This troper has the uncanny ability to memorize trivia after seeing it only once. He can also memorize long strings of numbers very easily, partly because of a sort of complex mathematical synesthesia.

This troper is a rare RealLife example of this trope, with the unfortunate exception that I cannot remember it all, and I can't voluntarily remember something at the expense of something else. I can tell you what kind of shirts were on sale at the Gap when I passed it, but I can't get a decent score on a history test. BlessedWithSuck, indeed.

Another RealLife example: this troper, in addition to above-average declarative recall, has a frightening memory for mundane details, most notably license plates. (I wish I was making that up.) That little quirk scared the snot out of my best friend several years ago when I warned her that she was about to try unlocking the "wrong" car in a parking lot, this car being the same make, model and color as hers but the wrong license plate number. Of course, she had gotten new plates the week before.

And another RealLife example, this troper is able to spot very small things and minute details at great distance, even at a glance. In one instance he picked out the design on a small package (5X3 cm/2X1 inches) he had been looking for for quite some time, by incidentally glancing towards it, clear across a crowded supermarket (app. 50 meters/160 feet out). Also, he can consciously use this to a 'zoom-effect', magnifying details for inspection in his mind. Talk about zoom-eyes...

This troper has the same BlessedWithSuck ability as the first troper. I can remember random stuff around me even when I don't notice them at that point in time, and yet I can't remember most of the stuff I study. It sorta turns around in itself cause I don't listen to classes most of the time, and still end up remembering quite a bit.

This troper is a real life example to,because he relies on his instinct and impulses he will hear things and taste things very acutly also he can remeber things for a decent amount of time thus he gets quite good grades in history classes

This troper has a strange variant of this: he can find any word on a page in a matter of seconds, a face in a crowd or any object if he has an image of it in his head. Also, he can "rewind time" for about a minute in his head, thus remembering any object's position or state he has seen. It's very useful sometimes. Shame, that it's only short-time...

He recently noticed that for some reason, his brain is set to "record mode" when idle - he picks up clues and patterns from everywhere and analyzes them consciously in the instant. This is probably a result of him having subpar empathy - his subconscious is extremely underpreforming in recognizing emotions, thus he has to consciously look for clues and analyze them. And since his consciousness can't differentiate emotional clues from other clues until it has analyzed them, it analyzes every single clue. This theory is reinforced by the fact that when he is busy with some left-brain heavy activity such as calculations or programming, he has the emotional intelligence of a doorknob.

This troper has a baby cousin (currently 7, but 4 at the time) who knows most, but not all of the U.S. Presidents by heart. ''But he is a perfect 100% on the U.S. VICE PRESIDENTS.'' The kicker: His parents have NO IDEA where he first obtained this information (best guess would be some kids show on TV).

This troper doesn't remember it (and didn't retain the information in the long term), but when she was around three or four, she read a bus schedule (presumably given to her to keep her busy) and apparently memorized it: when her parents pointed out a bus going by and said something to the effect of "I wonder where it's going?", she answered that it was X number, so it had to be going to Y location.

More relevantly, my hearing and to a lesser extent senses of smell and taste are super-sensitive; it's almost a DisabilitySuperpower, considering how absurdly nearsighted I am. I'm the one further down the page who can tell when a bus goes by and what route it's on, by sound, from the other end of the house. I can also tell when the TV's on even if it's muted, from around a couple corners and down a flight of stairs, because of the high-pitched whine of the CRT. I can even identify my family members by the sound of their footsteps... or their sneezes, in my mom's case. I'm very good at noticing little details in general, but I'm not a natural Sherlock-scanner because I'm really no better than average at noticing all the little details at once.

This Troper has been able to perform this on occasion, but it is usually something he has to intentionally do. Picking up on accents, bumper stickers, jewellery, hair styles and other things can reveal a lot about someone. But he has also noticed that you have to have the required knowledge to associate such observations. After a few years with various jobs and observing others work habits, he was able to predict a new co-worker not lasting long because of his lack of a strong work-ethic, self-idolizing and flirtatious behavior. Sure enough, he eventually left after a sexual harassment complaint.

