Non-Cubers say the darndest things!

[ChrisBird]

"once you know the matrix of the cube, you should be able to generate all the solutions for the cube...making solving easy. Personally I have yet to discover this matrix and all the mathematics involved."

my response - "wow you make me feel smart"

lawl. wow so true though.

yeah I've had people say "dude, you suck I can do that in like ten seconds!" and then I hand them the cube and they can't even do a finger trick.

I hate when people boast about being able to do it, and then not being able to. Basically, If you talk smack, you'd better be able to back it up.

That is whats called All Bark No Bite

 

[Waffle's Minion]

Ugghh! This jock in my school saw that i could solve it, so he went out and bought one, and then went online for a tutorial. He came in to school telling everyone he could solve it, and he came to me asking how to do it!

 

[calekewbs]

"once you know the matrix of the cube, you should be able to generate all the solutions for the cube...making solving easy. Personally I have yet to discover this matrix and all the mathematics involved."

my response - "wow you make me feel smart"

lawl. wow so true though.

yeah I've had people say "dude, you suck I can do that in like ten seconds!" and then I hand them the cube and they can't even do a finger trick.

I hate when people boast about being able to do it, and then not being able to. Basically, If you talk smack, you'd better be able to back it up.

That is whats called All Bark No Bite

lol well that is basically all of my friends siblings. It's never my friends. Allways their brother or sister. lol know what i mean?

 

[waffle=ijm]

"once you know the matrix of the cube, you should be able to generate all the solutions for the cube...making solving easy. Personally I have yet to discover this matrix and all the mathematics involved."

my response - "wow you make me feel smart"

lawl. wow so true though.

yeah I've had people say "dude, you suck I can do that in like ten seconds!" and then I hand them the cube and they can't even do a finger trick.

I hate when people boast about being able to do it, and then not being able to. Basically, If you talk smack, you'd better be able to back it up.

That is whats called All Bark No Bite

I forgot to mention that my math teacher said this

 

[calekewbs]

"once you know the matrix of the cube, you should be able to generate all the solutions for the cube...making solving easy. Personally I have yet to discover this matrix and all the mathematics involved."

my response - "wow you make me feel smart"

lawl. wow so true though.

yeah I've had people say "dude, you suck I can do that in like ten seconds!" and then I hand them the cube and they can't even do a finger trick.

I hate when people boast about being able to do it, and then not being able to. Basically, If you talk smack, you'd better be able to back it up.

That is whats called All Bark No Bite

I forgot to mention that my math teacher said this

:fp I would expect more from a TEACHER. lol or did your teacher say what momnkeydude said?

 

[JLarsen]

Wow. This thread pisses me off. Not the thread really, but the topic.

 

[anythingtwisty]

I was doing the lefty sexy move (L' U' L U) on my YUGA at a tennis tournament last week, and a kid goes "How do you do that? The sticker starts out one color then turns another?" I did it again and he sat there with his mouth wide open.

 

[calekewbs]

lol i'm listening to sexy move now. lol

 

[Sin-H]

"Aren't competitions, like, totally unfair, because it depends totally on how it is scrambled?"

-"What's your record?" -"6.78" - "SECONDS?" - "yea." -"it would be hourse for me.... or days..."

and, of course, the classic stickers line + the "I used to get x sides" line.

 

[ChrisBird]

Wow. This thread pisses me off. Not the thread really, but the topic.

Then don't read it.

Instead of complaining, just don't read it.

 

[mr.onehanded]

I get "let me scramble it" every time, as if I have some complex technique for cheating.

 

[JTW2007]

Today I got this for the first time:

Person: (regarding my V5) "There are so many colors!"
Me: Uh... actually, no. It's the same number of colors as a 3x3.

 

[nintendorox5]

Do that again!... Hey wait, ILL mix it up REAL good this time!

 

[Musje]

They think that it has 54 stickers and each of them moves including the centers

A cube does have 54 stickers, and each sticker moves including the centers.

:fp (too short)

Logan, not to pick on you personally, but your last post prompts this. Please describe to me why beingforitself's statement is false. I challenge you to prove him wrong.

Chris

What he means to say is that not all 54 stickers move.
And the centers don't move either.

Basically, you're moving pieces with stickers on it, not stickers.
You can't just get a blue-green edge (going from normal color scheme where blue and green are opposite) because you don't move stickers

But you could also see it as, if I pick up the cube and place it down on a different spot, every piece and sticker moved... (even though no side turned)

So it's basically how you read that line

 

[edd5190]

I don't get annoyed when people try to solve "side by side", ask for the "trick to it", think that they have to scramble it themselves rather than having you scramble it, or think that you're smart if you can do it. It's just how they think. They're a little naive, so what?

What I do hate is how people get cocky or stupid like "I got 5 sides," or "I solved it once before" when they obviously didn't.

Usually people are impressed when they see me solve. The other day this guy asked me to teach him. I explained the concept of layers and how you can't just solve a face first, then he asked me if he could try it, then started solving a face, then tried to solve the adjacent faces. However, he did understand how eventually you're going to have to break something up in order to fix something else. I didn't have the heart to tell him he was doing it wrong haha.

 

[miniGOINGS]

"Wow, that has like, 9 stickers on each side, that makes it like a 9 by 9, I've heard they make up to 100 by 100."

 

[Zeroknight]

I really hate those 'show me the trick/pattern ones.' How do you guys deal with that? I usually say 'sort of' and hope they don't ask again.

 

[miniGOINGS]

I get "let me scramble it" every time, as if I have some complex technique for cheating.

Haha, I have never heard a non-cuber say "scramble" or "scrambled" unless "eggs" followed.

 

[Zeroknight]

I get "let me scramble it" every time, as if I have some complex technique for cheating.

Haha, I have never heard a non-cuber say "scramble" or "scrambled" unless "eggs" followed.

Really, never? I always hear 'scramble,' and 'mix it up.' I'd be curious as to what they say to you.

 

[eamsch]

are you like a rubik's cube master??