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I am enjoying these “getting to know you” posts so I thought I would do one as well. Is there something that you can do? Whether it is creative, unusual, dangerous, or useless, etc. Please feel free to share with the Bored Panda community.
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#1
I would say my talent is skepticism....but i doubt it
Final score:
55points
Claire Mannschreck 5 years ago
my hidden talent is sinning. i hide from people when i sing. my sister heard me singing and said i had a beutiful voice. im afraid that if i sing people are ging to laugh ate me. and i have stage fright so it was useless eather way
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#2
This isn't really useful, since I never plan to travel anywhere, but I know Hebrew, Latin, Greek, Old Norse, and English
Final score:
39points
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Maybe it would be better to go back in time a few thousand years
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#3
I can write with both hands at the same time, one writing backwards and the other writing forwards as mirror images of each other.
Final score:
38points
Dave Chapman 5 years ago
Now, that is a talent! I'd bet there is a VERY small percentage of people in the World, who could do this well.
#4
i can recite the first three chapters of the harry potter books from memory
Final score:
35points
Audrey Bob-The-Builder 5 years ago
I've read each one 12 times lol... Fun Fact: I was the one who made them unavailable to be checked out because my library has a limit to how many times they can be checked out...
Les🐝an 5 years ago
Mr and Mrs Dursley of four privet drive were proud to say they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you would expect to be involved with anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense. Mr. Dursley was the director of a firm called Grunnings...
#5
I can cure anybody's hiccups 100% of the time. Been doing it for 30 years and it hasn't failed once. My favorite happened about 10 years ago, I was sitting in a diner in the French Quarter in New Orleans at 3am with a few friends. This lady walks in who looks like she'd been run through the ringer. She was beet red, and looked like she'd been crying. We were sitting by the door and I asked her what's wrong. She said she been hiccuping for three hours. I cured them in under a minute. She was stunned and so grateful and kept thanking me over and over. My friends looked at me like I was a guru of some sort. Here's the trick: Use your fingers to plugs your ears and nose at the same time tightly. I press on my ears with my thumbs and use my index fingers to plug my nose. Keep your mouth closed tightly and swallow a few times. If you have trouble swallowing without something, then sip water through a straw. It has NEVER failed! You're welcome.
Final score:
34points
Layla Corman 5 years ago (edited)
That's awesome! I too have a hiccup remedy that works 100% of the time too! Its actually almost the exact same! I was bartending years ago and noticed a girl who had a horrible case of the hiccups. I offered to remedy her, she agreed but both her and her boyfriend said it was "No use" as she had had them for 3 days straight! I did my magic and they were gone! 2 hours later, they came back to see me with $200 in a Thank You card for me! Here's mine...Both work great, but you have to have something to focus on (another persons eyes are my favorite thing) If your alone: Get a glass of water with a straw. Find something to look at. Plug your ears. With your ears plugged, take tiny sips of water about 2 seconds apart. Take about 10-15 sips while focusing on something. With someone else- You can hold the glass yourself or still use a straw, but look into someones eyes while taking your sips. I do this with my daughter often and I plug her ears for her! Cheers to us!
ℜ𝔬𝔟𝔢𝔯𝔱 ℭ𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢 4 years ago
Charles Osborne, of Anthon, Iowa, had hiccups for 68 years. Osborne, who died in 1991, appeared on the "Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson in 1983. His hiccup streak also landed him in the Guinness Book of World Records. (https://www.google.com/search?q=what+was+the+longest+somebody+was+hicupping&oq=what+was+the+longest+somebody+was+hicupping&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i10i160.10368j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)
Nicky OldfieldDesciple 5 years ago
I can cure hiccups 100% of the time as well. My method is really simple too. Just press the back of your tongue against the soft pallet of your mouth and completely close off the back of your throat. Breathe deeply and slowly really filing and emptying your lungs about 10 times. That's it! Hiccups gone.☺
Tiffany Marie 5 years ago (edited)
I just drink 10 gulps of water without taking a break/ breath.
Caroline Driver 5 years ago
I have a different way, but I might try this one next time, if I can remember it!
Up All Night 5 years ago
What works for me: I close my windpipe and try to breathe in a few times. That too, creates quite an exercise for the muscles that are responsible for swallowing.
Jace 5 years ago
Not swallowing, breathing. It’s your diaphragm. When we hiccup, it spasms. What you’re doing is putting a firm pressure on it an that can stop the spamming.
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Party Poison 5 years ago
a much easier way is to plug your ears and drink water, works no matter what
#6
This one's a little useful I guess. I can mimic people's handwriting very well (at least my family says so). when I was younger I once wrote 'chocolate ice cream' on the shopping list in my dad's handwriting and IT WORKED. So I guess not useless. . .but still wanted to add this.
Final score:
34points
#7
I can tell what time it is without looking at the clock beforehand, and I am usually very close to reality. It's a mixture of estimating daylight intensity, how much time has passed since I last looked at the time, what people around me are doing... This "talent" usually makes a very strong impression on people!
Final score:
31points
Eleanor Rose 5 years ago
Not that useless. What if you need to know the time but there isn't a clock?
Hanneke Legerstee 5 years ago
Same, I think it helps that i never wear a watch so I'm used to having to guess. I also have the talent to pop something in the over for say 25 mins and then I think after 24 mins, I wonder if it's done and then there's like 1 minute left to go
Khalil Verdejo 4 years ago
"Useless" my foot! I look at the time and not know what time it is!
#8
I remember everything irrelevant but forget everything I'm supposed to.
