Worst Captcha Ever

I’m trying to download a file from the evil Rapidshare (who make you wait about 2 painful minutes before giving you the file) and just after the wait time is over, I get a Captcha looking like this:

WTF man? I mean, does it really need to be this hard? Are you telling me that it has come down to us hiding domestic animals in our captcha characters in order to hold off bots? Plus, there are only 3 “letters” in that image but its asking for four.

This is a sad day for the HCI crowd.

On an unrelated note, here’s my cat.

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199 Comments

  1. dude
    Posted April 20, 2008 at 7:14 pm | Permalink | Reply

    i haz ur capcha

  2. My name
    Posted April 21, 2008 at 1:18 pm | Permalink | Reply

    Besides… there is only 3 letters there :P

  3. g
    Posted April 21, 2008 at 1:22 pm | Permalink | Reply

    62y8

  4. dude2
    Posted April 21, 2008 at 1:46 pm | Permalink | Reply

    irony is that text in the captcha reminds of word ‘pussy’…

  5. Jim
    Posted April 21, 2008 at 1:58 pm | Permalink | Reply

    This captcha is already cracked :D

  6. Alan
    Posted April 21, 2008 at 2:06 pm | Permalink | Reply

    DUDE The same thing happened to me. Its rubbish. It took me 6 fail attempts and my brothers help to find the cats. I missed my RS Pro account. :( To bad i can’t buy another one.

  7. Posted April 21, 2008 at 2:29 pm | Permalink | Reply

    FULLACK.

    btw. they got happy hours without 2 minutes waiting…

  8. Posted April 21, 2008 at 2:31 pm | Permalink | Reply

    Just use CaptchaSolver.

  9. Posted April 21, 2008 at 2:51 pm | Permalink | Reply

    It took me some Norwegian brothers to help find the cats. (I am an American, and very proud of it, thank you very much.)

    Several fail attempts (uncountable) before my Euro bros helped me out in a pinch.

  10. Posted April 21, 2008 at 3:32 pm | Permalink | Reply

    A proud day for AI (have captcha crackers advance THAT much already)

  11. jasonb
    Posted April 21, 2008 at 3:36 pm | Permalink | Reply

    No sh*t. They changed it up and it took me 3 attempts BEFORE I actually read the instructions. I pretty much keep searching when I find a site using “Rapid”Share.

  12. hmmmmm
    Posted April 21, 2008 at 4:00 pm | Permalink | Reply

    man i would have entered cu*t

    woops!

    * = n

  13. nathan
    Posted April 21, 2008 at 4:03 pm | Permalink | Reply

    Pretty obviously 62y8, but thats beside the point; Shit is ridonkulous.

  14. Posted April 21, 2008 at 4:20 pm | Permalink | Reply

    Holy moly — I was just about to blog this same site for the same reason. Amazing, isn’t it?

    Worse: If you get it wrong you have to sit through the “non-paying-user” waiting period all over again.

  15. Posted April 21, 2008 at 4:34 pm | Permalink | Reply

    Just wait until the bots can see the cats. And determine that they are indeed cats, just twisted at different angles. Then where will we be?

    Clearly, we need to start eradicating the cats.

  16. Ben
    Posted April 21, 2008 at 5:00 pm | Permalink | Reply

    ive gotten way worst dude, although I totally agree rapidshare and its lolcats are not so funny =[

  17. Posted April 21, 2008 at 5:04 pm | Permalink | Reply

    My favorite bit is that OCR (optical recognition) schemes are actually BETTER than people at recognizing single characters. Some decent, easily-accessible OCR could pick out all the letters, and even without matching the cats guess at the 4 letters and get in 1/15 of the time – a perfectly good ratio for a bot.

  18. ton
    Posted April 21, 2008 at 5:10 pm | Permalink | Reply

    Don’t forget that those b#$t@rds also throttle the hell out of your connection when downloading files. I’ve consistently seen absolute drivel like my connection falling from 500 kbps to 50 kbps!

  19. Posted April 21, 2008 at 5:32 pm | Permalink | Reply

    lol I notice that like 4 days ago, I should have posted it and I’ll be in the frontpage :p

    This IS the MOST annoying thing. I fail it like 2 times before realizing I had to look for cats.

  20. P6S2Y8
    Posted April 21, 2008 at 5:55 pm | Permalink | Reply

    Well it is probably harder than other captchas because you are doing it one-handed.

