when people ask you how you solve the rubik's cube so fast you say. . .

[Erik]

Hold on! I can give very good answers to girls too. We were in the metro with a grop of cubers in Spain and there were two girls watching. One was like: hey you (to me) come here (they had horrible English so I forgave their bluntness), how do you do that?
Sadly I had to let Javi translate they would maybe come on Saturday to the competition but never showed up..

Anyway... I think you should never give smart-ass answers since the last thing we want is to actually scare people away with our cubing. No matter how ignorant I think you should always be helpful.

Still my usual answer after: how do you solve it? Is mostly something like:

- fast....
- with my hands...
- just twist it until you get it...
- practice...

but after all answers I always say: nah I'm just kidding, you have to follow a certain plan, everyone can learn how to solve it.

@ AVG: if a girl asks: how do you do it so FAST? You always should say something like: I've got fast fingers
@ AVG: but sadly you only wanted me to explain what to tell guys so:
then the normal stuff comes in I already explained above

 

[anythingtwisty]

I always try to be helpful, so I can "recruit" more cubers. My usual response to How do you solve it? is "I looked it up on the internet" or "It's not hard, I can teach you." Unfortunately, very few people have the patience to learn.

 

[Feanaro]

Itell them it's all skill. Then the're like " No, what is it really!" and I say it's like a ninja, your born with the inate knowledge of solving the cube

 

[Rama]

I always say ''The centers don't move.''.
Keep It Simple, Stupid

 

[Paul Wagner]

Practice...

EDIT: Paul's response wins.

*sigh* Now I can die happy! I finally won.

But I got that from an older friend who was very influential to my skating/life.

Paul- How do you do a hardflip
Joe- With my feet.

 

[xXdaveXsuperstarXx]

Here's my response to anything.
Solve white cross, fill in slots. Do last layer.
(brambling in disbelief)
*hands cube for scramble*
*I walk 20 feet away facing the opposite direction*
*I come back and solve it*
(Person talks more)
I say, what more proof do you need?

 

[soccerking813]

I usually say either majik, with a j and k, or youtube.

 

[royzabeast]

Hold on! I can give very good answers to girls too. We were in the metro with a grop of cubers in Spain and there were two girls watching. One was like: hey you (to me) come here (they had horrible English so I forgave their bluntness), how do you do that?
Sadly I had to let Javi translate they would maybe come on Saturday to the competition but never showed up..

I would say something like finger tricks

And I try to explain if they seem to be interested. "Yeah, I get the white side, but I make sure that side of it is solved too, like this *shows cube after corners*." I do use F2L, but I don't even feel like explaining that. I would continue "Then I get this middle slice right here, the one sandwiched in. After that, I try to get it so that all of the yellow stickers are on top. But see how they're not in the right places? Then I just move them around and finish!"

 

[ThePizzaGuy92]

I'll answer differently depending on the intelligence on the asker, morons usually get a witty remark.

 

[deadalnix]

Still my usual answer after: how do you solve it? Is mostly something like:

- fast....
- with my hands...
- just twist it until you get it...
- practice...

but after all answers I always say: nah I'm just kidding, you have to follow a certain plan, everyone can learn how to solve it.

I actualy do the same

A first funny, weird, mysterious or whatever answer, depending on the inspiration of the moment, but I come after with a more helpful answer.

I never say, I use F2L and then blabla, beacause of the Logan's dialog, which is really realistic

I usually say that you can fnd some method to solve it on the internet and that anybody can solve it. If people are interested, I explain some more details like centers never move, thinking in corners/edges instead in stickers, etc . . .

 

[A_Qber]

"how do you solve that?"
I don't know

 

[JLarsen]

I personally don't have the patience to explain how I solve it. On occasion I'll go through a Petrus solve and show them in intervals of spazzing once I hit 2x2, 2x2x3, then once again after step 4, oll, pll. You know.

When they ask how I do it so fast, I say something like..."You do anything for 2 years, you will be good at it."

I think I'm going to try being a smart ass though. There's a hold new load of freshies who are going to be on my bus next year. All the people who have never seen me solve flip like every year. I just keep going until they're used to it like the rest of the bus =D.

 

[waffle=ijm]

I told this one recently

"Look carefully. Each one of my fingers have little hands. This creates for a blurred effect so you can't see what's really happening. In the meanwhile, my right hand will grow an extra finger also with little hands. This extra hand then takes the cube apart and puts it back together in the right order."

And then I say...the trick is to get all six side the same

 

[Sa967St]

And then I say...the trick is to get all six side the same

everytime I say that, no one understands it @_@

 

[RampageCuber]

I say "You just have to do the sexy move."

 

[Thieflordz5]

I say "MAGIC!!!" or I do a 1:00 solve telling them about everything as I go WAY too fast for any human non-cuber can understand.

 

[leeho]

Only two options here.
The first is:
'OMG how do you do that?!'
'Magic'
'Don't be an idiot, tell me'
'No'
'Why?'
'You don't deserve it'
'Please!'
'No'
'I hate you'
-walks away-

Second option:
'OMG how do you do that?!'
It's easy
Tell me
Ok -continues solving-
Dude! Come on!
Fine, you do this, this, this and this and then it solves itself.
-awkward silence-

 

[krnballerzzz]

"With enough bacon, anything is possible"
-Andrew Kang

Then I take a strip of bacon from my pocket and eat it.

 

[esquimalt1]

Them: How do you solve a Rubik's cube so fast?
Me: First I get a cross then I do F2L, then OLL, then PLL.
Them: Huh?
Me: F2L is solving the first two layers. OLL is ori-
Them: Whats a Layer?
Me: This *points to a blue layer*
Them: oh, so it's the blue ones.
Me: No. It's... Nevermind..... As I was saying, OLL is Orienting the last lay-
Them: What does oreo mean?
Me: Orient not oreo.
Them: oh.
Me: PLL is Permutation of la-
Them: What does perm-
Me: SHUT UP!!!!! OLL and PLL can be done with a series of algorithms.
Them: What does alegorithioamm mean?
Me: ...!@#$ YOU!!! *I shoot myself*
Them: oh. now I get it. You just do like Right Right Left Left Up Down Right over and over again.
Me: *rolls over in grave*



That's the typical conversation.

LMFAO!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH THAT WAS HILARIOUS!!

 

[Ando]

I say "Practice..."