what is your nerdiest accomplishment/claim to fame?

ActionJeff · #1 11-22-2006, 09:16 AM

Having over 10,000 posts on an online forum does not qualify =P

I'm curious as to how many national calculus champs we have lurking on 2+2..

edit- example: I know one guy who has a geometric theorem named after him. One of my friends can solve a rubix cube in 10 minutes, while another was in the national spelling bee.

Sciolist · #2 11-22-2006, 09:24 AM

I paid my way through a year of university by playing computer games.

I was UK captain at the first World Cyber Games (in Seoul), and played in the precursor the year before.

I also spent a year writing about competitive online computer games for a living.

Go me!

Yeti · #3 11-22-2006, 09:28 AM

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One of my friends can solve a rubix cube in 10 minutes

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Yeah, this is incredibly slow.

ActionJeff · #4 11-22-2006, 09:40 AM

Yeti,

he isn't Asian.

Shajen · #5 11-22-2006, 09:43 AM

I assume working in the IT industry doesn't count?

If it doesn't, I don't have any nerdly accomplishments, sorry.

Yeti · #6 11-22-2006, 09:43 AM

Doesn't matter, with just a couple of days practice I'm sure most people could do it in under two minutes. It's just memorisation of algorithms.

Apologies for being somewhat nitty, I just wanted to point out that ten minutes isn't at all impressive. Carry on.

Vehn · #7 11-22-2006, 09:44 AM

I was the main tank & raid leader for a world first last boss end game raid kill in world of warcraft.

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Tennenbaum · #8 11-22-2006, 09:45 AM

I never did anything big...nothing that is my 'claim to fame' but freshman year I did win the Earth Science part of the Science Fair. "Humans and their affect on the Ecosystem". I bs'd my way through the whole thing. But I did win a little trophy type thing and got to go to the State Science Fair.

BukNaked36 · #9 11-22-2006, 09:47 AM

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I paid my way through a year of university by playing computer games.

I was UK captain at the first World Cyber Games (in Seoul), and played in the precursor the year before.

I also spent a year writing about competitive online computer games for a living.

Go me!

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CYBERATHLETE

illeagle · #10 11-22-2006, 10:16 AM

Everytime I "accidentally" killed a child in Iraq I said "BOOM! HEADSHOT!"