    In the case of rapid-share files (mostly pr0n), I guess they should make it easy for anybody, to let hackers and bots onto their site so they can lose business and lessen the bandwidth provided to actual users.

    Why not post something constructive. This captcha serves everybody and IS NOT that hard, if you aren’t downloading with your pants around your ankles.

  21. Posted April 21, 2008 at 5:59 pm | Permalink | Reply

    P6S2Y8, you appear to be a dick. It’s meant as a joke, obviously its not the “Worst Captcha Ever”, its just funny that there are cats in there.

    And I was downloading Arsenal highlights for my other blog, not porn:

    http://rapidshare.com/files/108847926/Arsenal_V_Reading_19.04.08_MotD_highlights_f54.avi

    http://arsenalist.com/2008/04/19/arsenal-vs-reading-highlights-english-premier-league/

    Stop being a little c*nt.

  22. Posted April 21, 2008 at 6:06 pm | Permalink | Reply

    i like you blog it is very oldskool

  23. bill
    Posted April 21, 2008 at 6:11 pm | Permalink | Reply

    You mean

    8 my PUSSY

  24. joe bob
    Posted April 21, 2008 at 6:31 pm | Permalink | Reply

    arsenalist isn’t saying that he couldn’t find the four characters with the cat on them, he’s saying he couldn’t find four **letters** with the cat on them — in fact, there aren’t even four letters to choose from.

  25. Wonzi
    Posted April 21, 2008 at 6:37 pm | Permalink | Reply

    You guys are getting too caught up in this. The fact there are cats in a captcha is in itself ridiculous. The misuse of the word ‘letters’ is just adding to the ridiculousness.

  26. h
    Posted April 21, 2008 at 7:36 pm | Permalink | Reply

    first. i lub yer kitty.

    second. i think i just showed everyone at my work that Captcha. I’m glad it wasn’t me. I would have thrown things at the screen.

  27. hanushh
    Posted April 21, 2008 at 7:45 pm | Permalink | Reply

    two day before the capcha was not this much out of focus

    Som time yesterday I saw at rapid share that “Happy Hours Activated”

  28. el Ninja
    Posted April 21, 2008 at 9:41 pm | Permalink | Reply

    Everytime im going to download something Rapidshare is on happy hour.
    Oh I love Rapidshare (not something i would say last week)

  29. Posted April 21, 2008 at 9:44 pm | Permalink | Reply

    Yeppers, some are so bad.. Just bypass and move on..seems they are the ones who really does not want any one to get it, or get it write!

    Michele
    lilyputts.com

  30. wes
    Posted April 21, 2008 at 9:44 pm | Permalink | Reply

    oh, rapidshare. having a premium account is about the most rewarding thing possible, though.

  31. Posted April 21, 2008 at 11:47 pm | Permalink | Reply

    Can we have captchas that draw blood and require finger-prints yet?

  32. Posted April 22, 2008 at 1:42 am | Permalink | Reply

    I immediately saw “pussy 8,” and thought that was the joke. Apparently it was just me.

  33. Posted April 22, 2008 at 2:43 am | Permalink | Reply

    OMG. Seriously! I came across thus the other day too! WTF man? Captchas are supposed to be hard for robots, not humans! … I do like cats though. :)

  34. Posted April 22, 2008 at 4:52 am | Permalink | Reply

    After 10 minutes of analyzing…. 6 2 Y 8 !!!!! ??, i think?

  35. Posted April 22, 2008 at 6:04 am | Permalink | Reply

    No sure about this

  36. al
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 6:58 am | Permalink | Reply

    PGSY?

  37. Posted April 22, 2008 at 11:21 am | Permalink | Reply

    Mwuhahahhahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!
    I’ve been bloody angered by that cat on the letter!!!!!!!!I’ve had worser captchas!!!!!!!!!!
    N hey, ur cat luks cute!!!!!!!!!!

  38. Posted April 22, 2008 at 11:44 am | Permalink | Reply

    Your cat is so cute. :)

  39. Posted April 22, 2008 at 12:42 pm | Permalink | Reply

    That is an evil CAPTCHA

    Global Warming Alarmists Beware… http://www.EvilCarbon.com

  40. Posted April 22, 2008 at 1:00 pm | Permalink | Reply

    Haha it took me a while to figure out what they meant by showing the picture of a cat. That would be tricky to see whether it has a cat in the background.

    Your cat is cute.

  41. Posted April 22, 2008 at 1:18 pm | Permalink | Reply

    That is ridculus. Are they trying to limit it just to members or something.

