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<p>If you&#39;ve ever had a moment where you&#39;re unexpectedly good at something, or you pull off an unlikely scheme in the nick of time, you know just how cathartic that wave of adrenaline feels.</p><p>Surprising yourself in a moment of pure luck feels equal parts euphoric and bizarre, particularly when you try to replicate the moment and realize you can&#39;t. Realizing whatever shifted in the universe to favor you was random and fleeting can be bittersweet, but retelling these moments can be a treat.</p><h2>People jumped <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/mh6cup/whats_the_coolest_how_tf_did_i_do_that_moment/" target="_blank">on a popular Reddit thread</a> to share the coolest &quot;how the hell did I do that&quot; moment they&#39;ve ever had.</h2><p> </p><h2>1. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/therealgeekatron/">therealgeekatron</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Playing darts, which I&#39;m rubbish at, we were betting on closest to the bull. I knew I was crap at it so I thought what the hell and I closed my eyes, turned my head to the side and threw the dart. Straight into the bullseye. In front of a crowd of disbelieving people. Won a hundred quid as well.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>2. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/_manicpixie/">_manicpixie</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I caught the last two guys out in dodgeball when it was down to me and good players.</p> <p>I cannot throw for s**t, but I just waited for them to come at me. The force left red marks on my legs. Closest I&rsquo;ll get to a sports star moment.</p> </blockquote><h2>3. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/FarseerTaelen/">FarseerTaelen</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I was walking back up a hill after sledding down it, and I was talking to a friend so I wasn&#39;t paying attention to where I was going. I suddenly hear a bunch of my friends at the top yelling my name, look up, and see someone flying down the hill straight at me. Without thinking I jumped straight up and they passed underneath me.</p> <p>Kind of mundane but it was pretty cool at the time.</p> </blockquote><h2>4. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Northernsoul64/">Northernsoul64</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I was on a rollercoaster with some friends and as we went up the loop my glasses fell off and fortunately I some how managed to catch them as we rounded the bottom.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>When I realised what happened I just looked to my friend sat next to me on the ride and just said &ldquo;did you actually see what I just did&rdquo; and resumed the fun.</p> </blockquote><h2>5. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ripcitypeach/">ripcitypeach</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I had never shot any kind of gun before. Limited video games (think that orange gun for Duck Hunt on the original Nintendo) and water guns, but that&#39;s it. I went over to my boyfriend&#39;s Dad&#39;s house (who are now my spouse &amp; father-in-law, respectively) and my BF &amp; his brother &amp; Dad were shooting BB guns at expired eggs in the backyard (typical desert rat stuff). I stood off to the side, just watching for awhile until someone asked if I wanted to give it a go. I took one shot &amp; hit the sole egg at the other side of the yard.</p> <p>Haven&#39;t shot a gun since. Why mess with a perfect record?</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>6. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Sump__Erson/">Sump__Erson</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I got struck on my motorcycle by a guy who ran a red light. He wasn&#39;t going super fast, but the impact lifted my rear tire up and I pivoted on the front tire before going a little airborne, did a bit of a &quot;spinning hop&quot; and somehow landed on both tires without falling over about 5&#39; away. The guy started driving off, so I put down the kickstand and ran after him screaming and waving my arms. This was a very busy intersection and a lot of people saw.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>The guy finally pulled over, got out and was shaking and panicking. It was an elderly fellow. I went over, put my arm on his shoulder and told him &quot;it&#39;s ok, I&#39;m not injured, you don&#39;t look injured, just calm down and we&#39;ll figure this out.&quot; That seemed to calm him down and we resolved things peacefully.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>How I landed that bike after going airborne was beyond me. Wasn&#39;t skill, just dumb luck.</p> </blockquote><h2>7. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/nBrainwashed/">nBrainwashed</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I once knocked a bottle of water over off a supervisor&rsquo;s desk, and the cap was on it but not screwed on. It was just resting on top of it. I caught the bottle upside down, with my finger on the cap holding it on. I didn&rsquo;t spill a drop. The supervisor just had a stunned look on their face and said nice catch and screwed the cap on. Felt like a scene from Spider Man or something. It should have been a really embarrassing moment, but it turned into a pretty cool one.