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

Bump, because it's an epic thread, don't get angry at me :(
I also think people have more to say, of course, I'll make a post of my own.

I was cubing outside the library, when a guy comes over and asks me how to solve it. I show him CFOP (and said that O/PLL felt a bit restrictive at times) and told him about Roux as well.
He then asked me about "Larger cubes" (I had my 6x6... my Meffert's 4's hadn't come in and I'm too lazy to carry around 5/7...) and I told him (in the simplest terms) of what Redux was. the end of the conversation was as follows:
Him-So, what do you do for a living?
Me-I don't do anything, I'm a student...
Him-At CU? (Colorado University... a Collage)
Me-Actually, no, I'm going into High School...
Him-Woah...
 
My mom: You just looked up on the Internet how to solve it, that's not fair! I think you just do the same moves over and over again, which is what you looked up.

After explaining that what I am searching for are algorithms to get things done quicker, and that there is no foolproof sequence of moves that will get the cube solved since there are 4.3252 * 10^19 combinations, she's still not convinced. :fp
 
*Watches me solve it for like the 5th time* I think I get how you do it!
Me: Really? How?
You move your fingers so fast you're taking it apart and putting it back together!
Me: Anyone else have a guess?

:fp
 
When they grab it off you and say "dude I can solve it like a pro" and frantically move their fingers and hands as fast as they can trying to look fast, and after 10 seconds they drop it and they've moved like 2 sides.

When I play with my little 24 mm 2x2x2 cube "aww, look, it's so cute!"

*they do M2 E2 S2* "OMG LOOK A DID AN AWESOME PATTERN, I'M A GENIUS!"

"You use algorithms? When I was a kid, I just looked at it and figured out what moves to do. I dunno how to do it now, not tried it for ages."

"I know a guy who can - " *PUNCH*
 
pcharles93 said:
58. "I solved it once, it took like 4 hours." My response: "Cool! Can I see?"
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I heard this one the other day, a person said, I solved it on my own, it took me a week and I didn't use algorithms because that's cheating. Yet, they can never do it again...:confused:
 
Heard this at the bank the other day. "I used to go to high school with a kid who could solve it in 8 seconds." He is from Texas, so I think I can count on one hand the number of cubers that are sub-15 recently from Texas. I guess he just happened to go to school with one of you guys.
 
Me: If you have ever solved a cube, you will always be able to do it again.
Some other dude: Youre wrong, because I fixed the squares on anarubix cube once and I cant never do it again

grammar fail :fp
 
DaijoCube said:
They all seem to have it randomly after a week or 3 years. They just don't remember how they did it :P
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That's funny yet pretty accurate! Week or 3 years!

Someone stated that a fast solve leads to a non-cuber's conclusion of some sort of repeated sequence of movements. So, I tend to walk people through a solve, that usually gives them some bit of appreciation. Of course, I always tell them about the sub 10 and sub 9 second cubers who think through solutions far in advance.

I do encourage people to learn how to solve the cube however, most do not want to put in any type of effort...as soon as the word "learn" and "algorithm" are said they tend to shy away. The few that do want to learn I teach them intuitive Cross, intuitive F2L, and last layer beginner's method. I would offer to show 2-Look OLL/PLL however, I have not come across anyone who wanted to put that much effort.
 
Actually, I have a friend who was not interested at all in the beginning. I taught him beginner's method and by that time it was too late, CUBADDICTION SYNDROM :P

He learned almost all PLL now and knows 2LOLL. For F2L, he does all corners first then all second layer edges. He's becoming good. I hate him because he progresses very fast with me as his teacher :P I learned all by myself searching randomly on YouTube and Google...and I had no competition with friends :P

Every single one, after learning the algs, they go : ''It's not hard to remember afterall :P''
 
I swear, I will never forgive myself after what I did in 6th grade. There was someone doing it for a talent show in what I heard was just under a minute. On the microphone it sounded like he was peeling the stickers off (I wasn't a cuber back then) and I had a good laugh or two imagining someone peeling the stickers off for a talent show. Of course, I never told anyone or even met the guy. He was in 8th grade then, and so maybe we'll go to the same high school, and the apprentice shall overcome the master.

Anyone remember their own nubbiness from the dark days of non-cubism?
 
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