Non-Cubers say the darndest things!

[CarlBrannen]

So now he's feeling discouraged?

No, he can solve it again, it's all good. He is just a little suspicious. He knows I have extra cubes, so he said "maybe you swapped out one of the cubes". But he watched me pretty carefully while I untwisted it and could probably tell that an old man like me doesn't have the sleight of hand skills needed to pull out a cubie.

You know how it is with newbies, they're not at all surprised when algorithms fail. Maybe y'all have been cubing a long time, but I remember doing algorithms and being surprised when they worked over and over. When putting a pair down in F2L on the hidden side of the cube, for quite some time I used to turn it around to see if it worked.

 

[Yellowsnow98]

Or worse yet, when they hear you say you'd be able to do the sexy move faster one-handed if you had some decent lube...

Well sir... you have just made my day

 

[kunparekh18]

Hahahaha you made my day too

 

[sneaklyfox]

lol... that original post was from awhile back. But thanks for pointing it out... I never saw it before.

 

[Lchu613]

I have a strange and disturbing image coming into my head......
It involves cubes and...
and...
Yeah, I'm going to stop there

It's always annoying when people say "can I scramble it?"
I always make them promise to go slowly since my cube explodes, and they do

Then they promptly go and explode it

 

[TheNextFeliks]

I have a strange and disturbing image coming into my head......
It involves cubes and...
and...
Yeah, I'm going to stop there

It's always annoying when people say "can I scramble it?"
I always make them promise to go slowly since my cube explodes, and they do

Then they promptly go and explode it

Lol. What cube?

 

[CarlBrannen]

The basic problem is that your turning speed is so fast. When they see you turn the cube like that, they think they can do it too.

By the way, the guy I loaned the Guhong to is no longer talking to me. I'm thinking he may have figured out I duped him.

This is too bad. The next time I was going to try swapping two center caps.

[edit]Later: So I apologized for twisting a corner. Turns out he hadn't realized I'd done this. He's still happily cubing. I got him started on Rido's hunting version of intuitive F2L.[/edit]

 

[uniacto]

Lol. What cube?

probably the void cube.

 

[CarlBrannen]

I keep getting asked "can I mix it up?" because they apparently don't realize that the perfect cube would be one that self scrambled.

 

[5BLD]

This woman gave me so many blocks i felt almost guilty for sub-5ing it
Why dont people know how to scramble fuginel

 

[kunparekh18]

This woman gave me so many blocks i felt almost guilty for sub-5ing it
Why dont people know how to scramble fuginel

lol yeah there's this guy who wanted to scramble for me and all he did was turn parallel layers :fp

 

[TheNextFeliks]

This woman gave me so many blocks i felt almost guilty for sub-5ing it
Why dont people know how to scramble fuginel

But not that guilty

 

[sneaklyfox]

This woman gave me so many blocks i felt almost guilty for sub-5ing it
Why dont people know how to scramble fuginel

I wonder what her reaction was...

 

[DanDaMan020]

My friends can`t count. They call the 3x3 the 6x6 or 9x9, and they call the 2x2 the 4x4, and the Pyraminx the triangle, and the Megaminx the Pentagon Cube or Mecha-mix. And, what`s worse, I don`t have any cubers at my school to share my passion with

 

[cxinlee]

I just heard the classic " He must be good at math" while cubing in the subway.

 

[5BLD]

I wonder what her reaction was...

She was like, do you have the WR

 

[TheNextFeliks]

She was like, do you have the WR

What did you say? Not yet.

 

[CY]

1) "Some others turn it a few times and they're done. How about you?" --> Like they expect me to do it in 10 moves or something... I'm not THAT good
2) "Lol. I saw a 3-year old do that"
3) "Here let me scramble it for you... Urgh its so stiff. Add some WD-40 or cooking oil or something." -->Gosh. I had no problem with it
4) "Is it really hard? You must be very good at math"
5) "I heard someone could do it in 30 secs? Can you?" --> Duh...

 

[5BLD]

What did you say? Not yet.

Nah i told her I'm too old for that (jokingly)
Thats how i feel tho

 

[JF1zl3]

Recently in the car my sister's frined called my 2x2x2 the 4 Cube. Everybody calls it that for some reason. I get why, I just don't like that that is the default haha.

Also my girlfriend can't get the word "Pyraminx" into her head, she always calls it the triangle cube as well.