</p> </blockquote><h2>8. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/wafflesmademedoit/">wafflesmademedoit</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I once scaled my friend&rsquo;s second story balcony because she locked herself out. Her balcony was unlocked so I grabbed a tall garbage can and a garden hose. I stood on the can and threaded the hose through the rails of the balcony and then tied a knot every foot and climbed up the hose like a ladder. I still can&rsquo;t believe how well that worked.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>9. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Goose-rider3000/">Goose-rider3000</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I was drunkenly buying some weed when two policemen appeared on bikes to arrest the guys I was buying it off. I made up some bulls**t that I thought they were taxi drivers and was trying to get a cab. One of the coppers, suddenly goes, &#39;what&#39;s that in your hand?&#39;. It was a bag of weed I had just purchased. I some how managed to do some David Blaine style sleight of hand, flicking the baggy up my sleeve, whilst raising my arm to show an empty hand, to innocently proclaim that there was nothing in my hand. He said, &#39;fair enough mate,&#39; and sent me on my way. I have never had the ability to do anything remotely like this, before or since.</p> </blockquote><h2>10. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Dr_NGin/">Dr_NGin</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Our college campus had water balloons bandits. You&#39;d be walking and get soaked with a very accurate, very large water balloon. You never saw anyone throw it, and 9 times out of 10 the first hit was a direct hit.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>One night me and a friend were walking when one splashed right in front of us. I looked up, and silhouetted by the moon in front of us on a rooftop was a person barely peeking their head over the crest of the roof. I was eating an apple and had only taken one bite. They knew we saw them and ducked.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>I threw the apple as hard as I could in that general direction. We both stood and watched as time slowed down. They popped their head back up and the apple made impact directly with their face. The apple disintegrated and the head vanished immediately.</p> </blockquote><h2>11. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/95Richard/">95Richard</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I caught a paper airplane that was accidentally flying towards my head mid-air with my left hand without looking (I&#39;m right handed, and really suck at catching things). I&#39;m sure the plane was in my peripheral vision, and my brain acted before I realised it.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>12. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/POCKALEELEE/">POCKALEELEE</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I was teaching at the front of my class. A fly was buzzing around annoying me. I stuck my hand out and caught it between two fingers. My students thought I was a god that day.</p> </blockquote><h2>13. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/throguey99/">throguey99</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Caught a bottle of wine falling of a waiter&rsquo;s tray, he was serving the table next to me. I was talking to my friends and had had a few drinks before, didn&rsquo;t even think about it and had the bottle in my hand in a fraction of a second before it hit the ground.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Not the only time I&#39;ve been surprised by my reflexes but definitely the most impressive. I dont do anything physical other than working out a bit so it does not help my life at all.</p> <p>My doctor friend told me thats the only good thing my adhd will ever do for me. Lol.</p> </blockquote><h2>14. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/mihejlo/">mihejlo</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I live in Croatia and there we have trams. There is a big place where they all turn to go into the different direction, to drive in circles around the city. Well, getting hit by a tram is practically impossible but I was passing between the track at one of those places where they all turn and realised I wouldn&#39;t make it because I was walking where I shouldn&#39;t have. It&#39;s pretty common here since it&#39;s all chaos.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Well, in the moment I realised that I was trapped I didn&#39;t panic rather something in me went all parkour and I just walked a little faster to the fence, which has some hight might I add, and well I jumped over that motherf**ker like I never jumped before. I spent the next 10 minutes thinking: &quot;Who tf is this guy that just did this and where has he been all my life.&quot;</p> </blockquote><h2>15. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/MrBigTimeJim/">MrBigTimeJim</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I can throw things very fast and very far, but I have no control whatsoever so I sucked at sports. I could throw a baseball really fast, but none were strikes. I could launch a football, but it would go end over end, no spiral, no aim.