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Every one of us is very good at something, no matter if it's something basic or a very niche thing. But have you ever thought about what skill you would beat many other people at? 

Well, folks on Reddit definitely thought about it when this interesting question was posted on r/AskReddit: "You get paired with 100 random humans, if you're better than all of them at something, you get 1 billion dollars. What are you choosing?" And so, they provided many intriguing answers. Today, we picked out the best ones for you to check out while you're deciding what your unbeatable skill would be. 

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30 People Shared Unusual Things They Can Do Better Than Anybody Else Backing a semi truck into really tight spaces from the blindside. Very hard maneuver even for veterans but where I worked while back I did it daily. Odds are only a couple even have a cdl like me, and then I guarantee I can beat them at backing blindside.

Edit: thanks for all the upvotes I'm glad to see trucking being appreciated you guys rock ✌️.

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30 People Shared Unusual Things They Can Do Better Than Anybody Else Disappointing my parents.

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DennyS (denzoren)
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I feel like if we're measuring disappointing parents I can challenge on that score.

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30 People Shared Unusual Things They Can Do Better Than Anybody Else Knowledge on Wisconsin license plate history. I'm autistic and Wisconsin license plates are my special interest, and there's so few people involved in the research of these plates that I *highly* doubt I'll not beat everyone in the group.

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DennyS (denzoren)
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I always like when people have obscure knowledge like this, makes for a very interesting conversation.

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On this list, we can see things people consider themselves to be better at than, for example, 100 random people. These things range from kind of simple ones such as cooking, sports, or games to devastating ones like disappointing their parents or self-deprecation. Well, without going down that rabbit hole, let’s just say that some of these skills are way more handy in life than others. 

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While some people just trust in their skill set enough to consider themselves better than many others, some other people might simply have a superiority complex. This complex is a belief that your abilities or accomplishments are dramatically better than other people’s. It might make a person condescending, smug, or simply mean. 

It can be caused by both low and high self-esteem, depending on the person and situation. When a person has low self-esteem, they try to hide it by exaggerating their accomplishments. On the other hand, when a person has high self-esteem, they might simply be overconfident in their achievements and abilities. Either way, both of the cases, in a way, form an unrealistic self-perception. 

#4

30 People Shared Unusual Things They Can Do Better Than Anybody Else Not bragging or anything, but I spent YEARS training to spit tooth paste directly into the sink hole with no splash back or paste getting on the rest of the sink bowl. Bullseye every time.

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#5

30 People Shared Unusual Things They Can Do Better Than Anybody Else Navigation with only a compass and a terrain map.

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Cosmikid
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And there is a lot to know; like local deviation. My father taught surveying- I picked up scraps.

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#6

30 People Shared Unusual Things They Can Do Better Than Anybody Else Self-deprication.

Although, I'd probably suck at that too.

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Cosmikid
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7 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Buck up, kiddo. :-) And I'll tell you a SECRET. The people who truly suck at everything - never notice, never think about it. They just merrily go on their way, screwing up the entire world and going to MAGAT rallies. If you worry about it- even too much- at least you are paying attention. That will go somewhere, some day.

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Fortunately, there are several things people can do if they feel themselves developing a superiority complex or are told they already have one:

  • Making a list with actual accomplishments and abilities without any exaggeration;
  • Avoiding all-or-nothing thinking by trying to find balance in between;
  • Trying to feel happy for others without feeling bad about yourself;
  • Forgiving yourself for mistakes without beating yourself up. 

If these things sound easier said than done, it’s because they are. Building a realistic sense of self takes time and work, just as any other type of mental health work does. In fact, accomplishing this by yourself might not even be achievable for some, and help from a specialist, like a therapist, might be needed. 

#7

30 People Shared Unusual Things They Can Do Better Than Anybody Else Touching the highest possible point on a wall without jumping. I’m 6’8” so pretty good odds I’m gonna come out on top.

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Prince Lee
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

im 7'4 so i kinda get this asked a lot in some places "can you reach here? wow! can you reach there? WOW!" I'm not a TOY!

