Non-Cubers say the darndest things!

So I guy in my class comes to me and says can i see your cube? I say why. Then he goes "I spent like 5 hours yesterday after school studing it on youtube and learning it!" And i said "Ok whats the notation?" He goes: "WHAT?!" And i say "ok then, whats the first step?" And he goes "Ummm im pretty sure its liike right inverted?" .... :fp :fp :fp :fp
 
Every day this guy I know asks me if I have a "cube of rube"
Someone I don't know sees me solve a 7x7: They are so amazed that they take a bunch of photos of the cube, but not of the guy who actually solved it.
 
Everytime I bring my cube to school, people say that they just remove the stickers and solve it. Then they pick up my cube, and say "like this", and then show me how to peel them off, and thats when I flip..xD
 
TheNewbCuber said:
Everytime I bring my cube to school, people say that they just remove the stickers and solve it. Then they pick up my cube, and say "like this", and then show me how to peel them off, and thats when I flip..xD
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When I brought my cube to school I let my class mates take turns scrambling it for me, and the way they all turned the faces annoyed me for some reason. They would grip it and slowly turn it using their wrist and rotate the cube before each turn. Maybe it is because I am so used to seeing speedcubers on youtube use finger tricks to solve and scramble? Idk. But it was just strange how they all did it the same way. Anyone else have experience with people doing this when you let them scramble your cube.
 
@CubeSurfer
I see non cubers scramble cubes and try to solve then like this all the time. I think the reason they do it this way is because the limited experience they have with cubes is with store bought rubiks, so they don't really know what a "speedcube" is per say. Therefore,, they use turns like they would with a regular Rubik's cube, which are slow and wristy.
 
CubeSurfer said:
When I brought my cube to school I let my class mates take turns scrambling it for me, and the way they all turned the faces annoyed me for some reason. They would grip it and slowly turn it using their wrist and rotate the cube before each turn. Maybe it is because I am so used to seeing speedcubers on youtube use finger tricks to solve and scramble? Idk. But it was just strange how they all did it the same way. Anyone else have experience with people doing this when you let them scramble your cube.
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Of course, because non-cubers don't have cuber's fingers and their fingertricks.
 
Bh13 said:
@CubeSurfer
I see non cubers scramble cubes and try to solve then like this all the time. I think the reason they do it this way is because the limited experience they have with cubes is with store bought rubiks, so they don't really know what a "speedcube" is per say. Therefore,, they use turns like they would with a regular Rubik's cube, which are slow and wristy.
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Yes, I guess that makes sense. They just don't realize that a speedcube is so easy to turn, so they do it the way they know best which is the way they would turn a store bought Rubik's brand.

@cube-o-holic
I have had similar experiences where they will not even try to scramble it because they worry that they will do it wrong. Also, I have had the other side of the case where they will spend an unnecessary amount of time trying to "mess it up as much as possible." In my head I am always thinking, a scramble should only take less than 10 seconds... hahah.
 
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