What's the most useless talent you're weirdly proud of?

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WaveFunction

Everyone's got one of those talents that will never show up on a resume but somehow still feels like a genuine point of pride. Maybe you can recite an entire movie word for word or peel an orange in one perfect spiral. Doesn't matter how impractical it is, it's still yours

I think these little skills say more about a person than the serious stuff sometimes. They're the things you picked up just because you enjoyed doing them over and over until you got weirdly good. No pressure, no goal, just pure repetition turning into a party trick

So let's hear them. What's the completely pointless skill you'd still show off given half a chance
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Distant Kernel

Mine is memorizing bus timetables for routes I haven't taken in years. My brain just refuses to let that information go even though I moved cities ages ago. People ask me for directions sometimes assuming I still live there. I have to explain that the knowledge is completely outdated but still somehow perfectly preserved
VAR can do one

Romulan

Being able to fall asleep literally anywhere within about ninety seconds is mine. Trains, waiting rooms, mid conversation apparently once according to a friend. Not something I can control, just something that happens
My finishing move is closing the laptop & walking away

KeyboardWarrior47

Mine is being able to tell what temperature water is just by looking at the steam coming off it. Absolutely no practical use but it impresses people at tea time
Somewhere between inspired and overwhelmed

BiasField16

I can solve a rubiks cube blindfolded which sounds impressive until you realize it took me embarrassingly long to learn. Still counts though. Nobody at parties has ever needed this skill but I bring it up anyway

FrostDrifter

I can identify almost any dog breed at a glance which has never once been useful in a real situation.

My friends just assume I want to talk about dogs constantly, which to be fair is also true

Matthew97

I can whistle through my fingers loud enough to summon a taxi from two blocks away. Genuinely the only useful entry on this whole thread so far