Non-Cubers say the darndest things!

Happened a while back, but doesn't look like I posted it here:

Talking casually with a non-cubing friend of mine in the hallway (in school), chatting about cubing:
"So, what's your best time?" (A normal question...)
"Five point seven--"

And before I could finish, some guy from across the hall, who was probably listening in on the conversation drops his water bottle and yells "FIVE SECONDS?!?!?!"

Wasn't sure to be proud or embarrassed. :fp
(I did not address him)
 
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NC "Can you do those things really fast?"
Me "Not really..."
NC "Justin Bieber can!"
I just let them go with that line, I don't know why..

I hope they realize:
I'm slow (compared to all you)
Justin Bieber is REALLY slow (no offence)
I was solving a 4x4 at that time :fp
 
somerandomkidmike said:
I was cubing on the bus, and this woman saw me solving a cube. So she asked me if I have ADHD.
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That's what my mum has said to me once to try to stop me cubing. Actually no, she says OCD. But yeah it was annoying because she is my mum and should respect what I like. At least she's better now after I showed her footage from uk open 2009, and after my dad registered me for the comp.

I was doing sim in the school library last Friday racing my friend with a real cube.
Someone said "look, he's pretending to do it when the computer is actually solving it!"
 
I has just started solving my 3x3 with a U turn, when my classmate said "Oh, your able to do that so fast because you play to much XboX" :fp
 
It's fun having all the other cubers (beginers) at my school being TPS freaks. People watch them solve and freak out at their turn speed. (Not very fast)
When I start a solve, they say I'm slow and terrible, but it's a total payback moment when I finish the solve, 3 times faster than the others, and they can't imagine why.
 
Mudkip said:
It's fun having all the other cubers (beginers) at my school being TPS freaks. People watch them solve and freak out at their turn speed. (Not very fast)
When I start a solve, they say I'm slow and terrible, but it's a total payback moment when I finish the solve, 3 times faster than the others, and they can't imagine why.
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Very similar with my ZZ-using friend and I. He's ~2-3 seconds slower than me, but averages ~60 moves (I average ~45 moves). My spamming of M-slices tend to amaze the audience enough, though. :P

Also, something I've noticed occurring more frequently, people I know and who have seen me solve start using slices while they scramble my cube.
 
Phlippieskezer said:
Very similar with my ZZ-using friend and I. He's ~2-3 seconds slower than me, but averages ~60 moves (I average ~45 moves). My spamming of M-slices tend to amaze the audience enough, though. :P

Also, something I've noticed occurring more frequently, people I know and who have seen me solve start using slices while they scramble my cube.
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Wait, this friend of your's averages around 14-15 seconds? Interesting, I don't really have cubers in my school or neighborhood.
 
Hershey said:
Wait, this friend of your's averages around 14-15 seconds? Interesting, I don't really have cubers in my school or neighborhood.
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Yes. He's the guy that taught me, and is the only other cuber in the entire school that's sub-20. He was stuck at ~16 seconds for a very long time, so yay for him for finally reaching sub-15. :P

There are a bunch of other cubers at my school as well (there's a club...). Only one other person is sub-30, though (everyone else, 30+).
 
I go to a school with a lot of Asians (~65% of my school is Asian) and a big portion of my school is obsessed with the "High expectatinos asian father" meme. So today when I was cubing this kid comes up to me and says, "Asian dad: 'Now do it backwards'." :fp
 
Yesterday I was at work and I was teaching my coworker to solve the cube the easiest way I can think of. A guy walks up and paused his bluetooth cellphone call to say "my son can do that in 3 seconds, he figured out a trick." I know I'm more mature than I used to be because years ago I wouldn't have been able to resist calling him out on being a moron hahaha. Rich people think they are always right (and yes he was rich).
 
The other day I was solving in the campus center of my college and this girl sees my cube and exclaims "I have pictures of you with that cube!..... Tell me why." I had solved the cube for her and a few of her friends on the way to a party a few weeks back and they had a bit too much of the sauce to remember I guess. Thought it was very funny
 
Almost any non cuber starts the conversation with "can you actually do those?"
I either say something sarcastic along the lines of "Noooo, of course I can't do this" *Solvs cube*
or "yes"
 
zerkelas said:
I go to a school with a lot of Asians (~65% of my school is Asian) and a big portion of my school is obsessed with the "High expectatinos asian father" meme. So today when I was cubing this kid comes up to me and says, "Asian dad: 'Now do it backwards'." :fp
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loljustscrambling :fp

Non cubers trying to be smart are funny.
 
I think they try to impress us with cubing terms.

Oh, this turns well. Did you lubricate it?
How many alogrithms do you know?
 
I think they try to impress us with cubing terms.

Oh, this turns well. Did you lubricate it?
How many alogrithms do you know?
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o.O people in my school know no terminology, like they are "this rubik's cube is really slidy, did you put oil in it?" Then when they "scramble" it they call it "reverse the cube", and when they scramble it they just like spaz on the cube and it looks like they are purposely trying to like crush it.(some dick threw my zhanchidown the hallway when he couldn't solve it, but atleast he got suspended and the principal made him buy a new zhanchi AND free torpedoes :P
 
n00bcub3r said:
o.O people in my school know no terminology, like they are "this rubik's cube is really slidy, did you put oil in it?" Then when they "scramble" it they call it "reverse the cube", and when they scramble it they just like spaz on the cube and it looks like they are purposely trying to like crush it.(some dick threw my zhanchidown the hallway when he couldn't solve it, but atleast he got suspended and the principal made him buy a new zhanchi AND free torpedoes :P
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That made me really happy :D
 
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