Question

fix any punctuation or capitalization errors below. click \submit answer\ if there are none.
some people knew shrek was talented as soon as they met him: others needed some time to figure it out.

Explanation:

The original sentence uses a colon (:) after "him", but a semicolon (;) is more appropriate here to separate two independent clauses ("Some people knew Shrek was talented as soon as they met him" and "others needed some time to figure it out"). So we replace the colon with a semicolon.

Answer:

Some people knew Shrek was talented as soon as they met him; others needed some time to figure it out.