i hate when people say: "lend me your SQUARE".
i hate when people say: "lend me your SQUARE".
“You’re just memorizing the moves you used to scramble!!!!”
I hate it when they then take the cube and use 2 mins to scramble it.
BTW there’s a guy (semi-speedcuber) who’s bought a Zhanchi then insists on tightening it so it’s like a storebought Rubik’s. No corner cutting!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The next day, he comes up and asked me to tell him how to do M-moves.
Even I get it!!!Originally Posted by ChrisBird
And I get another one the worst
Can you solve faster than Feliks Zemdegs?
This happens to me all time when I show someone the world record and acknowledge him(Faz)
Why chatter when you can't even solve it?
Last edited by roxer9918; 08-14-2012 at 09:11 AM.
'Ooh! I can solve that real quick!' *begins taking pieces out*.
also
'Wow! 26 seconds. You should go for the world record'.
Oh, you can solve it in 40 seconds, watch this.
*Does one U turn*
Ready! 3! 2! 1! Go
DONE!
Not that long ago, I entered a restaurant and the first thing I saw was a guy sitting in the corner playing with his Rubik's cube. I watched him do a solve out of the corner of my eye. After awhile, I noticed he was pretty much at LL but it took forever for him to finish it from there. It took him about 2 or 3 minutes for the whole thing. He was using a Rubik's brand. I wanted to play with my cube while at the restaurant, but since he was just at the next table, I didn't want to appear snobbish by pulling mine out and solving it way faster than him (I was averaging about 20 seconds at the time.) There was also this waiter who kept talking to him (obviously he was really amazed.) I couldn't resist talking to him later too. I'm no good at faking amazement though. So I just tried to be nice and asked him what method he was using and how long he had been cubing and also said that what he was doing was pretty cool. I wonder if he thought I was just another non-cuber. I was so concerned about not appearing snobbish that I probably made myself sound like a non-cuber. What do other people do when they see someone in a public place playing with a cube? I really didn't know what else to do or what to say. (Jokingly: "Hello. I can cube too. And I'm a lot faster than you.") I think if he had been about 40s I would have shown him my speedcube. And if he had been faster than me it would be even easier to talk more. Too bad.
I live in a small town and ive never met another cuber just randomly in public. I tought my step brother how to solve (hes averaging 40-50ish) my cousin (just started averaging 90 secs) and I met another guy that cubes in town from my cousin and at the time I met him he averaged 60-70 seconds now hes around 33-37 were good friends now and me getting to the low 20s is pushing him to break sub 30 (ever since we met ive always been 10 seconds faster then him lol) but if I was to meet someone randomly even if they were slower then me id go up and talk to them about cubing and pull out my cube and do a few solves. (I dont think someone would think of me as snobby if im faster then them I think theyd see an oppritunity to improve themselves) If there doing layer by layer id teach them some basic F2L. Show them this website so they can get help to improve (cause if there cubing publicly im sure they wouldnt mind learning a little more to be just a bit better)
Oh yes. I hate the feeling when someone cubes slowly and they get a lot of attention and you want to join in but you're so much faster you don't want to look like a snob.
What I do is actually take my cube out. Even if I feel like a snob. Why? He does it, why don't I join in? If he wasn't there I would've whipped my cube out anyway. Of course I've met really awkward situations where I resisted the attempt e.g. Guy teaching his girlfriend on the train to cube (slowly)
My brother learned how to solve a rubik's cube recently, using a different method than the Fridrich beginner's method. he does it all the time, everywhere, even though he takes about 1 minute and i'm about 27 second average out in public, 24ish seconds in comp, and if i've been practicing alot.
He asked me to teach him the fridrich beginner's method(the method i started with), because his friend(also beginner, let's call him bob) started teaching him. He calls it "bob" 's method.
I still won't call him a cuber, he just wants to copy me, and he doesn't know who feliks zemdegs, yu nakajima, harris chan(we're canadian), etc are.
when i got my 3x3 vcube (pillowed) people were asking me if it was harder to solve . i was like
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