Dear Non-Cubers

[BillyRain]

People seem to like my blog post so I thought I may as well share it here for you to (hopefully) enjoy.

I wrote this for my facebook friends and mainly for my benefit lol

http://billzo.wordpress.com/2013/06/24/dear-non-cubers/

 

[ben1996123]

http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showthread.php?29946-Things-cubers-want-non-cubers-to-understand

 

[BillyRain]

Congratulations, you found a related thread.

 

[ben1996123]

Yeh... so I wrote my own one....?

ok

also you use the wrong type of 'your' in the frist sententce

 

[Zyrb]

Was this partially brought up by the European woman at the meet who really wanted to buy our cubes? I had never experienced something like that.

 

[Owen]

This would make an interesting tumblr blog in the vein of Dear Cis People.

 

[Akiro]

Really nice and well written!

 

[vcuber13]

“I could do that it’s well easy, my friend showed me the four moves you have to do” – Be my guest…

http://cube.crider.co.uk/beginner.php

 

[etshy]

very nice Billy well written , straight to the point :tu

 

[TheJCube]

I couldn't agree more to this blog.

 

[Frubix]

I would love to print this blog out ~300 times and hand it out to all non-cubers at my school

 

[Skullush]

I feel like I get a lot less annoyed by non-cubers than you guys do...

 

[MWilson]

All reading this would do to the perception that a "non-cuber" may have of speed solvers is to convince them that we are aggressive and bitter. All the same points could have been made in a much more positive way.

 

[BillyRain]

All reading this would do to the perception that a "non-cuber" may have of speed solvers is to convince them that we are aggressive and bitter. All the same points could have been made in a much more positive way.

You are missing the point. This article is written in jest and realistically 90% of future readers will be cubers anyway.

“I could do that it’s well easy, my friend showed me the four moves you have to do” – Be my guest…

http://cube.crider.co.uk/beginner.php

Interesting! Never seen this before. Might try it

Still, I think my point still stands. It's very unlikely that any random person who says that "there is only 4 moves you have to do its easy" will be able to remember how to correctly pull it off.

And besides, if they can... they are technically not a non cuber!!

 

[Renslay]

I printed out Macky's "Things cubers want non-cubers to understand", and posted it on my office's board, so anybody can read it.

 

[raulsocal]

I supose I m not the only one that has been in this situation:

1.Friend (non-cuber)WTF! How can you solve the "Rubi" Cube so fast!

2.Me/Cuber: Its practice and you have to learn some things.

1. Cool so you have learned the Cube!

2. No... (i just learn some algorithms and depending on a bunch of things i have to use diferents... [i guess everyone here would more or less explain the same])

1. (Before you can finish the sentence) Yeah! whats your record?

2. 11,62 PB non-lucky, 9,09 PB lucky (PLL skip).

1. Wow! Could you do it in less than 9,09???

2. ...


For what people said before... maybe those are not the best manners but i guess that the post is more for laugh... even for a non-cuber that knows a little bit about the world... they may imagine all the people make the same questions and jokes... i guess.

I really like the post, had a great time!