Cubing in public when being megaslow; do or don't?

[addicted_to_roux]

If you want to know embarrassing, I didn't just pop, I EXPLODED a Rubik's brand at Disneyland.

But yea, rarely anyone openly cares about your cubing. They might be impressed but probably would keep it to themselves. Also, its fun to cube in trains, cars, buses, taxis, rollercoasters, trams, airplanes, and such.

One piece of advice:
MAKE SURE YOUR CUBE CAN'T POP. It only gets embarrassing if you have to pick up pieces from a "broken cube" in public.

Oh were you that guy

 

[Gurplex2]

Who cares what others think?

+♪

 

[cuberkid10]

I remeber solving the cube at school. I was around 2 min, and everybody thought my hands would catch on fire becuase I was "going so fast"

 

[Slowpoke]

I cube all the time?: while driving..

One Handed solves while holding the steering wheel with the other hand... eek!

 

[riffz]

I was doing a blindfold solve for my friends at the airport a month ago, I failed, I had like 3 edges and 2 corners wrong. But people were still impressed.

I don't like to cube in public unless it's around people I mostly know, because I don't like being starred at.. but you I don't think you shouldn't bring it on the train if you're afraid of being embarrassed. Because you'll quickly find out there's no reason to -- you'll likely be the only person on there that can solve it at all.

What the FUUUUUUUU-
-explosion.-

Maybe they were twisted?

 

[Chris griffin]

I used to cube a lot in Madrid's metro with my headphones, but without any music playing. you can't believe what people can say, and you can meet some "interesting" girls/boys, so, yes, practise on that train, I'm also going on a long travel on train and I will be cubing almost all the time

 

[uberCuber]

I used to cube a lot in Madrid's metro with my headphones, but without any music playing. you can't believe what people can say, and you can meet some "interesting" girls/boys, so, yes, practise on that train, I'm also going on a long travel on train and I will be cubing almost all the time

lol headphones with no music i love it why didn't i think of that

 

[rubiknewbie]

If you want to know embarrassing, I didn't just pop, I EXPLODED a Rubik's brand at Disneyland.

But yea, rarely anyone openly cares about your cubing. They might be impressed but probably would keep it to themselves. Also, its fun to cube in trains, cars, buses, taxis, rollercoasters, trams, airplanes, and such.

One piece of advice:
MAKE SURE YOUR CUBE CAN'T POP. It only gets embarrassing if you have to pick up pieces from a "broken cube" in public.

Popping 1 or 2 pieces is ok. Don't bring a cube that pops 9 pieces, like Edison cube.

 

[Senkoy]

If you want to know embarrassing, I didn't just pop, I EXPLODED a Rubik's brand at Disneyland.

But yea, rarely anyone openly cares about your cubing. They might be impressed but probably would keep it to themselves. Also, its fun to cube in trains, cars, buses, taxis, rollercoasters, trams, airplanes, and such.

One piece of advice:
MAKE SURE YOUR CUBE CAN'T POP. It only gets embarrassing if you have to pick up pieces from a "broken cube" in public.

How do you even blow up a Rubik's brand cube? I can't even pull mine apart. Maybe if i forced it but with with a decent amount of force i cant take out that center piece i easily can with the F-II, and even that's never popped on me.

 

[RyanO]

It really doesn't matter if you are slow. When I cubed in public averaging 40+ seconds I got the same reactions I get now at sub 20. A bunch of us cubers were cubing together at a restaraunt after the Oklahoma Open and when we were leaving one of the employees asked us how many minutes it took us to solve the cube. We had been there solving for 2 hours and most of us were sub 20. Non cubers really have no concept of what fast is. To be honest, if I'm not paying close attention I can't even tell that someone else is way faster than me if I don't see their times.

 

[addicted_to_roux]

If you want to know embarrassing, I didn't just pop, I EXPLODED a Rubik's brand at Disneyland.

But yea, rarely anyone openly cares about your cubing. They might be impressed but probably would keep it to themselves. Also, its fun to cube in trains, cars, buses, taxis, rollercoasters, trams, airplanes, and such.

One piece of advice:
MAKE SURE YOUR CUBE CAN'T POP. It only gets embarrassing if you have to pick up pieces from a "broken cube" in public.

How do you even blow up a Rubik's brand cube? I can't even pull mine apart. Maybe if i forced it but with with a decent amount of force i cant take out that center piece i easily can with the F-II, and even that's never popped on me.

I always thought they couldn't pop either, but mine popped yesterday for the first time. I should mention that it laid in 40°C / 104°F when I picked it up for a solve, though.

 

[Reptile]

I picked up my GF by cubing (been over a year now). Public cubing helps for getting used to crowds for competitions but I do tend to choke when people film me. PB was on a bus in front of a bunch of school kids wanting to time me, heh.
Been training for the NZ competition less than 2 weeks away on the train to work (I owe Feliks a cheeseburger for every WR he breaks) and people keep asking if I'm entering (it's being advertised on TV).

 

[Lorenzo]

If you want to know embarrassing, I didn't just pop, I EXPLODED a Rubik's brand at Disneyland.

But yea, rarely anyone openly cares about your cubing. They might be impressed but probably would keep it to themselves. Also, its fun to cube in trains, cars, buses, taxis, rollercoasters, trams, airplanes, and such.

One piece of advice:
MAKE SURE YOUR CUBE CAN'T POP. It only gets embarrassing if you have to pick up pieces from a "broken cube" in public.

How do you even blow up a Rubik's brand cube? I can't even pull mine apart. Maybe if i forced it but with with a decent amount of force i cant take out that center piece i easily can with the F-II, and even that's never popped on me.

I HAVE NO IDEA! I was really surprised when that happened. The pieces flew all over the place and 2 or 3 people picked up pieces and gave them to me.
but seriously, A RUBIK'S BRAND!

 

[Lorenzo]

I picked up my GF by cubing (been over a year now). Public cubing helps for getting used to crowds for competitions but I do tend to choke when people film me. PB was on a bus in front of a bunch of school kids wanting to time me, heh.
Been training for the NZ competition less than 2 weeks away on the train to work (I owe Feliks a cheeseburger for every WR he breaks) and people keep asking if I'm entering (it's being advertised on TV).

AD! Is the ad on Youtube? Link?

 

[aronpm]

 

[Dene]

erm.

 

[Akuma]

I cube slow with my 4x4 (I just got it barely a few days ago) and when I solve it it takes me over 5 minutes
People think I am slow because they think I am holding a 3x3 when in reality I am not.

So yeah, I really dont give a crap.
What I also like to bring on long trips is my netbook with CalCubeTimer installed on it so I casn speedsolev and time myself

 

[Innocence]

youtube stuph

I had no idea that the cubing base in NZ was good enough that they could actually afford TV advertising.

 

[Cubenovice]

Missed upportunity... The ad does not even show actual speedcubing.

If you want to create attention from non-cubers you should give an impression of speed and perhaps a little drama.
Some flashes of:
3x3x3
3x3x3 OH
BLD
7x7x7
And then concluding with a massive POP

 

[TheCubeMaster5000]

I love to solve in public. Even if you're just twisting it around randomly they'll probably conclude that you're solving it, which can give the allusion that you can solve it faster than you really can. In other words, I like to mess with people's minds...:fp