Final score:
31points
#9
I almost never get lost. I'm very good at mental maps or almost anything. I remember a house that my grandparent's moved out of when I was 5. I only got the placement of one closet wrong. I can always get back to a place I've been to having only been there once, maybe twice if it was dark. Funny thing is I cannot tell my right from my left, at all I can't do it, it takes me too long to try to remember which hand is which, you have to watch my hands if I'm giving directions, but my directions are always spot on, with visual cues (like buildings or a sign). If I'm in the car with someone I'm prone to telling people, take a your direction or a my direction.
Final score:
23points
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
I have a terrible sense of direction and that is a good skill to have. My hubby is just like you though, he can even follow confusing verbal directions too (well I think their confusing lol).
Roadkill The Brave (Submission author) 5 years ago
My sister is the same as you, she calls it 'Going on an Adventure'. She's never 'lost', and she has a lot of 'Adventures'.
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Spinaap 5 years ago
For myself its two things. If I focus, I can map out a location perfetcly in my mind (wich is handy on new job sites, sadly I have to focus on everything they are telling me to hard for this to work enough of the times). Secondly, if I walk around and get the place mapped out, I make the 3D image in my had and can easily place everything and sometimes new things. For some reason, all of this doesn't work in large shopping malls with repettitive layouts, or maybe its just because I do not focus on the mapping when beeing there :-)
Paul Scott 5 years ago
I also never get lost, I always thought I must have a little compass in my head like pigeons do. Nope, I did get lost once, It was in Central Australia, very very remote I took off through the scrub to find an old mine workings, It was about 2 Kms through low scrubby trees and fairly high grass, I found it easily, my great sense of direction got me there, While I was there the weather really came in, Low low very thick cloud, I couldn't see the sun or the mountains I was using as markers, I followed my track through the grass but lost it fairly quickly. No problem my little compass will get me there. After walking for a while I thought I should be there, but wasn't. Lost. Luckily I had my GPS in my pocket, I always carry it for the map but up until now had never needed it. My track was a very large semi circle on the map and I was about 2 Kms further away from my car. It was very very sobering. I don't have a compass in my head, I am just very good at reading visual clues.
Roadkill The Brave (Submission author) 5 years ago
Sorry I didn't see this comment before. Whelp that seriously depends on where I'm at, If i can get one look at a map and know where they're at I'm there no issue, if there's no cell service and for some reason I don't have a physical map then I call and let them know where I'm at. Its rare and really only happens at night for the most part.
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Donna Lawrence 5 years ago
Cool. To tell left hand from right. Hold both hands infront of you. Keep fingers together and. point your thumb out away from other fingers. The one that looks like an L is your left. Someone else can explain better
Roadkill The Brave (Submission author) 5 years ago
I've tried that and it doesn't work for me. I'm really dyslexic and I've worked very hard to make it better and while it's gotten a lot better than it was I still have problems with it. When I do that they both look like L's I can't for the life of me tell which one is the real L. That usually helps a ton of people and its the best way to figure out unless you have dyslexia. Really good advice to those who haven't heard of that one yet.
Load More Replies... Dorothy Parker 5 years ago
The trick for telling left from right? Put your hands out. Extend your thumbs. The left hand/thumb makes an L, for left.
Roadkill The Brave (Submission author) 5 years ago
I can't. They both look like L's to me, I put a longer explanation under Donna's comment about my dyslexia. It is really good advice for others though!
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togcrewsc 5 years ago
Yeah, this is pretty much me, but I can also tell which way is north even when I'm in a dark room that I've never been in before
Roadkill The Brave (Submission author) 5 years ago
That's actually pretty awesome. I'm not that good lol.
Load More Replies... #10
I don’t know if this is considered a talent but I know a LOT of nursery rhymes. My brother calls me the nursery rhyme encyclopedia. I was considering writing a MEGA nursery rhyme and song book but the copyright laws are just too full on for me.
Final score:
20points
Cian Thomas McHugh 5 years ago
I did a quick google search, and as it turns out, most of them are in the public domain, so go ahead!
Foxxy (The Original) (Submission author) 5 years ago
Some of them are public domain but I know approx 200 or so nursery rhymes and many of them I can’t figure out of they are public domain or not. I am not tech savvy so I don’t even know how to find that information out properly.
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#11
I can be the last person in dodgeball by staying on the spot and dodging like sans.
Final score:
20points
glowworm2 5 years ago
Same here. I suck at actually throwing the balls at people, but I'm great at dodging.
Dylan Vite (Submission author) 5 years ago
Somehow keeps you the last one standing tho, rite?
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Elizabeth Orozco 5 years ago
Me too, I'm always last and can never get anybody out so we lose...😕
Wolfblood Fanatic 5 years ago
Ditto, in dodgeball, we were playing and someone threw a ball at me (obvi) and I LITERALLY moved my hip like a bent slinky.
Cecilia Cheung 5 years ago
I'm exactly the same. Even when I actively aim, I can never hit anyone, but I never get hit. Weird paradox
#12
I have a very good contact with children, especially babies and toddlers. I don't know why, but they like me and I make them smile and laugh easily. It is perhaps because I am myself a 50 years old kid :-)
Final score:
19points
ADHORTATOR (Submission author) 5 years ago
Perhaps they consider me as a harmless clown :-)
Load More Replies... Wolfblood Fanatic 5 years ago
Yup. no offence but you saying "perhaps" DEFINITELY helps me identify you as a........ middle-age adult.
#13
I don’t think this is very impressive but I can play songs on the recorder and kids piano without any sheet music. I do it just by sound. The hardest song I have done on the kids piano is My heart will go on by Celine Dion, the recorder is a bit harder so I can mainly do kids songs. But I do know how to play Ode to Joy.
Final score:
18points
TheReader19 5 years ago
As someone who never learned but always wanted to play the recorder, I am heartbroken and very jealous in equal measures.
