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Vict0r117 , Jeff Kingma / Unsplash Report

30 People Share Next-To-Impossible Things They Experienced I have exploded 3 times (IED, old soviet landmine, and a rocket strike on my gun truck). I don't think theres a lot of people who can say that who still possess all of their limbs.

EDIT: since this comment blew up (pun intended) I will not respond to people catfishing in direct messages and I am not interested in your onlyfans. (srsly, like 6 just today, go away.)

Final score:

185points

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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 9 months ago

This one makes me think of a man who was struck by lightning seven times.

63points

GreenApocalypse , SHVETS production / Pexels Report

30 People Share Next-To-Impossible Things They Experienced I can speak backwards. Say a sentence and I will say it backwards immediately. If you record me and play it back in reverse, you can hear your original sentence pretty well.

Final score:

171points

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seana lammers 9 months ago

This is cool!

57points

DevelopmentSlight422 Report

Bored Panda reached out to Jackaboya07, the person who started the discussion in the first place, and kindly agreed to talk more about it with us.

Naturally, we wanted to find out what sparked his curiosity about such a topic. He told us that he came up with this post because he ran out of skills to learn and was looking for new ideas that could set him apart from 99.9% of people in the world.

"I posted it to get ideas, find out what other people were up to, and give them a chance to share their hobbies, skills, and life experiences that made them unique."

Saved a kitten with CPR.

Final score:

158points

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Prince Lee 9 months ago

did the same with a tiny dwarf hamster, he got hit with a shot {my bro hated that it was going to him and threw it} and i used my pinky to press on his lil chest, since i was learning to be a vet i knew hoe to work its lil body, and it came back, He lived another 3 years

91points

I've spent more time climbing trees than 99.9% of humans. I'm an arborist and tree trimmer, who has been climbing since 1981, and plan to retire in 3 years or so. Everyone else who was doing it when I started is either retired or has younger people do all the climbing, but I refuse to let the kids have all the fun!

theisntist Report

Final score:

155points

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Rinso the Red 9 months ago

Cool - I'll let my Dad know. He's been an arborist for almost as long :)

6points

sapperbloggs , SHVETS production / Pexels Report

30 People Share Next-To-Impossible Things They Experienced People diagnosed with clinically-definite MS who have a disability score of zero.

Most people diagnosed with MS have at least some disability. For many it's low, but not zero, because the medication reduces the effects of the illness. For some, the medication does very little and they can be profoundly disabled.

I was diagnosed and started medication in 2008. Since then my disability score has been checked every 6 months by my neurologist, and has always been exactly zero. I'm just one of the very lucky ones who responds very well to the medication.

Final score:

154points

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LapCat 9 months ago

I was also dx’d in 2008. It took about 5 years to find a treatment that worked for me. My last MRI showed it’s progressed quite a bit, but I’m thankfully asymptomatic and able to keep working full-time and have a good quality of life. I am so grateful for Rituximab.

50points

SQWRLLY1 , Pavel Danilyuk / Pexels Report

He, too, has rare abilities that not a lot of people can master, like solving the Rubik's cube in under 16 seconds. "Another reason for this post was to find people who shared talents with me, as I’ve always had a big interest in learning useless skills, to the point where my friends accuse me of having too much free time.

A few of these involve the Rubik’s cube, which I’m able to solve in under 16 seconds, or one-handed in 40, or even my biggest achievement so far, possibly in my life, learning to solve a fully scrambled Rubik's cube blindfolded, something very few people have ever been able to do.

I also learned simpler skills like basic card tricks, shuffles/flourishes, and how to juggle, all of which can be learned in only a few hours if you put your mind to it. I think my main point from this was that it’s not that hard to be in the 0.1% of people if you just find something that sets you apart."

30 People Share Next-To-Impossible Things They Experienced I'm in the top 0.17% of the world's population just for having natural red hair with blue eyes, if that counts.

Final score:

141points

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Abbie Daigle 9 months ago

ohh, one of my friends has this combination, she's so lovely

37points

warpfox , cottonbro studio / Pexels Report

30 People Share Next-To-Impossible Things They Experienced I have a condition called situs inversus where all of my internal organs are on the inverse side of the typical layout, so my heart and stomach are on my right, liver and gallbladder on my left, etc.

The occurrence is 1 in 10,000 so that actually puts me in the 0.01% range.

Edit: updated to accurate percentile

Final score:

139points

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howdylee 9 months ago

I have 2 cousins with this condition (they're sisters, so it may be genetic). Both had appendicitis and had a hell of a time convincing the doctors what was wrong because the pain was on the wrong side of the body!

63points

30 People Share Next-To-Impossible Things They Experienced Discovered Identical Twin, separated at birth, raised in another country (me) in our late 30s.

DeepPucks , Chan / Unsplash Report

Final score:

127points

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Linda van A. 9 months ago

And they wore the same clothes and wig when they met.