  42. Posted April 22, 2008 at 3:14 pm | Permalink | Reply

    I think your kitty is cute :)

    • SWFlash
      Posted March 18, 2010 at 12:31 pm | Permalink | Reply

      what for captchas to files? >:l it possible to comments (no spam allowed) but files? …

  43. Posted April 22, 2008 at 3:18 pm | Permalink | Reply

    i have seen this alot, i would have wrote about it too if i knew it would get me on digg front page.

  44. Zack Katz
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 3:19 pm | Permalink | Reply

    Is this an IQ test?

  45. Posted April 22, 2008 at 3:20 pm | Permalink | Reply

    You counted 3, they want 4. I only see 1 damn I would have never been able to download anything from that site.

  46. benji
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 3:22 pm | Permalink | Reply

    For those of you who are having trouble…

    There are letters with DOGS on them, subtract those and dont be afraid to use the numbers with cats on them.

    This took me like 40 f*cking minutes.

  47. Posted April 22, 2008 at 3:33 pm | Permalink | Reply

    Wow… That’s freaking hilarious! And if the guy is correct about it already being cracked, even better! Just goes to prove that security measures only stop the stupid hackers, or normal users. I was reading an article on game management recently and some of the top selling companies don’t use any sort of CD protection for their games because their customers don’t like it, and it doesn’t stop anyone.

  48. Posted April 22, 2008 at 3:37 pm | Permalink | Reply

    @ benji dogs? I can see maybe one dog, but the first letter looks like it’s got a chicken on it, and the “2″ appears to have a monkey on it… or something.

  49. myndzi
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 3:39 pm | Permalink | Reply

    The worst part isn’t how bad captchas have gotten, it’s how overused they’ve become. Why do you need a captcha to download a file? What’s going to happen if a bot does it instead? … the file gets downloaded anyway?

    They’re not registering accounts via the captcha so you get no special privileges. I can’t see RapidShare having much of a bot problem, nor can I see such problems with most of the sites I’ve seen captchas on. Hopefully it turns out to be a fad that will just go away.

  50. Nathan
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 3:42 pm | Permalink | Reply

    I think someone heard “Kitten Auth” was much better. Then thought this horrible idea was what was ment by it.

  51. rapidshare
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 3:45 pm | Permalink | Reply

    leechers complain about cat-cha? if you don’t like the wavy impossible to read cat-cha then don’t use rapidshare

  52. mephistopheles
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 3:46 pm | Permalink | Reply

    if you install noscript for firefox and block the scripts from rapidshare.com, you can return and try the captcha again by pressing back on your browser without waiting for another two minutes.

    however, i’ve never had problems with finding the cats – my trouble with the old rapidshare captchas was distinguishing between the capital C and G.

  53. Ruggy
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 3:48 pm | Permalink | Reply

    I’m in ur captcha humpin ur letterz!

  54. PussyCatcher
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 3:51 pm | Permalink | Reply

    6, 2, Y, and 8 all have the cat, there are four letters, not three, you blind fucking moron. And stop bitching about the slight inconvenience you have to put up with for downloading stolen shit from rapidshare.

  55. TargetX
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 3:52 pm | Permalink | Reply

    That is indeed way too difficult lol!

    Your cat looks cute though :-)

  56. laureline
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 3:53 pm | Permalink | Reply

    by the way… you’re right but there are indeed four of them.

  57. me
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 3:54 pm | Permalink | Reply

    i got almost the same thing! And it was freaking hard.

  58. Posted April 22, 2008 at 3:55 pm | Permalink | Reply

    Funny! Posted the same kind of article a couple of days ago, reviewing the same stupid CAPTCHA of RapidShare :) .

  59. name
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 3:57 pm | Permalink | Reply

    PGSY, don’t be dumb…

  60. myndzi
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 4:01 pm | Permalink | Reply

    Pussycatcher: 6, 2, and 8 are not letters.

  61. JC
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 4:03 pm | Permalink | Reply

    Cute kitty!

  62. Posted April 22, 2008 at 4:08 pm | Permalink | Reply

    at least it is easy to read :)

  63. rock
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 4:11 pm | Permalink | Reply

    Dude, that’s easy.. they really screw you up when they put O and 0 in the same font and sizes. I tried to enter the right letter but got it wrong 50% of the time.

  64. Dan
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 4:15 pm | Permalink | Reply

    It is obvious that this at first human glance looks like pussy 8, which si scode for Octopussy, 4 letters, related to Octopussy…

    BOND

    solved!

