Awesome Talents

Musician Austin Criswell delivers a soulful and bone-igniting performance of Coldplay’s Fix You, accompanied by his ukulele. A few of our other faves from Austin: I’ll Follow You into the Dark, and Build Me up Buttercup.

(NSFW: Language/Offensive Humor) So you think you can dance? Unless you’ve studied and memorized all 15 of the moves in Contemporary Eric’s choreography lesson, you’re missing half your life. Now add some emotion!

After watching this clip of a Russian soldier spitting beats faster than an electronic drum machine, we almost felt the need to wipe his saliva off our monitors. Thankfully, YouTube hasn’t perfected SpitSurround technology yet.

The multitalented Aung Zaw Oo presents his best tricks for the year. As always, some of his feats are hilariously random, but a lot of them are legit. AZO, you could be a part-time carnival. But you’d probably have to keep your normal job.

For their Christmas 2013 clip, The Piano Guys perform an amazing arrangement of Angels We Have Heard on High, using keys, hammers, hands and bows to produce sounds out of their piano that no single pair of hands could achieve.

The casting director for The Hobbit trilogy decides that Ian MacKellen isn’t quite right for the role of Gandalf, and tries out a few other possible actors for the role. Impressionist Charlie Hopkinson’s Jesse Pinkman impression is spot on.

While we don’t like to spend time washing dishes by hand, this restaurant dishwasher takes speed-washing to the extreme, as he scrubs 50 plates in about 10 seconds. We didn’t say they were clean, necessarily.

P.A.K CR3W dancer Alijah “POP-O” LeCour’s buttery-smooth gliding style has more than a little bit in common with that of Marquese “Nonstop” Scott – and that’s pretty impressive, considering the kid is less than half his age.

YouTuber Breigh Scheefer has an unusual talent: burping really loud. We’re not talking about a drunk burp or even a full meal burp. We’re talking about Jurassic Park-level explosions. See her burp some more on her channel.

YouTuber Wouter van der Put came across this waiter and part-time comedian in Portugal who has a curious talent. The man can speak as if his voice was being echoed. But with a silly power comes an even sillier origin story.

LiveLeak member dcmfox shared this video of a busker in what seems to be Germany as he entertains passersby with his slick football juggling skills. He can probably keep the ball off the ground the entire day.

The Teenage Movie Trailer Guy returns with more impressions, including Morgan Freeman and Optimus Prime. A few of them don’t quite hit the mark, but most are spot on. Plus the kid’s just 15; he’ll improve.

(NSFW: Lyrics) Rapper Liu seamlessly weaves between English, Chinese, Spanish, Russian, German and Korean in a single song. The beats are a bit clichéd, but it’s Liu’s global flow that impresses. Hit YouTube for the translation.

We’ve been known to blow into our empty beer bottle to use it as an impromptu wind instrument, but the Bottle Boys do it for a living. Here, the human calliope blows out a lively performance of The Little Mermaid classic tune.

German pop rock band Rakede decided to put down their regular instruments and just use whatever they had lying around to put on a little concert around the dining table. We’re guessing the bass was created from electrical hum.

The shiny metal costumes and silver face paint has got to go, but the impressive moves of Copenhagen’s Robotboys and guest dancer Poppin John do more than enough to make up for what they lack in fashion sense.

It took vocalist Dan Buckley about five nights to record all of the 66 different voice tracks he used to create his cover of Danny Elfman’s spooky holiday classic This is Halloween from The Nightmare Before Christmas.

We always thought it took giant machinery to split a block of granite, but Dennis Carter uses his 2-pound hammer and chisels to crack this 26,000 pound block of Deer Isle granite in two. We love the sounds made by the process.

Yes, in some parts of the world they still have gas station attendants. And at this one station in Russia, they go the extra mile, not only filling your tank, but doing a little dance routine while you wait – assuming you brought a dance floor.

The talented musicians of UK ensemble Vigilante Brass perform an awesome cover Muse’s epic Knights of Cydonia. Now we want to see a college marching band do the same thing at half-time this Sunday.

Known to most for his performance as Loki in the Thor and Avengers movies, actor Tom Hiddleston has a talent we didn’t know about. He can bust some serious moves. Watch as he impresses a crowd at an appearance in Korea.

We’re not exactly sure how the kid who’s being flung around like a human jumprope can do that, but we’re assuming he’s made entirely of rubber. The other dancers of Kyushu Danji Jr. ain’t too shabby either. Full performance here.

Take a look at Japanese musician Mitsuhiro Mori. You’ll notice he has no musical instrument in his hands. Instead, he uses his hands to simulate flute playing at Skill Level Asian. Instruments? He don’t need no steenkin’ instruments!!!