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

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

I have no trouble at all seeing that as glorified, but saltord would stump me for a while.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I have no trouble at all seeing it as "glorified", except my (incorrect) operating parameters were that it must not be a real word.

Reading bad handwriting/poor printing/wonky computer-deying letters is way easier if all you have to do is spot a known word.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Well, I was responding to is the second word hard to read, and the last letter just a splodge - no, to me, it really isn't. I'm not sure why I don't see that as a splodge, but I don't. I think it may be related to the way I read in general - I can read very very quickly when I want to, on a skim-read basis, so perhaps my brain is filling in what my eye isn't processing?