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Sounds like classic primal instinct conjuring to me....
"Killing everyone", proof is when you are the last one standing and coincidentally, the only one who could then collect it. Saves on arbitration time too...
Battle Royale is this exactly, pare us down to our inner animal
To be fair though, you had me at "peanut butter sandwiches"
Having watched movies, played loads of games, having a basic understanding of how helicopters work, I'm honestly confident I will be top 5 out of my random 100 tbh.
You can DEFINITELY tell the worst
Source: I went to a Burns night in rural Scotland, ended up drinking with one of the pipers and he gave me the hat and pipes and I had a crack.
Very not good.
Average people don’t run marathons. If we’re out here running them, and then finishing above average of the people who DO run marathons, I say we’re killing it😎
I'll pick 50 meters freestyle and bank on the fact that competitive swimming is kind of a niche sport globally. I quit 10 years and 25 kilos ago, but I can still swim a 30-second 50 meters sprint with zero practice or preparation, which is a time you just don't reach without a strong competitive background.
One of my current colleagues is a triathlist, and he does the extreme iron man level ones, but even he can't beat my 50 freestyle sprint, and I haven't been training much of anything for like 5 years now.
Yeah, you have to pick something that most people generally don't do. I've never run a marathon so I'm going with either chess or some other niche nerdy thing.
100 *other* people.
So theoretically it's shared between 101 people, so it would only be $9.9009 (repeating) million.
I do believe I would be that person...
After smoking 5 cigarettes and drinking 3 glasses of white wine, give a detailed and accurate explanation of the secret lasagna recipe I was given as a young man, switching between 3 languages in every sentence while optimizing my latest custom python script for pattern recognition, without any online resources available.
The lasagna recipe exists only in my memory and the exact mix and measurements of ingredients cannot be extracted by eating it because during the preparation, one of the ingredients transforms into another substance that can easily be mistaken for another ingredient but using that seemingly identifiable ingredient would produce a completely different result, which would result in a different lasagna. It would have to produce my lasagna, not just any lasagna. Basically, when I leave this Earth someday, that specific lasagna will never be made again. I guess I just found my purpose in life.
A girl asked to marry me after I made the lasagna for her.
Married 25+ years and on certain cosmic dates I still make the lasagna for her.
If it hadn't been for that lasagna.... Yeah it is second to none.
Thankfully I am the only one who knows how to make it, because the monk that passed it on to me is no more. I might make a Voynich style manuscript for posterity for when humanity has evolved and become worthy of it.
Maybe I should just share the recipe in here, make your usual lasagna but do the following: 1 teaspoon of thyme, 3 teaspoons of oregano and 2 cups of chilled red wine. Pour the chilled red wine directly into the minced meat while preparing it. After a few minutes the wine gets completely absorbed in the meat. When the lasagna comes out of the oven, it has become divine.
I'll do six cigarettes and five glasses of wine, but I won't be happy about it. Then I'll make some box lasagna and piss in your shoes. You'll be happy about it because money and I won't remember because of multiple head injuries, win/win!
In my early 30ies I was over 200 on a good day. Now I’m glad if I break 120. haven’t tested in a while but it’s definitely a skill that can degrade or get rusty. 😔 fyi I was writing my book back then. 2000 words per day minimum. In the zone/flow I could bang out 4000 in an hour for a first draft. Sigh.
I actually don't think it is dangerous, especially when you consider it's a 100 random humans (of course, there's a tiny chance I'd get a world champion for type racing against me). Taking into account the world population and other factors like access to computers/a need to type fast, I feel like I'd have a very decent chance.
And do you live in acute multidimensional poverty, *fellow Reddit user*?
There are multiple countries where people live on less than a dollar a day. You apparently have both access and time to answer this thread, so my guess is you're better off than a sizable chunk of the human race.
Lets put that to the test.
A character without shield proficiency is holding a +1 shield.
What kind of bonus to armour class does that character get from the shield? In addition, do they suffer any penalties due to their lack of shield proficiency?
No bonus, but no penalties either.
A +1 Shield gives its +1 bonus in addition to the AC bonus of the base shield, per its description in the DMG.
A character with no shield proficiency as per the PHB does not gain any bonus to AC while wearing a shield.
100 people really isn't that many for the scope of "best at". I wonder if I could just pick a basic skill or hobby and just coincidentally be the best of that 100 by being intermediate?
Guitar player? Tekken Player? If it's something really obscure then I could be horrible at it and still beat 100 folks who aren't naturals. Get me in a room with 100 people who don't have red hair.
Edit: \*Not\* the best at typing.
