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Share an off-the-cuff, strange thing you’re capable of doing. Something really strange that might not be considered a regular talent.
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#1
It leaves me really exhausted and bedridden for about a day (CFS), but i can do the whole Kazotsky Kick/Hopak Dance from memory. 💀 I don’t know how my knees have survived this long
Final score:
19points
🇷🇺ЛеснойКороль(they/he) (Submission author) 1 year ago
here’s a link to the original video, my dad and brother and i can do the whole thing from memory: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzk5Ir37wjM
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#2
I am an empath (I can read other people’s emotions with a bit of effort) despite having mild Autism and have used this to prevent a few people from taking their own life.
I can also “listen” to entire pieces of classical music in my head in fully orchestrated form with out actually having any music playing, conversely, when actually listening to music I can isolate specific instruments and either tune them out or tune all other instruments out, I used to play Violin/Recorder at school and could just keep to my own part even when in a full orchestra by only listening to the other violins/recorders.
Final score:
19points
#3
I can ✨️lucid dream✨️ i cant control what dream I get but, I can control what happens.🇺🇦
Final score:
17points
#4
After 40 years of playing in bands, I have hundreds of chords and song lyrics memorised and can play and sing for hours without repeating myself once
Final score:
17points
#5
I’m 12 years old and I won second place in an adult drawing contest. My art skills are over the roof and it has its perks.
Final score:
16points
#6
I'm sort of a mimic. Being an only child, when I played with my toys, I learned how to recreate the sounds that they should make, very well. Then, after watching the Police Academy movies, I fell in love with the talent that Jones had of making various everyday sounds. My go-tos are: a baby crying, different bird tweets, a dentist's drill, and impersonating cartoon character's voices. The crying baby always freaks people out for some reason.
Final score:
15points
#7
Here’s a weirdly specific one .. I can feel through the Lego mini figure bags to ‘see’ which character is within. They call it ‘groping’ at the Lego store .. so far I have a 100% success rate
Final score:
15points
#8
I can find 4 leaf clovers like nobody's business. I pressed & laminated over 200 to give to the guests at my wedding. I have probably 500+ pressed in pages of books at home right now. I have found 5, 6 & 7 leaf clovers, too. I can be walking at full speed and stop and pick one. It's like they just pop out at me the way I imagine images of those "magic eyes" books do to people (interestingly enough I have never been able to see those.) Too bad they aren't actually imbued with magical luck or I'd be living the dream. I like to call this my unmarketable skill.
Final score:
15points
#9
...I can know exactly how to insult someone. Legit, the exact words I need to say to make them cry. It's both blessing and a curse.
Final score:
13points
🇷🇺ЛеснойКороль(they/he) 1 year ago
that sounds like it would come in handy, but also be like super invasive in your mind
#10
I don't have a photographic memory, but I am an information sponge. I can recall things from as far back as when I was 18 mos old in vivid detail. For example, at Ponderosa on New Year's Eve, 1971, I dumped a glass of coke in my lap. My dad took me to the bathroom and changed me into his undershirt. The shirt was jade colored and had a breast pocket. I can also see the entire spectrum of visible color and can fold my tongue in every direction.
Final score:
13points
Patricia Michelin 1 year ago
I too have a pretty good recall memory. I remembered my first birthday party. A relative brought out a picture once of me on my first pirthday with my cake in front of me. I had never sern the picture before (it was in black and white) and I proceeded to tell everyone how I remembered that day. I described my yellow dress, the vanilla cake that had a pink plastic ballerina figurine on it (which had been removed by the time the picture was taken, but I remembered it), I remembered my Aunt Elsie and Uncle Ed were there though they were not in the picture. My family was awestruck that I knew and remembered all those details. For years I would freak them out when we got together by bringing up stuff that I remembered that they thought I was too young to know.
#11
I can look at any automobile made before the 1980s and tell the year, make, and model. Often I can tell interesting facts about the car.
Final score:
12points
Nice Beast Ludo 1 year ago
My friend Jeff can do this with movies. We would be at any random party and I would go rooting through their DVD collections to find the most random movies and he knew the year and running time of every single one
#12
I can flex my pectoral muscles at will and wiggle my tits. I do it best when accompanied by the song Dueling Banjos from Deliverance. It's nothing I learned, just something I have been able to do since my early teens.
