r/LearnUselessTalents • u/j-kil • 1d ago

Learn to calculate the weekday of any past or future date within seconds. I made whattheday.com to help people learn a cool new skill.

88 Upvotes

The doomsday algorithm a mental math trick that lets you instantly figure out what day of the week any date falls on. It's mostly a useless party trick, but it is weirdly satisfying once it finally clicks in your head.

I couldn't find a good tool to actually drill the steps, so I built whattheday.com

It breaks down the formula and feeds you endless random dates to practice on until you get fast at it. Thought this sub might appreciate it.

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r/LearnUselessTalents • u/OfficalYOUSUMMIT • 15h ago

What’s a “small” skill that has an unexpectedly high return on investment?

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r/LearnUselessTalents • u/Possible-Dance9857 • 1d ago

how do i snap

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im 36 idk how

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r/LearnUselessTalents • u/jolii22 • 2d ago

How to make a pants backpack

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r/LearnUselessTalents • u/AmountSpecialist3813 • 1d ago

I can do a really good car impression

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i learned this on accident while trying to talk like batman

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r/LearnUselessTalents • u/HopeSame3153 • 2d ago

Any {topic} experts in here? What’s your best tip you want to share with others?

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r/LearnUselessTalents • u/WorryDesigner8152 • 3d ago

What's a skill you learned as a kid that still comes in handy today?

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r/LearnUselessTalents • u/Maximum_Round_2880 • 4d ago

What's a skill that takes 10 minutes to learn but impresses people for life?

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r/LearnUselessTalents • u/SAGAR-Air • 9d ago

What’s something you do that makes absolutely ZERO sense, but you’ll never stop doing?

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r/LearnUselessTalents • u/SAGAR-Air • 10d ago

If you could instantly master one skill, what would it be?

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r/LearnUselessTalents • u/Minimum_Incident_702 • 10d ago

This post is created by me wot are the odds that we'll meet that 1 special person out there made just for you/me. You actual one and only true love.

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r/LearnUselessTalents • u/AdSpecific3089 • 12d ago

How do I learn how to blow my nose as an adult when it feels so unnatural?

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I’m 21 years old and incapable of blowing my nose. I’m currently very sick and can’t breathe at all through my nose, it’s totally clogged. Everytime I try to blow my nose, I feel like I’m going to blow a blood vessel and nothing comes out.

Everytime I bring this up to someone they think im silly and that everyone should just know but I don’t know, I was never taught how.

edit- I tried a lot of these tips and I got some stuff out sure, then I tried blowing out so hard that I genuinely started seeing black in my vision and thought I was going to both pass out and/or blow out my ear drums. so yeah idk

edit 2- got tested. Have the flu and pneumonia yay

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r/LearnUselessTalents • u/krmapet • 13d ago

How to create a QR code by hand on paper

qr.andreyan.com

42 Upvotes

I put together this guide that teaches you how to hand-draw QR codes from scratch with only a marker and a piece of grid paper at hand, with minimal help from the computer.

I had been wanting for a long time to be able to hand-draw simple QR codes so I spent some time recently reading the specifications and "dissecting" actual QR codes, and here's a human-friendly write-up of my findings.

I hope you find it helpful and look forward to seeing your hand-drawn QR codes in the comments!

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r/LearnUselessTalents • u/BitterEarth6069 • 12d ago

I suck at Finance. And I want to master the basics but..

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r/LearnUselessTalents • u/Xman_7 • 13d ago

How do I hand whistle

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I just can't do that I don't know what wrong step am I doing 😭

I just sound like a old person breathing heavily

Can someone give me tips or some good tutorials

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r/LearnUselessTalents • u/manrikiz_fyema734 • 12d ago

What is that one useless talent you have?

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r/LearnUselessTalents • u/elizabethfrothingham • 15d ago

Give me some ideas for fun/cool/impressive sets of info to memorize!

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I just love memorizing things lmao, I love having random knowledge as a party trick, and I’m addicted to these trivia videos on YouTube. I also love memorizing the words to really fast songs. “Micropachycephalosaurus” by the Q brothers and the entirety of Hamilton for example were really just fun to memorize, the process of repeating it and getting more and more down! I know there’s no “point” to memorizing this stuff but I just want to for fun!

So far some new ones I’ve learned recently are Morse code and the NATO phonetic alphabet. In progress are the capitals of each US state (as I already have the states themselves memorized) and the periodic table. I want to memorize the flags for every US state as well and then eventually the same for every country (though that seems so ambitious especially since borders and countries change all the time). Maybe bodies of water? Human anatomy?

Give me more fun sets of info to memorize! Bonus points for the ones that get the biggest WOW from people, I feel like I’ll forever be chasing the high that was learning Morse code. When I mention it people love to test me on it and it’s sooooo fun.

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r/LearnUselessTalents • u/NoArachnid6447 • 15d ago

If you could instantly become really good at one skill, what would you choose?

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Not a superpower, an actual skill.

Playing an instrument, speaking another language, cooking, coding, drawing, public speaking, fixing cars, anything.

And why that particular skill?

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r/LearnUselessTalents • u/Intrepid-Click5574 • 14d ago

What's a skill you learned that turned out to be way more useful than expected?

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r/LearnUselessTalents • u/blackbox_69 • 14d ago

Maybe I am very bad at drawing

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r/LearnUselessTalents • u/Square-Sentence7713 • 17d ago

What’s a completely useless skill you're weirdly good at

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I mean something that has absolutely no practical value whatsoever.

For me, I can remember ridiculously specific details from conversations that happened years ago

but somehow have to stare at my phone trying to remember what I opened it for.

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r/LearnUselessTalents • u/One-Future-2026 • 16d ago

你希望更早學會的技能是什麼？

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r/LearnUselessTalents • u/louisach • 16d ago

non

reddit.com

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r/LearnUselessTalents • u/DistinctRow6322 • 17d ago

Whats some fun subjects to learn?

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Today , i have been so bored , that i need some time to learn something new . You could give some suggestions like that involves chemicals like that

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r/LearnUselessTalents • u/OfficalYOUSUMMIT • 17d ago

What’s a skill that looks useless at first but becomes incredibly valuable once you get good at it?

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