30points

The redditor further explains that this online platform can be a great place for people to talk about their unique life experiences and even find those who share rare medical conditions.

"I think posts like these are why Reddit is such a popular platform since a comment that took me 30 seconds to type up gave so many people a chance to talk about not only skills they’ve learned that not many people can do but their life experiences, their stories, their medical anomalies, etc.

People sometimes don’t realize how much they stand out in this world until someone opens their eyes to it. At one point, I saw a comment about how someone felt nobody knew what it was like to have their medical condition (a severe allergy of sorts), but someone went out and found a whole subreddit dedicated to people like that user."

#10

I used to be the youngest person alive

alexanderdotcom Report

Final score:

125points

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Moosy Girl 9 months ago

That’s amazing, I bet if they keep at it they might one day be the oldest person alive!

60points

Fluffy-Hotel-5184 , Louis Hansel / Unsplash Report

#11

30 People Share Next-To-Impossible Things They Experienced I have incurable histamine intolerance. I have to be on a very restrictive diet, I am on all kinds of histamine blockers and STILL get histamine reactions that make me have to check out of life for at least half a day with no notice. It is so rare, there is no actual treatment plan for it so its a try-it-and-see approach.

Final score:

114points

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Kimbowa 9 months ago

Best wishes for easier and less stressful days.

71points

bahamapapa817 , Andrea Piacquadio / Pexels Report

#12

30 People Share Next-To-Impossible Things They Experienced I had 7 wisdom teeth and all were taken out at one time

Final score:

106points

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Party Pooper 9 months ago

Sounds unwise.

78points

TheRealDedmanGraves , cottonbro studio / Pexels Report

He signed off by saying, "Despite 0.1% of all people looking like a low bar, it’s actually still 8 million total people, more than twice my country’s population, and everyone assumed that was me just underestimating the sheer amount of people in the world, but I had a reason for it.

I wanted to find more than just people at the very top of their field for everything. I wanted to find people who wanted a chance to talk about their lives even if they were only mediocre in their field."

#13

30 People Share Next-To-Impossible Things They Experienced Losing people due to death. I'm 44 years old, and I tried to make a list of all the people I've lost about 4 years ago when my 2 month old nephew passed away. I wrote down 168 people before I stopped making the list because it was making me so sad, and I still occasionally remember people I didn't add to it. (just typing this makes me weep.)

Final score:

100points

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Moodles 9 months ago

Don't mean to be facetious but I wouldn't fancy being friends with OP

80points

#14

Not photographic memory but almost perfect Total recall from things that happened even 30-50yrs ago..I have hyperthymesia.

_swuaksa8242211 Report

Final score:

100points

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Georgia Ireland 9 months ago

I have hyperthymesia. My memories start at 13 months old and I can remember everything that has happened since then. It comes in handy, but can also be a PIA!

13points

debatesmith , Mikhail Nilov / Pexels Report

#15

30 People Share Next-To-Impossible Things They Experienced I'm top 75 in the world at Guitar Hero. We have an online ranking system for scores now and I always finish at least in the top 100-50

Final score:

77points

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Ru Bee 9 months ago

South park episode 😊

14points

#16

I suffer from a combination of illnesses that make me severely disabled in a certain way. I have been invited to several studies and doctors from several european countries. I have tested medication that's not on the market for over ten years. My disability doesn't have a name yet but will probably get named after one of my doctors who has known me for over half my life.
It started as a mental illness with psychosomatic seizures, during each seizure a part of my brain tissue disconnects and and sometimes dies (sorry for the terrible explanation, I am neither a doctor nor a native speaker).
Long story short, my doctors have found out about like twelve other people having a similar combination of symptoms, yet it was not properly documented or researched before. That kinda makes me a 0.1% of the population - sadly not on top!

ThinkBug3947 Report

Final score:

75points

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Lyone Fein 9 months ago

I hope you don't suffer too much, and that the doctors find some way of helping.

40points

treeteathememeking , Nathan Dumlao / Unsplash Report

#17

30 People Share Next-To-Impossible Things They Experienced I am one of few with adults something called Harlequin syndrome. It’s harmless, literally does nothing beyond making half my face get red and the other half not red. So when I’m really hot and sweaty one side of my face will look like a tomato and the other half will look as if I hadn’t been hit at all. Completely normal.

There’s only like 1000 people in the U.S who have it. I could only find stats for the U.S so I don’t know the worldwide numbers but it’s pretty rare. Maybe not 0.1% but close.

(Note: I mention adults because it’s common in babies for the first like week of their life, but it usually goes away.)

Final score:

70points

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Ace 9 months ago (edited)

Closer to 0.0001 percent if you do the sums from that sample.

