Making money by speedcubing

[spdqbr]

My father has been trying to monetise my cubing for quite some time. He's always trying to think of bar bets and what not, but we haven't found one that works all that well yet. The best he's come up with so far is:

Scramble this cube for as long as you want, then he will solve it. For every second you scramble he gets 1 second to solve, and at the end if he has any seconds left you pay him 1 dollar per second, and if he goes over he pays you 1 dollar per second.

This definitely only works once, and I'm not quite fast enough to make it too lucrative. Those of you solving in ~10 seconds could probably do quite well though, as in my experience, most people scramble for about 30 seconds or so.

 

[Musje]

My father has been trying to monetise my cubing for quite some time. He's always trying to think of bar bets and what not, but we haven't found one that works all that well yet. The best he's come up with so far is:

Scramble this cube for as long as you want, then he will solve it. For every second you scramble he gets 1 second to solve, and at the end if he has any seconds left you pay him 1 dollar per second, and if he goes over he pays you 1 dollar per second.

This definitely only works once, and I'm not quite fast enough to make it too lucrative. Those of you solving in ~10 seconds could probably do quite well though, as in my experience, most people scramble for about 30 seconds or so.

If someone came to me with that, I'd scramble it for 5 seconds
Enough time to scramble it pretty well (well enough to not be able to backtrack it) and don't think anyone ever got a sub 5 solve (and even then I'd lose max $5 ;P)

 

[Paul Wagner]

There is an area of Atlanta called Little Five Points. It's an area where street artists, street musicians etc set up. Every weekend, I have been setting up a tiny camping table with a few cubes on it. So far I have made a little over $100 solving cubes. It's really exciting.

What's cool, is it's a great way to get used to solving infront of people. I before have had 20-30 people standing in a circle around the table. And people get amazed by the simplest things. A one hand solve blows their minds. Foot solves, behind back. All things that amaze them. It's just a really fun thing to do, and a great way to make some spending money.

Brilliance, I thought of that same idea because I live in New Yowk, so I can go down to Penn station which is a HUGE tourist area and thousands of people are there every second I just don't wanna get robbed. But man I wonder how much I could make.

Oh and of course it would have to cover my round trip train ticket expenses, which is only 15$ but still.

 

[kickinwing2112]

Hmmmmm.... Sounds like a good idea for making some cash. I gotta think of a good place in Pittsburgh though.

How bout station square?

 

[Hadley4000]

the vortex.

BEST. BURGERS. EVER.


Yeah, this is pretty old. I don't do that anymore, but made >200 by the time I stopped.

I went to the varsity last time I was in Atlanta. Actually, the day after the Decatur Open last year, it was fantastic! Love the whole atmosphere and the food.

Varsity is okay.

WHADA UH HAVE!