Which skill is most useful? 39 skills ranked

I am so grateful for any support you choose to give, financial or emotional! 🙏 A tier list of many of the skills I've learned on this channel

[rajdeepghosh]

Alternate title: This week I learned how to make a tier list

[internetshaquille]

aggregating the lessons you've learned into one easy to digest format - S tier :)

[WerexZenok]

-'Let's classify skills by how useful they are'
-'starts with a kickflip and gives it an A tier'

[thepandaman]

I've mentioned it before, but proper touch-typing is easily A or S-tier skill in this day and age. Being able to merrily tap away at the keyboard whilst maintaining eye contact with someone else, or just typing up notes is so useful, and surprisingly rare considering how ubiquitous QWERTY keyboards are.

[corestolmyhandle]

“Anyone can learn to wheelie on any bike” - I smell a new challenge. Need you to go ahead and wheelie on a penny farthing

[rowanswatling]

I think breath holding was S, there’s so many applications for lung capacity, these go past just swimming (which depending on where you live can be incredibly useful as well) but still, been a few years since I found your channel, and I look forward to see what you learn next!

[MedlifeCrisis]

Absolutely loved this dude. Looks like I need to buy a Rubik's cube and drink all the wine in the house before I destroy our glasses

[alessandro]

The thing with skiing is that while you're learning it you'll hate it like its the last thing you'll ever want to pick up again but when you feel confident enough to start getting some speed while retaining control of your direction and everything, it feels so much more fun. I learned to ski in the last week, took me about 3 days to get decent and the speed at which you can get better too is abnormal. You can instantly gain more control and tips by looking at other people. I think it's really fun, especially if skiing with friends. But I will agree, while learning it definitely doesn't feel worth the prep time.

[francescomezza]

Imagine learning so many skills that you can actually rank them

[garyking]

Honestly the fire skill is the most impressive to me.
It’s such a primitive skill that we’ve founded our civilisation on.
It could save your life.

[Oblisk]

Although breath holding might seem not as useful on a day-to-day basis, it actually translates to your regular subconscious breathing as it helps increase your CO2 tolerance helping your body’s need for oxygen, especially during aerobic exercise

[EScoGo]

When you get good at skiing, then you are able to zoom down fun mountains at 30 miles per hour. That rush of speed is what I love about skiing. One of my favorite sports.

[TheMuro]

The skiing thing - it's really subjective. I live in a cold country, and when you know how to do it, it can be extremely satisfying. It also has some utility- you can get backcountry skis and slap some skins on them and walk (the most effective mode of human powered transportation in deep snow), it's basically hiking in winter but prettier and you don't have to walk down - you simply ski. But it can get pretty expensive and unaffordable - especially when you don't live in a very cold country.

[Saimeren]

I love that you're not afraid to put things in the C and D tiers. I love how honest you are about the skills and the videos about them.

[UnsolicitedThoughtsOfARose]

6:42 memorized 402 digits for a contest in middle school and 7+ years later I can still mindlessly recite 150 digits ish. It’s just second nature like singing the ABC’s. Don’t know if I’ll ever forget all of it because I do it from time to time without thinking about it. It almost feels like muscle memory, if I say 3.14 the rest just flows out.

[JarkaKavraizhkiYoutube]

Mike: “Don’t learn how to ski, learn how to mountain bike”

Me, who’s skied basically my entire life, and also loves it more than anything: “I’m gonna pretend i didn’t see that”

[pkos]

Mike: "javascript is lightning fast!"
CS majors: "REEEE"

[kennywickham]

You shouldve done it in a 3 way venn diagram with each circle being: Easiness, Coolness, Usefullness

[roaaba]

S
Wheelies
Solving a Rubik’s cube
Programming in Javascript

A
Shattering wine glass with your voice
Bunny hops
The umbrella trick
Solving a rubik’s cube blindfolded
Sabering champagne with a wine glass
Making fire
Dotting lines on a chalkboard
Riding a bike upstairs
Picking a lock with paper clips
Swimming in cold water
Knowing what day of the week any date lands on
B
Kickflip
Holding breath for 4 mins
Stacking dice
Splitting an apple in half with your bare hands
Riding bike rollers
Learning to Manual
Spinning a basketball
Muscle ups
C
Backwards brain bike
Axe throwing
Bullwhip
Card springs
Finding water in the forest
Penny farthing
The tablecloth trick
The salmon ladder
Cracking a safe
Learning to juggle
Learning to unicycle
Slingshot
D
Backflip
Crank flips
Memorizing a 100 digits of pi
Skiing
Learning to shoot

[Blazikn]

As someone who spent years speedsolving Rubik's cubes, I'm really happy to see that Mike is still so enthusiastic about learning to solve one! It's a great hobby.