Non-Cubers say the darndest things!

[QCcuber4]

the usualy stuff for me:

-Him
-me

-My dad can solve it in 6 seconds.
-cool...
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-I know a guy who can solve it in liek a minutz.
-thats pretty slow actaully....
-Ohrly?
-yeah.... as a matter of fact, its retardedly slow....
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-dude, the world record for that thing is lek 33 seconds, how fast can you do it?
- 15 or 16 seconds at best.... my personnal record is 13.81....
-.....huh?
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-Know how i solved it once?
-you took it apart.
-no, i took the stickers off and put them back in the right place.
(no **** sherlock, the always pull that one out.)

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-can you solve it blindfolded?
-no (cuz or else they ask me to proove it and i dont see the point in waisting my precious time.)

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-I saw this guy that had a bigger one last time, liek 15x15
-ohrly (wonder why v-cube doesnt sell more than 7x7 last i checked....)

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AND THE MOST RETARDED ONE IVE HEARD BY NOW!!! even if you cant solve a cube, you should be able to recognize how retardedly logical it is that even after 6 months of shuffling, the pieces wont disapear, and yes, we still solve it in less that 18 seconds very easily....

-dude ill bring you mine tomorow, ive been playing with it for 6 months, youll never figure it out, its WAYYY to mixed up...
- Luke, you've been seeing me solve this thing over and over for the last month. you should know better....
-NAHHHH man, mine is leik, WAYYYY to shuffled up, its hard, trust me....
-Look, you could shuffle the cube for 50 years, still i would solve it in less than 20 seconds easily....
-NAHHHH

so on and so forth until the enxt day he brought me his cube and i solved it in 19 seconds.

 

[QCcuber4]

OMG i totally forgot about that one girl:

Girl looks at me, sitting with a bunch of friends at school, and she comes in, and sits with us, cuz shes a friend of theirs i think. And she sees me solving it.

And she goes:

-Wow your pretty good! you must be good at math.
-uhm, not really, to be honest, i suck at math and got rly low grades.
- well thats impossible.
-...why is that?
-because the Rubix is math based.
- ....no?
-yes it is, i read about it. (with a stupid missy-know-it-all smirk and her nose in the air XD)

-uhm...sure, I assure you solving it has nothing to do with math tho...
-Do you know what an Algorithm is?
-yeah, thats why we use to solve it... its not math, we use the word to defi-
- Algorithms are math based!
- ok, its math based....w/e.

When you don't know what you are talking about, stfu. Not in cubing, in ANYTHING, if you don't know what it is, don't pretend to know stuff you know nothing about.... Or else you look as retarded as she did on that day.

 

[Mikey]

I could argue this for Haiyan and those other fast BLD solvers (you know, the 40 some memo + execution times). I realize they don't have a single algorithm they apply, but really he figured out the solution in that amount of time.

Actually Haiyan made his own method for blind solving and he had to memorize like 1200 or so algorithms

 

[QCcuber4]

I could argue this for Haiyan and those other fast BLD solvers (you know, the 40 some memo + execution times). I realize they don't have a single algorithm they apply, but really he figured out the solution in that amount of time.

Actually Haiyan made his own method for blind solving and he had to memorize like 1200 or so algorithms

1200 algorithms? in 3 years i dont think im even close to knowing 600... you mean, 1200 including, conjugators, commutators, mirrors, inverses and all that?

 

[KrazyFK]

I could argue this for Haiyan and those other fast BLD solvers (you know, the 40 some memo + execution times). I realize they don't have a single algorithm they apply, but really he figured out the solution in that amount of time.

Actually Haiyan made his own method for blind solving and he had to memorize like 1200 or so algorithms

1200 algorithms? in 3 years i dont think im even close to knowing 600... you mean, 1200 including, conjugators, commutators, mirrors, inverses and all that?

Haiyan uses speed-optimised BH, so that's 378 algs for corners, 440 for edges. Probably more when you take parity into account.

 

[Mikey]

I could argue this for Haiyan and those other fast BLD solvers (you know, the 40 some memo + execution times). I realize they don't have a single algorithm they apply, but really he figured out the solution in that amount of time.

Actually Haiyan made his own method for blind solving and he had to memorize like 1200 or so algorithms

1200 algorithms? in 3 years i dont think im even close to knowing 600... you mean, 1200 including, conjugators, commutators, mirrors, inverses and all that?

Well ya all of those things. He looks at the cube for about 15 seconds memorizes at least 10-60 algorithms to solve it and just executes them all. But I think only about 40% are mirrors and inverses and all those things but the rest are actually algorithms that switch many cubies around the cube at once. I don't know I read a little about it on some of his blind solve videos and did not quite understand all of it. But yes, he did memorize 1200 algorithms. ( At least that is what everyone is saying lol )

 

[Mikey]

anyway to get back on the topic....

One day I brought my DIY cube to school and it was raining outside at recess so I decided to solve my cube.

This older grade group came up to me and said "I bet you can't solve it"

I said "I can solve it"

Girl in front: "Fine let me BLEND it" I died laughing in my head XD I'm assuming she was one of those popular yet dumb girls .....and she was XD

anyway she grabs the cube and literally "Blends" the cube with both of her hands, makes like 20 or so moves then crushing it and making it fall apart

Her: "OMG I"M SO SORRY!!!!"

