Non-Cubers say the darndest things!

reyrey said:
I'm in the middle of solving my V7, when all of a sudden somebody asks me if I can solve "that thing".
I say yes, they tell me they don't believe me. BOOM - Cube solved.
Same goes for V5 and V3.

Somebody once asked me if there are more than 1 billion "options" for a 7x7, when I said there are more than 1 quadrillion options for a 3x3, she didn't believe. (You ask a cuber, and then don't believe him?)


I hate people that say "You won't break your record", even though I love seeing the look on people's faces when they say "Can't you do it faster?" and I finish in 2 seconds.

I hate people that think they should become my coacher and that together we'll break the WR.
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I hope you realize it's a LOT more than that

and lol at V3
 
oh.
say.
there was this drama.
the guy in it had a 3x3.
and said.
I tried my best, but I couldn't solve the last piece.
and one corner is twisted.
the the woman says.
lets try again.
the keep twisting.
and then.
it's solved!!!
I lol'ed.
 
Hey Guys,
I recently joined a new company and noticed that many of my colleagues got cubes to the office :P, but none could solve the cube completely. Three guys could solve "One Side" , and two more guys could just do the first layer.
They were all surprised and shocked to see me solve the Rubik's Cube in under "1 Minutes" .. later the familiar phrases in this thread started.

"Whats the Trick"
"Let me mess it up so that you will not be able to solve it"
The guy sitting next to my cubicle; after seeing my scrambled SQ1- "WTF (pause).... WTF... (looks at me) .. WTF is that"

I once saw two of my colleagues playing ball with a Guhong!!

I guess its time to stop taking my cubes to the office :P
 
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Gopi said:
Hey Guys,
I recently joined a new company and noticed that many of my colleagues got cubes to the office :P, but none could solve the cube completely. Three guys could solve "One Side" , and two more guys could just do the first layer.
They were all surprised and shocked to see me solve the Rubik's Cube in under "1 Minutes" .. later the familiar phrases in this thread started.

"Whats the Trick"
"Let me mess it up so that you will not be able to solve it"
The guy sitting next to my cubicle; after seeing my scrambled SQ1- "WTF (pause).... WTF... (looks at me) .. WTF is that"

I once saw two of my colleagues playing ball with a Guhong!!

I guess its time to stop taking my cubes to the office :P
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Wait were they throwing the guhong like it was a ball?
 
I was solving one of my 4x4x4s in the tram on the way home from work a few weeks back. There was this elderly lady looking on the whole time (I love spectators, don't you?). So I had solved the cube a few times during the ride and she seemed to be paying attention to what I was doing. Once I had finished a solve, I seamlessly transitioned to to a random scramble and then back to solving without inspection. So I had solved the thing about 3 times when all of a sudden she asks: "Is that thing even solvable?". What a sweetheart :). I was like; "I hope so! :)".
 
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When I give the cube to other people so they can scramble it for me, I always get accused of memorizing their scramble sequence because I am looking at the cube while they do it.
 
My chinese friend at school always snatches the cube from me.. starts to twist it up kinda slow an using his palms, then he tries to solve it does about half of f2l using a guide then gives up and leaves it somewhere... I had to go cube hunting the other day....
 
Gopi said:
Hey Guys,

I once saw two of my colleagues playing ball with a Guhong!!

I guess its time to stop taking my cubes to the office :P
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I had that happen to me once when I brought a cube (also a GuHong) to my martial arts academy. I left it in the cubbyholes while I was training, but it must've fallen out or something, because there were two kids (children of a couple of the students) who were sliding it back and forth like a ball and getting it airborne at the same time. I had to temporarily stop training to take my cube back.

I mean seriously, I don't mind people playing with my cubes, just as long as they're using it for the INTENDED PURPOSE.
 
I've just had to ditch a potential girlfriend. We got along very well, she showed interest in me along the way, but when I mentioned that I am a cuber, she said: "What the hell are you wasting your time on? Don't you have anything better to do?"

Talk about a major turn off. That is really one of the darndest things one could say to me. Girls, or anyone for that matter, have to accept both me AND my cubes. If that is not the case, I don't see any reason why I should waste anymore time on that particular person.
 
tociva said:
I've just had to ditch a potential girlfriend. We got along very well, she showed interest in me along the way, but when I mentioned that I am a cuber, she said: "What the hell are you wasting your time on? Don't you have anything better to do?"

Talk about a major turn off. That is really one of the darndest things one could say to me. Girls, or anyone for that matter, have to accept both me AND my cubes. If that is not the case, I don't see any reason why I should waste anymore time on that particular person.
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The way you put it, you didn't even give her a chance to accept it.
 
Well, I didn't write down the whole story.

Last week, I told her about it and she faked some interest. When I first told her about it, I made it obvious that to me cubing is not just a lame hobby. I rambled on about my collection and my best times. It is something I take seriously and I showed that. She was like; 'yeah, that's really cool!!' I then stopped talking about it because I saw she wasn't really interested, which was okay for me. She doesn't have to be!

An hour ago, I was doing an avg of 100 when she asked what I was doing. Just when she asked, I got my PB and told what I was doing + the fact that I just broke my PB record. She then said what I quoted in my previous post.

Everyone has their own hobbies and things that they like. If I feel one of my hobbies is being made fun of, then I'm better off without that person. Don't understand me wrong; I don't expect people to be interested, far from that. I only want that people accept that I am cubing, without making me trying to quit by telling me I'm wasting my time and that I should be doing other things.

Cubing is no waste of time, and I shouldn't be doing other things if I prefer to be cubing. Some people like to build model aircrafts, others like to play with domino's, heck, there are even people who sit at a train station and write down which trains are passing to collect rare trains on their list (also known as trainspotting). I accept those people and their somewhat silly hobbies too. If they like to watch trains all day long, then I'm very happy for them.
 
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My brother says "you have to think way more when playing call of duty than when you are solving a rubiks cube..." I just laughed
 
Tommy34 said:
My brother says "you have to think way more when playing call of duty than when you are solving a rubiks cube..." I just laughed
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I agree. With the cube, one doesn't think about solving. You simply do. Does one think about breathing? Does one think about their heart beating? It's the same for us cubers. Solving cubes is simply natural for us.
 
Tbh I have to agree with your friend. For cubing, you notice a pattern, and you take an algorithm from your muscle memory, execute it. And that's really all there is to it.

For FPS games, at least if you're playing good, there's a lot that goes into thinking what you're gonna do next, where your opponents might be, being ready to react, listening to sounds, etc.
 
I play FPS and cube a lot. Probably more than 3 years already and I've gotta admit cubing is way easier. When I'm playing COD or Bioshock, I think if where everyone is so I could choose to rush and all. When I play with my firends on the PS3, I tend to cube a lot when I'm dead from Search and Destroy heehee so they'll might say something like "dude, how the hell do you do that thing? It would take me a year to solve it" By that, they mean they'll do random moves hoping it will solve. I just laugh.....
 
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