# What's the least important thing that you're really, really good at? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 23, 2010, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166 "2010-02-23T20:57:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/1 "2010-02-23T20:57:32Z")
I am quite possibly the world’s best shot with a rubber band. I hit what I aim at 90% of the time. Once as a kid I hit a driver in the face through that little triangular vent window cars used to have. A moving car. Yeah I was a brat. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/2 "2010-02-23T21:02:50Z")
I grow _excellent_ fingernails. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/3 "2010-02-23T21:02:55Z")
I can twiddle my thumbs in opposite directions (so one thumb circles one way while the other thumb circles the other - both left and right going clockwise at the same time). Not many can. ---
**Author:** ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/4 "2010-02-23T21:07:25Z")
I can spit ice really far with excellent accuracy. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/5 "2010-02-23T21:17:32Z")
I’ve been on this board for more than 10 years. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/6 "2010-02-23T21:18:50Z")
I can parallel park the shit out of a car. The _shit out of_ it. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/7 "2010-02-23T21:21:21Z")
I’m very good at pouring equal amounts of wine into glasses. I never have to do that “little more here, now some here, oops, now back” topping up thing that some people do. Look on my competence, and despair. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/8 "2010-02-23T21:26:26Z")
I can ride my bike with no handlebars. ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_the_Impaler)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/9 "2010-02-23T21:32:40Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > I can parallel park the shit out of a car. The _shit out of_ it. Sigh. I wish I could do this. What I _can_ do is make a really, really good grilled cheese sandwich. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/10 "2010-02-23T21:32:40Z")
I can do this fun little playing card trick where I hold what looks like one card up (though it is really two cards), and then I flick the card w/ one hand while making a move w/ the cards to swap them. It’s really impressive when seen from the right angle. ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/11 "2010-02-23T21:36:26Z")
Backing up a truck hauling a horse trailer is pretty dang easy for me. I can crack/pop most joints in my body. **But the big winner is:** I can recite Kentucky Derby winners, frontwards and backwards, from 1969 to present. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/12 "2010-02-23T21:37:03Z")
Back in the day, I was a cashier at a supermarket. I was a fracking wiz typing in the prices and departments of the items on the keypad. My fingers would absoloutely _fly_. A fracking wiz, I tell you. Customers have told me they purposely sought out my line. Others pored over their receipts, certain that I could not have been accurate. This was, obviously, before price scanners. Useless-enough, skill-wise, for ya? ---
**Author:** ![FE3O4ENAIL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ba9def/32.png) [@FE3O4ENAIL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FE3O4ENAIL)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/13 "2010-02-23T21:38:15Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > I can twiddle my thumbs in opposite directions (so one thumb circles one way while the other thumb circles the other - both left and right going clockwise at the same time). Not many can. How?. I just tried and I can’t keep one going and reverse the direction of the other. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/14 "2010-02-23T21:39:10Z")
Playing tetherball. If there were a tetherball olympics I’d be in the tryouts. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/15 "2010-02-23T21:43:20Z")
> [@FE3O4ENAIL](#): > > How?. I just tried and I can’t keep one going and reverse the direction of the other. It’s tough, because your brain seems to want to twiddle them the same way no matter what _you_ want, so to speak. The trick to it is to note that if they are truly twiddling in opposite directions, they must cross twice per rotation. Try to cross them deliberately. [This is a really astoundingly useless skill 😉] ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/16 "2010-02-23T21:43:20Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > I can ride my bike with no handlebars. But can you take apart the remote control and almost put it back together? ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/17 "2010-02-23T21:44:24Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > I am quite possibly the world’s best shot with a rubber band. I hit what I aim at 90% of the time. Once as a kid I hit a driver in the face through that little triangular vent window cars used to have. A moving car. Yeah I was a brat. You might want to do an exhibition with this guy who has related skills. He got a video out of it. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9ieWrWLjii0/hqdefault.jpg "Carolina Camera: The Sling Shot Man") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ieWrWLjii0) I am really good at the 1980’s Nintendo NES football game Tecmo Bowl (probably the greatest game ever made). I didn’t have to worry about losing to anyone or anything in a single match since about 1989 given my choice of a team. I expanded that in later years to include playing any team against any team. A couple of decades later, I have gotten to the point where the other team scoring any points at all is almost out of the question and hasn’t happened in a few years. I focus now on running up the score and doing stunt plays like passing end-zone to end-zone for a touchdown. I am not happy unless I win by at least 63-0. ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/18 "2010-02-23T21:48:11Z")
I can flick a playing card into a watermelon. I do have to be about 2 ft away but watching others try is really funny. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/19 "2010-02-23T21:56:17Z")
You know when you buy some foods that come in a jar or cup, you unscrew/prise off the lid and there is a plastic film sealing the container? I can pull, like, 99% of those suckers off. \* In one piece\*. Check with my publicist for interviews; I’m already booked on Leno. ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/20 "2010-02-23T22:00:43Z")
I never lose at any of the first 3 Mortal Kombat games. Never. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166.md?page=2)