Jace 5 years ago
This is how I learn music. I can’t read notation. Notation isn’t music to me. I understand the concepts but it doesn’t do anything for me and I cannot see or memorize note lines. As a consequence, no music teacher would teach me instruments. I’ve had to just screw around with whatever I want to learn to play. I hate that no teacher would work with me appropriately for my needs and now I can’t play anything properly. I can sing, but, again, f**k notation as any kind of music reading.
Sansa Blacktyde 5 years ago
I can do the same, on my recorder. I can learn to sing songs pretty much instantaneously as well.
Iapetos 5 years ago
Not very impressive indeed, considering the many stages that are possible above that. But you're probably already better than most and I remember being at that stage myself. I hope I don't demoralize anybody by saying that it's not impressive, just know that there is so much more you can (and probably will) still learn if it is fun for you. Keep it up!
#14
when one of my close friends texts me "hey" i can immediately say in what mood they are :D even if they always start with "hey" sometimes it feels sad or very happy to me..
Final score:
18points
#15
Some creative people can see songs as colors, whereas I can see certain names as pictures. As a Finnish person I am specialized in Finnish family names, towns and place names. Some names are self-explanatory and very easy to illustrate but abstract names always have the specific sound that takes shape in my mind. Funny thing is that when I tell people about this talent they want to see their own last name illustrated. Very amusing but totally useless talent. (My last name "Turunen" looks like grass with a thistle-like tuft.)
Final score:
18points
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
Well that is certainly interesting. I have heard or people hearing and seeing colours but never people hearing words etc. Fascinating.
Jennifer Crompton 5 years ago (edited)
Definitely a form of synesthesia. I have time/space synesthesia which means that I see time as a shape. (Example: days of the week form a flattish oval)
izzy bradford 5 years ago
ok is this weird but sometimes when someone is talking the words they say show up in my head like I'm reading a book and when I listen to songs I make little animations in my head as I listen please somebody tell me there's not something wrong with me
#16
I can put a cherry stem in my mouth and tie a knot in it with my tongue. Great bar trick.
Final score:
18points
#17
I can do that thing where you hold yourself onto a pole like a flag. It hurts if you do it for awhile but everyone things it’s pretty cool.
Final score:
18points
#18
I can press down on my eyelid and it makes a sort of fart sound. Don't know anyone else that can do it, and I've searched online for it. My family doesn't really like though.
Final score:
17points
Helen Hadley 5 years ago
I can do it too! Sometimes when I lie in bed I can make it click when I blink too.
Emma Horn-Knox 5 years ago
LOL glad my brother can't do that! He would abuse that mighty power. (this is coming from a kid)
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago (edited)
My legs make a tick noise and I don’t mean a click, I mean an actual tick, like a someone saying tut. My jaw also makes a grind and pop noise.
Load More Replies... Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
My hubby can do that every now and then and sometimes his eyes make squeaking noises when he rubs them. Super weird.
#19
I can vibrate something behind my eyes, I don't know what exactly, but it makes a sound that only I hear. Does anyone else experience that?
Final score:
16points
MadDawg 5 years ago
Yeah, I can too. Most people can only do it when they yawn, but it's basically vibrating your eardrums.
Dynein 5 years ago
... really? *yawn* *yawn* Hey, you're right! Never really noticed there's an internal sound to yawning, much less that it's my eardrums vibrating.
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Evelyn Frydenberg 5 years ago
A part of the human population can voluntarily control the tensor tympani, a muscle within the ear. Contracting this muscle produces vibration and sound. The sound is usually described as a rumbling sound
Up All Night 5 years ago
I do the same in my inner ears. It makes a low rumbling sound inside, similar to when you hear your blood rush but it's louder and deeper.
#20
I can read faster than anyone I know. I once timed myself on Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and I read it in 39:23. This has not been useful to me except when the teacher handed us a new book back in school. I also have photographic memory, and can remember everything I have once seen or heard. This has been useful at times, too.
Final score:
16points
@Daisychain 5 years ago
same. I can read harry potter and the Half Blood Prince in about an hour or a bit more if I am not interupted.
@Daisychain 5 years ago
My sister told me that when I read my eyes move from side to side super fast
Lavender Brown 5 years ago
I can read books fast too. Not as fast as you but I can read a 300 page book in like an hour.
#21
I can do a decent (or so I like to think) impersonation of Jar Jar Binks and Chewbacca (from Star Wars), Smaug (from The Hobbit), and Amazon's Alexa. It annoys my friends and family members a lot.
Final score:
15points
Wittlewat (Submission author) 5 years ago
Yeah, there's not much use in being able to impersonate the most hated Star Wars character
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I have synesthesia . I see music and songs as colours. The best way for me to describe it is when I hear music or songs it looks like I am watching a silent fireworks display where the fireworks are dancing in time to the music. It all different colours too as each different musical part and instrument and voice has its own separate colour and movement. For example T.N.T for the Brain by Enigma or I'll Find My Way Home by Jon and Vangelis are just a riot of colours for me. I also see people's names as a series of colours too. All different colours usually 4 or 5 for each and every name.
Final score:
15points
Caroline Driver 5 years ago
I can 'hear' colours a sounds. Not all the time, but I can kind of switch it on. Flowers are fantastic, all singing
Jennifer Crompton 5 years ago
I have time/space synesthesia, as in I see spans of time as different shapes. The days of the week form a flattish oval and go counterclockwise, for example. But I wish I had your type of synesthesia!!! Sounds much more fun!!
#23
Important to know: I have NO athletic skills whatsoever. However, I can, with pretty high accuracy, toss any sort of remote from my recliner to my husband's recliner and land it face up in his hand the correct way. This is tossing with either of my hands, around a cat, over a plate of food, etc. Whatever. It's simply amazing and it's indeed one of very few skills!!!
