Something you’re just good at with minimal effort and/or you learned much more quickly than average.
For me, it’s paper snowflakes. My brain just seems to effortlessly figure out what cuts to make to the paper wedge to make it turn out exactly how I want it. Largely useless, but good fun and was a much-needed ego boost when I was a kid :]
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I can cook minute rice is 56 seconds.
God damn it!
I can hear you, listen to you, and forget about what you say all at the same time!
The ADHD superpower.
You forgot the asking for what they said the instant it pops back in your head
No you just say “yes” and move on with your life and then refuse to believe you agreed to be pegged by 56 bearded men in a Toyota Yaris when they insist you did.
The power to read a book page 3-4 times before full comprehension.
As a kid I used to read like 2 books a day, now I have the same problem. Like wtf happened
Being alive. In my whole life I haven’t died even once.
That makes you more talented than Einstein, Newton and Leonardo da Vinci
Reminds me of an obvious/interesting factoid I once saw pointed out:
Every single one of us is at the end of an unbroken line — aaalllll the way back to microorganisms — of folks / critters / etc. that lived long enough to procreate.
Hearty fuckers, every one of us. In a certain sense…
I have an excellent sense of time and space, i can accurately tell how much time and distance I’ve gone without tools. Im great to bring along for a hike.
I have the same thing. I’m pretty sure there’s a word for this sense, but it eludes me at the moment.
whatever you and @who8mydamnoreos have, I have the opposite. I’m very good at getting lost multiple times in the same locality.
Pretty sure that’s a skill too - probably confuses attackers who try to pre-empt your movements.
and you have the talent to find the silver lining in every cloud . Bravo!
I am a really quick reader compared to most people. Doesn’t sound that amazing and it’s certainly not unique, but it comes really handy. Always helped me with exams, as I got some precious minutes more to actually work instead of reading. I can go through books and articles really fast. Retention is not amazing, I’d say it’s about the same as when most people read in their normal speed.
I really envy the people that can read quickly and retain everything. But I am also content with being relatively quick.
Not that but I can skim quickly and find the vital takeaways! Mostly useful for studies or reading recepies.
If you stop trying to vocalise the words in your head you can really break away from the the time limit and just fly through text.
This is what I do when I’m reading academic papers for writing reports to see if the content is what I need.
Takes a few seconds to scan it, take the understanding and made a decision on if it’s worthwhile or not.
There’s also websites where you can drop text and it will train you to read this way.
Sure you think paper snowflakes are useless but wait for an elementary school play to need set design and they will crawl in their hands and knees to rescue them 😉
I just got a new job at a place where my coworkers are really into seasonal decorations, so I’m low key excited for winter
Have fun schooling those plebs with the decor
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With math, is it arithmetic that gives you trouble or the actual symbolic manipulation of mathematics?
I am hot garbage at keeping track of numbers but turn those fuckers into letters and (at least for me) it’s off to the races. Then I just convert everything back to numbers in the last step before jamming it all into a calculator. This method saved my ass in 400-level biochemistry courses. (Annoyed the shit out of the grad students grading my exams, I’m sure…)
You may be better at “math” than you think :]
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Good on you for just casually getting a computational physics degree without inherent math talent… like holy shit that’s impressive!
I have also cried over coursework on linear algebra as well as electricity and magnetism :') Brutal stuff.
Please could you explain a bit more about the process you describe, above? Maybe with some simple examples? I’m woeful at maths but really good with mechanical and physical problems. If there’s a way I can improve upon the former, I’d love to try.
Thanks in advance!
C = BxA
Move A underneath C and swap the equality
B = C/A
A lot of algebra is spatial manipulation.
Mechanical adept here too. I am very good at holding and manipulating 3d objects in my brain, so I can kinda always just tell how something goes together to work.
I lived in Canada for 6 months surviving on nothing but being a medical Guinea pig (I had no working permit and due to anonymity, very little was asked of people participating in medical trials, plus they paid a decent amount especially if pain or discomfort was involved); as part of this I went through a raft of IQ tests (there was always some gambling addiction trial going at UofT for some reason) and found out that, like you, I have exceptional visual intelligence - rotating objects in my head, and figuring out if something would fit together was super skills of mine. In every other way I’m decidedly average.
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Are you me.?
I have the same situation as you have.
my two special snowflake things:
i can stop my own hiccups at will 100% of the time
i have always lucid dreamed since as far back as i can remember, i genuinely believed that everyone experienced sleep like that until i was in my mid-twenties
Same here on the lucid dreams, I didn’t even know it had a name, and I was surprised when people said that they don’t control their dreams.
But the hiccups… Mate, you’re a wizard.
Chess. I’ve been playing since I was a kid, and sometimes I’ll create new accounts on chess websites to see how quickly I’ll get them rated to 2000+. I’m living proof that chess players aren’t that smart though because I’m a dumbass when it comes to literally anything else.
Realising you’re dumb makes you smarter than 80% of humanity 😎
I’m good at puzzles, particularly like jigsaw puzzles, but also games like flow where you match the pipes. I can sometimes do it so quickly I don’t understand how I know what I’m doing, it’s more like instinct.
IT and self-hatred
I have unusual muscle control - I can make my eyebrows and knees dance, plus I am a regurgitator. Not as good as Stevie Starr but enough to have a disgusting party piece. I am disappointed that I never mastered the art of the flatulist.
I can make my balls dance.
Oh yeah, that too. I’ll sometimes do it when standing wait for something, like a lift. Hopefully it isn’t obvious from outside my trousers.
I can move my eyes independently and it looks freaky as hell lmao
We love our lizardfolk comrades!
I almost freak my self out lol
I saw a website once that taught me how to cross one eye. Now I’m teaching kids how to freak out their parents and teachers with this.
Understanding maths and remembering things in school, just don’t ask me what you told me a second ago because it’s already out my head.
Writing sestinas. A lot of people tell me it’s the hardest form of poetry, but for me it’s always been the go-to.
Write one right now about this thread as proof
I’ll link to one I’ll make in a bit, Lemmy’s layout/format isn’t great for something layout-specific.
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