What's the farthest you ever popped a puzzle?

[AvGalen]

You win.

Actually, I guess Zoé de Moffarts wins than, because if I remember correctly she was scrambling

 

[Zoé]

I guess it doesn't count when you pop a 6x6x6 and the piece bounces from the table onto the terrace onto the hill, into the river and floats away, ruining my favorite 6x6x6 while in Malaysia?

It's funny because you're totally confusing two different pops XD

I was solving the 6x6 on the terrace and it popped and flew somewhere down the hill. We went down to look for it but could never find it so we gave up after a while
The one that popped into the river (which happened to be the Meekong btw... not just a tiny river XD) was your Dayan 4x4 that popped when we were eating at some little restaurant in Don Det in Laos. Never saw that piece again either

 

[ilikecubing]

As if people start measuring distances when their cube pops...though approximately i think for me its 2 meters.

 

[YddEd]

As if people start measuring distances when their cube pops...though approximately i think for me its 2 meters.

I think I may start doing that when I force my 3x3 to pop

 

[brandonw]

I popped a blindfolded solve in competition out into the audience. I was using an fII and one of the edges decided it didnt like me. I DNFed the solve and when I took the blindfold off the piece was about 10 feet away in the audience.

 

[CHJ]

9 floors off a building, not a good moment for me XD

 

[Logical101]

Mine was a terrible time when the pice flew into a moving car, hit the driver and then kept going with the car. I feel sorry for that guys eye
Lololol

 

[avgdi]

It wasn't my pop, but the furthest that I have seen a cube pop was at worlds this weekend. Someone was playing with a big cube, (not sure of the size) and I heard it pop and a bunch of people yelling. When I looked up I saw pieces at least 5 feet up, and 10 feet away from whoever it was holding the cube.

 

[sneaklyfox]

It wasn't my pop, but the furthest that I have seen a cube pop was at worlds this weekend. Someone was playing with a big cube, (not sure of the size) and I heard it pop and a bunch of people yelling. When I looked up I saw pieces at least 5 feet up, and 10 feet away from whoever it was holding the cube.

That would have made a good video.

 

[CubezUBR]

some of these stories are "exagerated". i got a peice the other side of my bed today, but im sure when my friends have played with my cubes and popped them, they have gone a lot further

 

[Spaxxy]

A few weeks ago, my family visited the coast. I was playing with my cube while walking around, and I got a pop. We were on a wooden pier, with fairly large gaps between the planks. I almost had a heart attack, but the piece that popped landed on the wood. Not the farthest I've ever popped a piece, but certainly the scariest.

 

[izovire]

It sucks losing 7x7 pieces in a storm drain. anyway, furthest I've popped a cube (v-cube 6) was in a parking lot, give or take 40-60 feet with NO interference or downhill advantages. Good thing it was white plastic because the pavement was pretty black.

 

[Deleted member 19792]

My 7x7 popped, flew all the way across a pier and fell into the water.

 

[Qthulu]

My entire Zhanchi exploded, because it wasn't set very tight. The farthest piece flew about 1.5 meters across the room.

My 5x5 popped a centerpiece once and it landed into an almost closed box below my table. The box wasn't even on the ground, in fact, it was stacked onto other boxes. When this happened, I sat almost seamlessly in relation to my table. I still wonder how the piece could fly around the table into the box, because the box is no way near the border under my table. Maybe I found a wormhole...

 

[Riley]

Today, at Berkeley I popped at least three times.

1st - 3BLD, solve 1. The piece went to the back-right, under the scrambling table, maybe 4 feet.
2nd - 4x4 solve 3. On the F perm at around 43, it just exploded. 20+ pieces. Luckily, I found them all and still was able to get a PB average (46.56). The pieces didn't really go too far though, maybe a 4 foot radius in weird directions.
3rd - 3x3 finals, solve 4. I popped 3 pieces on the U perm at the end. The solve wasn't that fast though. Maybe a 4 inch spread.

One time I popped while on a road trip in SoCal some time ago, and lost the piece in the rent-a-car. Who knows where that car might be now.

 

[McBeef]

there I was solving my shengshou 5x5 when suddenly the centerpiece flew across the room (around ten feet away) well... that's it