Poll: What Do You Pride Yourself On?

[Lord Beautiful]

I'm proud of my ridiculous loveliness.

 

[Heronblade]

Deductive reasoning. I have a tendency to notice patterns in the data presented, and leap to the logical conclusion far sooner than someone using normal reasoning methods. Its a talent that served me well in school, but I was always frustrated by my math teachers' insistence that I write out every step of the prescribed path that I skipped over. Calculus was particularly bad, I could often get the answer in about two minutes of thinking it over while writing down the occasional random note, and then have to spend another 15 minutes wasting a page or two of paper listing the steps.

 

[spartan231490]

I have the curse of being good at pretty much everything I do, but not really being exceptional or even very good at much. I'm pretty dang smart, but I'm not quite a true genius and the like. One of the specialties that i do excel at is mental math, and I've met some people who are better at it than me, but not many. I play tennis for fun, and no one can beat me consistently, I want to enter an amateur tournament and see how I do. That's it.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I tend to pride myself for my creative mind (I can come up with a lot of stuff) but again that is my opinion only.

 

[deserteagleeye]

I'm exceptionally well at every videogame genre, I'm always at the top of my SAT's, and I'm always the tallest and youngest of my class. Downside: I'm allergic to cats...and everyone I know has a cat....T_T

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

I am exceptionally skilled at nothing.
I too wish I had skill with Fighting games.

 

[TriggerOnly]

I am only really good at 1 thing FPS.... you would not believe how useful it inst in real life.

 

[Count Igor]

Acting.
Hey, it's the one thing I feel comfortable saying I'm great at. Don't you judge me!

 

[Karlaxx]

Among my friends, I'm one of the biggest on strategy games, and while I can certainly be beaten, you could say that I've earned the right to be known as a force to be reckoned with.

 

[Joccaren]

I'm good at eating shitloads and requiring nothing more than a good night's sleep to remain as skinny as a beansprout (and that's why nickname is 'Fatso'! d'uh)

Seriously: I 'pride' myself at being reasonably good at a fair few things (organic chemistry, pure mathematics, classical/military history, the life and times of Publius Cornelius Scipio P f L n, entomology of Formicidae, writing & music). However, I wish I was better at computer engineering and coding, as well as twitch-based games.

Pretty much same here, I can not gain weight (Family says its genetic and when I reach arround 20 I'll start to).
I feel that I am average, but when I compare myself to my peers... I'm goddamn amazing. Things that I'm best at:
Physics
Chemistry
Building & Repairing Computers
Dodging things
Talking my way out of anything
Learning

Things I wish I was better at? Not sure. I'm pretty happy with who I am, I don't need any other advantages on my peers or I might become too arrogant...

 

[IndianaJonny]

Fencing ambidextrous, a clean shave and clean shoes. I take pride in them all.

 

[Ace of Spades]

I pride myself on being able to find humor in the mundane, which is why most of my photos on facebook are comics I made in Zero Punctuation animation style.

 

[SckizoBoy]

Pretty much same here, I can not gain weight (Family says its genetic and when I reach arround 20 I'll start to).

Heh, 24 and proud of my sub-30" waistline! Astronomical metabolism FTW!

 

[chowderface]

I'm pretty good at dealing with stress, normally when things get heavy I can Zen out, relax a bit, and deal with it. When I CAN'T...um, yeah, I don't like to think about that.

I'm also fairly good at animating. Gimme a pencil and some paper though. Maya can go eat a bag of dicks.

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

I'm not really good at anything. Pride is overrated, anyway.

It's a lot harder to have it wounded when you don't have any.

 

[Cheesus333]

I'm good at writing. I'm better at fan-fictions.

Every time I get a new review, it gives me a nice little boost. I won't pretend to be among the best professionals, or even among the best of those who just do it for a hobby, but in terms of amateur status I'm pretty damn good. Hopefully, I'll get even better and one day fulfil my dream of having a book published. But at the moment it's not talent that's the problem, it's patience. I find it really hard to sit down and write more than a couple of pages at a time, and I find it especially hard to write more than a few chapters of anything because I get bored of the plot. That seriously worries me.

 

[Gaiseric]

What I'm proud of:
During my brief stint in college, I had some class where reading comp was one of the big things and we took a test the first day to see how fast we could read while being able to absorb the info we read. I scored the highest on both reading words per min and comprehension.

I'm also the best shot out of my family and friends at least for now(one of my friends is almost done with basic and promises to smoke me with anything D

Despite weighting at least 60 pounds more than either of my brothers, I have better cardio.

And I'm the best cook among my family and friends(not baking though)

What I'm not:
I wish I had more speed and more endurance

I wish I had better social skills(I get nervous in interviews and with people I respect but don't know)

 

[Casual Shinji]

I'm pretty good at drawing. Though it usually gives me a great deal of stress too.

Spoiler

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

I'm pretty good at drawing. Though it usually gives me a great deal of stress too.

Spoiler

Kudos! Unique style. Is your avatar one of your works?

 

[Casual Shinji]

I'm pretty good at drawing. Though it usually gives me a great deal of stress too.

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Kudos! Unique style. Is your avatar one of your works?

I'm honored that you would think that, but my avatar is a self portrait of the late great Dutch cartoonist Maarten Toonder. If you squint you can see his John Hancock in the bottom left corner.

Thanks for the kudos!