What is the best skill you possess that makes you stand above the average person?
Gamemastering rpgs. 20 years of experience and a good cross section of games played. Spent the last five years really trying to improve too.
Cocktails. I’m purely an amateur home bartender (I work in software development) but I’m better at making cocktails than most paid bartenders in the city, including a number of the ones working at craft cocktail bars I’ve been to across the country. I make my own syrups, creams, infusions, carved ice, and dehydrated fruit. I’ve recently started using an iSi whipper to make foam toppers; beer foam for old fashioneds, tropical foam for Mai Tais. My avocado orgeat is awesome. Fat washing with coconut oil is easy and makes Campari and cachaça amazing. I’ve hosted many parties in the 15-28 person range, as well numerous smaller cocktail nights, so I have experience creating thematic menus and then prepping and serving the drinks all night.
I have a ton of knowledge about spirits in general, both breadth and depth. Most bartenders and even mixologists don’t even know what baijiu is (let alone tried each aroma), know the difference between soju and shōchū, or why soju is rarely made with rice. My rum knowledge is where I’ve specialized and I can recommend multiple bottles of each type (Smuggler’s Cove categories or Minimalist Tiki’s) in varying price ranges, what cocktails they are best for, and the subtle differences between each bottle within its own category.
I’m a perfectly average programmer though.
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Trimming goat and sheep hooves
I know a lot about the Lincoln assassination.
Give me a fact that most people may not know?
The first woman to be executed by the US federal government was executed as a result of Lincoln’s assassination. Her name was Mary Surratt and her youngest son, Johnny, was considered Booth’s “right hand man”.
President Lincoln didn’t die instantly. He died nine hours later. I’m not American, so that may be commonly taught to kids in the USA - but I remember being surprised by this when I learned about it as an adult.
He was shot around 10:15 pm on April 14 and died across the street at 7:22 am on April 15.
I’m good at putting a needle inside people’s veins.
I’m very comfortable doing CPR
I have decades of experience with improv storytelling. It’s a niche thing, and normally I use it for tabletop games, but in a pinch I can make up campfire stories, ghost stories, or whatever else and use the slightest cues from the audience to suit what they enjoy.
Might need some evidence of this one!
Shit. It works better in person because of facial expressions, body language, and other ways that help me come up with material as I go
but try me, I suppose.
That’s cool, I love telling stories too. Some people here do it professionally, and they use their audience to give the tales a nice theatrical vibe.
Exponentially denotes a progression, a rate of change. You probably mean greatly or vastly
For me it would be authoring images-illustration, rendering, etc. I guess most people can answer with their job
. I guess most people can answer with their job
Yeah I was going to make a pithy joke about my job, but note that having any skill in a field that’s at all niche puts you well above the average.
Don’t forget to add “being pedantic” to your list!
Being accurate with words isn’t being pedantic. There was an opportunity to teach, I took it. That’s it. Perhaps you got that impression because text doesn’t convey intent very well. That’s alright
This is my biggest pet peeve. One data point can’t be exponentially more than one other data point without context.
If people still want to sound “smart” because they used a fancy math word, you can say “orders of magnitude more experienced.”
I am exponentially more experienced at swimming than the average person.
I’m actually a pretty average swimmer, so in this case the exponent is zero.
Skateboarding. I’ve been skating since 1985, and aside from a couple years in the military, never really took a break from it.
At 48 years old, with a slew of injuries, I can’t do the kind of things I did in my 20s, but can sure hold my own on a mini ramp.
Loading a vehicle or container for moving. I’ve had friends ask me to basically take over their move. And yeah, I may be a sucker for doing it, but I will save people hours and multiple trips while moving. I 3d tetris the hell out of a uhaul.
Height. I’m 6’6" on a good day. Top 99.897% in the world.
Reviving and programming REMBASS units. REmotely Monitored Battlefield Sensor System was a old ass piece of equipment when I was using it 20 years ago in the Army. You’d have to program different channels using another old ass piece of equipment. And very often they’d drop their fills, or not appreciate having a new, fully charged battery in it. It would frustrate people to no end because they’d spend hours trying to get it going, and then I’d stroll up talking all nice and pretty to the gear and shit would just work for me.
