Non-Cubers say the darndest things!

[ishumprod]

I was cubing on the train yesterday and the guy opposite me was quite stunned. The old timer sitting beside him was like: There's nothing to be so shocked about. It's easy really. You just need to spin it really fast. If you turn it fast enough, it'll solve itself.

I love this kind of non-cubers XD

 

[theace]

That's when you do a slow solve.

I'll keep that in mind next time haha!

 

[freshcuber]

I died at this one. I was helping the elementary school band after school today and I just today got down my one-handing so that I get it every time and I was practicing. Some freshman who was helping out thought I was cheating so I did a OH solve and then a 2H solve and showed him the steps were nearly identical. (I'm cycling SUNE and then an edge and corner permutation alg for OH last layer instead of 2LOLL and PLL) Then he wants to see me solve it quickly 2H so I did about an average solve nothing too impressive and the kid says, "I KNOW WHAT YOU DO!!! You slowed down time and it actually took you ten years and then once you figured it out you sped time back up again so that it looked fast." I start laughing so loud the conductor yells at me. I do another solve and he asks me how many slow years that solve took me. I said about 35 seconds lol

No I didn't just make that up.

 

[theace]

zomg

 

[Lorken]

My friend's little brother saw me doing 3x3x3 and he started talking about "Some asian guy" he knows that can do a 5x5x5 in like 20 sec. hehe

 

[xXzaKerXx]

Me is cubing, and listening to music through headphones.

Aunt: "Owh, do you have to wair those when you do this thing? Do they sorta give you instructions to solving it?" (In that British Accent)

:fp

 

[Fire Cuber]

when i megaminx-ing a tiled MF8 minx

"i want to know how to peel up the stickers so i could cheat"

Cubic? wat's that?

"Stop playing that cubic, you're disturbing me"

one side into Two sides?

"i've got one side, i'll do the second one, but how do you do that?"

and yeah "china win for toys"

 

[avgdi]

A couple of days ago someone told me that they saw a TV show where people could solve it 15 seconds blindfolded. I asked him if that included memorization or not, it did.

 

[Cyrus C.]

I was solving on the city bus today. It was pretty fun, because during the time I was riding, 17 preschoolers and 5 5th graders got on and off the bus. The whole time they were staring at the cube. Some of my favourite comments I got:

"How many have you gone through?"

"What's your fastest time?"
"Erm, probably near 14 seconds."
"14 seconds, why aren't you 4 seconds! Get faster."

 

[Lorken]

I was solving on the city bus today. It was pretty fun, because during the time I was riding, 17 preschoolers and 5 5th graders got on and off the bus. The whole time they were staring at the cube. Some of my favourite comments I got:

"How many have you gone through?"

"What's your fastest time?"
"Erm, probably near 14 seconds."
"14 seconds, why aren't you 4 seconds! Get faster."

Well you should. Hehe. If you'd said ok, done it at the same speed again and told them it was 4 sec, they would have believed you.

 

[Cyrus C.]

Oh. Another.

"Here, I'll time you. Go!"
*Seconds later*
"Ach! You're turning too fast! I can't keep up!"

 

[Antcuber]

"OMG U SHOULD LIEK SOLVE IN ON YOUTUBE OR SOMETHING, I THINK YOU ALMOST GOT THE WORLD RECORD!" im only sub 40...

 

[Antcuber]

as im cubing a non cuber comes up and says oh i bet you cant solve that.lemme mix it. so he mixes it (it was already scrabled lol) and then he gives it to me and i solve it. then he says the only reason u can solve it is cuz u spend all ur life doing it.













lol

 

[The Puzzler]

Just watch this

 

[Alcuber]

Random conversation with a non-cuber
Me: Just solved 3x3
NC: You solved it!
Me: Yeah...
NC: Your slow i can solve it in 2 seconds
Me: Sure...
NC: I can (he takes my cube and turns it 1 move and then turns it back in it takes him about 10 seconds to work out how to solve it)
NC: See! I broke the world record!

 

[Cool Frog]

I was teaching the beginners method to my bro. After a couple of solves, (and some brain damage):
Bro: What is the worst scramble possible.
Me: Nothing like that. For the beginners method all scrambles r pretty similar unless ur lucky and get to skip some steps.
Bro: No ur wrong. Worst scramble is when all 9 stickers on a face are of different colors !!!
....Some words (and numbers) exchanged after that

In all honesty. wouldn't a cube that has 6 sides and 9 different stickers be the hardest one to solve...

"OMG U SHOULD LIEK SOLVE IN ON YOUTUBE OR SOMETHING, I THINK YOU ALMOST GOT THE WORLD RECORD!" im only sub 40...

I get this all the time... But, usually my mom tell them i can solve in sub 30 so I am forced to do CFOP solve (Roux )

 

[ductape_girl]

I ride public transit everywhere, and usually after I solve people either ask me if I have ever "fixed it" before or break into side conversation about how Will Smith holds the world record because he can solve it REALLY fast!

 

[Daniel Wu]

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[~Adam~]

"Owh, do you have to wair those when you do this thing? Do they sorta give you instructions to solving it?" (In that British Accent)

:fp

Non Brits say the darndest things.
The United Kingdom (Britain) comprises England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
What 'British Accent' are you talking about?
Probably <5% of British people talk in a similar way to the Queen (which is what I expected you're talking about) and there are Scottish people who live in England who I can't understand even though they've lost most of their accent.

To me 'In that British Accent' sounded like 'I can solve 5 sides but can't get the 6th'.

 

[mr. giggums]

Just found this but I think It is more of a fail than a win.