  65. Posted April 22, 2008 at 4:18 pm | Permalink | Reply

    Yeah its solid, I hate it on Rapidshare especilly

  66. Brucee
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 4:27 pm | Permalink | Reply

    6SY8 – the brilliant programmer changed the cats to dogs on the other “letters / (numbers)” which is what he meant. Look at the “P” its not the cat image.

  67. Posted April 22, 2008 at 4:31 pm | Permalink | Reply

    “Plus, there are only 3 “letters” in that image but its asking for four.”

    You my friend have passed the test.

  68. Posted April 22, 2008 at 4:41 pm | Permalink | Reply

    I’m glad you guys feel my pain. This is ridiculous.

  69. Posted April 22, 2008 at 4:42 pm | Permalink | Reply

    Cute cat.

  70. Posted April 22, 2008 at 4:47 pm | Permalink | Reply

    Something tells me you are at least mildly retarded if this presents a problem to you.

  71. Chin Ying
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 4:53 pm | Permalink | Reply

    Catcha

  72. haha
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 5:01 pm | Permalink | Reply

    omg, rapidshare kicks ass, but you guys wouldnt know, just get a premium account, it is so worth it.
    enjoy

  73. Posted April 22, 2008 at 5:03 pm | Permalink | Reply

    whoa!

  74. chris
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 5:16 pm | Permalink | Reply

    Wow my internet days are at an end. I cant see the dang cat in any but one.

  75. Jacob Parker
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 5:16 pm | Permalink | Reply

    I had that, took 5 tries to get it

  76. Posted April 22, 2008 at 5:16 pm | Permalink | Reply

    By the way, your cat is fat ;)

  77. RHS
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 5:20 pm | Permalink | Reply

    The cats have bigger heads, and there are 4 of them… Still a piss off!

  78. Posted April 22, 2008 at 5:26 pm | Permalink | Reply

    That was a little cute

  79. Nick
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 5:48 pm | Permalink | Reply

    I’ve got one better.

    Check this out :)

    http://www.nicholasahill.com/Captcha.png

  80. Posted April 22, 2008 at 5:49 pm | Permalink | Reply

    man…
    why do they make iilegal downloads so difficult?

  81. Posted April 22, 2008 at 5:54 pm | Permalink | Reply

    That’s why I hate RapidShare. Seriously. Use torrents or soemthing.

  82. a
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 5:54 pm | Permalink | Reply

    dude they made it like that cause (if u rad another digged page) spammers have created bots that can decipher a normal captcha code in under 6 seconds. and rapidshare awards free month subscriptions to those who have files that have been downloaded a large amount of times and if they kept with the old captcha code system people could just plug their own file and get cost rapidshare more money than it should

  83. Mik
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 5:57 pm | Permalink | Reply

    Nice pussy, it looks well fed.

  84. Posted April 22, 2008 at 5:59 pm | Permalink | Reply

    I would prefer this one: http://www.defectiveyeti.com/iacaptchas/ That captcha seems more realistic and useful.

  85. Posted April 22, 2008 at 5:59 pm | Permalink | Reply

    Just don’t download from rapidshare!

  86. matt
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 6:03 pm | Permalink | Reply

    there is 4 of them.. look closer!!!!!!!!@#!@$@#!%#$%^$%^#$%!#$%#$^

    letters/numbers are : 62Y8

  87. Williams.L
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 6:04 pm | Permalink | Reply

    I saw this same story a week before on another site…
    http://www.hack5.blogspot.com

    I think there is a entry in digg too…

    Anyway thanks…nice find…

  88. Posted April 22, 2008 at 6:07 pm | Permalink | Reply

    I love how captcha has evolved to the point where we need computers to solve them.

  89. Posted April 22, 2008 at 6:08 pm | Permalink | Reply

    Hey, we’re kitty twins.

  90. Riddler
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 6:40 pm | Permalink | Reply

    why dont you… i dont know… suck it the fuck up and dont complain about rapidshare and just buy a dam account?
    or if you really hate the whole wait time, use theyre automatic downloader, or RapGet, or some other auto downloader
    and buy an account so u dont have to wait 2 minutes every time

  91. Posted April 22, 2008 at 6:46 pm | Permalink | Reply

    duck cat dog cat cat cat

  92. Posted April 22, 2008 at 6:56 pm | Permalink | Reply

    there are 4. but you need to twist your head. hard one man!!

