Non-Cubers say the darndest things!

[uniacto]

That's just stupid of her. I despise people bragging about how awesome they are when in reality they aren't even close. But at least she got one thing right... it IS easy after you learn the patterns. Less easy though to get really fast at it.

pssshhhh I can EASILY get a sub 10 solve on a 3x3, no problem. It's pretty easy after the first 4 sides after you remember those, whatchamacallits, algorithms or something?

 

[Noahaha]

pssshhhh I can EASILY get a sub 10 solve on a 3x3, no problem. It's pretty easy after the first 4 sides after you remember those, whatchamacallits, algorithms or something?

"Hah! I could get a sub-10 solve if I just practiced a little."

Owait that was me.

 

[tomzeng]

The 2x2 seems to easy.......... It's so hard

Wow how do you do that :-D :-*

 

[googlebleh]

The 2x2 seems to easy.......... It's so hard

Wow how do you do that :-D :-*

Don't you mean: "That four one" seems easy?

 

[TheNextFeliks]

Don't you mean: "That four one" seems easy?

I hate that.

Lol. My sister asks me to let her try the 2x2. She gets the layer and oll skip. Then a j perm. Is this solvable?

 

[Lchu613]

***** in school stole my zhanchi. didn't notice until it was too late
went to him next day after asking around, and asked what he'd done with it
he popped it in study hall and threw all the pieces away

 

[TheNextFeliks]

Girl I like who likes me brings a cube to school. "I thought of you."
She kept saying fix it instead of solve it.

 

[sneaklyfox]

Girl I like who likes me brings a cube to school. "I thought of you."
She kept saying fix it instead of solve it.

That's sweet. It actually doesn't bother me at all when people say "fix".

 

[Coolster01]

Just told my mom,
"WR holder for 2x2 average is going to my comp on Saturday!"
"Really, who?"
"Christopher Olson."
"You sure it's not you? I thought it was."

I just hate when this happens because it gets me upset because it seems like people expect too much out of you.

 

[5BLD]

I hate how people think theres age groups

 

[Yuxuibbs]

Just told my mom,
"WR holder for 2x2 average is going to my comp on Saturday!"
"Really, who?"
"Christopher Olson."
"You sure it's not you? I thought it was."

I just hate when this happens because it gets me upset because it seems like people expect too much out of you.

ouch

My dad is barely letting me go to the comp because he thinks going to a comp at the end of a week long break will somehow bring my grades down....

 

[sneaklyfox]

Just told my mom,
"WR holder for 2x2 average is going to my comp on Saturday!"
"Really, who?"
"Christopher Olson."
"You sure it's not you? I thought it was."

I just hate when this happens because it gets me upset because it seems like people expect too much out of you.

She's probably just proud of you...

 

[JF1zl3]

Brandon = this guy who goes to my school and is known for making up **** to look cool. He's kindof an *****. I think he is a pathological liar.
Me = me of course.

Brandon: "I've seen a 50 by 50 before."
Me: "What? No way, the largest I've ever even heard of is 12 by 12"
Brandon: "No dude, I saw it on youtube"
Me: "No you didn't, it doesn't exist. The thing would cost like $3,000.""
Brandon: "Well maybe the guy made it himself."
Me: "It would weigh at least 30 pounds! Wait was it a computer simulator?"
Brandon: "No it was in real life."
Me: "Shut up, Brandon, it doesn't exist."

That guy does stuff like this everyday.

Other things:
"No no no, the world record holder solves it face by face, which is really hard to do, but hes a master and that's why he can do it so fast."
"Oh come on, that's not fair, you do the fancy finger stuff, that's why you're so fast."
"2x2x2? That's got to be so easy."
"No, it's not scrambled yet, two of the colors are still right next to each other there." (after applying a good 50 moves. SLOW, FULL HAND turns.)
"What's the point of solving it again? Isn't it just the same thing over and over?"
And my least favorite:
"What's the trick to it?"
There is no trick! It's a set of algorithms applied to a wide variety of cases, after an intuitive foundation is built.

