Non-Cubers say the darndest things!

[shelley]

I know that wasn't the idea of the thread starter, it's just that from reading a lot of these posts that seems to be the attitude of a lot of people. From the post that I quoted, you can't really deny that.

And there's a difference between silly questions that you can easily find the answer by either thinking about it or asking Google (if you're posting on this forum, you're in front of a computer with internet access, after all) and people asking questions in conversation because they don't know a certain specific definition of the word you're using.

 

[fanwuq]

*puts $20 infront of me* ok... now do it blindfolded

I don't trust them...
I prefer to solve the cube behind my back and keep the audience in front or on the side. Public transportation is not that safe. (I usually cube on the bus.)

Oh, and that quote also doesn't sound quite right if you put it out of context.

 

[Cyrok215]

noncuber: How do you turn it so fast?
me: I lubricated it...
noncuber: ZOMGWTFOMFPYSGDIAH!!!!! CHEATER!!!!! YOUR SUCH A CHEATER!!! >*splutter*< >*splutter*<

 

[rob558]

im gonna mix it up in a way that you wont be able to solve it

 

[Lorenzo]

Them: "Do you use that "Right Inverted Down Inverted Right Down thing?"

Me: "No."

 

[ckcommando]

"it would take me like a week to do that!!"

afterwards: i let them borrow a 2x2--- a month later, not solved
LOL

 

[oneofthosedudes]

im gonna mix it up in a way that you wont be able to solve it

if i had a nickel for every time someone did that... i wouldnt have a lot of money because they take like.. an hour to mix it up XD and they turn it like.. 4 times :/

check my signature

my friend's little brother said "look hes got all of them done except the blue side!"

(almost) all of my non-cubing family members said "if you gave me a month i couldnt do that. i would peel the stickers off" then everyone starts laughing at their joke

heres a good 1... after i explain to people what an algorithm is, they say "if you do the same algorithm over and over again, does it solve it?"

i bought a DIY cube from C4Y and it popped. my mom saw it and said "why does that happen? is it because its cheap?"

 

[Ashmnafa]

Oh my god I get this stuff all the time.

Whats the trick?
Cheater
Genius
There has to be a trick.
I CAN SOLVE ONE SIDE!!!!
I just take off the stickers.
What math class are you in?
Impossible.

I have a friend who claims he figured it out himself, when he uses the beginner method.

 

[shelley]

I have a friend who claims he figured it out himself, when he uses the beginner method.

I don't get it. Are those necessarily mutually exclusive?

 

[jacob15728]

Alternate title for this thread: Cubers act superior and condescending toward non-cubers just because they haven't spent hours playing with a plastic toy.

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I once got 5 sides and couldn't get the last one. (lmao)

1. "Oh, I'm faster than you, I can do it less than 4 second."

2. "You don't need knowledge to solve the cube, you can JUST PEEL OFF THE STICKERS AND PLACE THEM BACK."

3. "Because you knew all the turn to the solution."

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*

At my swim team there's a kid who can solve a 3x3 and 4x4. He says he learned all by himself, and when I watch him, he's just doing Dan Brown method. When he shows me 4x4, which I believed at first.

So I setup OLL parity for him, and he goes "Oh, the orientation parity" and he solves it using the same algorithm I use.a And he continues to claim that he figured it out on his own. What do I do?

You're a nerd.

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.

Yep.

 

[Ashmnafa]

I have a friend who claims he figured it out himself, when he uses the beginner method.

I don't get it. Are those necessarily mutually exclusive?

What do you mean? It was just a little side comment.

 

[Sa967St]

*puts $20 infront of me* ok... now do it blindfolded

I don't trust them...
I prefer to solve the cube behind my back and keep the audience in front or on the side. Public transportation is not that safe. (I usually cube on the bus.)

