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[–] [email protected] 60 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Euros, as they're currently worth a bit more.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I put both as sometimes Americans aren't aware of the conversion rate

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago (4 children)

The best at having my exact DNA.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I'm sure I could beat 99% of a random sampling of people at any F1 track in F1 2023 or Asseta Coursa or iRacing.

It's a niche game experience that not a lot of people really practice to get good at it, and of those that do few have spent the money on racing rigs and VR. My son and I race in leagues and do pretty well. I know it's just a video game but I've occasionally gotten better lap times than the professionals.

My son got me into it and built my rig for me (which is extra special for me!) and last weekend for the first time since we started I actually beat him! He came up and I told him I got lucky because he got cut off by another car and lost control and couldn't make up the loss fast enough and he said "no Dad, your really fast!" Hearing that from my son brought me the feels!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I've failed to make Asseta Corsa to run on my VR headset (Quest2). No matter what I do, it runs on the flat screen inside VR. Any tips?

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

My specific subfield in software development.

Not because I'm particularly good at it - just because it's incredibly niche and the few dozen other people on the planet who also work in my field would probably not be amongst those 99.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Same, there's maybe 40 ppl in the world who can do what I do professionally at the moment.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

Speaking Estonian. There are few enough native speakers on the planet that the odds of anyone out of 99 being better is negligible.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I won a longest eyelashes contest when I was a baby at a county fair. Maybe that still holds up?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I once judged an eyelash contest and the winner had one lash, just one, that was over an inch and half long.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If the people gets selected from over the world randomly, speaking swedish would have a somewhat 90% chance of working perfectly.

Or C/C++ programming if the randomness also has incudes age I guess.

Or info about some really small place.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Why not play it safe, and compete in creating a library for getting info about some really small place in Swedish?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

In swedish but about some small place in another country. I think you're onto something!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

99 randomly chosen people? Any of the niche hyperfixations I've had in the past few years would probably give me a good shot.

I'm not trying to roll the dice that I'm in the top 1% of those fields, I'm just trying to roll the dice that those interests are shared by fewer than 1% of people (very likely).

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Oh, man.. Maybe MacGyver trivia? I'm not a superman or anything, but it's probably something I could beat 99 random people in.

Any of my real interests or talents, I can readily admit I'm probably just average at.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ok, give me 5 facts about MacGyver I wouldn't know. I've seen the show but it's been decades.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Um.. let's see.

Even though it was set primarily in LA (and all over the world), half the seasons were filmed in Vancouver.

MacGyver is always super anti gun, which we do get the backstory for. But in the pilot episode, he straight up is just shooting an assault rifle.

The building used for the Phoenix Foundation headquarters is The Qube in Vancouver. I think that is a cool looking building.

His first name is Angus. I think that's a pretty well-known one if you've seen the later seasons.

Dana Elcar started losing his eyesight (pretty sure to glaucoma) and they wrote his blindness into Pete's character.

Idk, those aren't super good ones, I guess I need a refresher.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

That's awesome! Thanks friend. And now you have a reason to go watch it again.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

So I recently one the northern Territory chilli eating championship, and in a month's time me and 6 others are competing in the Australian championship to crown Australia's best chilli eater and decide who will he going to America for the world championship.

So maybe crane mechanics

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I couldn't compete in that for myself.

I have such bad memory

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

What is the selection area for the random people? Is it random from all around the world? Country? State?

I'd choose my profession because it's kinda niche-ish. It's only 0.03% of the workforce of my state BUT the major metropolitan areas have a ton of us in clusters so it really depends on how the random people get chosen that would give me my best shot.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (4 children)

10 metre air rifle shooting

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

I choose Euros, of course.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"Not winning the $1 million". Whoever they try to give the money to would automatically fall into last place with a 99 way tie for first.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Playing Salem The game.

No, not "town of salem"

Player base is only like 1000, the odds of getting one of the few hundred people in the world that could out play me would be crazy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Speedrunning Getting Over It

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Jesus

Put yourself in one in a million and it's still a safe bet.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago
  • LaserQuest
  • CSS hacks for IE6
[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Speedrunning Pikmin, my record is 9 days

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is now my answer, because my record is 7.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I feel like beating a specific game quickly is the play here, the more obscure the better, as apart from hugely popular titles, odds of any of those 99 being familiar with the game are slim. I used to do resident evil 5 speed runs, so that'd be my pick. Or maybe mega man x just to have it over more quickly

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Mental math. When I was a kid I could answer math problems faster than they could be punched into a calculator which was a neat party trick I guess. I can still do that but I also understand more advanced math. i.e calculating roots, fermi questions, calculus etc. Back when I was being assessed for ADHD, one of the things that was tested is mental arithmatic. Less than one out of a thousand of my peers can do what I did there. (they couldnt find an upper limit) So there's less than a 10% chance that any of those 99 random people could beat me in a test of mental math.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

How quickly I can give up my hope of winning this hypothetical contest

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Robotics. I'm not that good really, but win random sampling, my chances are quite high.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Fishing. I will fish a bitch to death, and then fish them back to life again cuz I’m sick like that

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I could beat you... For example I know you are supposed to fish a fish... Not a bitch

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Several things spring to mind, but i'll go low hanging fruit:

Getting my cat to come to me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Giving me a hand job. So even if I lose, I've still won. 100 times.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

That is an easy question.

Shooting, combined carbine and pistol, using Practical Competition Shooting League (competition/armor division) rules. Five stages.

I'm in the 20% percentile for PCSL shooters; I am not good when compared to them. On the other hand, very, very few people nationally compete in any kind of shooting sport. People that personally own firearms make up roughly 32% of the US population. People that practice regularly with the firearms that they own make up a much smaller percentage of that. Of the people that practice, people that compete at all, much less regularly, make up a tiny fraction of all firearm owners.

Even if the 99 truly randomly chosen people are all in the US, I've got pretty decent odds that I'll be competing against people that have no experience in shooting on the clock. If those 99 random people are people from anywhere, then, given that gun ownership is very low pretty much everywhere else in the world, the odds are very, very good that the people I'd be competing against wouldn't even know how to effectively operate a firearm, would be unable to follow the rules, and would end up getting disqualified for major safety violations.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Accurately reciting the lyrics to ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Picking what I do for a living would be too easy so I go with hard mode and say my ability to emotionally distance myself and think objectively.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

French spelling. I figure odds are low that any of the 99 people would be francophone to start with, and even native francophones make a ton of mistakes.

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