I have above average college age male cooking skills. I can make a delicious fucking cheesecake. I've messed around on guitar without any training since 12, but I'm not fantastic by any means. I played piano since age 5, but stopped around 3 years ago, which is sad because I was getting pretty good. I just didn't practice enough/had enough interest to actually continue. Which is too bad, because now I am the age where girls actually admire people with talent in the arts, as opposed to shunning them. I have a natural talent when it comes to multiplayer video games. I can sit down, pick up a controller, and after the third or fourth try beat someone who has had a game for a hell of a lot longer than me. I figured this out when I was in like 6th grade on a sleepover at a friends house, and his older brother had a Dreamcast with some NFL game that he was challenging people on. I had never played a dreamcast, but after one game I took his sorry ass down like 42-14. It was a crowning achievement in my video game life. That and playing on a competitive team in 2 games. (DotA and TF2, if you guys want to know which ones).
I am completely forgettable. You know that guy who is around quite a bit but you can never remember his name? Even though you've spoken to him several times? That's me.
I can make the best pumpkin pie in the world from scratch. I can draw cartoons. I can get a standing ovation at a karaoke bar. I can murder the fuck out of anyone on N64/Gamecube Super Smash Bros.
I can cook pretty well, and I make pretty good chocolate chip cookies. I can do a few different dunks and throw a pretty decent deep ball. I can walk a runway. I'm a very good googler. I guess I'm technically a professional.
I'm the king of "faking it 'til you make it." It's basically how I've built my current job, and I now manage two companies. I knew pretty much nothing about either industry and took on the opportunity. Then I just about killed myself learning everything without it seeming like I knew next to nothing.
I'm an above average baseball player. I have a knack for memorizing over dozens of movie qoutes and spouting them off in everyday conversations. I can iron pretty well (thanks Air Force tech school). I'm frequently told by females that "I'm such a closed book."
I'm pretty good at memorizing movie lines instantly. I can't really cook, but I can make something pretty delicious out of fillet and bacon. I'm good at making up strange but apparently good examples to illustrate things, don't be surprised when I start to talk about storks and golfballs if you aks me to explain something to you. Not really sure if that's a talent, but I almost instantly find the beat on any song you play to me, even if most of the other people stare around and have no clue.
This was my first thought too and I was completely serious. I also rock at: baking. laundry. talking to strangers.
On this note. If I was forced to say what thing I am best at it, would be eating pussy. I know it seems like internet bullshit, but I base my pride on what I've been told. -"You are too young, to do that, that good." Twice with older women. -"You need to teach classes on how to do that." Twice -"You lick pussy better than any girl I've been with." Once -"No one has EVER made me cum from oral before" Three times -"Are you fucking kidding me?!" In a good way. Many Times If only I was good at something that could make me money...
I make delicious layer cakes. I've yet to fuck up a recipe and I can make that icing look like it came from a bakery. I'm a white girl and I can dance. Have training in ballet, modern, jazz, hip hop, and tap. It's been years since I danced regularly, but I can still break it down without looking like a total idiot. I can trip on things that are invisible to the naked eye. I can put my foot in my mouth faster than the speed of light. I kick ass at standardized testing. This does me a fat lot of good in my adult life to be sure.
I generally don't have the best memory, but I have this one specific skill that's totally useless but I like that I have it. I can remember the outfit I was wearing of nearly any moment of significance in the past 6 years (which is when I started caring about what I wore). Often fairly insignificant memories too. I can also unhinge my shoulder blades so it looks like I have wings.
I can wu-tang, jerk, and stanky leg like a champ. I'm also passable at the crip walk. (Yes, I'm white.) I can do a kip up drunk. I absolutely destroy standardized tests. I haven't found a racing game or first person shooter that I can't pick up and take cheeks within a week. Holy fuck was I good at Modern Warfare. For being self-taught, Im awesome at diving. I'm still four on the inside. Give me a coloring book and I'll give you the best damn Elmo you've ever seen in your life.
