Best reaction to you solving the cube

Yes, it really sucks when you start cubing in front of someone and then they boil down all your months of practice to, "It's because he's Chinese!" lol, one time I corrected the person, "I'm half Chinese and half Philipino," then I got, "Whatever, they're the same!" Although he was right if he meant they were both Asian races I just didn't want to disappoint my mom, lol.

Now I realize that the second most common comment for me is the "comparison" comment. E.g. "I can calculate all of your oders in my head but I can't do that,"; "I'm an airline pilot, so I'm smart, but I don't understand how you can do that," ; "That requires lots of patience and decisiveness. I can be decisive on some things but not that."

I recieved all of those comments whilst cubing "discreetly" at a restraunt, Lowe's, and a modeling agency(no I was not there to model), lol, and they are basically the same thing.

Oh, and my English teacher said a few days ago, "You are a wierdo."

Hadley: Maybe Jews are supposed to be really smart(a stereotype?)? I would assume that is what he/she means.
 
Jews aren't known for their intelligence as much as their money spending habits... :p

Kidding, kidding!


There's a girl in my economics class who gets really ticked off whenever I solve my cube. I hear, "Just put it away! Just put it away Jon!"

She also may be going to the same school Dan Cohen is at next year... :p
 
ExoCorsair said:
Jews aren't known for their intelligence as much as their money spending habits... :p

Kidding, kidding!
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It's all good, I make more Jew jokes than anyone!


Maybe it's because Jews are often doctors/lawyers/accountants?


I still don't know how he knew I was a Jew... I don't look that Jewish. My mom does, but I wasn't with her. :confused:
 
haha I also had a girl who got very annoyed at the cube. Because it was always like 5 people cubing in class, the annoying clicking sounds we made lol.
And being a very pale white kid I get " wow how do you do it with one hand and you aren't even asian" :-)
 
Yup, but it seems people are more interested insticking to their group - unless of course I talked to the wrong people. I always talk to people but mostly when I'm in a competition, the friendliest people are the spectators. One time I was sitting in between Leyan Lo and another guy and the other starts talking across me to Leyan Lo which was a bit awkward. I wanted to say, "Hi, why don't you talk to me instead of ignoring me?" but that might have been rude, lol. Soon after that I was called to the stage so no chance to talk to Leyan.
 
...What the... Just say hi to the guys.
I allways aproach people, especially ''beginners'' because I like to make them feel comfortable in competitions.

And what's up with people who say ''I SAW Tyson(or someone else)'', but they never said hi to him. O_o
 
Ah, good tip, I'll approach the beginners next time. I always try to talk to people but then they end up being spectators, lol, who can't solve the cube. Then when I try to go to the back of the room where everyone else is hanging out, it seems they are to busy talking to their friends to acknowledge a , "Hi, I'm new here." Next time I'll just talk to some beginners like you said Rama. Maybe it is better.


AH, TYSON MAO WAS MY JUDGE! but i didn't say anything to him... lol. I asked him to sign my cube though.
 
@Lucas: ''No man, I tought he was too good for me, I am satisfied enough that we shared the same room.
You can also see his left pinky in my second solve(youtube).''

@dChan: You aproach Tyson, trow your cube on the table and when his cube is on the table you grab it and scramble it (if there is a table ofcourse) or else you'll just hand out your cube to him. That's what some of us guys do.;)

Ps. Ofcourse I've got the opportunity to meet Tyson Mao himself at WC2007 it was nice to see ''the dude from television'' in real live. :)
Ofcourse Tyson is doing alot for the cubing community and that's why he is important, but that doesn't mean you cannot talk to him... I hope. :p
 
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Meeting Tyson would be awesome!! Crap, I'd be too scared to say anything though >.< . If i was at a competition I'd likely just hide in the background and practise while listening to my music. No one approach me, just leave me alone! :p
 
@Rama: lol, what does that mean? Challenge him to a solving duel? Sounds like Old West stuff. "Now looka' here Tyson. This town ain't big enough for the both of us. I challenge you to a Rubik's showdown!"

http://s52.photobucket.com/albums/g...current=CJOneHanded3x3x3withJudgeTysonMao.flv

Check it out! Tyson was practically rubbing shoulders with me, OMG. That was a bad solve though so ignore the time - just worship Tyson! jk

For some reason he said ,"Good idea" after I was done like he was commenting on what I did with the solve but he just walked off afterwards so I still don't know what that means.

lol, we turned this thread into something else now.
 
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Tyson is really a nice guy. He would probably take time to seek out and talk to every cuber at the competitions if he could, but he's just usually so busy with all the stuff he has to do for the competitions that he can't. He actually sought me out and talked to me to congratulate me at the US Open after I got a successful BLD solve. And I think there were 4 of us there who got our first successful BLD solves in competition at the US Open, so I'm assuming he probably did that for all 4 of us.
 
LEts start a CULT

ALL HAIL TYSON!!!



Someone make matching t-shirts!
 
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