19points

#18

30 People Share Next-To-Impossible Things They Experienced I’ve met the same actor 3 times at 3 different points of my life despite not working in the film industry so I gotta think I’m in the .1% of that occurrence.

Edit: it was Leo DiCaprio

Burggs_ , Paramount Pictures Report

Final score:

70points

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MaximumKarmaSaint 9 months ago

Quick, definitely unrelated question: How old were you?

136points

InstantElla , JESHOOTS.com / Pexels Report

#19

30 People Share Next-To-Impossible Things They Experienced Getting pregnant on birth control. Two times two different pills

Final score:

67points

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Alicia M Goodner 9 months ago

3 times , in 3 years , all different types of bc. 1st baby , standard pill . 2nd baby , the kind that goes in the arm... 3rd baby , the shot. I had my tubes tied after the 3rd lol.

60points

#20

The amount of data I crunched for the SETI at Home project. 5 quintillion floating point operations. Sadly, no evidence of a signal from intelligence from space. I was in the top 99.97%.

zenos_dog Report

Final score:

67points

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Surenu 9 months ago

If it makes you feel any better, signals of intelligence from earth are becoming increasingly rare too.

232points

lookingforlimpdick , jinto mathew / Pexels Report

#21

30 People Share Next-To-Impossible Things They Experienced fun answer: bo burnham’s listeners on spotify (0.05%)
Neat answer: height! I’m a very tall woman (6’)

Final score:

64points

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Debby Keir 9 months ago

I'm in my 70's and was 6' tall (far more unusual in those days) I'm now shrinking and just over 5'11" - 182 cms.

29points

#22

My claim to fame: I am the only person on Earth that has or has ever had my given and surname.

While I do have a middle name, it is unnecessary.

How do i know? My dad's last name was common and of Polish origins. His parents emigrated to America from Poland. My dad was born about 10 years later in 1910. Both his parents died, 2-days apart, due to the 1918 pandemic. Dad was taken in by several foster homes and when he turned 14 he applied for a work permit. According to the County Clerk, dad did not exist. But, my dad knew his birthdate, he knew the doctor who delivered him and the clerk put 2 and 2 together and found a birth record with a scribbled name. The County Clerk then wrote what he believed the scribble said and that became his surname but it was unlike any other name. So, all of his children were born with the made up surname. At my age, mid-70's, I know every one of the 93 people who now share that made up surname and not a one of them has the same given name as me.

SyntheticOne Report

Final score:

61points

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Donkey boi 9 months ago

On my birth certificate I have the number 8 in my name in place of a letter. Pretty sure that's fairly rare, if not unique. And yes, it is on all subsequent official documentation like passport & Drivers licence. But everything else in daily life I replace it with the letter, like my bank account, work place, bills, etc

30points

Yuki-Kuran , Karolina Grabowska / Pexels Report

#23

30 People Share Next-To-Impossible Things They Experienced I was the top 0.1% percentile for math in my country back when i was in school. Not world sadly

Final score:

53points

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Donkey boi 9 months ago

I had the highest maths score ever recorded in my school's history. Had me thinking I was gonna be the next Einstein. When I transferred to another school, I found out I was barely passing average and my last school was just shite at teaching maths..

80points

#24

Number of books read. I am 37 and have read 7240 since 2001 (2766 of those are picture books though).I am in the top 30 for my home country on goodreads. Since I am a professional librarian with few social skills, this makes sense.

skundrik Report

Final score:

49points

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Powerful Katrinka 9 months ago

Im 65. I learned how to read at age 2. I have been a bookseller and editor my entire adult life. And I read very fast. My friends once tried to estimate how many books I have read, and the number they came up with was over 20,000.

8points

#25

I can type 180 wpm @ 99,% accuracy
170 @ 100% accuracy

At least i used to when i actually was the ultimate computer nerd.
I'm sure i could still hit 155 to 160 even now though.

Haven't seen anyone who could type faster even online.
I have an old a*s fb post from hitting like 175 @ 99%, on typingtest think I was ranked #1 out of 1.2mil i can't remember

If people end up reading this I'll end up linking it for proof lol

makecirclesquare Report

Final score:

46points

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ShellsBells 9 months ago

I'm guessing capitalization and punctuation are 2 of the reasons it's not 100%.

51points

Dutch Swimmer Goes Viral For Super Revealing Trunks During 2024 Olympics: “Is This Legal?”

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Thrill-Seeking Diver Jumps Down Extreme Waterslide, Ignoring The Strict Ban For Women

#26

Math, specifically fast mental math. I have gotten second and fifth out of over 10k people

bojjjj Report

Final score:

35points

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Kimbowa 9 months ago

This just doesn’t add up.

25points

#27

30 People Share Next-To-Impossible Things They Experienced I am one of like 5-10 people that are on regular call for golf architectural history.

