What's your "weird flex"?

I go to bed at 9pm everyday, and get 8hrs+ of sleep.

For the 2022 Microsoft Excel World Championship I downloaded the problems the moment they were released to the contestants and public and solved as many as I could in real time. I would have finished 5th.

In visual studio, a program for software developers, one of the type of templates you can start up and make a program with is in "blazor webassembly". One of Microsoft's fancy new things.

In there, right after starting it, there is some example code thrown in your face. Code that contains pi... with a rounding error.

So I, being the insistent autistic nerd I am, made a pull request and had it fixed. And I still wonder how so many people looked at that and it bothered absolutely no one enough to go and fix it.

I haven't seen any Star Wars movie.

I was Time Person of the Year in 2006.

I ran over 1000 miles in 2023! I've taken an 8.5" circumference toy anally!

I can cook minute rice in 56 seconds. I try to only use my powers for good.

After a lifetime of allergies, I’m really good at Dracula-sneezing in the least bad direction

I have a stomache of steel. Nothing will pass my digestive tract alive or intact. I never had any kind of stomache trouble and I can not puke. I ate every dish in south-east-asia that landet in front of me, even from some dirty streetfood shack in the middle of the burmese jungle. Most of the stuff would have killed the average middle european slob. Not me.

It even goes so far that I cannot use edibles. Which is funny, because all the growmies make fun of me now.

I have a hyper sensitive sense of smell. Sometimes useful, most often a nuisance.

At work the roof had small leak few years ago, I could smell the wet concrete several days before the water reached the ceiling of the upper floor office and became visible. I told my boss about the leak as soon as I had first smelled it and located the correct room. "There is no leak here, you're just imagining things" was the response after I showed the room to my boss. "There is and we shall see in a few days." After 4 or 5 days the ceiling started dripping water and I received an apology.

I've been able to mentally bypass most of the awful smells of the world and people around me as long as I can remember, so it isn't so bad. But after a few drinks the mental filter turns off and I can smell everything, including my own metabolized alcohol infused sweat. That is not fun at all.

I work full home office

Some code I wrote is buried in an archive storage underground in the Arctic

If you had some code in an active GitHub repo before February 2020 you may too, https://archiveprogram.github.com/arctic-vault/

After over half a century of action, a lot of it in "extreme sports", and countless injuries, I have yet to break a bone.

I can drive as long as possible without touching my phone.

Everything about me is a weird flex

• I invented two novel fire eating tricks, one of which involves my split tongue
• I can scratch the back of my skull through my nose with an icepick. I can also put a running power drill in my nose or feed a silicone tube through and out the mouth
• I often shave with a torch or lighter

I've been running every single day for the past 4.5 years or so. Not counting the days anymore. Related to that, my smart scale puts my physical age at 17 years below my real age. Before I started running, the same scale had my physical age 21 years above my real age.

I made a full fledged MMORPG, playable up to level 12 with items, quests, bosses..., in full 3D and a victorian setting.

In hindsight I think it was therapy. There was a video about it on daily motion (mindoki).

b) could not enjoy warm or hot showers anymore.

Grew up without hot running water and I can relate. It's only a problem in some hotels really, where the showers don't get cold enough.

My weird flex would be being so accustomed to command line that I don't know how to use well, and get frustrated by, GUI applications.

I used to drive a Ford Flex. I was frequently assured of its weirdness.

Communicated from California to E. Europe via SSB during solar maximum aka worst possible RF condition's with only 5 watts. Plus I communicate about 200 miles with a half dead 9v battery and and 100miliwatts. ✅QRP / QRPp

When baking, I take the right amount of butter with 1g of accuracy.

I can turn off my inner monologue at will. Complete silence but it limits the complexity of my thoughts.

I can drive 18 hours at a time only stopping for fuel and something to eat while driving.

Quite the opposite. I am so used to burn away my migraines, i can last in 60 degrees hot water for a (short) while.

My ability to correctly and perfectly parallel park nearly 95% of the time is one of the skills I'm oddly the most proud of.

Sometimes, my sneezes smell like buttercups.

Sometimes I'll sneeze, and people will ask who is wearing perfume, or comment that someone's clothes smell like they were fresh out of the wash. What's actually happening is they're breathing my spores, and they love it.

Look at my profile and check my comment count. 😎

I once ate 6 pizzas in one sitting.

I could walk both ways up a hill both ways in the snow after dialysis treatment.

Past tense because I got a kidney transplant.

Which caused a very rare Cancer (1st condition to get it, you must've never gotten Epstein Barr virus, ever, which 90-95% of the world has. Second is getting a transplanted organ that carries the virus lol).

Which led me to weird flex #2: I have unusually high cold resistance and can also mentally raise my body temperature. This was helpful when having to walk to the patient hotel in a strong blizzard with nothing but hospital clothes.

Unfortunately that means I do terribly in the heat, and there's not much AC in Finland for the summer...

The funny thing is I grew up in El Salvador, and then Texas.

My landlord pays me to live in my apartment rather than the other way around.

I'm the leading goal scorer on my 40+ adult hockey league.

