What interests have you nailed or mastered or are good at?

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How good are you at it?

This can be interest or not but please state which it is...

Mods please delete my thread in the OTHER forum?

Yes, this concerns something that I'm interested in - was that your question? I don't improve skills I'm not interested in for one reason or another, although it may be peripheral to my object of curiosity.
I am rather good at analysing structures. I can't distinguish between nailed and mastered, but I have written papers on advanced techniques. I can also immediately spot a perpetual motion machine being proposed, and similar "not worth it" machines. I'm sure that I'm less unique in seeing inefficient propellers, but the majority seem oblivious to wasted effort.

Off topic from my original question but now that you bring it up!

How do you feel about magnets as perpetual motion?

Separately how about the magnets as good as the ones in space ships used for perpetual motion?

Funny you should ask. I have a friend who has been trying to do perpetual motion with magnets for many years. I only advise him on how to do his experiments with less expense. I think they would have to be nano-sized to have any chance. I have no data on extraterrestrial space ships, but those from Earth seem to get by with commonly available types. They certainly have gotten far better in my lifetime.

I haven't mastered anything since it takes a lifetime of dedicated focus to do. I'm much too scatterbrained for that.

Things I've won at least one award/prize for includes:
- architectural design
- short story writing
- hand drawing
- long jump

Things I can do better than most other people:
- speaking Japanese
- playing the piano
- injure myself
- photography (debatable)

All of them were interests at the time, save perhaps the injury part.

Magnets (I mean...are an idea then) or how about a combination of mater and antimatter?

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When you say better than most people, do you mean better than those who do it, or those that don’t?

Depends on where you draw the line. If we say it includes everyone who have made a serious effort at learning it, the list still stands except for photography (I picked it up late and there's just no time or money for it right now). But if I compare myself to most professionals, of course I'm lagging behind, for example, most Japanese translators.

Keeping matter and anti-matter from mutual annihilation is the opposite of perpetual motion - it is perpetual, high-energy maintenance that probably involves magnets.

A "masterpiece" was originally something produced after about a five-year apprenticeship - a final exam that defined a "master, " who could then take on another apprentice.

Well, the closest I've got was designing a building at the end of my five-year academic training, but after than I was merely considered "good enough to get a job".

How about getting the matter and antimatter to spin like ‘particles??? (Even though ‘particles’ may be the wrong word-what is ‘it’ that spins?)

How about if you give it ‘a type’ of positive or negative charge

How about if you try it and see? My other magnet loving friend does that.

You ARE intelligent then?

Asking people to evaluate their own intelligence, fairness, or driving skills are all likely to produce skewed data.

Once you are really interested in magnets then you have to learn a bit of physics. A magnetic field is just the special relativistic increase of the electric field forces of moving electrically charged particles. The field energy of a magnetic field is nothing but the kinetic energy of the moving particles. That's why it occurs in case of an electric current in a wire. But you can't gain more energy from magnetic fields than just the kinetic energy of the moving particles by causing the magnetic field to lower or to disappear at the same time. Your friend should have spend more time at learning physics instead at trying to beat it.