I was a great napper in my day. I could fall asleep anywhere - even on a moving subway car, standing, holding on to a strap! Probably a bad idea in this day and age.
Oh my! Both of these are mine too. I have a super sense of direction and canāt remember faces does the life of me. When I was new, it took me 3 months to learn the 8 people in my office!
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Kickboarding. I am a small, rather weak person with small feet, so there is absolutely no known reason I should be good at this. But I am bizarrely efficient without even trying. I was the fastest woman kicker on any team I was ever on by a large margin. Even in college when we practiced with the menās team I was faster than all the men except for one. Itās odd, because I was definitely NOT one of the better swimmers.
Too bad there isnāt a kickboard event.
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At work I am very focused and cut through a lot of BS to get things done.
I am also able to see system architectural design in my head and know whether it would work or not before any POC or implementation. People laugh when I say ā there is not enough money you could throw at it to make it work.ā I am also good at looking data and figure out if itās reasonable.
On the personal side, I am good at fixing problems for my kids. They like to come to me as the last resort.
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I forgot that one. And I also easily find words spelled incorrectly, as well as grammar errors. I was the designated proofreader at my job.
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My daughter has the proofreading superpower. I often have her review my stuff for errors.
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When I was working (in accounting/financial reporting), I was known to be the one who could reconcile anything to anything, no matter how much data was involved. To me itās just a big number puzzle, starting at point A, and getting to point Z.
Iām also good at written communications. I can use words, punctuation, and emojis to get a point across in just the right tone. Oral communication, Iām just meh.
Oh and choreo fitness (like Zumba). Iāve been teaching for years and it just kind of comes naturally to me.
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My Dās superpower is reading people. She is amazing at it and has never been wrong, to my knowledge. When she was 3, sheād come home from preschool and tell me exactly how each kid in her class was feeling and why. Once. I was talking to a mom and she was talking to the daughter far away from us. When we were driving home, she told me that she knew the mom and daughter were having struggles, even though neither of them mentioned them to her at all (the mom did tell me a bit about it). I trust her 100% in her reads and her friends are all wonderful people.
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Despite my cc name, Iāve become a laissez-faire (lazy) gardener, more often than not letting nature take its course (lots of native plants that some may call weeds, as I like a wild cottage look and the birds and other critters seem happy). But itās quite normal when I go to any place where plants are sold, for someone to approach me with a question, assuming I work there. It happens all the time even though Iām not wearing any kind of employee apron. Itās true Iām dressed casually in such places (jeans and t-shirts) but then, so are most people. Guess I just look earthy! Itās also true in these places that I have to suppress a strong desire to grab a watering hose and give everything a good soaking. I watch employees scatter a light sprinkling on top of parched plants and want to give them a demo of delivering H2O to the root system. Guess I missed my calling 
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My husband has the never forget a face superpower. He can meet a person once and remember them for the rest of his life.
Once, when my daughter was little, we were on vacation on a beach on the opposite coast. He turned to me pointed to a woman and said āDonāt you know that woman?ā Sure enough it was my hairdresser, whom I think my husband had met maybe one time.
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My Dās superpower since she was a little girl was that she could always, always tell when I was the least bit sad or upset, no matter how much I tried to hide it. I could pick her up from school, smiling, and sheād say immediately āwhatās wrong?ā She said the giveaway was my eyes alway turned more blue than grey.
She has always been a speedreader, too. She read faster than me by the time she was about nine. Iād say, thereās no way you read that 300-page novel in one afternoon. Iād ask her detailed questions and she always had the answer.
Between the observation and the reading, I think sheāll make a good attorney one day.
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Trip planning, untying knots but my main power is plant identification and remembering for years where I saw a particular plant. It isnāt very helpful but maybe somedayā¦
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My brother has a superpower that if heās EVER been to a place, he can easily get there again, even if many years later to a place he only went to once.
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My superpower is memorizing choral music. All our concerts are memorized and it comes effortlessly to me. I just have to hear it a few times either on a practice track or in rehearsal and Iāve got it. People in the chorus ask me how I do it and I donāt know. I didnāt know I had this power until I started singing in a chorus in my late 50s. Iāve always known every word in every song on the radio but I thought everone did.
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Back in the day, my superpower was my ability to wing exams while getting 95% As and never any grade below B+. I did study a little but never pulled an all-nighter or skipped a social event. 
Never used any study aidsā¦ just my textbooks and my lecture notes.
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Like many of you here, my superpower is researching. Give me any topic and I will give you answers! Somewhat related to this (I think) is my other superpower, trip planning. Especially finding the absolute best area in which to stay.
But, I am most proud of my ability to listen and remember every tiny detail my friends or family tell me ~ specifically about people and/or relationships. Itās a bit disconcerting, even to me. It is analogous to the āI never forget a faceā superpower but Instead of remembering someoneās face, I will remember everything you ever told me about that person. And I mean EVERYTHING!
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This is mine! M kids all say āAsk Mom, sheās the finderā lol. I have found bathing suits when I was in a different state from the kid, pool, and suit. Yesterday I helped D24 find her missing hair products when she called from her dorm (unfortunately they were here at home, not there)
I am also an excellent packer. Our recent 5 days in Iceland with only one under-the-seat backpack per person was a feat!
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been thinking about this ā I think my superpower is somehow related to grief. Grieving people donāt scare me, their tears donāt bother me, I donāt need them to be better in a certain timeframe, I am not afraid to talk about the person they lost. I go to the visiting hour or wake and donāt expect it to be anything but zero fun. I go to the funerals because what else can you do but show up? I write condolence cards a few weeks later so you know we havenāt all moved on. This has always been the case, not a result of my own losses.
S1 had a dear friend lose her dad, and I felt like I passed this on when he organized a bunch of their friends to go to the funeral and then stayed the weekend to help that family.
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My older daughterās superpower is knowing exactly which container the leftovers will fit perfectly into.
My superpower is spelling, even when I donāt know what the word is or what it means. Itās a very narrow superpower. It did help with learning French though!
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I would think that many on CC are good at research. We all found this place when researching colleges!
I am a good trip planner and packer, but that is all based upon my excellent list making ability. I can make lists for every need (and do).
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