101 Annoying Things You've Heard Your Friends Say While Scrambling Your Cube

[holypasta]

261) Have you ever actually beaten that thing?
262) Hey, how fast do you do it?
263) Can I play with it?
264) Hey, I can solve a side. I taught myself. (this person is able to OLL a side, but not PLL it.)
265) I would just take the stickers off.
266) HAHAHA Did you take the stickers off?
267) (i take a piece out and put it back in the right way, because i had had a pop or because i was lubing it): HAHAHAHHAHA THAT'S CHEATING! (or) yea, that's what i would do...
268) Can you teach me?
269) How do you do it so fast?
270) (using my yellow DIY): Why is it yellow?
271) (it pops): HAHAHAHHAHA it broke.
272) (while using my yellow DIY; because it has no stickers on the yellow face): Hey, that's a cheap cube. No yellow stickers.
273) (upon finding out that i had to assemble it myself, because it's a DIY): That's a cheap cube. You had to frgn put it together yourself.
274) You solve it the natural way, right? You don't use any cheats or logarithms or whatever?

 

[byu]

Um, 268 is identical to 10.

 

[not_kevin]

Not really an annoying quote, but I love people's responses when they accidentally drop my old Square-1 and all the tiles would pop off. Sounded like breaking glass, and most responded in the same way (OMG, I just broke your puzzle! I'm so sorry... will you forgive me?). Unfortunately, I was squaring (can't really say cubing here, huh?) in the halls once, and after a drop, an edge piece went under a locked door. I checked the room after it was unlocked, but the janitors got there first...

 

[byu]

Did you ever get the edge back? I'm guessing not.

 

[not_kevin]

Did you ever get the edge back? I'm guessing not.

No, I didn't. I had to go buy another Sq-1 for part salvaging ("fortunately", a friend of mine lost an edge, which made such a buy somewhat more worth it; in fact, said friend just received said Sq-1, so I will have a competition-legal Sq-1 very soon ).

 

[Tortin]

275: Don't you get bored of solving it over and over again?
276: (So I'm playing with my cube and some random kid walks up to me and looks at my cube) Is that a Rubik's?
Me: It is.
Him: [takes my cube and looks at the logo] No, it's a cubesmith.
Me: -facepalm-
277: (Same kid; I'm playing with my cube) Is that an eastsheen?
Me: -facepalm- (I was playing with a 3x3)

 

[shelley]

We all hate getting the question "What's the trick?" or "What's the secret?" from non-cubers. I discovered today that you can simply answer "Well, most people think you have to solve 6 sides. Really, you only need to solve 5 and you get the 6th one free!"

If they're actually interested in learning they'll probe further and ask more in depth questions (and eventually come to realize "What's the trick?" is a silly question). If they're not, I've found some people will actually accept it as a valid answer, even though it means nothing, and leave you alone.

 

[Jebediah54]

281. (finishing an OLL) They start counting down 5, 4, 3 *finish* Holy crap!!!

282. (in the middle of class) /name\: Can I see that?
Me: Sure
(after a few minutes) POP
*class goes dead silent staring at the person. Someone stands up, gives me a hug and offers to buy me a new cube*

After a few minutes, I explained that it was a normal thing, but it was still hilarious to see how concerned the class was about my cube popping.

 

[qqwref]

Here's a new one for me.

283. *girl holds up my solved V-7* Can anyone solve this?
(Does she think the only reason it's solved is that it's never been messed up? In that case why are the stickers so dinged up? )

 

[andatude]

284) While they are mixing the cube he says " You know Chuck Norris can do this in 3 seconds!"

 

[soccerking813]

285.) Did you know the world record is like 30 seconds?
Me: WTF?

 

[fanwuq]

"DNF! DNF!
Quick! OH BLD while doing parkour and juggling 5 megaminx!
Oh, you can't do it. DNF. "
Some times you have cubing friends.

 

[soccerking813]

Lol.

286.) Me: My record is 25 seconds.
Them: Wow, have you ever gotten a 30 second one?

 

[Deleted member 2864]

I know a guy who can average 5 seconds
me: *smiles* really?

 

[soccerking813]

288.) How do I put this piece (points to a corner) here? (Points to an edge)

 

[not_kevin]

284) While they are mixing the cube he says " You know Chuck Norris can do this in 3 seconds!"

My general response to any Chuck Norris comment on cubes is that Frank Morris is better. It's interesting to see the replies that people give to it.

 

[abr71310]

I was actually at a restaurant and a guy said this to me ( a waiter ):

(I just heard about Roux from this forum and was doing some M / U layer practice solves / scrambles)
"My friend can do that behind his back in 30 seconds"
Me: "The WR for "blindfolded" (same difference) is 48.05 seconds."
"Then he must be like the best in the world or something."
Me: *scoffs*

Unless it was Ville or Rowe, I seriously doubt that this person is real.

 

[fanwuq]

I was actually at a restaurant and a guy said this to me ( a waiter ):

(I just heard about Roux from this forum and was doing some M / U layer practice solves / scrambles)
"My friend can do that behind his back in 30 seconds"
Me: "The WR for "blindfolded" (same difference) is 48.05 seconds."
"Then he must be like the best in the world or something."
Me: *scoffs*

Unless it was Ville or Rowe, I seriously doubt that this person is real.

And he's your friend?
Either every random guy is your friend, or you are off-topic.

You should reply:
"You know why you are only a waiter? Because you can't tell time. How long have you been waiting for?"

 

[abr71310]

Well, friend of a friend, I wouldn't be at that restaurant (since i'm asian and eat asian food LOL) unless my awesome European friend invited me there because his friend worked there.

Still, I guess it was a LITTLE off-topic... but nonetheless ridic-a-bibble.

 

[ostracod]

I've read through this entire thread... I've gathered the unique ones which annoy me:

290. "Isn't there an equation/formula to do that?"
(I don't know why, but at my school I get that one ALL the time! Obviously you can't express a cube solution with an equation...)

291. "Woah, you turned two sides at once!"

292. "Can I shuffle your cube?"
(It just sounds a little weird, like "jumble" listed earlier.)

293. "Did you know that it took a guy 45 years to solve one of those?"
(I hear this one a lot as well... But really, if I were that guy, and I REALLY wanted to solve a Rubik's cube without any help, I'm pretty sure I could have figured it out in far less time. Really, all you have to do is realize the cube is made of PIECES, not stickers, and then figure out some arbitrary ways to move them around...)


And also, I want to say a few words on the "peeling stickers off" questions/statements. Has anyone REALLY done this? Like, ACTUALLY taken off all the stickers and put them back? I'm actually going to take a dead cube right now and try this.......

......Wow, I was really surprised. You actually CAN peel them off, and they don't get messed up. It seems that the adhesive would last for at least 5 peels. But when people say "peeling off stickers", it really just annoys the heck out of me... To deface a perfectly good cube just to HAVE it solved, whereas the cube can easily be disassembled...

Here's a typical dialogue, don't count it in the thread, though:
Nub: "[person x] just peel(s) off all the stickers and puts them back to solve them."
Me: "Ha. Ha." (Thinking: "I hate [person x].")