(I know, I’m late to the party, but I wanted to play, too!)

I can pack things so that there is no empty space in the container, no matter how oddly-shaped and varied the items are (although this will usually take more than one try).

I am very good at math in general. I got incredibly frustrated in middle school because I would look at a problem, write down the answer, and get half credit or less because I didn’t write down all the tedious intermediate steps I hadn’t even consciously gone through.

I can remember some things very easily. This mostly happens with things that aren’t practical- I have to keep each of my vital items (keys, ID, etc) in the same place all the time or I don’t know whether I have them, and I need to do every step in my morning or bedtime routine in the same order or I forget the ones I skipped and wonder midafternoon “wait, did I actually take my vitamins this morning?” On the other hand, anything I’m interested in takes up residence in my brain without my input. In elementary school I could quote huge chunks of the Harry Potter books from memory, knew what every spell did and where every portrait was. In middle school I could trace the family trees of every character in Lord of the Rings and the Silmarillion. Currently, given a line of dialogue from Doctor Who (or any of the Vorkosigan books), I can tell you where it’s from, who said it, and probably at least three fan theories or crackfics it spawned. This has actually come in handy in the real world- I memorized my library card number without trying, never studied for a test until well into high school, and have three times this year alone forgotten my book for an open-book exam and done well on it.

I can understand Shakespeare the first time I read it, even without any footnotes, although they certainly help.

I can crochet a hat without a pattern.

I have really detailed, plotty, science-fictiony dreams, many of which I remember.

I taught myself to program my graphing calculator using only the manual that came with it.

I can pick out any tune on the piano (melody only) if I know it well enough to sing it, and I can remember the lyrics to a song if I listened to the song twice through while reading along.

So, yeah, if you need someone to be able to cope with pretty much anything on almost zero sleep, I’m your gal!

But my real mutant power is: I don’t appear in random pictures. Like, if I’m at a party and someone’s going around getting snapshots, I won’t be in any of them unless the photographer specifically sets out to get at least one shot of everyone there. This power even extends to my house; neither Google Street View nor the county’s property ownership website has a good shot of my house.

I also share a lot of these tiny superpowers! In particular, the spelling one, complete with the “words I just can’t ever remember” nemeses (is that the plural of nemesis? I just made it up!). For me, the worst one is separate (which I just had to spell check – and I had it wrong!)

My other tiny superpower, which I haven’t seen mentioned, is the power of Awesome Desserts. Ask anyone I know, they’ll all say I cook the best desserts ever.

Also, someone mentioned a superpower of being able to identify which day of the week any day in any year was. That superpower can actually be learned. Check out this guy, he has that one down, along with many other superpowers that impress the maths-nerd in me!