I’ve mastered the ability to take any idea or thought and transform it into anxiety. Jitters McGee
I can solve a 3x3 rubix cube in under 60 seconds.
Just practice and memorization, it’s not that hard.
Back when I was 15 or so I spent a summer solving one, no guides or resources used. Took me about 3 months and it would take me about 10-20 minutes to solve after I figured it out. I was always proud of that haha
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.
wtf ? I need a video of it
not happening
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.
Ha, I saw Val Kilmer do it in Tombstone and always wanted to do it, but never followed through.
he does it in tombstone?
i must have completely forgotten about that.
haha he definitely must have told them that he could do it from practicing on set at Real Genius and they should let him do it in tombstone too, that’s hilarious haha.
Yep, when he’s playing cards here. I didn’t realize he’d done it in other movies. I’d look for excuses, too.
Fuck I love that movie.
ha, thanks for the clip! thats great.
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.
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.
Did you mean “handily?” Or “single-handedly,” implying some sort of Teamtris?
Yup, thanks! I was trying to figure out which word I was thinking of. I must have malaphored myself
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.
I was literally just about so say same for splatoon, I just hit my highest elo ever and I’m really proud of myself 🥺
Do you play much x rank? I’m surprised to see someone refrencing their anarchy rank as opposed to x power
I don’t do too much X rank, I mostly stick to anarchy. Though I do jump into the occasional X game when I’m feeling masochistic.
My main goal really is to master as many kits as I can and to learn their roles, and X games are not the tier for experimentation. Anarchy is a bit more lenient.
Gotcha, I can see why you’d be more into anarchy then. Congrats on S+6 ☺️
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.
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?
Played 932h (around 900h actual playtime) and almost exclusively played ranked or rumble/dropshot but never casual.
Best rank was Diamond 2 or 1 not sure anymore.
Played it only on keyboard. No controller ever used. Gave it up as a sort of protest against the buyout and never went back.- Tons of freeplay
- Tons of mods/workshop map
- Ive had some coaching
- And I also play in an amateur league
As long as you always play to improve, watch videos to keep up on mechanics/metas, and just immerse yourself in the game, you’ll always climb up. If you play at least 2 hours a day, you’ll be insane before you know it.
But in the spirit of this post, you could spend your time doing something so much more productive than a video game lol
I used to make miniature food models for fun.
Not really good at it but it’s useless and fun.
Useless? I feel like you could get some commissions from urban restaurants to put these in their street-facing food displays
That was what inspired me to make them at the first place! although it got less common
My grandma loves miniature everything, especially cute homey things (she has sets for different “rooms”). Whenever I travel anywhere I’m always on the lookout for them cos she’d appreciate these more than the generic city/country souvenir. Always really hard to find though. These look amazing!
Not really good at it
I disagree, I would totally eat those thinking they were some fancy snack
I can clap with one hand
That’s pretty useful of you’re at a concert holding a beer though!
Oh yeah!
Finally answering the zen question of “what is the sound of one hand clapping?”
I just tried and was successful. I have long fingers which probably helps. But it’s not as loud as when I clap with two hands.
What’s the sound of one hand clapping? ;-p
I can make baby elephant noises because I played trombone and fucked up my first attempt at lip buzzing
I learned to ride a unicycle.
I’ve wanted to do this but I’m afraid at my age I’ll be seriously injured trying.
I learned to ride when I was 17. It took me like 2 months to learn to ride.
I just turned 42 today. If I didn’t already know how to mount and ride a unicycle already, I’d probably be like F that as well.
If you fall on an unicycle you land on your feet
Usually yes, but it partly depends on how big the tire is and how tall the unicycle is…
I learned on a 24 inch tire with 6 inch pedal cranks, not stupid tall. I wasn’t going for the circus, I just wanted to learn to ride.
I fear you may overestimate my physical prowess.
My experience says no to this. Maybe usually, but I fell on my ass a few too many times and gave up trying to learn the rest.
Hand farts, via practice.
Hand sanitizer really opens up avenues for expression.
Hmm hmm hmm hmmmm
A hand fart on land (lhand fart?) is an excellent water gun in the pool with some practice, fyi.
I remember reading about a Pa Kua Chang master who could walk through a crowd with a full teacup and not spill any. For whatever reason I started to practice walking with a full to the brim teacup (with or without a handle) and now I can go up and down stairs with one or two and not spill anything. Usually
I turn yaml into aws bills
I wouldn’t call that useless. That is how you get to be the executive lead cloud DevOps engineer.
I’m really good at putting sharp objects up my nose (from sideshow)
I can tell what coke was smuggled in with. Recently, bananas.
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.
So this sounded crazy to me, like I’d never be able to do that, I just grabbed paper, a pen in my left hand(I’m right handed) and a pen shaped object in the other(it doesn’t write) I moved both hands at the same time as if writing with both, and my left hand writing is better than I’ve ever seen myself do, when trying to independently write with my left hand.
Second job overnights at a gas station… Pretty much any combination of right/left hand, upside down/mirrored, cursive/text, words forward/letters backwards, etc.
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.
That’s not useless, a 14th century monastery would love to have you
Could you use both hands to write the same sentence twice as fast?
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.
I consider this a useless skill
I dont know, friend. thats a bit of a step up from the usual party trick.
best I’ve got is zero lead hand/leg preference when sparring muay thai. makes me a real lonely or a real popular dance partner depending on the crowd.
I can aolve a rubiks cube with my left hand only.
Not your right hand? I Am do it with either, it just takes a long time
I can also do it with my right hand, but i did it with my left first cause there is this german phrase “doing something with left” which means something is so easy for you, you don’t even need your dominant hand for it.
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.
Were you ever in marching band? I got relatively good at that after putting my all into marching band in high school.
