Every one of us is very good at something, no matter if it's something basic or a very niche thing. But have you ever thought about what skill you would beat many other people at?
Well, folks on Reddit definitely thought about it when this interesting question was posted on r/AskReddit: "You get paired with 100 random humans, if you're better than all of them at something, you get 1 billion dollars. What are you choosing?" And so, they provided many intriguing answers. Today, we picked out the best ones for you to check out while you're deciding what your unbeatable skill would be.
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Backing a semi truck into really tight spaces from the blindside. Very hard maneuver even for veterans but where I worked while back I did it daily. Odds are only a couple even have a cdl like me, and then I guarantee I can beat them at backing blindside.
Edit: thanks for all the upvotes I'm glad to see trucking being appreciated you guys rock ✌️.
I have trouble backing my motorbike into parking spaces so mad respect to the skilled trucker d00ds.
Disappointing my parents.
I feel like if we're measuring disappointing parents I can challenge on that score.
Knowledge on Wisconsin license plate history. I'm autistic and Wisconsin license plates are my special interest, and there's so few people involved in the research of these plates that I *highly* doubt I'll not beat everyone in the group.
I always like when people have obscure knowledge like this, makes for a very interesting conversation.
On this list, we can see things people consider themselves to be better at than, for example, 100 random people. These things range from kind of simple ones such as cooking, sports, or games to devastating ones like disappointing their parents or self-deprecation. Well, without going down that rabbit hole, let’s just say that some of these skills are way more handy in life than others.
While some people just trust in their skill set enough to consider themselves better than many others, some other people might simply have a superiority complex. This complex is a belief that your abilities or accomplishments are dramatically better than other people’s. It might make a person condescending, smug, or simply mean.
It can be caused by both low and high self-esteem, depending on the person and situation. When a person has low self-esteem, they try to hide it by exaggerating their accomplishments. On the other hand, when a person has high self-esteem, they might simply be overconfident in their achievements and abilities. Either way, both of the cases, in a way, form an unrealistic self-perception.
Not bragging or anything, but I spent YEARS training to spit tooth paste directly into the sink hole with no splash back or paste getting on the rest of the sink bowl. Bullseye every time.
Self-deprication.
Although, I'd probably suck at that too.
Buck up, kiddo. :-) And I'll tell you a SECRET. The people who truly suck at everything - never notice, never think about it. They just merrily go on their way, screwing up the entire world and going to MAGAT rallies. If you worry about it- even too much- at least you are paying attention. That will go somewhere, some day.
Fortunately, there are several things people can do if they feel themselves developing a superiority complex or are told they already have one:
- Making a list with actual accomplishments and abilities without any exaggeration;
- Avoiding all-or-nothing thinking by trying to find balance in between;
- Trying to feel happy for others without feeling bad about yourself;
- Forgiving yourself for mistakes without beating yourself up.
If these things sound easier said than done, it’s because they are. Building a realistic sense of self takes time and work, just as any other type of mental health work does. In fact, accomplishing this by yourself might not even be achievable for some, and help from a specialist, like a therapist, might be needed.
Touching the highest possible point on a wall without jumping. I’m 6’8” so pretty good odds I’m gonna come out on top.
im 7'4 so i kinda get this asked a lot in some places "can you reach here? wow! can you reach there? WOW!" I'm not a TOY!
Filleting salmonids. Its literally my job, and I've been doing it for twenty years. I don't mean to toot my own horn, but I'm pretty good at it, and like any craftsman, my skill has been honed through dint of sheer repetition. I have absolutely filleted hundreds of thousands of fish in my life, and even if you're pretty good, I'm willing to bet I'm better using metrics of speed, appearance, and % of wastage.
Guess what brake pad belongs to a car, so many years working at a car repair shop have benefits.
Damn, that's a good one. It's like this guy I knew who could pinpoint a noise in seconds.
On the other side of the spectrum lies the inferiority complex. It’s when a person feels insecure and inadequate about their abilities, achievements, and daily life. Typically, they believe they're physically or mentally inferior to others, no matter if that’s actually true or not.