I used to work for the second-most boring man in the world. I initially thought he was the most boring man in the world, until I realised that was actually interesting, and nothing about him was interesting.
Tree planting. Average 4000+ in a regular work day. Gone up to 7k in a regular day.
99% of people have never planted trees. So I'm pretty confident.
I feel like anyone who is part of a relatively niche job or hobby would have no problems picking something.
Belching. I can belch amazingly loud. Let one rip in the old Harrah's concrete parking structure a few years back in Reno-- my wife was several feet in front of me. It was epic in loudness, my wife who is used to me belching screamed and dropped her bag and another person going to their car did as well. A car driving by slammed on its brakes. I honestly think it was heard over all 8 levels of the garage, since it reverberated so much. I've had people complain I hurt their ears sometimes. Just an unusual talent or curse.
Badminton, my chance of beeing better than all of them at this sport is probably over 99.9999%
I'm ranked 1500th in my country that have 70 million people, if you take 100 random people the chance of even getting someone who knows how to play is tiny, and even then there are about 200k club players and I am among the top 1%
I'd be a Hypnotist, and I'd mass hypnotise all of them together, to just simply stare at their feet, and to do so until I'd collected my billion. This way, they can't do anything better than me, but be hypnotised better than me, problem is, neither one is the best at being hypnotised, as all of them are. I win.
Using the [acme(1)](https://man.cat-v.org/inferno/1/acme) text editor on Plan 9.
With this I will probably bore them all to death and win by default with my niche trivial knowledge ;)
I believe I'm the world's best amateur at everything to do with speaking. Doing a voice over, reading the news, announcing a wrestling match, sports commentary, radio DJ, reading an audiobook,... I'd just hope not to have a professional among the 100 and I think I'd be fine.
Installation and configuration of SAM4S register.
Odds are none of the other 99 know anything about it and even with manual is a bitch so before the 3rd task I'd be counting my money
Flying a helicopter and landing it in a cliff, then walking a slackline to the opposite side, finally BASE jumping off to the bottom. Easiest Billion Ever 😀
Solving Kakuro puzzles. Millions of people do Sudoku, and many are better than me at it, but most have never heard of Kakuro. It takes a while to work out a strategy, so I would go right to solving while they're trying to figure it out.
r/kakuro
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Doubting myself. Although come to think of it, I'm not sure now.
What?? I'm way better than you. Unless...
I doubt it, but...
It’s highly unlikely, then again.
I like peanut butter sandwiches! Or do I?
Sounds like classic primal instinct conjuring to me.... "Killing everyone", proof is when you are the last one standing and coincidentally, the only one who could then collect it. Saves on arbitration time too... Battle Royale is this exactly, pare us down to our inner animal To be fair though, you had me at "peanut butter sandwiches"
You're doubting the wrong person if you're here about the billion dollars
Flying a helicopter
Good one. High percentage answer.
Having watched movies, played loads of games, having a basic understanding of how helicopters work, I'm honestly confident I will be top 5 out of my random 100 tbh.
And hey, if you aren't - you're not gonna get the feeling of defeat when you inevitably crash the helicopter!
The feeling of defeat can be remarkably similar to the feeling of losing da feet in a chopper crash
Actually, if you're in the bottom 10% or so, you probably won't even be able to get it off the ground in the first place
what kind?
Learned on R22 and R44 now fly a bell 407 and 427
Bagpipes, without a doubt 😅
I would enjoy watching 99 random humans attempt to play the bagpipes
How do you tell who is best or worst?
The one that sounds like a cat being strangled, *but is enjoying it*, is the one with talent.
You can DEFINITELY tell the worst Source: I went to a Burns night in rural Scotland, ended up drinking with one of the pipers and he gave me the hat and pipes and I had a crack. Very not good.
100 random humans? I like my chances on setting fastest marathon time.
You can beat my 3:49?
Found the Nigerian!
😄😄 Na I'm a tall white Kiwi. And I'm choosing forklift driving as my skill.
Choose marathon forklift driving just to be sure
Genius. You should choose choosing.
I’d probably be better off choosing dithering. Maybe. Can I sleep on it?
Only if you wake up and don't make a decision tomorrow either.
He meant 3 years 49 days
Yeah, should be able to. Aiming 3:30-3:45 next month
3:28 baby
Look at all us non-elites bragging about our above average times 😅
Average people don’t run marathons. If we’re out here running them, and then finishing above average of the people who DO run marathons, I say we’re killing it😎
Ofc you are right. A sub 4 hour marathon time is waaay better than the vast majority of the population could dream of.
