What’s the most useless thing you’re weirdly good at?

I always pick the slowest line at the grocery store. Every single time....

Naming countries based either by silhouette or flag  It's a decent party trick sometimes tbf

prioritizing other people’s 'why' over my own 'ouch'

I can estimate the exact size of a Tupperware container needed for leftovers just by looking at the pile of food. I have a 99% success rate. No 'too small' transfers, no 'way too much air' in the bowl. It is my only measurable contribution to this household.

Pretty well remembering any song lyrics or irrelevant pop culture fact from the 80s.

remembering useless facts

Casually tossing. I can throw a *thing* in the bin, or a slice of bagel in the toaster, teabag I a mug etc without a thought, underarm, backhand from the sofa, from bed, with an incredibly high success rate. However, one iota of pressure and it's over

I can read livestock ear tags from really, really far away. My long sight is apparently very good. Thankfully this is a handy skill to have as I have cows, but obviously no use outside of that or to anyone else!

I can perfectly fold a fitted sheet

I can balance a broom on the tip of my pointer finger for quite a while.

Making farts with the dip between my shoulder and collarbone with my neck

doing nothing all day

Involuntary celibacy

Whistling, but especially teeth whistling. I like that people are confused where the sound is coming from because you can barely see it followed by "it sounds really good"

Browsing constantly and switching between tabs with no needs.

Yapping on stuff that doesn't even matter

Sleeping 😴

I can sleep instantly

I can perfectly open a bag of chips without making a sound which is impressive until you realize it’s only useful when I’m hiding snacks

Unhooking bras

If I hear music I like, I only have to listen to it once have memorised every note and play it back in my head.

according to my parents its art acc to me noticing weirds habits of someone it no use to me but i do notice it

I can tie knots in cherry stems with my tongue in like three seconds.

I can mentally prepare for every possible outcome except the one that actually happens.

Mario Kart. I play so well to the point where no one wants to play with me because there’s no way in hell anyone in my life could beat me. My husband is training so he can be as good one day. I coach him and everything

Pogo sticking. I spent a whole day mastering it aged 6 or so and I've never lost the ability to bounce up and down with surprising agility for a 240lb man.

Identifying actors and singers by voice

I can roll my eyes at high speed in full circles, clockwise and counter-clockwise.

Napping

Driving they say

There was some random ability I noticed i had some unearned knack for...but ive literally forgotten what it was.

Beat boxing. Good enough at it that people compliment me when I do it but not good enough to go to like a beat boxing competition or something like that.

Make fart noises with my hand

I can clap with one hand. I thought it was a common skill, but nobody I’ve tried teaching has been able to learn it.

I have a high level of accuracy for data in spreadsheets. Something about numbers really makes my brain work and I've been applauded for it in my job (although my job is not maths based). I can't explain it but I can look at thousands and thousands of lines on a spreadsheet and understand it, organise it, whatever, with no fault.

Everything

Handstanding

Having my right hand be dominant, but my left hand is better at doing things.

I memorize long parts of movies, like Lecters silence of the lambs monologue to Clarice, or the Ezekiel 25:17 rant in Pulp fiction, then whip them out at the most inappropriate times.

I'm really good at wiggling my ears without my face moving. Utterly useless.

Im good at catching things that fall out of cabinets after you open them.

Snapping my fingers using only two of them.

stressing about stuff i cant control or that already happened.

wasting time.

I can lick my elbows.

You know that trick you do for kids when you make your nose click but it’s actually you flicking a tooth with your thumb? My nose actually does click. So does my jaw. And my ears. Yes, I played a lot of rugby growing up.

Reqding Cyrillic letters. If spoke any language that is generally written in Cyrillic, I could use that skill, but as things are...

I remember which paragraph I was up to in a novel without thinking about it.

Finding patterns in things, actions, etc and joining the puzzle pieces to deduce some accurate assumptions. And I think I am good at it. But sadly I do not work for any Intelligence Services of my country. So it's useless.

Telling the time. Don't really need a watch since I quite accurately tell the time without it.

I have such a wide music taste that I extremely good at telling what songs and artists is playing by the first few seconds. My friends are always impressed when I guess, good party trick I suppose

i don't take shortcuts, i'll take the longest route as much as possible :D

I’m really good at guestimating length and weight but only to the first decimal. So it’s pretty useless when many things require precise measurements at least up to two decimal points. It does work well when i weigh bags when packing for a trip. My best moment was guessing the length of a hugeass fish through the thick aquarium tank glass when the fish caretaker was doing a Q&A. Got so many “oohs and ahhs” from the audience But that’s it

Latte art. Partly because I worked in a cafe for 12 years. Partly because I just love it. But I have made maybe 10 lattes for people other than my wife and myself in the past 5 years. So it's useless in a sense. Though being able to steam milk well isn't useless.