  93. Posted April 22, 2008 at 7:09 pm | Permalink | Reply

    i found 4 cats

  94. waterpup
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 7:14 pm | Permalink | Reply

    Yeah it says “Pussy” so that’s 5 letters and no numbers inless you feel like adding a 69 to it. Sounds good to me

  95. AnonymousNow
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 7:16 pm | Permalink | Reply

    looking at this one, it becomes apparent that “letters” means “letters or numbers.”

    THus, this captcha is designed to fool even humans.

    I was wondering why in the 4 times I have tried to download a rapidshare file I’ve been unable to crack the capcha.

  96. Posted April 22, 2008 at 7:41 pm | Permalink | Reply

    seriously … get a pro account … and stop this madness …
    hehe :P

  97. Posted April 22, 2008 at 7:42 pm | Permalink | Reply

    I ALWAYS have this stupid captcha thing on rapidshare, and I end up redoing it about 3 times. I emailed them about it, but I doubt I’ll get a response.

  98. Posted April 22, 2008 at 7:43 pm | Permalink | Reply

    I’s go with “pCsy”…the cat’s back make the C look lmost like a 6 or G.

  99. kitchentent
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 7:48 pm | Permalink | Reply

    Bad Kitty.

  100. CAPTCHA KITTY
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 7:51 pm | Permalink | Reply

    CAPTCHA KITTY IS BLOCKING UR ACCESS!

  101. Posted April 22, 2008 at 8:03 pm | Permalink | Reply

    Haha wow stop crying, that captcha is easy! And the cats only make it harder for computers to solve…

  102. Posted April 22, 2008 at 8:14 pm | Permalink | Reply

    I’d much rather have the cats climbing on readable letters than this one I got: http://insanesecurity.com/article.php?story=20080422125639914

  103. Posted April 22, 2008 at 8:23 pm | Permalink | Reply

    haha , very funny and cruel indeed

  104. Goronmon
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 8:25 pm | Permalink | Reply

    “And stop bitching about the slight inconvenience you have to put up with for downloading stolen shit from rapidshare.”

    It’s funny because it’s true.

  105. Rizzler
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 8:58 pm | Permalink | Reply

    That’s hilarious. And I hate Rapidshare’s tease at making you buy.

    In actuality though, the only bad part of buying a rapidshare pro account is that it’s done in Euros. Not saying anything bad about the Euros, but the American dollar… I bought an account one month for 6.99Euros… and it was $10 roughly. Bought another a month or so later, it was $11.50. It’s a shock to see the expression of the value of the dollar changing like that. And I’m not saying it isn’t either. Just kind of shocking.

  106. dave
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 9:19 pm | Permalink | Reply

    completely agree! it took me 5 attempts to enter yesterday! bloody rapidshare!

  107. Posted April 22, 2008 at 9:29 pm | Permalink | Reply

    Captcha is outliving its usefulness more and more every year.

  108. navin
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 9:32 pm | Permalink | Reply

    Um, your kitty is rather well fed.

  109. Posted April 22, 2008 at 10:01 pm | Permalink | Reply

    Captcha often sucks, especially when your comment got lost after reload.

  110. Posted April 22, 2008 at 10:09 pm | Permalink | Reply

    Amazing how fast the digg counter goes up…

  111. J saint
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 10:23 pm | Permalink | Reply

    I totally agree that this is the worst ever. I can never get the code to work. Thank god someone put the new nin song on a torrent or I never would have heard it!

  112. Dick Johnson
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 10:25 pm | Permalink | Reply

    I agree with arsenalist, the other day I went to download a file from rapidshare and I couldn’t tell what the hell the letters even were let alone which ones had the right cat in them. I had to try about 4 different times (meaning I had to wait about 8 minutes total with their retarded wait time) just to get my file.

    In conclusion, I hope the people who run rapidshare die in a fire.

  113. Posted April 22, 2008 at 10:42 pm | Permalink | Reply

    i think that 6 is actually a G

  114. jaaf
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 10:42 pm | Permalink | Reply

    they only wants $$$$$

    thats why they are using this worst thing.

  115. MJ
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 11:23 pm | Permalink | Reply

    I downloaded a file today and it took me like 4 attempts to get it right!! That is definitely the worst captcha ever!!!! I mean, the purpose is to keep bots off, not humans.

