What's the closest thing you have to a superpower?

[Semple]

Like an alcoholic chef then.

I'd say mine is a sense of direction / I'm like a compass. When we've been on holiday etc to somewhere new, I can have a real good wander around and still not get lost, able to find my way back to hotel/car etc.

 

[Nickl245]

I haven't been really sick for over a decade, I only ever get minor colds and the sniffles.

Knock on wood.

 

[Devrij]

I can lick my nose. I mean I could get my tongue right up in there if I wanted to.

That's about it.

 

[ivrytwr3]

Serious answer,

I seem to have an insanely good sense of direction. And if I've been to a place once, however long ago, wherever in the world, I can find it again without any map, GPS or google maps. I have it memorized.

I am your Nemesis!

I have been living in the same area for 20 years - i do not know most of the place names and aside from the main city etc, i still use a satnav to get around the county.

My proudest moment was when i was working on an overseas base. I had been there 3 months and dropped my oppo off at the airhead as they were heading home for some R&R - i got lost on the way back. The base was 4 miles by 2 miles.

My nickname became "satnav" for the rest of the tour.

 

[AndyCr15]

I have a great sense of time and know what time it is to the nearest five minutes without looking at a clock.

I generally have a very good sense sense of the passage of time, so if someone asks what the time is I will guess before checking. I'm usually accurate to within less than 10mins if I've baselined the time within the past few hours. This isn't really based on external factors like the amount of daylight or any sort of counting systems, it is just an innate feel for how much time has passed (although sometimes it might be influenced by stuff like someone playing a CD, and I'll think "it feels like about 25mins since that CD ended", and then add on the approx duration I think the CD was. The thought process will typically be roughly what hour it is, does it feel like it is before or after that hour, and by how much.

I suspect this is quite a common thing. I can often do similar. Also, like when watching a TV show and I wonder how far in I am, I am often within 60 seconds of my guess. On the flip side, I'm terrible at months/years. How long is it since I last saw someone, or a co-worker left out store? I would likely be many months wrong.

 

[dirtychinchilla]

Have you heard of super recognises?

Turns out I seem to be one. I read a newspaper article about it and decided to give the test a go :

https://www.superrecognisers.com/

I was top <10% in every test.

It sas something I was conscious of for years, which is why the article piqued my interest.

Hah that was cool. I got 9/14, but I got a bit distracted. What an odd skill.

I generally have a very good sense sense of the passage of time, so if someone asks what the time is I will guess before checking. I'm usually accurate to within less than 10mins if I've baselined the time within the past few hours. This isn't really based on external factors like the amount of daylight or any sort of counting systems, it is just an innate feel for how much time has passed (although sometimes it might be influenced by stuff like someone playing a CD, and I'll think "it feels like about 25mins since that CD ended", and then add on the approx duration I think the CD was. The thought process will typically be roughly what hour it is, does it feel like it is before or after that hour, and by how much.

Me too. I always know when an oven timer is going to go off. I can generally tell you what the time is within 10 minutes, but I've always assued that it was because I look at my phone so often and subconciously absorb what time it is. But that doesn't explain the oven timer thing. I can also could to 60 seconds with a very small margin of error, but I think that's practice.

 

[Diddums]

I generally have a very good sense sense of the passage of time, so if someone asks what the time is I will guess before checking.

Ah, forgot about this one. I tend to look at the clock at exactly 13:37 at least 5 days a week. It's weird as hell, drives my wife nuts

 

[dirtychinchilla]

I'd say mine is a sense of direction / I'm like a compass. When we've been on holiday etc to somewhere new, I can have a real good wander around and still not get lost, able to find my way back to hotel/car etc.

I have the opposite super power. I can only get lost.

 

[Martynt74]

I'm a wasp magnet. Put 100 people in a garden and its my face the little female genital parts will buzz in.

That's very similar to me, stick me in a foreign country these days and i will attract any mosquito within a 50 mile radius and leave those around me completely unharmed.

You could call me a hero really yet i don't get the recognition i deserve. I just get laughed at

 

[Hades]

I have an amazing ability to forget someone's name, almost seconds after they tell me.

 

[Terminal_Boy]

You would hate me.

I love to move pictures and other objects hanging on walls slightly out of true- just a millimetre or two. I don't know why, but I find it very amusing.

My wife would sense the disturbance in the Force instantly and be after you with a carving knife.

 

[logz83]

Crap superpowers: very good memory, very dextrous with either hand
Kryptonite: No sense of direction, very good memory is only useful for storing useless crap that is good in pub quizzes

 

[VincentHanna]

I have an amazing ability to forget someone's name, almost seconds after they tell me.

That's your Achilles' heal.

Mine also

 

[Kreeeee]

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[ik9000]

I can sleep standing up on the tube does that count?

 

[ik9000]

I can lick my nose. I mean I could get my tongue right up in there if I wanted to.

That's about it.

Proof that the lizard people are amongst us?

 

[Yaayuh!]

Ah, forgot about this one. I tend to look at the clock at exactly 13:37 at least 5 days a week. It's weird as hell, drives my wife nuts

I DO THIS TOO!

It freaks me out.

 

[Semple]

I have the opposite super power. I can only get lost.

 

[SexyGreyFox]

My family & friends will tell you I'm a human GPS, drop me off anywhere and I'll know which way to go.
If we're on holiday I can look at a Google Satellite of the area and it stays in my brain.

Just seen that @Semple has the same super power.
Fight.

 

[Mr Badger]

Ah, forgot about this one. I tend to look at the clock at exactly 13:37 at least 5 days a week. It's weird as hell, drives my wife nuts

I DO THIS TOO!

It freaks me out.

You don't know each other but you both randomly look at the clock at 13:37 each day? We have the plot for the next M. Night Shyamalan movie!