What are you good at?

[Hollow]

Something that you are considerably better at doing than others. Maybe not world record worthy but above average or exceptionally good.

I'm still trying to discover what I might be good at, don't have anything that I can just put a finger on. I'm a fast learner and find myself doing good at most things I try though (except bicycles).

I have also had a hobby of yo-yo-ing (if that's considered a proper hobby) ever since I was little, and have now turned genuinely good at doing tricks with it. Didn't know how good I was until I joined a yo-yo club at college. If only yo-yos were important enough.

Writing GT5 as something you are good at doesn't count.

 

[Cano]

Drawing! And writing, but only about certain things.

 

[axletramp]

I can do decent impersonation of Grover from Sesame Street.

 

[mattythedog]

I'm good at debating with friends, I nearly always win the argument. I guess I am just good at taking facts and putting them into a convincing sentence.

 

[W3H5]

I go up hills pretty fast on a bicycle. I don't know anyone who can beat me up hill/ mountain. My body just seems to have been tailored to it.

I'm also an expert in Philosophy of Robotics. Admittedly a field I partly made up but all the same I'm one of the most knowledgeable in this area.

I box pretty well, I wouldn't say I'm super, or I'd be doing it for a living, but my form is considered very highly developed by a lot of practitioners I've been friends with and others I've met.

I also talk a lot of crap, I'm very good at that. Not that I mean every thing I say is an untruth or hard to decipher, but I often talk/ type before my brain has had time to register what's going on.

 

[hazellnut134]

Writing insanely quickly, but then my writing looks 🤬

 

[axletramp]

I also talk a lot of crap, I'm very good at that. Not that I mean every thing I say is an untruth or hard to decipher, but I often talk/ type before my brain has had time to register what's going on.

 

[W3H5]

I don't know if I'm laughing because A) I get it and find it funny, or B) I don't get it but imaging you sitting at your desk in that pose.

 

[Nessy]

AT, Grover's my fave, along with Bert & Ernie.

WH3S, i also talk a lot of crap... but i'm not even good at that .

People who know me personally (friends in general), refer to me as a "Jack of all trades.. master of none" , which kind of rings true.

 

[W3H5]

With regards to the 'work' side of things I could be considered a Jack of all trades as I've had so many varied jobs over the last decade, all of which I became pretty good at, apart from telesales which nearly killed me. Literally.

 

[Omnis]

I guess cooking. And eating if that counts too.

Kinda makes me sad to think about all the things I used to do and used to be good at. Don't really do much anymore.

 

[Nessy]

apart from telesales which nearly killed me. Literally.

Ahh telesales... the job of the souless , never done it myself (hopefully never will either), but i have done the next worse thing (possible worserer)... cold call burglar alarm canvasing , only lasted a couple of days doing that, my soul couldn't take it.

 

[W3H5]

Telesales stole my soul. Really. I was out of the world for a year once it had brought on my largest depression to date.

Word from the wise: Don't do telesales if you have an unstable mental constitution!

 

[Lissa]

I'm good at navigating, which apparently isn't normally a womans strong point

Managed to navigate us through France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Austria, Holland and Belgium without ever getting lost, and not on motorways either.

 

[PAPPACLART]

Not sure, but better at most things than most people I know.

I am fast on a motorbike I guess.

 

[zedextreme8177]

I'm good at learning new tasks rather quickly, and I can get pretty good at them really quickly as well, so:

I'm good at debating with friends, I nearly always win the argument. I guess I am just good at taking facts and putting them into a convincing sentence.

Same here

Many consider me to be a jack of all trades

 

[AOS-]

Drawing, photoshopping, button mashing (especially on a playstation controller), NFS: Hot Pursuit 3 (I think I might be in the Top 100 Racers on consoles), working the cash register, photographic memory and where things are located, general orientation to maps (like navigating), remembering word-for-word certain stand-up comedy videos, and word searches.

 

[Skython]

I'm good at debating with friends, I nearly always win the argument. I guess I am just good at taking facts and putting them into a convincing sentence.

Me too!

For me, it's singing, and composing music. And farting, sorry but it's true... I have a problem. Winning arguments without having to lie. Ummm... I'm also good at purposely over-exaggerating things to annoy people.

 

[Boffin]

Photography, apparently. Also golf, considering how much time I put into it (not much). Plus I have a rather good musical ear as I learnt piano through suzuki method (more about listening and learning rather than reading and learning).

Also people say I am really approachable and personable so I guess I am good at making others feel good.
....apparently..

Also apparently I can debate but I have found this strictly applies to conversations only, not an actual debating team...

 

[Carbonox]

Absolutely GT5.

Well, I'm good at getting passing grades from tests after having barely studied in the last couple of days.

 

[Ross]

Typing. I'm one of the fastest typers in my year and can usually type around 60 words per minute. (On a good day, 80)

 

[Dennisch]

Jack of all trades. Master of none.

 

[Solo]

^ +1 Same here, although maybe excluding dodgeball which I play at international level

 

[Famine]

Jack of all trades. Master of none.

The trick with that is to be the best Jack you can.

I find that with just about any one thing I can do (or try to do), 1 in 10 of the population can do a better job of it than I can do. That's a crap load of people who are better than me at, say, archery. But it's rarely the same guy for the next thing I can do. And even more rarely the same guy for the next thing too. The chance of finding a guy who's better at me than archery and at trombone and at parallel parking and at general knowledge is > 1/10 x 1/10 x 1/10 x 1/10 - or > 1/10,000.

Let's face it, there is only one #1 in the world at any one thing at any time - except boxing - and the chances of it being you are infinitessimal. But if you're better than 90% of the random population at everything, you're an awful lot more useful in every situation...

Jacks are better than masters.

^ +1 Same here, although maybe excluding dodgeball which I play at international level

Do you keep in mind the five "D"s of dodgeball?

 

[Doth1s]

I am really good at doing monotonous tasks.

 

[Solo]

Do you keep in mind the five "D"s of dodgeball?

Always, and I practice by dodging moving traffic and wrenches

 

[Patrick]

Are you able to dodge a bullet?

 

[PeterJB]

Cello
Piano
Bassoon
Music Composition
Mental Arithmetic
Problem Solving
Stargazing
Swimming

To name a few.

 

[hawkeye122]

My friends seem to think im the quickest driver they know, and the best at driving offroad in a vehicle.

English.
History.
RTS Games.
Biking.
That is all.

 

[MarinaDiamandis]

I'm very good at a few things, such as archery, weightlifting and Muay Thai (kickboxing) but where I really shine is hiking/mountaineering... and irritating my girlfriend.

I have had the pleasure of making ascents with some of Britain's best mountaineers and climbers and I have been told that the quality of my navigational skills, technical knowledge and climbing technique leaves others thinking that I am a sponsored professional climber.

It's a brilliant feeling to be great at something you love doing, and to be recognised for it. I hope everyone can enjoy this feeling, on some level, at least once in their lives.