What Would Non-Cubers Guess for the 3x3x3 Single World Record?

[Laurentius]

When I averaged 50 sec my friend thought that was the world record.. But he's generally stupid

Also, a guy in my class tells me a guy on YouTube solved it in 7 seconds behind his back.. And I said that's impossible, a blindfold solve in 7 seconds has never happened.. But he kept swearing it was true..

 

[Neutrals01]

I solve cubes around 25 secs and the people that first time watch me solve..some say...wow,so fast..this guy surely can enter the world championships.. and then I told them... I think I can't even enter top 1000... lol..and they are shocked like..25 seconds not fast enough? then I told them that below 13 seconds average only counted pro.. above 20 seconds are just average cubers..

so I think that non-cubers most probably think that world record around 15 seconds or so..

 

[shelley]

Given the number of people who swear they've seen someone solve it in 5 seconds, I would say their guesses would be significantly below the actual record.

 

[Neutrals01]

Like some ppl in my sch said that some other guy in my sch can solve in 15~20+ secs.. that time I was around 40+ secs..so I was amazed and want to look for this 20+ secs guy.. when I found him...actually he is around 1 min 10~20 secs+ =.=" non-cubers really have great estimation of time..

 

[Swoncen]

I think there are 2 kinds of people..

one group really thinks of solving the cube and they think that solving the cube means solving it intuitively every time.. so they say something in the order of minutes... and the other group of people just want to know better and the say like 5 seconds.

 

[Rabid]

I was cubing outside the transit center and a guy sat down next to me and said “some people can solve it in like a minute”. I said I was faster than that and showed him a few solves. Some gang-bangers started cussing about beating up the tattoo lady and he glanced over at them.
“WHAT THE F*CK YOU LOOK’N AT! DON’T F*CK’N LOOK AT ME!”
He turned back to my cube and I showed him some block building, and then let him try it. The banger walked up with a cigarette and got a foot from his face “What are you doing?” and blew smoke in his face. The guy kept turning.
“Rubik..” I said.
Banger blew more smoke in the guys face, shook his head and walked off.

I’m glad he didn’t grab my cube; confrontation sucks.


So..about a minute?

 

[Escher]

some people are really accurate actually...
one person asked about the record and they reckoned it was about 8s.
and when i solved one in front of them (i knew it was a rubbish solve) they were like 'wow, i cant believe you can do it in like 30s', and i had a feeling they were completely right...
spooky.

 

[Koen]

someone asked me once if I was one of those people who can solve it in 15 minutes ^^

 

[fanwuq]

Probably 0.01 seconds, because people are stupid.

Wrong first part, sometimes true second part:

There are several types of people.

1. They think I just broke the WR with a 20 second solve. They would claim:
A. "Wow he just solved in 5 seconds!"
B. "Wow he just solved in 3 minutes!"
2. They have an uncle who is at 10 seconds.
3. These things can be solved!?
4. Before I solve, "you know, some people can do these things in like 2 minutes."

 

[CAT13]

A few types of people:
firstly, the "I thought those were impossible!" people
second, the "I heard that this one guy could solve it in under a minute!" people
third, the "They have competitions for that?!" people
fourth, the "Two seconds!" people
fifth, the people who have a decent guess

 

[Escher]

6th, "i always thought it was easier to take the stickers off and put them back on in the right order"

 

[Hadley4000]

One I recently heard.
"But the world record is like, a minute how could you do it in less than 20?!?"

 

[CAT13]

I should start lying to people I should tell them the world record is two minutes, then bust out a 20 second solve. Then they would be like, ""

 

[Jebediah54]

Pretty much everybody I show it to can hardly believe their eyes, and always make a comment about taking the stickers off or taking it apart. If people ask the WR, I ask them to guess and it's normally around 20 seconds or so, with a few people guessing around 10 and one guy guessed 7-8. When I do a solve for them they always freak out saying that I solved it in 15 seconds or so...

 

[Laetitia]

"What's the world record?"
"7.08"
"7 minutes? woah, if I'd try, it'd take me 7 years"
"no, 7 seconds"
".... oO"

Lots of people, when I make a 20 sec solve, think that I'm one of the best speedcubers in the world
Actually, even when I made 40 sec solves, people thougt that I was one of the best in the world.

 

[Sa967St]

after Erik broke the WR I told some of my friends that there was a new WR and I asked them to guess what it was and they both said 5 seconds

 

[ThePizzaGuy92]

do you guys every get people who say things like "It usually takes me a few hours", but you know they're full of it?

 

[qqwref]

Yeah, I think (in general) anyone who mentions a time over an hour is lying and they just want it to look like they could solve it themselves, just in a very long time. But the truth is, I don't think most people could just sit down and spend a couple of hours on it, simply because few young people nowadays have that kind of attention span or are willing to spend that much time thinking. It's not that solving a cube is only possible if you're very smart, but rather that to solve it starting from no knowledge of the cube you have to be patient and determined (and interested in the cube already!). It's probably fair to say that the vast majority of people out there would give it a serious try even though they might say they could solve it in some number of hours/days/years.

Of course what non-cubers never realize is that when you do a solve you're not figuring it out as you go but just executing a method that you're familiar with. Even if you use a fully intuitive method like Heise or basic corners first you still know what to do before you even pick the cube up. Anyone who's cubed for a while should also have a pretty good grasp of the cube's mechanics, that is, what types of pieces there are, how a turn moves the pieces around, and how to put pieces together through basic blockbuilding. So maybe when we're all talking to non-cubers, we should emphasize that after a while of playing with a cube you really understand it a lot better, and solving it (even without the aid of pre-memorized sequences) becomes rather easy indeed

 

[mrbiggs]

A lot of people say that there's a "pattern" to it; a few moves which you do over and over until it's solved, so smaller times are a matter of dexterity. I get this a lot, and I have a hard time correcting people, because it is in fact a mixture of "patterns" in the brainless sense, true problem solving, and problem solving which has been made fairly brainless due to repetition.

 

[MistArts]

A lot of people say that there's a "pattern" to it; a few moves which you do over and over until it's solved, so smaller times are a matter of dexterity. I get this a lot, and I have a hard time correcting people, because it is in fact a mixture of "patterns" in the brainless sense, true problem solving, and problem solving which has been made fairly brainless due to repetition.

Actually, my theory is that if you repeat a long series of moves (all six faces) for a lot (I mean like millions) of times, then it can be solved.