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I do that rubber band trick, but I like the technique in that video and will adopt it. Thanks!
I have a bunch of different magic tricks (I teach an after-school magic club sometimes), but the true weird talent I have is broom-balancing.
I can balance a broom on my hand. Hop it to the other hand. Hop it from finger to finger. Balance it on my foot, on my elbow, on my chin, on my nose.
I can take a broom-size stick in the woods and, if it’s got a crook in it, make it spin on its end as I balance it on my hand.
I can take a ~2-foot stick and balance it in my hand, toss it in the air, and catch it balancing on the other end–or catch it balancing after a full 360 twirl. These last two tricks I’m still working on and can only do them about a quarter of the time–but I’m getting better.
When I was in High School someone told me what the numbers and letters meant for bra sixes. I started guessing them, and soon it was “He can totally guess your bra size!” I was right more often than not, and I was shocked that the (well I guess most of them were girls at the time, not women) thought it was cool. Surely the Victoria’s Secret gals had a higher accuracy rate than I did.
One trick I never tried out was Astrology based but might fool some people. In Ohio your registration on your car expires on your birthday. Therefore the sticker on the back of your car shows your birth month. This narrows down their “sign” to one of two possibilities with one being favored, if I’m not mistaken.
If you know their car, you have the month, if not ask what they drive and sneak out if you’re that sort of person. Then once they do something you can say “The way you did that thing, you must be an Aries”. Then if they start to correct you you can say “I’m sorry I meant Taurus.” If they’re that type of person they will be at least mildly impressed.
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pick things up with my toes;
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recite Canadian Prime Ministers in order;
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recite kings and queens regnant of England/Great Britain/United Kingdom in order;
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recite US presidents in order;
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recite US Vice-Presidents in order;
-pick up a deck of cards in one hand, cut it, and set it back down.
I can open pouches made from a certain type of plastic by slitting the plastic with my finger nails.
I can pronounce Taumatawhakatangihangokoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu.
I have a super amazing memory. People you haven’t seen in years are amazed when you remember the last conversation you had with them
I can do a lot of math things in my head. And know ow to spell and memorize phone numbers with ease.
I can palm a basketball.
I can pick up things with my toes.
I can do only my right eyebrow.
I can write my name with my right foot. Only my name, though, nothing else.
I can draw a contiguous map of the US, and label all the states, with capitals, correctly located in the states, and also a few major cities, correctly located, all from memory.
In addition to the above, I can
– solve a Rubik’s cube
– tie my shoes with one hand
– touch my little fingers to my palm while keeping my other fingers upright
– double cross my fingers independently-- that is, I make a Vulcan salute, then cross my middle finger over my index finger, and my ring finger over my little finger simultaneously
– fingerspell “D-O-G” on one hand, and “C-A-T” on the other at the same time, something impressive to other people who can sign
Roll my stomach.
Well, I could, until my stomach became a roll of its own.
My wife thinks I’m a master of humorous-acronym creation. An example from yesterday (though, admittedly, not my best work); My sis and I were talking about kids and how we might “accommodate” them at this event coming up. I wanted to do more and she said not to worry because they are “young, resilient, and don’t give a shit”. I said, jokingly (as I am wont to do), “those damn yardgassers, they don’t appreciate nuthin’. 
I think I impress myself more with this than anyone else. 
I know my work credit card number and my library card number by heart.
I have no sense of smell, so I can pull Kropotkin’s finger with impunity.
I can identify the artist of the song playing on the radio better than anyone I know (as long as the radio’s on a “good” station). 
I’d give you a run for your money on that one!
I was careful to put the qualifier “better than anyone I know”. It’d be fun, though.
-I can do the eyebrow thing with both eyes.
-I know my wife’s SSN.
-I know both of the account numbers for our retirement accounts (13 numbers each) and the passwords (14 letter/number/symbol/cap/lowercase each). Actually, I’ve always been good with numbers.
-I used to be able to cut a deck of cards with one hand, and do a disappearing card trick, but arthritis prevents that now. The first time I did the former for my father (a former semi-pro poker player), he said “Do that at a poker table and somebody will shoot you.”
Only if you have noise-cancelling headphones.
I can do the one-handed cut too, and when I was showing off to my brother-in-law he said almost exactly the same thing to me.*
Also, I’m working on learning all the world capitals. I’ve got everything down except parts of Asia and Oceania.
*I think, instead of saying “do that”, he said “pull that shit…”
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I can do this cork trick.
I can trigger a sneeze by scratching my eyebrow.
I can also do that thing with my middle fingers that Raj does once on TBBT and confuses the heck out of Sheldon. I didn’t think it was that impressive, but after Sheldon couldn’t do it, I started showing it to people, and it turns out a lot of people can’t do it after being shown it just once.
As a former amateur magician, I can do a number of slight of hand stuff. And as I lived in Japan forever, I do the spin the pen around my thumb while I’m thinking. Apparently, it drove other people in school nuts because they would try a couple of times and give up.
I can shuffle poker chips. For me the major hurdle was that I was applying too much pressure pushing the chips into each other. The trick seems to be to apply only as much pressure as needed to contain them and keep them from going anywhere else. I originally was using my middle finger to perform the lift but it’s easier with the index finger. The middle, ring, and little fingers kind of surround one stack while the thumb gently presses the two stacks together. Start with 10 chips (2x5) as fewer actually make it more difficult (not enough weight) and more chips eventually become unwieldy.