That combined with my knowledge of how to build and evaluate golf architecture in the field probably puts me into the .1%

master_chife Report

Final score:

33points

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A B C the Fourth (QUIT CENSORING BP) 9 months ago

I don't wanna downplay it, this is an achievement of its own - but it *is* pretty niche, lol.

27points

KingDededef , cottonbro studio / Pexels Report

#28

30 People Share Next-To-Impossible Things They Experienced I used to be one of the best tetris player for a short time

Final score:

30points

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J C 9 months ago

The OP should be one of those people that packs trucks or cargo planes.

22points

kobeisnotatop10 , Vlada Karpovich / Pexels Report

#29

30 People Share Next-To-Impossible Things They Experienced 1 minute bullet chess.

And probably top 200 in the world over 50 years old, I am around 2500 on lichess.

veritas2011 on lichess

Final score:

25points

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ScarletRos 9 months ago

I need this explained.

27points

#30

Having encounters with different kinds of 'rare' marine life as a diver

mainly_curious Report

Final score:

25points

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Bell-icose Premium 9 months ago

So…not rare? What’s up with the quotes?

17points

Woman Put A Water Fountain With A Camera In Her Yard, Here Are 24 Photos Of Regular Visitors (New Pics)

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#31

Perfect pitch.

It’s a musical ability that lets you hear pitches directly from sounds, as if you had a built in tuner. In personal experience, I would describe it more like being able to “memorize” notes like you can memorize colors. According to uChicago, it’s 1/10000 or otherwise 0.01%.

smallimmortals Report

Final score:

20points

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C .Hunger 9 months ago

You can be taught perfect pitch, but it has to happen when you are young (2-4 years old) and it may not work for everyone, but it can be taught.

2points

MangoSuccessful1662 Report

#32

Rare medical issues. I'm a 45 year old with 2 rare chronic illnesses that usually affect children or patients in their 70s. I recently had surgery to remove ovaries and endo. My endo type was so rare the obgyn had never seen it before. It presented as concrete type structure inside my ureter. Usually it looks woody on the outside of organs.

My blood type is most common in South Asia and Africa. I'm a white American . Basically I have to ask what are the rarest effects, because I have ALWAYS had the rare side effects for illness, procedures, etc.

Final score:

18points

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Kimbowa 9 months ago

Comes with struggles, no doubt. Best wishes.

5points

pedantic_dullard , George Morina / Pexels Report

#33

30 People Share Next-To-Impossible Things They Experienced I'm one of two people in the international, multi billion dollar company I work for that are able to run a specific script. I'm the only person in the company that can run it for non-Canadian based accounts.

If my laptop dies or I leave, the tool developers have to find a new way to do what I do, or it has potential to result in many, many millions in audit penalties.

I'm the 0.0002% in that aspect

Final score:

15points

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Moosy Girl 9 months ago

That’s pretty poor planning by the company.

36points

50 Of The Most Incredible Shots That Were Submitted To The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

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French Diver’s “Jewels” In Tight Swimming Trunks Become Talk Of The Town At Olympics

#34

Times died? Anaphylaxis, drowning, seizures, car accidents… if I was a cat my 9 lives would almost be up. (No brain death obviously)

SsjAndromeda Report

Final score:

15points

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Happy Homemaker 9 months ago

I have died once and almost died 3 times. My dad jokes that my nine lives are running out and try not to use up the rest of them.

6points

#35

I qualify for height, but I’d say radio contest wins. I’ve won thousands of dollars in radio prizes. Anywhere from concert tickets worth hundreds of dollars to free beer

jajohns9 Report

Final score:

14points

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Prince Lee 9 months ago

my mom was able to call into tv and radio contests so much that she was banned from them.... she needed to get one of her sisters to call in and claim for her, but the way she did it? boredom, she got the timing and knew the answers to every one of them or us kids knew {way before internet was super common so couldn't like Google} She did stop doing it when she got to sick to be able to go to stuff, but we won so much {not like money but tickets} she passed sadly as of may 22 2023

10points

#36

Before I was married and changed my last name, I was literally the only person in the world with my name.

Wild_Owl_511 Report

Final score:

14points

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Papa 9 months ago

It probably wasn't the only time it happened, but a coworker, whose last name is May, was married to a woman whose first name is April, so she was April May.

12points

#37

Speaking 5 languages (I believe that's 0.1% but maybe not 🤔😅)

SirNoodles518 Report

Final score:

13points

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Kira Okah 9 months ago (edited)

I do - Malay, English, German, Standard Chinese, Manchu. Not with fluency on the last, I don't get to speak it often due to the rarity of speakers (I know three others in the UK and only one of them is close enough to talk to), I mostly read it on historical documents.

10points

#38

Well, I'm Canadian (0.48%), Left handed (10%), and O- blood type (3%), which would be 0.00144% of people worldwide.

sugarfoot00 Report

Final score:

12points

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Noodle Panda 9 months ago

Im also left handed, have O- blood, but im british. I also shared my birthday with my grandad

3points

Woman Moves Out Of Parents' Home After They Asked Her To Give Her Space To Brother, They Freak Out

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#39

Running distance per week for Garmin users.