This can lead a person to either (fully or partially) withdraw from interacting with others or overcompensate their self-esteem, which can sometimes lead to an already discussed superiority complex.
Frequently, an inferiority complex develops due to some kind of trauma, typically during childhood or sometimes later in life. Some men are more susceptible to it when they are intimidated by other men, so they feel less than due to toxic masculinity.
Emo song lyrics from 2003-2007. If anyone beats me, I’ll marry them.
People from this list don't seem to suffer from an inferiority complex, do they? And about the superiority one, well, who's to say -- there might be some who exaggerated their abilities. But, hey, who's going to check? As far as we know, no one is planning to put a random group of 100 people in a room and test their skills, as was suggested in the original Reddit question.
Do you have any skills you think you are better at than many others? Share them with us in the comments!
My mother and her friends invented a pig latin style coded language. Probably less than a dozen people have ever learned it, and most of them are in their 70s now, probably haven't thought of it in decades.
I like my odds at a Ybangie (I didn't name it! Lol) competition.
Used to be able to speak Eggy Peggy years ago, it's similar to Pig Latin. I could probably translate it still if I heard it again.
Acre history. Acre is a Brazilian state, the one which I was born and live on. The population is only 830 thousand people.
Hence there is only a very small chance of the random people to be from Acre and an even smaller one of them to know anything at all about it.
Of course I could end up being paired with some college professor which Acre is their specialty, and I would be f****d, but since it is random that would be very unlikely.
Chess. Even among chess players on lichess and [chess.com](http://chess.com) I am in the top 2-3%, so the odds that any of the 100 are better than me is fairly small. My luck, I'd get paired against Magnus...
I'm probably in the lower 2% but it's fun. I always lose but it's still cool.
Ice hockey. Most people don’t know how to skate let alone play the sport well.
Properly operating a nuclear reactor.
Talking Catalan. The odds of anyone in that group randomly being better than me at that are incredibly small.
Edit: Well, butter by back and call me a biscuit! Thanks for the karma fellow minority language speakers and other simpsthizers.
“In total, about 7.3 million people speak Catalan and 9.8 million people understand the language.” “Currently, Catalan is spoken in the Aragon, Balearic Islands, Catalonia, Murcia and Valencia autonomous communities of Spain, the country of Andorra, the Roussillon region of France, and the city of Alghero in Sardinia, Italy.“
Ultra running a 100k or 100 miler.
Counting in binary really fast with my fingers
I discovered I could do this 3 years ago
It's like an involuntary tic now. It's so entertaining.
So... can you count in base 17? There's a tribe that used Base 17, before the missionaries...
I didn't do more than a quick Google search, and the only reference I could find to that is a reddit post making the claim with no source. I'm really interested in number theory and have never heard of a culture using a prime base system other than binary. Plenty of examples of base 12 and 20 out there, the Babylonians used sexigesimal(base 60) the biggest commonality is all of the bases have multiple factors. Those factors are a big part of why it's easy for us to count by 2s and 5s in base 10
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There are 10 kinds of people. Those that understand binary and those that don't.
I've started giving my age in hexadecimal. It's great to be 49 again!
I used to be able to count in base 12 and 20 in the same sum... Then came decimalisation
The US system of inches, feet and yards is awful, but the old British currency system was diabolical, worse even than Roman numerals.
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I'd be confident that I'm better than them all at maintaining a consistent TTRPGs group for longer than all of them. I've been a DM for 24 years, I had one group for 13 years, and this group for 11. It's not always the same game/campaign, but we always meet up to play.
Knowledge about jellyfishes, specifically of the class Cnidaria.
Astrophotography. I'm not even that good, but among 100 randomly chosen people, only a handful will even have a telescope (and that's probably generous). And among those, I'm probably the only one with a camera adapter.
Taking standardized tests is pretty high on that list.
I'd also roll the dice on taekwondo forms.
In fact, I'd roll the dice on running role-playing games, too.