Final score:
15points
#24
I can speak pig Latin fluently. I also can bend my tongue in weird ways.
Final score:
14points
Doggi (Submission author) 5 years ago
Translation: Me too. But not my tongue.
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#25
I have pretty good timing skills. The wifi was out for a moment and I was drawing on my notebook and said, "Wifi is on." and the wifi was on. My family members were staring at me for a long time.
Final score:
14points
izzy bradford 5 years ago
#me every time me and my friends were playing on the playground I would feel a tingle up my spine and I would say bell and then 2 sec later the bell rang
#26
I can do a lot of weird things with my face. - Raise and lower eyebrows one at a time, make "waves" with them, wiggle them along music etc. - Vibrate my eyes - Cross my eyes one at a time - Blur my vision without squinting or seeing double - Move my nostrils like a bunny - "Squint" my nostrils - Touch tip of my nose and chin with my tongue - Roll my tongue and then bend it in half while still rolled - Form a trifold and a cup with my tongue - Wiggle my scalp - Wiggle my eardrums (you can see it with an otoscope XD ) - Lower my ears' hearing for a little while using the aforementioned eardrum wiggle muscles (this is actually useful) - when I do it, I hear a humming noise and the eardrum stiffens making it harder for sound to pass through - Play simple tunes like childrens' songs by knocking on my head. (Also while brushing my teeth.) There's probably more. Most of these are difficult to show to people because I can't do them while laughing/uncontrollably smiling... :D
Final score:
13points
Aubrey 5 years ago
omg i can also blur my vision without squinting its quite easy, i can also wiggle my ears!
Mere Cat (Submission author) 5 years ago (edited)
I'm jealous! ;D I can't wiggle my ears without also moving my scalp a bit.
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Dippin Dot 5 years ago
I can do all of these except the tongue to the nose and chin... I can also clap one-handed, tie a knot in a cherry stem with my tongue, and move my eyes independently of one another (I was told I have very good eye muscles and would have a lazy eye if they weren't that strong)
Mere Cat (Submission author) 5 years ago
Same here, also about the lazy eye thing.
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#27
If a fly starts buzzing around, I can catch it in my hand. I don’t think about it but it seems to surprise people that it can be done.
Final score:
13points
Dave Chapman 5 years ago
I can catch a fly, stun it, take a long hair and tie it around its neck while it's stunned and when it comes to, I have a fly on a leash.
#28
My useless talent is that i'm always bored😂
Final score:
12points
#29
I can make almost about anyone happy or laugh. I can also stand up to ANYONE.
Final score:
11points
Jennifer Crompton 5 years ago
Are you my sister? Lol. If not, I think you should meet because that is a very good description of her.
LMAO>ROTFL (Submission author) 5 years ago
no im not your sister. LOL. it would be interesting to meet her though!
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I can do two things. 1.) I can bark exactly like a dog. Like the dog next door barks to me...I bark back. We have long conversations. Wonder what I'm saying. Hope it's appropriate... 2.) I can make my left eye move on its own. Why I have glasses I guess...
Final score:
11points
M_E the Meguca Wolf 4 years ago
I have a lazy eye, and if I stare at something for a while, my right eye starts to look away and it looks like i'm cross-eyed, and I love scaring my friends with it
#31
My hidden useless talent is that I am the only person in my family that has ADHD. And I can be very annoying
Final score:
10points
Elizabeth Orozco 5 years ago
I know how that feels, I'm the only one with OCD in our family and sometime they get upset with me for doing things my own way, like, cooking, I have to line everything up in straight lines on the counter in the order they have to be added, it takes longer but it's just how my mind works. Also food CANNOT touch on my plate...
izzy bradford 5 years ago
same. nobody ever understands... I hear "you need to pay attention!" waaaaaay more often then I like, and I try I really do try but its NOT easy AT ALL
#32
I am double jointed and can make my elbows meet. Also if a song gets interrupted on an intercom at the grocery store, I can actually figure out exactly when it's going to continue when the interruption is over--as long as I'm familiar with the song.
Final score:
9points
Kip Otter 5 years ago
I can pop just about every bone in my body. I can pop every joint in all of my fingers, my toes, hips, back in several different places, neck, wrists, knees, elbows, ankles, shoulders, I can even pop the place in my foot that's towards my toes and sometimes I can pop my shoulder blades. I freak so many people out when I get bored and just pop my ENTIRE body. Haha one of my favorite things to do. Is this a useless talent?
Load More Replies... Tiffany Marie 5 years ago (edited)
When I got arrested with my hands behind my back.. I was crying and my nose was running.. The officer refused to get me a tissue so I somehow reached my cuffed hands behind my back up to the front of my shirt and blew my nose on it. The officer was like :O did you just do that? I said yeah.. I can do it myself! I also had a freshly broken finger at the time.
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
I think they mean they can do it behind their back coz not many people can do that unless they are bendy.
Load More Replies... Dylan Vite 5 years ago
I can do that music talent with pretty much every undertale or my singing monsters song.
#33
I can vibrate my eyes... I don't know it counts but...
Final score:
9points
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
That’s certainly interesting, I can’t imagine what that looks or feels like.
#34
I can bear-walk (walk on four legs) much faster than most people. I did so all the time in elementary school until this 'friend' started treating me like a dog, making me heel at her side while on all fours and bark. I went along with it because I was too shy to object. Needless to say I stopped bear walking after that experience.
Final score:
9points
#35
Since I was a very young child I can call up my toes and run around the house on my toe knuckles. Like with my nails flat on the ground and my heel on the ground. I can still do it at 41 but only for a dozen or so steps. Only a few other people I have met can do it. Try it.