Untangling headphone cables. A skill that aged out of relevance and took my entire personality with it

Finding things. So let’s say my family forget where they left something id find it immediately like necklace, ring, remote lol. They always tell me I’m good at that lucky to have you 😅

When I was a child, my knees use to "click" whenever I bent them back and forth at a certain angle. When in a pool you could hear it like dolphin clicks underwater, was a cool party trick to play "happy bday" to the host as a joke. 25-30yrs later, not such a cool trick. Throw in football in teens and snapped ACL (fixed), an MRI few years ago showed I have F all Cartlidge left which would explain the knee pain. DO NOT PLAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY WITH YOUR WEIRD KNEES!

Thinking of awful gifts for people Maybe I'm a sociopath 

I can do vape rings and since I can control the speed and size, I can make one ring fly through a larger one.

I’m really good at forgetting things.

People pleasing. I'm in HR and people seem to appreciate how much I care about them

Taking an exact number of pills from a bottle. I have an autoimmune disease so I’m on daily meds for the rest of my life. I load my medications and vitamins into one of those weekly pill boxes. I can pop 7 out from any bottle with one tilt. Utterly useless but here we are.

Coming to a listnook thread at a time in which I don’t get any upvotes or get proved wrong. There is zero middle ground.

I'm good at playing simulators for long periods of time. Like truck driving. I wouldn't want to do it IRL but I'm probably more than qualified.

At my age passing wind is a VERY regular thing. Since I have no kids to laugh with, I find it fairly useless.

I can remember what show was on tv and the times on Friday and Saturday nights when I was kid, I’ve retained that useless info for about 30 years now. I can also fall asleep anywhere at anytime. Which can be sort of useful but usually isn’t!

Basketball.

Holding my hands together in the front and keeping them clasped as I twirl them to my back, still clasped easily. Yay double jointedness and a dash of ouchee.

Remembering numbers.... credit cards, ID numbers, codes from stores, phone numbers, birthdays.... And being extremely clumsy.

Crossing the road when the light is red for me )

Not completely useless but I can measure out 2 weighed ounces of ingredients to the tenth of an ounce in one try pretty consistently. Not as useful if I need more or less than 2 ounces. 

I can identify different races of Asian people by face, name or speech pattern, it isn't a learned skill, I've only really interacted with a few Asian people and they spoke English primarily, so I'm not sure why I'm so good at it, but it's kinda cool when I'm right most of the time, only reason I'm ever wrong is if I didn't even know the race existed in the first place, for example ever since I was introduced to the Cantonese people I've been spotting them more often in my town

Knowing the flag of basically every country in the world

I can fix any Rubik’s cube in under a minute.

Reclining.

I can rotate one hand one way and the other the other way simultaneously.

I can move my ears 🥳

Making that door noise sound

I'm really good at peeling potatoes. I'm not a chef. During a period where my family would help out a soup kitchen weekly, I'd get put on potato peeling duty. I reckon I've peeled several hundreds of bags of potatoes over those years. Comes in handy to save like a minute for dinner prep, but it's not exactly something to show off at parties.

Sometimes encountering really dumb people, but since I’m friendly and don’t want to hurt their feelings I will try to stay polite and not go into detail when some of their arguments don’t make sense. That’s the worst part about really dumb people: they don’t realize that at all. And if their IQ is really low and you take a chance for a debate/discussion… That’s quite exhausting. Ironically they often think they’re having good arguments. You can never win when the other person has no logic. So I think that’s not really useless, I would love to prove them wrong every chance I get but I don’t want to make them feel bad. Most of the dumb people I know get butthurt really quickly too so it’s tough sometimes. But I don’t want to ruin their day. They are the only type of people I wont be completely honest to. Because they hate facts and often get aggressive when you point them out. So it might not be completely useless because I let them be dumb and irrational, but I certainly am weirdly good at it.

Identifying cars from just a glimpse of their silhouette in passing traffic Working on identifying engines by the exhaust note still though

Procrastinating

Minesweeper

I can identify a lot of music with the kick at the start. Pretty useless but fun at parties

Making origami flapping birds of various sizes.

Cocaine

Turning around when the microwave is about to go off. It’s like I’m counting down somewhere in my head & I don’t realise

Catching accidentally falling stuff. 99% of the time, I am quick enough to stop the item before it reaches the floor.

I make the best kool aid. 🤷‍♀️

Dr Mario

Rock paper scissors. Not like guaranteed to win in one round, but if we do more than one round I win almost every time.

Nut