Very Trivial Superpowers

Billy86

Candie wrote: »

I'm a girl of almost no talents but there are a few things I'm good at that trivially impresses people. People who tend to be easily impressed to begin with, to be fair.

I never cry when I'm chopping an onion.
I've slept standing up.
I can type at 85 words a minute - accurately.
I can put my feet behind my ears (thanks, yoga). Not as pretty as it sounds.
I read a minimum of three books a week.
I get upgraded about 70% of the time when I travel, regardless of airline and without ever asking.
I never forget a birthday or anniversary.
I can wiggle my ears.

What trivial things do you excel at?

That's not a superpower - you're just less evolved than the rest of us.

Billy86

Billy86 wrote: »

That's not a superpower - you're just less evolved than the rest of us.

That would not be news to anyone who knows me.

Billy86

kfallon wrote: »

Niiiiiice, PM sent

It had better say more than just 'hi'.

Ded_Zebra

I don't have many trivial super powers but I can read mirror writing just as well/fast as I can read normal forward writing.

I can also write in mirror writing pretty well but I'm a little out of practice so it's slow.

Roselm

RayM wrote: »

It freaks people out when they tell me their birthday and I say "Oh, you were born on a Tuesday, weren't you...?"

How do you do it? Do you work it out somehow or do you have a visual in your head you can access to have a look at that particular week and see what day it was?! Or something else?

RayM

Roselm wrote: »

How do you do it? Do you work it out somehow or do you have a visual in your head you can access to have a look at that particular week and see what day it was?! Or something else?

I know what day of the week my birthday and Christmas fell on any given year, so I work backwards or forwards from that.

RayM

RayM wrote: »

I know what day of the week my birthday and Christmas fell on any given year, so I work backwards or forwards from that.

How quickly can you pull the information out of your head Ray?

I think this is a pretty astonishing thing to be able to do. I can barely remember my own name sometimes.

RayM

Candie wrote: »

How quickly can you pull the information out of your head Ray?

I think this is a pretty astonishing thing to be able to do. I can barely remember my own name sometimes.

Less than a minute - sometimes immediately. I have a few short-cuts - my birthday (March 13th) falls on the same day of the week as Christmas Day, Mayday and the 11th of September. Leap years can catch me out sometimes.

RayM

RayM wrote: »

Less than a minute - sometimes immediately. I have a few short-cuts - my birthday (March 13th) falls on the same day of the week as Christmas Day, Mayday and the 11th of September. Leap years can catch me out sometimes.

Less than a minute is extremely impressive.

RayM

Candie wrote: »

Less than a minute is extremely impressive.

If I can somehow get a bit quicker, it could be my specialist subject on Mastermind.

Arghus

Candie wrote: »

I'm a girl of almost no talents but there are a few things I'm good at that trivially impresses people. People who tend to be easily impressed to begin with, to be fair.

I never cry when I'm chopping an onion.
I've slept standing up.
I can type at 85 words a minute - accurately.
I can put my feet behind my ears (thanks, yoga). Not as pretty as it sounds.
I read a minimum of three books a week.
I get upgraded about 70% of the time when I travel, regardless of airline and without ever asking.
I never forget a birthday or anniversary.
I can wiggle my ears.

What trivial things do you excel at?

This I need to know more about.
I read a fair bit myself, but if I get more than two books finished within the week, I'm having an exceptional time of it. How do you find the time?

Arghus

Arghus wrote: »

This I need to know more about.
I read a fair bit myself, but if I get more than two books finished within the week, I'm having an exceptional time of it. How do you find the time?

I can get through one on a Sunday morning having a lie in, one or two more just reading before sleep, another if I have an early night. I'm a fast reader.

I read a lot in work too, maybe 35% of my day is reading work related material.

Arghus

Candie wrote: »

I'm a girl of almost no talents but there are a few things I'm good at that trivially impresses people. People who tend to be easily impressed to begin with, to be fair.

I never cry when I'm chopping an onion.
I've slept standing up.
I can type at 85 words a minute - accurately.
I can put my feet behind my ears (thanks, yoga). Not as pretty as it sounds.
I read a minimum of three books a week.
I get upgraded about 70% of the time when I travel, regardless of airline and without ever asking.
I never forget a birthday or anniversary.
I can wiggle my ears.

What trivial things do you excel at?

This I need to know more about.
I read a fair bit myself, but if I get more than two books finished within the week, I'm having an exceptional time of it. How do you find the time?

