Non-Cubers say the darndest things!

[jrb]

A lot of people I've seen call it a magic box.

Edit: or a magic cube

 

[Hershey]

or a magic cube

That was the original name you know.

 

[n00bcub3r]

so i just finish solving a cube in school som kid takes it and says "i can solve it in 2 seconds" *make R, then R'* so annoying

 

[Phlippieskezer]

Urgh... I've always found explaining Roux to non cubers especially hard...

Noticing the progression of non-cubers' words of amazement from when I transitioned from CFOP to Roux was very amusing.
That's mostly because in Roux you don't even have a face until when practically the entire cube is solved.
"Dude... You'll never get it. You say you can solve it in 15 seconds, yet you're turning it so slowly, and you don't even have a side ye- wtf? It's solved?!"

Also: M-slices: They intimidate non-cubers (and even some cubers).

 

[RussianWhiteBoi]

talking about pyraminx with my friend today:

"I can solve four sides, but then it gets hard"

:fp

 

[JonWhite]

"a rubik's sphere would have infinite colors and would be impossible to solve"

 

[bobthegiraffemonkey]

Also: M-slices: They intimidate non-cubers (and even some cubers).

I was talking to someone in work today, even doing a slow M' trigger freaked him a little for some reason, which is strange after he had seen me doing it fast, and also BLD style (under the table, not with an actual blindfold). I don't quite understand it personally but it was kinda funny.

 

[Hershey]

I was talking to someone in work today, even doing a slow M' trigger freaked him a little for some reason,

What do you mean? Was he all like "wtf!" or something?

 

[cmhardw]

Yeah I've seen people freak a little bit when you do a slice move. I guess they were just wrist turning one side at a time, and never thought that "the middle" could turn.

 

[Jaycee]

Doing Z-perm in front of non-cubers is the best

 

[Ltsurge]

Doing Z-perm in front of non-cubers is the best

why?

H perms ftw... in my nubby opinion

 

[cmhardw]

why?

H perms ftw... in my nubby opinion

The old Dan Knights' Z-perm (popularized by Dan Knights) is a little wristy by today's standards, but looks SO amazing (especially to non-cubers).

 

[Jaycee]

The amount of M slices makes them go OMGWTFLOLBBQ

I see you changed to Raikou. >.>

 

[~Phoenix Death~]

I did a juggling show for Big Brother Big Sisters yesterday, and I've started adding some cubing to my juggling routines as it makes for a really nice way to segue between props or number of props. I had a friend of mine in the audience and asked for a volunteer to scramble the cube, picking my friend as I knew he wouldn't destroy my cube. I make him stand behind me and scramble while I do some simple 3 club patterns and yammer about the cube. I usually spend about 2 minutes or so explaining the basics of Roux in very, very simple terms. Making a point to explain that it's done in steps to go from scrambled to solved. I get the scrambled cube back from my friend and inspect it briefly and then have the audience count out loud as I'm solving it.

After I finished the routine a man from the audience came up and said, "Now you either got eyes in the back of your head and was watching him mess that thing up, or y'all are some kinda psychic and he was telling you what he was doing so that you could put it back to regular. Everybody knows them things are impossible, especially in 22 seconds."

I didn't have much of a response and luckily his teenage daughter had been paying attention and saved the day for me. "Daddy, didn't you listen to him at all? He told you how it's done, step by step, and that he had to learn how to do it. He even said that even though the solve is different every time you use the same basic steps to get bits and pieces of the cube solved. You just made yourself look all kinds of foolish by calling him a eyes in the back of his head psychic!"

I couldn't help but chuckle to myself, shake both there hands and thank them for coming. He seemed a bit speechless after she finished talking. It was pretty amusing.

Quite amusing.

People crap their pants when I repeat M2 U over and over.

 

[Ltsurge]

The amount of M slices makes them go OMGWTFLOLBBQ

I see you changed to Raikou. >.>

Yeah!

Btw my z perms are crap anyway... so I guess they don't look that sexy

 

[Rpotts]

The wristy super R2 U2 air jeff 2gen Hperm is consistently the most impressive alg to non-cubers. Also the RUx(56?) finger trick thing is impressive if executed well, however, when you lock up you just look dumb.

I love Dan Knights Z, that was my introduction to x rotations, and maybe rotations all together, at least the xyz naming system.
Me in 2008 with Woner -

Me: *gets 1.3x Dan Knights Z after many tries* "whoa, david look."
David: "That is better than anything I've done ever"

 

[JonWhite]

my R perms with non-standard algs and my own fingertricks always amaze people (and they're FAST too [about 1.5 s on my hands {which aren't that fast} ], it makes me wonder why people complain about R perms)

 

[cubernya]

What are the R perms?

 

[Ltsurge]

my R perms with non-standard algs and my own fingertricks always amaze people (and they're FAST too [about 1.5 s on my hands {which aren't that fast} ], it makes me wonder why people complain about R perms)

Dude... mine are like 5s :fp they look just as crap as my Z perms.. all my friends still reckon I'm rediculously fast with my LL.

 

[somerandomkidmike]

Not sure if this should go in this thread, or another, but I had an interesting survey on omegle.

On omegle's new spy mode, I asked this question: "Which cube is a higher quality for speedcubing? Standard rubik's or Dayan Guhong?"
The result is that I had 27 people say rubik's, and 3 say guhong. One picked guhong because it was the "underdog". Another picked Guhong because they though the name sounded cool. Only one person took the time to look it up.