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#8

30 People Shared Unusual Things They Can Do Better Than Anybody Else Filleting salmonids. Its literally my job, and I've been doing it for twenty years. I don't mean to toot my own horn, but I'm pretty good at it, and like any craftsman, my skill has been honed through dint of sheer repetition. I have absolutely filleted hundreds of thousands of fish in my life, and even if you're pretty good, I'm willing to bet I'm better using metrics of speed, appearance, and % of wastage.

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#9

30 People Shared Unusual Things They Can Do Better Than Anybody Else Guess what brake pad belongs to a car, so many years working at a car repair shop have benefits.

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DennyS (denzoren)
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Damn, that's a good one. It's like this guy I knew who could pinpoint a noise in seconds.

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On the other side of the spectrum lies the inferiority complex. It’s when a person feels insecure and inadequate about their abilities, achievements, and daily life. Typically, they believe they're physically or mentally inferior to others, no matter if that’s actually true or not. 

This can lead a person to either (fully or partially) withdraw from interacting with others or overcompensate their self-esteem, which can sometimes lead to an already discussed superiority complex.

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Frequently, an inferiority complex develops due to some kind of trauma, typically during childhood or sometimes later in life. Some men are more susceptible to it when they are intimidated by other men, so they feel less than due to toxic masculinity. 

#10

30 People Shared Unusual Things They Can Do Better Than Anybody Else Emo song lyrics from 2003-2007. If anyone beats me, I’ll marry them.

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#11

30 People Shared Unusual Things They Can Do Better Than Anybody Else Time for my Tetris 99 skills to shine 😁.

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Bgray450
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I used to beat my ex at level 9-5, which was the highest back in the 90's, every time. He used to get sooooo po'd.

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30 People Shared Unusual Things They Can Do Better Than Anybody Else Putting a iv line in or restraining an aggressive dog.

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People from this list don't seem to suffer from an inferiority complex, do they? And about the superiority one, well, who's to say -- there might be some who exaggerated their abilities. But, hey, who's going to check? As far as we know, no one is planning to put a random group of 100 people in a room and test their skills, as was suggested in the original Reddit question. 

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Do you have any skills you think you are better at than many others? Share them with us in the comments! 

#14

30 People Shared Unusual Things They Can Do Better Than Anybody Else My mother and her friends invented a pig latin style coded language. Probably less than a dozen people have ever learned it, and most of them are in their 70s now, probably haven't thought of it in decades.

I like my odds at a Ybangie (I didn't name it! Lol) competition.

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Bgray450
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In high school my bestie's brother brought us "Gee Language," from CA to AZ. It was fun and we could say anything in front of anyone. Years later Marisa Tomei and Natasha Lyonne had a scene speaking it in a bathroom, exactly like we did, in the movie Slums of Beverly Hills. I was blown away. BTW I taught Gee to my sisters, a nephew, a couple more friends, my ex, and my kids picked it up when they were little too.

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30 People Shared Unusual Things They Can Do Better Than Anybody Else Acre history. Acre is a Brazilian state, the one which I was born and live on. The population is only 830 thousand people.

Hence there is only a very small chance of the random people to be from Acre and an even smaller one of them to know anything at all about it.

Of course I could end up being paired with some college professor which Acre is their specialty, and I would be f****d, but since it is random that would be very unlikely.

rafael-a , Lara Jameson Report

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#16

30 People Shared Unusual Things They Can Do Better Than Anybody Else Chess. Even among chess players on lichess and [chess.com](http://chess.com) I am in the top 2-3%, so the odds that any of the 100 are better than me is fairly small. My luck, I'd get paired against Magnus...

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#17

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi taxonomy.

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#18

30 People Shared Unusual Things They Can Do Better Than Anybody Else Ice hockey. Most people don’t know how to skate let alone play the sport well.

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#19

Properly operating a nuclear reactor.

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#20

30 People Shared Unusual Things They Can Do Better Than Anybody Else Talking Catalan. The odds of anyone in that group randomly being better than me at that are incredibly small.

Edit: Well, butter by back and call me a biscuit! Thanks for the karma fellow minority language speakers and other simpsthizers.

