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People On Reddit Are Sharing Hilariously Useless Talents That They Have And Here Are 30 Of The Best Ones
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Let's be real here—not all of us are destined to become a genius violinist or a world-class dancer. Heck, even being an average human being sometimes proves to be too tedious. And it's okay—we're not cut from the same cloth, meaning that we all possess different kind of talents. However, some of them are getting labeled as "useless." Is it fair? I'm no expert to answer. All I can say is that my talent of twisting my feet backwards is yet to come in handy...
Some time ago, one redditor asked people to share the useless talents that they have. Believe it or not, people are full of talents that are considered useless, but are nonetheless fun and fascinating! Someone's weirdly good at recognizing fonts, while another person can hit just about anything within 60 feet with a rock. Who's going to argue that it's not impressive?
Scroll down below to read the 50 most upvoted answers from the redditors, and after reading about other people's useless skills and talents, don't forget to share yours in the comment section down below!
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I can disapoint anyone
I’m not 100% accurate but I can look at people and tell where they’re from without hearing them speak a single word. I’m American and can do this with Americans as well as non Americans. Example: last summer I had a group of 5 and I identified 2 Belgians, a French and a German. One was so unbelievably impressed that he offered me $50 if I could precisely identify the 5th person, a woman, in the group. I looked at her, guessed French Algiers, and won the most unlikely $50 of my life. I’m a small legend in my line of work and the tourists are dumbfounded every [damn] time.
I can fold a fitted sheet so well that it looks indiscernible from a folded flat sheet.
I can count the letters in any sentence while the sentence is being spoken and still pay attention to what the person is saying. I've done this since I was around 10. It's compulsive. I can't quit doing it.
I can think of a song to fit any situation or at least change the lyrics of one to fit. I do it automatically without even thinking. It only takes me a second and is completely pointless.
I am genetically unable to get brain freeze. I can chug an entire slushy without consequence.
I can take a nap for a specified amount of time, like say 22 minutes. I also know right before a timer is about to go off
i can pull apart two pieces of flat lego without using my teeth
I can laugh genuinely with a completely straight face. It creeps people out
Always put the USB in the right way on the first try
i never get that right. "Which side is up, right, left...?" *throws USB at wall*
I'm really good at catching things that are falling because I clumsily knocked them over. I'm like an oaf in the front half of a second, and a ninja on the back half; I have roughly the same number of spills as the average person, but with extra steps. I've done it with multiple falling objects, behind my back, with my feet - things usually don't hit the ground around me.
I can do a ton of voices. You'd think it would be useful, but I've been trying to get into voice acting for 20 years.
I once entered a talent competition playing the recorder using my nose. The judges were confused and decided I wasn't worthy of first place.
I have none. But my husband! Name almost any dead celebrity and he can tell you where they are buried. Sometimes he can tell you who they are buried next to.
Being able to pick things up with my toes when I'm too lazy to bend down.
I never forget a face. If I’ve seen it once I’ll remember it if I ever see it again.
Pictures are a little harder because it’s a frozen moment in time and they may never look the same way.
Case in point, when I was 12 my dad introduced me to a guy and we chatted for a few moments. Almost 30 years later my dad and I were out and I said, “Dad, is that so and so?” And sure enough, it was and my dad was able to reconnect with someone he hadn’t seen in 20 years.
I am like this, especially with celebrities and people in movies. I can see a few seconds of them and name them, especially with older movies they are in and their younger selves vs. them now.
With a couple of warm ups to get the weight, i can flip a coin for the same result consecutively a bunch of times. My record is 44. Can usually/reliably do at least 20 every time.
Works best with a UK 2 pence piece.
enter a bet, on which side it will land on, make some street hustlin'
I can tell by the sounds of many different songbirds when there is a bird of prey flying overhead
I have a hyper-realistic impression of a dog bark. My friends will think there is an actual dog around and get disappointed when they realize that it was me.
I can balance almost anything on the palm of my open hand. Rake, golf club, shovel, open ladder, work and alcoholism.
I can put my legs behind my head.
