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

[Fobo911]

I'm just wondering what non-cubers would guess to be the 3x3x3 world record for the single solve (7.08) if they never had any knowledge of the record books on that. I'm guessing maybe the average guess would be around 10-15 seconds.

What about you guys? What do you think would non-cubers would mostly guess for?

This is partly for an AP Statistics project, and I'm also a little curious about how non-cubers view our world as.

 

[McWizzle94]

Most people I know guess around 15 seconds. Anyway, it's probably not the best idea to find non-cubers in a speedcubing forum........

 

[Fobo911]

I know. I was just wondering what the non-cubers' guesses would be from the speed-cubers' points of view.

 

[PatrickJameson]

Most people that I come across think it's like 5 seconds.

 

[Kit Clement]

This would be kinda interesting if we polled people about this.

 

[cmhardw]

This would be kinda interesting if we polled people about this.

I usually hear about superhero friends who can solve in 5 seconds. Also, sometimes people, after seeing me solve, say that I solved it in 5 seconds (I wish).

I would say that most non-cubers would guess either 5 or 10 seconds since they are psychologically "nice" numbers.

Chris

 

[ThePizzaGuy92]

someone once said his friend can do it in 4 seconds, so he must think the world record is in the negitives. haha

 

[mrbiggs]

Sometimes people ask me what the fastest is and I say 7 seconds, and they're generally blown away by that number.

 

[siva.shanmukh]

Yes! this is what generally happens. And they append a comment at the end saying something like the world champion in that case can solve it while they are yawning and won't believe it. then i have to show them the video!!!

 

[Dene]

Probably 0.01 seconds, because people are stupid.

 

[Rubixcubematt]

i think most people think it is about 10 secs. that was what i did and others around me as well

 

[*LukeMayn*]

most people in my clas would say 6 secs because in my speech(about heroes) , I couldn't think of a hero, so I choose Nakaji and my speech contained the 6sec solve of his on youtube (6.57 to be exact )

 

[Ellis]

Theres only one time that I could gauge a question like that... I had a cube out at work and my manager said "some people can solve those things in like 30 seconds" (suggesting those were the fastest times). I said: thats nothing... and did it for him in 20 seconds. Judging by the look on his face afterwards, I think something important popped in his brain.

 

[cubeRemi]

if I say I'm a cuber people normally say something like:
"I saw someone on tv who could always do it in like 5sec."
then I'm thinking, "never mind"

 

[Skrato]

People always exaggerate what times I get when I solve it. I was approached by someone saying I could solve it in 5 seconds, while my actual best time ever was 15.

 

[maltew]

everytime i get my cube out of my bag people say something like, "there actually are people who can solve this in a minute or so!" nobody ever guessed a time sub 30.

 

[Joël]

Many people I meet don't understand how anyone can solve it in seconds, many think it's at least one minute.

 

[pjk]

When I started, I was thinking no less than 30 seconds. When I heard of the 11.13 being set, I thought it was a pre-set cube, and all the person needed to do was twist it into place. So I can't blame people for thinking about odd times.

 

[toast]

Most people I've come across, think it's 5 seconds, 2 minutes (because their friend can do it that fast) or I'm the world record holder with a 20 second average.

 

[guusrs]

Only a few months ago I met someone who sead that some people can dot it within 10 minutes!

20 -30 seconds is most common for non-cubers.

When I say 7 seconds they won't believe.