Non-Cubers say the darndest things!

[Julian]

Philippie, you're telling me you can solve a mirror blocks BLD in less than 40 seconds?

 

[5BLD]

@skezer
Yeh, people are always impressed by M moves. I find it amusing how people tel me the centres can't be moved.

Also M moves look fast even if you're a slow turner like me.
Also E2 M E2 M' gets some funny reactions too.

 

[Phlippieskezer]

Phlippie, you're telling me you can solve a mirror blocks BLD in less than 40 seconds?

Yes.
Well, not sure about any more since I haven't touched the thing in a while, but I definitely used to. It's not as difficult as you make it out to be; I usually did some pre-inspection before putting the blindfold on to plan out a cross or something similar before solving, if that helps your case. I should still be able to sub-1 it, at least...

Have you ever practised it? Like, ao50? I know I have... -.- (and I sort of regret it; wish I spent that time Rouxing)

Seriously, people can sub-30 a normal cube blindfolded WITH memorisation, and you find it difficult to believe I can sub-40 mirror blocks blindfolded with some un-timed pre-inspection before execution?

Also - lolofftopic
Edit: Just got a 33.66 with x-cross and T-perm at the end. The rest of the solves I just did were around 1:30 (and 2 2:00s), though. Lack of practice seems to be able to do a lot of crap to you. >.>

Also E2 M E2 M' gets some funny reactions too.

Especially when you do it over and over again with relatively consistent sub-1's. Almost always produces lolz. (I get that a lot, too)

 

[Cubenovice]

@skezer
Yeh, people are always impressed by M moves. I find it amusing how people tel me the centres can't be moved.

But it does mean that they know something about the cube's properties.

 

[Phlippieskezer]

But it does mean that they know something about the cube's properties.

The centres do move on a cube. They just don't relative to each other. I don't usually get bothered by it, though, since it's a common misconception, even among cubers.

PS: Off topic. >.<

 

[ernie722]

name fail thats just it.....calls the megaminx the pentagon thingy

 

[Julian]

I usually did some pre-inspection before putting the blindfold on to plan out a cross or something similar before solving, if that helps your case.

Ah, I thought you meant no inspection. Still very impressive to me, best I could get was ~6 minutes.

name fail thats just it.....calls the megaminx the pentagon thingy

Consider yourself lucky, I've gotten the "hexagon"

 

[antoineccantin]

Consider yourself lucky, I've gotten the "hexagon"

I get that all the time.

 

[Owen]

All the buildings on earth move too, because the earth is rotating and the galaxy is moving very quickly.

 

[JyH]

My friend told me he got a Dodecahedron a few days ago. o_O

 

[Hovair]

My friend told me he got a Dodecahedron a few days ago. o_O

My friend got a megaminx and he doesnt even no what the name is. he calls it the Rubik's Hexagon. He doesnt even know how to solve it. He doesnt even know how to solve a 3x3.

 

[JyH]

My friend got a megaminx and he doesnt even no what the name is. he calls it the Rubik's Hexagon. He doesnt even know how to solve it. He doesnt even know how to solve a 3x3.

He clearly doesn't know his shapes.

 

[TheMachanga]

My friend got a megaminx and he doesnt even no what the name is. he calls it the Rubik's Hexagon. He doesnt even know how to solve it. He doesnt even know how to solve a 3x3.

lol :fp

 

[bobthegiraffemonkey]

name fail thats just it.....calls the megaminx the pentagon thingy

Another one from my work which is about megaminx, which I only half paid attention to since I was doing BLD under a table: someone said something about an octagon. I'm not sure if they thought the faces were octagons, or if they thought it had 8 faces which made it an octagon. Either way is fail.

 

[Phlippieskezer]

Most of the time people refer to my megaminx as "the Rubik's/Rubix Ball"

...

:fp

 

[AustinReed]

There's a store here in Phoenix that sells V-Cubes. Some random kid told me he bought a 7x7. He doesn't know how to solve anything -_-

 

[Jungleterrain]

i hate cubing in my school

So maybe don't?

In my school I used to bring it out during 2nd period AP Spanish Lit since we didn't really do anything in that class. Some people were like "man, that's annoying", and all I would say is "yeah, I know", and I'd do it even more

Most of the time, though I get positive comments. When I tell people that I can solve it under twenty seconds, and then show them (sort of like a walkthrough solve), they usually say, "dang, you're a G, bro".

 

[Nezhmetdinov]

All the buildings on earth move too, because the earth is rotating and the galaxy is moving very quickly.

You know, shaolin monks can catch a fly with chopsticks blindfolded, just by sensing the vibrations.

 

[insane569]

so im in my foods class and i am packing up to leave to lunch(funny right) and my guhong is stil on the table
teacher:whos rubric cube is that
me:thats mine
and then i get things like "wheres your rubiks cube at" and i always say "i dont use rubiks cubes thay suck"
in english i finished my work so i started to do some solves on cubetimer(in the computer lab) and i get a 19.xx solve and everyones like O-O HE DID IT IN UNDER 20 SECONDS OMG YOUR SO FAST and i said that solve was average and then got a 16.xx and even more crazyness along with the usual "how did you do that" and "your the fastest in the world" and i cant even let kids see my cubes
i let some kids scramble it and i get it back with a twisted corner or edge and then this one kid just toke my GH 2x2 and then threw it and 3 corners poped off
i hate the kids at my school

 

[Pandadudex96]

"I ONLY SOLVED LIKE 9 SIDES BEFORE, SO DID I SOLVE THE CUBE ONCE AND A HALF?"