I've yet to be kidnapped but hope it may be useful then.
There's a business called "Extreme Kidnapping" that's got you covered.
I can move my ears independent from my face and vibrate my eyes. No idea why.
The ear moving thing is an old atavistic gene from the times when we were different species.
Same! My whole family can do both eye and ear thing. I thought voluntary eye vibration is common.
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I can do the ear thing, and one of my sons is able to vibrate his eyes too, weirdest thing ever and all of his friends request to see him do it...🤣
I can't do the eye thing. But I can move/wiggle either ear without moving the other.
I can move both of my ears independently without my face or any of my eyebrows even twitching. Comes in handy when you have to distract a crying child.
oooh, I can do the eye thing ! ! I can also do a thing called "ear thunder" or "ear rumble" or something on command, by flexing something in my jaw or whatever in the same flex as when I yawn. idk if that makes sense, but still. I thought everyone could do those 2 things on command but then there was a post here about the eye thing and I realized not everyone can do it, in fact it's kinda rare. Also found out about the ear thing being hard to find in the population too from a post on BP
I can throw up on command. Gross and not nearly as useful as crying.
Dman, I wish I could do that, I could get out of school whenever. me: "dammit, the exam is today!" pukes on command, "mommy, I don't fee-" *pukes again.
I can cup my hands together and shoot water 10-12ft in a straight line. It’s like always having a water gun on me. When I do it without water it makes a fart noise, which is like always having a whoopie cushion
I can write without looking. Theoretically, I could write an essay blindfolded.
I sing Gregorian chant on pitch and accurately, practicing it at least 1 hr. per day.
But it's a useless skill as there are no chant choirs or need for it in my area.
I can switch accents that are actually convincing mid convo.
I can solve a rubiks cube in around 9 seconds. Unless I get faster it's not like I can make money from it or anything lol.
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i can inhale O2 and exhale CO2
WOW! Really!?
Same, but when I exhale the CO2 it sounds like Elvish.
=O =O =O =O =O WOW!!! How do you do that?
boi-
I can comment on BP posts even though I have nothing interesting or beneficial to add to the conversation.
I can instantly stop hiccups. I have no idea how I do it.
give me your genes All I have is a fifth wisdom tooth
Same! There's a muscle which tenses and then spasms for hiccups, when you know which one it is you conciously relax it. I've always heard that it's impossible to conciously stop hiccups.
It's the diaphragm.
ah, i wish i knew which muscle that is...
boyfriend of six months, to me after ten minutes: "how long are you going to have hiccups?" I don't know! half hour later, "How do you still have hiccups?" You Nevits, are homosapien 2.0
*begins worship*
I can stop hiccups too
Me too, Nevits!
I can too! I have a personal technique that only works on me apparently.
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I can run back into the kitchen right before the microwave goes off. No counting down in my head. Never missed it.
CFVGB I DIDN'T KNOW OTHER PEOPLE COULD DO THIS !! I can be sitting there for what feels like 10 minutes and my body just says "k i t c h e n" and I just start walking there, and without fail, I get there right before the timer goes off
I can read small print documents that are upside down to me, like on someone's desk.
Good to use in the principals office when they have a document saying what you've done... XD
I remember the weirdest details about people. I remind them of these things, and they think I stalk them. I don't, I'm just extremely observant which is strange considering how much I talk.
I can get the admin card swipe right on the first try in Among Us 😏
W-what kind of god are you?
Same
Lol me too.
Ok but is it REALLY that hard?? I have yet to go too slow or too fast lmao
/O
I am naturally immune to plants such as poison ivy and poison sumac.
I'm naturally immune to the chicken pox. When it was running rampant through my elementary school I never got them.
