Art, fine motor skills, dancing, rhythm, wrapping presents, basically anything that involves coordination. If it also involves patience, I am stupendously awful.
My sister claims she’s terrible at art and yet always comes up with creative solutions and great art stuff all the time. She always refers to some bad school experience where she decided she wasn’t good at art. Ridiculous.
@Massmomm The good thing about being married to a perfectionist engineer and being bad at wrapping presents and doing any sort of artistic work is I’ve been banned from those tasks for life. He volunteers. If he didn’t, his BP would be off the scale. 
A lot of the same things already mentioned:
Singing (I was the only girl not allowed in 5th grade chorus, my sister asked me not to sing in church, even my own toddlers asked me NOT to sing them lullabyes.) The sad thing is, I enjoy singing. But only when I’m alone in the car with windows closed.
Bad at speaking foreign languages. Grammar, reading and writing are no problem.
No sense of direction, get lost easily, and have a fear of getting lost.
Bad at remembering names. Bad at socializing, entertaining.
Bad at girly stuff–hairstyling, makeup, etc.
Bad at dancing, but secretly enjoy it. Just too self conscious and sober. H is horrible at dancing, so we just can’t dance together. He’s a great singer, great at speaking foreign languages, great sense of direction/spatial memory.
I’m really bad at those tests where you have a flattened shape and you have to visualize it in 3-D, or turn it, fold it, etc. in your mind. I cannot picture it. So frustrating. I have to cut the thing out and fold it up with my hands. (Good at math in general, though.) I’m good at arts and crafts, but horrible at interior decorating. I can go in a model home and notice that it looks so nice. But I can’t seem to pick out things that coordinate for my own home.
Bad at having a positive attitude. I usually expect the worst, or see the dark side of any situation.
Parallel parking?? Forget it.
Pancakes? Mine come out best when I use pancake mix.
@atomom wrote:
Hey, that’s me! So why in the world did I become a structural engineer?? Ack. I’ve had to train myself to think in 3D - I visualize a bunch of points and connect them. When I really get stumped, I ask DH (it’s nice working with him).
I forgot whistling on my earlier post. Kids delight in making fun of me when I try.
My son had a part in a high school play because they needed someone who could whistle.
Leaving an animal shelter without a new puppy.
I am terrible at art. My kids tease me mercilessly if we play Pictionary, although with something like that I’m not half-bad. (There was the time I tried to draw a cow and it looked like a wolf. Or maybe it was the other way around.)
On the other hand, I am fantastic at remembering names and faces and putting them together. I always have been.
H and I work together with names/faces. Since I can’t differentiate faces (face blindness), he will give me a clue about where we saw someone and I’ll come up with their name. I can remember names easily. He can remember faces easily. As a team we’re just fine. When we’re apart we each have problems, but mine are worse than his. Everyone naturally assumes people can recognize faces so they think I’m rude if I think they’re a stranger when they aren’t in a store or restaurant. Many people slip up on names.
@atomom said:
I believe that’s the spatial intelligence I mentioned earlier. I remember taking tests where there would allegedly be an unfolded box. Only one of them would actually fold up into a box or lid. You had to pick which one. Friends would talk about how easy those questions were, and I would sit there quietly, wondering how in the hell anyone could find those questions easy. I would basically just guess in the whole section of those tests.
Remembering names. I’ve been going to the same church for 15 years and there are still some names I have difficulty with even though I see them each week. I am good with faces though. It’s just embarrassing because I know I know the person and get tired of referring to them in pronouns.
I can’t assemble things. I have no spatial skills so understanding how things fit together, or how to fit things in the car or if the thing I’m making will fit in a container.
Any sport where a ball is coming at me or near me. I can’t throw, literally my hubby can’t have me even toss anything to him because it will go the wrong way.
Science. I hate it and never understood it. I can reiterate the information, but have never understood it. Ie. the mitochondria is the power house of a cell.
This thread is rather comforting. I’m awful at directions/finding my way, can’t remember names until I’ve used them at least half a dozen times although I do recall faces, and whistling is nearly impossible for me. In college, dh was shocked when I told him how badly I’d done in high school geometry despite being an honors student used to making straight As. Later, my kids found that failing very amusing.
" . . . Polo . . . "
Rotate in the saddle, lower your head and hold it down through contact. Remember to keep your mouth closed so you don’t drown.
I think I meant to type, “Pole Dancing.” 
Can’t sing.
Very weak at math (and I’m the daughter of 2 engineers, one of whom was a bit of a childhood math prodigy)
Mediocre will power. Thank god I never learned to smoke or do drugs.
@ChoatieMom “I think I meant to type, “Pole Dancing.””
Uhhhhhhh, sorry. I got nothin’.ic
Thank you for this thread. I PM’d the first three singing posters.
Singing. I (and sibs) were not allowed in the mandatory junior high choir class. I did play a B-flat flat (I was chronically off) clarinet. Sister did not play an instrument so took both history of music and science of sound classes. Happy birthday at our house was sung in as many, and everchanging, keys as there were singers.
Our HS administered 10th grade tests to let you know various skills for future types of jobs. My sister had a simple line stating any of the 100 possibilities were okay. My results listed 99 of the 100- manual dexterity being the one I was not on a list for. I’m the mechanically inclined (chemistry major then MD-anesthesiologist) while sister went elementary ed/school librarian.
I have trouble with navigation although not as bad as someone I know- but I am a superb map reader.
Spatial sense lousy- no wonder I preferred algebra based math to geometric based calculus (It didn’t help to not have calculators). Yet I am the one who does it all around the house.
I also am terrible with names although I can recall the important details- who they are, what they like when I see them.
Add clumsy, uncoordinated. Gym class, sigh. Thank goodness for the written test on each sport.
I notice a trend here. So many highly successful posters with flaws in things the majority takes for granted.
On a positive note- I have excellent color discrimination. Will never forget that pH titration going from blue to pink (or vice versa) where I kept seeing ever so many shades of purple.
I cannot keep houseplants alive. Everything dies, even those that supposedly need little tending.