I’ve mastered the ability to take any idea or thought and transform it into anxiety. Jitters McGee
I can clap with one hand
What’s the sound of one hand clapping? ;-p
It sounds similar to normal clapping but more faint, and lonly and with echo, the damn echo!
I just tried and was successful. I have long fingers which probably helps. But it’s not as loud as when I clap with two hands.
That’s pretty useful of you’re at a concert holding a beer though!
Oh yeah!
Finally answering the zen question of “what is the sound of one hand clapping?”
Whistling. Took decades and I can do it two different ways (lips and teeth). I now do it subconsciously when listening to music where I’ll typically add other melodies or harmonies. I can bird call pretty much flawlessly. Loudest I get is over 100dB. Average is low 90s. Not much use but it’s fun.
When you say teeth do you mean like with your tongue on the roof of your mouth/behind front teeth? Or is there something new I can learn?
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This exactly. Don’t know how else to describe it. Most people don’t realize it’s even possible.
Maybe the teeth gap? I have a very small front teeth gap (probably <1mm) and can produce a very high pitched annoying whistle with it.
Ah maybe. I was I guess blessed with not having that ability.
I remember reading about a Pa Kua Chang master who could walk through a crowd with a full teacup and not spill any. For whatever reason I started to practice walking with a full to the brim teacup (with or without a handle) and now I can go up and down stairs with one or two and not spill anything. Usually
Whistle like a pidgeon and mourning doves
I can fluidly open a trash bag, pull it into a straight line, and toss it like a dart, landing it in an open trash can from up to 30ft.
This only works with those cheap bags that businesses use and this was honed over years of changing trash at various businesses. Not useful, very majestic though.
I can pick up different objects with chopsticks in both hands at the same time. Can also eat this way.
I didn’t put any time into mastering this, though. I just gave it a try one day and found it to be easy.
I can spew random trivia about every latin american country.
Give me your favorite please!!
There is a taco bell in the historic city of Antigua Guatemala. Guatemala also has like 30 volcanos and their flag is light blue and white with the coat of arms featuring the quetzal bird on it.
I turn yaml into aws bills
I wouldn’t call that useless. That is how you get to be the executive lead cloud DevOps engineer.
I know I have plenty but can’t for the life of me think of one.
I wouldn’t say I’ve mastered it but with my current set up I am as good as I can get with macrophotography.
I could never spin a pen around my thumb so instead I learned how to “flick” it, have it do a flip and land back in my hand.
I can also rapidly place two strips of tape on one another with no bubbles and parallel enough you’d think it’s one piece. However I can only do this vertically
The pen flip/flicking seems like a skill I would love to learn. Do you have a video or know of a video showing or teaching this?
It’s possible there is someone or a video who can show you though I came up with it myself in leu of spinning it so I don’t personally have any sources.
I can give you a written explanation though!
Step one: Hold the Pen as you normally would
Step two: Get the rubber pen grip (or associated area, roughly 1/3 the length from the tip) onto the knuckle at your finger tip or just in front of it (towards the tip of your finger). This should have your finger in a C position which should put you pretty close to a flick position.
Step 3: Put your thumb in front of the tip of your finger and apply counter pressure between your fingers (ready to flick)
Step 4: Release your restrained middle finger causing your finger to flick and sending the pen up in a flipping motion.
Notable: If the pen flys forward try adjusting how forward or backwards the pen sits on your knuckle (I.E. 1/3, 1/4 etc.). Same if the flip is too speedy or slow.
Adjusting your wrist or moving your hand up to start with some momentum can be useful when learning.
Consistency is hard but you’ll get the feel in time
I learned to ride a unicycle.
I’ve wanted to do this but I’m afraid at my age I’ll be seriously injured trying.
I learned to ride when I was 17. It took me like 2 months to learn to ride.
I just turned 42 today. If I didn’t already know how to mount and ride a unicycle already, I’d probably be like F that as well.
If you fall on an unicycle you land on your feet
My experience says no to this. Maybe usually, but I fell on my ass a few too many times and gave up trying to learn the rest.
Usually yes, but it partly depends on how big the tire is and how tall the unicycle is…
I learned on a 24 inch tire with 6 inch pedal cranks, not stupid tall. I wasn’t going for the circus, I just wanted to learn to ride.
I fear you may overestimate my physical prowess.
I can read UPC, UPC-8, ISBN, and EAN bar codes. Tear the numbers off the bottom of the bar code, hand me the lines, and I will tell you the numbers you tore off.
I used to work the midnight shift at a call center back in the late 90s. It was incredibly boring because we weren’t allowed to browse the internet when no calls were coming in (which was most of the time, got maybe five calls total per night). So I picked up a copy of Yahoo! Internet Life, a now-defunct technology-centered magazine. This issue had a how-to section for wacky shit like that, so I committed it to memory because wtf else was there to do?
Well that’s cool. Can you write in scan-able barcode?
No, there is too much precision required.
If you got graphpaper?
I suppose that might work, it never occurred to me to do so.
I can aolve a rubiks cube with my left hand only.
Not your right hand? I Am do it with either, it just takes a long time
I can also do it with my right hand, but i did it with my left first cause there is this german phrase “doing something with left” which means something is so easy for you, you don’t even need your dominant hand for it.
I can independently write different text with both hands at the same time just as easily as writing with only one hand. I consider this a useless skill because I rarely ever write with an actual pen or pencil, so being able to write with both hands simultaneously doesn’t add anything.
Lots of time being bored in school and an obsession with broadening the mind.
That’s not useless, a 14th century monastery would love to have you
Thank you! At least it gave me something to show for all that time.
Basically same. I don’t know if being ambidextrous is something you can be born with. I broke arms, wrists, fingers enough that functionality I had to be able to use both hands in school and sports.
So this sounded crazy to me, like I’d never be able to do that, I just grabbed paper, a pen in my left hand(I’m right handed) and a pen shaped object in the other(it doesn’t write) I moved both hands at the same time as if writing with both, and my left hand writing is better than I’ve ever seen myself do, when trying to independently write with my left hand.
Could you use both hands to write the same sentence twice as fast?
In principle, yes, but this would require some additional effort because of word spacing. The sentence would need to come together and meet at a point.
Second job overnights at a gas station… Pretty much any combination of right/left hand, upside down/mirrored, cursive/text, words forward/letters backwards, etc.
I consider this a useless skill
I dont know, friend. thats a bit of a step up from the usual party trick.
best I’ve got is zero lead hand/leg preference when sparring muay thai. makes me a real lonely or a real popular dance partner depending on the crowd.
