Experiences with Cubers Outside of the Cubing World

[celli]

At my theatre lesson a few months ago, I suddenly saw a cube in a bag. I went to that girl and discovered she could solve a cube. I knew her for a year and didn't know she could solve it!!! And when we had our show, I saw a rubik's revenge! We were cubing untill my drama teacher came to us and said we had to stop, because the audience hearded it!

 

[d4m4s74]

One of my friends knows how to solve the cube and he told me where to buy the v-cube set without ordering overseas and bought me a mirror blox

 

[Edward]

None, like, ever.Ronrey as f**k ;_;

 

[theace]

Nice. Where? Me wantz v kyubez

 

[JianhanC]

My school has like, 20 cuber wannabes because of me. Today, this annoying dude came up to me and said "yo, i canz solve rubix in 1 sec."

 

[04mucklowd]

Me and my mate coghill
play poker sometimes
i win most times

 

[Johan444]

Spoke to a ~1 min guy on the bus once. Heartwarming!

 

[LarsN]

I've met a few people on the train who sat and solved the cube. I usually go to them and ask if I can try, just to see their faces when I do it really fast. Then I talk to them about the danish speedcubing community and upcomming competitions.
Once a guy came to me on the train though, because he had recognized the sound. He used to be a cuber, but had stopped a few years ago.

When I had been a competition cuber for a year, I found out that my wifes uncle had been casually solving the cube sub40 since ~ 1980.
EDIT: correction, he had been cubing since ~ 1980 and was now sub40

 

[TheDuck]

When I had been a competition cuber for a year, I found out that my wifes uncle had been casually solving the cube sub40 since ~ 1980.
EDIT: correction, he had been cubing since ~ 1980 and was now sub40

[/QUOTE]
It´s me .... , I´m still around sub40 :fp maybe a little better :confused: - let´s see to Danish Open - http://cubing.dk/DanishOpen2011/

 

[slowhand]

I had messed around with my cube since the early 1980s, never got past the middle layer of beginner's method for memorization (can do F2L), but could solve with singmaster's book. Two (or three) years ago, I ran into brunson at a friend's get together in the mountains, and he was playing with a speed cube.

A few weeks ago, I dug out my old cube... so slow, binding, sticky, icky... and decided I should finally get a better cube. Last Monday, I logged onto Amazon, decided the DaYan GuHong looked cool and ordered one. Then I decided I'd start trying to learn the rest of the moves while I waited for it... and discovered this forum, and lots of cool methods -- and the rep of the GuHong, and hmm.... maybe a teardown and lube will save my old cube from the trashbin....

But compared to you all, I'm slow. Sloooooooow. Hence the nick.

John
(Hmmm.... think i'll post this in intro forum too...)

 

[That70sShowDude]

These were over 4 years ago, in high school, when I wasn't serious about it.
-2 of my friends could solve it in ~1:30. One of em had a 5x5
-Some girl used to do random turns in a few of my classes
-Tall kid walking through halls w/ a cube. Turned out to be Dan Cohen

 

[guinepigs rock]

I once was on the subway in New York and some girl sat next to me and started cubing. I never took out my cube. To this day I have no idea what method she was using.

 

[JackJ]

-Tall kid walking through halls w/ a cube. Turned out to be Dan Cohen

I wonder what went through your head when you realized who he was. Granted he wasn't famous or anything at that time, but still. That's awesome.

 

[RTh]

Some kids saw me cubing in the bus and asked me how I solved a cube in less than 20 sec. I explained and tried to taught them CFOP, and a week later those 5 kids were around me trying to solve the cube xD

 

[That70sShowDude]

I wonder what went through your head when you realized who he was. Granted he wasn't famous or anything at that time, but still. That's awesome.

Spoiler

 

[Dene]

i = ', causes less confusion so Ri = R'

yea don't worry I know what it means, I was being sarcastic.

But now that you fell for my bait, could you please explain why it causes less confusion when you choose to use something other than the official notation? I could only imagine this confusing newcomers even more.

 

[Reinier Schippers]

I was in a big game event thing there were rubiks cubes also but my father found they were to expensive 1,5 years later i got my first cube

 

[Tim Major]

There's lots of cubers at my school but none are particularly fast.

After all, Faz is pretty slow

Going to a meetup in 2009 with Anthony and Anh, I'd met Anthony but not Anh, we all lived in the western suburbs. I saw a girl solving a white cube (sub 20, which at the time I was amazed at compared to my mid 30s)
I assumed it was Anh, and went to yell out across the platform, but a train came and she got on, in the opposite direction to me.
I later met Anh, a guy, so there was a sub 20 girl, back when that would be top 5 across Australia.
I wish I knew who that was, and I wonder if she's still cubing, she did have a speedcube.

 

[Shikhar Mohan]

i started cubing after i saw will smith solve the rubiks cube in the pursuit of happyness

 

[ianography]

This kind of fits, so here goes.

Yesterday, a girl that I don't really know (but apparently knows me) walks up to me and asks if I could solve her brother's cube. She said it was a really weird puzzle, so I probably wouldn't be able to solve it (I was thinking of maybe a 4x4 or 5x5). So at lunch, she comes up to me with a Mirror Block in her hand. Freaked me out that she would have that, let alone even knowing about it.