Do you learn some things wickedly fast (and others hardly)?

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Some fast, some fast then looking for more, it can take awhile to find, but I do.

I never did well with language from a book, but sitting in a cafe I can pick up how to get by like a native speaker. Local culture is more important than formal language. I mimic well.

Some, like machines of all kinds, my first thought is badly designed, and worse construction.

The mind that built a computer, failed totally at building a box.

Zero in all forms of music.

When I first encounter a new software application the first thing I do if I'm not familiar with the interface is browse the help files. I know most end-users don't bother reading it (nor do they consider that reading the manual would help them a lot with their new cell phone), but it's the only way I can feel safe using a new program (or a cell phone). Reading the instructions is my preferred method of learning.

Same here. I'm more of a intuitive and creative person in that for example a new software application I'm more inclined to play around with it than reading the official manual and I usually understand it faster than way. Another thing I have a gift at is with pretty all aspects of computers, science, math, etc. Not physical education and real-life languages. I so remember in HS struggling in French because of just not naturally "getting it", "disinterested" or what else. My mind is more or less creative structured logic.

Yeah, I acquired understanding of calculus pretty quickly and early on (about 10), but when I was 7 I was the only person in the kindergarten and first grade at my school who didn't learn my home address.

We had as an assignment to learn it and each say it in front of the class, but I didn't, even though I was a first grade student and most in the class were in kindergarten. It wasn't stage fright; I couldn't remember it in my head either.

I learned the multiplication tables well when in elementary school, but by junior high I was starting to have a hard time where most others retained it well, even though I would practice a lot whereas most in the advanced math class didn't have to at all anymore, and now by graduating high school, I know very few multiplication facts, other than ones with small numbers and a couple others that stick out because I like the numbers.

I picked up on physics quickly, learned high school physics material in a week (when I was 14, I learned the first semester of AP Chemistry self-taught in 2 weeks). I skipped physics and pre-calculus when I was 16, almost 17, going straight to AP Physics B and AP Calculus AB (the most advanced classes offered).

I used to think that I sucked at science lab, until I was absent for a few labs and so did them during lunchtime with fewer distractions and not such a timeframe. It turns out that I'm just slower at co-ordinating mentally and physically, and at reading and interpreting the instructions, but when I have a lab partner who's interested, and there's not a whole lot of noise and people moving around, and I have adequate time to complete the lab, then I actually do very well.

That was/is STUPID and ILLEGAL! To have you give out your address!?!?!? That teacher was an IDIOT anyway! The 1980s, in the US, codified that various info, like your address, may NOT be presented to others without your consent. HECK, on the internet one of the latest similar laws is called C.O.P.P.A! If a webmaster allows such info to be posted by someone under 13, they can get into severe trouble.

ALSO, from a NON legal aspect, you and your family deserve the privacy to not have the whole class "know where you live". I put that in quotes, because that knowledge ITSELF can serve as a threat!



I DOUBT the average person even bothered to learn anything past 11, and most people seem to have a problem with such things. I considered myself BAD with math, and improved a bit, but I found that many are worse than I ever was.



Well, the OTHER stuff is stuff any calculator can do! You're not doing that bad!

Yep thats exactly it. I go from have no knowledge of something, to being excellent in it. Or, I try really hard to learn and others around me are confused as to why I can't seem to get ANY of it. "But you do xyz so well!"

For me it was science and technology that I learned at an insanely fast pace. English and literature? Not so much.

I learn languages very fast, and I also have this innate understanding of how mechanical things work. But I only learned to tie my shoes when I was 12. I also have a lot of trouble, to this day, with lighting matches - I use too much strength and break them instead. Dexterity is not my friend. I can even knit now though, so I feel very accomplished.

I had a hard time learning to tie my shoes. My father insisted on showing me the entire procedure, step by step, but he had no way of knowing that while he tied my shoes his own hands were always covering the crucial steps from my sight. From his position, the knot was clearly visible, but I could never see what his hands were hiding.