Arghus

Arghus wrote: »

This I need to know more about.
I read a fair bit myself, but if I get more than two books finished within the week, I'm having an exceptional time of it. How do you find the time?

See above.

Adyx

Candie wrote: »

I'm a girl of almost no talents but there are a few things I'm good at that trivially impresses people. People who tend to be easily impressed to begin with, to be fair.

I never cry when I'm chopping an onion.
I've slept standing up.
I can type at 85 words a minute - accurately.
I can put my feet behind my ears (thanks, yoga). Not as pretty as it sounds.
I read a minimum of three books a week.
I get upgraded about 70% of the time when I travel, regardless of airline and without ever asking.
I never forget a birthday or anniversary.
I can wiggle my ears.

What trivial things do you excel at?

Marry me :eek: I don't even care about the yoga thing*. The reading and ears does it for me...




*Not strictly true.

Conor Bourke

I can untangle even the most complex knots in a necklace chain with remarkable speed.

I just thought of another one. This one's a good one. I've gotten every student job I've ever applied for.

I had nine student jobs over ten years of further education, got them all within two minutes of saying hello. One of them had 450 applicants, and some of the others had big numbers of applicants too.

I never interviewed for my current grown-up job, I was invited to apply and it was just given to me on the basis of stuff I'd already done.

Billy86

Candie wrote: »

I can get through one on a Sunday morning having a lie in, one or two more just reading before sleep, another if I have an early night. I'm a fast reader.

I read a lot in work too, maybe 35% of my day is reading work related material.

I'm dyspraxic. I hate you. I hate you so, so much.

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Shint0 wrote: »

It's the same with horoscopes and astrology. You can say that horoscopes are like Barnum's law, sucker born every minute but I am uncannily Aquarius. INFP AND Aquarius. What a fcukin combination. The quare ones

Snap! AQuare-ians unite!

I'm really good at getting wonky keys and locks to work. I used to be really good at mental arithmetic even though my maths is terrible once it goes beyond that, but I'm not as good as I was.

This one's kind of hard to explain without a visual, but I can suck my stomach in, hold my breath, and move my ribcage in and out with my stomach muscles. Doesn't sound impressive but it freaks the hell out of people.

I've got insanely good peripheral vision.

That and I've got the power of zero balance, with the ability to fall over when standing still.

keano_afc

I'm a speed reader. I can look at a paragraph of text and see pretty much all the words at the same time. Similar to the OP, if I have time I can get through a couple of books a week. I was pushed forward a year in primary school as a result of the speed of my reading. My wife is dyslexic so it has caused arguments before if we happen to be reading the same thing.

My hand eye co-ordination and reflexes are insanely good too. I spent a lot of my youth as a goalkeeper as a result.

valoren

I can make myself sneeze on command.

looksee

Deleted User wrote: »

I've got insanely good peripheral vision.

I have that too, used to be very useful when I was teaching as I could be looking straight ahead and giving out to someone acting the fool way off to the side!

I also used be able to see things happening behind me...or at least my kids thought I could.

Aurum

I'm a comedy nerd, I'll often hear someone make a joke and it'll remind me of previous comics who have made the same joke. (I don't mean that in a snarky way, it's sadly true.)

looksee

looksee wrote: »

I have that too, used to be very useful when I was teaching as I could be looking straight ahead and giving out to someone acting the fool way off to the side!

I also used be able to see things happening behind me...or at least my kids thought I could.

It used to freak out someone I'd know, because they'd stand just off the side of me and see how far they can get until I can't see them anymore.

jamesbere

I can cook minute rice In 58 seconds

jamesbere

jamesbere wrote: »

I can cook minute rice In 58 seconds

Yeah, well, I can eat After Eights at six.

Not a single side-effect either.

smash

I can dislocate both shoulders at will. Still haven't found a use for this super power.

smash

smash wrote: »

I can dislocate both shoulders at will. Still haven't found a use for this super power.

Squeezing into tight spaces?



Please don't expand on that!

smash

Candie wrote: »

Squeezing into tight spaces?


Please don't expand on that!

Expanding in tight spaces is one of my favourite things!

SMASH! :eek:

Capt'n Midnight

RayM wrote: »

If I can somehow get a bit quicker, it could be my specialist subject on Mastermind.

What was that TV game show where people got asked what star sign someone born on a particular day was ?

Capt'n Midnight

Candie wrote: »

Yeah, well, I can eat After Eights at six.

Not a single side-effect either.

Technically speaking it's already After Eight somewhere in the world.