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Bexxxx
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

“In total, about 7.3 million people speak Catalan and 9.8 million people understand the language.” “Currently, Catalan is spoken in the Aragon, Balearic Islands, Catalonia, Murcia and Valencia autonomous communities of Spain, the country of Andorra, the Roussillon region of France, and the city of Alghero in Sardinia, Italy.“

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#22

30 People Shared Unusual Things They Can Do Better Than Anybody Else Counting in binary really fast with my fingers

I discovered I could do this 3 years ago

It's like an involuntary tic now. It's so entertaining.

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Cosmikid
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So... can you count in base 17? There's a tribe that used Base 17, before the missionaries...

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#23

Knowledge of ww1! I'm a tour guide in the area.

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30 People Shared Unusual Things They Can Do Better Than Anybody Else I'd be confident that I'm better than them all at maintaining a consistent TTRPGs group for longer than all of them. I've been a DM for 24 years, I had one group for 13 years, and this group for 11. It's not always the same game/campaign, but we always meet up to play.

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#26

Knowledge about jellyfishes, specifically of the class Cnidaria.

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#27

30 People Shared Unusual Things They Can Do Better Than Anybody Else Astrophotography. I'm not even that good, but among 100 randomly chosen people, only a handful will even have a telescope (and that's probably generous). And among those, I'm probably the only one with a camera adapter.

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30 People Shared Unusual Things They Can Do Better Than Anybody Else A pub quiz on the life and times of myself.

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#29

Taking standardized tests is pretty high on that list.

I'd also roll the dice on taekwondo forms.

In fact, I'd roll the dice on running role-playing games, too.

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#30

30 People Shared Unusual Things They Can Do Better Than Anybody Else Solving a Rubik's cube quickly. I'm not that fast, but I reckon the odds are in my favour.

stephengc , Byron Sullivan Report

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Rahul Pawa
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This would be mine as well. I can usually solve one in about 60 seconds. That's nowhere near the record, but probably still faster than most people.

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#31

30 People Shared Unusual Things They Can Do Better Than Anybody Else Physics.

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Shannon Matthews
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Serious props to physics majors! My undergrad daughter is a 3rd year physics major studying quantum physics 2 and statistical mechanics. Pretty sure my brain would leak out if I even tried to understand it.

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#32

Guess what number I’m thinking of. Best of 7 rounds.

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#33

Performing my obscure venezuelan town's accent.

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Bexxxx
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’ve been trying to learn how to do a mid-Atlantic accent (aka old time radio American accent) and I’m getting quite good at it 😌

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#34

30 People Shared Unusual Things They Can Do Better Than Anybody Else We're playing super smash bros melee.

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LadyRougarou
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh it's on!! One of my fav games I probably have close to 1500 hrs in playing atm lol I'm also here for the MK players lol any challengers??

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#36

Magic The Gathering. I'm pretty confident 😌.

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Julia Mckinney
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've never played Magic The Gathering but will always be grateful to it for the money to buy our house (we bought stock in 1993 at $4 per share, sold some at $50 and then a few years later at $250 per share. The person we sold it to at $250 a share got close to $1000 a share the next year).

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#37

30 People Shared Unusual Things They Can Do Better Than Anybody Else Starcraft 2, my Diamond 1 rank is higher than any other person there.

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LakotaWolf (she/her)
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

ByuN, sOs, Serral, Dark, Rogue, Life, and PartinG would like to have a word XD

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#38

30 People Shared Unusual Things They Can Do Better Than Anybody Else Yeah bro they ain't beating me in a minecraft nodebuff/builduhc 1v1 on 1.7.10 on a practise server thats all im saying,

make it a 1000 people even.

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#39

30 People Shared Unusual Things They Can Do Better Than Anybody Else First person shooter games, I'd even let them vote on which one.

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DennyS (denzoren)
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'll have to take your work for it, I get simulation sickness so I'm out before the game even starts.

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#40

Pokemon trivia, 1/100 chance of getting a random geek but im all for it baby.

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veryvenasaur
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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm almost certain I could beat op since I can identify almost any pokemon by their silhouette the only exception are pokemon that look exactly like a different pokemon say finizen and palifin or maybe voltorb and electrode. Plus I can name every gym leader, elite 4 member, champion, rival, professor, and player character. I spend way too much time thinking about pokemon. on that note what's everyone's favorite pokemon? mine is obviously venusaur but I also really like espeon, talonflame, and klingklang.

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