Although he had above-average verbal ability, he was unable to recite the months in their proper order.

His voice was considered "adequate" by the school choir, and his recorder playing judged to demonstrate above-average musical ability.

Despite spurts of inefficient, turnover-prone play, Jackson has proved a capable playmaking option, with above-average passing abilities and court vision.

Hyperlexia is a similar but different disorder where main characteristics are an above-average ability to read with a below-average ability to understand spoken and/or written language.

One could further say that expertise is the quality exhibited by people whom we believe demonstrate an above-average ability to perform a non-trivial task (see Expert for tongue-in-cheek examples).

For the past season and a half, he has been a sponge, looking for advice from Barber and any running backs with above-average ability.

Despite showing above-average ability, her record in New Zealand was underwhelming, and, on the advice of her trainer, the owners accepted a NZ$150,000 offer for her.

We think we have above-average ability to score runs," Baird said, "but a below-average bullpen.

It is true that Ross was an athlete of above-average ability.

With 124 goals in four seasons and above-average ability to skate, stick-handle and shoot, Klima has always gotten another chance from his team.