Non-Cubers say the darndest things!

[Zane_C]

2000th post

Someone should delete a post before this.

 

[theace]

Lol.

I came across a few 'can you actually solve it?' people yesterday.

 

[Bapao]

Because I just do solve after solve without leaving the cube solved for a while, people that only look now and again think your still solving after 1/2 an hour. At 1 million TPS ;o)...

 

[Owen]

Was it because you started failing English?

Meanie. Stop being so mean.

 

[Nestor]

Lately I've been approached by strangers that have "friends that can solve the cube really fast" and ask to record me to "show them". I let them and give our cubing group contact info for their "friends" to join us. Not surprisingly, "they" never do.

I wish people could be honest and simply say "hey, can we record you for our personal amusement?"

 

[theace]

I've had a couple of honest NCs ask me for videos. The usual reason is that their friends would never believe then about a sub 25 unless they had a vid.

 

[souljahsu]

I've had a couple of honest NCs ask me for videos. The usual reason is that their friends would never believe then about a sub 25 unless they had a vid.

"You sped the video up!"

 

[Narraeson]

Names by non-cubers
Magic: The flat one, Rubik's mat, Rubik's rings
360: The ball
2x2: The baby, the 2-cube, the 4-cube, the itty-bitty one, the 1-year-old
3x3: The normal one, the original, the Rubak's, the Rubok's, the Noobik's (CoD fanboys are stupid.), the 9-cube, the first.
4x4: The big one, the hard one, the 16 one
5x5: The grandma (lolwut), the huge one, the impossible one, the 7000x7000 (people are too obtuse with their hyperboles nowadays)
7x7: The crazy one, the enormous one, the impossible one, the 11x11
Megaminx: Satan-cube (pentagrams), the evil one, "OH MY GOD WTF", the 12x12
Gigaminx: "ES EL DIABLO!", Lucifer incarnate, 32x32
I also get the 'I can't even take the stickers off that fast!" comment on a daily basis.

 

[ben1996123]

Names by non-cubers
Magic: The flat one, Rubik's mat, Rubik's rings
360: The ball
2x2: The baby, the 2-cube, the 4-cube, the itty-bitty one, the 1-year-old
3x3: The normal one, the original, the Rubak's, the Rubok's, the Noobik's (CoD fanboys are stupid.), the 9-cube, the first.
4x4: The big one, the hard one, the 16 one
5x5: The grandma (lolwut), the huge one, the impossible one, the 7000x7000 (people are too obtuse with their hyperboles nowadays)
7x7: The crazy one, the enormous one, the impossible one, the 11x11
Megaminx: Satan-cube (pentagrams), the evil one, "OH MY GOD WTF", the 12x12
Gigaminx: "ES EL DIABLO!", Lucifer incarnate, 32x32
I also get the 'I can't even take the stickers off that fast!" comment on a daily basis.

lhulenaermtzs.!

 

[AustinReed]

Off topic:

Lolben, we have the same 3x3 average in comp.

 

[andrewgk]

I hate it when people ask me to use my cube. Or say that they can solve it really fast. I don't want them using my $20 lubix guhong because I love the thing to death. Then, if I let them use it, they usually drop it and make a mess. And if they don't drop it, they don't know how to solve it.

1 of 3 things always happens to me:
People start flocking towards me, and try to time me and throw a bunch of questions at me.
People don't really move towards me but start talking about how slow I am and how they can solve it in 5 seconds (or other ridiculous things)
People approach me and tell me that I have no life and that I cheat.

 

[Narraeson]

lhulenaermtzs.!

Wait. What?

 

[Vinny]

Whenever I'm solving my 7x7, people will ask "can you solve that?"

No, I just own a $40 cube because I can't solve it.

 

[Bapao]

Wait. What?

That's what I thought too...

 

[Godmil]

I cube on my walk to work every day and in nearly six months I've only ever had two moments when someone appeared to have noticed. One was when a small girl asked her mum what I had, and she just replied "it's a Rubik's cube", and the second time was when I nearly walked into someone and they laughed a little harder than I would have expected. That's it! All these comments about people getting constantly hassled seems completely alien to me, I wonder if it's a cultural thing.

 

[Bapao]

I cube on my walk to work every day and in nearly six months I've only ever had two moments when someone appeared to have noticed. One was when a small girl asked her mum what I had, and she just replied "it's a Rubik's cube", and the second time was when I nearly walked into someone and they laughed a little harder than I would have expected. That's it! All these comments about people getting constantly hassled seems completely alien to me, I wonder if it's a cultural thing.

I think a lot of the attention mentioned here occurs at school, the crowd being more prone to react for various reasons IMO.
An old geezer or a MILF sitting in front of you on the tube to work are less likely to react because they're caught up with there own petty matters of importance...
I only get looks, no comments. Maybe the occasional thumbs up.

 

[Cool Frog]

Real men solve the first 3 layers at the same time. (At no point is F2L ever solved.

 

[theace]

 

[ilikecubing]

Hahaha nice one!the middle comment is hilarious

 

[Magix]

Whenever I'm solving my 7x7, people will ask "can you solve that?"

No, I just own a $40 cube because I can't solve it.

They think you just buy it and then learn the cube until you can figure out how to solve it.

Apparently google and tutorials don't exist for non cubers.