I seem to have a gift for face recognition, folks that are now 70 years old that I saw last when they were 12 and I was 7 I can still recognise if I cross them on the street. I also have an unusual memory for conversations, and things like court transcripts. I can read them once and remember every word. History, I can rememeber nothing. Names I am terrible.
I never get how people can watch a show and remember all the character’s names.
This is extremely frustrating when I’m in “Cafe Society” and people are throwing around names like I’m supposed to know who the hell they’re talking about. I need context people! Instead of saying 'Raj" just say “The Indian dude”. 
I can’t whistle in the two-fingers-in-your-mouth way. I’ve tried for years.
I can remember the most useless details, numbers, events.
I can’t whistle. At all.
Nor can I snap my fingers with much sound.
This, exactly. I keep meaning to start working on the left on the carride home from work - that’d be 30 minutes of practice, each and every day. Thing is, I can’t even figure out how to get started. The right one just works, y’know?
Maybe this’ll be next year’s New Year’s Resolution.
I can’t blow bubbles in bubble gum. Every time I try, I end up spitting the gum out. I’ve tried multiple methods, but nothing.
I also can’t snap my fingers.
I used to be able to whistle really well. I could do the beginning of “Patience” perfectly. A few years ago I completely lost the ability. No idea how I managed that.
I can’t shuffle cards. Any attempt ends in a mess.
I can’t (couldn’t—can’t drive any more) drive a stick shift. My stepfather tried to teach me on the tractor. My mother tried to teach me on her Fiat. My current husband tried to teach me on his MG. It just didn’t compute.
But I can do everything else.
I can’t wink my right eye, but then I’m blind in my left eye though it is light sensitive so I often close it and I guess I just never learned how to do the right one.
I can’t whistle with two fingers in my mouth and would love to be able to.
I can’t skip rope if I twirl it myself (three skips is my individual record) and only barely if two others do that.
I can’t remember names. That is they come and go. Even the names colleagues I see almost daily and have know for years might slip out of mind when needed only to be recalled perfectly minutes later.
I think this is SO COOL!! I’d love to be able to do that. I’m good with a full-size pickup truck and two-horse trailer, but your rig? You da Man!!
As for skills I’m hopeless at: I won’t even touch a Rubik’s Cube, I can’t raise my right eyebrow (but I can the left), and I can’t do that cool, sharp whistle where you put two fingers in your mouth and curl your tongue – something like that – it just eludes me.
I can waggle both eyebrows. Yes, both of them, but I have yet to find a way of converting this gift into a means of making money.
I never get hangovers. Four hours of sleep and a couple of Excedrins and I am good to go.
I cannot roll my Rrrrrrrrrrrrrs.
I can’t whistle.
Can’t wink with my left eye. (Robot Arm, I had no idea that most righties could!)
My skills at backing up a car are sub-par at best, although I’m getting better. What does not help with this, by the way, are the people standing outside the car yelling at you trying to direct you. You’re making it worse, “helpers”.
My sense of direction is pretty bad.
I’m great with names and faces, though.
My memory for minor and mundane details is really great. In the past, I’ve pretended not to remember some weird quirky thing that someone is telling me again because I felt almost stalker-like remembering things like Oh, your aunt broke her left pinky fingernail at your third birthday party.
Just don’t spend too long looking at them. You might get mad and say something you regret.
Me? Pool. I’ve played probably around 100 games and haven’t improved since the first time I played.
I can’t read music. I’ve tried. I want to. But no matter how many times I have the meaning of all those little squiggles explained to me, I can’t associate it to actual music. And it annoys the heck out of me. I keep expecting to have an ‘aha!’ moment one time when I try it, but it ain’t happenin.’
I can, however, play tunes by ear on the piano or organ, and I’m told I can carry a tune well and have a good feel for musical tone.
You and me. Never. Not once.
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My memory for minor and mundane details is really great. In the past, I’ve pretended not to remember some weird quirky thing that someone is telling me again because I felt almost stalker-like remembering things like Oh, your aunt broke her left pinky fingernail at your third birthday party.
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I used to have such a good memory. Today I forgot the name of the apartment complex I’ve been living in for two years. Along with the enormous river that runs along side it - after which the apartment is named. Another time, I forgot the name of one of my only coworkers while I was on the phone with one of her clients. After talking to her daily for about four months.
‘‘You’ll want to talk to our Youth Services Coordinator.’’
''Ok. What’s her name?"
“…I can’t remember.”
Very awkward. I think it’s a side effect of my medication.
I can’t navigate to save my life. I’m not even sure how I survived the first 24 years of my life without a GPS. And even with a GPS, I turn the wrong way all the time. Now that my memory sucks, it’s even worse.
I can’t do that Spanish rolled-R thing (dental trill?) either, though if pressed I can do a uvular trill like in French.
And I never, ever, learned to snap my fingers.
On the other hand, I can… um… [sub]let me get back to you when I think of something.[/sub]
Juggling, can’t do it, still trying after over a year.
Same, I can study a map for a few minutes and have near pefect recall of the details (street, topographic etc). Helps with my job in real life (cartographer).
Can’t do the finger-in-mouth whistle either, the times that I’ve tried I just end up drenched in dribble.
Can’t read music at all, tried to learn it a few times but it just won’t ‘stick’.