The phrase "a simple skill" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a skill that is easy to learn or perform.
Example: "Cooking is a simple skill that anyone can master with a little practice."
Alternatives: "an easy ability" or "a basic talent."
This jump is a simple skill, but Biles has the extra space to complete it, earning her extra points.
"You think that walking is such a simple skill until you put a phone in someone's hand," Siobhan Schabrun, the lead author, told the Australian at the time.
Resizing images is a simple skill that is well worth learning as more and more photos are shuffled around the Web.
Keepy-uppys should be a simple skill for a professional footballer, so when Tom Ince clocked himself in the face with the ball while preparing to take a corner early in the second half, even he couldn't help but laugh.
Learning to speak by listening to your parents may seem like a simple skill, but the ability is quite rare in the animal kingdom — only humans and birds could do it, researchers thought.
The Kinect sensor, meanwhile, is being used in studies to help children learn to more accurately map numbers onto physical space – a simple skill but one that is fundamental to our understanding of mathematics.
Far from being a simple "skills" class, freshman writing can (or should) be a powerful forum for leadership development, and for vectoring students onto a path that will be creative, risk-tolerant and leadership-focused throughout their educational experience – and then on into the rest of their lives.
Similar to Bowen, Davis speculates that mindfulness is likely an effective tool in helping people with addiction because it's a single, simple skill that a person can practice multiple times throughout their day, every day, regardless of the life challenges that arise.
It is a seemingly simple skill that makes a huge difference in building individual and team relationships.
Moreover, even for a relatively simple skill, such as force-field learning (compared to a tennis or golf stroke), the learning is slowly acquired over time courses on the order of real-world skill learning and is highly dependent on both the lead-in and follow-through.
This is a relatively simple skill to start learning but it looks very impressive very quickly.
