People laugh at you because you cube?

[CuBeOrDiE]

i have a friend who calls me a no-life. and all he does is play drums all day. and get on his mom's nerves. he's also a pimp (quite literaly). but that's really it. everyone else is fine with me cubing.

 

[zachtastic]

definitely mixed reactions, usually "nerd" comments when i avg'd around 40-50, around 20 people tend to be speechless. a quick story...

a few years ago i was a freshman in high school. most of the time when i had free time during classes i would cube and my classmates just got used to it.
...until that fateful day in spanish class. im sitting at my desk, solving my new white type a (old type a, it was "new" for me) when this loudmouth girl walks up to me and says "stop doing that". she then smacked the cube upward, flying into the air. i swear that it felt like slow motion as i watched my poor little cube smash into the corner of the table, instantly disassembling itself. as if picking it up piece by piece in front of the whole class, AS A FRESHMAN, wasn't embarrassing enough, one of the sides of the core was broken.

yeah, i got enough money from her for the core AND a new cube ..but not for the $15 shipping and 6 week wait.

 

[Zane_C]

definitely mixed reactions, usually "nerd" comments when i avg'd around 40-50, around 20 people tend to be speechless. a quick story...

a few years ago i was a freshman in high school. most of the time when i had free time during classes i would cube and my classmates just got used to it.
...until that fateful day in spanish class. im sitting at my desk, solving my new white type a (old type a, it was "new" for me) when this loudmouth girl walks up to me and says "stop doing that". she then smacked the cube upward, flying into the air. i swear that it felt like slow motion as i watched my poor little cube smash into the corner of the table, instantly disassembling itself. as if picking it up piece by piece in front of the whole class, AS A FRESHMAN, wasn't embarrassing enough, one of the sides of the core was broken.

yeah, i got enough money from her for the core AND a new cube ..but not for the $15 shipping and 6 week wait.

What a b**ch!

 

[kooixh]

i teach some of my friend to cube and every time i want to challenge them they are like "no you're too fast"i never got laugh because of cubing a lot of my friend cubes

 

[guinepigs rock]

I have never been laughed at some people say wow I have only done 4 sides before.

 

[martin8768]

i think im going to stop bringing my rubiks cube to school since i end up spending all my spare time explaining the beginners methode to people, i taught it to seven people already, and it getting annoying when i just want to practice lol. other reactions are wow cool, and wtf

 

[Forte]

he's also a pimp (quite literaly)

um >_>

Just because they laugh it doesn't mean they're jealous. Sometimes I laugh at ridiculously impossible stuff like crazy awesome stamp woman, just because it's so obscure and random of a skill.

And it is kinda weird.

Also guys, don't be such twats to everyone that thinks that there's some sort of trick. I mean, it's not surprising for them to think that when you solve it in under 30 seconds.

 

[~Phoenix Death~]

definitely mixed reactions, usually "nerd" comments when i avg'd around 40-50, around 20 people tend to be speechless. a quick story...

a few years ago i was a freshman in high school. most of the time when i had free time during classes i would cube and my classmates just got used to it.
...until that fateful day in spanish class. im sitting at my desk, solving my new white type a (old type a, it was "new" for me) when this loudmouth girl walks up to me and says "stop doing that". she then smacked the cube upward, flying into the air. i swear that it felt like slow motion as i watched my poor little cube smash into the corner of the table, instantly disassembling itself. as if picking it up piece by piece in front of the whole class, AS A FRESHMAN, wasn't embarrassing enough, one of the sides of the core was broken.

yeah, i got enough money from her for the core AND a new cube ..but not for the $15 shipping and 6 week wait.

Bi*ch. I would have pushed her away till she fell.

 

[ssb150388]

Some people laugh sometimes which is is not a problem at all for me.
But I get irritated when people think that the guy is just showing off.
People dont understand that you do it because you love it!

Once... I was racing with a friend of mine while travelling on a bus. Two guys sitting besides us started talking about it.
One guy was bragging to the other ..'I used to do it when I was young. My dad used to scramble it while leaving for office.. and I used to solve till he comes back.. '

ROFL!

 

[SebCube]

When i fist started they were all like "Wow thats amazing, can you teach me?" and now they're like "Dude can you like do that somewhere else its not cool" LOL.

 

[Rpotts]

I get mixed reactions, in high school Woner and I pretty much cubed all senior year straight, I regularly skipped classes just to cube. People were at first impressed, but then just got kinda irritated. Many initially wanted to learn, but only a few put forth the effort after I explained it all to them.

Now in college, I recently got back into cubing, and I get some pretty good reactions from people, especially in my calcII class. I only get made fun of by my friends (lol) bystanders usually are either impressed or just don't care at all.

 

[Justin@pie]

yea there is this guy that hates me in school he laugh at me because i cube....

 

[Applemoes]

Girls love cubing, everything else is a lie. It doesn't matter what morons at your school says, cubing is far from "dorky".

Pick up a cube and people will start gathering around you. A normal 3x3 simply is a cool little thing that gets people interested and talks started

 

[thaeta]

Seeing how I go to a rebel school (bleh >_>), most people there aren't exactly... prodigious in intelligence, and they go ape **** after I do pretty much any solve. I once had about 50 people watching me solve a dollar store Rubiks cube at lunch. Never have people said negative things about it though, besides one of my friends who gets frustrated by the fact that no matter how much she scrambles it, I'm able to solve it in ~1 minute.

 

[EnterPseudonym]

I like to point out (after they call me a geek(which isn't very often)) how they immediately turn around and talk about every thing sports, and how that makes them geeks too.

 

[kunz]

I like to point out (after they call me a geek(which isn't very often)) how they immediately turn around and talk about every thing sports, and how that makes them geeks too.

such a good point

but Ive never been called a nerd except in middle school but in middles school people get made fun of for every thing

now people think its cool

 

[endless_akatsuki]

I only ever cube at like Math contests or Science Olympiad trips (in which I bring 8-9 cubes), since all the people that go to those are Asian, and are nerds along with me.

 

[abctoshiro]

no one laughs at me when i cube...
all of my friends are into cubing...all sub 1 minute =P
and actually the cube is a chick magnet =P

 

[HsilgnE RelyT]

Usually i take my 3x3x3 cube to school everyday and most of the time i get people laughing at me for having one, but then they turn around and say can i use your cube, wtf. But i have to agree that some girls dig cubes XD