Girls in forum?

[qqwref]

Maybe it would be less male-dominated if we didn't have any people who learned to cube to impress girls...

 

[d4m4s74]

cubing to get a girl?
maybe to show how fast your fingers are (if ya know what I mean)
but doesn't it only prove you're too geeky for her?

 

[Laetitia]

I don't know why there are so few girls in speedcubing.
But I think it's for the same reason than they are few girls studying maths and computer science (but I don't know what is that reason )
(and I'm a girl who studied computer science, who study maths and who cube )

 

[Kian]

i really hope nobody is learning to cube to impress girls. that's probably the saddest thing i've ever heard.

 

[guusrs]

i really hope nobody is learning to cube to impress girls. that's probably the saddest thing i've ever heard.

On the other hand: teaching a girl to cube to impress her seems ok to me!

Gus

 

[AvGalen]

I just met Nel last weekend. She probably knows everything about dolls you ever want to know.
Also, I find it sad that you didn't post anything about you performing a "Smith" experiment. I really think it would be a good thing for you to do (if you decide to do so, I will read a math book )

Arnaud,
Is Nel the girl from Urk that definitely wanted to learn how to solve the cube?
And did she succeeded?
She was funny, all shaking when I gave her a free cube!
Gus

Yes, that is the same Nel. We discussed a nickname for her and decided on Choco-Nel, but apparently she decided to stick with just Nel. By the end of Saturday she could solve the 3x3x3 with some guidance by me and the cheat-sheet we created. I think she is practising it now during her daily bus travelling from Urk to Zwolle

i really hope nobody is learning to cube to impress girls. that's probably the saddest thing i've ever heard.

On the other hand: teaching a girl to cube to impress her seems ok to me!

Gus

Teaching anyone to cube seems ok to me.
I personally like the "no longer impressed" moment where the "student" realises that just solving a cube isn't that impressive and that they will be able to do it themselves.

I wonder why Speedcubing is a male dominated hobby

I don't understand that either. I must have taughed at least a hundred girls how to solve a cube. Compared to the dozen or so guys I have taughed how to do it I would think cubing would be a female dominated hobby by now.

I can think of 3 explanations:
1) Most guys mostly teach other guys (that would make me sad)
2) The girls I taughed use their new skill to pick up guys by teaching them how to solve a cube (that would make me very proud)
3) Girls like cubing, but are less likely to become addicted to it so they don't become speedcubers

 

[Escher]

i would agree with number three
but jude and his gf might have something to say about that...