Things non cubers should stop saying.

[Hazel]

I'm in college and rarely interact with kids, the most common thing I hear from college students and fully-grown adults alike is "I've never been able to solve one". My response is always "Well have you ever looked up how to do it?" It's natural to see a cuber and assume they figured it out themselves, but it's annoying hearing it over and over when it just isn't accurate to the reality of 99% of cubers.

 

[GeographicalCuber]

At school: everyone be like: solve my cube! no, mine! mine! mine!

(BTW we aren't allowed to take cubes to school)

 

[GeographicalCuber]

Me solving pyraminx and saying look at my cube: they say thats not acube! i say its a generic term!

 

[lucazdoescubingstuff]

when my non-cuber classmate tries to fit in with the cubers:

whats your favorite algorithm?

how do you solve a rubiks cube?

i mean, these are good things, but something about it makes me cringe

 

[IsThatA4x4]

The thing with the corner twists is definitely the most common and annoying thing I get, even when I explain why I must twist a corner if they twisted a corner.
If we were talking actions rather than speech, I hate it when people stop my timer when I'm trying to do some solves, or when I have said what my PB single is only for people to criticise me when I can't replicate that time every solve.

I feel like a lot of things non-cubers say are nice and harmless though, it's nice to see people taking an interest in the hobby and them getting the terminology wrong is pretty unavoidable so I don't mind that.

 

[NmeCuber]

If we were talking actions rather than speech, I hate it when people stop my timer when I'm trying to do some solves,

For real, I was trying to show a friend my pbs but somebody had been messing with my timer, so I couldn't show him

 

[CatSharked]

or when I have said what my PB single is only for people to criticise me

Whenever I say my PB is 26 seconds, they're like, "no it's not," and when I say I'm going to a competition they say "you lie about everything, you are too slow to compete, it takes you 5 minutes to solve a cube." And even if it did take 5 minutes I could still compete

 

[Cuber987]

*Solves a clock*

"Can I try to solve that timer thing?"

 

[Running for cube]

Last night I got a mega pb, (1:31.5, at my superbowl party) and some kids watched me on the next solve and were like, oh no, it already passed. I guess they expected me to break my pb single twice in a row.

 

[Running for cube]

Starts doing 2x2 "that looks easy"

I mean, are they wrong?

 

[Cuber987]

"I know how to solve it"
*repeats two moves, wrist turning*
"I solved it!"

 

[Deleted member 36445]

Starts doing 2x2 "that looks easy"

with me the conversation is always:

noncuber - "I think this is waaaaaaay harden than the other one"
me - "dude... it's literally just the corners"
noncuber - "no but it is harder"

WAT

 

[Cuber.Hello.com(:]

They ask to try your cube and you say no but they just take it anyway. So annoying

i hate it when they do that.

 

[Cuber.Hello.com(:]

For real, I was trying to show a friend my pbs but somebody had been messing with my timer, so I couldn't show him

non cubers are the worst.

 

[NmeCuber]

I mean, are they wrong?

But then they can't solve it

 

[Deleted member 36445]

The thing with the corner twists is definitely the most common and annoying thing I get, even when I explain why I must twist a corner if they twisted a corner.
If we were talking actions rather than speech, I hate it when people stop my timer when I'm trying to do some solves, or when I have said what my PB single is only for people to criticise me when I can't replicate that time every solve.

one thing I hate is when a "friend" says "ok now solve the fastest you can!"

then when I solve they say: "man that was so slow"

and I say: "well why don't you solve on that time?"

then they say "but I don't know how to solve, you do"

 

[CatSharked]

then when I solve they say: "man that was so slow"

For me it's the opposite. They count out loud while I solve and then I get a "PB" (Only because they counted out loud) and they're like "You're so fast!"

 

[Exmestify]

my friend has learnt like 10 pll algs but still doesn't know how to solve a 3x3 until recently. yesterday, he was like '2x2 is harder than a 3x3" and was trying for 30 mins to solve a cube. a showed him a sorta beginner method 'cause he forgot oll algs and he proceeded to solve it under 40 secs.

 

[NmeCuber]

For me it's the opposite. They count out loud while I solve and then I get a "PB" (Only because they counted out loud) and they're like "You're so fast!"

Lol I was showing a beginner speedcuber an example solve, and He was counting out loud. He got so excited when I got an eleven. But he was counting too slow, the solve that I did was too slow too be an eleven

 

[Cuber987]

They keep scrambling my square 1 like a square 0