Final score:
11points
#13
I can stop the hiccups whenever I get them by forcing my diaphragm to relax through concentration.
Final score:
11points
#14
I can tie a "stem of a cherry into a knot" inside my mouth.
Final score:
10points
#15
I have this weird talent with detecting languages and ethnicities, If people are speaking their native languages in public I just stare and think what language it is and most of the time I get it right. Same with ethnicities bc if I'm really good at geography. 🇺🇦
Final score:
10points
censorshipsucks 1 year ago
same, but it's mostly EU, or our local languages, I can't tell the difference between say indian dialects or other asian languages. I CAN tell the difference between say vietnamese, chinese, and japanese, but not korean (sounds too similar to japanese to me). In EU I can almost always say what language it is (although swedish/norwegian are too similar, I can't tell).
#16
I can tell a couple seconds before it happens if an i-phone is going to ring or get a text. so i have a nokia
Final score:
9points
#17
I think I've shared this before, but I can blow air out of my eyes. Don't know how, don't know why, and I rarely attempt it because it feels weird and makes my ears hurt
🇺🇦
Final score:
9points
Weird Panda 1 year ago (edited)
Same it hurts and I learned to do it when I had a head cold and puss came out my eyes
#18
I can roll a really solid joint. Can't put that one on the resume. 🇺🇦
Final score:
9points
#19
I can build 2000+ piece LEGO sets in, give or take, an hour and a half.
Final score:
8points
#20
I can pick up almost any hands-on type craft like carving spoons/making notebooks/special effects makeup/etc, and become very proficient at it in a matter of two to three weeks.
Final score:
8points
#21
I can vibrate my eyes
Final score:
8points
#22
I can clap with one hand. Looks ridiculous, because I’m basically slamming the top half of my hand against the bottom half, but yeah. It’s weird and it’s my Stupid Human Trick
Final score:
8points
Lori Rommel 1 year ago
My son's dad used to do this, in response to the Zen riddle, "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" He could also sneeze with his eyes open.
#24
I smell the scent of freshly cut grass or roses before a death occurs. I've been so accurate throughout the years my fiancé has asked me to keep it to myself from now on if I suddenly smell those scents.
Final score:
8points
ThatBlackNightingale 1 year ago
Just a question, does this ever scare you knowing you can potentially predict deaths?
#25
I know about 11 languages (can read to various degrees of competence) and speak 5 to various degrees of competence. Can read: En/Af/De/No/Se/Dk/NL/Fr reasonably well, not so good: Ru/It/Es. Speak: En/Af/Zu/De not so good: Fr/Ru
Final score:
8points
censorshipsucks (Submission author) 1 year ago (edited)
Can also read/transliterate about 5 or so non-latin scripts (Runic/Gr/Ru/Ar/Hebrew). Oh, and recognise most written language, including Inuit, Mongolian, Tibetan... fairly obscure ones.. Iike if I see it written I can say "that is such and such". Obviously really obscure ones like small jungle tribe languages etc., no, but anything bigger than about 5 million speakers, sure. Show me a sample of Lithuanian, Hungarian, Finnish, and Polish, for example, and I can tell 100% which is which. Obviously artificial or forced "language" differences I can't tell, so if you ask me whether this is serbian or montenegran, I'm going to say "same thing", ditto moldavan or romanian. Anyway. Reason I can do this is we were forced to learn Afrikaans during apartheid and I saw how similar it was to english and then got interested in this topic.
#26
I can lucid dream.
Not every night, and I don’t really get to choose when, but occasionally when I dream I can control who shows up, what I do, where I am, and when the dream ends/I wake up.
Sometimes I enjoy it, and sometimes I don’t, especially because I often dream of big crowds and it exhausts (yes, even though I’m sleeping) me to try and control all those people, so mainly I just leave every one else alone.
That’s it, not all that special. Oh, and 🇺🇦
Final score:
7points
#27
I can inhale hard enough to shut my nostrils without using my hands.