 

[immortalchaos29]

Ok. I am SO SICK of people telling me "Oh, well if you know the pattern..." as a way to make speedsolvers and bld solvers look less talented than they are. If it's so easy, you do it.

What do people MEAN when they say this? Do you think they actually believe that there is one alg that solves the cube from any scrambled state, or do they understand that a collection of algs can be learned and applied to different cases, and are just generalizing this collection to "one pattern"?

 

[uniacto]

Ok. I am SO SICK of people telling me "Oh, well if you know the pattern..." as a way to make speedsolvers and bld solvers look less talented than they are. If it's so easy, you do it.

What do people MEAN when they say this? Do you think they actually believe that there is one alg that solves the cube from any scrambled state, or do they understand that a collection of algs can be learned and applied to different cases, and are just generalizing this collection to "one pattern"?

I get this reaction all the time. It's annoying, isn't it? Some people ask me like, "Do you look for a specific pattern or something?". I then proceed to show them a solve, and explain each step sorta like this:

White Cross on bottom first
Get the white corners and edges paired together correctly. Do it 4 times and insert the pair 4 times.
Get Yellow Cross on top. If it's a dot, you do this. If it's a line, you do this. If it's a "L' looking thing, you do this.
You get all yellow on top, but the edges are still not right.
You get the edges right, and you're done.

It's pretty easy to explain, and it usually keeps them quiet for a little bit.

 

[lunari]

After solving and scrambling the cube several times for 10 minutes or so:
"Oh, you still haven't solved it yet?"

 

[sneaklyfox]

After solving and scrambling the cube several times for 10 minutes or so:
"Oh, you still haven't solved it yet?"

LOL... nobody has ever said this to me, but sometimes I wonder if that's what they're thinking because we solve it so fast and scramble it again as soon as it's solved that they can't tell that it was ever solved...

 

[immortalchaos29]

I get this reaction all the time. It's annoying, isn't it? Some people ask me like, "Do you look for a specific pattern or something?". I then proceed to show them a solve, and explain each step sorta like this:

White Cross on bottom first
Get the white corners and edges paired together correctly. Do it 4 times and insert the pair 4 times.
Get Yellow Cross on top. If it's a dot, you do this. If it's a line, you do this. If it's a "L' looking thing, you do this.
You get all yellow on top, but the edges are still not right.
You get the edges right, and you're done.

It's pretty easy to explain, and it usually keeps them quiet for a little bit.

Ya that's good. I always just explain that fast solutions are as move-optimal as possible so using lots of algorithms is not nearly as important as learning intuitive solutions. I just don't understand why they think it must be so trivial. Maybe it's an easy way to convince themselves that something they don't understand isn't so hard after all.

 

[sneaklyfox]

Ya that's good. I always just explain that fast solutions are as move-optimal as possible so using lots of algorithms is not nearly as important as learning intuitive solutions. I just don't understand why they think it must be so trivial. Maybe it's an easy way to convince themselves that something they don't understand isn't so hard after all.

It's not really that hard. It's something to get used to at first, and then it really is pattern recognition. Even intuitive F2L becomes pattern recognition after awhile. OLL and PLL is obviously pattern recognition... you just know what moves to apply when you see a certain pattern.

 

[immortalchaos29]

It's not really that hard. It's something to get used to at first, and then it really is pattern recognition. Even intuitive F2L becomes pattern recognition after awhile. OLL and PLL is obviously pattern recognition... you just know what moves to apply when you see a certain pattern.

I try to make it sound interesting, avoiding the claim that "it's just the same thing over and over again."

You're right, but there are so many different ways to do something that even after a solid year of CFOPing, I am still learning lots of non-algorithmic things. For example, learning to solve crosses more finger-friendly, incorporating more x-crosses, f2l edge control, multislotting, and many others.