Sweet! My pb is 3:29 although I've done many half's under 1:30. Should prob stop being lazy with the longer runs.
I'll pick 50 meters freestyle and bank on the fact that competitive swimming is kind of a niche sport globally. I quit 10 years and 25 kilos ago, but I can still swim a 30-second 50 meters sprint with zero practice or preparation, which is a time you just don't reach without a strong competitive background. One of my current colleagues is a triathlist, and he does the extreme iron man level ones, but even he can't beat my 50 freestyle sprint, and I haven't been training much of anything for like 5 years now.
Yeah, you have to pick something that most people generally don't do. I've never run a marathon so I'm going with either chess or some other niche nerdy thing.
I think just doing your job gives you solid chances...
Well, I don't have a job yet, so that might be difficult. I do have a lot of fairly strange hobbies and interests though.
Writing an essay aobut economics in Italian. Statistically I'll be ok.
Sono qui per rovinarti la vita carissimo Emanuele
Ho letto il tuo commento e mi sono spaventato pure io
I was just about to comment "speak in Italian", but your strategy is more effective!
Judt take the billion dollars because I'm not about to read 100 economics papers in Italian, let alone grade them.
Performing vascular surgery.
Didn’t say they had to survive
Pt: didn’t say he was performing the surgery on the other 99.
well no, but if someone can do the surgery without killing a person then they’re arguably “better” lol
To be fair whilst this may sort them it could be a lot messier than the chess tournament I was pondering.
Explaining how we can share this money, 10m each.
Plot twist: someone else explains it better, gets the money, and keeps it.
A politician
>Explains it better >Politician Pick one lmao
That's how they become politicians
100 *other* people. So theoretically it's shared between 101 people, so it would only be $9.9009 (repeating) million. I do believe I would be that person...
"Hey, lets kill the guy that suggested we split it 100 ways and go 99 ways"
Found the diplomat.
101 ppl
Playing a clarinet.
wanna bet that just piecing the clarinet together could give you the win allready
We’ve found Squidwards alt account guys
Team Sonic Racing. Spent way too much time on that game during Covid.
As one of the coders on the Sonic racing games (mostly the first two but I did contribute a bit to TSR too), this pleases me greatly.
Same. For me, Apex legends.
For myself I’d say Crash Team Racing. Didn’t play anything else for ages when they were constantly releasing new content
After smoking 5 cigarettes and drinking 3 glasses of white wine, give a detailed and accurate explanation of the secret lasagna recipe I was given as a young man, switching between 3 languages in every sentence while optimizing my latest custom python script for pattern recognition, without any online resources available. The lasagna recipe exists only in my memory and the exact mix and measurements of ingredients cannot be extracted by eating it because during the preparation, one of the ingredients transforms into another substance that can easily be mistaken for another ingredient but using that seemingly identifiable ingredient would produce a completely different result, which would result in a different lasagna. It would have to produce my lasagna, not just any lasagna. Basically, when I leave this Earth someday, that specific lasagna will never be made again. I guess I just found my purpose in life.
Highly specific for the win.
That's how it has to be
The question is: Is the lasagna any good? Me mourning you kinda depends on the answer.
A girl asked to marry me after I made the lasagna for her. Married 25+ years and on certain cosmic dates I still make the lasagna for her. If it hadn't been for that lasagna.... Yeah it is second to none. Thankfully I am the only one who knows how to make it, because the monk that passed it on to me is no more. I might make a Voynich style manuscript for posterity for when humanity has evolved and become worthy of it.
Maybe I should just share the recipe in here, make your usual lasagna but do the following: 1 teaspoon of thyme, 3 teaspoons of oregano and 2 cups of chilled red wine. Pour the chilled red wine directly into the minced meat while preparing it. After a few minutes the wine gets completely absorbed in the meat. When the lasagna comes out of the oven, it has become divine.
Brb learning 3 languages and how to code in Python. You're finished, pal.
someone needs to make this. not me, though, cause I'm terrible in the kitchen.
Disclaimer: the lasagna is usually followed by a marriage proposal from the person you serve it to. Use this recipe at your own risk.
Have you tried cooking in a different room?
These proportions are for what amount of meat?
1 pound of minced meat.
came here looking for a revelation, but found the most basic shit possible. all good meat sauce has red wine in it mate.
That's 300 glasses of white wine you'll have to drink though! Plus 500 cigarettes.. Think it's one at a time Vs 100
You now are legally obligated to tell random online strangers your lasagna recipe.
