What games/sports are you really good at?

The Game Room
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I used to be very good at a rather obscure flight-simulator game called F-22 Air Dominance Fighter, made by a company called DID. It was a 1990s game and basically featured F-22 combat and other missions set in the Red Sea/Horn of Africa region. I played that game and got really familiar with it until the passage of time meant that newer computers couldn’t handle the 1990s software anymore.

I also was pretty good at the 2006 Madden NFL for PC game and played it well enough to be able to map out certain play sequences for scoring drives in my mind in coach mode while playing against the PC - until, again, my computer decided it didn’t want to allow the game to run on the PC without crashing.

What games or sports are you really good at?

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I play cribbage at a tournament level. I flirted with being the number 1 player when Yahoo games was popular. The weird part is I’m good at singles but suck at doubles.

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I was really good at soccer in high school, but the quality of play in CT high school soccer fifteen years ago wasn’t exactly world-breaking.

I was really good at Warcraft 3 when I was in college, to the point of winning some local and regional tournaments. But this was still well before the point that you’d drop out of college to pursue an e-sports career… thankfully!

I was a world-class DPS in several MMOs (basically all of the early stuff with raiding that wasn’t WoW - never liked WoW enough to put the time into it).

You’ll note a lot of past-tense there. These days, I’m pretty good at turn based strategy, I don’t have time for MMOs, and I can hold my own in most adult-league sports (I actively play soccer, flag football, basketball, and tennis). I don’t approach “really good” at any of those except maybe turn based strategy. Being in your 30s is over the hill at this stuff. :smiley:

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I’m good at disc golf, but I don’t play very often.

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I’m good at Trivial Pursuit and euchre. I used to be good at Boggle, but not so much now.

I also used to have a weird claim to fame as a great dunking booth thrower. I was also a good dunkee as I am quite obnoxious, which will shock no one.

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I’m awesome at Super Mario Bros. 3.

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Ping pong.

Also, my golf handicap is around 5.

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That’s a low handicap.

I guess it depends what you mean by “good.” I was a decent ballplayer but would never have sniffed the majors.

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I’m pretty darn good at spelling type games - Scrabble, Words with Friends, that kind of thing. (One of my favorite variations is called UpWords).

I don’t play them competitively, though, mostly because I have some nits to pick with words that are considered acceptable in the various dictionaries. Starting at the top, aa is not a word. a’a is a word - which should be disallowed by virtue of being 1) non-English and 2) containing an apostrophe. It’s there in the Scrabble dictionary for some stupid reason, though. Go ahead and use it if your conscience allows you to.

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My conscience is fine in using “aa.” Not only because I’ve actually seen it in print spelled like that to refer to the lava, but because doesn’t every scrabble game come with a 2-letter word list? The edition I had did. If you can’t be arsed to memorize the legal 2-letter plays, I have no pity for you. When I played with British friends, “QI” was in this two-letter list, but was not (at the time, I believe it is now) on the American Scrabble edition. Of course we played with it. Part of the game is memorizing what plays are legal under the rules you are playing. It’s not really a vocabulary game.

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Just curious, but how can anyone be really good at cribbage? Once you know the rules it seems pretty simple.

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I know how many of them annoy me because I know all of them. :slight_smile:

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The rules are simple, and there is a lot of variance in that a beginner can beat a pro based on fortuitous cards, but there is a lot of skill to the game such that a pro in the long run would beat lesser players consistently. It’s a deeper game than appears on the surface. I’d compare it maybe to backgammon in terms of the skill-luck dynamic, with backgammon perhaps being a smidge more skillful, but it feels close to me. (Both games I love greatly.)

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Which is how a non-Francophone New Zealand-born Malaysianended up becoming the French scrabble champion.

I’m not *really *good at any sports or games (I interpret really good as being competitive at a club level - ie one of the best in your town/suburb say) hell I’m not even household champion at many…

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Magic: The Gathering. At one point in the middle of a tournament, I was ranked in the top ~25 in one of the major formats. At my peak I was somewhere around the top 500-1000 players in the world.

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Good point. Let’s say that “good” means that in any 10 randomly gathered players of that game, you’d probably be the best.
(I’m not sure I could claim to be good by my own definition, now…)

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I was a decent ballplayer too, and toured southwestern Ontario for a few years with a team from Sarnia.

I couldn’t have been a bat boy in the majors though.

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I used to be seriously into target shooting, especially Free Pistol (aka 50-Meter pistol). I once competed in the Olympic trials for this event, where I finished 5th (out of about 12).

That may sound a bit better than it was: only one shooter was selected to the US team.

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I had a very good curling league in the spring; figured out a few problems in my delivery and finished third in the Wednesday night league. I’m anxious to see if I can keep that going.

I’m not even one of the best at my club, but if you picked some random people off the street I think I could take 'em.

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Baseball, 30 years ago.