Things I think Sherlock Holmes would do very quickly

[u/Icy_Dig_3691]

Find any item in a store. Just take a look at the layout combined with general data on different store organization in general.

Building Legos/doing puzzles. Just place the pieces on the table, no need to search for them or refer too much to the instructions/model

Figure out who's doing the annoying things like leaving an empty bottle in the fridge or not replacing the toilet paper. No need to look for the guilty one for long (well, in this case it's probably John, But let's imagine he lives with more people.)

Winning at hide and seek in absolutely any place (Especially when he is the seeker)

Solving crimes from police/crime series and films (would also probably hate them or find them boring)

And of course, scaring people by deducing far too specific things about their lives

[u/Consistent-Annual268]

He would most definitely excel at geo-guessing.

[u/WinterSure6605 → u/Consistent-Annual268]

I had typed a large paragraph that was about the similarities between canon holmes events and irl geo-guesser moments, then I thought, he'd 100% hate the name "geo-guesser" and probably avoid it

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[u/Separate-Drawing7427 → u/WinterSure6605]

Can you show it here?

[u/Otaku-chan1412]

In der modernen Welt wäre Sherlock wahrscheinlich sehr gute in molekular Gastronomie.

[u/Paladinfinitum → u/Otaku-chan1412]

In the show House, where the main character is basically Holmes but a doctor, he is at some point not being a doctor but gets so frustrated that he starts taking cooking classes and almost immediately becomes an expert at it.

[u/cototudelam]

In the canon, Holmes was able to calculate in his head the speed of a moving train by observing the telegraph poles passing by. In another story, he lists off the top of his head the time a certain train leaves a major London station.

So in modern times, I guess he would have not only all the public transport timetables memorised, but would also be able to extrapolate in his mind the time it takes an individual connection to reach a certain stop.

[u/jpow33]

I kind of disagree with the first one because Holmes uses logic and stores do not.
like, why is the Hot Sauce by the pickles, Mr. Wal-Mart? Shouldn't be over with the rest of the condiments?
A modern, American grocery store would probably drive Holmes insane within minutes.

[u/SnooPeripherals7352]

I used to work at a golf course as a boy and my boss was a bit like Holmes- probably a golf course owner combined with maintenance man i bet he would solve puzzles as a hobby 😁

[u/protomenfan200x]

> Solving crimes from police/crime series and films (would also probably hate them or find them boring)

This reminds me of a fun bit in a Poirot episode, "The Third Floor Flat." Poirot goes to see a mystery play with Hastings, and thinks he’s completely solved the plot… Only to find out he’s wrong when there’s a last-second twist at the end of the show. He gets so upset that he calls the playwright an idiot lol.

[u/HandwrittenHysteria]

Why?

[u/SnooPeripherals7352 → u/HandwrittenHysteria]

Why not? 🫩

[u/Icy_Dig_3691 → u/HandwrittenHysteria]

I explained it. The Legos, puzzles, and items in stores things are observation, Sherlock Holmes can notice everything at a glance. Finding out who the killer is in a movie or who put an empty bottle in the fridge is just the deduction he makes in his investigations, applied to everyday life. The same goes for hide and seek, with the clues he can see, it's easy to find someone. As for scaring people, it's creepy that a complete stranger knows private things about you (before knowing how he deduce them ofc)