Non-Cubers say the darndest things!

R U2 R D R' U R D' R' U' R' U R U R' -- D with left ring, D' with right middle (takes time to get used to it), the rest done in 0.3 seconds (crazy fast). Regripless.

R' U2 R' D' R U' R' D R U R U' R' U' R -- D' and D with left ring, as in E perms. Last U' with right thumb. Regripless.
 
Yesterday I was cubing at Starbucks while waiting on my friend to come meet me for a movie. I had noticed a guy watching me, but wasn't too concerned with him. The girl that works at Starbucks comes up to me and was just asking questions about how I got into cubing and complimenting me on being "super fast". The gentleman, and I use that term loosely, that had been watching me approaches us:

Him, to me and her: Why are you so impressed by this? Everyone knows that there's only like a hundred different ways that thing can be messed up. He just learned all the ways it can be messed up and knows how to do each one!
Me: Actually it has about 43 quintillion different possible permutations, and contrary to what you may believe I didn't learn them all.
Him: Yea whatever! Everyone know's it's super easy to learn all the ways it can be messed up, I could do it right now if I wanted. (he walks off)
Her to me: Ignore him, he's a prick. That thing's a total chick magnet, and you're awesome at it.

Her and I continued to talk for a while before her break was over. I noticed him on his laptop looking very frustrated after walking back to his table. He left about 5 minutes after our conversation ended leaving his half full coffee on the table. My only hope is that he stumbled upon the Wiki and saw that I was correct. lol. Some people.
 
It's funny how whenever I do LSE, nubs go 'but you can't move the centres...'. Lolz what am I doing now then.
Then I just explain how you can't move centres RELATIVE TO EACH OTHER.

Also, today :/ ...
Me: Mum, there's a competition this November... Can I go?
Mum: No. It's during school days anyway.
Me: Actually it's on the weekend.
Mum: Well you are not going because solving that aerobics thing over and over is stupid.

She could have at least said it was too far or something...
However it's an hour train from here I think so it's not far.
Well just otta hope my dad lets me and then I'm okay...
 
5BLD said:
It's funny how whenever I do LSE, nubs go 'but you can't move the centres...'. Lolz what am I doing now then.
Then I just explain how you can't move centres RELATIVE TO EACH OTHER.

Also, today :/ ...
Me: Mum, there's a competition this November... Can I go?
Mum: No. It's during school days anyway.
Me: Actually it's on the weekend.
Mum: Well you are not going because solving that aerobics thing over and over is stupid.

She could have at least said it was too far or something...
However it's an hour train from here I think so it's not far.
Well just otta hope my dad lets me and then I'm okay...
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Tell her that cubing is important to you and just because she thinks it's stupid doesn't mean you'll quit. She should learn to accept it. When I tell my parents stories like these, they drop their jaws and can't even believe how unsupportive some parents are.
 
ianography said:
Tell her that cubing is important to you and just because she thinks it's stupid doesn't mean you'll quit. She should learn to accept it. When I tell my parents stories like these, they drop their jaws and can't even believe how unsupportive some parents are.
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Glad to have someone who understands that cubing means a lot to me.
(in the distant future) If my kids want to cube (or have any other 'unusual hobby'), I'll be sure to be supportive. Even more so because it's one of my very many hobbies which my parents dont care about.

Oh yeah. I managed to do two successful things today on yet another train journey to the BBC Proms. Don't worry, though, it does include a non-cuber saying a darn thing.

1) I managed to not get interrupted during BLD. This was a first. I DNFed though. Lol.
2) I managed to explain the MU reducing properties of Roux to a non-cuber and he actually understands now... Well at least HOW it works :D
He called his friend... Said there's this '15 year old kid who can solve that eroobics cube in like 4 seconds'. Needless to say, I was a bit embarrassed.
 
yesterday some random dude says to me "isn't the world record like 20 seconds or something?" me: world record's 5.66 secs.... random person: "oh..... (leaves)"

then the school resource officer (after seeing my super slow/fail OH solve) goes like "shes gonna be an engineer!!!!" wtf?
 
Yuxuibbs said:
yesterday some random dude says to me "isn't the world record like 20 seconds or something?" me: world record's 5.66 secs.... random person: "oh.....leaves
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Same thing happened to me, except the person said the world record was 30 seconds:fp
 
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unirox13 said:
Yesterday I was cubing at Starbucks while waiting on my friend to come meet me for a movie. I had noticed a guy watching me, but wasn't too concerned with him. The girl that works at Starbucks comes up to me and was just asking questions about how I got into cubing and complimenting me on being "super fast". The gentleman, and I use that term loosely, that had been watching me approaches us:

Him, to me and her: Why are you so impressed by this? Everyone knows that there's only like a hundred different ways that thing can be messed up. He just learned all the ways it can be messed up and knows how to do each one!
Me: Actually it has about 43 quintillion different possible permutations, and contrary to what you may believe I didn't learn them all.
Him: Yea whatever! Everyone know's it's super easy to learn all the ways it can be messed up, I could do it right now if I wanted. (he walks off)
Her to me: Ignore him, he's a prick. That thing's a total chick magnet, and you're awesome at it.