Solving a Rubik's cube quickly. I'm not that fast, but I reckon the odds are in my favour.
This would be mine as well. I can usually solve one in about 60 seconds. That's nowhere near the record, but probably still faster than most people.
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If you tell me a country name I can give you it's capital and all bordering countries and all their capitals. In under 15 minutes I can list every capital city and it's corresponding country.
I'd like to test that but it's easy to answer online, you could just Google it and paste the answer in under 15 seconds, not minutes so I'll keep wondering if you're for real or not
Load More Replies... I’m really good at giving my kitty kisses :) he hates when anyone else tries to smooch him, but he actually follows me around and begs for me to give him his smooches. I have to scoop him up and snuggle and give him smooches several times a day. I love it.
I can't get poison ivy. I've actually touched a plant and had no reaction. My husband of 20 years gets it when the wind blows the wrong way, but I've never been infected.
I was camping. I didn’t know what it looked like. I sat down in a big patch to poop. Mom came to get me out, and had a reaction through her pants, I did not.
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I memorize things like very quickly. I walk a path once, I can rewalk it both way instantly after that. I listen a music, I can memorize the tune easily. I read something I'm very interested in, I'll remember it for many years.
Absolutely, though sometimes I don’t trust myself on the trail at first.
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I participated in so many protests in my younger years that I'm immune to teargas ( so was my missed and mourned protests pal) Edit: we knew that when we noticed at one point that everyone was coughing and crying and nothing was happening to us. It was systematical on the next protest. Immunized, like rats and vermin get used to poison😁
I've got an excellent memory. I memorized two directs (mock trial) the day before a state competition.
I can ride a motorbike very slowly. Prolly win a slow race against anybody except police riders or other couriers. And even with those my chances would be good :-)
Identifying the ballet a piece of music comes from. I'm not the absolute best, but I've gotten pretty good at it :)
If you give me about an hour prep, I could probably read and write Fantasian again. It's the language that Geronimo Stilton used in his Fantasia series
The history of the Michigan/Ohio State football rivalry with corresponding dates and statistics.
If anyone can beat me on my history knowledge of the oldest city castle of the netherlands then I'll be surprised
statistically maybe speaking english? there ought be to a few dozen so maybe not but then just learn another more obscure language
referring to the 'you get placed with 100 random people'
Load More Replies... Playing Monopoly. I played a computer version of the Hasbro Monopoly and got into a tie with the computer. I'm pretty confident I'd win anyone of a 100 random people
I was a teen in the 80s so I can show you 4 different ways to ingest cocaine.
uh i accidentally drank literal rat poison yesterday if thats anything
For me, it’s either freediving, doggy paddle speed, or getting some cat to trust me.
I know probably the most in the world about Maryland roads. I even live near old number 420 lol
I'm really good at determining what monsters are in a rogue fusion in cassette beasts. I know every beasts prefix and suffix and can thus make fusions whenever I want. Im working on the colors/features. This is a very niche skill. I guarantee noone on bp knows what a miasmodeus/anathema fusion is called. If you do then i might break down and cry
I can also write lyrics to songs without lyrics very fast. My shortest project was Snowball Fight by hyper potions--five minutes. Longest was Trilobyte from the rogue legacy ost. 5 hours. It wasn't easy for that one I had to make it fit in both versions
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Not to gloat, but I'm an idiot with a village. Look no further. I'm no longer looking.
What am I the best at? Not worrying about what I’m the best at. I only concern myself with whether I’ve gotten any better than I was before at things.
Used to drive wagons, all over Europe, if there’s a hold up I can reroute and avoid most problems without any of that GPS faff. I am a pre-GPS chap and learnt to read maps long before I could drive, my family are keen walkers so I was looking at maps at a v early age. Even today I can look at a route once and I can drive to the destination without GPS assistance. I own a satnav but it’s rarely used, I think I may have issues with being told what to do! 😂 An additional skill is that once I’ve driven somewhere then it’s logged into my brain and it’ll be tucked away in a dusty memory bank forever.