This troper slightly averts this, as it is out of his control and comes and goes. Several times a year I will wake up from a regular nights sleep with my hearing apparently enchanced to bizarre levels. I live in a large house, and on some occaisions I've been able to hear early morning (soft) conversations being held in the upstairs living room, which is directly opposite of my room, over our (broken and noisy) AC. Unfortunately it only lasts a few minutes, and I find it oddly difficult to move while it lasts. So much for fighting crime...

A lot of this stuff is through a technique called Cold Reading in which, by picking up on body language and details about a particular person, you can gain an insight into their personality, what they're doing etc. It's also how a lot of psychics and mediums work.

This troper has a natural talent at reading people verging on to being something of an empath. I can pick up on not only normal body language but also split-second facial expressions and changes of vocal tone. For some reason I then subconsciously bring out that emotion in myself (hence the empath part).

Play the first few notes of a song or a piece of music that this troper has heard more than three times, and he will be able to identify it by artist/composer, title, and album.

This troper bets people that if they can play the first line or sing the first line of any Metallica song, and he can't get it, He'd owe them $10...and he hasn't heard all of their songs

This tropette and her brother have this unique talent. We both often shout out the same song-title at the same time sometimes (in the car with the radio)

This troper is sort of like this. Except he forgets major stuff (Like where he put such-and-such item, or homework) but remembers weird stuff, such as the weight of one friend according to a mall scale. (107.5)

This troper's hyperacute hearing lends her to this trope. She can hear her name if it is said by anyone in her house, no matter how quietly.

Same with this troper. Her hearing is very odd; while she constantly needs to have people repeat what they say before she can understand, she can hear a cell phone, even if it's set on vibrate.. next door.

You too, huh? I can tell by sound when a bus goes past our house (which makes a useful way to tell if I've missed the one I wanted to catch... although I get the occasional false positive from trucks), and usually figure out which of the two possible routes it could be because turning the corner sounds different than going straight through the intersection. And I can do this from the other end of the house, though if I'm in the ''basement'' it diminishes my ability to distinguish between bus sounds.

This troper's family seems to run on this, one trait per family member. Troper's sister has perhaps the weirdest she can give you, for an entire room full of people, style age and motivation of choice for their ''shoes''

This troper has HyperAwareness to the point that she can seemingly "read minds." She can finish others' sentences and suggest words they're struggling to recall, as well as correctly guess the reasons behind their moods, choices, and untold stories. (She does it by reading their body language and analyzing their thought processes.) She remembers locations of things she only glanced at once, days ago. Her sense of smell is so acute that she can identify anything cooking and even what shampoo her parents use. Said parents have often been frustrated by her hearing them two floors down and ''whispering,'' to expressly prevent her from doing so.

This troper's got HyperAwareness, able to accurately tell what his parents are watching on TV with two floors separating them, whether they're talking, who is awake, and what they're up to, see very well with very little light, as well as being extremely difficult to successfully deceive, face-to-face, and able to read movements very well, matched by quick reflexes. Once the eyes are closed, however, this troper is useless, despite excellent hearing, due to lack of confidence when even vague shapes can't be made out while maneuvering.

This troper has it in the form of audio, being able to perfectly recall any sound, song, or text read aloud he's heard once (maybe twice for longer things). He can also 'speed up' play of a song in his head if he's having a hard time identifying it when it first comes on the radio. This power, annoyingly, does not work for things he himself has said; he cannot recall things he reads aloud and that makes studying very annoying. However, if he writes something down, he remembers at least the gist of it, so that's something.

This troper has a good memory and has learned to be very perceptive due to her brother always getting in to trouble and her mother being a psycho. If she isn't on top of things she might have some trouble.