🇺🇦🇵🇸
Final score:
7points
#28
If I sit in a room full of young kiddos, within a few minutes, they will all be hanging out with me, asking questions, telling me awesome stories, and giggling. I don't have to say or do anything. Helped when I was a preschool teacher, to say the least.
Final score:
7points
#29
I can feel small electrical currents through my fingers. Like I can run my hand across an aluminum laptop and feel the current across it. I thought it was normal, but my wife and many others cannot feel it.
Final score:
7points
A Wild Bean (they/them/any) 1 year ago
Weird, I've felt that before, but only when my laptop was plugged in
#30
I don’t know if this is weird or rare or really a talent, but I can do the tongue crinkle thing 🤷🏼♀️
Final score:
6points
#31
Every time I bend my knees they crack really loudly 🇺🇦
Final score:
6points
#32
I can recite every fact I know about topics that interest me a lot. I can talk about space, quantum physics, immunology (in humans) and many more amazing stuff! I’ve been called Wikipedia because of that
Final score:
6points
#33
I don't know what kind of witchcraft this is, but I can tell someone's body temperature by just doing the hand-on-forehead thing. Maybe I won't be able to tell apart 37.6 and 37.8, but this has been useful in many situations. 🇺🇦
Final score:
6points
#34
I can fold a queen sized bottom sheet so that it is the same size as the folded top sheet in 2 minutes
Final score:
6points
#35
Not really a talent, but I can freely bend the tips of my fingers when I want to.
Final score:
5points
#36
I can dislocate my arm on command and make a sound similar to cracking your knuckles upon returning my arm to its rightful socket
Final score:
5points
#37
I can remember things that never happened, for example, I remember very clearly the first time I was able to get onto the couch by myself was on my 3rd bday. I had jumped onto the couch bc none of my friends wanted to hang out with me. wouldn't ya know it, that never happened💀🇺🇦
Final score:
5points
Nice Beast Ludo 1 year ago
But how do you know it never happened? I remember falling off a pony when I was 2 at a birthday party. I was the last to ride and the poor thing was tired. He bucked Me off and I remember lying beneath its white and pink belly staring up in shock.
#38
I have a photographic memory and can bend both my pinky and pointer fingers to my wrist 🤷♀️
Final score:
5points
#39
I can prime factorize numbers up to 4 digits in my head. It's mostly useless, though it comes in handy when I have to memorize an address or something.
Final score:
5points
#40
🇺🇦 I guess the strangest talent I have is befriending babies with ease. I volunteer in a nursery, so this is a useful skill to have as I can get the babies to calm down and allow the parents to go to the church service.
Also most babies love me, including My cousin who literally hates most people, including my brother. Because I befriend babies and intimidate others. How sweet.
Oh, and I can figure out musical pitches by ear and easily play my oboe (managed to get it first try). With figuring out pitches by ear, I’ve been composing music.
Final score:
5points
#41
I practise origami, the japanese art of folding paper into something without the use of a binder such as tape and glue. You can also have small cuts in the paper fpr example with Senbazuru, which can be in the form of kissing cranes. I dont know if this counts as unique but it really helps me and i wish i started a few years younger it would have made that period of my life easier by far! Please try it out and start with something easier than Crane and build up to that model its very useful. I also learn the piano but im pretty bad at that. Drawing sometimes helps me when i feel really bad at origami/ like it isnt a good talent but i like it at the moment!
Final score:
5points
#42
I can wiggle my ears. Both together or separately. I don’t know anyone else who can.
Final score:
5points
Hana Glen (Submission author) 1 year ago
Forgot to add I do it unconsciously to keep my glasses up when studying. It’s fun.
#43
in the dark in bed I can always find my cats' faces for perfect scratching
Final score:
5points
#44
the voice of Louis Armstrong is within me. it's usually dormant but breaks free when I'm plaste
Final score:
4points
#45
I'm really good in finding four-leaf clovers
Final score:
4points
#46
I can sneeze with my eyes open. It is not impossible
Final score:
4points
#47
I get everybody to want to date me except anybody I want to date. Like almost every social circle of mine has a member who’s got a thing for me, just never anyone I express mutual interest in. It’s just the way the news goes tho
Final score:
4points
#48
If any computer program or game has bugs I'will find them. I'm like magnet to them. This is my superpower.