I aced Sheep vs. Aliens with max stars all the way through, but somehow I don't think that's gonna make me rich or famous.
If you tell me a country name I can give you it's capital and all bordering countries and all their capitals. In under 15 minutes I can list every capital city and it's corresponding country.
I'd like to test that but it's easy to answer online, you could just Google it and paste the answer in under 15 seconds, not minutes so I'll keep wondering if you're for real or not
Load More Replies... I’m really good at giving my kitty kisses :) he hates when anyone else tries to smooch him, but he actually follows me around and begs for me to give him his smooches. I have to scoop him up and snuggle and give him smooches several times a day. I love it.
I can't get poison ivy. I've actually touched a plant and had no reaction. My husband of 20 years gets it when the wind blows the wrong way, but I've never been infected.
I was camping. I didn’t know what it looked like. I sat down in a big patch to poop. Mom came to get me out, and had a reaction through her pants, I did not.
Load More Replies... I memorize things like very quickly. I walk a path once, I can rewalk it both way instantly after that. I listen a music, I can memorize the tune easily. I read something I'm very interested in, I'll remember it for many years.
Absolutely, though sometimes I don’t trust myself on the trail at first.
Load More Replies... I participated in so many protests in my younger years that I'm immune to teargas ( so was my missed and mourned protests pal) Edit: we knew that when we noticed at one point that everyone was coughing and crying and nothing was happening to us. It was systematical on the next protest. Immunized, like rats and vermin get used to poison😁
I've got an excellent memory. I memorized two directs (mock trial) the day before a state competition.
I can ride a motorbike very slowly. Prolly win a slow race against anybody except police riders or other couriers. And even with those my chances would be good :-)
Identifying the ballet a piece of music comes from. I'm not the absolute best, but I've gotten pretty good at it :)
If you give me about an hour prep, I could probably read and write Fantasian again. It's the language that Geronimo Stilton used in his Fantasia series
The history of the Michigan/Ohio State football rivalry with corresponding dates and statistics.
If anyone can beat me on my history knowledge of the oldest city castle of the netherlands then I'll be surprised
statistically maybe speaking english? there ought be to a few dozen so maybe not but then just learn another more obscure language
referring to the 'you get placed with 100 random people'
Load More Replies... Playing Monopoly. I played a computer version of the Hasbro Monopoly and got into a tie with the computer. I'm pretty confident I'd win anyone of a 100 random people
I was a teen in the 80s so I can show you 4 different ways to ingest cocaine.
uh i accidentally drank literal rat poison yesterday if thats anything
For me, it’s either freediving, doggy paddle speed, or getting some cat to trust me.
I know probably the most in the world about Maryland roads. I even live near old number 420 lol
I'm really good at determining what monsters are in a rogue fusion in cassette beasts. I know every beasts prefix and suffix and can thus make fusions whenever I want. Im working on the colors/features. This is a very niche skill. I guarantee noone on bp knows what a miasmodeus/anathema fusion is called. If you do then i might break down and cry
I can also write lyrics to songs without lyrics very fast. My shortest project was Snowball Fight by hyper potions--five minutes. Longest was Trilobyte from the rogue legacy ost. 5 hours. It wasn't easy for that one I had to make it fit in both versions
Load More Replies... Not to gloat, but I'm an idiot with a village. Look no further. I'm no longer looking.
What am I the best at? Not worrying about what I’m the best at. I only concern myself with whether I’ve gotten any better than I was before at things.
Used to drive wagons, all over Europe, if there’s a hold up I can reroute and avoid most problems without any of that GPS faff. I am a pre-GPS chap and learnt to read maps long before I could drive, my family are keen walkers so I was looking at maps at a v early age. Even today I can look at a route once and I can drive to the destination without GPS assistance. I own a satnav but it’s rarely used, I think I may have issues with being told what to do! 😂 An additional skill is that once I’ve driven somewhere then it’s logged into my brain and it’ll be tucked away in a dusty memory bank forever.
I aced Sheep vs. Aliens with max stars all the way through, but somehow I don't think that's gonna make me rich or famous.
