0°Recent Blog Posts - 52skillz
Episode 1| How to Solve a Rubik’s Cube While Skydiving
Time: 1.5 months Cost: $10,000 Difficulty: The Most Difficult thing We’ve Done Yet After a month of planning, 1.5 months of learning the cube and way to many attempts to solve the cube, the first episode of How to Learn Anything is finally up! Hope you enjoy, and if you’d like ...
Published at 52skillz
Time: 1.5 months Cost: $10,000 Difficulty: The Most Difficult thing We’ve Done Yet After a month of planning, 1.5 months of learning the cube and way to many attempts to solve the cube, the first episode of How to Learn Anything is finally up! Hope you enjoy, and if you’d like ...
Published at 52skillz
How to Make Vegan Gluten Free Tomato Aspic w/ Stump Kitchen
Time: 3hrs Cost: $20 Difficulty: Apparently Quite Difficult Tastyness: Stumptastic! The Quick Version “Hey Stephen? Why didn’t you write anything up for this week’s skill?” “Because I’m tired, the post is late, and I’ve ...
Published at 52skillz
Time: 3hrs Cost: $20 Difficulty: Apparently Quite Difficult Tastyness: Stumptastic! The Quick Version “Hey Stephen? Why didn’t you write anything up for this week’s skill?” “Because I’m tired, the post is late, and I’ve ...
Published at 52skillz
How to Give Your Girlfriend a Hair Cut
Time: 45 min Cost: $0-Your Life Difficulty: High Worth it: Nooooooooooope The Quick Version Don’t do it, hire a hair stylist or something. Thanks for reading! The post How to Give Your Girlfriend a Hair Cut appeared first on 52skillz.
Published at 52skillz
Time: 45 min Cost: $0-Your Life Difficulty: High Worth it: Nooooooooooope The Quick Version Don’t do it, hire a hair stylist or something. Thanks for reading! The post How to Give Your Girlfriend a Hair Cut appeared first on 52skillz.
Published at 52skillz
How to Pick a Lock | The Basics
Time: 8 hours Cost: $0-$30 Difficulty: Mid-High Chances of Getting Sunburt: 0% The Quick Version “Lock picking is more of an art than a science” -The Art of Manliness I agree The Art of Manliness writers! I would also add that it is an incredibly frustrating art form, one that ...
Published at 52skillz
Time: 8 hours Cost: $0-$30 Difficulty: Mid-High Chances of Getting Sunburt: 0% The Quick Version “Lock picking is more of an art than a science” -The Art of Manliness I agree The Art of Manliness writers! I would also add that it is an incredibly frustrating art form, one that ...
Published at 52skillz
How to Beat your Friends at Darts (without practicing)
Time: 0 Time! Cost: 0 Cost! Difficulty: 0 Difficulty! Coolness at Parties: Maybe Increased!? A Synopsis, and link to the Article I’ve been playing darts from time to time for a large portion of my life now, but have never really seen improvement. Just about every game I won or lost, came do...
Published at 52skillz
Time: 0 Time! Cost: 0 Cost! Difficulty: 0 Difficulty! Coolness at Parties: Maybe Increased!? A Synopsis, and link to the Article I’ve been playing darts from time to time for a large portion of my life now, but have never really seen improvement. Just about every game I won or lost, came do...
Published at 52skillz
How to Solve a Rubiks Cube While Riding a Bike
Time: 6hrs Cost: $5 Difficulty: High Increased Chance with the Ladies?: Unlikely The Quick Version For those of you who are actually wanting to learn how to solve a Rubiks cube, it would be both a waste of my time and yours, if I attempted to explain it in this blog. For that reason, here are two...
Published at 52skillz
Time: 6hrs Cost: $5 Difficulty: High Increased Chance with the Ladies?: Unlikely The Quick Version For those of you who are actually wanting to learn how to solve a Rubiks cube, it would be both a waste of my time and yours, if I attempted to explain it in this blog. For that reason, here are two...
Published at 52skillz
How to Flip a Water Bottle to Impress Your Friends
Time: 1-2hrs Cost: $10 Difficulty: Moderate Likelihood of Male Approval at Parties: Increased The Quick Version Don’t have time to watch a 4min video!? Got business to do!? Chores to be chored!? Cats to be catted!? I hear ya. Because I love all five of the people who read this blog each wee...
Published at 52skillz
Time: 1-2hrs Cost: $10 Difficulty: Moderate Likelihood of Male Approval at Parties: Increased The Quick Version Don’t have time to watch a 4min video!? Got business to do!? Chores to be chored!? Cats to be catted!? I hear ya. Because I love all five of the people who read this blog each wee...
