Non-Cubers say the darndest things!

[Paul Wagner]

Non cubers type the darnedest things too:

How you so fast with that Rubix cube?

... well I've been eatin my Weetabix dear :rolleyes:

I cheat. That's how I'm so fast.

I this thread.

 

[Darshen]

I get "let me scramble it" every time, as if I have some complex technique for cheating.

I think everyone in the world would be amazed if you did a random scramble and remembered each move instantaneously.

Assuming of course that your random scrambles are at a reasonable enough speed, that it is near impossible to remember. Unless planned, but then it wouldn't be random.

I'm beginning to lose my mind and I've only written 3 very very short paragraphs.

4 now. 'Cos I'm 'ard...

 

[Logan]

They think that it has 54 stickers and each of them moves including the centers

A cube does have 54 stickers, and each sticker moves including the centers.

:fp (too short)

Logan, not to pick on you personally, but your last post prompts this. Please describe to me why beingforitself's statement is false. I challenge you to prove him wrong.

Chris

What he means to say is that not all 54 stickers move.
And the centers don't move either.

Basically, you're moving pieces with stickers on it, not stickers.
You can't just get a blue-green edge (going from normal color scheme where blue and green are opposite) because you don't move stickers

But you could also see it as, if I pick up the cube and place it down on a different spot, every piece and sticker moved... (even though no side turned)

So it's basically how you read that line

Sorry for being late. I haven't looked at this thread for a while.

What I :fp'd at was when he said that the centers move. They don't. Think of it like every other piece moving around the centers. The blue center (on a color scheme where blue is opposite green) is never closer to the green, therefor, it does not move.

 

[shoot1510]

5. *Me solving the cube* "Bitc*, stop being a loser trying to pretend to solve a rubik cube" Me: "No, I solving the cube for real." *He grabs my cube and start scrambling it.* " F**kin solve it." * I started solving the cube, and finish solving the cube* "You're still retarded, and that super slow" Me: OMG, that under 35 seconds fool. "But still, you can't beat my record. 2 minutes. You really really suck at cubing." Me: @$$hole.

 

[V-te]

*finishes* Let me see it. *takes it in the pool* " I'll give it back in 30 minutes" *takes it underwater* ......30 mins later.... "here" *I solve it* "god damn it!!!!!"

Lol I was laughing"

 

[Tortin]

They think that it has 54 stickers and each of them moves including the centers

A cube does have 54 stickers, and each sticker moves including the centers.

:fp (too short)

Logan, not to pick on you personally, but your last post prompts this. Please describe to me why beingforitself's statement is false. I challenge you to prove him wrong.

Chris

What he means to say is that not all 54 stickers move.
And the centers don't move either.

Basically, you're moving pieces with stickers on it, not stickers.
You can't just get a blue-green edge (going from normal color scheme where blue and green are opposite) because you don't move stickers

But you could also see it as, if I pick up the cube and place it down on a different spot, every piece and sticker moved... (even though no side turned)

So it's basically how you read that line

Sorry for being late. I haven't looked at this thread for a while.

What I :fp'd at was when he said that the centers move. They don't. Think of it like every other piece moving around the centers. The blue center (on a color scheme where blue is opposite green) is never closer to the green, therefor, it does not move.

The centres may be fixed, but they still move. They rotate, which means the stickers rotate. So, yes, they move.

 

[Ranzha]

"Hey, I always get stuck on the last side. It's like impossible 'cuz you can't move other pieces without mixing it up!"

Here are some of the synonyms to "scramble" I get:
mix/mess/screw it up
undo it
mix/mess/screw it up better cos last time you cheated

To all non-cubers: how naïve you are. Learn and then talk to me.

Also, this one time my band teacher found it IN MY BACKPACK, took it, and said she'd make it so I couldn't solve it.
When I got it back 3 1/2 weeks later, she gave it back to me, but it was covered in binder paper (to preserve the stickers), then in TWO ROLLS OF DUCT TAPE.
I got it out, though, and it was still as fast as ever.

