Every one of us is very good at something, no matter if it’s something basic or a very niche thing. But have you ever thought about what skill you would beat many other people at?Well, folks on Reddit definitely thought about it when this interesting question was posted onr/AskReddit: “You get paired with 100 random humans, if you’re better than all of them at something, you get 1 billion dollars. What are you choosing?” And so, they provided many intriguing answers. Today, we picked out the best ones for you to check out while you’re deciding what your unbeatable skill would be.More info:RedditThis post may includeaffiliate links.
Every one of us is very good at something, no matter if it’s something basic or a very niche thing. But have you ever thought about what skill you would beat many other people at?
Well, folks on Reddit definitely thought about it when this interesting question was posted onr/AskReddit: “You get paired with 100 random humans, if you’re better than all of them at something, you get 1 billion dollars. What are you choosing?” And so, they provided many intriguing answers. Today, we picked out the best ones for you to check out while you’re deciding what your unbeatable skill would be.
More info:Reddit
This post may includeaffiliate links.
Backing a semi truck into really tight spaces from the blindside. Very hard maneuver even for veterans but where I worked while back I did it daily. Odds are only a couple even have a cdl like me, and then I guarantee I can beat them at backing blindside.Edit: thanks for all the upvotes I’m glad to see trucking being appreciated you guys rock ✌️.
Disappointing my parents.
Knowledge on Wisconsin license plate history. I’m autistic and Wisconsin license plates are my special interest, and there’s so few people involved in the research of these plates that I highly doubt I’ll not beat everyone in the group.
On this list, we can see things people consider themselves to be better at than, for example, 100 random people. These things range from kind of simple ones such ascooking, sports, or games to devastating ones like disappointing their parents or self-deprecation. Well, without going down that rabbit hole, let’s just say that some of these skills are way more handy in life than others.
While some people just trust in their skill set enough to consider themselves better than many others, some other people might simply have asuperiority complex. This complex is a belief that your abilities or accomplishments are dramatically better than other people’s. It might make a person condescending, smug, or simply mean.
Not bragging or anything, but I spent YEARS training to spit tooth paste directly into the sink hole with no splash back or paste getting on the rest of the sink bowl. Bullseye every time.
Navigation with only a compass and a terrain map.
Self-deprication.Although, I’d probably suck at that too.
Fortunately, there are several things people can do if they feel themselves developing a superiority complex or are told they already have one:
Touching the highest possible point on a wall without jumping. I’m 6’8” so pretty good odds I’m gonna come out on top.
Filleting salmonids. Its literally my job, and I’ve been doing it for twenty years. I don’t mean to toot my own horn, but I’m pretty good at it, and like any craftsman, my skill has been honed through dint of sheer repetition. I have absolutely filleted hundreds of thousands of fish in my life, and even if you’re pretty good, I’m willing to bet I’m better using metrics of speed, appearance, and % of wastage.
Guess what brake pad belongs to a car, so many years working at a car repair shop have benefits.
On the other side of the spectrum lies theinferiority complex. It’s when a person feels insecure and inadequate about their abilities, achievements, and daily life. Typically, they believe they’re physically or mentally inferior to others, no matter if that’s actually true or not.
This can lead a person to either (fully or partially) withdraw from interacting with others or overcompensate their self-esteem, which can sometimes lead to an already discussed superiority complex.
Emo song lyrics from 2003-2007. If anyone beats me, I’ll marry them.
Time for my Tetris 99 skills to shine 😁.
Putting a iv line in or restraining an aggressive dog.
People from this list don’t seem to suffer from an inferiority complex, do they? And about the superiority one, well, who’s to say – there might be some who exaggerated their abilities. But, hey, who’s going to check? As far as we know, no one is planning to put a random group of 100 people in a room and test their skills, as was suggested in the original Reddit question.
Procrastination.
My mother and her friends invented a pig latin style coded language. Probably less than a dozen people have ever learned it, and most of them are in their 70s now, probably haven’t thought of it in decades.I like my odds at a Ybangie (I didn’t name it! Lol) competition.
Acre history. Acre is a Brazilian state, the one which I was born and live on. The population is only 830 thousand people.Hence there is only a very small chance of the random people to be from Acre and an even smaller one of them to know anything at all about it.Of course I could end up being paired with some college professor which Acre is their specialty, and I would be f****d, but since it is random that would be very unlikely.
Chess. Even among chess players on lichess and chess.com I am in the top 2-3%, so the odds that any of the 100 are better than me is fairly small. My luck, I’d get paired against Magnus…
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi taxonomy.
Ice hockey. Most people don’t know how to skate let alone play the sport well.
Properly operating a nuclear reactor.
Ultra running a 100k or 100 miler.
Counting in binary really fast with my fingersI discovered I could do this 3 years agoIt’s like an involuntary tic now. It’s so entertaining.
Knowledge of ww1! I’m a tour guide in the area.
Skeet shooting.
I’d be confident that I’m better than them all at maintaining a consistent TTRPGs group for longer than all of them. I’ve been a DM for 24 years, I had one group for 13 years, and this group for 11. It’s not always the same game/campaign, but we always meet up to play.
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Knowledge about jellyfishes, specifically of the class Cnidaria.
Astrophotography. I’m not even that good, but among 100 randomly chosen people, only a handful will even have a telescope (and that’s probably generous). And among those, I’m probably the only one with a camera adapter.
A pub quiz on the life and times of myself.
Taking standardized tests is pretty high on that list.I’d also roll the dice on taekwondo forms.In fact, I’d roll the dice on running role-playing games, too.
Solving a Rubik’s cube quickly. I’m not that fast, but I reckon the odds are in my favour.
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Physics.
Guess what number I’m thinking of. Best of 7 rounds.
Performing my obscure venezuelan town’s accent.
We’re playing super smash bros melee.
Climbing.
Magic The Gathering. I’m pretty confident 😌.
Starcraft 2, my Diamond 1 rank is higher than any other person there.
Yeah bro they ain’t beating me in a minecraft nodebuff/builduhc 1v1 on 1.7.10 on a practise server thats all im saying,make it a 1000 people even.
First person shooter games, I’d even let them vote on which one.
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