Final score:
9points
#36
I can, through force of will alone, generate “chills” from my scalp downward across my upper body. I can actually demonstrate this to people because the hair on my arms will rise up somewhat when I do it. I’ve not seen anyone else make mention of this, but once I post this, I bet someone else will go “Oh! Me too!” :-)
Final score:
9points
Jace (Submission author) 5 years ago
Ah, see, I knew I wouldn’t be the only one! :-)
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I can skip things on water in interesting ways. I don't mean I can skip rocks an insane amount of times, but rather I can skip rocks (or other materials) in far from ordinary fashion. A good example of this is when I skipped a shell 3 or 4 times on a marsh from over dunes, 70 feet away. Another time, I skipped a couple fish I had found in some turtle traps I was pulling up (set for a herpetological study, not for consumption). Not something that would ever be helpful, but a fun trick all the same.
Final score:
9points
#38
i can bend my ear (it doesnt have any cartilidge)
Final score:
8points
Up All Night 5 years ago
Everyone can do this. The outer ear is mainly cartilage, without it, it would be just hanging skin. Cartilage is very flexible due to the amount of collagen and elastin fibers.
Fred and George Weasley (Submission author) 5 years ago
i mean my ear has 0 cartilidge. it can bend more than a normal ear,
Load More Replies... #39
My very useless talent is I can make a spit bubble, close it, blow it in the air, and put it in my mouth without popping it in less than a minuite.
Final score:
8points
Grace Cho (Submission author) 5 years ago
I wanna show you but I don't know how to post videos on here :P
#40
I can blur my vision without crossing my eyes.
Final score:
8points
#41
I have a couple... I can crack pretty much any joints in my body, make my whole body vibrate together, or just separate parts, tell what time of of day it is by just looking outside, and tell peoples feelings by looking at them, hearing them, or reading their words(I can't tell words if I haven't seen them in real life though...).
Final score:
8points
Kip Otter 5 years ago
I commented this earlier but I can pop pretty much any joint in my body. This includes my neck, shoulders, back (in several different places), shoulder blades (occasionally), elbows, every joint in my fingers, all my toes, my hips, my knees, my ankles, I can even pop this place in foot, it's near my toes and towards the inside of my foot. I love freaking people out by popping my ENTIRE body.
#42
I'm a server and I can guess with about 80% accuracy what people will order tp dri l
Final score:
8points
MellonCollie 5 years ago
to drink? That's pretty cool :-) Marketing stereotypes may actually have a point then.
Daune Jaimes Diaz (Submission author) 5 years ago
Sorry for the typos, I was tired. It was late
#43
I can change which one is my dominant eye. It takes approximately a second and feels like you look out of your house using different windows - you can choose the right one or the left one.
Final score:
8points
Dippin Dot 5 years ago
I don't necessarily think it's a "dominant" eye, but more like which eye your brain is registering. When I watch tv and there's a reflection, I have to decide which I'm going to focus on - the tv or the reflection. It's kind of like when you're watching a show and they focus on one character and the background is blurred, and then they switch the focus and then the person is blurred and the background is in focus.
Load More Replies... #44
I can talk like Donald Duck.
Final score:
8points
DC 3 years ago
A classmate could do that. In 6th grade, we were sent outside as a punishment (group of three) and sat around a tablequite in the middle of the building. He said "Du alte Schlampe" in a Donaldish voice to every teacher coming by, and they all just laughed. They didn't hear it, they just heard Donald. ... means "you old sl.t" in german.
Wolfblood Fanatic 5 years ago
I can do an AMAZING british accent! My best saying is: "Would you care for a spot of tea this afternoon?"
#45
I can make flower chains, I've made some over 20 feet... Does that count?
Final score:
8points
#46
i can quote all the star wars movies an tv shows
Final score:
7points
#47
When I am thinking of someone and have something to tell them they call me within like 10 mins. A lot of my family members have same ability
Final score:
7points
Bettye McKee 5 years ago
I have had that bond with relatives. When I was having some kind of trouble, they would call or visit me.
#48
Three things- I can play 2 recorders at once, I can write a little and pick stuff up with my toes, and I can crack my knees repeatedly. Haha!
Final score:
7points
#49
I'm good at singing songs just the way they are sung. If that makes sense
Final score:
7points
Fin Diffenderfer 5 years ago
Perfectly on key or do you mean you can do impressions of the singers?
#50
I can start from one end of a regular sized pool and swim underwater to other side in less than 1 minute without going up for air. idk if this counts...
Final score:
7points
Dippin Dot 5 years ago
This can be very dangerous. When I was a lifeguard a fellow guard/swim team member was doing this repeatedly (coming up for air only when he reached the other end of the pool) and he ended up passing out under water and needed to be rescued. And he was a trained LIFEGUARD and COMPETITIVE SWIMMER!
#51
I love to write short stories where my inspiration takes me. I've always had this talent deep inside me and have considered writing a novel.
Final score:
7points
#52
weird talent that i have is that i can wiggle/move both of my ears without touching them, only 10-20% of the population can do this. also when i am cracking my knuckles i can crack my neck, ankles,toes and sometimes wrists. also idk if its a talent but its just something cool about me, i have bright green eyes and only 2% of the population has green eyes, sooo ya!
Final score:
5points
Dippin Dot 5 years ago
I too have green eyes and can wiggle my ears without touching them. Coincidence?
Aubrey (Submission author) 5 years ago
idk maybe we r long lost twins, but do you have blonde curly hair?
Load More Replies... Fin Diffenderfer 5 years ago
2% of the entire world population is more people than it sounds like. 156,000,000, to be precise. So yes, a lot of people DO have green eyes.