Marijuana_Miler Report

Final score:

10points

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#40

Geez, I would have to add about 10 events in my life that would then maybe qualify me into the 0.1% bracket. Like I survived 2 motorcycle accidents, 2 car wrecks, fell down a dried out water fall, got rescued just in time when I fell into quick sand, missed a plane flight that then crashed and everyone on was killed, fought a guy with a knife and won the fight, got chased by an African elephant and managed to survive, served as a platoon medic in an operational arena and drove my car at 275 kph on a national highway.

Wallawaa Report

Final score:

9points

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Gustav Gallifrey 9 months ago

And you wonder why you have a hard time getting life insurance.

16points

Woman Refuses To Chip In For Babysitting Because She Doesn’t Even Have Kids, Asks If She’s A Jerk

#41

Listener on spotify, im over 120k min everey year and on 2020 i almost break the 200k (it was about 183k but i don't have the pic no more). I listen music on every second i can everyday

kc_ch Report

Final score:

9points

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#42

There is a particularly niche piece of software that is used daily by a couple million people. I am the product manager for that software and have had my hands on it for a decade now so out of the roughly 40 million people that have ever used it, I am the single most knowledgeable person on earth. Thankfully they pay me to do it, otherwise it would be a thoroughly useless well of knowledge.

baltinerdist Report

Final score:

7points

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Papa 9 months ago

I am not the most knowledgeable, but I am one of the best known people on a couple of forums for the software I use at work, so there are people all over the world who recognize my name. That blows my mind when I think about it.

5points

#43

League of legends play time. Im not even good at it

Local_Yoghurt_9542 Report

Final score:

5points

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Hey! 9 months ago

My husband. Mount & Blade. Warband 1834 hours. Basic 1384 hours. Banner Lord 882 hours - he just got it.

0points

#44

Mario Party Superstars.

It sold 12.31 million copies. When I play online I usually win most of the minigames, so I think I’m a comfortably better than the average player. Given the global population of 8 billion, I only have to be a slightly above average Mario Party Superstars player to be in the top 0.1% of the world.

Some people who don’t own the game are better than me, but probably not very many.

nighthawk252 Report

Final score:

5points

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BlueBlazer999 9 months ago

Well technically-

2points

"I Didn't Start The Dryer": Karen Gets Taught A Lesson After Throwing Out Neighbor's Wet Clothes

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#45

Was going to say height...but I've just fallen short according to this calculator. I'm 195cm

https://www.gigacalculator.com/calculators/height-percentile-calculator.php

BackpackingScot Report

Final score:

3points

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#46

I have 9 year old triplets!

skinnyfar123 Report

Final score:

3points

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Donkey boi 9 months ago

A lady I worked with gave birth on 4 occasions. First time was Triplets, second was twins, Third time was triplets again, and the forth was a single child. So 9 kids in total ALL boys. All non-identical and look completely different.

6points

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Gustav Gallifrey 9 months ago

I'm the only person in the world who has ever shaved my face.

15points

Auntriarch 9 months ago

Gosh, I'm the only person in the world who has never shaved their face, we must be twins!

6points

Maartje 9 months ago

If this shows twice, I apologize. I dare say I am the only person who this happened to : my pet crow removed a contact lens from my eye. ( his thinking: "that does not belong there, let me help you"). He did this without causing any damage to lens or eye. Getting the lens back from him was hell, crows like to play "keepaway".

10points

Christine 9 months ago

Crows are amazing!

2points

The Original Bruno 9 months ago

Top 1% Bored Panda commenter!!!!

6points

Steve Hall 9 months ago

Me too!

2points

Stardust she/her 9 months ago

One of my relatives is the second person on earth who made a company fully sustainable

6points

Michael Largey 9 months ago

In what area am I in the top 0.1%? Well, there's wasted potential, obviously.

5points

Justin Tyme 9 months ago

I have experienced two rattlesnake bites - one on the left hand and one on the left leg. I had a very minimal reaction both times and did not seek medical treatment. I am also immune to poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac.

4points

PeepPeep the duck 9 months ago

I have nothing except maybe, I’m one of very few people outside of research and science to have helped a dying fly give birth. That was interesting

4points

Kristal 9 months ago

I am an expert on 2 research studies as I'm the only one that is studying (or have studied) them in the world. I don't expect it to stay this way though, researchers gotta research.

4points

TennesseeHomesteadUSA 9 months ago

How do you know you're the only researcher on 2 subjects ? Research that...

0points

E W 9 months ago

This is very morbid but, I believe I might be one of a handful of people who have seen both Space Shuttle disasters, (Challenger and Columbia), in person. I was in elementary school in Brevard County, FL when Challenger happened, and I was living in North Central, Texas when Columbia happened.

