Best reaction? To me this is enough to make my day: "Wow. I never quite understood the appeal to rubix cubes, to be honest, but watching you spin it around in one hand was pretty cool. grin" Which was posted on a forum I go to a lot but I guess in terms of being in public and cubing I would have to say the best reaction ever was when I went the the Los Angeles Convention Center Travel Expo last year.
I had gone(along with my siste) with my dad and our family friend and her kid, to help them set up a booth(they were trying to get people to sign up for their business or something) and obviously I brought my cube with me. When I was not walking around, I would go back to the booth, sit down, and cube in the corner at the back of the booth. I tried to ignore all the people that were not shy enough to care that I noticed them standing and staring at me and occassionally pointing at me. Well, later on, I decided to get out my stack timer so I moved to the table that was on the side of the booth where all the people were walking by(this was where one of the main walkways was). Big mistake. Soon, like ever other few seconds there would be someone standing right in front of that side of the booth staring down at me. Then, some guy saw me and he went around and inside our booth and stood right behind me as I cubed. He watched me a couple of times and was in awe then he said, "Come with me." I was thinking, "What's going on?" as I followed him to the next row of booths over where he was working at a booth. He showed me off to his co-workers and then to the other booth owners and then he said, "I'm going to get you a crowd," and he just started rounding people up. Before I knew it there was a whole bunch of people clogging up the part of the aisle I was in, surrounding me.
I cubed for them, got tons of comments, and then they wanted to time me(I was already very nervous and trying hard not to show it). The guy who brought me there got out his iPod and I was thinking, "Damn, what happens if I screw up and get thirty seconds plus?" So I thought of something and told thme that I would do it one-handed in a showmanship way. I figured that even if I screwed up I could blame it on using only one hand and being nervous(my hands were very shaky). People were like, "I didn't even know there was such a thing," and saying, "You probably need a big hand to do that."
I am happy to report that I had a 48 second one handed solve which, when the time was revealed, I was given a big round of applause and a permanent stomach ache for the rest of the day. I was also promised to be given some free stuff but I forgot to go get them(argh)!
That was cool, but can you really beat all those nice comments?