Final score:
4points
#49
historical facts
Final score:
3points
#50
I can move my shoulder blades independently of my shoulders and arms.
Final score:
3points
#51
I can dislocated and relocate my hips on command, same thing with my left shoulder
Final score:
3points
#52
I am a true phenomenon undoing knots of all kinds.
When, long ago, I went fishing with my friends, I spent more time undoing their fishing lines than doing anything else. Instead, he was really bad at TAKING knots. Usually, they did it to me.
Now, my wife and my daughters always look for me when they have a knot in their bracelets, chains, necklaces, etc.
And I enjoy undoing them, it relaxes me.
Final score:
3points
#53
I can fold really mini sized fortune tellers
Final score:
3points
#54
I can hear ghosts I can’t see them but I can always hear them
Final score:
3points
#55
I am really good at inventing plots an everything for movies and I can watch those movies in my mind. I think I have about 20 different movies by now and they become more. My dream is to be a director and make them real, so that everyone can see what I see.
Final score:
3points
#56
I'm pretty sure I've chimed in on this before, but ... I can roll up hills. You know how, when you were a kid, and you'd roll down hills by making yourself as cylindrical as possible? Of course, you could never roll straight down because of the width of your shoulders; you'd end up askew at the bottom of the hill. Well, I never would have thought of this if I hadn't been with my son, who was 4 at the time, but I just decided to try it, and it was amazingly easy! I think most people could probably do it. I don't know if I can still do it; that was 30 years ago. I don't know if being extremely good at puzzles counts as a superpower, but being 60 and able to see close up certainly does.
Final score:
3points
#57
When I am dreaming and find myself in a nightmare, I can willfully snap myself out of it
Final score:
3points
QijianSanek 1 year ago
I did this as a kid and ended up losing sleep because of nightmares. would to it every night and not be able to get back to sleep.
#58
I can move my second toe independently, same with my pinker toe. on both feet too
Final score:
2points
#59
I am a Spiritualist medium - I demonstrate clairvoyance, and to a lesser extent, clairaudience and clairsentience in public to bring messages from Spirit. (Scoff if you like but ignorance has never stopped people from having an opinion). Similar gifts are distributed through my family but I am the only one who trained. Probably unrelated, I always know the time to within 5-10 minutes, even in the night. Also, I can track duration accurately. Developed this in my teaching days. I always know where north is and I never get lost.
Final score:
2points
DarkGlassSphere 1 year ago
Can you catch a message of a living spirit? Humans are spirits too, yes?
#60
I can flare and squish my nostrils. I can also move my eyebrows in all sorts of directions, and can do the eyebrow wave thing, too.
Final score:
2points
#61
I can "bok" like a chicken and crow like a rooster.
Final score:
2points
#62
Im not really sure how to describe this but I can make all kinds of weird and unique noises.
Final score:
2points
Sooploosh MacSchnibble (Submission author) 1 year ago (edited)
Actually I just remembered Im good at chewing through stuff and eating things that aren't food. I can also touch my tongue to my nose, make my eyes face outwards, burp on command, and, not get energized after drinking 5 monsters (I took stimulant meds for my ADHD ever since I was six).
#63
I, surprisingly, can write. I got a poem published this last year. I’m 18.
I can also recognize english through any accent despite thickness. It may take a moment for my brain to process, but I understand it and can mimic it (my brain automatically does this sometimes to make people more comfortable, it’s never on purpose).
Final score:
2points
#64
I can drink a 16oz bottled water in under a second.
I can also talk effortlessly to anyone and understand their feelings, even kids.
🇺🇦
Final score:
2points
#65
I was going to put this in my first post but I forgot, sorry.
I can read really fast and anywhere:a car , a plane, a playground with 75 screaming kids.
Final score:
2points
#66
I can prime factorize numbers up to 4 digits in my head. It's mostly useless, though it comes in handy when I have to memorize an address or something.