I'll do six cigarettes and five glasses of wine, but I won't be happy about it. Then I'll make some box lasagna and piss in your shoes. You'll be happy about it because money and I won't remember because of multiple head injuries, win/win!
Being me
Ill give you a run for your money mate
This is spooky! I can't tell you apart!
I don't know who to shoot!!!
Identity theft is not a joke Jim
good answer
Having a panic attack. Bring it fuckers.
I can have one on demand!
Caring for special needs kids.
so me?
Like 1 in 70 kids are autistic, I don't like your odds.
Not all autistic people need to be cared for
Just based on stats, a typing race.
whats ur wpm
On MonkeyType, I have a 117wpm, with the total typing time on the account being 01:30 hrs. Personally, I'm happy with it, what about yourself?
I average around 160wpm on MT and usually get 120wpm on TR. I love typing but very few ppl irl share the hobby.
In my early 30ies I was over 200 on a good day. Now I’m glad if I break 120. haven’t tested in a while but it’s definitely a skill that can degrade or get rusty. 😔 fyi I was writing my book back then. 2000 words per day minimum. In the zone/flow I could bang out 4000 in an hour for a first draft. Sigh.
That's really impressive, you'd definitely have a high chance of getting that billion.
Dangerous game with that one, depending on the demographic.
I actually don't think it is dangerous, especially when you consider it's a 100 random humans (of course, there's a tiny chance I'd get a world champion for type racing against me). Taking into account the world population and other factors like access to computers/a need to type fast, I feel like I'd have a very decent chance.
Last tested at 80 wpm (former legal secretary)
Guessing the taxi fare between random places in Adelaide.
Christie's beach surf Life saving club to Cibo at Glenelg. Go.
52 dollars
This guy taxis
Without having to give any sort of context, spelling my name. An actual challenge? My job. Good luck logging in without my password or 2FA 😂
I’m mad I didn’t think of this, nobody spells my name correctly. Clever!
I can win an argument against all of them. All I need is to wait 3 years after the argument and a shower.
I'm great at human knot contortion and always win at games like Twisters. I think I'd beat them all and get the billion!
Making up imaginary scenarios with full storyline in my head
Idk man, if you end up getting a maladaptive daydreamer in your group your toast
*pacing across the room intensifies* I say that as a Maladaptive Daydreamer
I’m curious, have you ever thought of writing a book series based on your daydreams?
I finally found a worthy opponent!
Guessing the glucose level of my own blood.
Lol I’d absolutely do this too and I just guessed 93 and was 90. I hope we’re not in the same group of 100 🫡
Tower crane operating competition. Odds are they'll only be 1 or 2 others to compete with.
Surviving on fuck all.
Probably 80% of people in the world survive on fuck all. Your odds aren’t good.
"Cough" Across 110 countries 1.1 billion out of 6.1 billion people are poor – just over 18% are estimated to live in acute multidimensional poverty.
I stand corrected….Still not good odds though.
Well. Odds are you are replying to someone that survies on fuck all. Have you seen the stats?
And do you live in acute multidimensional poverty, *fellow Reddit user*? There are multiple countries where people live on less than a dollar a day. You apparently have both access and time to answer this thread, so my guess is you're better off than a sizable chunk of the human race.
As an American, our standard of "nothing" is impressive compared to the rest of the world. Still, I think I'd thrive
Memorizing D&D 5e rules. Trust me, you can make me any questions about them and I'll answer anything without needing to check any books or websites.
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Careful, lotta sleeper DND players out there
Lets put that to the test. A character without shield proficiency is holding a +1 shield. What kind of bonus to armour class does that character get from the shield? In addition, do they suffer any penalties due to their lack of shield proficiency?
No bonus, but no penalties either. A +1 Shield gives its +1 bonus in addition to the AC bonus of the base shield, per its description in the DMG. A character with no shield proficiency as per the PHB does not gain any bonus to AC while wearing a shield.
100 people really isn't that many for the scope of "best at". I wonder if I could just pick a basic skill or hobby and just coincidentally be the best of that 100 by being intermediate? Guitar player? Tekken Player? If it's something really obscure then I could be horrible at it and still beat 100 folks who aren't naturals. Get me in a room with 100 people who don't have red hair. Edit: \*Not\* the best at typing.
Tekken is a dangerous choice. You have to beat 100 people smashing buttons.
Nothing, because everyone is better than me at everything.
So you’d win at being worst at everything.
Oh shit, paradox 👀
I used to work for the second-most boring man in the world. I initially thought he was the most boring man in the world, until I realised that was actually interesting, and nothing about him was interesting.
