• BallShapedMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    17 days ago

    I’m sure I could beat 99% of a random sampling of people at any F1 track in F1 2023 or Asseta Coursa or iRacing.

    It’s a niche game experience that not a lot of people really practice to get good at it, and of those that do few have spent the money on racing rigs and VR. My son and I race in leagues and do pretty well. I know it’s just a video game but I’ve occasionally gotten better lap times than the professionals.

    My son got me into it and built my rig for me (which is extra special for me!) and last weekend for the first time since we started I actually beat him! He came up and I told him I got lucky because he got cut off by another car and lost control and couldn’t make up the loss fast enough and he said “no Dad, your really fast!” Hearing that from my son brought me the feels!

    • veroxii@aussie.zoneEnglish
      3·
      16 days ago

      I’m not so sure. There’s 34 upvotes on this post so far and with me chiming in there’s a confirmed 3 simracers commenting already. Probably more.

      And while you are probably better than me by the sounds of it, I’m good enough in my rig that if you make a small mistake or two I have a pretty good chance. Especially if I get to pick the track.

      With a million bucks on the line the pressure will be on. Have you raced for a million dollars before?

      • BallShapedMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        16 days ago

        Lol no, just bragging right ls between my son and I and internet people. I’m not great in traffic, if I don’t start on front it gets sketchy for me making it even in VR.

        What is your track(s) of choice?

        • veroxii@aussie.zoneEnglish
          2·
          16 days ago

          I like the shorter faster circuits with high speed turns. Red Bull ring, Monza, Silverstone, Barcelona and maybe even Paul Ricard. Canada is fun too.

          I suck at anything too twisty and technical. Can’t do Monaco to save my life.

          • BallShapedMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            16 days ago

            Monaco I have yet to get a good lap time. It’s brutal!

            I also like CODA for that reason. I’m still struggling with city tracks but getting better, Singapore wasn’t terrible last time I raced it!

    • Gremour@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      17 days ago

      I’ve failed to make Asseta Corsa to run on my VR headset (Quest2). No matter what I do, it runs on the flat screen inside VR. Any tips?

  • lengau@midwest.socialEnglish
    23·
    17 days ago

    My specific subfield in software development.

    Not because I’m particularly good at it - just because it’s incredibly niche and the few dozen other people on the planet who also work in my field would probably not be amongst those 99.

    • Dkarma@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      17 days ago

      Same, there’s maybe 40 ppl in the world who can do what I do professionally at the moment.

  • FluffyPotato@lemm.eeEnglish
    19·
    17 days ago

    Speaking Estonian. There are few enough native speakers on the planet that the odds of anyone out of 99 being better is negligible.

  • JizzmasterD@lemmy.caEnglish
    18·
    17 days ago

    I won a longest eyelashes contest when I was a baby at a county fair. Maybe that still holds up?

  • Valmond@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    17 days ago

    If the people gets selected from over the world randomly, speaking swedish would have a somewhat 90% chance of working perfectly.

    Or C/C++ programming if the randomness also has incudes age I guess.

    Or info about some really small place.

    • Linssiili@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      9·
      17 days ago

      Why not play it safe, and compete in creating a library for getting info about some really small place in Swedish?

      • Valmond@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        17 days ago

        In swedish but about some small place in another country. I think you’re onto something!

  • apotheotic(she/they)@beehaw.orgEnglish
    16·
    17 days ago

    99 randomly chosen people? Any of the niche hyperfixations I’ve had in the past few years would probably give me a good shot.

    I’m not trying to roll the dice that I’m in the top 1% of those fields, I’m just trying to roll the dice that those interests are shared by fewer than 1% of people (very likely).

  • BoxOfFeet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    17 days ago

    Oh, man… Maybe MacGyver trivia? I’m not a superman or anything, but it’s probably something I could beat 99 random people in.

    Any of my real interests or talents, I can readily admit I’m probably just average at.

    • Crackhappy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      17 days ago

      Ok, give me 5 facts about MacGyver I wouldn’t know. I’ve seen the show but it’s been decades.

      • BoxOfFeet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        17 days ago

        Um… let’s see.

        Even though it was set primarily in LA (and all over the world), half the seasons were filmed in Vancouver.

        MacGyver is always super anti gun, which we do get the backstory for. But in the pilot episode, he straight up is just shooting an assault rifle.

        The building used for the Phoenix Foundation headquarters is The Qube in Vancouver. I think that is a cool looking building.

        His first name is Angus. I think that’s a pretty well-known one if you’ve seen the later seasons.

        Dana Elcar started losing his eyesight (pretty sure to glaucoma) and they wrote his blindness into Pete’s character.

        Idk, those aren’t super good ones, I guess I need a refresher.

      • BoxOfFeet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        17 days ago

        I’m not sure the name of it… but I can say it’s early season 1. Basically all of those clips come from like, 5 or 6 episodes of Season 1. Maybe I wouldn’t do so well in this contest.

  • Aussiemandeus@aussie.zoneEnglish
    12·
    16 days ago

    So I recently one the northern Territory chilli eating championship, and in a month’s time me and 6 others are competing in the Australian championship to crown Australia’s best chilli eater and decide who will he going to America for the world championship.

    So maybe crane mechanics

  • weariedfae@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    17 days ago

    What is the selection area for the random people? Is it random from all around the world? Country? State?

    I’d choose my profession because it’s kinda niche-ish. It’s only 0.03% of the workforce of my state BUT the major metropolitan areas have a ton of us in clusters so it really depends on how the random people get chosen that would give me my best shot.