101 Annoying Things You've Heard Your Friends Say While Scrambling Your Cube

ostracod said:
293. "Did you know that it took a guy 45 years to solve one of those?"
(I hear this one a lot as well... But really, if I were that guy, and I REALLY wanted to solve a Rubik's cube without any help, I'm pretty sure I could have figured it out in far less time. Really, all you have to do is realize the cube is made of PIECES, not stickers, and then figure out some arbitrary ways to move them around...)
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Yeah... plus, the Cube was invented in 1974, and first marketed publicly in 1980? These people make me laugh (and not in a good way).
 
ostracod said:
Here's a typical dialogue, don't count it in the thread, though:
Nub: "[person x] just peel(s) off all the stickers and puts them back to solve them."
Me: "Ha. Ha." (Thinking: "I hate [person x].")
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That doesn't bother me. I just pop open my cube.
Nub: "Oh! I never know you could do that! You really are a genius!"
Embarrassing someone without speaking one word is pretty awesome.
 
ostracod said:
And also, I want to say a few words on the "peeling stickers off" questions/statements. Has anyone REALLY done this? Like, ACTUALLY taken off all the stickers and put them back? I'm actually going to take a dead cube right now and try this.......

......Wow, I was really surprised. You actually CAN peel them off, and they don't get messed up. It seems that the adhesive would last for at least 5 peels. But when people say "peeling off stickers", it really just annoys the heck out of me... To deface a perfectly good cube just to HAVE it solved, whereas the cube can easily be disassembled...
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I like to tell people that, if you just take the stickers off and put them back on, the cube ISN'T solved, it just LOOKS solved. That always confuses them :D
 
ostracod said:
......Wow, I was really surprised. You actually CAN peel them off, and they don't get messed up. It seems that the adhesive would last for at least 5 peels. But when people say "peeling off stickers", it really just annoys the heck out of me... To deface a perfectly good cube just to HAVE it solved, whereas the cube can easily be disassembled...
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What kind of stickers did you use. PVC stickers don't lose their adhesive as easily as most stickers. Most people (that would even think of taking the stickers off) have storebought cubes, which have PET stickers (i think?? Can someone confirm me on that one?). They probably wouldn't last as long. They peel even if you don't ever take them off. I can't imagine how long they would last if they were taken off and reapplied.
 
295 (after the person has spent several minutes examining my cube):
Hey, where's the blue-green edge?

296
noncuber: can you solve it?
me: yes.
noncuber: no you can't.

296 really annoys me. how can they possibly be so skeptical of something they clearly know nothing about?
 
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holypasta said:
295 (after the person has spent several minutes examining my cube):
Hey, where's the blue-green edge?

296
noncuber: can you solve it?
me: yes.
noncuber: no you can't.

296 really annoys me. how can they possibly be so skeptical of something they clearly know nothing about?
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Somebody actually asked me where the White/yellow/Red corner was.
It took me a half hour to explain that two colours NEVER MEET EACH OTHER.

296.... LOL... and why would you ask if they can solve it if you were carrying it around the entire day?? Makes no sense

mcciff2112 said:
What kind of stickers did you use. PVC stickers don't lose their adhesive as easily as most stickers. Most people (that would even think of taking the stickers off) have storebought cubes, which have PET stickers (i think?? Can someone confirm me on that one?).
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PET < PP < PVC. That's what i was told, and I stick to it since for the most part it's true.


301.
Them: Did you use the same moves over and over again? (I assume they meant the R U thing)
Me: No.
Them: Then how did you solve it?
Me: I used hacks.
Them: How did you peel off the stickers that fast?!

Yeah, that conversation was epic. Especially since it was a kid working in a LIBRARY.
 
Nukoca said:
257.) Me: *Starts solving cube*
Them: Are you trying to get the white side?
Me: That's one method of doing it. The way I'm doing it, I solve a 2x2x2 cube, expand it into a 2x2x3, and then all I have to do to get the rest of it is to turn these two layers, but first I have to fix the weird edges.
Them: So are you trying to get the orange side?
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LOL, apparently they can't comprehend Petrus...

I know someone who said "It would take me like, 2 hours to solve that"
Me: I don't think so, you mean without a book/internet/etc. or by yourself?
 
302.) Darn. Forgot. Don't pay attention to this one.

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Remembered it. :)

302.) Person: Can you solve it behind your back.
Me: No, but some people can solve it blindfolded.
Person: But they have to look at the cube first, so it doesn't really count.
Me: *Facepalm*
 
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303:
I had just solved it.
"This kid has the spirit of the asian in him."

304:
New kid sees me solving.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Whoa. OMGOMG."

305:
Kid saw my 2x2.
"I can do that."
...........5 minutes........
"You can have it back."
 
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306.) (You didn't see mine.) My father: I'm sure I could solve a 2x2. I mean, it's only 8 pieces.
Me: *Gives him a 4x4 and scrambles it turning two layers at a time*
My dad: Well I can't do that. It's too confusing now.
 
307) A teacher
-Hey don't play with your dice in my class!

308) Hey lend me your cube (talking about the pyraminx)
- It's a thetraedron
-whatever...
 
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309: Why can't you solve it behind your back? I know someone else who can do it in like 30 seconds (I actually believed him because of his next statement). All you have to do is memorize what you did then un-do it...

310: *After showing some classmates my R'U trigger* WOW!! He scrambled it with 2 moves and did it in one move!
Annoying kid: Watch me scramble it in 2 moves and solve it in 1! *U, U, U2*
Me: Dear God, smite me now...
 
312: (i solve my cube) "whoa let me see that" (he starts scrambling) (i pull out my second cube and start solving that one) "WHOA you can solve THAT one too!!!????!!!??"
 
313:
me: *solving a square-1*
someone else: "it's a cube...no it isn't...it's a cube again...wait, now its not again."

314:
me: *inspecting a 3x3x3, getting ready to solve it normally*
someone else: *puts a book infront of a cube*. Now do it without looking at it!
 
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