Accidentally finding speedcubers

[Owen]

Have any of you ever found a serious cuber by accident? By serious cuber, I mean someone who is part of the community, goes to competitions, that sort of thing. I would expect such an accurence to be rather rare.

 

[cubernya]

I know one other cuber that I've met randomly, but they're not serious at all. Uses LBL and doesn't understand what start happens when you do commutators

And by the way the person was not a stranger, but didn't know I could solve a cube

 

[Muesli]

I've only ever bumped into one random stranger (on the train) who could solve the cube. Ever.

 

[n00bcub3r]

I met a cuber in my Church's Youth Group but she avgs like 1:30

 

[mr. giggums]

I've met many classic lbl cubers but I have met one serious cuber who has been going to many comps since around 2007 at music camp. He averaged 15 seconds. I averaged about 40 seconds at the time.

 

[Phlippieskezer]

I've met a number of LBL cubers randomly, but no serious ones, unless you count when I initially got exposed to cubing, which is when I met someone (who is now a friend of mine) who solved it in ~15 seconds.

 

[RNewms27]

Study hall- I was sitting at a table by myself solving a 3x3 and someone at another table was solving a vcube 5. It took me a moment to realize it wasn't a youtube video, as this was 9 in the morning.

 

[Tim Major]

I met Faz through school, I wasn't cubing then, and I didn't know he was.
So yes and no

 

[somerandomkidmike]

I haven't met any really good cubers. However *off topic* I met 3 people in the same field of work as I'm going into at a concert. I was surprised. There weren't many people at the concert to begin with, but there were a total of 3 people who finished schooling for massage therapy, and 6 that were currently going to massage school.

 

[Hovair]

I walked into a cuber at this highschool and he average 24 seconds. He wasnt that serious to it thought he could just solve it.

 

[30secondsolver]

a guy on my cross country team knew LBL, but he hadnt cubed in a while so he had almost forgotten how to solve the last layer

 

[ZamHalen]

Most people have low self-esteem and doubt their capability where I live, so not really only some LBL guys.(I have never personally met Anthony though he lives nearby).

 

[drewsopchak]

I met Faz through school, I wasn't cubing then, and I didn't know he was.
So yes and no

That's fricken awsome.... i remeber reading about this in fazes old youtube vids comments.

 

[Itchy Cacti]

I met one kid at my brothers state science comp who was solving a v5

My friend also learned lbl from YouTube

 

[PandaCuber]

Ive met an old man on the bus that took him about 3 minutes to solve it. Thats about it.

 

[Mudkip]

Never by accident.
When I was first starting, my friends told me about another cuber, who uses LBL for 3x3, but has a lot of bigger cubes and is quite knowledgabel. lolspellingfail

 

[Andreaillest]

I remember there was this very quiet guy in my school who supposedly could solve it blindfolded. I never saw him do it, he was very private and quiet. However, I once brought up cubing in a class we had together. That got a bit of his attention.

Also, this girl was walking with a 4x4 in the hallways. Have no idea if she was a "serious" speedcuber.
I've taught some people LBL, but have no idea if they have progressed further in cubing.

 

[Skullush]

One girl at my school was able to solve my megaminx. She said she never timed herself though.

And I've bumped into a few people who could solve a Rubik's cube. Usually they were the one with a cube on them though.

 

[That70sShowDude]

Have any of you ever found a serious cuber by accident? By serious cuber, I mean someone who is part of the community, goes to competitions, that sort of thing. I would expect such an accurence to be rather rare.

Did you know that Sesi Cadmus, one of the fastest female cubers in the world, is in one of your classes?

 

[Sa967St]

It turned out that there was someone who goes to the Toronto competitions who went to my high school last year.
I didn't recognize him at first but he recognized me because he saw me cubing in the hallway.

I sometimes, outside of cubing competitions, run into cubers I know though. Earlier this year I saw someone at the regional Reach for the Top tournament whom I recognized from Toronto competitions, and just yesterday I realized that Zaxxef (anyone remember him?) goes to the same university as me, along with a bunch of other cubers around here. Oh also Jon Tan is in my Algebra class.