danielwithabat
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"Here give it to me. I can solve it in 10 seconds."
Non-Cubers say the darndest things!
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nuclearbigdaddy
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I was cubing with my Guhong V2 and someone came up to me at school and said, "That cube is low quality and crappy, you should by and original Rubik's Cube, why don't you give money to the creator!" I was like "OMG...first Rubik's aren't even the original creator, second, the Guhong V2 is obviously the best cube ever(took out piece and compared it to Rubik's.)"
Kyooberist
Regular
People who want to scramble it for me.
I get that a lot, they think you can have the D face and The U face at 45 degrees and they think it wont pop.
Also the make it pop and they say I have a terrible cube.
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TheNextFeliks
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Lucky, cute girls never notice me.
The worst, I once let someone scramble it for me. They got like a three turns then a three piece pop. Whoops.
Also, someone tells me "put some WD-40 in it". Now that they know, they say " I know how to make you sad, put WD-40 in your cubes".
The worst, I once let someone scramble it for me. They got like a three turns then a three piece pop. Whoops.
Also, someone tells me "put some WD-40 in it". Now that they know, they say " I know how to make you sad, put WD-40 in your cubes".
sheep1234
Member
I was going to put this in "Non-cubers do the darndest things, especially after they start to cube and are in the position of knowing enough about the cube to do the most damage possible", but such a thread didn't exist. So, I'll put it here. Recently, a relative of mine joined a Rubik's cube club at his school, but he didn't know how to solve a cube, nor did he even have one, for that matter.
But wait!!!! It gets worse.
So, I lent him my cube for the time being so he could learn how to do it over the weekend. Three days later, I got the cube back, but when it was solved, I noticed that (with yellow on top) the green face was to the left of the red face, as opposed to the right. So, after a quick discussion, I found that he had dropped the cube, making the center caps fall off. I realized that when he was putting them back on, he hadinadvertently switched two of the centers. Then, noticing that it was unsolvable, he proceeded to PEEL OFF THE STICKERS, putting them back on according to the messed-up color scheme.
But wait!!!! It gets worse.
So, I lent him my cube for the time being so he could learn how to do it over the weekend. Three days later, I got the cube back, but when it was solved, I noticed that (with yellow on top) the green face was to the left of the red face, as opposed to the right. So, after a quick discussion, I found that he had dropped the cube, making the center caps fall off. I realized that when he was putting them back on, he hadinadvertently switched two of the centers. Then, noticing that it was unsolvable, he proceeded to PEEL OFF THE STICKERS, putting them back on according to the messed-up color scheme.
TheNextFeliks
Veteran
When people see 2x2 then says that's easy. Then they build a face (if that) and get stuck. They give it back and you solve it in like 5 seconds then they're like, "I set it up at an easy spot."
5BLD
Legend
I was going to put this in "Non-cubers do the darndest things, especially after they start to cube and are in the position of knowing enough about the cube to do the most damage possible", but such a thread didn't exist. So, I'll put it here. Recently, a relative of mine joined a Rubik's cube club at his school, but he didn't know how to solve a cube, nor did he even have one, for that matter.
But wait!!!! It gets worse.
So, I lent him my cube for the time being so he could learn how to do it over the weekend. Three days later, I got the cube back, but when it was solved, I noticed that (with yellow on top) the green face was to the left of the red face, as opposed to the right. So, after a quick discussion, I found that he had dropped the cube, making the center caps fall off. I realized that when he was putting them back on, he hadinadvertently switched two of the centers. Then, noticing that it was unsolvable, he proceeded to PEEL OFF THE STICKERS, putting them back on according to the messed-up color scheme.
Well f***. Ask him to pay for it and make sure to overcharge him
Kyooberist
Regular
Most certainly good sir!
Coolster01
Veteran
Probably because the cubies are smaller... But then again, I wouldn't be surprised if you showed a non cuber a keychain cube and a regular cube and the non cuber thought the keychain cube would be easier because the pieces are smaller.
