Non-Cubers say the darndest things!

[5BLD]

My brother won't learn one of the big four and insists on staying with LBL(he has been cubing for 8 months btw).

Yeah, I had this problem with one of my students where I was teaching him Petrus. He blockbuilded using beginner algs. Like the 8 move edge insert instead of an F move.
That's why I have taught all my students a speedcubing method from the start.

Yeah, introduce him to blockbuilding, maybe rotationless edge inserts with M moves etc. Then slowly introduce him to blockbuilding...

 

[antoineccantin]

My brother won't learn one of the big four and insists on staying with LBL(he has been cubing for 8 months btw).

Exactly like me when I started

 

[jrb]

Yeah, I had this problem with one of my students where I was teaching him Petrus. He blockbuilded using beginner algs. Like the 8 move edge insert instead of an F move.
That's why I have taught all my students a speedcubing method from the start.

Yeah, introduce him to blockbuilding, maybe rotationless edge inserts with M moves etc. Then slowly introduce him to blockbuilding...

Thanks for the help! I really want to teach him Roux despite the fact that I'm not very good with it(I average 30-35 seconds with it) but he won't listen when I try to show it to him.

 

[Ranzha]

I taught my one friend to solve the cube the way I used to solve, right before I pursued Fridrich F2L.
Cross -> he already knew how to solve cross, so this was a plus. Also, this means he understood how the pieces worked.
E layer -> simple R U' R' sequences or L' U L sequences with rotations in between.
FL corners -> Using (U' R U' R' U2 R U' R'), (U R U R' U2 R U R'), and (R U R' U' R U R' U' R U R' U').
EOLL -> FRURUF style.
CPLL -> Niklas style.
OCLL -> Sune style.
EPLL -> With algs for the four cases.

 

[jrb]

I was cubing at a store yesterday. A man walked by with his 3 or 2 year old son. He started snickering when he saw me and I heard him say to his son as he left,"That's just a waste of time." Made me mad

 

[SpeedSolve]

I was cubing at a store yesterday. A man walked by with his 3 or 2 year old son. He started snickering when he saw me and I heard him say to his son as he left,"That's just a waste of time." Made me mad

Oh, I'd be screaming at that guy...

 

[Mudkip]

He problaby though you couldn't solve it.

This one kind of made me laugh:
I was using a zhanchi, and some kid spotted the logo, and said "Ooh is that like a 100 dollar cube?"

I let him think that

 

[asportking]

Exactly like me when I started

Same here. I didn't care how long it took, I was DETERMINED to beat the world record with LBL.

 

[Moops]

I was cubing in a doctors waiting room today and this old guy sitting across from me said...

"Gosh! you pull that thing out often?

*solves*

Wow! You must be related to Erno Rubik!"

Made me chuckle.

 

[SpeedSolve]

I was cubing in a doctors waiting room today and this old guy sitting across from me said...

"Gosh! you pull that thing out often?

*solves*

Wow! You must be related to Erno Rubik!"

Made me chuckle.

Lol! I've been at the E.R. the past couple days and all my doctors and nurses were like "Wow!". Especially when I solved my megaminx, they were like "AHhhhh!"

 

[Yuxuibbs]

"are you a rubik's god?" :fp i was doing slow turning solves and had an average of 25s....
and whenever I get a pop people are like "so THAT'S how you solve it...."

 

[Hershey]

and whenever I get a pop people are like "so THAT'S how you solve it...."

Sigh... Then you need to learn to turn more accurately, or tighten the cube, or buy a more stable cube.

 

[asportking]

Sigh... Then you need to learn to turn more accurately, or tighten the cube, or buy a more stable cube.

Pops happen all the time, there's nothing wrong with getting a pop once in a while..,

 

[Yuxuibbs]

Sigh... Then you need to learn to turn more accurately, or tighten the cube, or buy a more stable cube.

I'm getting my first Dayan cube in about 2 or 3 weeks. I'm stuck with an Alpha 1 that keeps getting looser every time I use it.... only other 3x3 I own is a rubik's brand.

 

[BLKKROW]

This happened the other day from my brother, I was practicing while watching tv. He walks up and says "I know how you do that, its one algorithm that you just interchange colours", I then said "No its more then one algorithm" The argument went on for like 20 minutes.

He is trying to tell the guy who can solve the rubiks cube how to solve it when he does not know. So I scrambled it handed it to him, and said solve it. Three hours later he texts me and says he figured it out, by looking online. Then never mentioned "One algorithm" again.

 

[Eleredo]

"Is it broken?" That's what my dad says every time he sees me adjusting the tension of a puzzle. My mom says it too sometimes. A week ago, my bump cube arrived and a center cap fell off after one minute of playing with it. She went: "The quality of that cube is rubbish, it's already broken." :rolleyes:

Another great one from my dad; "Huh? Did you buy the same cube again? (GuHong) You already have two of them. (F-II and storebought)"

 

[Mudkip]

Cubing in the school gym, new stuff!

Can you actually do that?
WOW
Is it just a pattern you memorize?
Hey you're the guy who does it with 1 hand! (I'm a fail at OH ^_^)
Oh you're one of those crazy cube guys! (Speedcubers?)

 

[Jakube]

How do you know when you have to stop?

After a BLD-solve

 

[lordchriszhou]

I hate it when they grab the cube after you solve it and do like 2 moves and then undo those moves and say "See! I'm better at cubing than you!"

"Is that a trick cube? Do you press that middle button to make it go back into shape?"
"I once solved one face in 20 seconds! That's fast right?"
"Have you been practicing for like your whole life?"

 

[PandaBeaarAmy]

I'm now known as Rubiks cube girl in my school.
so many people cube at my school that almost every comment about my cubing is "My friend can solve it faster than you."
almost everyone at my school uses beginners method, and any speedcuber is 30 second average.
its funny when everyone thinks you have to be smart to solve the rubiks cube, and its only really memorization.
or when people are like you have to be asian to solve the cube. i reply with "well, the world record for 3x3 is NOT by an asian"
i've been asked by almost everyone if i was in the IB program at school, or atleast enhanced. when i say i'm only mainstream, they freak out and say i should be in IB. actually, its just lack of commitment and poor english skills or else i would want to be in IB

i just finish solving the cube, and start mixing--- "wow, she's fast and she doesnt even look at it!"--- do i really have to look at the cube to mix it? or when i'm doing a long pll or oll, i usually look somewhere else