AidanNoogie
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4 days ago was the 1 year anniversary of this thread lol
--------------------------------------------------------------3319. When you write ' no, it's 3318. When you write " you are supposed to never your reasons"'
3320. When you unintentionally start this thread up again
3321. When you have to resort to reasons that involve 'when you have an NxN, N+1xN+1...'
that is SOOO me142. You have so many cubes you can not decide which one you want to use first.
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3322. When you start turning Earth like a Rubik's cube
3323. When you solve the sun in a 31415926535 x 31415926535 x 31415926535 Rubik's cube
3324. When the Rubik's cube solves you
3325. When you realize that there are only 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 digits of pi, just like the cube
3326. when your Earth Rubik's cube pops because the tectonic plates didn't match up
3327. When you become the WR NxNxN puzzle
3328. When you invent an obscure method that requires only 2 moves
3329. When everyone in the universe knows how to solve the Rubik's cube because they watched your obscure advanced 2-moves required method
3330. When you become the Rubik's cube idol
3331. When you start making up reasons "just because"
3332. When you have to go through all the numbers to see if the one you are making is original
3333. When you reach 10,000 years of cubing
3334. When you get imprisoned for cubing too much.
3335. When the numbers of the reason start looking awesome.
3336. When your reasons start becoming obscure, like "aol234jfiuf"
3337. When you finally run out of reasons
3338. When you die from coming up with reasonsssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss...................................
sounds like some sort of dance. it even rhymes569. When you open the door, get on the floor, and everybody cubes the dino cube.
Are you okay? I sounds like you have a cube-only diet or something. I mean seriously, plastic isn't good for your health, and vinyl stickers and springs aren't either. Wait. Is there a way to make it not poisonous? HMMM. Just... you know... lay off cube chomping and do some cube comping until you make it not poisonous, OK?588.Your cube is your only source of earning bread
you know they made a meme about that, right? it's on ruwix.com , by the wayHow would this happen to me? If I even had a girlfriend in the first place, she'd be a cube
Mine's March 16th... my 1st Anniv is coming up in about a week...731. When you solve your first cube every (June 25th) to commemorate your cubing anniversary (I've done this 4 times)
i cube while walking my dog all the time! i should get into OH though. i think i got better over the last few months...761. When you are walking your dog and doing OH.
Well, I had something like that happen once. It was 59.78, then 49.something in the same 10 minutes.That probably happens more to the n00bz, like
OH BOIIII I GOT IT IN UNDERZ A MINIUTE!1!!!1! 59.78
next solve is 55.18
#-2. When you look at the time and find out that you've been cubing too long838. When you look at the time and think about old WRs.
Hey where did you get your Rubik's cube bed? Or did you just mod it just so you could solve it?840. When you solve your bed each morning.
3945. When you don't know why The Doctor in Doctor Who can't solve the Rubik's cube in this one episode and calls it "rubbish"914: +WombatWarrior17
When you don't even have Dr who as a profile pic because you love cubing so much.
969. When you start a petition to fix the WCA logo.
970. If you sign that petition.
971. If you magnetize the 18cm 3x3.
972. If you magnetize Tony Fisher's 5 foot 3x3.
973. If you know it's actually 5' 1.7".
974. If you magnetize a nano cube.
975. If you do an Ao1000 every day.
976. If cubing is your job.
977. When you re-sticker a 13x13 because you were bored.
978. When you make a 3x3 out of Legos.
979. When you make a 3x3 out of food.
980. If you make a speech about how cubing relates to life.
981. If you actually snipe #1000.
982. If you solve a 17x17 with your feet.
983. You solve skewb one handed.
984. If you make ZBLL for megaminx.
985. When your collection is worth at least $500,000.
986. If you think we can get to 2000 reasons.
987. If you wright a blog about your life as a cuber.
988. You spend at least an hour coming up with reasons to get 1000.
989. You make a spherical 13x13.
990. You solve it every day.
991. If your birthday cake is always a Rubik's cube.
992. You get a 5 sec Ao5 on a zhachi.
993. When you have building full of cubes.
994. When you solve the brain cube.
995. When your house looks like a cube.
996. You make a stickerless 13x13.
997. You make a stickerless 17x17.
998. You make and solve a 7x7 void cube.
999. If you do an Ao1000 in all of the events you practice to celebrate.
1000. You actually get to 1000 reasons.
end of 1000 at post #555
how about 5,000? HMMMM? Or because the thread is called Infinite Reasons Why You've Been Cubing too Long, we could keep it going past that. Maybe 10,000 reasons or something.I guess you want to keep this thread going What are you going to? 4,000?