Load More Replies... #53
When I was a teen, I could hang upside down by my toes for an hour, I've always had freakishly strong calves & thighs, not freakishly large tho. I could run backwards faster than many can run forward and I was a HS record holder running forward in the 100M.
Final score:
5points
Dave Chapman (Submission author) 4 years ago
Jeez...I actually forgot I wrote this and was just about to comment "This sounds exactly like what I could do once!!"...LOL
Load More Replies... #54
1) I can do an extremely well impersonation of Dobby (Harry Potter) which I’m actually proud of 2) I grew up watching lion king so I taught myself how to bear crawl and I can beat anyone who challenges me 😂
Final score:
5points
Elsahthescienceguy 5 years ago
I can do impersonations of my hero academia characters, and my mom thinks I could be a good voice actor
ℜ𝔬𝔟𝔢𝔯𝔱 ℭ𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢 4 years ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=open+voice+actor+positions&oq=open+voice+actor+positions&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i64.8471j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Load More Replies... #55
I can fake burp, only helpful when you want people to go away
Final score:
5points
Wolfblood Fanatic 5 years ago
Ditto! I can burp so many times in a row! I forgot I had that talent because I never used it!
#56
I can tell someone's name by the way they look.
Final score:
5points
ℜ𝔬𝔟𝔢𝔯𝔱 ℭ𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢 4 years ago
What's this guy's name, then? Say it left to right. https://www.google.com/search?q=person&tbm=isch&safe=active&chips=q:person,g_1:transparent:BAEWgZ05WIA%3D&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi3_aL638fuAhUS9awKHZ3SCccQ4lYoBXoECAEQIg&biw=1903&bih=937#imgrc=NqS8pbbeqqeXeM
Wolfblood Fanatic 5 years ago
Hmmmm, If I sent a pic of me (not gonna) would you guess my name? I have a Latin name (I think)
#57
My talent is having problems when i don't need them Plus i know how to quickly adapt to any situation
Final score:
5points
Tiffany Marie 5 years ago
Yeah I learned I can easily adapt myself. Whatever the harsh lifestyle means I'm given at any time, I just groove right in.
#58
Also, I can make an annoyingly loud sound by bending my left arm. My elbow makes a Frickin loud sound when I when I bend my arm.
Final score:
4points
#59
1).Kids and dogs tend to like me. 2). If I get a feeling about something/someone and I ignore it, then the thing I was worried about will happen. I now always listen to my gut instinct.
Final score:
4points
Jace 5 years ago
Number 2 is a perception bias. You’re simply neglecting to make note of all the times this doesn’t work out as you expect.
Dynein 5 years ago
There's often bias in statements like that, but I can actually believe that it's true for some people. They might be picking up on subtle cues even if they aren't consciously aware of it.
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#60
I can make this farting sound when I press down on my eyelid (with my eye, not the other area). My family doesn't really like the sound though......
Final score:
4points
Average Grizzlies Fan (Submission author) 5 years ago
I can also crack all of my toes and fingers.
#61
Origami
Final score:
4points
#62
I can't whistle normally but I can actually whistle with my tongue. I can curl it up and make a whistle sound if I point it up. I have never met anyone who can do this though.
Final score:
4points
#63
My hidden talent is I never get lost. I always know where I am. And I can spell words I have never seen before perfectaly.
Final score:
4points
#64
i have Deja Vu at least once a day and it surprises my family a lot when I tell them something is going to happen and it does. (My mother tells me I have a gift but I'm not so sure its THAT special) I can also pop my knuckles by making a fist.
Final score:
4points
Niko Alarcon (Submission author) 5 years ago
Once I had a Deja Vu moment of me telling my teacher I had a Deja Vu of me telling him. Weird lol
Load More Replies... Lavender Brown 5 years ago
I have this too. I dream of something happening and then in a few days or weeks it happens!! Super weird.
#65
I am a very good writer.
Final score:
4points
Lavender Brown 5 years ago
Can't say about writing stories, but I am good at writing poems. Here's one, The Swallow Tail's Cry The swallow tail's cry, Against the setting sun, Dipping turning, flying grace, It's mournful cries are done. Hiding, sleeping, running on the wind, Resting with the little ones, As the long day ends, The Swallow Tail's Cry gets swallowed up by night, And ends as day is done, And things are set aright. By: Me
Elsahthescienceguy 5 years ago
I’m really oddly good at writing horror novels and it’s kinda spooky how good I am at it
#66
Random for sure - I can imitate R2D2 as he is screaming through the air, and can recite several Dr. Suess books from memory - 'I had trouble in getting to Solla Sollew", and So, you think You're unlucky?".
Final score:
4points
#68
My most useless talent is writing bush verse that cannot get published and no one will ever read.
Final score:
4points
#69
I can bend my fingers backwards 90 degrees. Completly painless.
Final score:
4points
#70
I stack the washing up bowl like Inception. A glass inside a cup inside a jug. It's mental!
Final score:
3points
#71
I have double jointed toes, elbows, and fingers, and I can make my eyes go blurry on command and if I stare at something long enough my eyes will go out of focus and I will see a doubled image. I can turn my tongue sideways and make a tube with it, I have a freakishly high pain tolerance and have never cried from pain even when it's so bad I vomit, I can memorize facts instantly so long as it doesn't involve numbers
Final score:
3points
Elsahthescienceguy 5 years ago
I can do those things too! Except maybe the tounge thing, and my pain tolerance is high, but not that high
Sharon Hahn 5 years ago
If you stare at something long enough, your eyesight will be blurry and you'll see double.
