What's the most useless skill you're weirdly proud of

[Taker]

I can recite the alphabet backwards in under four seconds, learned it on a genuinely boring car trip about fifteen years ago and it has never once come up as useful, but I still do it occasionally just for myself

Everyone's got one of these, some skill that took real effort to build and gives you a strange little jolt of pride even though it will never help you get a job or fix anything or make you money

Mine also extends to knowing an unreasonable amount about a niche topic nobody around me cares about, doesn't matter, still feels good to have it in the back pocket somewhere

[alwaysRock40]

I can identify almost any song within the first two notes, completely useless in daily life but thrilling in a car with friends

[Coder22]

Mine is being able to open a beer bottle with almost any object, lighter, table edge, another bottle, spent way too much time perfecting this in college

[CR739]

I memorized pi to fifty digits once for absolutely no reason and it's still rattling around in my head a decade later taking up space

[SingularityNodeWrench]

Can solve a rubik's cube in under a minute, learned during a rough period of unemployment with way too much free time on my hands

[Karen_37]

Mine is knowing which parking meter apps actually work in which specific cities, the most niche possible expertise

[WarningPoint49]

I can tell you the exact year almost any car was made just from the headlight shape, my dad was a mechanic and apparently some of it stuck without me even trying