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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Im a top 1% player in Rocket League after playing for 4500 hours. The skill gap between me and the best players in the game is the same gap as between me and a brand new player.

But i will still beat 99% of the game's population.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Same for me, but with Tetris. I'm not the best, but I'm confident I can handedly beat the vast majority of the population. I spent most of my lockdown days just doing Tetris.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Similar on Splatoon. Before the recent rank reset I was S+6, it blows my mind that people go up to like S+20. But when the season ends, all the S+x ratings reset to S rank, and playing with normal S rank people recently reminded me of that.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Yeah same, but with like 2K hours. At some point I was Grand Champion 1 or something. I could probably win against 2 noobs without me using jump and boost, but in the few moments I played against pros I got equally clapped. It's insane to me how much better pro players are.

After Epic bought it the whole game slowly went to shit though. Psyonix once treated the game and its community as their baby, but it just became a soulless money printer without any decent innovation. So I barely play anymore, even though the core game is ultimately still fun.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

As an 800 hour player that has to put the game down because of competitiveness making me a curmudgeon -- Wow, gotta say. That's so much work.

Did you use the practice modes to get to be that level or did it just come to you during play?

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I can read UPC,, UPC-8, ISBN, and EAN bar codes. Tear the numbers off the bottom of the bar code, hand me the lines, and I will tell you the numbers you tore off.

I used to work the midnight shift at a call center back in the late 90s. It was incredibly boring because we weren't allowed to browse the internet when no calls were coming in (which was most of the time, got maybe five calls total per night). So I picked up a copy of Yahoo! Internet Life, a now-defunct technology-centered magazine. This issue had a how-to section for wacky shit like that, so I committed it to memory because wtf else was there to do?

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I turn yaml into aws bills

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

I wouldn't call that useless. That is how you get to be the executive lead cloud DevOps engineer.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago

I can fluidly open a trash bag, pull it into a straight line, and toss it like a dart, landing it in an open trash can from up to 30ft.

This only works with those cheap bags that businesses use and this was honed over years of changing trash at various businesses. Not useful, very majestic though.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

i can roll quarters down my fingers continuously because I saw Val kilmer do it in Real Genius and I wanted to be cool like him.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Ha, I saw Val Kilmer do it in Tombstone and always wanted to do it, but never followed through.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I can make double fart sounds by laying on my back and cupping my knee-armpits with both hands.

Not entirely useless though; I showed this to my SO 7 years ago when we started dating and she was clearly impressed as she's still hanging around.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (7 children)

I can independently write different text with both hands at the same time just as easily as writing with only one hand. I consider this a useless skill because I rarely ever write with an actual pen or pencil, so being able to write with both hands simultaneously doesn’t add anything.

Lots of time being bored in school and an obsession with broadening the mind.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Could you use both hands to write the same sentence twice as fast?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

In principle, yes, but this would require some additional effort because of word spacing. The sentence would need to come together and meet at a point.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Basically same. I don't know if being ambidextrous is something you can be born with. I broke arms, wrists, fingers enough that functionality I had to be able to use both hands in school and sports.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I could never spin a pen around my thumb so instead I learned how to "flick" it, have it do a flip and land back in my hand.

I can also rapidly place two strips of tape on one another with no bubbles and parallel enough you'd think it's one piece. However I can only do this vertically

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I won't say "mastered" as I have lost the ability now, but back in college Pokemon endgame content gave me the ability to read braille by looking at it.

That's about as useless as possible.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's pretty useful of you're at a concert holding a beer though!

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I can hold a marker with my toes and write with it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Write, "lemmy" with your toes and take a pic... Bonus points if you draw the rats face

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I have an uncanny ability to do things that are unpopular, that later become popular, but I can never imagine them becoming popular when I do them.

Saw Nirvana in a crowd of 30 people before they got famous, certainly never thought they would, it was so different from what was on the radio then. Bought a shirt from them, out of their little van parked in the alley behind the bar!

Used to wear vintage dresses from the thrift store in the 1980s, nobody around me was dressed anything like that, but later all of them got bought up by flippers.

Had tattoos when it was remarkably unusual for a woman, like if another woman with tattoos saw me they would stop and talk to me, I never ever ever would have thought they'd be mainstream.

Lots of stuff like that, like I'm out of synch with time but I can never capitalize on it because I don't have the vision to understand that it will catch on!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I'm really good at putting sharp objects up my nose (from sideshow)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Alternating between American and British spellings like it's nothing. I just use whatever spelling I vibe with at the time. I'll do the same with units of measurement as well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

As a a Canadian, I just do this naturally as well.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I am better at helping others flesh out ideas and expanding on them than I am making up my own ideas. I'm good at troubleshooting problems better than most I've ever met. I owe both to PC troubleshooting over the last few decades (from Apple 2e and Pentium II to present). I find that people these days have tunnel vision and focus on short-term gains over long-term payoffs, often to the detriment of future productivity.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I can jump up a small flight of stairs (3-4 stairs) in a way that makes it look like I just floated up the stairs.

I got good at it because in high school I thought it would be funny to be able to do this so I started practicing.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Procrastinating, i don't know how i became so good at it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I can tell you, later

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I can spew random trivia about every latin american country.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Give me your favorite please!!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

There is a taco bell in the historic city of Antigua Guatemala. Guatemala also has like 30 volcanos and their flag is light blue and white with the coat of arms featuring the quetzal bird on it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I can pick up different objects with chopsticks in both hands at the same time. Can also eat this way.

I didn't put any time into mastering this, though. I just gave it a try one day and found it to be easy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I wouldn't say I've mastered it but with my current set up I am as good as I can get with macrophotography.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I can speedwalk very fast and with good stability. It comes in handy when I need to move fast with a glass of liquid, which doesn't come up a lot.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Whistling. Took decades and I can do it two different ways (lips and teeth). I now do it subconsciously when listening to music where I’ll typically add other melodies or harmonies. I can bird call pretty much flawlessly. Loudest I get is over 100dB. Average is low 90s. Not much use but it’s fun.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Whistle like a pidgeon and mourning doves

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I can solve a 3x3 rubix cube in under 60 seconds.

Just practice and memorization, it’s not that hard.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Hand farts, via practice.

Hand sanitizer really opens up avenues for expression.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I can palm a tennis ball, roll it down my arm, bump launch it with my bicep, and catch it. Freaks people out who are standing close as the ball launches right at them, but I've always caught it. Discovered later I could do it with anything that rolls like a microphone.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Hmmm, how many things roll like a microphone? That seems very specific.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I learned to open bottles using a lighter, and then taught my friends. After a while, we just started referring to lighters as “bottle openers”.

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