Non-Cubers say the darndest things!

[~Phoenix Death~]

For the Asian thing... sincerely apologize.

 

[spunkymp4]

"You already solved it once, why do you want to mess it up again and again?"
I hate that one.

 

[Ranzha]

-Doing BLD.-
On-looker: "How do you DO that?"
Me: "With my brain, my hands, and my eyes closed."

 

[miniGOINGS]

For the Asian thing... sincerely apologize.

HA!! "I'm trying my hardest, but being Asian isn't that easy..."

 

[iasimp1997]

my friends hav a really bad sense of humor, so they pretend to mix it up and then they make sure that it is only one turn away to solve it. then they say "look i can solve it!!!!!" then they turn the cube. "I'M FASTER THAN YOU!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!"

 

[iasimp1997]

"I tried to do that thing once, but I got just one sticker messed up and I couldn't fix it."

Oh, and this is really off-topic, but I'd like some advice:

At my swim team there's a kid who can solve a 3x3 and 4x4. He says he learned all by himself, and when I watch him, he's just doing Dan Brown method. When he shows me 4x4, which I believed at first.

So I setup OLL parity for him, and he goes "Oh, the orientation parity" and he solves it using the same algorithm I use.a And he continues to claim that he figured it out on his own. What do I do?

lawl. are you talking about me? probably because i remember that XD

 

[dillonbladez]

i get this one all the time:

'Ohhh you got a side! (3 sec later) HEY! you're messing it up! whats wrong with you? (2 sec later) ohhh, you fixed it! how's you do that? (doing OLL) Holy #$^% frigging skillz!!! how do you move your fingers so fast?!'

 

[lilkdub503]

-Doing BLD.-
On-looker: "How do you DO that?"
Me: "With my brain, my hands, and my eyes closed."

Dude, that's a low-key d**k move to say. I posted in this thread a couple months ago, and I have noticed that people are just being d**ks to people-how about being nicer.

 

[Gollum999]

-Doing BLD.-
On-looker: "How do you DO that?"
Me: "With my brain, my hands, and my eyes closed."

Dude, that's a low-key d**k move to say. I posted in this thread a couple months ago, and I have noticed that people are just being d**ks to people-how about being nicer.

lol, do you expect him to actually explain the entire method to every person that asks him that?

 

[d4m4s74]

I was learning some PLLS at starbucks, when all of a sudden three employees appeared at the table asking me if I could actually solve it.

I did a cross, F2L, OLL, and at the PLL I slowed down and looked one of them right in the face, finishing the cube and putting it on the table, not looking at it once.

I quote him first "He's not even paying attention, he must be a robot or somehing"
and his colleague: "I for one welcome our new cube-solving robot overlords"

 

[~Phoenix Death~]

-Doing BLD.-
On-looker: "How do you DO that?"
Me: "With my brain, my hands, and my eyes closed."

Dude, that's a low-key d**k move to say. I posted in this thread a couple months ago, and I have noticed that people are just being d**ks to people-how about being nicer.

Dude, BLD is using your brain, hands and eyes closed. I don;t see how that's being a dick.

 

[TheMachanga]

Like, 2 years ago I was learning and watching the 3x3 tutorial. Then my sister saw and said its not "solving" if you use algorithms and that's "cheating". When I would solve it in front of people, my sister would come up from behind and say "He's cheating, he had someone else teach him with these codes that make you cheat. It's only considered "solving" if you learned it yourself. The world record has to be done with no codes'.:fp

I really, really, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY hate people like that?
Show her Nakajima's video. The annotations will prove all.

That was 2 years ago. Not anymore. She understands now

 

[~Phoenix Death~]

Ah good. A supportive relative.
Wish I had one.
Here's another story
I was solving my 4x4 with usual crowd of people.
I see a Fart Bomb (lol) a few feet from me, but I'm still doing OLL. So I step back and say "Whoa man! Where'd you get THAT?!"(he got it on ebay)
The crowd looked at me and said "Dude, he's note evn looking at it!!"
...And THEN they notice the Fart Bomb.
Which blew up.

 

[ElderKingpin]

-Doing BLD.-
On-looker: "How do you DO that?"
Me: "With my brain, my hands, and my eyes closed."

Dude, that's a low-key d**k move to say. I posted in this thread a couple months ago, and I have noticed that people are just being d**ks to people-how about being nicer.

Dude, BLD is using your brain, hands and eyes closed. I don;t see how that's being a dick.

Because its being a douche. No duh, of course BLD is done with eyes closed. I think the spectator can see that :/

 

[aronpm]

When an on-looker sees you doing BLD, they'll either assume you've memorized the entire cube, or memorized all the moves you'll do to solve it. Either way, it's safe to assume that an on-looker will KNOW that you need to concentrate. Talking to someone while they're doing BLD is a great way to be an ******* and ruin their solve.

 

[agonzales94]

From adults who were around when the cube originally came out: "When I was your age, we didn't have the internet to teach us that cheating!" Well, now we do have the internet...and it is extremely difficult to learn how to do it yourself...and I think that the fact that I can solve it, even using this so-called "cheating" is a lot more impressive than the fact that once upon a time, you couldn't do it, and you still can't do it now.

Also: Using a keychain 3x3 before class started, a girl asked me if she could see it. I told her to "be careful" and "turn it slowly," because since it's a keychain, it's loose and the pieces pop out and are hard to find once they break. So what does she do? Grab it and begin turning it furiously. It pops and the pieces scatter everywhere. While I'm scrambling around trying to collect them in the ten seconds before my teacher walks in the door and tells me off for distracting the class, she says, "Oh, I didn't know what you meant by 'be careful.'" What else does one mean by be careful, exactly?

Stuck at the airport for a few hours (I go to boarding school) another student observed me cubing. When we got back to school he started telling everyone how weird he thought I was. "Why would I waste my time on something like that?" he kept saying.

I don't think people are stupid because they can't cube. I just get annoyed when they are stupid in general and it involves the cube.

 

[CitricAcid]

From this random kid:

"I can solve the cube SOOOO much better than you!"

He does that whole R' D' R D thing six times in a row. -_-

The humanity...

 

[~Phoenix Death~]

Some people are just jealous because they see us do something they can't. Even solving a 2x2x2 can throw jealousy

 

[ElderKingpin]

ive had non-cubers grab the thing out of my hand while im solving it.

 

[TioMario]

"I thought it was the stickers that move"
A guy on the bus who asked me how the cube works.