Non-Cubers say the darndest things!

[~Phoenix Death~]

I'm starting to teach someone the the Beginner's method. He actually already solved the F2L. After begging me >_>

 

[Tyrannous]

My sister said this on christmas eve.. I couildnt believe it.. what with me being an astrophysics student lol

"I was going to buy you a 3-D Rubiks cube for you for christmas"

Turns out she meant a rubiks 360 puzzle..

 

[miniGOINGS]

From a conversation we had a few days ago.

Mom: "You do know that Matthew can solve a Rubik's Cube, right?"
Neighbors: "No, we didn't!!!"
Mom: "During a talet show he had two friends confusing them up and he fixed them!"
Neighbors: "Oh wow!"
Mom: "Yea, he can solve them in about 2 minutes!"
Me: "Wow, thanks mom..."

Mhm, I can "fix" a "confused" Rubik's Cube in "about 2 minutes".

 

[ZamHalen]

Here we go again with geometry.
I lent my cube to the same guy as always.
guy:"hey ghuey help me"
me:"with what?'
guy:"How do you move this (points to center) over here(points to corner)."
Me: :fp
Another time.This is with another guy that i've been teaching stuff to.
guy2:Can you solve it without looking.
me: I know the method i just have trouble memorizing.
guy2:Oh how do you memorize it?
me:well i've been trying to memorize color pairs like the red-yellow piece is iron man,the white-green piece is the joker,red-green is a christmas tree and it goes on like that.
guy2: oh...
*the next day*
guy1:how does he do that.
guy2:i don't no he said something about iron man and crap like that
me: :fp

 

[Owen]

Lots of people say something around the lines of: "I'm the MASTER at mixing!!!".

The funny part is it takes some skill to scramble quickly and randomly.

 

[~Phoenix Death~]

I was helping at an eldery home. It was sorta funny
Me:*solving VCUBE 5*
Someone:Is that a box?

 

[andrewunz1]

7 year old walks up to me while i'm solving my 6x6
wow that is alot easier than the square puzzle
:fp

 

[MichaelP.]

Me *Solves in 20 seconds*
Spectators "Wow, isn't the world record like 2 minutes? You should enter a competition!"
Me : No, it's 7 seconds
Spectator "Oh, so your slow."
Me : :fp

 

[PEZenfuego]

My friend-What do you lube your cube with?

Me-Silicone

My friend-I know a guy who uses wd40 and it is way better.

Me-that's terrible for your cube

My friend (swear this is exactly what he said)- You're wrong.

I don't understand why people want to disagree so much. Obviously the person who can solve the cube quickly knows more about it...eh whatever.

 

[~Phoenix Death~]

EVERYONE says WD40
"Dude, WD40 is for EVERYTHING"
"Why not use WD40"
"You should ty WD40!"
"WD40"
'Double you Dee Four Dee"
Everytime I hear it I say STFU.
...Ok not really.

 

[shicklegroober]

Sitting on the airplane, the pilot walks by my seat and stands there for 2 or 3 solves.. Looks around and then says "you know, you could do it faster if you peeled the stickers off.." then he continued on his way.

 

[ElderKingpin]

the PILOT? why would the pilot not be in the cockpit xD
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I dont like how a lot of people say "whats the secret" what am i supposed to say? ._.
Also.
Person: "Where is your 16x16"
Me: "You mean the 4x4?"
Person: "Same thing"
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http://www.upsb.info/forum/index.php?showtopic=514&st=1220&gopid=300334&#entry300334

lol, conversation (I'm tushix btw)

meh, you guys probably didnt have to pound him so hard ._.

 

[miniGOINGS]

Happened 2 minutes ago with my Mom.

Mom: "What are you doing?"
Me: "Timing."
Mom: "Timing what?"
Me: *Hholds up Rubik's Cube*
Mom: "Are you still 2nd in the country?"
Me: "..."

 

[pwndnoobcuber]

i bet this guy that i wasn't retarded (a lot off the time i don't think before i speak)
to win the bet i said i would solve a Rubik's cube (nobody knew i could)
when i gave it to him to scramble he said he would mess it up so much it would be impossible to solve
i solved it a few times then he said i was cheating for always solving the white side first

 

[~Phoenix Death~]

i bet this guy that i wasn't retarded (a lot off the time i don't think before i speak)
to win the bet i said i would solve a Rubik's cube (nobody knew i could)
when i gave it to him to scramble he said he would mess it up so much it would be impossible to solve
i solved it a few times then he said i was cheating for always solving the white side first

Dang. Sucks huh?

 

[bigbee99]

when i brought my diy's to school, the center caps fell off and my friend asked me where I keep buying such cheap cubes

 

[~Phoenix Death~]

"Cause they cost less"

 

[PEZenfuego]

when i brought my diy's to school, the center caps fell off and my friend asked me where I keep buying such cheap cubes

I would say, "Why do you keep going out with such cheap girls?"

Of course, in most cases that wouldn't work.

 

[pwndnoobcuber]

My friend whose a newer cuber said He saw a video on youtube where they said there were enough combinations on the petaminx to fill up 15 universes. How many things are wrong with that?

There are more?

Let's just look at the teraminx which I found a firm number on the # of combinations for (petaminx obviously has more but I haven't seen a good looking calculation)
1.7989 x 10^571 possible positions. Drewseph says his teraminx fits in an 11x11x11cm cube. A dodecahedron's edge length is approximately half its cubic dimensions so I'll go with 5.5cm per edge. A dodecahedron's volume is IIRC approximately equal to 7.66*(edge length^3) so the volume of a teraminx is approximately 1274.4325 cubic centimeters. Going with 13.7 billion light years for the radius of the universe, light traveling at 3*10^8m/s, we get 4/3*pi*((1.37*10^10)*(3600*24*365)*(3*10^8)*(100))^3 cubic centimeters in the universe.

1274.4325*1.7989*10^571
= 2.29257662*10^574 cm^3 for all possible teraminx positions, assuming we can seamlessly pack teraminxes together.
4/3*pi*((1.37*10^10)*(3600*24*365)*(3*10^8)*(100))^3
= 1.4043993*10^85 cm^3 in the universe


Obviously the petaminx would fill even more universes.

First off, the size of the universe is infinite, second, solution is not an object, so it has no volume. Third there is only one universe.

Proof of universe being infinite?

the opinion on whether the universe is infinite or finite is divided.
the visible universe is about 14 billion light years in radius
the whole universe is about 10^30 times bigger than that
a lot of physicists believe in the many worlds theory ie a multiverse with many universes that are slightly different to each other

see page 34

 

[~Phoenix Death~]

After the discussion with the universe ended MANY PAGES ago...it's been brought up again. Seriously, bring it somewhere else...

Me and this girl (Friend)
Girl:Look, I learned the checker pattern! (She's a 1/3 cuber)
Me:Cool! Let's see!
Girl:*checkers*
me:Nice. watch this. *checker patterns on the Vcube 5*
Girl:How'd you DO THAT?!