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Euros, as they're currently worth a bit more.

The best at having my exact DNA.

I'm sure I could beat 99% of a random sampling of people at any F1 track in F1 2023 or Asseta Coursa or iRacing.

It's a niche game experience that not a lot of people really practice to get good at it, and of those that do few have spent the money on racing rigs and VR. My son and I race in leagues and do pretty well. I know it's just a video game but I've occasionally gotten better lap times than the professionals.

My son got me into it and built my rig for me (which is extra special for me!) and last weekend for the first time since we started I actually beat him! He came up and I told him I got lucky because he got cut off by another car and lost control and couldn't make up the loss fast enough and he said "no Dad, your really fast!" Hearing that from my son brought me the feels!

My specific subfield in software development.

Not because I'm particularly good at it - just because it's incredibly niche and the few dozen other people on the planet who also work in my field would probably not be amongst those 99.

Speaking Estonian. There are few enough native speakers on the planet that the odds of anyone out of 99 being better is negligible.

I won a longest eyelashes contest when I was a baby at a county fair. Maybe that still holds up?

If the people gets selected from over the world randomly, speaking swedish would have a somewhat 90% chance of working perfectly.

Or C/C++ programming if the randomness also has incudes age I guess.

Or info about some really small place.

99 randomly chosen people? Any of the niche hyperfixations I've had in the past few years would probably give me a good shot.

I'm not trying to roll the dice that I'm in the top 1% of those fields, I'm just trying to roll the dice that those interests are shared by fewer than 1% of people (very likely).

Oh, man.. Maybe MacGyver trivia? I'm not a superman or anything, but it's probably something I could beat 99 random people in.

Any of my real interests or talents, I can readily admit I'm probably just average at.

So I recently one the northern Territory chilli eating championship, and in a month's time me and 6 others are competing in the Australian championship to crown Australia's best chilli eater and decide who will he going to America for the world championship.

So maybe crane mechanics

Questions about my life

What is the selection area for the random people? Is it random from all around the world? Country? State?

I'd choose my profession because it's kinda niche-ish. It's only 0.03% of the workforce of my state BUT the major metropolitan areas have a ton of us in clusters so it really depends on how the random people get chosen that would give me my best shot.

I choose Euros, of course.

10 metre air rifle shooting

Speedrunning Pikmin, my record is 9 days

Playing Salem The game.

No, not "town of salem"

Player base is only like 1000, the odds of getting one of the few hundred people in the world that could out play me would be crazy.

• LaserQuest
• CSS hacks for IE6

"Not winning the $1 million". Whoever they try to give the money to would automatically fall into last place with a 99 way tie for first.

Speedrunning Getting Over It

How quickly I can give up my hope of winning this hypothetical contest

Fishing. I will fish a bitch to death, and then fish them back to life again cuz I’m sick like that

Giving me a hand job. So even if I lose, I've still won. 100 times.

Mental math. When I was a kid I could answer math problems faster than they could be punched into a calculator which was a neat party trick I guess. I can still do that but I also understand more advanced math. i.e calculating roots, fermi questions, calculus etc. Back when I was being assessed for ADHD, one of the things that was tested is mental arithmatic. Less than one out of a thousand of my peers can do what I did there. (they couldnt find an upper limit) So there's less than a 10% chance that any of those 99 random people could beat me in a test of mental math.

Several things spring to mind, but i'll go low hanging fruit:

Getting my cat to come to me.

Robotics. I'm not that good really, but win random sampling, my chances are quite high.

Accurately reciting the lyrics to ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny

That is an easy question.

Shooting, combined carbine and pistol, using Practical Competition Shooting League (competition/armor division) rules. Five stages.

I'm in the 20% percentile for PCSL shooters; I am not good when compared to them. On the other hand, very, very few people nationally compete in any kind of shooting sport. People that personally own firearms make up roughly 32% of the US population. People that practice regularly with the firearms that they own make up a much smaller percentage of that. Of the people that practice, people that compete at all, much less regularly, make up a tiny fraction of all firearm owners.

Even if the 99 truly randomly chosen people are all in the US, I've got pretty decent odds that I'll be competing against people that have no experience in shooting on the clock. If those 99 random people are people from anywhere, then, given that gun ownership is very low pretty much everywhere else in the world, the odds are very, very good that the people I'd be competing against wouldn't even know how to effectively operate a firearm, would be unable to follow the rules, and would end up getting disqualified for major safety violations.

Being me

Picking what I do for a living would be too easy so I go with hard mode and say my ability to emotionally distance myself and think objectively.