Puzzle Solving Effects!

[minsarker]

Haha, same stuff happens to me. I was like at 2 minutes like 2 months ago and people were amazed. Now I am at 1min and amaze more people. In class we had nothing to do and did this thing called authors chair where you read something your wrote and I went up and did my Rubiks cube hahaha. I got extra credit.

P.S. I am a senior in high school haha.

 

[mazei]

Wow, extra credit for that. I wish I could get stuff like that.

 

[Winston]

I solve the cubes which happen to be in my bag whenever I'm bored while taking public transport. People seem to be amazed with the bigger cubes like 5x5 and 7x7, but I believe BLD (no I can't do it yet) attracts more curious stares. Once I even had someone asking me whether the 2x2 was more difficult to solve than the regular 3x3 However, most of the people around me don't really seem to bother much.

 

[d4m4s74]

I was solving on the train and some guy offered me a job

also: winston, I actually think 2x2 is more difficult then 3x3
not to solve, I just use the same alg as 3x3 and don't do edges, but because of parity it's difficult to explain to people who only know the dan brown method

I sometimes just walk around town, randomly scrambling my cube OH

people are even amazed I move that fast (wile I am incredibly slow)

 

[Pr3miuM]

I've also expierenced multiple funny reactions in lot's of places. One time I in the train I was bored and started cubing and solving it very casually while also looking out of the window during long algoritms. After a relaxing solve I looked up and saw about 7 people with frozen faces looking at me. I just smiled and scrambled...

Later sometime I had an old lady in the bus that started talking about how it was in the 80's and asked if mine was that old (it was pretty much a brand new DIY). My classmates are mostly used to it now but I had to show my "trick" to a bunch of teachers and even a full waiting class on the hallway.

And sometimes I just do a couple of random PLL's while looking the other way which also gives funny reactions. "He can solve it blind even!" Or "I saw on the TV a guy who solved it with his feet too". Which was in fact Erik on Dutch television.

 

[abr71310]

Here's a funny story, sort of:

I was volunteering in my school library, running the circulation desk with one hand (mouse) and practicing OH PLL algs in the other hand (left, hehe).

Some kids came over and are like "woah, can you solve that?" (I just set it up for a U-Perm before I was gunna scan some books out to a student), and I was like, "Um, yeah?" and they're like "DO IT!" so I finished the U-perm (half done when they asked) and they were like "WOAAAH!!!"...

anyway, they scrambled it up and I told them (since they were taking like 5 minutes) that no matter how long they scrambled I'd still solve it in sub-45 (pfft...), so they gave it back and I did it right there in 36.xx seconds (they had an iPod timer!!!).

They walked off somewhere and I went back to shelving/storing books, when 5 min later they came back and asked me to do it again for one of their friends... I did it (obv) this time in 43.xx seconds, commenting on what I was doing (since my hands were shaking HORRIBLY)...

But eh, being the fastest in my school doesn't mean much, since I'm the only one using partial (ANY!!!) Fridrich; my brother uses the Dan Brown method and everyone else at my school uses another form of LBL, Petrus or Corners First (Waterman??)...

I also find it funny how they scramble it to "funny positions" (like centers off, crosses everywhere) and they say "SOLVE THAT!!!" xD.

When I do OH cubing they're like "Woah, how does it move that fast?!!?" (and mine sucks, like 1:06.xx is my fastest)

 

[4weeksAndImSub60]

I love it when people try to mix it as much as they can for a long ass time thinking it will increase the difficulty of the solve.

 

[Sir E Brum]

I take my cube everywhere. It is good for killing time. I even do it at red lights and one time someone next to me at a red light was cheering me on. I solved it and they were surprised.

People seem to be amazed at how I can turn so quickly too. But explaining how mine is not a store bought cube can be a bit boring.

Oddest thing ever: I was solving at the Tae Kwon Do place I attend and some lady said, "If I had a daughter, I would have her marry you." Quite a stretch even for solving a rubik's cube.

 

[Speedcuber023]

People have clapped about it at In-n-Out, people have whispered about it like "Oh my god he did that so fast..." No one at my school is ever amazed except the sixth graders...but they are small and foolish so I don't care about them

I just solve the cube in public now since I have nothing better to do.

I see... you are quite small and rather foolish. Should I care about you?

I am not foolish, and I am 5'10", I don't consider that small

Ah, but compared to me, you're still a midget. So, you're not foolish, huh? Well, usually a wise person, or an intelligent one would retort, "I'm not foolish I (explain why they aren't)" But, you tried foolish one... Maybe next time.

Dang you LeBron James -.- xD

In Emerson's defense, you should settle this with a race. Emerson will use one hand and let's see who wins between the two of you.

 

[4weeksAndImSub60]

People have clapped about it at In-n-Out, people have whispered about it like "Oh my god he did that so fast..." No one at my school is ever amazed except the sixth graders...but they are small and foolish so I don't care about them

I just solve the cube in public now since I have nothing better to do.

I see... you are quite small and rather foolish. Should I care about you?

I am not foolish, and I am 5'10", I don't consider that small

Ah, but compared to me, you're still a midget. So, you're not foolish, huh? Well, usually a wise person, or an intelligent one would retort, "I'm not foolish I (explain why they aren't)" But, you tried foolish one... Maybe next time.

Dang you LeBron James -.- xD

In Emerson's defense, you should settle this with a race. Emerson will use one hand and let's see who wins between the two of you.