This troper has aural hypersensitivity, and it forms the basis of much of her hyperawareness, focusing more on sound cues. Unfortunately, it comes with the need to use earplugs and an inability to focus on just one sound, like the voice of the person she's talking to. Even so, she can identify most of her friends (who are of the one-wardrobe variety) by the distinctive rustling of their clothes, and many other people. One of them steps heavier with the left foot than the right, and it causes the keychain he wears on his beltloop to fly and smack around in a rhythmic pattern. Another is a tightlacing corset wearer, so her breathing sounds distinct, and she wears heavy boots, which cause a slightly odd step pattern. . . You get the point.

This troper, like the troper above, has an extremely audial memory and can remember anything for a very long period of time if it's said with inflection or repeated (she still remembers where her father parked for a basketball game five years ago, because he sang the lot number). She can identify most of the 5000-odd songs on her computer by the first two notes. Oddly, she has an terrible memory otherwise and has forgotten most of her childhood that isn't memory-connected to Beatles songs (at 19 years old!).

This Troper has it.... in video games. He can remember every detail of something he's played once, right down to what he did to kill the first Stalfos. The one thing that defies his ability is the Water Temple in The Legend Of Zelda -- Ocarina Of Time

This troper has a very odd memory for conversations. She is very empathic, and is very good at picking up how people are feeling and, if she's known them long enough, what they are thinking. Because of this, as long as she is well rested and actually engaged in the conversation, she can remember the all the topics we went through, and the emotional state of the person she was talking to even years afterward. It sounds awesome, but unfortunately she also has the WeaksauceWeakness of being an introvert and feeling very inept at social situations, which means that she will remember all of her mistakes in high-definition quality. She apparently inherited this from her father, who in her head she playfully calls ''The Unabridged Encyclopedia of Useless Information''. She now seems to be inheriting the title herself.

This troper seems to be able to pick up things from other people's conversations quite keenly. Oftentimes people are surprised when they tried to explain things to him, because he obtained the information already when said people were talking with other people. Probably has to do with the fact that he does not talk very often, and thus have more energy to listen.

This troper, as a child, used to drive his parents off the shelf by noticing and loudly complaining about changes they made in the home, even very minute ones, a static home being essential for his emotional well-being. Fortunately, when reaching his teens, this troper developed a more reasonable attitude to interior decorating.

This troper has extremely poor vision; if she takes off her glasses, she can't see anything clearly past two feet. Hence, she developed extremely good senses of hearing, touch, and SherlockHolmes levels of extrapolation (so she doesn't need to rely on seeing everything perfectly). It's gotten to the point where she can identify family members and friends just by the colors of their clothes, and if her dog wakes up at night and wants to go outside, the sound of her urgent ''whimpering'' wakes her up almost immediately. Slightly averted in that all the information tends to overload her short-term memory; if she tries to remember it or describe her thought process, she can't put it in words very well and constantly resorts to BuffySpeak despite her high intelligence.

This Troper has bad vision, as well, and developed acute senses of smell and hearing, and almost no one believes me. I can also read people's body language and I'm very, very hard to lie to. I psychoanalyze everyone, and therefore can predict their actions based on their personality and thought proccesses.

I've gone into this state only a few times, and it is never fun. That's because it's triggered by immediate physical danger: bike crash, somebody trying to punch me. Makes sense from a survival standpoint, though.

I can't think of any other example for me than the fact that I can memorize floor plans and the position of furniture in someones house after walking through it at least once. I remember houses from my youth and I'm positive I could walk through them blindfolded (providing that they didn't change the way their furniture is laid out). This also works to the effect that I can remember all the previous furniture configurations that I've seen in someones house. I'm convinced this is a waste of my memory-space, but I can't stop it... >.<

This troper's brother has this whenever he plays video games. He'll play a level or track once and have the whole layout and course memorized. He's able to find even the best hidden secret unlockables just by paying attention and noticing tiny details that give away clues.

