Can you recite the alphabet backwords?

Nope. Never had any reason to.

It’s ridiculous that they make you say it backwards if you get pulled over! Most people can’t say it backwards completely sober!

I can say it backwards, but it’s only because of a song I learned when I was little.

I don’t think cops would ask this of you. I hope not, anyway, because I can’t do it sober either. Or I could, but not quickly.

“tebahpla” what do I win?

My friends and I got bored and started a game on rollercoasters with reciting the alphabet backwards. I recite it drunk, as well.
But I can’t walk a straight line sober. So that’d be a problem.

Well, I just did it with a few pauses. It’s not something I do very often…lol

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haha no way. that’s borderline impossible.

I can if I really think about it. I, too, always figured this would be a problem if a cop did it as a DUI test.

Nope. Don’t drive though. Live in the uk too where they breathalise you and take a blood sample.

@Pcrecords Yes, breathalyzers.

They only ask you to do it to see if you will actually try. Most drunk folks are willing to do anything to prove they are sober.

@Faye yes Breathalisers. Used to breathalise.

@Pcrecords Yes, breathalyzers.

@Pcrecords I was agreeing with you @rangerr thanks

@blondesjon presumably it makes more great footage for cops on camera shows too. I like that they just do it to have a little fun. Presumably walking in a straight line too.

@faye no problem, thought you were questioning my spelling.

I get to “Z y x w v u” and give up.
I’ve seen the backwards alphabet thing on movies, but haven’t heard of it actually happening to anyone in real life.

@Sarcasm I hadn’t seen it until this video

@rangerr Damn he had it!!

Here. Practice

No, but I could write it backward as a mirror image easily. I would ask for a pad of paper to do that. I used to get a chuckle out of my students (I taught English—not for long, thank goodness), when I would write their assignments on the board in mirror image. I’m ambidextrous, which probably helps bend my mind.

@rangerr that’s a brilliant sketch. Made my night. I believed it right til her dance instructions.

@rangerr Oh god. I miss Reno 911 :(

@Sarcasm That show is pretty much my hometown in tv form. I miss it, but Scrubs is back, I’m okay now.

I actually can.

It seems I have a little too much time on my hands…

Not sure I can still say it forward….

No…I’m so ashamed

Yes, i do it over and over in to try to keep me awake in french class.

@icehky06 as you should. All the cool kids are doing it.

Oh yeah, I had insomnia in fourth grade so I spent restless nights working on it. I’d add a couple letters each night so now I’m positive I’d be able to do it drunk. Course I didn’t know at the time how useful that would be.

Yeah, but I have to think about it. I’ve also heard stories about using it as a sobriety test, but I have never heard directly from anyone who has been asked.

If I thought really hard and paused a lot. It would probably make me seem drunk even if I wasn’t.

I can! My first-grade Reading teacher taught us how to do it, so pretty much everyone I know can say the alphabet backwards really fast. We were in the upper-level reading group, but the curriculum said she was supposed to teach us the alphabet, even though everyone in our group could already read – so she taught it to us backwards instead. It actually comes in really handy when you’re trying to alphabetize things, since you can start from whichever end is closest!

I can do the alphabet, that’s not too scary. But what if they made you do THIS?

learning the alphabet backwards is something you’d have to do for fun, like trying to remember more numbers of PI then anyone else.

i suggest trying to do both – its very impressive.

Also, try figuring out the first 15 numbers of the Fibonacci sequence: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5,...

fucking rabbits ^^

Reciting the alphabet backward is not part of the Field Sobriety Test approved by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The addition of tasks not specified in the approved test can invalidate it and an experienced DWI lawyer might be able to use that invalidity to protect the defendant.