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It's gotta be real and it has to be an almost totally useless skill.



Example: I can solve the Rubik's cube in less than two minutes even though I'm color-blind.
 
It's gotta be real and it has to be an almost totally useless skill.



Example: I can solve the Rubik's cube in less than two minutes even though I'm color-blind.

That's not skill--that's proof that my husband was right when he said, "My man's got too much time on his hands!";):2razz:
 
It's gotta be real and it has to be an almost totally useless skill.



Example: I can solve the Rubik's cube in less than two minutes even though I'm color-blind.

I can spell out loud a sentence as fast as I can speak it. Not useless around small children, but useless because my husband can't understand me either. :shrug:
 
That's not skill--that's proof that my husband was right when he said, "My man's got too much time on his hands!";):2razz:

I never said it was a "skill" I said it was something stupid. ;)

A skill is that I can play Mary had a Little Lamb on a touch-tone phone. It's also proof I have way too much time on my hands.
 
I never said it was a "skill" I said it was something stupid. ;)
Ummm...you did.:cool:

A skill is that I can play Mary had a Little Lamb on a touch-tone phone. It's also proof I have way too much time on my hands.
I can write forwards and backwards at the same time--right hand forward, left hand backwards--mirror image.

(Hey--pretty much all these "skills" demonstrate "too much time on our hands"..;))
 
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I dunno; the only thing I can really do better than most people is spell.
I'd probably make a really good editor, if I ever wanted to do that.

Since I don't think I'll ever want to do that, though, it is a fairly useless skill.

When I was younger, it was a little bit useful because my friends and family would always ask me how to spell things, if they weren't sure. They'd even call me up to ask me.
Now that everyone has internet and can just look things up, it's no longer useful.
 
I call bullship!


:mrgreen:

It's not bull. I swear on my left testicle.

It's a lot of repetitive motions but the key is that the middle peices are fixed relative to each other. That's how I can differentiate the colors. Depending on the cube, I ask people what each center color is and memorize the arrangement and pick a color I can easliy identify as the "top". Form there it is pretty easy actually.

Then I can use the colors I can identify myself as guides (usually four out of six sides are easy to differentiate.)
 
It's not bull. I swear on my left testicle.

It's a lot of repetitive motions but the key is that the middle peices are fixed relative to each other. That's how I can differentiate the colors. Depending on the cube, I ask people what each center color is and memorize the arrangement and pick a color I can easliy identify as the "top". Form there it is pretty easy actually.

Then I can use the colors I can identify myself as guides (usually four out of six sides are easy to differentiate.)





:lol: that is very clever...... don't you see shades or are you like completley color blind?
 
I can burst into flames and spend the next three weeks in a burn center.

Well, I did once anyway.



Note: never believe people who tell you that kerosene won't explode.
 
:lol: that is very clever...... don't you see shades or are you like completley color blind?

I'm considered severe Red-Green.

Total color-blindness is very, very rare.

I actually can see shades better, but some cubes will have equal shades of different hues. Those are harder.
 
It's not bull. I swear on my left testicle.

It's a lot of repetitive motions but the key is that the middle peices are fixed relative to each other. That's how I can differentiate the colors. Depending on the cube, I ask people what each center color is and memorize the arrangement and pick a color I can easliy identify as the "top". Form there it is pretty easy actually.

Then I can use the colors I can identify myself as guides (usually four out of six sides are easy to differentiate.)
It sounds like you're completely colorblind-- that's rare.

I have spent a lot of effort as a sometime webmaster for the Forest Service trying to explain that maps need to be created with the idea that a lot of people can't easily see a red mark on a green background.
 
Dang. I was gonna use that one. I don't think I've ever met anyone else who does mirror writing.

My bud Leo can too! (see sig and avatar;))
 
I'm considered severe Red-Green.

Total color-blindness is very, very rare.

I actually can see shades better, but some cubes will have equal shades of different hues. Those are harder.




Ahh.. we got a guy on our hockey team who is green blue color blind. Didn't tell anyone......


We eventually figured it out when he sucked playing some teams..... :lol:




Oh and just to let you know, your avatar is not in color. :mrgreen:
 
It sounds like you're completely colorblind-- that's rare.

No, I'm just the most severe red-green, but that affects Orange and brown as well. I don't see those colors incorrectly, but the reds and greens can end up looking like them if they are the same intensity.

I don;t see purple at all because my eyes don;t seem to pick out the red, so they always look blue ot me.

I have spent a lot of effort as a sometime webmaster for the Forest Service trying to explain that maps need to be created with the idea that a lot of people can't easily see a red mark on a green background.

It would depend on how intendse the colors are. We see things whacked out, but amazingly we can see somethings better than normal vision people. Like Camoflauge.

It's strange but true. Camoflague attempts to recreate the hue, but it doesn't take note of the intensity of the colors. Slight differences in intensity is how color-blind people learn to differentiate colors almost as well as normal vision folks. That's why when the inevitable "What color is this" questions come after someone learns about it, we can name the colors correctly more often than not. It's about how common the color is more than anything else.

I might see what you would call "Firetruck red" as a what you would call a deep brown, but if the brown is less common than the red, I'll name it correctly as red.

It's very interesting to me that this occurs, but it makes sense and it is how I explain it to people.

Here's a good example of it:

hats_norm_big.jpg
hats_deutan_big.jpg



The picture on the left is normal vision, the picture on the right is how I see the one on the left.

I would name the colors correctly more often than not, but I see the pictures as Identical.
 
No, I'm just the most severe red-green, but that affects Orange and brown as well. I don't see those colors incorrectly, but the reds and greens can end up looking like them if they are the same intensity.

I don;t see purple at all because my eyes don;t seem to pick out the red, so they always look blue ot me.



It would depend on how intendse the colors are. We see things whacked out, but amazingly we can see somethings better than normal vision people. Like Camoflauge.

It's strange but true. Camoflague attempts to recreate the hue, but it doesn't take note of the intensity of the colors. Slight differences in intensity is how color-blind people learn to differentiate colors almost as well as normal vision folks. That's why when the inevitable "What color is this" questions come after someone learns about it, we can name the colors correctly more often than not. It's about how common the color is more than anything else.

I might see what you would call "Firetruck red" as a what you would call a deep brown, but if the brown is less common than the red, I'll name it correctly as red.

It's very interesting to me that this occurs, but it makes sense and it is how I explain it to people.

Here's a good example of it:

hats_norm_big.jpg
hats_deutan_big.jpg



The picture on the left is normal vision, the picture on the right is how I see the one on the left.

I would name the colors correctly more often than not, but I see the pictures as Identical.






Dood, that is a pretty lame superpower....


Me I have a stong center of gravity and balance due to a slight duck footed ness... I only use this power for good. :mrgreen:
 
Dood, that is a pretty lame superpower....


Me I have a stong center of gravity and balance due to a slight duck footed ness... I only use this power for good. :mrgreen:

You ever go paintballing with a color-blind guy? I kick serious ass when my opponents wear camos.

Although I end up with a fair amount of friendly fire if my guysare wearing camos too. :2razz:
 
Ahh.. we got a guy on our hockey team who is green blue color blind. Didn't tell anyone......

He's probably yellow-blue, which is also very rare. There isn't a green-blue color blindness. Only red-green and yellow-blue. It has something to do with the opponent process theory of color vision.
 
The first time I ever threw darts left handed I threw three bullseyes.
 
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