Final score:
1point
#67
🇺🇦
Final score:
1point
Darkwing Duck (she/he/they) 1 year ago
Because in the description of the post OP told us to
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I can pop my shoulders in and out of its socket and I can bend the tip or my right ring finger 🇺🇦
Final score:
1point
#69
i can bend aII of my fingers at the nearest joint to the base *not thumbs*
Final score:
1point
I'm a Furry, so what? 1 year ago
Did you know? Thumbs aren't fingers, they're thumbs. Fingers are fingers and thumbs are thumbs because if a thumb was a finger it would be long like a finger but instead it is short like a thumb and fingers have 3 joints while thumbs have 2 so in conclusion thumbs aren't fingers but thumbs. (I'm sorry.) 🇺🇦
#70
I can distinguish more shades on the colour spectrum than most other people and bend the tips of my fingers independently,
Final score:
1point
#71
I can stuff 20 marshmallows in my mouth with out choking lol.I can also draw with my right and left hand while riding a unicycle(but twisted my ankle)🇺🇦.
Oh I can memories lyrics after listen to the song but can’t remember names I’ve been told to remember like a million times🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
Final score:
1point
#72
I am a nearly adequate soft can-opener.
Final score:
0points
#73
* I was really bad at TAKING knots.
Final score:
0points
#74
I can rap the Alphabet Aerobics no sweat
Final score:
0points
What do you think ?
🇷🇺ЛеснойКороль(they/he) (Post author) 1 year ago
HEY. Someone on this thread has been downvoting other people so that their submission gets higher. I will say one thing: go away :) if you’re going to be an a*****e so people notice you, we’re going to start to not like you. Be kind.
Rocco MZ 1 year ago
My odd and useless talent is I can say the alphabet backwards quicker than most people can say it forward. I can also sing it backwards to the alphabet song. Also, I am a lyricist and I can write lyrics at the drop of a dime about anything. Lastly, I am also a spiritual empath and I have recently deceased people come through me to help me write their memorial poems. It's mostly recently passed relatives, but they always tell me stuff I had no way of knowing. On those occasions, I can't even write fast enough to get the words on paper. And yes I still hand write everything.
marianne eliza 1 year ago
I learned the backwards alphabet just in case I got pulled over for DUI.
Load More Replies... Nice Beast Ludo 1 year ago
I love how most of Pandas talents are things we can do with our minds.
marianne eliza 1 year ago
Back in the days of basic carbureted car engines, I could tell a number of things by the smell of the exhaust. Like running rich, or burning oil (easy) or burning antifreeze. Used to really tick off some of the guys in my classic Mustang car club. They didn't like a female diagnosing their car problems.
Rebel Peewee 1 year ago
Without practice, I can pick up a writing utensil and write backwards. Give me a word or even a sentence, and I'll write the letters and words backwards in handwriting *almost* as nice as it is forwards, and quickly too. For context, I'm left handed. Although I've never met another left hander who is aware of being able to do the same.
🇷🇺ЛеснойКороль(they/he) (Post author) 1 year ago
HEY. Someone on this thread has been downvoting other people so that their submission gets higher. I will say one thing: go away :) if you’re going to be an a*****e so people notice you, we’re going to start to not like you. Be kind.
Rocco MZ 1 year ago
My odd and useless talent is I can say the alphabet backwards quicker than most people can say it forward. I can also sing it backwards to the alphabet song. Also, I am a lyricist and I can write lyrics at the drop of a dime about anything. Lastly, I am also a spiritual empath and I have recently deceased people come through me to help me write their memorial poems. It's mostly recently passed relatives, but they always tell me stuff I had no way of knowing. On those occasions, I can't even write fast enough to get the words on paper. And yes I still hand write everything.
marianne eliza 1 year ago
I learned the backwards alphabet just in case I got pulled over for DUI.
Load More Replies... Nice Beast Ludo 1 year ago
I love how most of Pandas talents are things we can do with our minds.
marianne eliza 1 year ago
Back in the days of basic carbureted car engines, I could tell a number of things by the smell of the exhaust. Like running rich, or burning oil (easy) or burning antifreeze. Used to really tick off some of the guys in my classic Mustang car club. They didn't like a female diagnosing their car problems.
Rebel Peewee 1 year ago
Without practice, I can pick up a writing utensil and write backwards. Give me a word or even a sentence, and I'll write the letters and words backwards in handwriting *almost* as nice as it is forwards, and quickly too. For context, I'm left handed. Although I've never met another left hander who is aware of being able to do the same.
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