I also get these a lot:
"You cheated. You know all of the patterns!"
"Let ME scramble it, and we'll see." -Solves it.- "Cheater."
"I'm not smart enough for that."
"Yours is jacked. Let me see it."
"There's a trick/cheat. My friend showed me but I forgot."
"Genius." (Love this one.)
"That thing's like IMPOSSIBLE!"

So, yeah.
That's a bunch, eh?

--Ranzha V. Emodrach, Castrensis Discipulus of Vulgivagus Professor of Telum Surculus ex Kevelhë

 

[Thomas09]

Lol I once had this: There are steps?!?!?

 

[ProfilesRubiks]

4." Let me see that." *After few minute of looking at the cube* "Say goodbye to your cube cheater" *He throw the cube downward and destroyed my cube*

if that happened to me i would
1.punch him in the face.
2.call a cop for destruction of property
3.knock him out then take 15$ out of his wallet to buy a new cube...and if he called me a cheater i'd kick him while he's down.yes,i know i'm very violent when it comes to cubing.

 

[calekewbs]

4." Let me see that." *After few minute of looking at the cube* "Say goodbye to your cube cheater" *He throw the cube downward and destroyed my cube*

if that happened to me i would
1.punch him in the face.
2.call a cop for destruction of property
3.knock him out then take 15$ out of his wallet to buy a new cube...and if he called me a cheater i'd kick him while he's down.yes,i know i'm very violent when it comes to cubing.

lol apparently!

 

[ProfilesRubiks]

4." Let me see that." *After few minute of looking at the cube* "Say goodbye to your cube cheater" *He throw the cube downward and destroyed my cube*

if that happened to me i would
1.punch him in the face.
2.call a cop for destruction of property
3.knock him out then take 15$ out of his wallet to buy a new cube...and if he called me a cheater i'd kick him while he's down.yes,i know i'm very violent when it comes to cubing.

lol apparently!

lawl,that's funny.you break my cube,i'll break you. that's my modo,and i'm sticking to it.

 

[Paul Wagner]

"I used to know the formula but I forgot it now."

"You should try and get the world record."

 

[Waffle's Minion]

4." Let me see that." *After few minute of looking at the cube* "Say goodbye to your cube cheater" *He throw the cube downward and destroyed my cube*

if that happened to me i would
1.punch him in the face.
2.call a cop for destruction of property
3.knock him out then take 15$ out of his wallet to buy a new cube...and if he called me a cheater i'd kick him while he's down.yes,i know i'm very violent when it comes to cubing.

Thank you! That is what i would do! ( Maybe in my case there would be a chainsaw involved)

 

[JTW2007]

The other day I had something like this:

Me: *scrambles cube while looking away*
Person: "You can do it blind?"
Me: "I'm just scrambling it right now."
Person: "Oh, it's okay, I can't do it either."

 

[qqwref]

What I :fp'd at was when he said that the centers move. They don't. Think of it like every other piece moving around the centers. The blue center (on a color scheme where blue is opposite green) is never closer to the green, therefor, it does not move.

Sure the centers move. Try an M move (or even something like an x rotation).

The thing is, many people (you, for instance) define the position of a cube relative to the centers. That is one way of fixing the orientation of the cube, so that if you do a rotation the position of the cube is not affected, which is very useful for things like computer solving programs and BLD.

However, you don't HAVE to do this. You could also fix the orientation of the cube by saying that a certain corner or edge has to be in a given place, which would also give the cube exactly one correct orientation. (This is useful in some circumstances - for example, if you fix a corner then M E M' E' just becomes two center 3-cycles, rather than a position that moves or twists every piece on the cube.) You don't even have to fix anything - you could consider the cube to be in a different position after a rotation, in which case there are 24 solutions. IsoCubeSim does this, actually; when it checks to see something's solved, it doesn't check to see that every sticker is the same color as its center, but just that every sticker on each face is the same color. You can't always fix the centers (like if you're trying to count the number of positions of the 4x4).

Anyway, what I'm trying to say was that if you decide that the position of a cube is defined by the position of its centers, then of course the centers can't move (for you), but you don't have to do that. It's true that the centers can't move freely with respect to each other, but they definitely can move.

