I have hyperphantasia, which means that I’m able to visualize things in my mind in a way that it looks exactly the same as it would in real life. If I see a puzzle that requires spatial reasoning, I can rotate it and manipulate it in 3D space in my mind.
I use this for CAD! It’s actually kind of frustrating because I often find my brain uses techniques that I can’t replicate using the controls on cad software.
I hold your power in awe. I have the exact opposite of this. I cannot picture spatial dimensions in my head at all.
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Somewhat relatedly, I still have the MSDN Windows 2000 license key memorized.
Needless to say, I have not had to install Windows 2000 on anything for quite some time.
Cool, I had a Win98 one memorized for years but it’s gone now.
And of course there’s…
NT4.0 key here
Still remember the sound blaster config?
220,5,1,5 or something similar. The overlap of me using DOS and having a soundblaster is quite narrow.
I’m very good at remembering people’s birthdays. I stopped “using” it cause I think it creeps people out a bit, but at least with people I like it’s always nice to remember to congratulate them without relying on social media.
I’m shit with names though.
Have you had a situation where you remembered someones birthday only to twists their neme?
Huh?
walking into a room and forgetting why I entered
I use that skill every single day
Balloon animals.
Make me a bicycle, clown!
I can hear high frequencies that supposedly only kids and teens still can. The most recent time it was ‘useful’ was (spoilers) a magic show in Vegas a few years ago.
Otherwise my hearing is terrible.
Do you hear bats?
No, I have a pretty normal human range, just for a much younger human than I am.
(if it’s super loud I could reach 22khz, but that was a few years ago that I checked it)
I’m a really good driver. Like rules of the road and all that, sure, but I also have some training in rally cars, am decent on a race track, and am generally a top 5 finisher in whatever Sim race I enter.
Wish I could afford to enter an IRL series.
I did scca auto-x for a few years. Never came close to being the fastest car there, but my car was just a humble 1st gen Dodge Neon. I usually had times in the middle overall, with high performance cars like subaru STI and also cars like miatas coming in ahead of me. I had a lot of fun, but it got boring since you only got 3-4 1 minute runs and spent all day in the hot sun. The cost and time commitment just wasn’t worth it. I’d rather go to a decent gokart track.
I am reasonably acrobatic. I only get to use it when people are drunk and get the sudden urge to watch someone do a backflip.
Much lower level, but I’m over 50 and can do a great cartwheel. Was at a concert and these little kids were sitting in a line, one by one doing a cartwheel, I came and joined their line and when my turn came did the cartwheel they were just delighted, it was so cute.
Not otherwise acrobatic, a one trick pony. But it has very occasionally been a good trick.
I know how to do home canning, and making sure it’s safe. I just don’t get to do it often because it’s energy intensive on the me so it’s something I do about twice a year.
I can create massive research papers overnight.
- marshmallow roasting (I can perfectly control the level of browning on the outside and melted-ness on the inside)
- paper snowflake making (I can make them very intricate and come out exactly how I visualize them)
pretty shit at everything else though. I fat-fingered my skill points allocation hard.
I can see magic eye pictures instantly. Like, at a glance.
never in my life have those worked for me. My family used to infuriate me talking about what they saw and telling me to relax my eyes. WTF is relax your eyes!
If all they ever told you was to relax your eyes then it’s not surprising they don’t work for you, that’s not very helpful! Feel free to skip the rest of this if you don’t want advice on how to get them to work.
For me, the best way to get them to work is to cross my eyes and let my gaze drift out of focus. When I was a kid I read a tip in a book to press your nose up to the book, look at the picture, and keep them in that position as you pull away. That works well for me too if I’m having trouble doing it on my own.
Crossing your eyes will show you the opposite effect though, something being concave instead of convex.
I know kung fu (wing chun). I am however years out of practice, and also glad its not something i use very often.
What I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.
I am able to recite toy commercials and obscure TV theme songs from 90s kids shows with surprising accuracy, many decades past consuming them - Crossfire, Creepy Crawlers, James Bond Jr. Denver the Last Dinosaur… I’m your guy. I don’t watch these things deliberately to learn them and haven’t seen them since organically seeing during childhood, they just start playing in my head on the smallest triggers, music and lyrics, verbatim.
This is what the inside of my head is like, all the time