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>One day in college, I was walking past the football field while practice was going on. Someone punted the ball and it went into the endzone and over the fence and bounced right to where I was walking.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>I picked up the football and saw a player calling for it near the 50 yard line. Trying my best to look casual, I launched it at them full force.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>It was a thing of beauty. It had gone about 70 yards in the air. A perfect tight spiral, the guy who was calling for it didn&rsquo;t have to move an inch. It was perfectly placed right in the middle of his chest.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Several of the players were just staring at me and seemed surprised some guy in the street could make that throw. I tried my best to look cool and just walked away knowing I could never replicate that throw in a million years.</p> </blockquote><h2>16. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Mikewithoutanm/">Mikewithoutanm</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>When I was 16 I was playing baseball and knocked a homerun over the fence and halfway across the road on the other side of the outfield fence. In total the distance on the fly was probably around 428 feet. I only got close one other time, no idea how I got that good a hit.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>17. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/otterpaws27/">otterpaws27</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Ah yes. In Berlin, you can still play dodgeball in school. What was probably the coolest trick I somehow managed to pull off went like this: Two balls were thrown at me. As I jumped to catch one of them without getting hit by another, I miscalculated my jump and began to fall backwards. As I was falling, I had kicked one of the two balls straight up, then caught the other. I stood up quickly, and used the ball in my hands to hit the one I had kicked upwards over at the other team, then threw the one in my hands shortly after. It caught someone off guard, and both of the balls hit them. I&#39;m still proud of that moment, even if it was a complete accident.</p> </blockquote><h2>18. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ai01music/">ai01music</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I was learning how to ice skate. I had, and still have, very minimal skills. I was at a skating rink hobbling around trying not to get run over by kids skating past like pro hockey players, feeling bad about myself bc the only way I knew how to stop was to run into a wall. Everyone was told to get off the ice so the zamboni could come and smooth things out with a fresh sheet of ice. When the zamboni left, they opened the gate to let skaters back on, and I was the first on the ice.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>The surface was so smooth and there was nobody around and in front of me. I got this sudden burst of energy and shot off like Connor McDavid to the opposite end of the ice. Then as I reached the other end I remembered I didn&#39;t know how to stop. Just as I reached the end wall, I twisted my lower body and did this graceful 180 full stop inches from the boards. For a moment I felt like I actually knew what I was doing!</p> </blockquote><h2>19. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/BogdanPee/">BogdanPee</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I have 3 that I remember.</p> <p>Once I finished smoking and dropped the mug by accident and it fell straight and stayed that way.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Another time I was playing football and I was bad all the time and still am, we had a free kick and some people were talking shit like I can&#39;t hit a ball and this free kick is lost (there was a new guy that asked if I can score) and somehow I managed to score a goal from pretty far, straight in the top corner.</p> <p>Lastly, I f**king turned 3k into 55k thanks to GameStop and now I can buy a house in my country.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>20. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Desperate-Put7091/">Desperate-Put7091</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I once caught a nerf bullet fired at me from point blank range.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

20 people share their coolest 'how the hell did I do that' moments.