Dippin Dot Good response!
jobschopman what
In volleyball, I could take one look at the server and immediately know where the serve would land. not much of a talent though
I am magnetically attracted to the one item in a shop that is unpriced. It especially happens in antique shops, charity shops etc, where items are one-offs. I will imediately be drawn to the one item on the shelf that turns out not to have a price ticket.
i can fall asleep whenever i want
I'm jealous
I can fee other people's emotions. I'm not really alone in this. It's called hypersensitivity. But only about 20% of the population is like this. It can be useful (for some) but I find it completely invasive. But once I was driving in my warm car with the heat flowing in winter and I looked over at someone running outside (it was a cold day) and the words "I'm cold" came out of my mouth. I had no reason to say that. I realized it must have been what the runner was feeling. I've learned to suppress this.
I'm weirdly good at remembering things. Songs, dates, books, hell, even dreams from over a decade ago. I can't rewatch or reread things because I know everything that's going to happen. I can tell you the exact date I got all of my plants, when my last haircut was, and when I got my favorite pair of shoes.
I have a useless talent. I'm really good in bed.
I'm dying 😂
Panda's got talent
I can tell a bad person from everyone else. There was a girl in my kindergarten class who I had a bad feeling about, ended up knocking a kid out.
oh god
Charlie Hyduk lol
I can make "thumbs up" gestures with my feet.
I love this post. People get to brag about their uniqueness and weirdness. Everyone should be proud of that.
I can sneeze in a way you can’t tell I sneezed. Developed it because my pelvic floor was too weak. My daughter can tube her tongue five ways (normal, sideways to the left, sideways to the right, a double tube and a triple tube)
I can turn mine upside down. Like to do it when I'm thinking. My mom can too.
I can also tell the time without looking at the clock, day or night, to within a couple of minutes. I think this one came from all the night wakings after having 4 kids.
I can lick my nose. Does that count?
I've always wanted to be able to do it For some reason..failed..
I can swallow air and burp. I can prep a really long burp with multiple swallows. Was more fun as a kid. Adults are less impressed.
Laurel Eddy like
I can mimic accents without thinking about it, but once I try to do one I flounder.
Gab +
I can make goat sounds...In different pitches lol.
Everyone in my family has a different eye color. Mine is caramel. Everyone in my family has some weird talent to with their face. Mine is I can vibrate my ears and forehead, so that it looks like I am possessed. It freaks my friends out. Then I recently found out I can weirdly vibrate my eyelid, I do it on instinct, it just makes me look more possessed.
I can put my hands on my chest, palms sticking out, and move my arms together in front of me.
I don't quite understand
I can put my elbows in front of my chest, arms straight, sticking straight out.
I can, given a few seconds, cry on command (or at least make my eyes water) I can also laugh at anything that’s not funny at all (not on command, totally random)
I can write upside down, left to right, right to left, both hands. Same with reading. Da Vinci's texts are easy for me to read and understand. Also struggle a lot with letters "N"and "Z" lol
Wow!! 😳 that's awesome
Thank you ☺️
I can tell you within $3 how much the total will be at any store with any amount of items, even when my husband and son sneak things in the cart and I don't see the shelf price. I unload overflowing carts and "mind" calculate totals (with discounts, coupons and taxes) and am accurate at least 98% of the time.
I can repeat a song or melody correctly after only hearing it a few times
I can catch plushes every time i use a claw machine!!! I don't know how i do, but always work.
I'm not in practice any more, but for a long time I was spookily accurate at telling where someone was from by their accent. Like, Henry Higgins accurate.
I can mirror write in left hand. Also I can smell short curcuit in proximity
I can tell the grade of corrugated board just by feeling it.
I can: Whistle with my throat. I can also fake cry really well, talk for hours on end, but am mostly a quiet gal, and can name a ton of random facts. Did you know that black apples exist?
Also, I can lift my bangs with my eyebrows. When I had them. RIP my bangs, when I was three to when I was 8.
I've never been sure if this is actually weird or not, but I can pop my ears on command. Like I can just pop them. Whenever I want. I'm doing it right now. It's not hard and it doesn't hurt, I just can??? People never quite understand what I'm talking about whenever I bring it up though so I've never been sure.
Hmm, the only way I can do it purposely without going up or down, is plugging my nose and blowing out of it.
I can move my nostrils and so far no one I know of can do it too.
