce possible English words given a sequence of letters that does not spell out an English word. This ability requires that you be able to recognize the English words in question, even if you do not know what these words mean.
While the item type found in these tests has been studied as a measure of intelligence. More notably, this item type appears in word puzzles, in various forms. For example, one can solve a daily word puzzle in some newspapers that involves unscrambling words. Cryptic (or "British") crosswords often require the solver to unscramble a set of words, and indicate this with a word or phrase evocative of mixing or unmixing.
This item type is related to anagrams. An anagram, properly defined, is a word or phrase that is a re-ordering of another word or phrase. For example, "evil" is an anagram of "vile".