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

[qqwref]

Haha, I get that a lot, but usually it's like this:
351) *solves cube, then starts to mix it up without looking*
Person: Whoa, he's doing it without looking!
Me: Er, no, I'm just mixing it up.
Person: Oh.

So when I'm practicing I start scrambling IMMEDIATELY after doing PLL (like, without even looking at the cube in between). Even some cubers seem to be really weirded out by this. Sometimes this happens:
352) Person: Wow, you're still playing with that? Have you ever solved it?
Me: Yeah, probably 50 times already today...
Person: ...When?

 

[bobso2]

i like all of those reactions of other non-cubers
but some of them are so worse

like, i was always peeling the stickers of I HATE THAT REACTION!!

someone was trying to peel my Rubik's logo sticker of my cube!

353) i have a friend in my class and he says: you tell me what to do and i solve it!(i was giving him a change) he said: wooww even this is really hard to do!

I've got a really weird Latin teacher, the one time she is really impressed of me when i am solving my cube when i am done with my test or something and the next lesson:

354) Now it's done with your cube I've warned you a few times (uhmmm.... not) She took my cube out of my hands and said: You can get it back at four o clock..... (i was done on school that day at 2 o clock and it was the day before a holiday...)

Boaz

 

[CAT13]

355) "Yull neber solve it now!!!!! muahaha!!!"

20 seconds later...

 

[spdcbr]

365) PERSON (Takes cube from home and gives it to me)says:

I've mixed this thing for 10 years. YOU'LL NEVER SOLVE IT!

ME: Solves it really quickly

PERSON: WTF?

Some people tend to think the more you mix it the harder it is. The moves are usually useless after more than 25.

 

[Nilxchaos]

and definitely a much better deal than the things I mentioned, unless you tend to spend hundreds of hours playing the same video game)...

Kingdom Hearts 2. I have logged about 200 hours on that. Two different profiles. Both are level 99 and I got a bunch of Action Replay codes... Love that game. Logged about a hundred hours on Kingdom hearts 1 too.

Can't think of any, wait!

366.) Any time they drop a Rubik's 4x4. ON PURPOSE. I hate my "friends."
Funny thing is, when they try, it never works, when it is by mistake, it always explodes... Darn you Murphy...

 

[Three Days Grace Fan]

367.) (happened to me a week ago)

me: *at school on cubetimer.com*

non-cuber: bet you can't solve it

Me: why? you've seen me solve it 10 times today!

non-cuber: i figured out how you do it. you just memorize how you scrambled it. let me scramble and then you won't be able to solve it.

Me: fine....

*10 minutes later*

non-cuber: here you go! solve it now, cheater!

Me: *sets personal best of 38.42 seconds*

non-cuber: ok. so you can solve it....what move do you do? is it like right and up over and over again?

me: *facepalm*

apperantly non-cubist don't get algorithms...

 

[soccerking813]

368.) Some random guy: Dude, are you an alien?

 

[IamWEB]

apperantly non-cubist don't get algorithms...

Really? No it can't be, it can't be.

 

[byu]

348) Some guy wanted to scramble my cube. He took it and kept doing R moves on the R face, after about R14 he asked, "Is there any other way to mix it?"...

Some guy in his mid 30es was trying to U moves while the 4 face was 45 degrees off.

And some other person scrambled my cube doing R and L moves, thinking that it's the best way, then solved it (wow) and said "Well what it's not so hard."

Did I mention that one time I had someone scramble my 4x4 and they scrambled only with double layer turns?

 

[Lord Voldemort]

I never understood why people have an objection to stuff like this. It's not like $15 or $20 is a lot of money - that's the price of two movie tickets, 1/2 or 1/3 of a video game, dinner at a reasonably-priced restaurant, or a typical shirt. Maybe people don't realize that someone who plays with their cube all the time is getting a really great deal for their money, because spending $15 for something you can spend hundreds of hours playing with is a much better use of money than almost anything else you buy (and definitely a much better deal than the things I mentioned, unless you tend to spend hundreds of hours playing the same video game)...