Part II: (201-400)-3. When you copy-and-paste the first 1,000 reasons in a 25-page Google Doc just to make this post: (and probably multiple others)
-1.(After 251) When you know there are 2 repeats.
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1. You beat zemdegs
2. You average sub 6
3. You know every zbll alg
4. You know cll, eg1, eg2
5. You have WR in every category
6. You measure the duration of regular daily activities by how many 7x7s you can solve in that time... or any NxNxN really
7. You have over 1000 cubes.
8. You do solves instead of homework
9. You have over a thousand solves in your 6x6 session. (this is probably going to be me in a couple of months)
10. You forget to post for several weeks because you're cubing too much
11. You will have been cubing for a third of your life in under a month
12. When you have so many cubes you start eating them
13. Your fingers turn arthritic, but you still can't stop…
13. There is a cube in every room of your house
15. You're thinking too much about cubes and misspell '14'.
16. When you put your delegates face on a train
17. Your YouTube subscriptions are all cubers
18. You know you've been cubing too long when you remember the original "You know you've been cubing too long when..." page, and the reboot, and the reference to the original in the reboot:
19. When you can't remember when you started cubing.
20. You sacrifice an hour that could be spent studying for exams to do a multiblind attempt
21. You turn down invitations from non-cubers because you'd rather be practicing
22. There is at least 1 cube in each bag you take out of the house.
23. You have 12,000 solves on a cstimer session to try to break an ao1000
24. You actually get into BLD
25. You get nostalgic about ancient cubes like F2 and A5 and get upset when noobs say they are awful.
26. You're proud that you figured out your own method and algs before the days when the Yahoo group made it easy.
27. Your friends aren't even impressed any more and say "oh he's doing that cube thing again".
28. You always have a cube within easy reaching distance of you.
29. You get annoyed when people ask if you can solve the cube.
30. You created a stereographic projection of a cube onto the complex plane to see if anything interesting would happen.
31. Your understanding of Group Theory is helped along by cube solving.
32. You've created a few new methods that people know about
33. Other people start to propose the same methods as you and happens so often you just don't care any more.
34. You can often just go off topic even when you thought you were talking about cubes on a cubing forum or cubing groups.
35. You've dreamed about cube solving.
36. Most of the groups you're in on Facebook are cubing groups.
37. You have built a cube solving robot out of minestorms of your own design.
38. When it's written on your will that you wanna be buried in a valk 3 box
39. You write a lot of reasons you've been cubing too long.
40. You practice OH while doing other stuff (I'm practicing OH as I'm writing this)
41. When your head hurts from practicing too much BLD, but you have to keep practicing because you have a competition that Saturday.
42. You add captions to an Ao5 video with no voice-over.
43. Whenever you visit a tourist attraction, you feel compelled to solve a cube there and post a video on YouTube.
44. When you finally improve on an event but you get a Dnf average in a forum comp imao
45. When you hear someone say "soon", you immediately think "sune."
46. When you dream about cubing.
47. When you post about "1000 signs you've been cubing to long."
48. Saying "see you sune" to cubing friends
49. when you're known as 'rubiks boy' at your school
50. When you join Speedsolving.com
51. When you start learning 6BLD.
52. when you attempt a 2-10 relay.
53. When you download Magic cube 4D
54. When the first person you met from a certain country is a cuber.
55. when you watch cubing livestreams
56. When you actually know some NR's from obscure countries
57. When you have took apart, lubed and assembled your 8x8
58. When you contemplate buying budget cubes for your friends.
59. when you want to travel to a certain country because thats where worlds will take place at.