#72
I can touch my tongue to my nose 🤷♀️
Final score:
3points
Rosemary Kathryn Perez Hartzel (Submission author) 5 years ago
Haha, unfortunately not but I do have three cats
Load More Replies... #73
I can bend only the distal phalanx of almost all of my fingers. It creeps people out (I used to thonk everyone can do it up until I was 16 years old). I can also tell a lot about person's feelings and traits based just on their handwriting.
Final score:
3points
Jennifer Crompton 5 years ago
I've tried to learn how to analyze handwriting. It's SUPER complicated!!
Nada Nikolić (Submission author) 5 years ago
I don't know. It seems obvious to me. After I realized I can do it (in Highschool), I've read a book about graphology, but it seemed too complicated. For me it's just a feeling.
Load More Replies... #74
Well,I can sing really well,but I am afraid to sing in front of people and in Griffindor.
Final score:
3points
#75
I can recognize people's handwriting, even people I went to school with back in the '50s. It has never been useful, but if I think that a report or whatever looks like D--- H---'s handwriting, I will then discover that D--- H--- wrote it.
Final score:
3points
#76
My hidden talent is being able to draw decently. I always draw horrible for fun because I think it’s funny. Now people think I actually can’t draw.
Final score:
3points
#77
I can always tell when the mail is here, like I’ll be in the middle of a show and then I’ll have the impulse to go check the mailbox! I haven’t been wrong yet!
Final score:
3points
💥 Bakugou, Katsuki 💥 (Submission author) 5 years ago
Actually no, my mail comes at different times during the day depending on the traffic
Load More Replies... #78
Quite a few people can do this, but I can move my ears.
Final score:
3points
#79
Guess I have several useless talents 😅 I play rollerhockey (over here it's the same as ice hockey but with a ball and one player less and of course no ice) and though i am not the fastest or a goal getter my talent lies in blocking shots and going on like nothing happened even if it really hosted and scraping balls from the goal line in the last second :D (this is not that common for a girl in a men's team over here) Non sports related i speak German, English and italian fluently, can survive in danish and french and learned Irish, Scottish and latin at school/university. Oh and i am good at remembering things like exam dates of friends and in which class 6 years ago I learned what during my undergraduate. Normally i am within 2 or 3 weeks to the date we did a topic in reality 😅
Final score:
3points
Diana Jansen (Submission author) 5 years ago
For me the most important thing is having a clear structure. We had a book but our professor thought it wasn't that good so never used it and he had a thing for starting in the middle and then jumping back and forth in the topic we did. So try to either get a really good structured book/course Oh and do never ever try to think in the systems for language learning you know from other languages. It took me 3 months to get from "these are just letters randomly lined up" to "uisce means water and fuisce means whiskey which is uisce bea in Scottish and means water of life" 😅 And try to have a context. For me it was always easier to understand a language when I had something to connect it with. E.g. with english it was my favourite band back then and tomb walls for middle egyptian hieroglyphs
Load More Replies... #80
I can do I realistic horse call. If I may say so myself, it's really good but my voice is strained for hours afterward.
Final score:
3points
#81
I can memorize numbers and pictures easly, but anything else I cant.
Final score:
3points
Ronel du Plessis 5 years ago
I remember phone numbers, ID numbers any number, but names, I am very bad at remembering names.
#82
This isn't as cool as other things people put here but I can walk on my heels for a very, very, long time. For hours.
Final score:
3points
Luisa Vasconcelos 5 years ago
1 time I walked with high hills 24 hours. Went to work at 6 am (house - work 1 hour away) then got home only with enough time to take shower and change clothes, dress for this weeding that I would photograph until morning. Were very confortable high hills though.
#83
I can suck in all of my guts except for my abdomen. It looks pretty weird. I can also make a tounge clover, and a few finger tricks. I can also do one sign (American sign language) with my toes. I can sign “people”
Final score:
3points
Elsahthescienceguy (Submission author) 5 years ago
I also have a couple more, like I remember one of my past lives, and I have Deja Vu a lot, I’m good at makeup, I have scary good impressions of some of the characters from my hero academia, I can raise my eyebrows by themselves or together, and some would say I’m good at singing and acting
#84
I can cross all my fingers on both hands at the same time (so index over thumb, then middle over index, then ring finger above middle finger and pinky locked over ring finger). Pretty useless, and I haven't met anyone else that could do it.
Final score:
3points
#85
Well there you ave it a writer who is not a writer
Final score:
3points
#86
I can tell what people are going to say before they say it. Multiple times I know exactly what my mom 8s going to say and respond to her question without her even asking. Kinda cool though.
Final score:
3points
#87
My son, not me. He is a walking comic book Encyclopedia. I started getting him comic books at a very young age as my family was into them when I was young (he had over 5000 before an accident lost them all ten years ago). Over the years, his friends, co-workers and even friends of friends would call him up to ask questions or to try to test him. This started before internet and cell phones. I can't tell you the number of times he would get calls at all hours of the day and night because someone needed to have an argument resolved. He is in his 30's now and it is still the same only now he gets the majority of his comics digitally.
Final score:
3points
#88
I can make a very strange sound. Idk how to describe it. It sounds like an angry Donald Duck. It kinda sounds like: Zwheee zwheee zwheee zwheee
Final score:
3points
Rowan Jeffus (Submission author) 5 years ago
I can also make myself laugh hysterically or cry my eyes out at any given moment.
#89
I can pick up almost anything with my toes. Proudly practicing since 1990.
Final score:
3points
#90
I can whistle really melodically, but not loudly. For example I can whistle shape of you but can't do a wolf whistle.
Final score:
3points
#91
Well, I have a knack for getting me and my friends out of trouble at school. I can act pretty well. If we get in trouble, I can cry on the spot, or come up with a pretty sweet alibi. It probably helps that there are dozens of people who owe me favours.