If you&#39;ve ever had a moment where you&#39;re unexpectedly good at something, or you pull off an unlikely scheme in the nick of time, you know just how cathartic that wave of adrenaline feels.Surprising yourself in a moment of pure luck feels equal parts euphoric and bizarre, particularly when you try to replicate the moment and realize you can&#39;t. Realizing whatever shifted in the universe to favor you was random and fleeting can be bittersweet, but retelling these moments can be a treat.People jumped on a popular Reddit thread to share the coolest &quot;how the hell did I do that&quot; moment they&#39;ve ever had. 1. From therealgeekatron: Playing darts, which I&#39;m rubbish at, we were betting on closest to the bull. I knew I was crap at it so I thought what the hell and I closed my eyes, turned my head to the side and threw the dart. Straight into the bullseye. In front of a crowd of disbelieving people. Won a hundred quid as well. 2. From _manicpixie: I caught the last two guys out in dodgeball when it was down to me and good players. I cannot throw for s**t, but I just waited for them to come at me. The force left red marks on my legs. Closest I&rsquo;ll get to a sports star moment. 3. From FarseerTaelen: I was walking back up a hill after sledding down it, and I was talking to a friend so I wasn&#39;t paying attention to where I was going. I suddenly hear a bunch of my friends at the top yelling my name, look up, and see someone flying down the hill straight at me. Without thinking I jumped straight up and they passed underneath me. Kind of mundane but it was pretty cool at the time. 4. From Northernsoul64: I was on a rollercoaster with some friends and as we went up the loop my glasses fell off and fortunately I some how managed to catch them as we rounded the bottom.  When I realised what happened I just looked to my friend sat next to me on the ride and just said &ldquo;did you actually see what I just did&rdquo; and resumed the fun. 5. From ripcitypeach: I had never shot any kind of gun before. Limited video games (think that orange gun for Duck Hunt on the original Nintendo) and water guns, but that&#39;s it. I went over to my boyfriend&#39;s Dad&#39;s house (who are now my spouse &amp; father-in-law, respectively) and my BF &amp; his brother &amp; Dad were shooting BB guns at expired eggs in the backyard (typical desert rat stuff). I stood off to the side, just watching for awhile until someone asked if I wanted to give it a go. I took one shot &amp; hit the sole egg at the other side of the yard. Haven&#39;t shot a gun since. Why mess with a perfect record? 6. From Sump__Erson: I got struck on my motorcycle by a guy who ran a red light. He wasn&#39;t going super fast, but the impact lifted my rear tire up and I pivoted on the front tire before going a little airborne, did a bit of a &quot;spinning hop&quot; and somehow landed on both tires without falling over about 5&#39; away. The guy started driving off, so I put down the kickstand and ran after him screaming and waving my arms. This was a very busy intersection and a lot of people saw.  The guy finally pulled over, got out and was shaking and panicking. It was an elderly fellow. I went over, put my arm on his shoulder and told him &quot;it&#39;s ok, I&#39;m not injured, you don&#39;t look injured, just calm down and we&#39;ll figure this out.&quot; That seemed to calm him down and we resolved things peacefully.  How I landed that bike after going airborne was beyond me. Wasn&#39;t skill, just dumb luck. 7. From nBrainwashed: I once knocked a bottle of water over off a supervisor&rsquo;s desk, and the cap was on it but not screwed on. It was just resting on top of it. I caught the bottle upside down, with my finger on the cap holding it on. I didn&rsquo;t spill a drop. The supervisor just had a stunned look on their face and said nice catch and screwed the cap on. Felt like a scene from Spider Man or something. It should have been a really embarrassing moment, but it turned into a pretty cool one. 8. From wafflesmademedoit: I once scaled my friend&rsquo;s second story balcony because she locked herself out. Her balcony was unlocked so I grabbed a tall garbage can and a garden hose. I stood on the can and threaded the hose through the rails of the balcony and then tied a knot every foot and climbed up the hose like a ladder. I still can&rsquo;t believe how well that worked. 9. From Goose-rider3000: I was drunkenly buying some weed when two policemen appeared on bikes to arrest the guys I was buying it off. I made up some bulls**t that I thought they were taxi drivers and was trying to get a cab. One of the coppers, suddenly goes, &#39;what&#39;s that in your hand?&#39;. It was a bag of weed I had just purchased. I some how managed to do some David Blaine style sleight of hand, flicking the baggy up my sleeve, whilst raising my arm to show an empty hand, to innocently proclaim that there was nothing in my hand. He said, &#39;fair enough mate,&#39; and sent me on my way. I have never had the ability to do anything remotely like this, before or since. 10. From Dr_NGin: Our college campus had water balloons bandits. You&#39;d be walking and get soaked with a very accurate, very large water balloon. You never saw anyone throw it, and 9 times out of 10 the first hit was a direct hit.  One night me and a friend were walking when one splashed right in front of us. I looked up, and silhouetted by the moon in front of us on a rooftop was a person barely peeking their head over the crest of the roof. I was eating an apple and had only taken one bite. They knew we saw them and ducked.  I threw the apple as hard as I could in that general direction. We both stood and watched as time slowed down. They popped their head back up and the apple made impact directly with their face. The apple disintegrated and the head vanished immediately. 