Non-Cubers say the darndest things!

[TDM]

Edit: I just realized this is my 100th post!!!!!

It wasn't; posts in off-topic don't count towards your total postcount. Your 100th post that counted was this.

but yeah I hear the 18 (or 14) seconds - 14 days/months/years quite a lot.

 

[AlGoreRhythm]

Yesterday, I was solving megaminx at school in front of a bunch of sixth graders, and one kid says, "Oh, you know the secret?"

My family is completely used to me solving my puzzles at home, so I was taken aback when I got a huge reaction. Anyway, half the school sixth graders showed up with rubik's cubes today. In other words, I go to solve a bunch of Terrible Rubik's Brand Cubes at school.

Does anybody know how I can explain that there is no secret?

 

[sneaklyfox]

Yesterday, I was solving megaminx at school in front of a bunch of sixth graders, and one kid says, "Oh, you know the secret?"

My family is completely used to me solving my puzzles at home, so I was taken aback when I got a huge reaction. Anyway, half the school sixth graders showed up with rubik's cubes today. In other words, I go to solve a bunch of Terrible Rubik's Brand Cubes at school.

Does anybody know how I can explain that there is no secret?

Should've taken the opportunity to teach all those 6th graders the "secret" so they can solve their own cubes.

 

[Mitchdacuber]

Yep, they mistake 2x2's for 4x4's all the time, they call megaminx a super rubiks cube,they always say they peel off the stickers,they try to copy our turning speed,they think the longer they scramble the more it is messed up. LOLZ,anyone know when the moyu 5x5 is coming out?

 

[TomTom]

i had a friend that told me that he solved 5 sides

 

[Smiles]

"whoaa how'd you do that?"
"i learned how"
"can you teach me?"
"it takes too long"
"i wanna learn!!"

there goes 2 hours of my life.

 

[Johnny]

Me: I can do it in 18 seconds
Him: I can do it in 18 years
I hear this a lot.

From adults older than 40:
Him: (sees me holding cube) I remember when those came out! I could do it in like 5 minutes. There were even some people who could do it in 30 seconds.
Me: I can do it in like 18 seconds.
Him: no you can't. It's harder than it looks.

That one was weird.


Edit: I just realized this is my 100th post!!!!!

What a jerk!!

 

[JediJupiter]

It wasn't actually said, but my form room is an art classroom, and someone did a really funky painting of a cube, except one of the edge pieces was blue-blue...

 

[AlGoreRhythm]

Brought my 5x5 today. Was surprised at multiple "is that like, an ultimate rubik's cube? As well as "is that a 19x19" I also git a lot of, "is that your biggest one?" And "how many sides does it have?"

Also, I found out that 15 cubes is "waaaaaaay too many." I guess I did bring a bunch of 3x3s today (an extra backpack-full for Cubing club beginners)

 

[ketchuphater999]

I was at the book fair at my school today and there was this book called "how to be a genius" and claimed that solving a rubik's cube required a high level of "problem solving and mathematical" skills.

:fp

 

[AlGoreRhythm]

I was at the book fair at my school today and there was this book called "how to be a genius" and claimed that solving a rubik's cube required a high level of "problem solving and mathematical" skills.

:fp

Yes! I'm not the only one who still uses :fp

 

[PJKCuber]

The Rubik's Cube has only 200 permutations :fp

 

[Rcuber123]

When I get a U-perm:
You already solved it!

 

[PJKCuber]

When I get a U-perm:
You already solved it!

or a J perm

 

[TDM]

or a J perm

Even I think it's solved sometimes and stop the timer...

 

[PJKCuber]

Even I think it's solved sometimes and stop the timer...

Yeah, that happens to most cubers. All I did was Antisune to a cuber, closed my eyes and did Sune U perm and my friends thought I was doing real BLD.

 

[ketchuphater999]

Person: "Hey dude I saw this youtube video yesterday of a 25x25"
Me: "No you didn't, the world record cube is a 17x17"
Person: "No, no, you're wrong, I know more about cubes than you"
Me: "Okay,"*gives him 7x7*"solve this"
Person: "pshshhshs thats too easy"
Me: "then solve it"
Person: "It's too easy, give me something harder"
Me: *gives him gigaminx*
Person: *spazzes wildly and ends up popping it* "That cube is crap. I can't solve crap cubes"
Me: *grabs cube, fixes it, walks away*
Person: "HAH! Loser! you're scared to admit that I'm better than you"

 

[Randomno]

Person: "Hey dude I saw this youtube video yesterday of a 25x25"
Me: "No you didn't, the world record cube is a 17x17"
Person: "No, no, you're wrong, I know more about cubes than you"
Me: "Okay,"*gives him 7x7*"solve this"
Person: "pshshhshs thats too easy"
Me: "then solve it"
Person: "It's too easy, give me something harder"
Me: *gives him gigaminx*
Person: *spazzes wildly and ends up popping it* "That cube is crap. I can't solve crap cubes"
Me: *grabs cube, fixes it, walks away*
Person: "HAH! Loser! you're scared to admit that I'm better than you"

Virtual cube?

 

[ketchuphater999]

Virtual cube?

I asked him about that, he said specifically it was a real cube.

He also mentioned that someone solved it in under fifteen minutes.... just no.

 

[ketchuphater999]

Justin Bieber can solve that in like 2 seconds!!

Yeah, after a ten hour inspection just to find a corner twist