 

[mr.onehanded]

I get "let me scramble it" every time, as if I have some complex technique for cheating.

Haha, I have never heard a non-cuber say "scramble" or "scrambled" unless "eggs" followed.

Really, never? I always hear 'scramble,' and 'mix it up.' I'd be curious as to what they say to you.

For me it's always "mix it up" "mess it up" "screw it up" "lose the colours" "break it up" or something like that. I think I heard "unfix it" once.

You are right, they don't actually say that,. . . I guess I did put quotations. . . but I wasn't speaking of one person, more generalizing all noncubers. . . so, it's not a quote; they say mix up.

 

[Si1v3rx51ay3r]

What I :fp'd at was when he said that the centers move. They don't. Think of it like every other piece moving around the centers. The blue center (on a color scheme where blue is opposite green) is never closer to the green, therefor, it does not move.

Sure the centers move. Try an M move (or even something like an x rotation).

The thing is, many people (you, for instance) define the position of a cube relative to the centers. That is one way of fixing the orientation of the cube, so that if you do a rotation the position of the cube is not affected, which is very useful for things like computer solving programs and BLD.

However, you don't HAVE to do this. You could also fix the orientation of the cube by saying that a certain corner or edge has to be in a given place, which would also give the cube exactly one correct orientation. (This is useful in some circumstances - for example, if you fix a corner then M E M' E' just becomes two center 3-cycles, rather than a position that moves or twists every piece on the cube.) You don't even have to fix anything - you could consider the cube to be in a different position after a rotation, in which case there are 24 solutions. IsoCubeSim does this, actually; when it checks to see something's solved, it doesn't check to see that every sticker is the same color as its center, but just that every sticker on each face is the same color. You can't always fix the centers (like if you're trying to count the number of positions of the 4x4).

Anyway, what I'm trying to say was that if you decide that the position of a cube is defined by the position of its centers, then of course the centers can't move (for you), but you don't have to do that. It's true that the centers can't move freely with respect to each other, but they definitely can move.

In short terms....Reference Point.

 

[miniGOINGS]

I get "let me scramble it" every time, as if I have some complex technique for cheating.

Haha, I have never heard a non-cuber say "scramble" or "scrambled" unless "eggs" followed.

Really, never? I always hear 'scramble,' and 'mix it up.' I'd be curious as to what they say to you.

For me it's always "mix it up" "mess it up" "screw it up" "lose the colours" "break it up" or something like that. I think I heard "unfix it" once.

You are right, they don't actually say that,. . . I guess I did put quotations. . . but I wasn't speaking of one person, more generalizing all noncubers. . . so, it's not a quote; they say mix up.

Oh ok, I'm not hating on you.

 

[rubiksnut]

I ask a friend to scramble a cube, and the guy sitting next to me says I'll never be able to solve it, looks away and talks to somebody else while I solve it. He looks back and says, "Hey, you hid a solved one in your backpack."

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"YOU CAN SOLVE THE CUBE???!!! How do you do it?"
"Well, there are these things called algorithms-"
"So you cheat..." (walks away)

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(blindsolves the cube)
"OMG, you're psychic!"

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(Druggy sees that corners can be taken out)
"Hey, I can turn that into a pipe."

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"Hey, do you want to mess this cube up?"
"Sure." (throws on ground extremely hard, breaking it)
"WTF WAS THAT FOR!?"
"You said 'mess it up.'"

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My teacher finds me solving the cube during class. She tells me to put it away, but I can't stand an unsolved cube, so I solve it OH, while taking notes. (kinda off-topic)

 

[V-te]

I got this from my Honors Chemistry teacher.
*free time*
*solving 4x4*
*Just begins centers* "You still haven't solved it?"
*finishes* "Wow, no wonder you're in honors" *mental facepalm*

*Bell rings*

Me: There are these things called algorithms that are just a set of moves that when repeated, performs a certain action" *Shows him the sexy move*

"Oh I see, are there others"? (Cubers)

"Yes, my friends who I taught and the guy who taught me"

"Wow they must all be in Honors, right?"

*Facepalm*