Non-Cubers say the darndest things!

[SimonV]

I have a pretty young and chill math teacher. But on this schooltrip we were on the train and he asked me how to solve it, i tried explaining him but he kept forgetting the algs. But he did pretty good. I brought my Miror Blocks with me (my friend asked me too) and litterally 80% of the hole class was like 'wow' and 'that's easy, it has no stickers', 'how do you even solve that' etc. My friend is a noob cuber (he uses beginners method on everything and ask's me how to do f2l because he doesn't want to ''cheat'' by looking on the internet, then i explain him everything and he was not paying attention at all sometimes my friend is annoying ) Oh well... my math teacher actually asked a question on the last exam that was somewhat referring to a 5x5.

And another friend (wich is even more annoying and that is not into cubing) always says when he sees someone with a 3x3 that i can 'do the cube' in 20 seconds (my pb is 20.62) and i always have to tell them that i average just under 30-25 seconds and that is while using a speedcube.

And another person in my class 'Are you even from Earth?'

 

[FakeMMAP]

ColorfulPockets reference? lol

Obviously lol.

 

[S1neWav_]

"I tried to do that thing once, but I got just one sticker messed up and I couldn't fix it."

Oh, and this is really off-topic, but I'd like some advice:

At my swim team there's a kid who can solve a 3x3 and 4x4. He says he learned all by himself, and when I watch him, he's just doing Dan Brown method. When he shows me 4x4, which I believed at first.

So I setup OLL parity for him, and he goes "Oh, the orientation parity" and he solves it using the same algorithm I use.a And he continues to claim that he figured it out on his own. What do I do?

Ask him how he knows what a parity is if he figured it out himself! I didn't know what a parity was until i started doing solves and getting wierd cases on the last layer

 

[S1neWav_]

are you like a rubik's cube master??

Rubix*

 

[S1neWav_]

This one time I went to dave and busters, and on the way to the bowling alley i did a very sexy h perm. The guy that was in charge of the bowling alley saw me and asked me to solve it. I did it in like 21 seconds he offered me free dessert and a half discount of my family's bowling game O.o

 

[JustinTimeCuber]

1. "How do you solve this thing?" *turning mirror blocks*

2. *watches me unbox pyraminx* "Wow! What a cool cube!"

3. They scramble my 3x3 for me and I mess up a PLL algorithm and give it back to them.
"Ha! I scrambled it too hard for you, you couldn't solve it."

4. *sees me pop a cube* "Oooooh you broke it!"

5. When I went to a competition, they thought I would win, but I average Sub40. You know the outcome.

6. *sees my entire collection on my table*
"Are these thing your best friends/ life or something?" (this one is annoying):confused:

7. "I can solve it faster than you!" *takes a solved cube, turns the top face 4 times*

I also average sub-40
and sub-30
and sub-20
and sub-15
and sub-13

 

[Malkom]

I also average sub-40
and sub-30
and sub-20
and sub-15
and sub-13

That way of saying it (sub X) is kinda bad, because technically people like Feliks and Lucas are sub 40, 30, 20 and so on. Maybe a new way of telling how fast you are should be made?

 

[JustinTimeCuber]

That way of saying it (sub X) is kinda bad, because technically people like Feliks and Lucas are sub 40, 30, 20 and so on. Maybe a new way of telling how fast you are should be made?

I always just give a specific amount of time or a range, like:
2x2: 3.8
3x3: 12.5
4x4: 1:10
5x5: 2:15
6x6: 4:20-4:40
etc.

oh and I love the off-topic discussion in the off-topic discussion subforum

 

[Turn n' burn]

I once had my cube out at a ping pong get-together with some buddies (one of whom used to solve), and while I was ping-ponging, I noticed he had picked it up and started solving on it. What was funny though, was he got to a z perm and didn't remember the alg, so I said M2 U M2 U M' U2 M2 U2 M' U2 across the room (he solved it), and the rest of my friends looked at us like we were psychics.

 

[Madzilla]

A guy at my school: "I'm going to mess it up so bad, you'll never be able to solve it"
Same guy after telling him that you can't solve it if one corner is twisted: "You can if you want to!"

 

[JimCube]

A guy at my school: "I'm going to mess it up so bad, you'll never be able to solve it"
Same guy after telling him that you can't solve it if one corner is twisted: "You can if you want to!"

When its a certain amount of twists, it is solvable. I dont know the number tho, i havent experimented

 

[JimCube]

I went to my previous school once with my thunderclap and everyone wanted to try it, and someone said that they could scramble faster than me, so i was like, can you scramble an official scramble? They were like, yeah, *starts scrambling randomly, so i show them an official scramble generated on plus timer, and theyre like: WHAT THE HELL IS THAT? ALGEBRA?
And every other person tells me they have a friend who is sub-10. LIES! ALL LIES!
Meh.

 

[DGCubes]

When its a certain amount of twists, it is solvable. I dont know the number tho, i havent experimented

It's whenever the twists add up to a multiple of 3 (including 0). What I mean is, a clockwise twist counts as 1, a counterclockwise twist counts as -1, and no twist counts as 0. Add all those numbers up, and if it adds up to a multiple of 3, it's solvable.

 

[JimCube]

It's whenever the twists add up to a multiple of 3 (including 0). What I mean is, a clockwise twist counts as 1, a counterclockwise twist counts as -1, and no twist counts as 0. Add all those numbers up, and if it adds up to a multiple of 3, it's solvable.

Dayum! I didnt think that hard for this. Lol. You seem to have done a lot of thought. Nice!

 

[PenguinsDontFly]

"How are you solving the cube by only looking at 1 side???"

 

[shadowslice e]

"How are you solving the cube by only looking at 1 side???"

Well that's a new one. The weirdest I've had so far is someone calling a twisted corner an X move for some unknown reason.

 

[JustinTimeCuber]

It's whenever the twists add up to a multiple of 3 (including 0). What I mean is, a clockwise twist counts as 1, a counterclockwise twist counts as -1, and no twist counts as 0. Add all those numbers up, and if it adds up to a multiple of 3, it's solvable.

why do you do it the exact same way as me

 

[mafergut]

An old woman, around 70, maybe 80 years old, whatching me solve a 5x5 on a train.
Where did you buy that? Do you think I could solve one of those? Or does it need a method?
I explained the poor old lady that it was very unlikely that she managed to completely solve it by herself.

 

[Kotra25]

I sat with someone from my school on a bus while cubing and everytime I solved the cube he said I cheated or something (it was a while ago so I don't remember everything) so I said that I could beat the world record legit if I wanted to and scrambled it with R'U'R'U' and sover it in like Three seconds (really slow for Four moves). I hoped he would be silence after that or something but instead he told everytime I got a world record.

 

[Mathematix25565]

"Can I mingle it up for you?!??!!"
"Did you bring your pyramix?!"

I hate it when they do this:
Noncuber:*sees my 2x2* "Oh that one must be easy!!
Me: "Try it"
Noncuber: I'm tired, I'll try later