proficient

“She spent like two weeks teaching me how to snowboard, and I became proficient enough to become a guide… We started guiding each other, and then running.”

Bodhana's dad Siva said "nobody at all" in his family was proficient at chess before his daughter took up the game.

Ben Nee-Nee and a determined Duncan Paia'aua were able to get two back for the hosts at Eden Park, but Scotland dominated all areas in a much more proficient and disciplined performance.

Grier: I did an episode of a sitcom in which it was assumed, unbeknownst to me, that I was very proficient playing an upright bass.

But as audiences see in Episode 5, he’s also a capable fighter proficient in firearms and equipped with key survival skills.