So now you know me - I can do it too
Me too!! And my ears 👂
Me and both of my kids can but my husband can not. It creeps him out. haha
Same, LuckyL.
Nothing remarkably special, but I can do a backbend. :/
Nobody can beat me at 7 degree of kevin bacon
kjorn no
I can do daily activities with my feet pretty regularly (opening doors, turning on/off lights, grabbing mugs/other objects, typing), though I can't do anything like drawing/painting/writing.
I have an anxiety disorder and my hands shake i was born with it. So my talent is putting a pencil between my fingers and can move it between my fingers really fast
It’s quite embarrassing but I begin to mimic a person’s accent after a few minutes of conversation. I can also maintain eye contact and respond correctly as you speak but be thinking of and figuring out something completely unrelated. I can read aloud and do this as well. I taught myself these time-saving skills but now I realize what a problem it really is.
I can remember the eye color of anybody I know off the top of my head. It’s especially weird because I have facial recognition issues, but if you asked me the exact eye color of anybody I know, I would be able to tell you without looking.
Remember free popcorn guy? Don't forget scrounging through the trash for some popcorn!
This article already existed. Also: I can cause body chills at will. On myself, not other people. Just by thought. You can see it happen as the hairs stand up on my arms.
Jace like
I can randomly remember a detail about someone and that's how I know them.
I can sing over a song.
I can purr and meow exactly like a cat. Been doing it since I was about 3 or 4, when my uncle (now passed) first taught me how to purr. Only problem is after awhilr it makes me wanna gag because it involved vibrating my soft palate, just under the sinuses.
I have told women they that they were pregnant at least 2months before they knew. I have been right 3 out of 3 times now
I can gleek on purpose.
I can tie a cherry stem in a knot. Make a clover shape with my tongue. Wiggle my ears. Alternate raising my eyebrows. That’s about it. And I remember soo much random stuff. Even small details about people. Also I’ve never gotten poison ivy I may be immune as well like the other person in the comments is.
I can lie in my tummy and twist my legs towards the ground by my head without touching it no one else I know can do it 🤷🏼♀️😏
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... if I hadn't a few worthless talents, I wouldn't have any at all...
I can recognize every sound of a house after about 2 months of living there
I can move my eyebrows independently from each other and wiggle my ears. All at the same time, too, but it looks pretty weird!
Tiny Dynamine -
I can arch my left eybrow really high like belushi.
Ms.GB yes
i can vibrate my eyes, barf and/or cry on command, and have a severe fear of airplanes. yay!
I can memorize disney songs without even realizing it. I can also sound out songs on on the piano. (other instruments too but the piano is the easiest.)
I can touch my nose, chin, and can fold my tongue in the hotdog, clover and I have been stretching my tongue since I was 6, daily exercises get my tongue even longer and more flexible. Also, I can Hear lights, even if they aren't on...I used to get no sleep before I was used to it.
i can't gag
Juliette lol
I can make a weird squeaky noise.
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My talent is lying on Reddit.
i can inhale O2 and exhale CO2
WOW! Really!?
Same, but when I exhale the CO2 it sounds like Elvish.
=O =O =O =O =O WOW!!! How do you do that?
boi-
I can comment on BP posts even though I have nothing interesting or beneficial to add to the conversation.
I can instantly stop hiccups. I have no idea how I do it.
give me your genes All I have is a fifth wisdom tooth
Same! There's a muscle which tenses and then spasms for hiccups, when you know which one it is you conciously relax it. I've always heard that it's impossible to conciously stop hiccups.
It's the diaphragm.
ah, i wish i knew which muscle that is...
boyfriend of six months, to me after ten minutes: "how long are you going to have hiccups?" I don't know! half hour later, "How do you still have hiccups?" You Nevits, are homosapien 2.0
*begins worship*
I can stop hiccups too
Me too, Nevits!
I can too! I have a personal technique that only works on me apparently.
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I can run back into the kitchen right before the microwave goes off. No counting down in my head. Never missed it.