Guy in back: "What the hell did you do!!"

Her: "I DIDN"T MEAN TO!!!!"

The whole group was like arguing while I assemble the cube back and did like a 25 second solve

The group looks back at the cube fixed and solved

Me: "I did it........"

The group: Walking away saying "What is wrong with that kid"

Me: 0_0" -_-

 

[ariasamie]

When you don't know what you are talking about, stfu. Not in cubing, in ANYTHING, if you don't know what it is, don't pretend to know stuff you know nothing about.... Or else you look as retarded as she did on that day.

Priceless quote by QCcuber4. nice.

 

[dabmasta]

People do realize that an edit button does exist right? No need to double post.

 

[clincher]

How is the rubik's cube not based on math?

 

[Ranzha]

How is the rubik's cube not based on math?

The cube is based on math.
Algorithms are based on math.
However, when we apply the algorithms, we just follow memorized sequences.
Since a lot of us use algorithms we didn't come up with, we didn't put the math into forming the algorithms. It's for this reason that although we don't necessarily use math to determine what moves to make next, we do use mathematical sequences.

 

[SpUtnikCub3r]

Guy at School - "Do you put oil in your cube"
Me: WHy would anyone put OIL in their cube"
Him - "No some of them do, the really hardcore ones. "
Apparrently sub-30 isn't hardcore enough for him

 

[SpUtnikCub3r]

I could argue this for Haiyan and those other fast BLD solvers (you know, the 40 some memo + execution times). I realize they don't have a single algorithm they apply, but really he figured out the solution in that amount of time.

Actually Haiyan made his own method for blind solving and he had to memorize like 1200 or so algorithms

1200 algorithms? in 3 years i dont think im even close to knowing 600... you mean, 1200 including, conjugators, commutators, mirrors, inverses and all that?

Well ya all of those things. He looks at the cube for about 15 seconds memorizes at least 10-60 algorithms to solve it and just executes them all. But I think only about 40% are mirrors and inverses and all those things but the rest are actually algorithms that switch many cubies around the cube at once. I don't know I read a little about it on some of his blind solve videos and did not quite understand all of it. But yes, he did memorize 1200 algorithms. ( At least that is what everyone is saying lol )

ALgorithms tend to memorize themselves when you come up with them through your own work

 

[MEn]

People do realize that an edit button does exist right? No need to double post.

 

[cincyaviation]

Haiyan uses speed-optimised BH, so that's 378 algs for corners, 440 for edges. Probably more when you take parity into account.

That is correct.

I could argue this for Haiyan and those other fast BLD solvers (you know, the 40 some memo + execution times). I realize they don't have a single algorithm they apply, but really he figured out the solution in that amount of time.

Actually Haiyan made his own method for blind solving and he had to memorize like 1200 or so algorithms

1200 algorithms? in 3 years i dont think im even close to knowing 600... you mean, 1200 including, conjugators, commutators, mirrors, inverses and all that?

Well ya all of those things. He looks at the cube for about 15 seconds and memorizes at least 10-60 algorithms to solve it and just executes them all. But I think only about 40% are mirrors and inverses and all those things but the rest are actually algorithms that switch many cubies around the cube at once. I don't know I read a little about it on some of his blind solve videos and did not quite understand all of it. But yes, he did memorize 1200 algorithms. ( At least that is what everyone is saying lol )

He uses a speed optimized form of BH, that means he solves 2 or 3 pieces at a time, so lets say he uses 2 algs for corners and 3 algs for edges plus a parity alg, that makes only 6,( (someone correct me if i'm wrong on these, i don't know much about 3 cycle BLD) Each Algs switches 3 pieces of the same type around, except for parity which i would guess would be 2-2 cycles. Where in the world did you hear about 1200 algs, and who is the everyone that is saying this?

 

[irontwig]

"I have 1000+ formula": http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showpost.php?p=254566&postcount=1

 

[QCcuber4]

When you don't know what you are talking about, stfu. Not in cubing, in ANYTHING, if you don't know what it is, don't pretend to know stuff you know nothing about.... Or else you look as retarded as she did on that day.

Priceless quote by QCcuber4. nice.

is that srcastic? cuz i certainly think its true XD

 

[Owen]

Guy at School - "Do you put oil in your cube"
Me: WHy would anyone put OIL in their cube"
Him - "No some of them do, the really hardcore ones. "
Apparrently sub-30 isn't hardcore enough for him

1. By oil, he meant lubricant.

2. Sub-30 isn't hardcore. (I assume by sub-30 you mean 20-30 secs)

 

[ariasamie]

When you don't know what you are talking about, stfu. Not in cubing, in ANYTHING, if you don't know what it is, don't pretend to know stuff you know nothing about.... Or else you look as retarded as she did on that day.

Priceless quote by QCcuber4. nice.

is that srcastic? cuz i certainly think its true XD

I don't know what you mean by "srcastic". but I just mean what you said is very good.

 

[CubesOfTheWorld]

"You know you can just take the corner of the cubix rube off and you can wind it back to the start."

Huh?

I don't know if I have already posted this, but here it is anyway:
*Kids look at 2x3x3*
"Look! A 2x3!"
"Did you just take the top off a regular aerobics cube?"

Really?

Oh forgot one: My brother spells "Rubik's" like "Rubix". He never believes me when I say he is wrong.