3points

Jenna Kay 9 months ago

I have an eye disease named after me, have AB neg blood type, and an ultra-rare blood disorder (I shouldn't have it, as genetically speaking, both of my parents would have to have it for me to inherit it, but here I am!)

3points

EmBree 9 months ago

After years of illness my husband finally met a foreign Dr that managed to diagnose him. It's a rare genetic illness and my husband is the only one in our country that has it. Talking to the Dr I half joked and asked if he could diagnose me too. He asked for my symptoms and I was diagnosed with a rare genetic illness, and I'm the only one in the country that has it. The risk of us passing it on to our children was 50/50 meaning they risked having both genetic conditions. None of them have either of it. Still, our kids have decided to not have kids of their own. I fully understand why.

3points

Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 9 months ago

I'm the only person to have fully admitted to my crime, and to the fact I deserved to be in prison. Even the other people who admitted to being guilty would blame their lawyer, the person who turned them in, or anyone else. Nope. I did it. I deserved what I got.

3points

pasej41913@bustayes.com 9 months ago

Oh you were in prison? I don't think you've ever mentioned it.

-3points

Roan The Demon Kitty 9 months ago

As someone with: Autism, Schizophrenia, DID, Green eyes, Red hair, Fibromyalgia, Porphyria, speaking more than 2 languages... I think I'm pretty unlucky enough (thanks to the health issues lol) to be in the top 0.01% of something

2points

Tyranamar 9 months ago

BPD

0points

Landithy 9 months ago

Mine's really boring but I have a condition called Klippel-Feil syndrome which affects about 1 in 40,000 people. There are a few other criteria for diagnosis, but basically, I was born with my top two vertebrae fused. It's pretty mild in my case and I only got diagnosed because it finally occurred to me that needing to crack my neck 1-3 times a day to avoid crippling headaches probably isn't normal.

2points

CanadianDimes 9 months ago

Does it impact your ability to turn your head or to tilt it forward or backward? I used to teach human osteology and had never heard of this before and find it interesting from a functional anatomy perspective. I’m glad it doesn’t affect you more than needing to crack your neck and hope I’m reading right that you typically don’t get crippling headaches!

1point

Nadine Debard 9 months ago

My parents have #1 blue eyes and #2 brown eyes and I have green eyes (<0,15%). I also have a different rhesus type from my mother's (yes I'm their natural child). My baby also has an odd phenotype (blonde and blue eyed). Amazing genetics.

2points

Pandroid Rebellion 9 months ago

2x as a teenager I was inappropriately oogled by men who later murdered or attempted to murder another woman who looked eerily like me. The first worked at a car wash and we just stopped going there but he is still in prison for murdering my dear friend. (Rest in Peace, JenJen.) The second was kicked out of school for the semester (it became a huge deal, the campus police had to do a sexual harassment seminar because of how they treated me and all acted like I was a vain drama queen) and when he came back he attempted to strangle a young woman on campus, in broad daylight, behind a building. People thought it was a feral cat fight and went to break it up. She was almost dead. All 3 of us had similar build, hair, complexion and eye color. I did not know these men in any tangible way so I must assume it is a coincidence and I, too, looked like their A REAL fetish girl. So yeah. Dodged a couple very creepy bullets.

1point

CanadianDimes 9 months ago

I have a vertebral border shift so instead of having 12 thoracic vertebrae and 5 lumbar I have 11 and 6. Although it’s rare, it’s not shockingly rare and about 10 years ago, I excavated an archaeological skeleton with exactly the same condition. I’ve seen X-rays of my own spine but it was super cool to see a vertebral column that looked like mine!

1point

Lee Banks 9 months ago

In 178 years of operation, I'm the only person from my first highschool to score 100% on the national Latin exam. (Voted best private school in the state, for reference.)

1point

SynthaCybe 9 months ago

not me but my Ex-wife, had a specific kind of neural tumor (Nerve Cancer) during her youth, it has a long complicated name, something like Trans-ulnar Hyperfocal carcinomic Neuropathy - at the time (late 1990s) she was one of 7 documented cases Globally so around 1 in a Billion (0.000000001%). She had it removed and had to have the nerves to her hand fully "rewired" and had nearly a decade of Physiotherapy to regain use of the hand to an acceptable level.

1point

B 9 months ago

I'm a white guy who is proficient in the Zulu warrior art of stick fighting, since I spent a lot of my childhood playing with black kids in the age of apartheid. Not sure what percentage of white blokes can say that, but I'm guessing it isn't too high.

