Experiences with Cubers Outside of the Cubing World

[TiLiMayor]

I started studying in another school this year, and some day, I brought my 2x2 to learn some ortega algs, but by the end of the day a lot of people had told me "Nah, I can only solve the 3x3", and when I explained them they were only the corners, they solved it too.

 

[RyanO]

A guy across the hall in my apartment building can solve the cube in ~35 seconds. He used a really odd method that he must of invented himself. He would make a cross then do first layer corners like the begginner method except he would intentionaly orient them wrong because he liked those cases better. Also he did F2L with cross on B =(.

Once after finishing a blind solve in the student union I noticed that the person sitting beside me was solving a 7x7.

 

[shelley]

So, when I lived in Georgia (before I was a cuber), my family and I went to the World of Coke museum in Atlanta. While going to wait in line, I pass this guy with a white cube in hand and he was solving it quite fast (atleast it was fast to me at that time, I didn't stay to watch).

Just curious, when was this? A couple of cubers went to visit the Coke museum after US Nationals 2008. (It was a choice between that and the nearby aquarium, and admission for the aquarium was like 3x the cost.)

 

[Erzz]

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.

I was going to my girlfriend's house on her bus (multiple buses at my school) and one of the kids had a cuboctahedron that he made me solve.

 

[waffle=ijm]

carry mountain dew. pretend like you're rowe hessler.

 

[Owen]

carry mountain dew. pretend like you're rowe hessler.

I used to do that. Really, I used to pretend I was Rowe Hessler. I don't know...

 

[ianography]

Just curious, when was this? A couple of cubers went to visit the Coke museum after US Nationals 2008. (It was a choice between that and the nearby aquarium, and admission for the aquarium was like 3x the cost.)

It was 2 days after Christmas in 2009.

 

[RTh]

Not much of a experience with cubers, but some weeks ago I was in class ignoring the whole lecture (it was a really stupid lecture on perfect gases), and started a bld solve in a corner of the class. Memo'd and put on the blindfold. While solving I noticed that someone moved in the class, and when I removed the blindfold to observe the result of my beautiful Guhong perfectly solved, a girl was staring at me like if I was some kind of savant.

She then told me she was learning CFOP and then asked me many questions. By the end of the lecture I had made a great friend, with whom I've been going out ever since. =] Cubing match-making. Who would have thought!

 

[LouisCormier]

I like the shoelace idea.

 

[ianography]

I like the shoelace idea.

Wrong thread dude...