Published at 52skillz
How to Levitate a Ping Pong Ball with Your Mouth
Time: 3-4hrs Cost: $3 Difficulty: Moderate Coolness: Greatly Increased Depending on Context The Quick Version I had two takeaways from this skill: Learning how to do this, and to make it look OKAY is fairly easy. To learn how to do it in a way that is worthy for a game of beer pong, will probabl...
Published at 52skillz
Time: 3-4hrs Cost: $3 Difficulty: Moderate Coolness: Greatly Increased Depending on Context The Quick Version I had two takeaways from this skill: Learning how to do this, and to make it look OKAY is fairly easy. To learn how to do it in a way that is worthy for a game of beer pong, will probabl...
Published at 52skillz
The Curious Person’s Guide to Learning Anything | TEDxUalberta
From the TEDx Youtube Page After devoting himself to learning a new skill every single week for 52 weeks, Stephen shares invaluable advice to learning anything. In this comedic talk, Stephen explores how we can motivate ourselves to pursue our ambitions and ultimately, follow through on ou...
Published at 52skillz
From the TEDx Youtube Page After devoting himself to learning a new skill every single week for 52 weeks, Stephen shares invaluable advice to learning anything. In this comedic talk, Stephen explores how we can motivate ourselves to pursue our ambitions and ultimately, follow through on ou...
Published at 52skillz
How to Make Your Own Beer
Time: 1-1.5 Months Cost: $50 Difficulty: Super Easy Deliciousness: SUPER DELICIOUS Links and Final Thoughts This was one of the longest running skillz in 52skillz history, second only to The Rube Goldberg Machine I spent two months making for the 52nd skill. Was it worth it? OH HELL YA. Fo...
Published at 52skillz
Time: 1-1.5 Months Cost: $50 Difficulty: Super Easy Deliciousness: SUPER DELICIOUS Links and Final Thoughts This was one of the longest running skillz in 52skillz history, second only to The Rube Goldberg Machine I spent two months making for the 52nd skill. Was it worth it? OH HELL YA. Fo...
Published at 52skillz
How to Do Stuff with Your Non-Dominant Hand
Time: 5hrs Cost: $0 Difficulty: High Coolness: Low This week I spent a good amount of time making a fool of myself attempting to do every day things with my left hand. And yes, chopping apples with an axe is an everyday thing for me. The post How to Do Stuff with Your Non-Dominant Hand appeared f...
Published at 52skillz
Time: 5hrs Cost: $0 Difficulty: High Coolness: Low This week I spent a good amount of time making a fool of myself attempting to do every day things with my left hand. And yes, chopping apples with an axe is an everyday thing for me. The post How to Do Stuff with Your Non-Dominant Hand appeared f...
Published at 52skillz
How to Make Your Own T-Shirt
Time: 2-5hrs Cost: $50 Difficulty: Medium Shirt Satisfaction: Worn it Every Day Since (seriously) For those of you wanting written instructions for this badboy, check out the instructables.com page I used to create this “tutorial”…or sorts. Also, 52skillz sh...
Published at 52skillz
Time: 2-5hrs Cost: $50 Difficulty: Medium Shirt Satisfaction: Worn it Every Day Since (seriously) For those of you wanting written instructions for this badboy, check out the instructables.com page I used to create this “tutorial”…or sorts. Also, 52skillz sh...
Published at 52skillz
I learned how to paint! (kind of)
Time: 20hrs Cost: $50 Difficulty: Incredibly Birth of El Cubicorn?: Worth it The post I learned how to paint! (kind of) appeared first on 52skillz.
Published at 52skillz
Time: 20hrs Cost: $50 Difficulty: Incredibly Birth of El Cubicorn?: Worth it The post I learned how to paint! (kind of) appeared first on 52skillz.
Published at 52skillz
How to Solve a Rubiks Cube While Skydiving
OMG WE DID IT…kind of… The post How to Solve a Rubiks Cube While Skydiving appeared first on 52skillz.
Published at 52skillz
OMG WE DID IT…kind of… The post How to Solve a Rubiks Cube While Skydiving appeared first on 52skillz.
Published at 52skillz
How to Solve a Rubiks Cube with a Hammer
Cost: $15 Time: 30 seconds (3 sec/smash) Difficulty: Dialogue wise, pretty darn difficult Oddly Satisfying…ness: YEP Check out more plans for us to get involved in Rubik Cube shenanigans here! (Also please don’t forget to vote for us on Storyhive.com!) Thanks for watching, and happy ...
Published at 52skillz
Cost: $15 Time: 30 seconds (3 sec/smash) Difficulty: Dialogue wise, pretty darn difficult Oddly Satisfying…ness: YEP Check out more plans for us to get involved in Rubik Cube shenanigans here! (Also please don’t forget to vote for us on Storyhive.com!) Thanks for watching, and happy ...
Published at 52skillz