1point

Zaphod 9 months ago

I am in the top 1% of trivia players in the world. I have qualified for Jeopardy! Sadly, they have never called. They put 1000 people into the contestant pool each year, but they only use 400/year. I've won well over $30,000 playing bar trivia over the last 26 years. (l won four tournaments at $4,400 each)

1point

Kira Okah 9 months ago

What do people know of cross-dominance/mixed handedness? Basically, some tasks are done only right-handedly, some left-handedly, and some ambidexturally. It's apparently the rarest manifestation of hand dominance, less than 1%, and I have it. Confuses a lot of people when I use a pen in the left hand and a computer mouse in the right, or fork right handed but chopsticks left handed.

1point

Tyranamar 9 months ago

I think a lot of left handed people do some things better with their right. True ambidextrous- you do everything with both hands equally well is super rare.

0points

Stormblessed 9 months ago

I think I'm the same too. I write with my right hand (but I have pretty good writing with my left hand) in English and Russian, but with my left in Armenian (right hand is still pretty good), I use a spoon with my right hand, a fork with my left, chopsticks are just whichever hand picks them up, I pick things up with both my left and right, and both my arms are equally strong.

0points

OpheliaPoe 9 months ago

Not quite the same but I'm right handed but shoot (both with a camera and a gun) left eyed. I don't know why but my left eye just works better to see compositions and targets. As a result I shoot left handed, it just makes more sense to me. Oddly, I found out that my dad, who is also right handed, shoots left handed as well 🤷🏼‍♀️ He did not teach me, it's purely coincidence.

0points

Nadine Debard 9 months ago

That's me in a mirror!

0points

GB 8 months ago

I'm the only person in the whole world who is me.

0points

Marylen 8 months ago

I can have multiple energetic o*asms, my maximum was around 150 in a day.

0points

Rachele McKelly 9 months ago

I had lemierre's syndrome AND toxic shock syndrome at the same time.

0points

Joann Hart 9 months ago

Top 1% in watching the loading wheel on the posts

0points

Brittany Copeland 9 months ago

When I was in school, I was in the top 0.1% of readers across the board on a national level. I think I was officially ranked in the top 200 students in the US in terms of reading comprehension and vocabulary starting when I was 11. My senior year of high school I broke top 30. I actually had to get a government "pardon" for my tests because improving this score was the only way to pass onto the next grade with full marks. Hard to do when your reading skills rival a dude with a doctorate in literary arts.

0points

HI, I'M A SHOUTY MAN 9 months ago

I can't think of anything at the moment I'm in the top 0.01% for, but in middle school I was in the top 1% for an international writing exam, so I might have been in the top 0.01% for my country maybe?

0points

Carl Roberts 9 months ago

Humblebrag: The Article

0points

Maartje 9 months ago

I daresay that this is an uncommon event : I had my pet crow remove a contact lens from my eye ( "that does not belong there, let me help you out with this") and he did this without causing any damage to my eye or the lens, they are THAT precise with their beak. Of course I had a hell of a time getting the lens back from him ( crows like to play "keepaway")

0points

LavenderHippoInAJar 9 months ago

I took the AP calc BC in 8th grade? Is that 0.1%??

0points

Stormblessed 9 months ago (edited)

I was fluently talking in 4 different languages by the time I was five, but then I forgot French. I'm re-learning it now in school tho. And also this isn't rare but I have freakishly long fingers and toes (My middle finger is about an inch longer than my palm)

0points

Tyranamar 9 months ago

Everyone in Switzerland does minimum 3. I think 4 is not that rare in many parts of Europe.

1point

Brainless Blobfish 9 months ago

I'm in the top 0.05% of most listened to for my favorite band.

0points

Rick 9 months ago

We are all in the top 99.9999999% at being ourselves.

0points

Petra Schaap 9 months ago

im most definitely the fan (together with my BF) that saw the most John Fogerty shows :-D Yes, its a small scene, and yeah, we know. The only person who saw him more is his wife who is alway sidestage. And, as he once said "only I have seen myself more than you did" LOL !!

0points

Rick Seiden 9 months ago

I have red hair (or I used to before I got old and it went mostly gray!), simian crease in both hands, and the last lumbar in my spine is fused to my pelvic bone (spina bifida occulta, I think). Quite a rare combo.

0points

Steve 9 months ago

Petting and having full conversations with other peoples’ dogs without ever acknowledging the owner

0points

OpheliaPoe 9 months ago

I tend to talk to myself but now I work at a cat rescue so I just talk to the cats all day instead 😆🥰

0points

TennesseeHomesteadUSA 9 months ago

IQ percentile. Has never been apparent to me though...never knew it until I was tested for entry to the military.

0points

Rostit.. . 9 months ago (edited)

me as well. what a crock IQ is too.

3points

Trisec Tebeakesse 9 months ago

I can write Senryu on-demand about any subject damn near instantly. So rapidly, that my friends accuse me of having some weird, secret, on-line Haiku generator.

0points

Mimi M 9 months ago

PdD, no GED. Also - green eyes.

