# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![SkillzMcFly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@SkillzMcFly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkillzMcFly)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/161 "2010-03-01T13:44:02Z")
i’m really good at knowing where everything my husband is looking is. like a savant! ---
**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:** [March 1, 2010, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/162 "2010-03-01T13:48:01Z")
Hello, **McFly**! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![FalconFinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@FalconFinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FalconFinder)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/163 "2010-03-01T15:36:14Z")
I naturally write cursive backwards with my left hand – I don’t recall if I’ve tried it, but I’ll bet I’d do the same thing with print. I have to force it to write “correctly” and even then, I’ll get partway through a word or letter when I’m back to writing backwards. It’s messy, but I would assume it would get nicer if I practiced. I can wiggle my scalp – just some weird thing I discovered by accident as a kid. It wiggles my ears at the same time and freaks people out. I can imitate and thereby annoy the heck out of chickens (I really wish I knew what I was saying to them – some types of chickens begin looking at the ground, others want to rip my face off). I can also imitate sheep to get them to respond, as well – though not as reliably as getting chickens to respond. I can imitate certain cat sounds and they will talk back sometimes. (All the result of growing up on a farm) ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/164 "2010-03-01T22:16:39Z")
> [@SkillzMcFly](#): > > i’m really good at knowing where everything my husband is looking is. like a savant! On the other hand, maybe he can find the “for” you’ve clearly lost. ---
**Author:** ![Ibanez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a4c791/32.png) [@Ibanez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibanez)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/165 "2010-03-01T22:58:43Z")
For some reason I can remember phone numbers really well. I once freaked out a friend I hadn’t seen a long time , 10 years By chance I ran into her one night with some friends at a bar, she wanted to give me her number and i cited it off the last number she had. It was were she used to live with her mother who still has that number. Totally freaked her out. A little rain man in me I suppose…yeah ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/166 "2010-03-02T00:48:03Z")
I’m really good at memorizing page numbers. So I don’t have to use bookmarks. But I do anyway, because I like the novelty of bookmarks. So it’s pretty much a useless skill. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/167 "2010-03-02T21:52:25Z")
Nema! Reve dna reverof! Yep, just checked, and still got it. I’ve never met anyone who can do quite as diabolical-sounding and intimidating recitation of the Lord’s Prayer backwards as I can. Also I can balance a broom on my nose. ---
**Author:** ![KennerTheGreat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@KennerTheGreat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KennerTheGreat)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/168 "2010-03-02T22:44:54Z")
I know every Wold Series Most Valuable Player from 1955 to the present. And I can recite them while drunk. ---
**Author:** ![conurepete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@conurepete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/conurepete)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/169 "2010-03-03T01:23:10Z")
I am one of the fastest face-painters in the world. My record was 600 paintings in one day ---
**Author:** ![HotSmoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d9b06d/32.png) [@HotSmoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HotSmoke)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/170 "2010-03-03T01:24:20Z")
mysteriously make any baby stop crying? How about the ability to make a baby mysteriously _start_ crying? I am great at that. I can wiggle my ears. Not like an elephant,but enough that some motion is visible. Not sure how I can do this. I can also arch my eyebrow(inexplicably,only the right one)to a very cool sardonic angle. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/171 "2010-03-03T03:53:58Z")
Rarely can anyone climb joke mountain with me. I have the ability to remember jokes, yet I’m terrible with names. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/172 "2010-03-03T04:26:54Z")
I used to play Battlefield 2 a lot. It’s an online multiplayer first-person-shooter for the PC that keeps track of all kinds of stats. How may times you’ve died, killed, how many players you’ve stabbed, blew up with C4, etc. I specialized as the Anti-Tank class, and a couple years after it came out, I was ranked 66 in the world with the anti-tank weapon, and top 1100-something with the DAO-12 shotgun, out of however million ppl who bought it. Totally unintended - I never played competitively, or even laddered - and utterly useless. It passed the time nicely though, and I met some decent ppl through the clans I joined and gamed with. ---
**Author:** ![SeaCanary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@SeaCanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaCanary)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/173 "2010-04-15T18:33:09Z")
I can do a very credible imitation of Elmer Fudd reciting Poe’s The Raven. ---
**Author:** ![jellyblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@jellyblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jellyblue)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166/174 "2010-04-15T19:37:21Z")
> [@SeaCanary](#): > > I can do a very credible imitation of Elmer Fudd reciting Poe’s The Raven. Ooh, could we get a link to a YouTube clip of this?🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-least-important-thing-that-youre-really-really-good-at/530166.md?page=8)