How good are you with computres, physics, mathematics?

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I'm lousy at all the above. I'm horrible with computers, and it bothers me a lot. I always get confused and struggle with instructions on the net as to how to do things on the computers, such as open a blog etc.

I'm pretty inept when it comes to computers. I'm certaily way behind in ability compared to most my age.

I understand very basic psysics to a certain degree. Maybe at a 6-7th grade level.

With math I'm like at a 3rd grade level at best. It's an area where I basically display intellectual disability.

Probably worse than average in physics. Maybe average in computers and math, though I do pretty well in arithmetic.

Computers I'm awesome at and math I used to be good at when I was much younger and physics I have no real idea because I haven't had much exposure to it in an educated setting.

One of my special interests is quantum physics and quantum mechanics as it pertains to computer science but that's an entirely different discipline all together. But that's just a hobby and something I study in my spare time.

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I'm really good with computers, but absolutely atrocious at physics and maths.

Quite awful when it comes to physics and maths.

Doing Certificate IV in Programming and have completed the Java part of it. I have C# and Python to go. So I guess I'm not bad at computers. Barely passed Networking though, there was heaps that I just didn't understand.

I am really good with computers and math.
As for physics - it's on and off. If I learn it at school I grasp it pretty easily if I get motivated but I forget it just as fast after the subject ends. I find the numbers, equations and rules in physics boring. I have pretty good sense of physics in real life though. Crafting, balance, reflections, gravity and such. I am better in predicting what is going to happen within next a few seconds than most people because I just "see" where something is going to hit and what chain reaction it might cause etc.

Excellent is what I chose. I had minors in physics, math and history built in for my Bachelors degree. I am fairly computer savvy, except in modern programming. I did learn FORTRAN and Basic in my youth. FORTRAN-77 was required for my nuclear engineering degree courses that I was majoring in at the same time with chemistry.

Currently, one of my quantum physics research papers is being reviewed by a person at CERN. It contains an explanation of why matter and anti-matter do not form 50%-50% overall in the universe (more like 99.9999999%-0.0000001%), something that they are very interested in finding an answer to.

Sounds like Nobel Prize material to me....

I'm very good with computers and I really enjoy physics, particularly the theory side of things. However, I'm absolutely terrible at maths and struggle with the basics.

I am awesome with computers, been building them most of my life and being roped into fixing other people’s for them.
People have always commented that I always pick up programs really quickly, be it Word, photoshop or whatever. I dunno I just seem to know how they work, I think it’s because there’s always a logical reason as to what does something and why.

Maths I have always been rubbish at, especially since high school when more complicated stuff like algebra started to come in to lessons. Although I’ve often wondered if it’s because I just don’t care if I don’t see a use or a point to it. (Why do I care what X or Y is in an equation? Surely if there’s a problem to be solved with maths then there will be numbers available to figure it out??! )

Physics on the other hand, I’m probably not what anyone would call ‘good’ but having said that in high school I broke my leg and was off for nearly a whole term and when I came back the class had a physics test - basically I aced it, got the highest score in the class and the teacher pulled me to one side to say ‘who did you cheat off - you’ve missed the whole term’ to which I pointed out who was sat around me (knowing they were, well, idiots...) The teacher immediately knew I hadn’t cheated and said ‘well maybe we should look at moving you into the top set for science... which never happened.
So I could of been working in science now if I’d of gotten a better education in it!

https://www.nature.com/news/many-junior ... ts-1.22879
Actually, even with a PhD many are having trouble finding jobs, particularly in Academia.

Computers, electronics and physics have been special interests for me since I was quite young, and I did well at them at school. I've been the "go to" person for friends/family with computer problems ever since they became common in the home. With maths, I'm probably a little above average, but my knowledge is patchy, as I tend to only take an interest in the parts that have a practical use in the other subjects, as and when I need them. I've been programming for well over 30 years now in a variety of languages, but that too has some pretty big blanks - audio processing is my favourite area of interest, but have never done any coding for the web or databases, for example.

I too am terrible at all of the above. And no, I'm not creatively gifted or anything to make up for it - I'm just not good at anything, really.

I was good with mathematics, I have an okay amount of knowledge about computers, but science I am the worst at ironically even though my favorite genre is science fiction. The reason I have trouble with science is just the text is like greek.

Asking in the way it is asked in this thread assumes that skill in broad topics is measurable using a scale. I don't think that's really accurate once you get deep enough into a discipline. Like most things a person can learn to do, there are some aspects of any learned skill that are hard and some parts that are easy. Things some people find easy are difficult for me, but things I find easy are often hard for other people. So what does that make me? Bad? Good? It doesn't really matter ultimately, because my ability to think and work differently makes me an asset as a scientist.

Math, physics, and computer science are definitely this way for me. I make a lot of mistakes doing fairly basic subtraction or division by hand, especially if someone is watching me. However, I am really good at finding systematic ways of checking for errors, especially using computers and programming. So my end products can actually be fairly reliable, albeit time-consuming.