I can perform almost any activity in adidas slides, and have for the last 20 years of my life and have yet to twist my ankle. Hiking? No problem. Running? Totally cool!

I've actively moderated the Zootopia subreddit almost since its inception. We did a lot of cool stuff but, uh, moderating a subreddit is not the kind of thing you brag about. Anyway, i quit this year.

Also i have every single r/place-related medal because i helped organize artworks. That's not any better is it?

That I got into the main reading room in the library of Congress.. most only go through the tourist area.

I have a very high pressure stream when I urinate. Downside is I really have to worry about splash back at a urinal, upside is I can do little side quests while I'm peeing, spot cleaning the toilet bowl.

I almost never have to get up to pee during the night, because as long as I have some stored (in the balls, as we all know) I get the urge to go as soon as I start brushing my teeth.

In a conflict with most of my friends, I can't watch short form content and TikToks give me something akin to claustrophoby with an intense urgent want to stop watching it, I guess it's called sensory overload. On the opposite side, I enjoy old boring movies they can't stand watching on 1x. That makes me an old man wise of the ways of the past in many conversations, even if I'm younger than the person I talk to.

I can sleep through the night in the pose of the dead (on the back, hands and legs spread wide) without moving at all.

My linguistic capabilities let me create a text passing as an original one even when I copypaste and rewrite, that is suddenly a big problem for everyone else in the academia.

I can go a very long time without pee’ing, even if I need to.

Years of undiagnosed, now diagnosed, ADHD has trained me to be able to do this.

I can kick a gym ball, the large air inflated things, at a wall and land standing on top of it.

As compulsion, I watch YT tutorials at breakneck speed: 2.5x-3x.

YouTube tutorials can be pretty low information density. Sentences have important pointers every 5 seconds or more ("The thing is, like, if you're trying to do this, or this, do X first" -- predictable/less functional words), and the first third of a YouTube video is often useless. Of course, denser videos get slowed to normal and have clips replayed.

Internally, this stems from nervousness of wasting time (oops), and it hurts my head if I do it too long ( but looks cool beforehand B) )

I stowed 600 packages an hour at amazon

I can lick my elbow.

I'm double jointed.

A. I got to drive a train when I was 9 (a family friend charted a Chicago Elevated train for his graduation party and as the youngest person on the train one of the operators said "hey you wanna drive the train" and so I got to drive the train for a bit

B. I went back to college a few years ago and managed to complete a 2 year degree with a 3.71 GPA while attending college full time, working 20+ hours per week at times as the sole breadwinner while my wife was pregnant with our second child and I had to commute about an hour each way to school and work. I literally started my second semester the day after we returned home from the hospital after his birth. Unlike driving a train I don't intend to recreate that experience ever again...

I've starred in 1 local govt commercial, have my mustached face in an airport infomercial (around the 40-50s mark) and have some 3-5 seconds of screentime as an extra in 2 different brazilian movies.

That I can go three days without pooping if I'm out backpacking.

I'm pretty good at... just about everything. With some rare exceptions, just about every new thing I try, I pick up really quickly, and am pretty good at it. Ice skating, volleyball, stand-up comedy, acting, dancing, singing, gymnastics, hockey, rugby, capoeira, woodworking, drawing, painting, sculpture, chemist, surgery, gardening, swimming/diving... Just a whole bunch of random stuff that I've had the opportunity to try and... yeah, I'm pretty good at 'em.

I've often thought about being the subject of some sort of "Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe" style show except they challenge me with new tasks/activities to see if they can find something I legitimately suck at.

That I run three home servers with over 25 services for work, home security, and website projects. No one cares about it but I really enjoy doing it :)

I was on a show called Canada's Worst Driver. Hence my username

I have come so far in life yet have changed so little

Listening to trippy, obscure music. I love this kind of vibe so much

I once made a Naruto remix that got played at anime expo back in 2003/2004.

I'm trying to think of something I can actually do, but all I can think about are weird coincidences beyond my control:

My parents and my husband's parents were married on the same day in different parts of the country. His dad also shares my birthday.

My first child was born on the same day as a moderately famous comedian's first child. Later, when I looked that comedian up, I realised my second child was born on his 50th birthday.

I can give up almost anything save for breathing, eating, and my dogs.

I have actually been held at gunpoint many times in a dictatorship, by the leftists dictator forces.

I have actually gone through famine for years caused by leftists, and survived to tell the tale.

I also have survived a leftist dictatorship and escaped successfully from one

Weird flex but okay

I taught myself to juggle fire.

I can guess the right socket/wrench I need from looking at the bolt 90% of the time

I tried to buy Bitcoin at 3000$ (though I was stopped due to regulations as I was a minor)

I have two uvuulas. The regular one, and one underneath my tongue.

I'm second.

I am a part of a community that writes better stories and more of them with 3d graphics on top of that, spanning 3000 years

Except it's all in Roblox.

I run a Arch Linux tier 1 mirror. Somehow mine's one of the few.

Inspired by another comment, I've been to the mountain that Monkey (of the 80's TV show) "hatched" on. It is more of a hill really, and it's brown, not black as shown in the intro.

I can basically just choose not to throw up, unless liquor is involved in which case it depends how much I've drank.