When we think about talents, we often imagine something cool, valuable and impressive. From painting to playing an instrument, these abilities immediately bring us into the spotlight and make us a teeny tiny bit better than anyone born without them.
But this online group celebrates exactly the opposite of that. Welcome to the “Learn Useless Talents” subreddit, a miscellaneous home to 694k members who share not just talents, but the most useless ones of all.
“This is a place to learn how to do cool things that have no use other than killing time and impressing strangers,” the group’s description reads, so I leave the stage to some of the best (and most useless!) posts posted here.
#1 How To Gird Up Your Loins When The Wedding Party Is Over
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#2 Well, Then
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#3 How To Make A Grim Reaper Puppet Using Your Sleeve And Hand
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#4 How To Shake Ankles
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#5 How To Float
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#6 How To Split A Donut
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#7 How To Make A Pants Backpack
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#8 How To Make A Shadow Turtle
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#9 How To Make An Amazing Sofa Fort
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#10 Become The Master Of Shadows With These Simple Steps (Plus Its A Cool Title For Your Resume)
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#11 The Names Of Types Of Camera Movements
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#12 Ima Do This
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#13 How To Make A Shower For A Small Bird
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#14 How To Make A Stapler Mandala
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#15 How To Make A Quick Escape
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#16 Owlpple
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#17 How To Beatbox
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#18 How To Fold A Napkin To Fit Three Pieces Of Silverware
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#19 The Gentlemans Guide To Amputation
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#20 Does Learning Strange Spoken Language Rules Count?
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#21 You Can Unfold Kinder Egg Pods Into Desktop Catapults
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#22 How To Properly Peal A Post-It Note From The Stack
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#23 How To Draw A Boy From The Word “Boy”
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#24 Learn How To Draw A Sheep
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#25 How To Slice A Bagel Into Two Congruent, Linked Halves
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#26 How To Create Glyphs
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#27 How To Make Your Lipstick Last Through Eating
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#28 How To Find Waldo. (Cross-Post R/Interestingasfuck)
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#29 Make Paper Boat Out Of Toilet Paper Roll
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#30 How To Survive Being Buried Alive
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#31 How To Casually Get In Water As A Big Man
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#32 How To Be A Table
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#33 How To Loudly Whistle With Four Fingers In Your Mouth
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#34 How To Fold A Plastic Bag Properly. Not Just Scrunch It Up Into A Ball
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#35 Watermelon Packing
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#36 How To Solve A Rubik’s Cube
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#37 Nato Phonetic Alphabet
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#38 How To Look Behind You (Without Looking Behind You)
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#39 It Seems Useless Until You Need It
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#40 How To Cut An Apple With Your Finger
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#41 Staircase Terminology
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#42 How To Bounce A Dinner Roll
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#43 How To Be Mildly Successful At Rope Ladder Carnival Games
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#44 How A Bar Code Supposedly Works
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#45 Surviving A Drop Off A Waterfall
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#46 How To Tell Someone Off
#47 How To Turn Your Cat Into A Bunny
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#48 Double Knot Shoelace Method
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#49 How To Tell The Different Types Of Watch Hands And What To Call Them
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#50 How To Tell Apart Various Language Writings
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#51 How To Read Korean In 15 Minutes
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#52 Identifying Different Types Of Lamps
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#53 Cook Water
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#54 Make A Huge Splash
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#55 How To Commit Seppuku!
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#56 How To Make A Baseball Cap Lincoln From A Five Dollar Bill
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#57 How To Fit A Round Peg In A Square Hole
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#58 Crossing Piranha-Infested Water
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#59 How To Crack An Egg With One Hand
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#60 How To Do That Cardspin
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#61 Omg I Think Ima Do This
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Source: boredpanda.com