Non-Cubers say the darndest things!

[SpeedSolve]

Same here, people look at me weird when I am cubing. I'll also get snarky comments like "you're a geek", "get a life", or I'll get good comments like "wow you're smart!" or "that's cool I can never solve one of those you're cool". I guess it just depends on how jealous people are. If they say they don't care that you can solve it they're probably just jealous.

@insane569

Same thing happens to me, then I have to run around the lunchroom getting parts for my F-II because somebody that it would be funny. Jerks, they could at least have some respect for us cubers.

 

[Thunderbolt]

In my class there are few persons who are annoyed.everytime I put out the cube and start to practise, they say: "Put your cube away man lol".
It's so funny for me. about 2x2 cube all my class mates thinked that it's easy cube untill I gave them chance to solve it. they gave in after 1 minute .
Oh and one time someone twist edge and corner in my cube and I couldn't solve it

 

[Pumpkinmuffin]

I'll let people think that I'm a math genius

I don't cube in public too often, because it makes me nervous xD I should though, so I can get over it.
I get the typical remove the stickers bit, and the "it takes you 45 seconds? It would take me 45 years" deal.
When I first started cubing though, like I had just learned how to solve the cube, I was talking about it at work. There's a guy I work with who is one of those types who always has a story to top yours and you can tell makes up stories to impress people. So I had just learned how to solve it, and I was talking about it with my boss and he goes "Yeahhh, when I was a kid I would solve it all the time. It would take me like a half hour, but I would figure it out just by turning it." And I was like, "Really? Well I have mine here, wanna prove it?" Needless to say, he didn't. Haha

 

[Owen]

Teacher, after a bunch of kids stare annoyingly in amazement: "It's just a bunch of pattern identifications and lots, and lots of memorisation of moves."

This is one of the ones which annoy me most :/

Why? It's true...

 

[Jaycee]

Exactly what I was thinking.

 

[5BLD]

Why? It's true...

Not completely. I hate it when they ignore the skill (turning, or thinking etc), blockbuilding strategy, yeh and stuff like that.
But yeah it's one of the things that annoy me.

You could argue against me, but yeah that's just my opinion.

 

[MovingOnUp]

Not completely. I hate it when they ignore the skill (turning, or thinking etc), blockbuilding strategy, yeh and stuff like that.
But yeah it's one of the things that annoy me.

You could argue against me, but yeah that's just my opinion.

This. People always say things like "That's easy it's just a lot of memorization I could do it that fast if I wanted." While that's true I feel like they don't nearly understand how much it takes to become fast.

 

[cubersmith]

I call them optimists with downsyndrome.

best description evar?

 

[Owen]

Not completely. I hate it when they ignore the skill (turning, or thinking etc), blockbuilding strategy, yeh and stuff like that.
But yeah it's one of the things that annoy me.

You could argue against me, but yeah that's just my opinion.

No, I guess I agree. It's worth noting though that you are a unusually skill-based cuber.

I learned a beginner's corners first method two years ago, and am sticking with that.

 

[Hershey]

you are a unusually skill-based cuber.

So is Kirjava.

 

[Mudkip]

Friend: I saw a 70 x 70. I bet u can't solve it!
Me: No you didn't.
F: Yes I did!
Me: *Explains why such a big puzzle can't be made*
F: Well I never said it could turn!

>_<...

 

[Phlippieskezer]

Why? It's true...

I was doing K4. And practising my corner commutators (CLL).

Algorithms in that solve = 0.

But, yeah, it's a pretty annoying statement.

 

[jrb]

My brother's friend said that once he solved 5 sides and couldn't get the last one.

 

[RNewms27]

My brother's friend said that once he solved 5 sides and couldn't get the last one.

Guess he couldn't find a red marker. Took me a little thinking to figure out how to get only four sides.

 

[Goosly]

I like cubing at school. I'm in a scientific study ("Industrial Sciences - Computer Science"), which basically means there are no girls . About everyone is a geek in some way, and I rarely get negative comments on cubing. Some people learned to cube because of me. One of them averages like 28-30 now, so that's great.
I always let people try my 2x2, because they think it's easy

Took me a little thinking to figure out how to get only four sides.

[D M2 ; H-perm]

 

[RNewms27]

I used (M2U2)*2

 

[aaronb]

[D M2 ; H-perm]

I think you mean "[D M2 ; H-perm ; M2 D]

But I always just do [R2 U2]*3

Edit: Ohhh, I like the "(M2U2)*2" one.

 

[Jostle]

[D M2 ; H-perm]

Lol, really?

 

[uberCuber]

I think you mean "[D M2 ; H-perm ; M2 D]

;_;
Learn conjugate and commutator notations.

But his was silly anyway because it does the same thing as [M2,U2].

 

[RNewms27]

If we are making long ones try R2 U' R2 U D R2 D' R2 U F2 U R2 U' F2 L2 D B2 D' L2 U'