Non-Cubers say the darndest things!

[foxdi]

You cant earn a living off cubing .

its useless even you know few hundreds of algos .

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[Toquinha1977]

Guy on the bus: "Dude, you need a girlfriend."
My response: "This is how I GOT my girlfriend."
Guy on bus: (quickly leaves bus before he can embarrass himself further)

 

[riffz]

Guy on the bus: "Dude, you need a girlfriend."
My response: "This is how I GOT my girlfriend."
Guy on bus: (quickly leaves bus before he can embarrass himself further)

Haha, if someone said that to me I'd tell them my girlfriend can do it in about a minute as well.

 

[TEGTaylor]

One time I had someone tell me they would perfer one that didnt move as well:fp the cube he was using was a semi-modded RUBIKS BRAND, not even a diy double:fp

 

[Kiongku]

"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.

Agreed

 

[Ethan Rosen]

"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.

Agreed

No offense, but I honestly believe it would be the 1/4 that the other 3/4 wouldn't mind missing. There are exceptions in both directions though.

 

[V-te]

Well, many cubers tend to be young and do not fully understand manners and behavior. So we can say a good 1/8th of us serious cubers wouldn't be here.

 

[V-te]

On Topic:
I was on the bus doing OH, and this kid in the back says,
"Hey, you kid, let me see that, I bet you I can solve it" I looked at the cube and since it is my speedcube, I decided not to let him use it.
"Bahh, Later, I'm busy right now"
*all the kids on the bus* Ohhhh!!! Burn!!!! :fp

During french, I was talking about my collection and my PBs, and I solved for them. A girl says "Omg!! That would take me like a year!!! and I would only get one side!!" *Class laughs* :fp

*Takes out 3cm cubes, along with my regular speedcube*
"Omg the cube had babies!!!!" :rolleyes:

"I don't have the patience"
Me: "You don't need patience, you just need to understand"
"I don't like to think" :fp

Many more coming up tomorrow.

 

[Ranzha]

Lol. I got this one a few weeks back at my 5x5.

"Whoa! Is that liek a super cube liek extended or something?"

And more: "Where'd you get THAT? That's so amazing! I couldn't even get two colours together!"
-Facepalm.-

And to my 3x3 solves on roller coasters:
Some girls in the background: "OH MY GAWD! I can't believe he just did that on a roller coaster! I can only get liek a single side! The coaster goes 65 mph too!" -giggling, bleh.-

So, I was at dinner last night at a surprise birthday party for my mom's friend, and my friend in college (note, I am in 8th) and he keeps saying I'm sort of a super genius.
Also, today in Science I had free time so I took out my handy little PLL list. So my teacher goes, "Is that some sort of script or something? What is that? It makes no sense!" Then I told him I cube and all and he says, "So you can solve it only if it's in a predetermined state using the same thing over and over?" -Facepalm.-

 

[V-te]

After making a 3x4x5, everytime I take something bigger than a 3x3, I always get "Did you make that?"

Common names for my cubes,
2x2: the four-one.
3x3: the cube, the normal one
4x4: The super one
5x5: The one with so many colors
Megaminx: The 10 one, The star one, The 2543 sided thing, dudocehagigahedron, The impossible one.
Rubik's magic: The flat thing.

 

[anythingtwisty]

A note to everyone: Sometimes the people who say they can solve "in like five minutes" actually can. Whenever people used to say this I always stayed silent and just pretended to believe them, but I have started giving it to people when they say they can. I have met three kids through unrelated activities who can solve it in my school, which only has 3500 kids.

 

[V-te]

A note to everyone: Sometimes the people who say they can solve "in like five minutes" actually can. Whenever people used to say this I always stayed silent and just pretended to believe them, but I have started giving it to people when they say they can. I have met three kids through unrelated activities who can solve it in my school, which only has 3500 kids.

Yeah, I met a guy today on the bus, and he was trying to solve the cube, and after watching him, I realized he was trying to do fingertricks and beginner's method, so I sat next to him, and we started talking.

The thing is, this was an actual person Proving to you that he could solve it under 5 minutes. When most people tell you that, and you hand them the cube, they don't do anything at all,which is why we :fp

 

[theretardedcuber]

wow you can solve the rubiks cube you must liek super amazing at maths and algebra

 

[Paul Wagner]

:fp...

 

[Ranzha]

From a 5-year-old: "C-can you connect all the toys back together again?" -Facepalm.-
-Finishes PLL.-
"Mommy! Mommy! That boy just did it!"
Lol.

 

[crazycubes57]

yea i get that alot

 

[Ranzha]

I just got this at church a few hours ago:

Me: "Damn, it popped."
Mom: "You're going too fast."
Me: "Nooo, I have the tensions set incorrectly. I need to tighten the screws since I haven't done so in a few weeks."
Mom: "Why don't you slow down? Then it never pops."
Me: "Then I don't get fast solves to practice well."
Mom: "You can practice slowly."

Obviously, she doesn't cube ever and doesn't understand the concept of speedcubing. It's SPEEDcubing, not intuitive cubing, if I understand correctly.

 

[Gollum999]

lol, this thread is epic win and epic fail combined.

Let me see...

--
(after solving) "Let me mix it up, then you'll never fix it!" *They scramble for like an hour* *I solve in under a minute*
Them:
--
"That 4-square" (referring to 2x2x2)
--
"I bet I could solve that one." (2x2x2) *Hours later, still unsolved*
--
*After someone sees my solved V7* "OHMYGOSH can you solve that?"
(In my head) "No, I just never mixed it up and carry it around with me for the fun of it"
--
"How do you do it?"
"Well, you use certain series' of moves, called algorithms..."
"Oh, so you cheat."
--
And then of course, the complete failures, like "I once solved 5 sides" or "I solved all but one piece". :fp

I've heard more, but I can't think of them ATM.

 

[V-te]

Just an hour ago at a buffet.

*in the process of solving* *waitress comes near-by, our neighgbor next to us is watching*

*finishes*

Neighbor: "Omy Gawd, did he just solve that???"
Me: "Yup"
Neighbor: "my, that was veryy interrresting, the problem was, You were going too fast, I couldn't see you solve it"

What???

 

[Ranzha]

Lol, I got that at a Bistro a few months ago XD.

Also, in some comments in YT vids, I see things liek these:

"OMG u fukin faget u jus playd it bacwards."

I hate that.
And more:

"You can DO THAT? I want to learn!"
I see this in videos with tutorial links IN THE DESCRIPTION.
:fp