  116. Posted April 22, 2008 at 11:49 pm | Permalink | Reply

    Yeah it’s nuts

  117. Posted April 22, 2008 at 11:50 pm | Permalink | Reply

    Rapidshit sucks!
    ¬¬

  118. Posted April 23, 2008 at 12:02 am | Permalink | Reply

    62Y8 are the symbols with cats. Simple.

    - http://wweadam.com

  119. Rhonersen
    Posted April 23, 2008 at 12:29 am | Permalink | Reply

    Good thing you are not paying for it. …

  120. Posted April 23, 2008 at 1:09 am | Permalink | Reply

    Initially, the captcha words were quite simple. As time passes by, they’re getting more difficult and unrecognizable. I think its time someone found a better alternative

  121. Bryan
    Posted April 23, 2008 at 1:24 am | Permalink | Reply

    Downloading stolen porn or games from Rapidshare are we?

    Go fuck yourself

  122. Posted April 23, 2008 at 1:39 am | Permalink | Reply

    Man, that sucks. I hate rapidshare so much. I pretty much make sure that’s my last resort if I can’t find the file elsewhere. :-/

  123. Posted April 23, 2008 at 2:05 am | Permalink | Reply

    “omg, rapidshare kicks ass, but you guys wouldnt know, just get a premium account, it is so worth it.”

    Which is of course exactly what they want to do.

    Pretty sure that what they did there is illegal under EU disability regs also – though I guess you could argue no discrimination due to that fact people without disabilities can’t figure it out either.

    But then rapidshare always were epic fail.

  124. Daniel Smith
    Posted April 23, 2008 at 2:53 am | Permalink | Reply

    I think the P and S have a “dog”. BTW, the instructions are faulty; they ask for “four letters” and clearly (!) there are numbers mixed in.

    You know, I wonder if this is supposed to be like that joke about the bus? All these people get on and off the bus and then you’re asked a question unrelated to the number of people that get on and off. I wonder if this is like that since there are only 4 “letters” displayed (although I’m not sure if that one is a 6 or a G…)

    I hate RapidShare too…

  125. cht086
    Posted April 23, 2008 at 3:01 am | Permalink | Reply

    LOLz

  126. foufga
    Posted April 23, 2008 at 3:12 am | Permalink | Reply

    So I have a question… first day reading your blog (you were on the front page of WP)… but how did you format your css for code blocks to look so amazing?

  127. Posted April 23, 2008 at 3:20 am | Permalink | Reply

    Please enter all letters having three (instead of 4 ) letters with a cat, might be more appropriate. But hey! we made mistakes.

  128. pirate
    Posted April 23, 2008 at 3:41 am | Permalink | Reply

    I found this on bayimg. now you can has:

    http://bayimg.com/EAJlfAABh

  129. Posted April 23, 2008 at 4:12 am | Permalink | Reply

    foufga, it’s just a wordpress.com feature, check it out here:

    http://faq.wordpress.com/2007/09/03/how-do-i-post-source-code/

  130. Bobo
    Posted April 23, 2008 at 7:43 am | Permalink | Reply

    If you really see only 3 letters with a cat instead of 4 (6, 2, Y, and 8), maybe you are a bot.

  131. darkmelancholy27
    Posted April 23, 2008 at 7:51 am | Permalink | Reply

    >.< rapidshare’s no good, man.

  132. Posted April 23, 2008 at 7:52 am | Permalink | Reply

    A friend of mine called it a retarded captcha. I guess its retarded too. Whats on the hell is this. Do we have to bleed and crack our head just to fill a form or submit it. Mamamia captcha with domestic images plus 1 ( one )

  133. Yuusou
    Posted April 23, 2008 at 8:33 am | Permalink | Reply

    At least they now show you what the cat looks like. Before they just said please enter all the letters with a cat in them.

  134. sathien
    Posted April 23, 2008 at 8:47 am | Permalink | Reply

    WTF!? I saw this on the front page and was like “Oh, could be funny!” – But apparently you are just stupid, since this is one of the easiest Captchas I’ve ever seen. Seriously, I don’t know what you’re actually complaining about. Perhaps you’re just an attention whore.

  135. Posted April 23, 2008 at 9:46 am | Permalink | Reply

    Funny how some people think “2″ is a “letter” (at least in my language, “2″ is called “number”, or “digit”, not “letter”)

    Also, yes, sometimes it is friggin’ hard to tell the cats apart – but at least now they show an example of the cat, that makes things easier. When I first saw that cat-cha (without examples), I’ve tried 5~10 times because I could never tell if they were cats, dogs, or cats distorted until they looked like dogs. -_-’

    Also, I guess some guys on the comments are bots: #66 said the captcha is “6SY8″, and #20 said “P6S2Y8″ (!?)