60. you have made cubing video's.
61. Spending 20 minutes typing a post on this thread
62. When the number of years you've been cubing enters double digits (this year for me)
63. You fail at a comp but you don't care because you've gone to over 9000
64. Your cube falls apart because you were cubing to much.
65. When your collection values more than your (or family member's) car
66. When you buy cubes cause why not?
67. When you drive 24 hours to go to one competition.
68. When you solve a 1000x1000 on a computer.
69. When you realize you've spent $100.000.00 on cubes.
70. When Feliks quits cubing because your too fast.
71. When buying cubes is like buying groceries.
72. You get sponsored.
73. You get hired by a cubing company.
74. You name a cube after yourself (Valk?)
75. You solve on rollercoasters (VALK?!)
76. You throw a stickerless at a linoleum floor because you're fed up with switching to color neutral (I did do this)
77. You start your own website with your own algs
78. You don't try cubes, you critique them
79. You're waiting for the next NxN puzzle to be mass-produced so you can own it
80. You get bored of cubing
81. You have good, automatic responses to people when they react to your cubing
82. You break more world records than any other single cubing person in the history of cubing (Feliks pls)
83. When you make your girlfriend learn how to solve a 3x3
84. When you check cube comps every 20 minutes on weekends.
85. You Invent your own method for Gigaminx.
86. you actually care about state records.
87. you have cubes painted on your wall (rami)
88. When your cube pops every time you turn one side.
89. You're reminded that you have Friday off and you yell "PLL skip!"
90. You think "ZZ Top" is a forum user who is really good with edge orientation.
91. You want to turn the Microsoft logo over to see if there's a better start on the opposite face.
92. When you feel nostalgic and make a petition to bring back Magic
93. When you accidentally say 'OLL' instead of 'Oh Well'
94. You spell Wonderful Wondeful.
95. When you have a 5 and a half hour cubing meetup in the shopping mall. (Happened today)
96. You chill out with cubers you meet at your brothers Basket ball game
97. Your timer breaks in one day because you are cubing to long.
98. You can actually think of 1000 diffrent reasons about cubing too long
99. Your non-cubing parents know how to scramble
100. Your phone no longer auto corrects "cubing" to "curbing"
101. When solving a cube is faster than scrambling it.
102. Numbers with two decimal places remind you of cubing world records, e.g. 4.73, 21.54
103. When you spend more time deciding what cube to get, than you will cube with it.
104: When you try to execute abbreviations that have letters involved in cube notation like algorithms.
105: When you spell the name "Felix" like "Feliks" all the time.
106: When you look up folding mats and get "Mats Valk" as a search result.
107: When you try to solve literal air.
108: When cubists (1980s Cubers) look at you like you have fifty heads.
109: When you fill up a whole shelf with cubes and have to clear the shelf below it to fit more cubes
110: When you start doing BLD on the train journey to a competition because you don't even care about the public anymore
111: When you buy a quieter cube (GAN 356 Air) so you can cube without annoying people as much
112: When you end up getting 5 of your friends addicted to cubing as well
113: When you see how many 3x3s you can solve before your friend solves a 2x2
114: When you accidentally watch cubing videos whilst logged into a sibling's YT account and all of their recommended videos become cubing related
115: When you disassemble and reassemble your 6x6 because you're bored
116: When you try to spell words using PLL algorithms (V E R Y F U N)
117: When tell your girlfriend how R U R' U' she is and she understands because you can't stop talking about cubing stuff
118: When your girlfriend leaves you because you love cubes more than you love her
119. When you don't have any friends to annoy anymore.
122. When you start to try to solve cubes underwater.
123. When solving a 3x3 underwater becomes too easy so you start to do 4x4, 5x5, megaminx and bigger.
124: When you get so annoyed with people only solving the first layer of your 4x4/5x5 so you create your own layer-by-layer method
125: When you have to take at least 10 3x3s to school because your friends keep using them and you end up with no more 3x3s to use
126: When you run out of YouTube videos to act as background noise whilst you solve, but you can just replay them because you weren't paying attention anyway
127: When your friends discover your cubeTube channel and suddenly you get a boost in subscribers
129: when you have seen spam on speed solving thats selling stuff thats probably not legal.