'twas at an airport, and the people who gave me money were pro football players

 

[Bomber]

Well, down at the pub I was sat solving a 2x2 with a few other people and I was approached by someone who was apparently a friend of someone with whom I was with. The conversation started like it always does "Can you solve that?", I promptly replied with "Yes" and waited for the inevitable stickers joke or 'I can get one side'. But I got something slightly different, this person could only ever get three sides. Wouldn't that be so frustrating, only being able to get three sides! Shortly after, they left telling me that it was something to do with maths and that I must be really clever. What an intelligent person they must be.

Also on the same night I was talking to a person who worked out how to solve it by themselves 'back in the day'. This person was genuine though!

 

[IamWEB]

It's annoying how dumb some non-cubers.

That's a pretty ignorant thing to say. Were you dumb before you looked on Youtube to solve the Rubik's Cube? Are they idiots because they never googled for an answer?

What?

It's pretty messed up that I didn't say that. I was quoting the person who said it, and yet the entire section of the post that shows that I'm quoting someone just 'disappeared' from your post?

@_@ What happened there?

 

[mbrart]

"Wow amazing. You must be very good at math!"

I always get that. And I always reply, "I hate math. It's actually just matching and memorizing patterns." And I always get the "There's no way you're gonna solve this one!" After mixing it up for five minutes, the camper finally hands the cube back. I solve it in a minute flat. Their eyeballs pop out.

Then I finally got a camper that was a speedcuber, and we raced. 'Twas awesome.

 

[oneofthosedudes]

i try not to cube in places where people will respond negatively. im also careful what cube i bring with me. if i bring a loose DIY, and a non-cuber so much as touches it, its gonna pop and i will have to find the piece i know this because it happens at school. then i get a parity and everyone becomes un-interested and walks away. if i leave any scrambled cube alone with a non-cuber that i know, its likely that i will have damaged stickers. (it's happened before).

some people are smart. i was talking to a friend of a friend in the hallway one day and he wanted to know how to solve it. he seemed smarter than normal so i gave it a shot. he understood what the basic method was about, so i told him to go to youtube.com/pogobat. i dont know what happened after that, because the school year ended and i havn't seen him in a while.

i might start a band with my friend, i'm drummer. he told me to solve a rubik's cube with 1 hand and play with the other. i'm totally in. XD

 

[Edmund]

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i might start a band with my friend, i'm drummer. he told me to solve a rubik's cube with 1 hand and play with the other. i'm totally in. XD

awesome idea. I think the most challenging would be like feet while playing an intense piano song. Haha. But if you do drum and cube upload a video.
p.s. I love your avatar.

 

[riffz]

"I mixed it up really good this time."

"I once solved everything except for one piece that was flipped wrong."

"I can solve 4 or 5 sides."

The thing that bothers me the most is when I get a pop in a public place, and while I'm putting the piece back in people say "Hey, stop cheating!"

some people are smart. i was talking to a friend of a friend in the hallway one day and he wanted to know how to solve it. he seemed smarter than normal so i gave it a shot. he understood what the basic method was about, so i told him to go to youtube.com/pogobat. i dont know what happened after that, because the school year ended and i havn't seen him in a while.

:fp

 

[V-te]

"I mixed it up really good this time."

"I once solved everything except for one piece that was flipped wrong."

"I can solve 3/4/5 sides."

The thing that bothers me the most is when I get a pop in a public place, and while I'm putting the piece back in people say "Hey, stop cheating!"

some people are smart. i was talking to a friend of a friend in the hallway one day and he wanted to know how to solve it. he seemed smarter than normal so i gave it a shot. he understood what the basic method was about, so i told him to go to youtube.com/pogobat. i dont know what happened after that, because the school year ended and i havn't seen him in a while.

:fp

if it weren't for him, I would say at least 1/4 of us wouldn't be here.

 

[Novriil]

i've been getting this lately.
me : *pulls out megaminx*
them : WTF ? THATS FAKE !
me: ? how is it fake,it's right here in my hand.

I thought that 5x5 and megaminxes are some fake stuff.. until I started speedcubing. I remember in some camp I thought that the guy who had the mega bought it from somewhere and it's some pointless knockoff from a 3x3..