You mean being the *best* at being the worst at everything 😉.
WoW pvp, it's unpopular even in WoW
Tree planting. Average 4000+ in a regular work day. Gone up to 7k in a regular day. 99% of people have never planted trees. So I'm pretty confident. I feel like anyone who is part of a relatively niche job or hobby would have no problems picking something.
Taming a wild zebra
Belching. I can belch amazingly loud. Let one rip in the old Harrah's concrete parking structure a few years back in Reno-- my wife was several feet in front of me. It was epic in loudness, my wife who is used to me belching screamed and dropped her bag and another person going to their car did as well. A car driving by slammed on its brakes. I honestly think it was heard over all 8 levels of the garage, since it reverberated so much. I've had people complain I hurt their ears sometimes. Just an unusual talent or curse.
100 random humans? Video games. Been playing them daily for 36 years. Fight me in Elden Ring scrubs! BRING ME MY BILLION!!!
procrastinating
I'll reply to this comment later.
[удалено]
Yeah but not with the argument I was going to make, trust me I'll do it later, don't rush me please.
Pissing my wife off while doing something completely innocuous.
Badminton, my chance of beeing better than all of them at this sport is probably over 99.9999% I'm ranked 1500th in my country that have 70 million people, if you take 100 random people the chance of even getting someone who knows how to play is tiny, and even then there are about 200k club players and I am among the top 1%
Pretty sure I'd dust you.
I'd be a Hypnotist, and I'd mass hypnotise all of them together, to just simply stare at their feet, and to do so until I'd collected my billion. This way, they can't do anything better than me, but be hypnotised better than me, problem is, neither one is the best at being hypnotised, as all of them are. I win.
Playing Tetris
Sitting perfectly still
Naming the size and make of every flat screen tv I've ever owned.
Harry Potter trivia
Using the [acme(1)](https://man.cat-v.org/inferno/1/acme) text editor on Plan 9. With this I will probably bore them all to death and win by default with my niche trivial knowledge ;)
Fortnite baby! If I can win against 100 players familiar with the game, I should have at better then average shot at beating 100 randos
Braiding hair with 2.5 missing fingers
Being the closest to my DNA would be the winning condition I would chose. I would automatically win under that condition every time.
Being lazy. Can’t beat me on that
As another lazy human being, i disagree.
You already lost, a truly lazy person wouldn’t have even commented
Perhaps we are on the same boat.
I didn't read all these comments before but I assure you I can be very, very lazy.
⠀
Being patient
Nothing
Dreaming of winning the lottery, and searching for my dream home on rightmove
I can beat them in solitaire
I start talking about Star Wars. Or I just get the higher ground.
saying things that actually make sense
Complain about my shitty life
5 stock, no items, final destination!
Pattern recognition. ASD cheat power
I believe I'm the world's best amateur at everything to do with speaking. Doing a voice over, reading the news, announcing a wrestling match, sports commentary, radio DJ, reading an audiobook,... I'd just hope not to have a professional among the 100 and I think I'd be fine.
Staying awake the longest. I can stay awake for a really long time.
Having played the accordion for 25 years, I'll go with that. And I'm probably better than them at it, because most people don't play the accordion.
Installation and configuration of SAM4S register. Odds are none of the other 99 know anything about it and even with manual is a bitch so before the 3rd task I'd be counting my money
Blacksmithing a little snail
Flying a helicopter and landing it in a cliff, then walking a slackline to the opposite side, finally BASE jumping off to the bottom. Easiest Billion Ever 😀
Hating myself.
My old job!
I've probably got a decent chance with mario kart
Yeah sure, first place until some noob sends you the blue shell and you end up second place at the last second.
20 minutes workout: max reps of burpees 🙂
Fuck burpees! The billion is all yours
Write a song in an hour (Must be a full song with at least two verses, a chorus, and a satisfying chord progression)
Firejuggling with a staff. easy.
Sticking my tongue into my nasal cavity
You really want 100 random strangers doing whatever it takes to stick your tongue into your nasal cavity?
Knowing obscure facts about Luke combs
Knowing the most words to One week by the Brenaked Ladies
Crying
Solving Kakuro puzzles. Millions of people do Sudoku, and many are better than me at it, but most have never heard of Kakuro. It takes a while to work out a strategy, so I would go right to solving while they're trying to figure it out. r/kakuro
Doing an average of 5 Rubik’s cube solves
World building Edit: And I mean that creatively. As in creating fictional worlds for science fiction and high fantasy stories.
Tattooing a black and grey portrait of Frank Sinatra.
reach 1m dollars in openTTD