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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.

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).

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?

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.

Speedrunning Pikmin, my record is 9 days

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

I choose Euros, of course.

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.

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

10 metre air rifle shooting

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

Accurately reciting the lyrics to ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny

Take my dog for a car ride without puking. She's an anxious mess, nobody stands a chance!

Life force (nes) gameplay. It's a scrolling arcade space shooter.

I dabble in trying to speed run it. although I'm no good at the speed running, It is such a niche game with punishing moments I would easily win high score just by playing safe.

I can turn my feet almost all the way backwards. So I'd probably do that just to upset the runner of this competition into giving me the million.

Backgammon, pretty sure I'm in the top 1% of all people since it's not a super popular game and I'm a somewhat decent player.

Being better at nothing. I win!

Long distance cycling. Compared to the record of 1000+km (~600 miles) in 24 hours I suck, but considering 99 random people I think most won't go for more than 100 miles, so I'm good.

Or oldest stamp they own. Stamp collecting seems to be a pretty dead hobby.

French spelling. I figure odds are low that any of the 99 people would be francophone to start with, and even native francophones make a ton of mistakes.

Seems unfair that I get to do the choosing.

But I would probably pick amount of time you can edge during a goon sesh

Playing F-ZERO X on Master difficulty.