Show them an 11x11 and a keychain 2x2 (pieces are pretty much the same size) and see what they say
Haha this reminds of something. My mom decided that for my bday party, she could give everybody a rubiks cube. They were those mini cheap (party city?) 3x3s. I forgot how it came up but I think my mom asked, "Did anybody solve their cubes other than you and your friend?" (My friend knows how to, averaging 15ish on good days.) I was like, "Obviously not! It is really hard to figure out a cube on your own, and like impossible if you have only 5 minutes with it!" She said something along the lines of, "At least the cube that I got them was easier!" and then I said, "NO! IT'S JUST LIKE A NORMAL CUBE!! WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?" and she said, "Well the cubes, they're like smaller, so I thought..." and she just walked away.
NOTE: A lot of that was made up. I can't really 100% remember it all. All that I know is that basically my mom thought that smaller cubes were easier so lol
So true. Actually one of my friends (this was with a decent scramble, not a 3-4 move lol scramble) got the 2x2 into a T perm. From there, he couldn't do anything. If he got a PLL skip, then he would've solved it haha.
Speaking of T perm, whenever somebody says, "I can solve that too!" I usually give it to them and they say, "Well I need more time than [insert a time from 5-15 minutes here]!" I respond with, "Alrighty then, I'll set you up. I will do every step for you, except the last step (of the beginners method, which leaves and only edge PLL)." All that I do is give them a U perm. It is so funny to watch, because they try to fix the three incorrect edges with a U, and then they realize they need to fix everything else with a U'. All that happens is a circus of U/U' for 10 minutes! xD
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TheNextFeliks
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A girl in class says, "Tou just do the same move over and over." I scramble and solve (slow-turning) and say, "Is that the same move over and over again?" She goes "Yeah". :
I really hate when you scramble for yourself and get accused of cheating.
I really hate when you scramble for yourself and get accused of cheating.
Neel Shah
Member
After a boring lecture in math about volume, a kid says he can solve a 4x4(when he means 2x2)........................
Epilogue: He made excuses about not solving.
I tell my friend I got an official bld solve, he doesn't believe me. Then I show him my wca profile and he goes into a.......................................... A random prime ape gorilla dance in the library.
P.S. 86% of this story is true.
Epilogue: He made excuses about not solving.
I tell my friend I got an official bld solve, he doesn't believe me. Then I show him my wca profile and he goes into a.......................................... A random prime ape gorilla dance in the library.
P.S. 86% of this story is true.
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Noahaha
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CarlBrannen
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I've found it's fairly entertaining to carry around a 2x2x2 and when physics grad students notice it, I make a comment to the effect that it's so easy to solve that only a complete ***** would have trouble. Amusingly, this gets a lot of them to give it a try.
A good skill to practice is the ability to twist a corner on a cube while it appears that you're just innocently scrambling it.
A good skill to practice is the ability to twist a corner on a cube while it appears that you're just innocently scrambling it.
CHJ
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'TIS JUJU MAGIC!!!
Joseph Wong
Regular
When my cube is scrambled and it pops and I accidently put tan edge back the wrong way and when I solve it I get an impossibile situation and they say, "You"re cheating you put the piece the other way."
sneaklyfox
Legend
Someone said this to me after watching me solve it:
"I used to think that only really really smart people could solve it and that if you could do it you were a genius. But I guess that's not how it is since even you can solve it." (Gee, thanks.)
"I used to think that only really really smart people could solve it and that if you could do it you were a genius. But I guess that's not how it is since even you can solve it." (Gee, thanks.)
piece popper
Regular
The only place that I really cube in public is in boy scouts, because my troop is really chill. Anyway, this one guy said that he had a friend that was a speedcuber (not how he said it, I cant remember exactly what he said), and that his friend could also solve a cube with 20 something. I asked him what he meant, because all I could think of was the 20x20 on a computer, or an icosaminx, but his hands were moving in a small cubic pattern. I think he meant 4x4, but it has 16 stickers on a face. He was like; I don't know but it had something to do with 20. :fp I thought this guy was smart.
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IQubic
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I was solving a Square-1 at school the other day, when someone asked "Is that solved?
"No" I said
"But the colors match up." he replied
Looking down at the Square-1, I saw that the shape was wrong, but color were correct.
"No" I said
"But the colors match up." he replied
Looking down at the Square-1, I saw that the shape was wrong, but color were correct.
piece popper
Regular
Wanna know a big difference between cubers and non-cubers? Cubers take longer to solve than to scramble, and non-cubers take longer to scramble than the cuber they give it to solve it.
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