Just remembered a couple more... I'm good at song lyrics. I find it strange that people don't know all the lyrics to every song that they listen to and can't just sing them off-the-cuff. I can also whistle well enough that I can do most guitar solos. Well. I always find it strange when I'll whistle and someone will join me with their horribly off-tune shitfest. I have perfect pitch, or close enough. I tried whistling a 1 kHz tone and testing it with an o-scope, and I can usually get it within 20 Hz. I use this talent to piss people off, as the 1 kHz tone is what people inject to make sure a circuit's working. Whistling the tone before the signal gets injected is a sure way to get people to go "What the FUCK is going on here?"
I'm an uber geek and am very well versed in Harry Potter and Marvel comics. I'm also excellent at molecular biology and being a slob. I can also get 5 gold stars on the expert level on Rock Band (1, 2 and 3) on the lovely SexBox 360.
Apparently I can write radio beer commercials really well. I won a contest for doing so. I actually have a habit for winning other radio call-in prizes too. I've won dozens of concert tickets and prizes over the years in my home town. Where as most people type using all their digits, I can type using only one finger. My friends have never beat me at Trivial Pursuit. Literally ever. I'm at least good at pretty much any sport except basketball. At that sport, I am a drunken one-arm gnome balancing on a stepladder. I can make better toast than any of you bitches.
Standardized tests are a joke. I have like, 2/3 of imdb in my head. When I don't know an actor or actress's name, people at work get surprised. Random trivia. Never lost a game of Trivial Pursuit. I read too much. I can shoot the lights out with a handgun. I was the second best shot on my ship, and the best was an old Chief who was part of the Navy marksmanship team. I had a black girl sleep with me purely based on my ability to dance (this is strictly a four drink or more ability). Haven't played anything easier than expert Guitar/Bass since the third week I owned the original Rock Band.
Crossword puzzles, Scrabble, Boggle and the like. "Word nerd" as my daughter calls me. Listening, a skill I am convinced is lacking in the majority of people. Efficiency. If there's an easier way to do something, I'm going to find it. Others refer to this as laziness, but I couldn't be bothered to argue.
- I`m going to be a doctor in a year, and I`m pretty good at it. I`m 23. - 95 % of the time I can instantly attune to the emotional state of others. This is incredibly useful with patients. - I can play the guitar reasonably well and have written and recorded several songs, for my own personal enjoyment. - I remember "everything" about the media I consume, e.g. actors, track listings, lyrics, dialogue, plot-related minutae, story-arcs and subtext in every book etc. - I am an excellent procrastinator. - I have silly hand-eye coordination when it comes to video games. - I`m well on my way to speaking five languages fluently; if time permits within 1-2 years. - I can multiply two-digit numbers in my head. I have to admit, I`m sadly still far from old enough to not enjoy listing this. As a corollary, I have never volounteered this information in a social setting, because I really don`t want to be an arrogant asshole. Still working on that over-sized ego though...
Movies are, for better or worse, my life, my blood and my soul. Friends and family always ask what movie they are watching and I can figure it out in just a couple seconds. "Hey, bebop! What's this movie?" *watches for a few seconds* "The Ninth Configuration." *blank stares* "What?!" Or being able to name random actors. "You know, those two people who were in that movie." "Wendy Hiller and Paul Scofield?" *blank stares* "What?!" And that six degrees of Kevin Bacon game is always fun for me to play. For example - Roger Daltrey was with Oliver Reed in Lisztomania, Oliver Reed was with Michael York in The Three Musketeers, Michael York was with Mike Myers in the first Austin Powers movie, Mike Myers was with Tom Cruise in the third Austin Powers movie, Tom Cruise was with Elisabeth Shue in Cocktail, and Elisabeth Shue was with Kevin Bacon in Hollow Man. You could also use Eric Clapton, Tina Turner, Elton John, and the other members of the Who along with Oliver Reed, but with the Tommy film adaptation. I think Ken Russell had a boner for Oliver Reed given how many of Russell's films he is in. I'm like the DVD commentary that just won't shut the fuck up.