Non-Cubers say the darndest things!

[TheRedBull]

"Why do you play so much with that thing?"
"To get faster."
"But if you don't time yourself, how do you know you're actually going any faster?"

 

[newtonbase]

I was accused of cheating for learning algorithms.

 

[WhatIsRubiks]

I was accused of cheating for learning algorithms.

I know what you mean, I was talking to someone online and he started talking about the cube and I said I could solve it. He went on to assume the usual "you must be super smart" type of thing. I then explained to him that pretty much anyone could solve a cube, you just need to learn the algorithms and how the puzzle moves. I explained that you can do most of it intuitively. He said "what is the point of using a guide to solve a puzzle, that is cheap" etc...

Some people just don't understand the rubik's cube, the community behind it or the fact that using a guide to learn how to do it is not cheap or cheating. Hell, everything comes with instructions, even Sudoku books. According his logic, if you're not an autodidact, you're cheating at life. Oh wait, even they learn things from resources at hand.

That is more like a story, but it is one of the things people normally say if they find out you can solve a 3x3...

 

[TheRedBull]

"He peeled off the stickers and put 'em back on!"
"I bet he took it apart and put it back together. That's much faster."

We all know these quotes. But now I got them after solving my 7x7. In their defense, they were slightly tipsy. Still, its incredibly stupid.

Edit: Another one:
"Why is there a 'Z' on it?"

 

[supertimeal]

Proof of universe being infinite?

Ok to reply to the guy who said the universe is infinite and that there is only one

He is most likely talking about the visible universe

He was saying 15 theoretical universes

 

[DoctorPepper]

I was solving a cube in front of my dads friends. One of his friends took it, turned one side and kept insisting he was way faster than me. He kept shouting it. Some guy saw me do it, got interested and asked me to show him a solve. As i was solving it, dads friend kept telling the guy that he solved it in one second. It probably helps that dad's friend was probably already drunk

 

[JediJupiter]

I took my cube with me to a juggling meet, and this one guy said he'd scramble it. So he literally did R L U and handed it back. And was shocked that I did it so fast. I explained that he should probably scramble it properly but I don't think he understood.
Also my Dad said I wasn't really doing it since I was scrambling it myself, and I obviously wasn't scrambling it well. So he took it away for about 5 minutes.
Edit: I mean he went away and scrambled it for 5 minutes.

 

[FailCuber]

My friends always says this. " I might not be good at solving the cube, but i am very good at scrambling.

 

[PJKCuber]

Once, I was attempting a 3BLD infront of my friends and he goes"Hey your looking at the cube"
Then I say that I 'm memorizing it and then close my eyes and then do a solve and then he says I was cheating because I looked at it before.... facepalm.
I also hate it when people say"What is the trick to solving the cube, how do you solve it"
Me"WTF2L YOUR LOLL makes me go PLL with a cross on bottom"
People; WHattt?????
Me: I just told you hahahahaha

 

[PJKCuber]

Once, I was attempting a 3BLD infront of my friends and he goes"Hey your looking at the cube"
Then I say that I 'm memorizing it and then close my eyes and then do a solve and then he says I was cheating because I looked at it before.... facepalm.
I also hate it when people say"What is the trick to solving the cube, how do you solve it"
Me"WTF2L YOUR LOLL makes me go PLL with a cross on bottom"
People; WHattt?????
Me: I just told you hahahahaha

 

[GrandSlam]

"Is that a world record?"

"Oh! You almost had it!"

 

[VeryKewlName]

Most non cubers are incredibly ignorant about cubing related things.
for example:

-*arrives at pll :You almost had it

-"You aren't smart enough to get a 1.61 magic single"

- 30 seconds is not bad.

 

[3LEVAS3]

My favourite: you can't solve that!!

I get this a lot:

-no, your cube isn't scrambled enough. Let me mix it up more for you!
-isn't the world record like 4 mins?
-are you going to put WD-40 in your cube to make it faster?!?
-I once solved 2 sides!
-I can solve 1 side.
-once I solved all five sides but I couldn't get the last one. (Darn magic cubes )

But I think my least favourite thing non cubers do is when they take my cube, do a U turn and then turn it back saying "I solved it!"
And they think scrambling is way harder than solving the actual cube. It's actually proved that's it's harder to be random when scrambling. ... That's why they have scramble generators

 

[3LEVAS3]

Then you must memorize all the patterns! (who memorizes 43 quintillion patterns?)

Cubers xD we "OBVIOUSLY" spend our life memorising EVERY possible solution to EACH random scrambled state of the Rubik's cube .

 

[3LEVAS3]

*Going from OLL to PLL*
Oh, you had it!

Yeah... And they're always so confused as to why the top face is solved but not the corners or edges.

 

[3LEVAS3]

After making a 3x4x5, everytime I take something bigger than a 3x3, I always get "Did you make that?"

Common names for my cubes,
2x2: the four-one.
3x3: the cube, the normal one
4x4: The super one
5x5: The one with so many colors
Megaminx: The 10 one, The star one, The 2543 sided thing, dudocehagigahedron, The impossible one.
Rubik's magic: The flat thing.

I get that all the time too... But what about 'the triangle one' or 'the weird one.' (Square-1)

Well actually... I get a lot of people asking me how many CUBES I have. Sometimes I'll omit the shape shifting ones and the none cubic ones and just tell them how many 'cubic ones' I have. And then they ask me can you solve the triangle cube thing? .... Yes... A pyramid is obviously a cubic shape.

 

[Rocky0701]

I know you're new, but can you multiquote please?

 

[3LEVAS3]

Sometimes I feel like people in here are just making up crap. Nobody ever calls a Rubik's Cube a "9 Cube" ><

A lot of little kids at my school do

I no longer want to be Asian. Every time someone sees me doing something "good" it's always "Asian" "You're Asian" "He's Asian". I mean, it used to be funny, now it's being overdone.

Happens to me all the time... but bonus, because my parents are not Asian I am not Asian. BUT because I can solve a Rubik's cube, I am Asian. >.>

 

[DGCubes]

"I just peel the stickers off."
"I solved 5 sides once!"
"I solved it all once except for one piece."
"I used to be able to do it."
"A RUBIX CUBE?!?! They still make those?!?"
"Did you win?" (a competition)
"What's the secret?"
"My brother can solve that in 15 seconds behind his back."
"I got it once. I played with it for a few hours on Christmas."

Also, a really annoying story:

One time, I was in the library at school. A cubing friend of mine, who we'll call "A," was solving my ZhanChi. A's friend, "B," came and saw A solving. B was trying to be annoying and bothered A during the solve, saying things like, "You'll never get it!" and taunts like that. A did solve it, of course, and B picked it up off the table to examine the solved cube, which B didn't know was mine. B proceeded to throw the cube on the floor with full force, making 5 of 6 center caps fly off!!! We were able to find them all, and B did apologize, but B still kept saying, "That's a horrible cube. It should be built better."

 

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