Non-Cubers say the darndest things!

[antoineccantin]

Imagine a pop on a bus. Makes me shiver just thinking about it.

It happened to me twice or so already

 

[Achifaifa]

I bet someone has already said this ones, but this things always make me smile...

"I once solved two faces"
"I have been trying to solve it for years"
"I once saw someone solving it, it was amazing"
"One minute wow, that's super fast!" (I always laugh when they tell me this one)
"Does that sticker need to be in the middle when you solve it?"

Now I just try to explain them and laugh for myself when I go away, but I remember when I was a kid and I used to think those same things ahahaha

 

[ben1996123]

at UK open, my mum told my sister that it wasn't as boring as she thought it was going to be, then my sister texted back and said:

"haha hes converted u to liking rubbix cubes. never thought id see the day."

lol'd.

 

[Jostle]

I bet someone has already said this ones, but this things always make me smile...

"I once solved two faces"
"I have been trying to solve it for years"
"I once saw someone solving it, it was amazing"
"One minute wow, that's super fast!" (I always laugh when they tell me this one)
"Does that sticker need to be in the middle when you solve it?"

Now I just try to explain them and laugh for myself when I go away, but I remember when I was a kid and I used to think those same things ahahaha

All of those are perfectly fine questions/statements IMO.

 

[Achifaifa]

All of those are perfectly fine questions/statements IMO.

Yes, probably they are, but when you already know the answer they look kind of obvious and nonsense.

 

[MostEd]

I know why people peeled stickers, they didn't know anything else, and were kids.
I got this one time from geo teacher today:
"So you can solve it, why don't you move onto something else"
" i wanna do it faster"
"Eh eh, (and she said something that i can't really translate"

 

[Jostle]

Yes, probably they are, but when you already know the answer they look kind of obvious and nonsense.

Well, the first three could very much be true. Not really what I would call nonsense.

The fourth is a matter of perspective, still not nonsense.

The last one is obvious, to cubers, but do you really expect them to just know?

 

[Achifaifa]

Well, the first three could very much be true. Not really what I would call nonsense.

The fourth is a matter of perspective, still not nonsense.

The last one is obvious, to cubers, but do you really expect them to just know?

Yep, you are just right, nothing else I can say. But dunno, I just smile inside every time someone says things like those...

 

[Mudkip]

Stack a bunch of 3x3s on top of each other, and see what kind of responces/stares you get.

 

[DRAGON_RYU]

How?
I don't have that many 3s to stack.

 

[Mudkip]

I doesn't have to be that many; just like 5

 

[Phlippieskezer]

Stack a bunch of 3x3s on top of each other, and see what kind of responces/stares you get.

Done a few times at cube meets. Lots of outside photographs and stuff.

(I assume you mean "cube towers," where we stack a whole bunch of cubes, all scrambled, and all start taking cubes off and solving at once)

 

[PandaBeaarAmy]

I bet someone has already said this ones, but this things always make me smile...

"I once solved two faces"
"I have been trying to solve it for years"
"I once saw someone solving it, it was amazing"
"One minute wow, that's super fast!" (I always laugh when they tell me this one)
"Does that sticker need to be in the middle when you solve it?"

Now I just try to explain them and laugh for myself when I go away, but I remember when I was a kid and I used to think those same things ahahaha

those are probably the most common things most cubers get from non cubers...
funny how i dont remember saying any of those things when i was a non cuber, except for the "1 minute, wow, that's fast"...

 

[PandaBeaarAmy]

Rubik's cubes are 100% math...

ok, maybe they may be math, but we dont think of it as math...its not like we're doing equations in our heads while were solving the cube.

 

[Hershey]

ok, maybe they may be math, but we dont think of it as math...its not like we're doing equations in our heads while were solving the cube.

But isn't logic and reasoning part of math? We do use logic and reasoning even in algorithm heavy methods like CFOP.

 

[Hypertext Eye]

But isn't logic and reasoning part of math? We do use logic and reasoning even in algorithm heavy methods like CFOP.

No. Math is logic and reasoning, but logic and reasoning are not math. To say that they are would be like arguing that since all cows eat grass, then all grass must be eaten by cows. This is obviously wrong because we know that other animals also eat grass, and we know that most grass doesn't get eaten by anything. Similarly, we know that logic and reasoning exist in many places outside of math. For example, this post that I am typing is filled with logic and reasoning, but it contains no math at all.

 

[Olji]

I doesn't have to be that many; just like 5

I have 18 3x3's... Should be enough. ._.

 

[DRAGON_RYU]

Well I have 3.
not possible i guess....

 

[5BLD]

"that requires absolutely no skill, I bet I could solve it 10 times faster than him if I looked it up on the internet and memorised all the patterns".

 

[ben1996123]

"that requires absolutely no skill, I bet I could solve it 10 times faster than him if I looked it up on the internet and memorised all the patterns".

my friend memorised 3 patterns from dan brown and he can do it in like 2 seconds