This Troper can remember small details about anything-as a forum administrator I know most regular posters IP adresses off by heart, and stuff like that. Strangely, I forget other more important things all the time.

This troper has Hyper Awareness and some Photographic Memory. He can remember the neighborhood he lived in when he was 5-7 (he's 14 now) down to the inside of his kindergarten classroom. He also notices weird details and can memorize things by looking at them, even for a few seconds.

ThisTroper had the lowest scores of his middle school's "It's Academic Team", barely making the all B average required to attend on semester. However, he was put on the "Dream Team" of the team (per tournament rules, a school could submit more than one team. Each year, our team had a dream team of the four best practice answers in practice.). He made the team consistently because he was, as fellow teammates called it, a "Fountain of Useless Knowledge" and could supply answers for almost every trivia that the rest of the dream team drew a blank on. At some practices, he was the only member of the dream team to sit out an entire practice, just so other people could have a chance to answer questions. He was first brought to the coach's attention, when he sat in after school in the 4th grade and answered several questions that stumped the then current dream team (mostly 8th graders).

In HighSchool, more than one History teacher told me to "put your hand down, I know you know the answer". Basically, he answered questions enough that by this time, the teacher wanted to hear from someone in the class other than me.

This Troper loves music - it helps that I can remember quite a number of songs and play them back note-for-note in my head; I might always not be able to tell you what notes or chords are in them, but I can tell you if you're hitting them or not - it helps that I play several instruments myself. That and a sort of sound-to-sensation-of-movement synesthesia means I get a ''powerful'' rush from the right songs, even if they're not playing anywhere but in my head ("Gimme Shelter" by the Rolling Stones, and Yoko Kanno's "Tank!" are a couple of examples.) However, in trade, I have hypersensitive hearing - high-pitched, metallic sounds like squealing brake-pads on a bus or a train might sting your ears a bit, and you might get squicked at the sound of someone with atrocious table manners eating or drinking. Now crank it up to ''twelve.'' The brake-pads of the truck that just went by feel like a power-drill ''sodomizing my brain,'' and the guy slurping down his lunch over there could very well have me fighting to keep from losing my own. I'm forced to use the music I love as a barrier against the sounds I hate sometimes, just so I don't lose my mind.

I get you. I think I have a similar relationship with music. Especially on the rush caused by music thing. Some songs make my head spin and give me a rush or a high similar to what you talk about.

JET73L has unfortunately sensitive hearing, and will often notice sounds that other people simply tune out. Unfortunately, this is a result of (or comorbid with) what is strongly believed to be an auditory processing disorder, which leads to an inability to concentrate on any one source of sound, paranoia, migranes, and (in rare, severe cases) brief catatonia. The visual version of this is just being a CloudCuckoolander. Oddly, in an unusual olfactory example that borders on SuperSenses, the troper can also smell the contents of sealed containers, as long as the scent isn't blocked by something stronger such as artificial vanilla or lilac, or the container being made of aluminum or tin), and (when not unconsciously sealing said troper's nose to avoid unpleasant scents) can notice unusual scents and determine many mystery ingredients in food by scent alone.

This troper has nigh {{Photographic Memory}} and can read/memorize details at least 5x faster than most people, and can process complex thoughts and theories so quickly they seem to hit him like a flash of lightning. However, he is too spacey at times to gather them correctly.

This troper used to read widely, and has a good grasp of anything from Keynesian economics to organic chemistry. The problem comes when he's trying to explain something like the Drake Equation, or the back story of SuzumiyaHaruhi to other people. This troper will remember every single thing, and often resort to BuffySpeak because of that. Thank goodness his History teacher got used to it pretty fast, and stopped him from digging himself deeper often. It's now implied between the 2 of them that he'd know something interesting about the subject, which saves this troper a lot of time.

I can do this with people. I remember a lot of conversations and tiny details about people, just from overhearing conversations or talking to people. I can remember the tiniest little thing about people, but I forget most other things.