130: You resticker your cubes with your custom color scheme
131: You are a WCA delegate
132: you have competed in every WCA event.
133: you are top 100 in the world for at least 1 event
134: When you are contemplating hosting a comp that has odd events
135: you listen to cubing podcasts
136: You say "commutator" instead of "commentator"
137: You can sub-20 a cubing trivia quiz
138: You think of R2D2 as an algorithm rater than a Star Wars character
139: You know everything on the wiki page for 4x4 parity algs.
140: When you go to a competition, everyone else starts competing for second place.
141: All the WCA officials know your name and WCA id
142. You have so many cubes you can not decide which one you want to use first.
143. When you attempt an ao100 on a fidget cube.
144. When you try to solve a game cube
145. When you learn 1LLL
146. When you've invented your own speedsolving methods and algs for ivy cube
147. When you can tell what brand of cube and what lubricant just by doing a single turn
148. When you have invented a sign language based on notation
149. When you learn full OLL and PLL for megaminx
150. When people try to get your autograph when you go to a competition
151. When you count how many alg sets you know, instead of how many algs.
152. When you abbreviate algorithm to alg.
153. You've magnetized your own cube.
154. You've magnetized cubes for others.
155. You change the chemistry of the plastic of a cube so it feels better.
156. You did a 2-11 BLD relay
157. when you carry around a suitcase of cubes everywhere you go
158. when you do a 9x9 mo3
159. when all of your birthday presents are cubes
160. when you have comps every weekend for 4 months
161. when you're top 500 in the world for every event
162. when you're part of the platinum wca completion club
163. when the only things on your desk are cubes
164. when you're disappointed with a sub5 3x3 single
165. when you have a 13BLD success
166. When you're surprised when intuitive F2L isn't intuitive for new cubers.
167. When you go to comps and sweep the entire thing
168. When you become faster in some events then your daughter/son.
169. When you never become so fast as your son/daughter in some events.
170. You were at the original World Championship in 1982
171. When your Emergency Earthquake Supplies are:
a. non-perishable food
b. gallons of water
c. blankets
d. all of your cubes
172. When cubes are your only freinds
173. When the amount of rooms in your Multi-blind memo is more than the amount of rooms in your house.
174. When you remember the Dayan Panshi.
175. you have made a shape mod out of a cube bigger than a 5x5
176. When you have attempted a 4x4 with feet solve.
177. when you are the only person competing at an event in a comp.
178. when you have contributed 10% of the signs here.
179. When writing "algs" no longer autocorrects to "lags" or "alga".
180. When you set speedsolving as your homepage.
181. You make sure you know how many of these reasons are repeated if any.
182. When you have confirmed that there are none.
183. When you have confirmed that there are none
184. When you point out that I copied from the last post
185 when you have three 6ft shelving units in room your dedicated to housing cubes
186: everyone in the cubing community stops cubing because of you
187. When people know who you are on SS
188. When people know who you are on Reddit
189. When people know your youtube, facebook, SS and Reddit are the same person.
190. when your main is an alpha 5
191. Your cstimer takes forever to load because of how many solves need to load
192. When you have taken a cube on a 6 day backpacking trip.
193. When you spend half an hour cleaning dust out of that cube to resuscitate it, even though it was a Yuxin Fire.
194. When you are on first-name terms with half the people on this forum.
195. When, when given the assignment to write a paper on the history of anything, you choose speedcubing methods.
196. When you are on part of a forum dedicated to cubing.
197. When you have read the wiki page on cubing memes.
198: When you invent a skateboard trick called the Rubiks 360
199: When judges have to enforce a TPS speed limit because of you
200: When you hold a mirror cube in front of a mirror to try to see an infinite reflection.
how about 5,000? HMMMM? Or because the thread is called Infinite Reasons Why You've Been Cubing too Long, we could keep it going past that. Maybe 10,000 reasons or something.