Brain Game: Learning to Drive

Today's mentalfloss.com Brain Game Wednesday Wordplay challenge is perhaps the longest Word Ladder puzzle we've ever published... but maybe you can solve it in fewer steps. Let's find out:

By changing one letter in each step to form English words, and leaving all other letters in their original positions, convert STEER into BRAKE in the fewest possible steps.

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