Exactly what I tried to tell people when I got my 7x7x7
Though that was understandable though.
And note, there are some video games that I've logged over 200 hours on. (Thinks Morrowind and Pokemon )

 

[IamWEB]

I was just about to say that: Pokemon

I've logged well over 200 hours on Pokemon Crystal. If I were to start playing it again, I'd hit 300 pretty fast.

 

[jacob15728]

Eh, I don't get naything original so I'm not gonna do the numbers. But it is extremely annoying when I get stuff like "you're cheating", "it's easier to just switch the stickers", "you just messed it up", "I'm gonna scramble it so much you'll never be able to solve it", "Why did you order one online? Are you retarded? Just get one at Target" etc.

The thing is though, you can't blame them. People who don't know anything about cubing are bound to ask stupid questions, just because they don't understand what might seem obvious to us cubers. Rather than getting upset, you should try and explain it. Or just take the "pity the fools" route.

 

[Boarder120]

369. - (Says to someone around him watching) "I would just take the stickers off and put them on the right way."

I ALWAYS get that...

 

[qqwref]

Eh, I don't get naything original so I'm not gonna do the numbers. But it is extremely annoying when I get stuff like "you're cheating", "it's easier to just switch the stickers", "you just messed it up", "I'm gonna scramble it so much you'll never be able to solve it", "Why did you order one online? Are you retarded? Just get one at Target" etc.

The thing is though, you can't blame them. People who don't know anything about cubing are bound to ask stupid questions, just because they don't understand what might seem obvious to us cubers. Rather than getting upset, you should try and explain it. Or just take the "pity the fools" route.

What if you were doing a more popular activity? If you had gone out of your way to get special shoes for track and field, and someone said "Why did you pay so much just for shoes? Are you retarded? Just get some sneakers at the mall" you'd rightly think they were retarded. If you're sitting somewhere reading a book nobody says "Wow, do you do that all day? You must have no life" or "It's easier to just skip to the end" because that would clearly be a stupid thing to say. The only thing I can think of is that for some reason people become stupid and disrespectful jerks when they see a cube... but I don't know why. All I know is that, if you look at the things people say at cubers, nobody would say something that stupid and rude to someone who was doing a different activity.

 

[ThatGuy]

369. - (Says to someone around him watching) "I would just take the stickers off and put them on the right way."

I bet everyone could agree that that is THE MOST annoying thing anyone can say

370(?)) When they say there is an easier method than taking off the stickers or taking it apart: they do a quarter turn and turn it back. I haven't read through all of them yet so this is probably repeated

when they say that they switch the stickers of one edge so that you can never solve it....not realizing you can flip the piece over

and when they take one piece out and flip it and say it can never be solved because one piece is out of place....not realizing you can easily tell after f2l if a piece is flipped or not.

 

[JTW2007]

for some reason people become stupid and disrespectful jerks when they see a cube

Yes.

 

[Anthony]

351) *solves cube, then starts to mix it up without looking*
Person: Whoa, he's doing it without looking!
Me: Er, no, I'm just mixing it up.
Person: Oh.

I get that every single day. Sometimes several times a day. It is unbelievably annoying, even more then when they say "I used to peel the stickers off."

 

[Musje]

371: (Teacher who is pretty annoyed by 5+ people in the class always cubing...): You know, from here I don't see if you're playing with that cube again or playing with your privates...
As people always do it under the table and thank the teacher wont notice.

And when people say "woah, you paid €15 for a cube?" I usually just find something they have and repeat that line with their stuff
like, woah! you paid €15 for a piece of cloth? (those nike bags that some stores give away free without the logo...)

 

[Hadley4000]

This is sort of cubing related.
Me: I'm going to Minnesota for a tournament.
Idiot: What state in Minnesota in?

 

[Lord Voldemort]

Really?
Assuming you live in America, that is indeed a work of extreme stupidity.
I'll see you there, by the way.