Final score:
3points
#92
I can whistle pretty much any song I hear, and imitate some birds fairly well ^^
Final score:
3points
#93
I also can push down the tip of my nose. The bone ends early...so it looks really weird. Like I can push it all the way down. Haven't met anybody else who can...they say it hurts. Try it.
Final score:
2points
#94
I can flip my eyelids up, and I'm double jointed in my thumbs. I can also crack all my knuckles.
Final score:
2points
#95
My useless talent is seeing the future in dreams. I never remember them until the future actually happens, however.
Final score:
2points
Kate Yeti 5 years ago
I know what you mean, I do the same thing too. It's usually something boring, like a moment at work!
Wolfowl (Submission author) 5 years ago
Haha, yeah, I always am just reading or something and I think "Hey wait I've done this before... oh yeah, in a dream."
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Wolfowl (Submission author) 5 years ago
Really? To me it always seems like it's the future, and it's happened so many times. Strange.
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#96
I can't get fat no matter how much I eat and I can also make most of my joints crack by just rolling them (shoulders, elbows, wrists, knees, ankles, neck)
Final score:
2points
Someone passing by (Submission author) 5 years ago
And also I can crack my back by twisting my upper body (left and right) without moving my lower body
#97
I know when something I need is at the thrift store. Like, exactly what I'm looking for - type, brand, everything. I usually dream about it the night before. It's a stupid psychic power to have. But it's saved me a lot of $ over the years, so I guess that's cool.
Final score:
2points
#98
I can walk on my knees and taught my sister.
Final score:
2points
#99
I don't know if this counts, but when I listen to music played by multiple people, I can identify pretty much all the instruments being played. I can even isolate a certain instrument or voice and just hear that apart from all the others
Final score:
2points
#100
I have a really weird thing for remembering everyone’s birthday. People I met a long time ago who mentioned their birthday or acquaintances are surprised when I still remember a long time later. Teachers would have me tell them everybody in the class’s birthday. I don’t know how I do it, but I know many people’s birthdays that I don’t even know very well.
Final score:
2points
Tiffany Marie 5 years ago (edited)
Yeah I can do this too. I remember a lot of Birthdays I wish to forget :/ I asked someone their Birthday & bam months later I'm saying Hey!! Happy Birthday here are some flowers! It's expensive.. Since I'm a given and feel the urge to buy gifts. It's also lonely because rarely anyone has rememberd or cared about mine.
Molly Lassen (Submission author) 5 years ago
People get creeped out by this ‘talent’, but it’s fun to impress or surprise people when I know everyone’s birthday! I also remember dates where something happened that have no reason to be remembered.
#101
This is really random but I can bend the top joint of my right pinky finger back at least 90 degrees.
Final score:
2points
#102
Being the tallest girl in my class sometimes its actually fun
Final score:
2points
#103
I can twist my pinky finger behind my ring finger so much that no light gets through
Final score:
2points
#104
I can drink liquid through my tongue rolled up like a straw🤷♀️
Final score:
2points
#105
I don’t really know if this is a talent or something but I have great hearing and can tell who is walking/running by the rhythm and sound of their footsteps. I don’t really think this is that special since another friend of mine can do this too.
Final score:
2points
#106
This might be another talent I don’t know but I always know when it’s raining even if there is no sound or I only had just woke up. When it’s raining I always feel very happy no matter when.
Final score:
2points
#107
Snarkiness. And comebacks, although I never show it. :)
Final score:
2points
#108
Well, I have this strange thing I can do but idk if it's normal so, basically I can make a weird noise with the dangly thing that hangs in ur neck and it sound like A) An alien ship powering up or B) An Alien stranded on earth curiously trying to communicate.
Final score:
2points
What do you think ?
Foxxy (The Original) (Post author) 5 years ago (edited)
I have never heard of it before but after a quick google, I have to say it looks like it could be fun.
Load More Replies... Tiffany Marie 5 years ago
I guess I didn't think I had much talent as an individual. After reading these it got me thinking. I'd have to say so far one of my biggest talents is something I share in common with my late mother... That's going through sh*t and coming out smelling like roses.
KombatBunni 5 years ago
I can wiggle my ears..and for some reason I can do really good cockney, american or russian accents...good for when you're playing tabletop roleplaying games I guess?
Khalil Verdejo 4 years ago
I don't know how to post an answer properly, so here is mine: Twisting my right foot 180 degrees. I show everyone and they ALL say they can do it as well, but they just push their foot back with their other foot and keep them together. I just stand there, lift my leg slightly, turn it quickly, and put it down.
Suly Toribio-Rodarte 5 years ago
Mine is dancing,when my family is not in the house but now i've had learned to not hide your talent.
Foxxy (The Original) (Post author) 5 years ago (edited)
I have never heard of it before but after a quick google, I have to say it looks like it could be fun.
Load More Replies... Tiffany Marie 5 years ago
I guess I didn't think I had much talent as an individual. After reading these it got me thinking. I'd have to say so far one of my biggest talents is something I share in common with my late mother... That's going through sh*t and coming out smelling like roses.
KombatBunni 5 years ago
I can wiggle my ears..and for some reason I can do really good cockney, american or russian accents...good for when you're playing tabletop roleplaying games I guess?
Khalil Verdejo 4 years ago
I don't know how to post an answer properly, so here is mine: Twisting my right foot 180 degrees. I show everyone and they ALL say they can do it as well, but they just push their foot back with their other foot and keep them together. I just stand there, lift my leg slightly, turn it quickly, and put it down.
Suly Toribio-Rodarte 5 years ago
Mine is dancing,when my family is not in the house but now i've had learned to not hide your talent.
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