I have a better idea! And a lot less based on the amount of time you've put into a rubiks cube. We each write an essay about subject, which would be suggested by someone from the forum. The one with the best english and most creativity would win? Wait! What do we win if we do either of these things?

 

[Musturd]

People have clapped about it at In-n-Out, people have whispered about it like "Oh my god he did that so fast..." No one at my school is ever amazed except the sixth graders...but they are small and foolish so I don't care about them

I just solve the cube in public now since I have nothing better to do.

I see... you are quite small and rather foolish. Should I care about you?

I am not foolish, and I am 5'10", I don't consider that small

Ah, but compared to me, you're still a midget. So, you're not foolish, huh? Well, usually a wise person, or an intelligent one would retort, "I'm not foolish I (explain why they aren't)" But, you tried foolish one... Maybe next time.

Dang you LeBron James -.- xD

In Emerson's defense, you should settle this with a race. Emerson will use one hand and let's see who wins between the two of you.

I have a better idea! And a lot less based on the amount of time you've put into a rubiks cube. We each write an essay about subject, which would be suggested by someone from the forum. The one with the best english and most creativity would win? Wait! What do we win if we do either of these things?

This much recursion hurts my eyes

 

[4ZN_5H4D0W]

People have clapped about it at In-n-Out, people have whispered about it like "Oh my god he did that so fast..." No one at my school is ever amazed except the sixth graders...but they are small and foolish so I don't care about them

I just solve the cube in public now since I have nothing better to do.

I see... you are quite small and rather foolish. Should I care about you?

I am not foolish, and I am 5'10", I don't consider that small

You're 5'10"? I'm pretty sure I'm taller than you, or the same height, and I'm 5'9". (I was the Asian kid at the SF Open with Cameron, Chris, and Mat, Wilson.)

 

[EmersonHerrmann]

People have clapped about it at In-n-Out, people have whispered about it like "Oh my god he did that so fast..." No one at my school is ever amazed except the sixth graders...but they are small and foolish so I don't care about them

I just solve the cube in public now since I have nothing better to do.

I see... you are quite small and rather foolish. Should I care about you?

I am not foolish, and I am 5'10", I don't consider that small

You're 5'10"? I'm pretty sure I'm taller than you, or the same height, and I'm 5'9". (I was the Asian kid at the SF Open with Cameron, Chris, and Mat, Wilson.)

I thought so, I guess I was off by an inch (and a half?) xD I'm sure many people here are taller than me, I'm like 5'8" or 5'9" I think it would be a waste of time for the both of us.

P.S. - I have too much schoolwork to write an essay outside of school

 

[KevinK]

Because most people know me as a magician instead of a cuber, people often ask me if it's a magic trick. When they see me pull out a cube later (not when I'm performing magic tricks), they ask me to "Do a different one; you showed me this before." To the non-cuber, each solve is the same. They aren't solving it, so they don't see how it's always different. Also, I've never gotten a successful BLD at school; the best that I've gotten is having two edges flipped wrong.

At a jazz band party tomorrow, I'm probably going to "perform" cubing stuff. after a solve, I'm going to give a 2x2 (scrambled) to someone and try to solve a 3x3 OH faster than he does the 2x2, which he probably won't complete. I'll then do the 2x2 behind my back. I will post how this goes.

 

[4weeksAndImSub60]

People have clapped about it at In-n-Out, people have whispered about it like "Oh my god he did that so fast..." No one at my school is ever amazed except the sixth graders...but they are small and foolish so I don't care about them

I just solve the cube in public now since I have nothing better to do.

I see... you are quite small and rather foolish. Should I care about you?

I am not foolish, and I am 5'10", I don't consider that small

You're 5'10"? I'm pretty sure I'm taller than you, or the same height, and I'm 5'9". (I was the Asian kid at the SF Open with Cameron, Chris, and Mat, Wilson.)

I thought so, I guess I was off by an inch (and a half?) xD I'm sure many people here are taller than me, I'm like 5'8" or 5'9" I think it would be a waste of time for the both of us.

P.S. - I have too much schoolwork to write an essay outside of school

Your in 8th grade!

 

[byu]

I find it funny how everyone thinks that a 2x2x2 is so easy. They say things like "oh, there's only four squares on a side, I can solve that.". And every time that happens I do five moves and hand it to them, and twenty minutes later they have made no progress.

EDIT - Then I take it back and solve it in less than 10 seconds.

 

[Absolome]

I did a crappy 3 second magic solve in school and now kids think im a genius or something

also i can solve th 3x3x3 in like 1:30 but people still freak out

 

[Lewis]

The best reactions are when people scramble the cube for about 20 minutes, trying to make it impossible to solve, and expecting me to be on for ages trying to figure it out.
They mix it up for half an hour, then I solve it in half a minute.

 

[jcuber]

When I bring my v-7 or v-6 to school, most kids are like "how big is that thing?" or "can you even solve that? I can't do the regular one!. I never bother explaining to people that as cubes get larger, it doesn't affect the diffuculty of the solve, just the amount of time it takes. When I finish a solve on my 6x6 or 7x7, people are amazed and shocked. I have yet to attempt trying BLD, even at home, though I think I should keep it a secret until I get good enough to do it in front of a crowd.

 

[Vulosity]

They cannot tell the difference between BLD and scrambling.

I agree. I'm just scrambling the cube without looking right after I solve it and the six graders at my school say, " Are you doing it without looking?"