Cubing-related cruelness

[Hermanio]

Hey, Speedsolving.com forums!

Since this is so off-topic, I decided to post this in the off-topic section. Hope nobody minds.

I have a question to all of you: have you ever been cruel to someone cubing-related/ trolled some cubers/ done anything evil overall related to cubing?

I could think of one thing: using a storebought Rubik's 5x5 in a competition and giving it to the scrambler. Oh boy...



Your ideas?

 

[aznanimedude]

That's cruel to yourself since you have to end up solving it for an official time

 

[Hermanio]

That's cruel to yourself since you have to end up solving it for an official time

Or you could just DNF on purpose if you didn't care about your times or if you didn't know how to solve the 5x5 but still had it.

 

[applemobile]

Allofmywat? I don't even.

 

[WBCube]

Looks like we've essentially covered it all

 

[uniacto]

I give a non-cuber a really loose cube that I have that I can turn fairly accurately, and when they try to turn it "fast like I do", they pop it...

And I laugh...

when they can't put it back together...

or when they think they broke it...

I'm so mean

 

[applemobile]

But then you have to put your own cube back together. Noone looses out but you

 

[mark49152]

This is a weird thread...

 

[NevinsCPH]

A cruel thing that could happen is that the scrambler pop your 6x6 and the pieces fell to the floor and collect dust. Then when you solve it you'll get a different feeling of the cube.

 

[uniacto]

But then you have to put your own cube back together. Noone looses out but you

entertainment value is higher than the time it takes to put back together. It's not too hard to assemble anyway

 

[CarlBrannen]

When you're scrambling for a competition, give a guy a random scramble with two edge pieces swapped.

 

[uniacto]

When you're scrambling for a competition, give a guy a random scramble with two edge pieces swapped.

now that's just mean. and probably illegal.

 

[applemobile]

Not to mention most 'decent' solvers would notice swapped pieces pretty quickly.

 

[CarlBrannen]

Every now and then I twist a corner but I've never managed to swap a piece or twist an edge (except after an explosion).

So if I ended up with an impossible PLL or an OLL with an odd number of bad edges, I'd know it was a joke and start laughing.