  136. atomash
    Posted April 23, 2008 at 10:55 am | Permalink | Reply

    lol. at least tt made you laugh.
    ok maybe it made us laugh only.=)

  137. Posted April 23, 2008 at 11:49 am | Permalink | Reply

    I saw “pussy 8″ straight-away too! Gotta be some kind of joke!

  138. slackermagee
    Posted April 23, 2008 at 11:52 am | Permalink | Reply

    I agree with the earlier post, the thing is 62Y8. The P and the S look like they have dogs in. Still a stupid system.

  139. Posted April 23, 2008 at 11:59 am | Permalink | Reply

    Its because they want you to frustrate you into a paid user.

  140. Posted April 23, 2008 at 12:13 pm | Permalink | Reply

    Sucks! Too bad we don’t have the captcha crackers to program a better version

  141. andrea
    Posted April 23, 2008 at 12:31 pm | Permalink | Reply

    well, no it’s 4 characters, but to be fair it took me about 3 times before i figured out how the hell to download!

  142. Posted April 23, 2008 at 12:40 pm | Permalink | Reply

    I DESPISE the new captcha. Its horrible. Finding kitties. Urgh.

  143. Posted April 23, 2008 at 12:40 pm | Permalink | Reply

    meh, people should start using recaptcha (http://recaptcha.net) its a lot easier too lol.

  144. Posted April 23, 2008 at 12:42 pm | Permalink | Reply

    its G2Y8… damn easy lol :P

  145. Dick Puller
    Posted April 23, 2008 at 1:19 pm | Permalink | Reply

    Your cat is far easier to see than their cats. I definitely count ONE cat in your cat’s picture. I can’t figure out how many cats there are in the CAPTCHA.

  146. Posted April 23, 2008 at 1:55 pm | Permalink | Reply

    At least ya’ll don’t live in New Zealand, where our high speed internet is about as fast as a a snail cross bred with a tortoise. So bad even that as an election year bribe one of our major parties has said that they’re going to put $150 million NZ into speeding internet up!

    So while you’re deciphering the captcha, I’m wating two or three hours for gmail to load. PFFFFT

  147. Posted April 23, 2008 at 2:02 pm | Permalink | Reply

    I agree with all your points, and your cat looks suprised to be sold out in such a way… evil rapidshare.

  148. VT
    Posted April 23, 2008 at 2:58 pm | Permalink | Reply

    CAPTHCAS suck,.. but something has to be done about the spammers.

  149. Posted April 23, 2008 at 3:51 pm | Permalink | Reply

    lol when I first glanced I thought it spelled out “PUSSY” but now I see what your talking about. Captcha’s are getting out of hand!!

  150. Posted April 23, 2008 at 5:29 pm | Permalink | Reply

    That is just too funny

  151. foufga
    Posted April 23, 2008 at 6:04 pm | Permalink | Reply

    arsenalist: Thanks!

  152. Posted April 23, 2008 at 7:55 pm | Permalink | Reply

    ive seen worse, but my eyes are starting to hurt

  153. listofoptions
    Posted April 23, 2008 at 9:30 pm | Permalink | Reply

    ya know if ya use “download them all” on firefox there’s no time limit?

  154. Posted April 24, 2008 at 12:08 am | Permalink | Reply

    There are worst than that and all of them are of free stuff, just purchase the paid and it would be easier … pfffff

  155. David
    Posted April 24, 2008 at 5:27 pm | Permalink | Reply

    The trick is to look for the tail of the cat to determine the letters :D

  156. Posted April 24, 2008 at 7:25 pm | Permalink | Reply

    I see 4 cats.

  157. Posted April 24, 2008 at 7:37 pm | Permalink | Reply

    Haven’t you seen the mathematic captcha? If you can’t recognize a kitty you won’t solve hard equations. It’s a problem.

  158. Posted April 26, 2008 at 4:38 am | Permalink | Reply

    What is the big deal anyways?? Just use the Captcha auto-fill plugin for Firefox. Geeez!

  159. Orikuuido
    Posted April 26, 2008 at 3:07 pm | Permalink | Reply

    6 2 Y 8

    There are four letters with the cat.

