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I cut bread very well. 

Here's my work on a fresh sourdough loaf. A challenge as hard and thick crust but soft interior. Can easily squash and deform!

What's your minor skill?

Nice bread knife work.

I like to think my fried egg flipping skills are pretty good. I can flip the fried egg to sunny side down, 20 seconds and then remove from the frying pan and place on toast sunny side up with the yolk slightly glazed but still runny. 

Undoing knots, especially in fine chains (jewellery). I’m very dexterous, think it might be due to playing the violin when I was younger. 

Thanks!

I can't flip at all.

Knitting shocks. I know how to turn a heel.

I envy my wife and son who can both splice a hawser laid rope extremely neatly.

I've been pondering this and depressingly can't think of anything. 

Maybe I have a 6.5/10 success rate in identifying a BOBFOC from behind, but that give the paradox where being correct is more disappointing than being incorrect. Some might call that a win-win, but not me. 

Dish washer filling? Estimating the time of day? Throwing dog ppo bags into bins?

funnily enough, estimating the time of day is one that I nearly posted. I am usually good to within 5 minutes but a) this skill seems to be fading and b) there may be some confirmation bias, bordering on Dunning-Kruger effect, at play 

I can be overly enthusiastic about almost anything! 

I can flip any child (up to the age of 7) 360° around the axis of their belly button.

It is a skill that is both rare and valuable. 

you weren’t enthusiastic about being told why airports can’t have climbing walls, you were in a right old grump about that 😃

Touch-typing. No idea my exact speed, but I can have a conversation with someone holding eye-contact with them and still type pretty accurately at speed - way faster than I can write by hand. One of the most useful skills I ever learned in school.

ah well I was not counting such things as a minor skill! As it has a professional application in and of itself. I am good at taking one look at an item and estimating the optimal x-ray exposure settings and duration of a CT scan of it before it goes anywhere near the x-ray system...  😃

mrs yeti believes i can name any tractor from a distant glance....

: )

I think that counts though it does creep into the moderate skills arena.

That is class! I can never get bread that even.

My mini skill is winding people up on the internet.

Pah. I can do that.

Bob. Ted. Fred. Bert...

I make the world's best scrambled eggs, according to the missus. I also have an uncanny ability to name a film by a tiny snippet of its theme tune.

I can do an utterly realistic formula one racing car noise impression. I can also do a near perfect tawny owl hoot. 

Bird sounds...yeah! Can you do a decent 'caw'?

Not bad, but my ‘cockadoodledo’ is pretty good. 

I'm surprised no-one has claimed joint rolling skills.

It took me ages to get to being able to do a half decent one but I was never near as skilled as some around me, making T shaped ones or rolling one handed! Now I doubt I could even make any sort of one as its 12 years or more since last rolled. Its an ability I've lost!

A friend once rolled one shaped like a benzene hexagon, complete with bonded hydrogen at each, er, joint.  It was quite the work of art and was displayed on his mantlepiece thereafter.

T.

Being a nurse I can do five things at once. It's an essential part of the job description!

Mate used to regularly roll them whilst steering with one knee - normally as he was overtaking on the motorway. Apparently this was better than trying to smoke my "baggy" efforts... 

I am brilliant at pointing brickwork.  Apparently, I am a pointing savant. Pointing has nothing to do with my usual job, if you discount pointing at things to illustrate how good or bad they are. 

The horror of an evening smoking with friends when none of good joint rollers were about...adequate made barely smokable by being stoned. Some times the responsibility would fall on me!

I love a good heel turn, watching it go from 2d to 3d is like knitting magic!

My minor skill is that I've got a really good eye for dividing up quantities. If I needed to split some pastry into two or three, or need to portion out some butter or something, I get it almost perfectly right just on sight. I'm also a poached egg ninja, adept at turning out perfectly poached eggs at precisely the moment my toast has finished being buttered.

My Tefal Toast n Egg n Bean dream machine somehow manages this. It’s sorcery! 

I can do a brilliant puffin impression, but I have learned that with great power comes great responsibility and I no longer use my gift:

I was in a sea life centre and I thought I would demonstrate my amazing skills to my wife, I opened my mouth and puffin'd as hard as I could it was an world class puffin impression. My elation at such a brilliant puffin impression was short lived though as a puffin turned and looked at me with such sorrow in his eyes, I don't know what I had said to him but he looked heartbroken. 

Maybe he had thought I was a lady puffin, only to discover some idiot stood by the enclosure or perhaps I had said something offensive? Either way I will never forget quite how depressed that little puffin looked.