Non-Cubers say the darndest things!

[TheRedBull]

Met a guy on the train the other day and he was like, "There are competitions for that, too, right!?"
Me: "Yeah, there's the World Championship in Las Vegas end of July."
Him: "My cousin is a cuber too but he's not allowed to participate at this year's WC because he's already won it 4 times!"
Me *mental facepalm*: "Cool! What's his name?"
Him: "Jan."
Me *shrugs*
*end of converstion*

 

[Spaxxy]

Him: "My cousin is a cuber too but he's not allowed to participate at this year's WC because he's already won it 4 times!"

lolwut?

 

[speedcuber50]

You can participate in the WC as many times as you like! Also, it might be interesting to look up "Jan" and see if anyone by that name has actually won 4 times.

 

[Cubenovice]

You can participate in the WC as many times as you like! Also, it might be interesting to look up "Jan" and see if anyone by that name has actually won 4 times.

Looking it up :fp

 

[Username]

You can participate in the WC as many times as you like! Also, it might be interesting to look up "Jan" and see if anyone by that name has actually won 4 times.

Are you serious?

 

[DAcuber]

People always say, "isn't there a trick to it? or "can i try" or "you're cheating" especially if the cube pops and its unsolvable ,so annoying. some people like when i do a j perm ,they say it looks like my hand is twitching. People think my stickerless cube is a cheat cube

 

[Username]

yeah people always say isn't there a trick to it or can i try or you're cheating especially if the cube pops and its unsolvable so annoying some girls like when i do a j perm they say it looks like my hand is twitching i do teach some people some algorithms like the h perm or flower pattern the worst is when you tell them your personal best and they tell you to beat it and wont stop saying fail if you dont

I can't read that. No punctuation whatsoever makes it too difficult...

 

[IamWEB]

I can't read that. No punctuation whatsoever makes it too difficult...

If you are struggling to read that post, there may be bigger problems at hand than his lack of punctuation.

 

[YddEd]

yeah people always say isn't there a trick to it or can i try or you're cheating especially if the cube pops and its unsolvable so annoying some girls like when i do a j perm they say it looks like my hand is twitching i do teach some people some algorithms like the h perm or flower pattern the worst is when you tell them your personal best and they tell you to beat it and wont stop saying fail if you dont

Lets see... 84 words in 1 'sentence'

Yeah people always say isn't there a trick to it or can I try or you're cheating. Especially if the cube pops and its unsolvable. So annoying some girls like when I do a j perm they say it looks like my hand is twitching. I do teach some people some algorithms like the h perm or flower pattern. The worst is when you tell them your personal best and they tell you to beat it and wont stop saying fail if you don't.

Dunno if that's fixed, or if it's unfixable.

 

[Username]

If you are struggling to read that post, there may be bigger problems at hand than his lack of punctuation.

There aren't any, I can actually read that.

I just wanted to show how important punctuation is

 

[CarlBrannen]

Doing the cube while a guy rings up some paint at an auto supply store. He tells me that his kid is amazingly fast with the cube and can solve it in "like 3 minutes". I'm thinking, something like "his son must be reallly young". So I solve it in my usual around 35 seconds and he says that his son is actually a lot faster than 3 minutes.

He told me his son uses a standard Rubik's cube but has shown him that you can buy better on the internet. I told him that I'm using a 55mm Zhanchi and that he should get his son a DIY (it's good to give your kids projects). And that the world cubing contest is going to be held in town later this month.

Who knows what your non-cuber relatives are telling strangers about your times.

 

[BaconCuber]

I was solving a Zhanchi in school once and someone said "I bet there's a spring in there that makes it solve itself." -,-

 

[TheNextFeliks]

Lol my vacation. My uncle said the clicking sounds like the changing boards in airports/train stations.

 

[Fieoner]

I love it when I meet a cuber and act like I don't know **** about cubing before solving his cube faster than him.
It's really funny when I say stuff like "you repeat the same moves" "you cheat" and "you are solving it without even looking" while scrambling xD

 

[IcyBlade]

"Leave it to an asian to solve that....."
The one that annoys me the most. Also someone was doing the WORST scramble and scrambled it the FASTEST way to make my Zhanchi pop. Someone was like "Dude get a real Rubik's cube this is a cheap fake".

 

[YddEd]

I love it when I meet a cuber and act like I don't know **** about cubing before solving his cube faster than him.
It's really funny when I say stuff like "you repeat the same moves" "you cheat" and "you are solving it without even looking" while scrambling xD

What a troll XD

 

[KCuber]

It's not a real cube; it's a cheat cube

 

[SatoshiPikachu]

A friend says he solved the cube at random once. Yeeeeaaaaah.

Oh, and another one: Girl starts doing some turns on my ZhanChi and says "It's kinda loose, you should get the original brand"

 

[sneaklyfox]

A friend says he solved the cube at random once. Yeeeeaaaaah.

But I swear this did happen to me once before I knew how to solve it.

 

[SatoshiPikachu]

But I swear this did happen to me once before I knew how to solve it.

But did you have just a layer to complete, or was it at least partially solved? It's almost impossible to just do moves at random on a scrambled cube and end up with a solved cube. Of course, things like that do happen, but any other reasonable hypotheses that makes it more likely for the cube to have been solved will have an advantage (that's Bayes's Theorem, a.k.a. the only useful thing I learned in high school math classes).