Non-Cubers say the darndest things!

[SuperNerd]

A random child at school;

Child: Woah. What's that?!
Me: A rubik's cube.
Child: Can I have a go?
Me: Meh. K.
*plays for a bit*
Child: Solve it!
Me: *solves cube* done.
Child: Can I buy it?
Me: Wat...
Child: I like it.
Me: Sorry, but no. I've had it for ages and it's awesome.
Child: How much was it?
Me: About £10. Why?
Child: Why would you buy something like this for £10?
Me: Well...
Child: Rip off. *hands cube back*
Me: Well that's your opinion.
Child: You're an idiot. Why would you waste money like that.
Me: Well that's your opini-
Child: Just spend your money on like a car or something.
Me:...
Child:*walks off*

Seriously. I didn't know what to say.

You shouldn't say anything.
When I tell people how much the V-cubes were, they always ask me "Why would you spend that much on cubes?"

"Because it's what I do, it's what I like, and it's something better than a video game"

That reminds me of the kids at my school who spend a good 60 bucks on any game for the 360 who then see my A II and say "why would you be such a loser and blow 8 bucks on something stupid like that?"

I'm gonna use "Because it's what I do, it's what I like, and it's something better than a video game" from now on to answer any questions like that from now on.

Thank you

 

[CubeHawk]

As I pull out my 4x4 cube...
A kid: Whoa! That has like four on each side. Is that even possible?

 

[~Phoenix Death~]

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.

 

[Caedus]

Explaining to a kid at school how I solve it:

Me: So, you memorize these sets of moves that move the pieces in certain ways, and then you apply them when you see the correct case.
Kid: Couldn't you just learn one that always gets the cube to the same spot, and solve it from there?
Me: Uhh, no. One algorithm can't always get the cube to the same spot, it'll affect the cube differently depending on the cube's state.
Kid: Huh? Just do one over and over until it solves itself, it'd be way easier.
Me: It doesn't work like that, there's no way that one algorithm could always get the cube to the same point no matter what the state.
Kid: Yeah there is, my friend knows it, he solved it in 5 seconds once. I saw it!
Me: *facepalm* Sure, nevermind... (Is pissed off for the rest of the day)

 

[PEZenfuego]

Explaining to a kid at school how I solve it:

Me: So, you memorize these sets of moves that move the pieces in certain ways, and then you apply them when you see the correct case.
Kid: Couldn't you just learn one that always gets the cube to the same spot, and solve it from there?
Me: Uhh, no. One algorithm can't always get the cube to the same spot, it'll affect the cube differently depending on the cube's state.
Kid: Huh? Just do one over and over until it solves itself, it'd be way easier.
Me: It doesn't work like that, there's no way that one algorithm could always get the cube to the same point no matter what the state.
Kid: Yeah there is, my friend knows it, he solved it in 5 seconds once. I saw it!
Me: *facepalm* Sure, nevermind... (Is pissed off for the rest of the day)

Yep, you can't argue when someone has "proof." Where are all of these, "guys" people know? I want to meet one so that I too can see them put Yu or Erik to shame with their 5 second solve that uses the Devil's algorithm.

Why are we wasting so much time memorizing multiple algorithms? We must be pretty stupid.

 

[Caedus]

Yeah. It makes me really irrationally frustrated when people just don't understand, and don't reason at all.

 

[~Phoenix Death~]

Next time when they ask how you solve it, try the "with my hands" reply.

 

[capoboy]

My friend can do it in 10s even though he never learned how to solve the cube. He just looked at the cube and solved it in 10s.

Gosh, I can't believe it... Is it possible to solve it in 10s but you don't know how to solve it at first?

 

[Tim Major]

^^^you should be mentioned in this thread.

Edit: If you're telling the truth, did he use fingertricks, or wristy moves?

 

[Tomk]

I think you'd struggle to buy a car with £10...

 

[ElderKingpin]

"I can solve one side!"

 

[V-te]

"I can solve one side!"

Indeed they can, even if the sides aren't correct.

 

[RainbowBoy]

Every non cuber's questions are the same for some reason.

 

[hyunchoi98]

"HEY HEY LET ME SOLVE THAT!!!"
10 mins later...
"HERE I SOLVED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
although only one SIDE is solved. not even a LAYER.
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Hey. where'd you get that 16 cube?
"WTF is a 16 cube?"
"Do you mean the 4x4 cube?"
OH IT'S CALLED THE 4x4?????!!!!?
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'when i was a non cuber...'

Someone at camp solves a cube.
i say "How the **** did you do that??? Let me video tape that!"
i almost did and almost put it on youtube. but then i became a cuber.
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Where'd you buy that thingy???
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"Let me mix that thing up. I'll mix it so you'll NEVER solve it."

Then i solve it as easily as another person scrambles it.
They say... "Hey YOU CHEATED!!!"

 

[Cool Frog]

Whenever I say " I lube my cube with Jig-A-Loo."
they get this big smile on their face

And i met this one person he is like
"That is so easy it is only a 3x3x3 so it only has 27 possibilities"

 

[Uular]

Some random girl at school today...

She: Hey you know there's this trick that you just do and you always can solve it?
Me: Oh, really?
She: Yeah it's just a couple of twists that you do over and over
Me: okay... *starts solving*
She: Oh wait, you know the trick?

 

[Daniel Que]

More than once, people told me, "I solved the first five sides but couldn't figure out the last one." I tell them, "That's not possible... If you do 5, you get all." They pause for like 10 seconds, "Well that's what happened."

They always also say something along the lines of "I couldn't solve that if you gave me a [insert length of time here]. I would just peel the stickers off and put them back." NOOB taking off the stickers ruins the adhesive so it's hard to put it back on. lol

And when they scramble, they insist on doing it outside of my view and they scramble it using U4 and stuff like that.

Also: "The government says I'm smart, so I can probably solve that."

 

[miniGOINGS]

And when they scramble, they insist on doing it outside of my view and they scramble it using U4 and stuff like that.

I had someone who scrambled (read: wristed) R L2 R2 L R' L2 R L2 R2 L2 R L2 or something like that, did a rotation of some sort, and did pretty much the same thing.

 

[Muesli]

*Pops out a piece to demonstrate that there are 2 stickers on an edge*

OMG! I thought it was the stickers that moved!!

 

[Ranzha]

*Pops out a piece to demonstrate that there are 2 stickers on an edge*

OMG! I thought it was the stickers that moved!!

FAIL.
:fp