That girl was always falling again and again

[venta]

I've noticed, of late, that I've been getting worse at filling in captchas correctly. I think that they're getting worse, and harder to read - but possibly this is just the equivalent of declaring as you get older than all your friends have started mumbling.

This was today's particularly troublesome specimen:



Is it just me, or is the second word hard to read, and the last letter just a splodge?

Is captcha-reading software getting better, forcing captchas to become ever more illegible?

Or am I, in fact, slowly devolving into a spam bot?

Comments

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

I'd have gone for "saltord" and "glorified". But both of my parents are doctors, and I'm the designated "scrappy handwriting decipherer" in the office ...

[venta.livejournal.com]

I'm normally pretty good on bad handwriting, but that relies on recognising real words (and context helps). I incorrectly thought that I was looking for things which weren't real words above, and once you can't glance at it and go "ah, clearly glorified" but have to look at actual letters, you realise most of them aren't there.

[exspelunca.livejournal.com]

)f course you'e good at bad handwriting, you get a letter from me every week. saltord and glorified, incidentally, but I think we see the last letter as d because it's what we expect.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Fair point.