Non-Cubers say the darndest things!

[whauk]

today a woman in train said (pointing onto my stackmattimer): this device gives you the solution right?

 

[Andrew Ricci]

Today:

*I solve the cube*

Some girl:"Oh, so while you turn it you take off the stickers really fast?"

 

[Lorken]

Today:

*I solve the cube*

Some girl:"Oh, so while you turn it you take off the stickers really fast?"

Wish I could do that, would be so cool, especially if it was like sub 20.

 

[Eleredo]

today a woman in train said (pointing onto my stackmattimer): this device gives you the solution right?

Lol, that's what people say to me if I use Mobile Cube Scrambler on my mobile phone. :fp

Today:

*I solve the cube*

Some girl:"Oh, so while you turn it you take off the stickers really fast?"

Wish I could do that, would be so cool, especially if it was like sub 20.

Yeah, it would definitely be cool and all.. for two or three times, and then the stickers won't stick anymore.

 

[emg]

My favorite:

Damn he must make his girlfriend happy

 

[will6680]

"I can only get like one face!"

... by layer sherlock.

 

[bluedasher]

"He memorized the cheat sheet" (As in all the algorithms I guess).

 

[The Puzzler]

Shouldn't the genuine rubiks cube be the best. or
I can solve the rubiks stick(twist/snake)

 

[EVH]

I'd say algorithm is closer to equation, not really method.

We use the term algorithms but mathematically speaking it is actually: an algorithm is an effective method for solving a problem expressed as a finite sequence of steps.

 

[freshcuber]

I was solving before swim practice started and I got a personal best 23.57 non-lucky and flipped out. I average like 38 so then everyone was watching me and I got a bunch of dookie times and they were all saying I sucked cause I didn't do another sub-30

One guy there though after seeing some fingertricks commented on how impressive my turning was (he meant turn speed and mine sucks) and then said I must be a big hit with the ladies

 

[Eleredo]

Me: My next cube is a 7x7x7
Mom: Don't you have enough cubes already?

She thinks all the cubes are the same, and that yXyXy indicates its size. :fp

 

[theace]

It does to a certain extent doesn't it? I mean, a 5x5x5 will be bigger than a 2x2x2, unless it's a tiny 5x5x5 or an insanely large 2x2x2...

 

[Eleredo]

Well yeah, in a way it indicates its size, i made a slip there, but for cubers it also kind of indicates its difficulty level which some non-cubers do not seem to understand. I meant that she thinks that all cubes can be solved with exactly the same solution, so a 7x7x7 is as easy as a 2x2x2 in her eyes.

 

[theace]

Hehe. Yeah.

 

[MagicYio]

Is it possible to 'accidently' solve the entire cube?

I got invited to a rubik's cube workshop today as a guest of honour kinda thing, and the guy who was conducting it was shocked after seeing sub 35. He was about sub 50. I had a talk with him and all and he claims that he solved it by fluke when he was in 9th grade by turning it randomly. Is that even possible?

It's possible. But the odds of it happening are the same of me getting hit in the face by a shark that a whale flipped out of the ocean with it's tail. And then a rich guy giving me a million dollars right after.

It's also easier to win the lottery.

I came very close to that last week. I was scrambling it at school for 1,5 minute or so. When I looked at it (I don't look when I scramble), all I had to do was U D2.

 

[ben1996123]

At school yesterday:

Non Cuber: OMFG ARE U TYPING JARSCRIPT!??!?!?!
Me: No. (I was actually typing actionscript in flash )
Friend: hahahahahaha
NC: Oh. You can solve the eeribcs thing in like half a second <moves hands quickly>
Friend: hahahahahaha
Me: hahahahahaha
NC: But you can!
Me: <whispering to friend> This is going on speedsolving

 

[ElectricDoodie]

Many cubers are full of themselves..

After reading some of the admonishments that cubers have given to non-cubers who simply don't know better, I sorta agree with this statement. Why do these "stupid" questions cause that much grief? It's not like you're going to be seeing half of these people later anyway.

At school yesterday:

Non Cuber: OMFG ARE U TYPING JARSCRIPT!??!?!?!
Me: No. (I was actually typing actionscript in flash )
Friend: hahahahahaha
NC: Oh. You can solve the eeribcs thing in like half a second <moves hands quickly>
Friend: hahahahahaha
Me: hahahahahaha
NC: But you can!
Me: <whispering to friend> This is going on speedsolving

I seem to agree more and more with Toquinha's and Chrish's statements.

 

[theace]

I came very close to that last week. I was scrambling it at school for 1,5 minute or so. When I looked at it (I don't look when I scramble), all I had to do was U D2.

It's annoying when that happens to me on a 2x2. When scrambling it randomly, i end up with a solved cube every now and then. But it's fun on the 3x3

 

[Andrew Ricci]

I don't mind that some people don't understand. We were all non-cubers once. But when they lie, that's the worst. Yesterday, I was solving my cube at a drug store and the cashier said,

"Can you solve those things"

Me,"yeah"

"One of my friends solved a 5x5 in 25 seconds"

See what I mean?

 

[nccube]

Maybe that friend was Feliks Zemdegs...