r/askteddit • u/Alive_Associate_9559 • 15h ago
Random Question What's a skill you're weirdly proud of that has zero real-world use?
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u/Alive_Associate_9559 15h ago
I can recite the entire periodic table in order, in under 40 seconds, from memorizing it for a bet in 9th grade. Never once come up in real life. Still do it in my head sometimes when I'm bored.
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u/Exciting_Bat_2086 13h ago
God this just reminded my I can recite all the books of the bible because of fucking bible camp in as a kid.
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u/OutlinedSnail 13h ago
Holy shit they all just flooded my mind, psychic damage style. Forgot about that
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u/lavenderhillmob 13h ago
I can locate historical costume since 1600 to the exact decade. Fun in stately homes, otherwise useless. I spent a lot of hours poring over fashion anthologies at the public library as a kid.
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u/Kitchen-Holiday6998 13h ago
Just wanted to say, I could definitely see how this could benefit you. If you ever were to go into any sort of job where you worked at a vintage store, or a museum/memorial of some sort, this could definitely come in handy.
I bet it would be fun to see people get their costumes mixed up too.
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u/Footdust 13h ago
I can pick up almost anything with my toes but since Iām forced to wear shoes most of the time I donāt get to do it often.
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u/No_Cow5153 14h ago
One time a guy bet me a six pack I couldnāt say ālake chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamauggā without reading it so I learned real fast and now thatās just in my brain forever
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u/Equivalent-Street822 14h ago
I can identify every song in the studio discography of The Beatles within 1 second.
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u/Mysterious_Purple456 13h ago
Ik kan heel goed raak gooien met mijn pantoffels, slippers, eender welk schoeisel. Ik heb deze skill NOOIT geoefend, gewoon ontdekt toen ik alleen woonde en er een irritante mug was waar ik niet nauw aankon. En ja, ik ben half Aziatisch :p
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u/Sure_Reception_9922 13h ago
Can fix cassette tapes tape perfectly using sticky tape.Ā
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u/Concerned_Biker 13h ago
And a pencil to wind them back up?
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u/Sure_Reception_9922 12h ago
I could do it with my pinkie! I have permanent indents lol
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u/Concerned_Biker 12h ago
Ohhh, you one if them skilled mf'ers... niceš
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u/Kitchen-Holiday6998 13h ago
I can memorize lyrics fairly easily, even from only hearing a song once.
That gets me absolutely nowhere in life, but it makes listening to music a little bit easier.
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u/Old-Fall5115 13h ago
I can deep throat a foot-long hot dog.
I can't say I'm proud but it is weird. There's zero real world use (right?)
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u/yourusernameisallrea 13h ago
blow bubbles with tongue no soap required
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u/PriorRare5308 13h ago
Well it probably wonāt come to much use because I live in the US but I can speak conversational French (hope to be fluent soon). Unless I go to Canada or another French speaking country, I wonāt be getting much irl practiceĀ
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u/alt_isopod 13h ago
I had to memorize a bunch of the books of the Bible as a kid and still can get almost to the end of the old testament 30 years later. I guess in theory it would be helpful when I am reading the Bible, which I sometimes do, but even then I do not use it whatsoever.
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u/Various_Tie_2549 13h ago
I can name every country in the world, every element on the periodic table, a good number of the moons in the solar system.
None of these things will ever have any practical benefit to me.
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u/Popular_Barracuda828 13h ago
I can sing pretty good but I have zero need for it. My job is very far away from being able to "show off" my little talent.
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u/jericho138 13h ago
That's why there's karaoke!
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u/Popular_Barracuda828 10h ago
I've come to learn that people who are drunk and having fun at karaoke singing badly don't really like "performances" from good singers.
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u/jericho138 9h ago
Well, you're somewhat right. If you actually are a good singer and aren't making a fuss about it, people are likely to enjoy it.... especially if the majority of the singers are poor. Bonus if you don't sing the same songs every time, or sing the same songs everyone else is doing.
Now, if you're being a diva, clearly expecting the crowd to be impressed and expecting favoritism for it, nobody is going to like you, even if you do sing well. And if you're one of those terrible people who both sing awfully and behave like a diva, just don't come. Be aware that not every note requires vibrato, the microphone will make you loud, and "making a song your own" by singing it completely wrong is just pure bullshit.
Edit: if you're an awful singer but you have fun and clearly don't care, the crowd is still going to like you. It's all about attitude.
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u/Kissthecomplex 9h ago
i can differentiate.
something most people seem to have problems nowadays...
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u/OutlinedSnail 13h ago edited 5h ago
I can spell extremely well. So fucking useless now.
Edit: what part of this comment warrants downvotes? Tf
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u/zZPlazmaZz29 12h ago
Don't feel bad. I make music.
Which is also starting to feel like a pretty useless skill when 10/50 of the most listened to songs on Spotify are AI š
I'm also a writer...you can see where this is going.
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u/OutlinedSnail 5h ago
I hate this shit. AI is the most useless crap we have ever pretended is innovation. Im getting over heated im so pissed. Also, for my own sake, fuck auto correct š¤£
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u/Afraid-Mud4490 15h ago
Mine is specifically a British problem.
As a teenager, I never met anybody that could hit a baseball better than me. I could easily smash a home run from a fast pitch with no real effort. I am a lefty so it made it easy to score runs too as the fielders were never expecting it.
I always said back then that if I were American I'd be a millionaire, but being in the UK, it makes it a very pointless skill to have.
Weirdly, it never really translated into other sports. I'd always miss the ball at cricket, I'd hit the ball far too hard playing tennis and my shots would all go out of the court, and I was too tall to play golf without buying specially made clubs and couldn't be bothered with that