CFVGB I DIDN'T KNOW OTHER PEOPLE COULD DO THIS !! I can be sitting there for what feels like 10 minutes and my body just says "k i t c h e n" and I just start walking there, and without fail, I get there right before the timer goes off
I can read small print documents that are upside down to me, like on someone's desk.
Good to use in the principals office when they have a document saying what you've done... XD
I remember the weirdest details about people. I remind them of these things, and they think I stalk them. I don't, I'm just extremely observant which is strange considering how much I talk.
I can get the admin card swipe right on the first try in Among Us 😏
W-what kind of god are you?
Same
Lol me too.
Ok but is it REALLY that hard?? I have yet to go too slow or too fast lmao
/O
I am naturally immune to plants such as poison ivy and poison sumac.
I'm naturally immune to the chicken pox. When it was running rampant through my elementary school I never got them.
Dippin Dot Good response!
jobschopman what
In volleyball, I could take one look at the server and immediately know where the serve would land. not much of a talent though
I am magnetically attracted to the one item in a shop that is unpriced. It especially happens in antique shops, charity shops etc, where items are one-offs. I will imediately be drawn to the one item on the shelf that turns out not to have a price ticket.
i can fall asleep whenever i want
I'm jealous
I can fee other people's emotions. I'm not really alone in this. It's called hypersensitivity. But only about 20% of the population is like this. It can be useful (for some) but I find it completely invasive. But once I was driving in my warm car with the heat flowing in winter and I looked over at someone running outside (it was a cold day) and the words "I'm cold" came out of my mouth. I had no reason to say that. I realized it must have been what the runner was feeling. I've learned to suppress this.
I'm weirdly good at remembering things. Songs, dates, books, hell, even dreams from over a decade ago. I can't rewatch or reread things because I know everything that's going to happen. I can tell you the exact date I got all of my plants, when my last haircut was, and when I got my favorite pair of shoes.
I have a useless talent. I'm really good in bed.
I'm dying 😂
Panda's got talent
I can tell a bad person from everyone else. There was a girl in my kindergarten class who I had a bad feeling about, ended up knocking a kid out.
oh god
Charlie Hyduk lol
I can make "thumbs up" gestures with my feet.
I love this post. People get to brag about their uniqueness and weirdness. Everyone should be proud of that.
I can sneeze in a way you can’t tell I sneezed. Developed it because my pelvic floor was too weak. My daughter can tube her tongue five ways (normal, sideways to the left, sideways to the right, a double tube and a triple tube)
I can turn mine upside down. Like to do it when I'm thinking. My mom can too.
I can also tell the time without looking at the clock, day or night, to within a couple of minutes. I think this one came from all the night wakings after having 4 kids.
I can lick my nose. Does that count?
I've always wanted to be able to do it For some reason..failed..
I can swallow air and burp. I can prep a really long burp with multiple swallows. Was more fun as a kid. Adults are less impressed.
Laurel Eddy like
I can mimic accents without thinking about it, but once I try to do one I flounder.
Gab +
I can make goat sounds...In different pitches lol.
Everyone in my family has a different eye color. Mine is caramel. Everyone in my family has some weird talent to with their face. Mine is I can vibrate my ears and forehead, so that it looks like I am possessed. It freaks my friends out. Then I recently found out I can weirdly vibrate my eyelid, I do it on instinct, it just makes me look more possessed.
I can put my hands on my chest, palms sticking out, and move my arms together in front of me.
I don't quite understand
I can put my elbows in front of my chest, arms straight, sticking straight out.
I can, given a few seconds, cry on command (or at least make my eyes water) I can also laugh at anything that’s not funny at all (not on command, totally random)
I can write upside down, left to right, right to left, both hands. Same with reading. Da Vinci's texts are easy for me to read and understand. Also struggle a lot with letters "N"and "Z" lol
Wow!! 😳 that's awesome
Thank you ☺️
I can tell you within $3 how much the total will be at any store with any amount of items, even when my husband and son sneak things in the cart and I don't see the shelf price. I unload overflowing carts and "mind" calculate totals (with discounts, coupons and taxes) and am accurate at least 98% of the time.