Her and I continued to talk for a while before her break was over. I noticed him on his laptop looking very frustrated after walking back to his table. He left about 5 minutes after our conversation ended leaving his half full coffee on the table. My only hope is that he stumbled upon the Wiki and saw that I was correct. lol. Some people.
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Wow. Quite the jealous guy. To add to that, he is a moron.
5BLD said:
It's funny how whenever I do LSE, nubs go 'but you can't move the centres...'. Lolz what am I doing now then.
Then I just explain how you can't move centres RELATIVE TO EACH OTHER.

Also, today :/ ...
Me: Mum, there's a competition this November... Can I go?
Mum: No. It's during school days anyway.
Me: Actually it's on the weekend.
Mum: Well you are not going because solving that aerobics thing over and over is stupid.

She could have at least said it was too far or something...
However it's an hour train from here I think so it's not far.
Well just otta hope my dad lets me and then I'm okay...
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Wow. She doesn't like you having a hobby. If you play a sport, quit it, and tell her that throwing a ball over and over (depends on your sport though) is stupid. Cause apparently, doing things over and over is stupid. I guess this applies to breathing, peeing, and blinking. Darn.
 
So this week was my second week of school, and I still hadn't said a word to the girl who sits next to me in science class. I brought my ZhanChi to school on Monday and the whole class watched me solve ~25 a few times :D Cubing is a really good icebreaker for a nervous child like me >.>

So today the girl next to me wanted to scramble it so I let her. As she's scrambling it she drops it on the floor and 5 center caps and 2 corners fell off xD

She starts freaking out like OMG I broke it! So I put the corners back (got lucky that I put them in in a correct way) and then solved the cube without the center caps. Lucky for me only the white stayed on! I put the center caps on afterward and everyone was like "O.o wizard."
 
Jaycee said:
So this week was my second week of school, and I still hadn't said a word to the girl who sits next to me in science class. I brought my ZhanChi to school on Monday and the whole class watched me solve ~25 a few times :D Cubing is a really good icebreaker for a nervous child like me >.>

So today the girl next to me wanted to scramble it so I let her. As she's scrambling it she drops it on the floor and 5 center caps and 2 corners fell off xD

She starts freaking out like OMG I broke it! So I put the corners back (got lucky that I put them in in a correct way) and then solved the cube without the center caps. Lucky for me only the white stayed on! I put the center caps on afterward and everyone was like "O.o wizard."
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Was she hot...?

How can I convince my mum to buy me a stackmat... she keeps saying that I could just use the computer but its so sh**. It has no battery and I need to keep plugging it in argh :fp
 
A little bit, I guess :P

IMO Stackmats aren't needed for at-home cubing; a timer like QQTimer is good enough for me. But a way I'm convincing my dad to get me a 2x2 and 4x4 is by telling him I'll give him more than half the money in cash after he buys them online. If you don't have money....... Get some. >.>

Another thing : One of my friends in the neighborhood has always able to solve the first two layers by himself intuitively. (White cross, corners first and and always using R' F R F' or L F' L' F inserts, never R U' R or L' U L. Go figure :P) I then watched him do OLL for the first time yesterday. He figured out F R U R' U' F' AND the Sune algorithm by himself. PLL, he can't do yet. When everybody saw how happy he was at what he did, everybody insisted I must've helped him and that "it's impossible for a dumb guy like him to do that all by himself." Sometimes being the fastest cuber in my school (out of 3 lol, and one of them is this guy being described) is a nuisance :/ I'll probably teach him some basic stuff soon. But I was shocked at how stupid everybody in my school is! Seriously people, IT'S NOT THAT HARD.
 
JonWhite said:
R U2 R D R' U R D' R' U' R' U R U R' -- D with left ring, D' with right middle (takes time to get used to it), the rest done in 0.3 seconds (crazy fast). Regripless.

R' U2 R' D' R U' R' D R U R U' R' U' R -- D' and D with left ring, as in E perms. Last U' with right thumb. Regripless.
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noticing how no one's commented on these, am I the only one who thinks these algs are so great? Or did they just go unnoticed?
 
I think your algs are pretty good, way better than mine anyway
I really need to rethink and relearn some PLLS... they execute at 3-4s :( :fp
 
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