Sports for Nerds

This is one area where you may think nerds would have no knowledge. Again, a false rumor. While we may not have the physical prowess of your typical modern jock, we possess skills others lack. These skills aid us in our numerous sport-game adventures, and in other ways as well.

The main skill set possessed by all geeks, nerds, and tech-dorks alike is that of hand-eye coordination. Whether it be from hours spent surfing the Web without so much as glancing at our fingers as we type, or “role playing” in chat rooms, using our superior typing skills to create characters, scenarios, and battle scenes with our fellow computer nerds. Nerds possess excellent hand-eye coordination, and excellent digit control. We are able to manipulate our hands second only to our cousins, The Gamers, working in small spaces like hard drives at the back of CPU stations and wiring boards for various electronic boards.

Similarly, although we may often wear glasses, our attention to detail is superb, making us adept at any physical sport which may require a keen sight for specificity. Many nerds, as a result, are interested in solo-sports like sailing, which may not require a lot of muscle power, but rather a shrewd thought process. Additionally, bowling comes naturally to many a geek, as it can be broken down into simple geometrics and again, requires little strength.

That is not to say, of course, that no techno-geek is able of body. Far from it. Some of the best athletes out there are nerds. You just wouldn’t know it, because they’d much rather be showing their stuff in an online round of Halo than on the baseball diamond or football field. In general, nerds are solitary creatures, communicating with each other mostly online, and thus we prefer single sports (like sailing and bowling, as mentioned before). Golf is another hit with some nerds, as we can analyze the simple physics of any given situation and use the rules to our advantage.