32 Things Folks Consider Themselves Among The Best In The World At, As Shared In This Humble Thread

A while back, a thread appeared in the AskReddit community, the author of which, the user u/RackCitySanta, asked readers a rather provocative question, in my opinion: "What's something that you know you're better than 98% of people at?" Judging by the comments, the topic starter truly opened Pandora's box of sorts...

Judge for yourself - as of today, the thread has 4.4K upvotes and over 6.5K various comments, where the discussion goes from ways to land a plane on water to debates about whether a squirrel's guttural screech can actually scare away coyotes. Perhaps this is one of the most varied threads I've ever seen!

In fact, by the way, getting into the top 2% in any field is not such a difficult task. Let's do some math - the population of the Earth today is 8.142 billion people, so 2% of that number is actually 162.4 thousand people. That's about the size of Springfield, Missouri.

Now just imagine a Springfield where everyone from the mayor to the last homeless dude is, well, a top-notch pilot. Or a professional cook. Well, actually, a truly unique skill is being in a much lower percentile.

Tom Brady, as you probably know, was drafted as the overall 199th pick, but in one of his interviews, the greatest football player in history once admitted that this meant not only that NFL managers rated 198 players higher than him.

It also meant that he was stronger or luckier than thousands and thousands of footballers who were never drafted or had a chance to get into the League. From this angle, the perception becomes, you must admit, a little different.

Experts say that in order to be considered a true professional in your field, you need to devote at least 10K hours to it. Including training and work. Of course, this is an average figure - because some people achieve efficiency faster, some slower, but, in terms of a standard 40-hour work week, this is about 3.5 years.

Interestingly, this study, published on LinkedIn, claims that depending on the generation, the number of years spent by the average worker in one job is steadily decreasing. So, while baby boomers spent more than 10 years in one job, and Gen X - from 5 to 10, millennials change jobs with a frequency of 3 to 5 years.

This still leaves the opportunity to "gain" those 10K hours, right? But Gen Z, as the authors claim, are mainly job-hoppers, changing jobs on average every one to three years. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why employers often rant about young employees? Who actually knows?

As for self-critical jokes about how some of us are better than anyone else in the world at getting into trouble or making the wrong life choice - after all, our world largely rests on self-deprecation. Just imagine if everyone around us were completely serious and entitled! Perhaps we would not want to live in such a world at all, so self-deprecating humanity will always have a chance...

In any case, we’ll be really glad if you read all these stories, from the truly unique to the simply sarcastic and ridiculous, mark those that you really enjoyed and, perhaps, tell us something about yourself in the comments too. In the end of the day, we’re almost certain that each of you is unique in your own way - so why not reveal this uniqueness to the world right now?