0points

Kristal 9 months ago

I mean, did you graduate high school and get the diploma instead of a GED? Or no graduation from high school and got a PhD? I'd love to hear the story if its the second one cause one doesn't get an undergrad degree without the completion of high school (diploma) or GED.

1point

Noname 9 months ago

"Austeja Zokaite is a junior writer at Bored Panda. With a degree in English philology" which is a fancy way of saying she speaks English, however, she hasn't proved her proficiency in her biography or her journalism.

-1point

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Gustav Gallifrey 9 months ago

I'm the only person in the world who has ever shaved my face.

15points

Auntriarch 9 months ago

Gosh, I'm the only person in the world who has never shaved their face, we must be twins!

6points

Maartje 9 months ago

10points

Christine 9 months ago

Crows are amazing!

2points

The Original Bruno 9 months ago

Top 1% Bored Panda commenter!!!!

6points

Steve Hall 9 months ago

Me too!

2points

Stardust she/her 9 months ago

One of my relatives is the second person on earth who made a company fully sustainable

6points

Michael Largey 9 months ago

In what area am I in the top 0.1%? Well, there's wasted potential, obviously.

5points

Justin Tyme 9 months ago

4points

PeepPeep the duck 9 months ago

I have nothing except maybe, I’m one of very few people outside of research and science to have helped a dying fly give birth. That was interesting

4points

Kristal 9 months ago

I am an expert on 2 research studies as I'm the only one that is studying (or have studied) them in the world. I don't expect it to stay this way though, researchers gotta research.

4points

TennesseeHomesteadUSA 9 months ago

How do you know you're the only researcher on 2 subjects ? Research that...

0points

E W 9 months ago

3points

Jenna Kay 9 months ago

3points

EmBree 9 months ago

3points

Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 9 months ago

3points

pasej41913@bustayes.com 9 months ago

Oh you were in prison? I don't think you've ever mentioned it.

-3points

Roan The Demon Kitty 9 months ago

2points

Tyranamar 9 months ago

BPD

0points

Landithy 9 months ago

2points

CanadianDimes 9 months ago

1point

Nadine Debard 9 months ago

2points

Pandroid Rebellion 9 months ago

1point

CanadianDimes 9 months ago

1point

Lee Banks 9 months ago

In 178 years of operation, I'm the only person from my first highschool to score 100% on the national Latin exam. (Voted best private school in the state, for reference.)

1point

SynthaCybe 9 months ago

1point

B 9 months ago

1point

Zaphod 9 months ago

1point

Kira Okah 9 months ago

1point

Tyranamar 9 months ago

I think a lot of left handed people do some things better with their right. True ambidextrous- you do everything with both hands equally well is super rare.

0points

Stormblessed 9 months ago

0points

OpheliaPoe 9 months ago

0points

Nadine Debard 9 months ago

That's me in a mirror!

0points

GB 8 months ago

I'm the only person in the whole world who is me.

0points

Marylen 8 months ago

I can have multiple energetic o*asms, my maximum was around 150 in a day.

0points

Rachele McKelly 9 months ago

I had lemierre's syndrome AND toxic shock syndrome at the same time.

0points

Joann Hart 9 months ago

Top 1% in watching the loading wheel on the posts

0points

Brittany Copeland 9 months ago

0points

HI, I'M A SHOUTY MAN 9 months ago

0points

Carl Roberts 9 months ago

Humblebrag: The Article

0points

Maartje 9 months ago

0points

LavenderHippoInAJar 9 months ago

I took the AP calc BC in 8th grade? Is that 0.1%??

0points

Stormblessed 9 months ago (edited)

0points

Tyranamar 9 months ago

Everyone in Switzerland does minimum 3. I think 4 is not that rare in many parts of Europe.

1point

Brainless Blobfish 9 months ago

I'm in the top 0.05% of most listened to for my favorite band.

0points

Rick 9 months ago

We are all in the top 99.9999999% at being ourselves.

0points

Petra Schaap 9 months ago

0points

Rick Seiden 9 months ago

0points

Steve 9 months ago

Petting and having full conversations with other peoples’ dogs without ever acknowledging the owner

0points

OpheliaPoe 9 months ago

I tend to talk to myself but now I work at a cat rescue so I just talk to the cats all day instead 😆🥰

0points

TennesseeHomesteadUSA 9 months ago

IQ percentile. Has never been apparent to me though...never knew it until I was tested for entry to the military.

0points

Rostit.. . 9 months ago (edited)

me as well. what a crock IQ is too.

3points

Trisec Tebeakesse 9 months ago

I can write Senryu on-demand about any subject damn near instantly. So rapidly, that my friends accuse me of having some weird, secret, on-line Haiku generator.

0points

Mimi M 9 months ago

PdD, no GED. Also - green eyes.

0points

Kristal 9 months ago

1point