Hmm, well in general, I imagine that the ways Users function in the digital world can be affected by whatever they’re personally good at in the User world, regardless of how they got good at it!

So if your characters have any type of strong skills they’ve built by being fascinated with stuff in the ways that neurodivergent people often get fascinated… then those probably are among the abilities they carry into the digital world.

Flynn has a chaotic mix of talents, so his User powers are kinda chaotic and all over the place. He’s good at videogames so he picks up the videogame-like parts of the world pretty quick, but he also can push energy around in powerful ways (like redirecting the solar sailer, and recharging Yori)

(it’s hard to gauge for sure what his skillset is, because we only see his first day of learning to use it. but he seems to have quite a range.)

There’s not enough canon evidence to say anything for certain, so I’m just letting my imagination run off vibes:

I think Alan, in Flynn’s place, would have done a better job of repairing the Recognizer. Lora would’ve done a better job of driving it. Lora also would have become the natural leader of the programs and organized everything so much better.

Alan would have figured out what was going on with Ram in that Recognizer and what to do about it. So would Roy, I like to think. Roy would also have made better friends with the Bit, and brought it along to meet Tron and Yori.

Dillinger would be the one who accidentally breaks things by swearing at them.