11. From 95Richard: I caught a paper airplane that was accidentally flying towards my head mid-air with my left hand without looking (I&#39;m right handed, and really suck at catching things). I&#39;m sure the plane was in my peripheral vision, and my brain acted before I realised it. 12. From POCKALEELEE: I was teaching at the front of my class. A fly was buzzing around annoying me. I stuck my hand out and caught it between two fingers. My students thought I was a god that day. 13. From throguey99: Caught a bottle of wine falling of a waiter&rsquo;s tray, he was serving the table next to me. I was talking to my friends and had had a few drinks before, didn&rsquo;t even think about it and had the bottle in my hand in a fraction of a second before it hit the ground.  Not the only time I&#39;ve been surprised by my reflexes but definitely the most impressive. I dont do anything physical other than working out a bit so it does not help my life at all. My doctor friend told me thats the only good thing my adhd will ever do for me. Lol. 14. From mihejlo: I live in Croatia and there we have trams. There is a big place where they all turn to go into the different direction, to drive in circles around the city. Well, getting hit by a tram is practically impossible but I was passing between the track at one of those places where they all turn and realised I wouldn&#39;t make it because I was walking where I shouldn&#39;t have. It&#39;s pretty common here since it&#39;s all chaos.  Well, in the moment I realised that I was trapped I didn&#39;t panic rather something in me went all parkour and I just walked a little faster to the fence, which has some hight might I add, and well I jumped over that motherf**ker like I never jumped before. I spent the next 10 minutes thinking: &quot;Who tf is this guy that just did this and where has he been all my life.&quot; 15. From MrBigTimeJim: I can throw things very fast and very far, but I have no control whatsoever so I sucked at sports. I could throw a baseball really fast, but none were strikes. I could launch a football, but it would go end over end, no spiral, no aim.  One day in college, I was walking past the football field while practice was going on. Someone punted the ball and it went into the endzone and over the fence and bounced right to where I was walking.  I picked up the football and saw a player calling for it near the 50 yard line. Trying my best to look casual, I launched it at them full force.  It was a thing of beauty. It had gone about 70 yards in the air. A perfect tight spiral, the guy who was calling for it didn&rsquo;t have to move an inch. It was perfectly placed right in the middle of his chest.  Several of the players were just staring at me and seemed surprised some guy in the street could make that throw. I tried my best to look cool and just walked away knowing I could never replicate that throw in a million years. 16. From Mikewithoutanm: When I was 16 I was playing baseball and knocked a homerun over the fence and halfway across the road on the other side of the outfield fence. In total the distance on the fly was probably around 428 feet. I only got close one other time, no idea how I got that good a hit. 17. From otterpaws27: Ah yes. In Berlin, you can still play dodgeball in school. What was probably the coolest trick I somehow managed to pull off went like this: Two balls were thrown at me. As I jumped to catch one of them without getting hit by another, I miscalculated my jump and began to fall backwards. As I was falling, I had kicked one of the two balls straight up, then caught the other. I stood up quickly, and used the ball in my hands to hit the one I had kicked upwards over at the other team, then threw the one in my hands shortly after. It caught someone off guard, and both of the balls hit them. I&#39;m still proud of that moment, even if it was a complete accident. 18. From ai01music: I was learning how to ice skate. I had, and still have, very minimal skills. I was at a skating rink hobbling around trying not to get run over by kids skating past like pro hockey players, feeling bad about myself bc the only way I knew how to stop was to run into a wall. Everyone was told to get off the ice so the zamboni could come and smooth things out with a fresh sheet of ice. When the zamboni left, they opened the gate to let skaters back on, and I was the first on the ice.  The surface was so smooth and there was nobody around and in front of me. I got this sudden burst of energy and shot off like Connor McDavid to the opposite end of the ice. Then as I reached the other end I remembered I didn&#39;t know how to stop. Just as I reached the end wall, I twisted my lower body and did this graceful 180 full stop inches from the boards. For a moment I felt like I actually knew what I was doing! 19. From BogdanPee: I have 3 that I remember. Once I finished smoking and dropped the mug by accident and it fell straight and stayed that way.  Another time I was playing football and I was bad all the time and still am, we had a free kick and some people were talking shit like I can&#39;t hit a ball and this free kick is lost (there was a new guy that asked if I can score) and somehow I managed to score a goal from pretty far, straight in the top corner. Lastly, I f**king turned 3k into 55k thanks to GameStop and now I can buy a house in my country. 20. From Desperate-Put7091: I once caught a nerf bullet fired at me from point blank range. 