Weird skills?
 

Does anyone have a certain (relatively useless) skill that they're good at?

I have the ability to keep really accurate time in my head.

I can cross my little toes over the one next to it :).

I can do a shaka \m/ (the local 'Hang Loose' hand-sign) with the toes on my right foot.

Several GCers have already seen it, lol. :p

I'm an EXCELLENT gift wrapper.

I can bend my toes backwards underneath my feet.

I can play the violin.

-- actually had a nearly full ride to my undergrad school for it.

(is that a strange skill?)

I'm similar with PhiGam about keeping fairly accurate time in my head...but I'm also that way with numbers in general (ie mileage, etc)

I can bend my leg back, pull it up towards my butt, and tuck it under my ribs. Well, I could do this when my ribs stuck out further compared to my stomach than they do now!

I don't know if it's weird but I have a really good sense of direction. I only need to visit a place once to know how to get back to it and I rarely get lost. Even in Europe, I always knew how to get back to the hostel without asking for directions.

Just tried it...I can do it with both feet.

I can pick up a dime using just two toes :)

My kids hate it that I can pinch them really really HARD with my toes too :)

My sense of smell is incredible. Particularly when it comes to perfumes or cigarette smoke. I can typically recognize any scent and can smell cig smoke on someone hours later. Someone once told me it was only the smells that I disliked that I could detect easily; a doctor once told me it was because I was completely a nose-breather rather than a mouth-breather.

The easy part is bending the three middle toes down. The hard part's getting the big toe and little toe to extend out. Most people can't get the big and little one to spread outward and still keep the middle toes crunched down.

I'd take a picture of it, but my toes look absolutely horrendous due to lack of pedicure in a while.

Another talent I have: Making awesome threads

dude, its only 12 posts in. dont get too excited now.

this isnt necessarily a skill, but i tend to remember phone numbers. especially to jingles and phone numbers of friends, family members from years ago.

i tend to remember numbers for stores ive called, customer service lines... its really weird.

I can remember random conversations I have with people and some pretty random things I've done.. But things I NEED to remember, I can't remember for the life of me.

I'm fantastic at remembering birthdays. And genetics permit me to roll my tongue. :p

I also retain weird information about my exes.

I multitask like crazy. I can watch TV, surf the web, carry on a conversation, and knit simultaneously.

I can curl my tongue into a straw shape, and I can turn my tongue over.

I'm over 30 and I can hear the Mosquito frequency.

Not likely the cause since most everyone is a nose breather. You probably just have a great sense of smell...you could train yourself and get a job as a scent tester.

I can do this too! My husband says I have "monkey toes!"

Me too! Not that I like that I can hear it....so annoying!

My useless skill is that I can remember patients' names for long periods of time. A month after I read an exam, if someone asks me about the patient, I usually say, "oh...that's the guy with the __________." And, I'm always right.

well up until 6th grade, i was a total mouth breather. i had to train myself to breathe through my nose. the kids would laugh and say mean things.

*cries in corner*

skill
 

Not a strange skill at all KTSNAKE. Plato and those guys used to teach the ancient greeks that the balanced man would have an equal discipline in the Academics, Sports and Music. If the man concentrated too much on one of the disciplines he would lose balance. Your violin playing probably opened up a different side of the brain that people who are not exposed to music miss out on. You probably think better than the average geek or jock who is missing the science of Music.

Fraternally,

Boodleboy322

According to my friends, I can flick my tongue faster than anyone they know. I don't plan on putting that skill to use, other than showing off, anytime soon...if ever. :p

Oh yeah, I can remember the year and season of almost all top 40 songs that came out after 1989. I remember almost everyone's birthday, without a calendar or anything. Like Nate, I have a poor memory for things I need to remember.

I've got some weird traits and then I've got skills, but I can't think of any weird skills.

My hands are really small - like little kids hands.

In middle school, I was the only kid in my science class that couldn't roll their tongue. Apparently I got that recessive trait.

I studied ballet for 12 years and can still remember many of my dance routines, including all of the choreography from Swan Lake in which I was part of the swan corps. When I go to see that ballet, I have a tendency to "mark" the choreography with my hands as dancers do.

ETA: Oh, I'm also apparently a natural at shooting all kinds of firearms, though because of my small hands I have a hard time loading clips. Ha.

Hm...if you can drink beer like a champ as well, youre a winner in my book!

I can match just about any color on earth by mixing/blending paints. I can see something once, remember the color and recreate it nearly perfectly weeks later. If color copiers hadn't been invented I could have had a great job. :cool:

I can do the Star Trek hand sign thing (don't know what it's called...not a Trekkie) and alternate it with switching to pinky and index finger out.

I can also do a really good imitation of a squealing pig. (yes, insert comment here.) Most people try to do it with their nose but it's actually a throat thing.

Oh, I can also curl my tongue and flip it over, but only on one side.

All completely useless. :p

i'm not great with real time, but am good with counts, like music or counts to hold a stretch. In jr high, I was in band and never understood why we needed that timer thing (metranome?). I didn't realize that other people couldn't keep track of counts like me.

not completely useless, but I never use it.

Let's see...
*I can wiggle my ears (not quite like Alfalfa but close :D).
*I can wink each eye separately.
*I can pick up a pencil with my toes and write with it.
*I can spell/pronounce just about any word, even if I've never heard/seen it before.
*I can make lots of animal noises, including a variety of dog barks.
*My short term memory is horrible, but my long term is rockin'. I have a photgraphic memory, so if it makes it to LT, I'll remember every detail and not forget. The same thing with stuff set to a tune--I can remember just about every song I've ever learned, even ones I haven't heard in years. I remember lots of totally useless stuff though--one woman had to remember a list of things to win a game show I watched when I was like 7 and I remember 4 of the 6 things on the list. Why, I don't know. :confused:

The Vulcan salute... I can do that too.

I can also raise each eyebrow independently of the other, just like Spock.

My husband calls me "monkey feet" as well! I can pick up almost anything with my toes :) I can also wiggle my ears and roll my tongue.

i can back up into a park perfectly, i'm pretty damned good at parallel parking too! however, pulling in i'm always ALWAYS crooked.

I forgot to post my best one! I can light a match from a matchbook with one hand. :)

Oh, I drive my kids crazy with that one..."no, no, don't mention the Waltz of the Flowers or Mom will start doing it!" Now my oldest does it too and her husband runs out of the room.

I also have the embarrassing gift of being able to remember my former students' names from Spanish class for decades (not their real ones, their Spanish ones) . I'll see some middle-aged former student with her kids and yell something like, "Margarita Bailey!" and Margarita, whose name is really Natalie, will be explaining to her kids really fast why this woman called her that.

When I hear a song, I can relate it back to exactly where I was working at the time or what level I was in my education.

All these cool talents make me realize that my ability to cherry stems into knots with my tongue is just not that amazing.
:(

I have an uncanny ability to remember songs. Like I remember the songs that we sang at kindergarten graduation. I can also pick up tunes/lyrics pretty quickly. Which is why I kick butt singing at Rock Band.

And I have seen OTW's shaka on many occasions :D Its pretty impressive.

Me too! I bet I can wiggle mine faster than yours :p

OH! I thought of one! I can cross ONE of my eyes. I can also cross both eyes then uncross one, but my right eye is so strong, that it's easier to do one than both.

That's also probably my strangest skill. I smell all sorts of crazy things. At work, whenever there's a strange smell or if someone needs a second opinion, I'm the girl to call. In a way it's bad though, because food often smells too strong and I can't eat it.

Yup can do that too :)! *wink*