  160. Posted April 27, 2008 at 12:06 pm | Permalink | Reply

    haha I blogged about the same thing geez damn that evil rapidshare XD

  161. Posted April 28, 2008 at 9:28 am | Permalink | Reply

    Woot, didn’t know the bots are so smart today :p.

    Rapidshare sucks, you always have to wait and most times it didn’t work for me.

  162. Posted April 29, 2008 at 3:36 pm | Permalink | Reply

    What a load of shit

  163. Posted May 8, 2008 at 6:51 am | Permalink | Reply

    I think the last character is an ‘S’ not an ’8′ :)

  164. shook_1
    Posted May 14, 2008 at 4:13 pm | Permalink | Reply

    meaw

  165. Posted May 18, 2008 at 9:57 am | Permalink | Reply

    lol frankly speaking, I tried up to 5 times failed with the captcha..
    1st expression was like: heh ? *so I guess I have to input ‘all the codes’
    2nd expression was like: what the..*ok maybe I type them all wrong..
    3rd expression was like: now what? * i did type all the codes perfectly and I did double triple check on the codes there
    4th expression was like: argh…wtf now man *is there a sound-speak option so he can read what should I type in the captcha submit box*
    5th expression was like: alrite it’s gettin on my nerv now, so what is the ‘word by word’ mannual to properly execute the captcha system by rapidshare on that particular page

  166. Posted August 5, 2008 at 2:12 pm | Permalink | Reply

    Dogs had eat the cats.There is no capthcha anymore :)

  167. Posted September 1, 2008 at 7:19 am | Permalink | Reply

    wasn’t it an April’s fool day joke?

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  169. Glagnor
    Posted October 9, 2008 at 8:16 pm | Permalink | Reply

    I’M IN UR CAPTCHAZ MESSIN UP UR LETTERZ

  170. Posted October 30, 2008 at 2:49 pm | Permalink | Reply

    i have experience it, it painful to wait for several minute and then try open my eye widely to recognize symbol..

  171. Posted December 5, 2008 at 6:58 pm | Permalink | Reply

    so bad, what a captcha.

  172. Posted December 10, 2008 at 3:37 pm | Permalink | Reply

    I completely agree, I normally keep guessing the number until i get it right

  173. Posted December 17, 2008 at 5:55 pm | Permalink | Reply

    This is terrible.

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  174. Posted January 13, 2009 at 8:09 pm | Permalink | Reply

    haaaaaaaaaaaaaa
    thnaks but it is for a year ago

  175. Posted January 22, 2009 at 9:47 am | Permalink | Reply

    Thank you

  176. Posted February 4, 2009 at 9:47 am | Permalink | Reply

    Haha that is ridiculous lol. WTF lol.

  177. dpatrickcaldwell
    Posted February 27, 2009 at 8:05 pm | Permalink | Reply

    I hate captchas like that. I actually found your post because I was writing an article on captchas today (http://dpatrickcaldwell.blogspot.com/2009/02/completely-automated-public-turing-test.html). I think they have good intentions, but I think they’re more frustrating to legit users than they are to spammers.

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  182. Mr Truth
    Posted July 15, 2009 at 8:46 pm | Permalink | Reply

    I’ll probably get spammed and hate threats for this *puts on spam and hate proof armor* but I think by making it so hard for humans we are giving in to the fear the “bots” want us to have.

    They really want to spoil the rest of the apples and the community is going right along with it.

    Putting away liberty for Safety sucks. Either freedom is on or off there is no middle ground.

    If the bots really wanted to they will find away around it and probably do and we don’t know it cause Rapidshare can’t look bad you know.

    It’s essentially a cash cow or an other words. ‘Greed’ If you can’t read the letters you’ll pay them $$$…………or so they think. :P

    Unfortunately all the bot haters which have only a SLIGHTLY larger brain then the spam bots they hate will probably skim my message just to make me look bad and make themselves look like an ass.

    *locks and loads the cyber gun*

  183. Mike Bolder
    Posted August 23, 2009 at 11:06 pm | Permalink | Reply

    spam this spam is
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  184. Misty
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    It’s a lolcat

  185. Posted December 2, 2009 at 10:54 am | Permalink | Reply

    Heh. I have seen worse:
    A captcha consisting of a single image and a hardcoded correct answer.

  186. Posted December 12, 2009 at 6:34 am | Permalink | Reply

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  187. SWFlash
    Posted March 18, 2010 at 12:38 pm | Permalink | Reply

    if you use captcha solver it show up like “PUSSY 8″. someone create better solver??? please

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