I have this one too. YouAreNotAlone

This troper is also a budding Empath. Can read people accurately, feel the vibe of the room (In a deep overconnected irritating way), and read people and judge who's going to fall for who, or who has the most chemistry and "mind read", a room full of strangers. On the Vibe Of Room thing, good becuause if the room is happy then I'm really really happy, if on the other hand somebody says something exceptionally stupid or acts exceptionally negative it is like a stab to my heart. I practically die every time somebody kills the vibe of the room. Over empathy is a mad skill to have never the less....

Also good at remembering song lyrics, tunes, melodies and harmonies. Dance routines too from 10 years ago I can also remember well.

Also recently I was suprised by a romantic turn of events. I like surprise!

This troper is detail-oriented to the point of taking things literally, verbal or otherwise. Case in point: Last Tuesday, her residence hall posted signs everywhere for a "Costume Social". She showed up wearing a "costume" while everyone else was in regular clothes. Thankfully, her "costume" was Rachel Berry, whose clothes are pretty typical outside of Glee. She can also remember the lyrics to most of the songs in her vast memory banks, quote various literature, and memorize every detail of TV shows. She's also in a screenwriting class where hyper awareness is a required trait.

My own example isn't that big, but as a child, this troper could not read the body language of others. Sarcasm was beyond me, and I could never tell if people were angry with me, pleased with me, or any other sort of emotion. I had to learn to recognize and identify body language and facial expressions to tell how people were feeling, and eventually was able to tell pretty accurately wether or not people are lying or trying to hide something. It wasn't until I was about 16 that a therapist told me this was not normal behaviour, and that most people can just read these things naturally. Basically, I have to pay very close attention to everything about a person to be able to tell how they're feeling, when everyone else does it naturally. On the plus side, this gave me all the lead roles in every play I did through high school, as I could fake any emotion or reaction convincingly.

This troper has better than average sense of smell and hearing. She can hear eveyone's phones ringing before their owners, is able to tell whether a TV or a printer is on by a high-pitched whine that few else seem to hear and is able to identify family members and closer friends by smell (she gets somewhat upset if someone changes the way they smell). Although she feels the emotions of people around her and feels uncomfortable if they have a conflict she often has trouble thinking what people might do next. She's also a faster than average reader and can recall many details of what she's read.

This troper is cursed with extremely acute perception of social cues and conversation; it's extremely annoying and it makes even simple exchanges sound insulting to him, since it's usually obvious what someone's getting at after the first few words, sometimes before they even speak at all, but social conventions require lengthy dissembling and prefacing and euphemizing...all the while he's thinking "Yes, I KNOW what you mean. You can stop explaining it to me like I'm an imbecile." It's especially bad when someone says the same thing twice or more, even years apart. When that happens, this troper will generally rattle off a bulleted list of the main points made the last time the phrase was used, to avoid having to hear the whole conversation again.

This Troper, due to having no sense of smell, has sharper that average sight and hearing, and while unable to taste flavours due to the smell thing, Im able to taste things like sweet, sour etc very keenly. An unusual example of this is alcohol, which tastes pretty awful. I can detect alcohol in drinks at low concentrations, being used as a tester for friends a few times to check if they've been given an alcoholic drink or not. I am also very observant to detail, picking up on things like what someones wearing, how they're acting, etc, and remembering them for long periods of time. I can still recount conversations I held upwards of a year ago, paraphrasing what people said, if not word for word, and also detail where we were, what they were wearing, how the conversation started, and plenty else. I've taken to hiding this particular ability, as people tend to get freaked out by me remembering every detail of conversations. Having a long memory has an effect where I tend to take a longer view of time, in that I'd consider something fairly trivial that happened 3 months ago recent, while others might consider it ages ago.

I hit forwards.

I came from TroperTales/HypercompetentSidekick. Your HyperAwareness [[MemeticMutation is no match for my unorthodox entry technique]]was '''''WRONG'''''.