I can repeat a song or melody correctly after only hearing it a few times
I can catch plushes every time i use a claw machine!!! I don't know how i do, but always work.
I'm not in practice any more, but for a long time I was spookily accurate at telling where someone was from by their accent. Like, Henry Higgins accurate.
I can mirror write in left hand. Also I can smell short curcuit in proximity
I can tell the grade of corrugated board just by feeling it.
I can: Whistle with my throat. I can also fake cry really well, talk for hours on end, but am mostly a quiet gal, and can name a ton of random facts. Did you know that black apples exist?
Also, I can lift my bangs with my eyebrows. When I had them. RIP my bangs, when I was three to when I was 8.
I've never been sure if this is actually weird or not, but I can pop my ears on command. Like I can just pop them. Whenever I want. I'm doing it right now. It's not hard and it doesn't hurt, I just can??? People never quite understand what I'm talking about whenever I bring it up though so I've never been sure.
Hmm, the only way I can do it purposely without going up or down, is plugging my nose and blowing out of it.
I can move my nostrils and so far no one I know of can do it too.
So now you know me - I can do it too
Me too!! And my ears 👂
Me and both of my kids can but my husband can not. It creeps him out. haha
Same, LuckyL.
Nothing remarkably special, but I can do a backbend. :/
Nobody can beat me at 7 degree of kevin bacon
kjorn no
I can do daily activities with my feet pretty regularly (opening doors, turning on/off lights, grabbing mugs/other objects, typing), though I can't do anything like drawing/painting/writing.
I have an anxiety disorder and my hands shake i was born with it. So my talent is putting a pencil between my fingers and can move it between my fingers really fast
It’s quite embarrassing but I begin to mimic a person’s accent after a few minutes of conversation. I can also maintain eye contact and respond correctly as you speak but be thinking of and figuring out something completely unrelated. I can read aloud and do this as well. I taught myself these time-saving skills but now I realize what a problem it really is.
I can remember the eye color of anybody I know off the top of my head. It’s especially weird because I have facial recognition issues, but if you asked me the exact eye color of anybody I know, I would be able to tell you without looking.
Remember free popcorn guy? Don't forget scrounging through the trash for some popcorn!
This article already existed. Also: I can cause body chills at will. On myself, not other people. Just by thought. You can see it happen as the hairs stand up on my arms.
Jace like
I can randomly remember a detail about someone and that's how I know them.
I can sing over a song.
I can purr and meow exactly like a cat. Been doing it since I was about 3 or 4, when my uncle (now passed) first taught me how to purr. Only problem is after awhilr it makes me wanna gag because it involved vibrating my soft palate, just under the sinuses.
I have told women they that they were pregnant at least 2months before they knew. I have been right 3 out of 3 times now
I can gleek on purpose.
I can tie a cherry stem in a knot. Make a clover shape with my tongue. Wiggle my ears. Alternate raising my eyebrows. That’s about it. And I remember soo much random stuff. Even small details about people. Also I’ve never gotten poison ivy I may be immune as well like the other person in the comments is.
I can lie in my tummy and twist my legs towards the ground by my head without touching it no one else I know can do it 🤷🏼♀️😏
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... if I hadn't a few worthless talents, I wouldn't have any at all...
I can recognize every sound of a house after about 2 months of living there
I can move my eyebrows independently from each other and wiggle my ears. All at the same time, too, but it looks pretty weird!
Tiny Dynamine -
I can arch my left eybrow really high like belushi.
Ms.GB yes
i can vibrate my eyes, barf and/or cry on command, and have a severe fear of airplanes. yay!
I can memorize disney songs without even realizing it. I can also sound out songs on on the piano. (other instruments too but the piano is the easiest.)
I can touch my nose, chin, and can fold my tongue in the hotdog, clover and I have been stretching my tongue since I was 6, daily exercises get my tongue even longer and more flexible. Also, I can Hear lights, even if they aren't on...I used to get no sleep before I was used to it.
i can't gag
Juliette lol
I can make a weird squeaky noise.
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My talent is lying on Reddit.