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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I can make a water droplet sound with my mouth. At first I had to flick my cheek to do it effectively, but nowadays I can do it sneakily without. Great head turner in waiting rooms 😅

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I can detect whether apples are "sandy" (or whatever the actual term is for when they have that fugly apple meat that feels like eating sand) or not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think most people can. Or do you mean without biting into it?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can solve a Rubik’s Cube in under 15 seconds. (I had an obsessive phase as a teenager). I don’t think I’ve ever used that skill in my adult life, but they are fun figet toys for when I’m stressed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I couldn’t tell you how to solve them because i am more than a decade out of practice. But if i just let my fingers handle it without thinking much i can still complete it now and then.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I play the drums, but not in a band or anything. It's pretty useless, but I'm glad I got good enough I could just play along with random songs and have fun at home. I didn't stick with any other instrument I've tried to learn, so I'm pretty proud of myself to still be at it after twenty years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I can make two sounds that I haven't been able to locate in the IPA chart. They're a voiced and voiceless pair. I can only describe then as the sounds of a goose or duck.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I can handwrite cyphered text as fast as I can write ordinarily. Never have practiced reading the cyphered text though so reading notes that I took in cypher is a pain in the ass...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I know the lyrics of Bohemian Rhapsody.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I can wiggle my little toes independently.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I can bend my fingers between the last phalanx bones

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