I'm having so much fun reading everyone's replies to this topic that I decided to answer it for myself as well:
Athletic: 9 -
Challenges: Body Builder & Fitness NutI was well on my way to make topsport my career. I used to do competitive swimming and trained insane hours (12 times a week for 1,5 to 2 hours, even before going to school). However, I got very sick and it took me 2 years to fully recover and another 2 to get back to my original achievement level. By that time I was so far behind in training development that I was unable to catch up. Swimming will always be my first love but for my body it's acutally healthier to pursue a "normal" career and I'm definitely happy doing what I do now.
Bass/Drums/Guitar/Piano: 0As a child I was adamant I did
not want to take music lessons - like every other kid - and my parents were OK with that. Nowadays I regret never learning how to play an instrument, specifically the piano, but you can't win 'm all in life!
Charisma: 10 -
Challenges: Personable & Super FriendlyLike Anushka, my education and subsequent field of work forced me to max this. I was always an open and spontaneous person, but I definitely didn't have Charisma maxed. I’ve never been an extremely funny person either, I tend to be drawn towards sarcasm instead.
Collecting: 1I’ve collected some stuff when I was a kid. My biggest collection would’ve been my animal figurines, as a child I was able to pick one figurine after going to the dentist. After every dentist appointment I’d spent the next half year plotting which animal I was getting next. I grew out of this collecting though, nowadays I can’t stand any unnecessary clutter. I already have enough clutter I
can’t get rid of even if I wanted to.
Cooking: 5 -
Challenges: Star Chef & World-Class ChefI’m a decent cook, but definitely no star chef. I do enjoy cooking, and I think I could become better, but I simply don’t have the time (or energy at the end of a long day) to spend ages in the kitchen. Perhaps in future years but right now easy always wins.
Fishing: 0Fishing is something I absolutely abhor. I tried it a few times as a child but then I concluded it was just really sad for the fish and I stopped doing it. That sentiment has not changed a bit.
Gardening: -5Every time I attempt to bring some plant life into the house it always ends with a dead plant. I’m the complete opposite of a green thumb – I’m a plant killer!
Handiness: 0I couldn’t repair
anything even if my life depended on it. When my bicycle (we all ride those in Holland) has a leak in one of its tires I can’t even fix that (most 12 year olds can!). I always look to employ man-help for all my repairing needs!
Inventing: dependsDoes inventing include designing? That’s something – given my education – I’m quite good at. I have to design both theoretical hypotheses as well as actual projects. Inventing in its most pure meaning though; no, I can not.
Logic: 9 –
Challenges: Teacher Extraordinaire & Skill ProfessorHow do you measure logic? If you measure it by how logic
you think you are it becomes quite convoluted. Naturally
you will think something you came up with is logical, or you wouldn’t have thought of it in the first place! Purely looking at what educations I have completed I’d estimate myself close to max. However; I couldn’t win a chess match from a 10 year old.
Martial Arts: 10 –
Challenges: Sim Fu KingMy parents thought a girl had to know how to defend herself, so I grudgingly obtained a black belt in Taekwondo (strictly a self-defense sport) after which I was allowed to quit. Which isn’t quite as bad as it sounds, somewhere in the middle I definitely had fun but I’ve just never been the sparring type. I mainly focused on style.
Mixology/Nectar Making: 0I wouldn’t even know where to begin making something that tastes even reasonable decent!
Painting: 6 –
Challenges: BrushmasterI’m not a traditional painter. I usually draw and use different pencil mediums to do so. I do work a lot with watercolours – I guess that qualifies as painting. Similarly to cooking though, I have too little time to do this nowadays and when I do have free time it’s just more appealing to me to relaxingly play the sims instead of having to fuss and frustrate over a painting or drawing that isn’t turning out quite the way I envisioned it.
Photography: 5 -
Challenges: Photolog & Architectural EyeI don’t put my finger on the lens, I don’t cut off heads or feet and I have a fairly decent understanding of composition. I have absolutely no knowledge about the technical side of photography though. I’d say I can document a holiday quite well but anything beyond that is also beyond my skill.
Sculpting: 0I don’t like sculpting, I’d rather draw. I suck at it too! The only thing I’m not half bad at is making real-life scale models of my designs – something I have to do regularly. But this doesn’t actually fall under sculpting I think.
Writing: 8 –
Challenges: Specialist WriterBut again this depends on how you look at it. I have written lots and lots of case and literary studies, reports and scientific papers. I used to write novels, plays and poems as a child but as a teen I started to hate this. It’s coming back to me though, but time prevents me from trying anything major or serious. For now it’s just the odd poem and of course my dynasty – my first non-scientific serious writing endeavor in a really long time and so far I’m been having a blast. Despite not always putting them to paper though, I've never stopped making up stories in my head
