when people ask you how you solve the rubik's cube so fast you say. . .

[*LukeMayn*]

my most common are:

very carefully
Magic
I don't know...
Great skill and determination

Otherwise if the other person is quite nice I'll go through a solve slowing and direct them to youtube.

 

[Ranzha]

"How do you do that?"

I say:
"How CAN'T I do that?"
"Magic."
"If I told you, I'd have to kill you."
"Twist faces. Match colours. It's that simple."
"How do I solve this? Quickly."
"With little effort."

 

[phases]

I say "a lot of practice." If they ask more, I'll explain further.

I just shrug or say "practice."

Me too.

i say youtube

Same, when asked how I learned.

They always say: "I could never do that."

I get a whole buncha that, too.

 

[Edmund]

I say cubes come with a book that teaches you a very basic solution to the cube. (which is NOT just one thing you keep doing til it is solved!) From their you can teach yourself new things and learn a great deal from the interwebz.

 

[Rook]

I usually make up something random.

"I believe in myself hard enough"

"I solve the cross, I do F2L then OLL then PLL" (I might actually solving the cube while saying this. Ex: Saying cross while solving the cross, inserting a pair while saying F2L, etc.)

"I go like this, then turn that, then that, then that..." (while doing the U perm 3 times)

"I go on Youtube and look up videos on how to solve a rubik's cube in 10 seconds."

And so on.

EDIT: I just thought of this funny one which I once told this girl that asked me:

*Eyes wide open and staring* I don't know.

 

[ManasijV]

You can do it too if you practice....

 

[Cyrus C.]

You can do it too if you practice....

If anyone smiled at me like that I would be turned off from cubes forever.

 

[ArcticxWolf]

@ AVG: if a girl asks: how do you do it so FAST? You always should say something like: I've got fast fingers

This got me good

 

[gibsonguitarist55]

i simply tell them i dont know or its magic
they always get mad about that

 

[fundash]

I tell them that when i was young (like anywhere from 2-5) I got hit on the head, and that my mom got me a cube as a present. I say that ever since i was hit on the head, I've had a special power, and that by purposely hitting myself on the head, I've been able to learn other puzzles like pyraminx.

Lol, they always believe it! XD

 

[Tim Major]

I show them R U' x63

I just say you need to keep doing it until it comes back to the solved position.

 

[rubiknewbie]

I told them you just need to memorise 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 algorithms.

 

[Tyjet66]

Muscle memory, pattern recognition and dexterity.

 

[r_517]

I told them you just need to memorise 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 algorithms.

this

it's often bad to tell others "It's easy", coz they will ask you to teach them in 10 minutes. then after telling them how to solve the cross, they mostly give up directly

 

[SuperNerd]

I give them an overview of the Fridrich System.

 

[iChanZer0]

Google it

 

[Absolute ze woah]

Well when I cube the general conversation goes as such....

Person- Wow your good. How fast can you solve it? I can only solve by peeling the...

Me- I solve it by peeling the stickers off like you and everyone else.... I just do it so fast it lags your brain.

 

[Andreaillest]

"It was a gift from God."






Or I give them a play by play of a solve.=)

 

[CubesOfTheWorld]

Idiot: How do you do that?
Me: :fp
Idiot: What?
Me: C-F-O-P (say it really fast)
Idiot: WHAT?
Me: If you eat an apple, then you can solve it.
Idiot:*eats an apple*
Me: :fp
Idiot: :fp-ing isn't nice!
Me: This is why your name is "Idiot"...
Idiot: Teach me!
Me: Okay, fine.... What you do first, is you do these moves. *solves the cube*
Idiot: ...

EDIT: If an adult asks, I tell them to go to Rubik's.com

 

[Edward]

Idiot: How do you do that?
Me: :fp
Idiot: What?
Me: C-F-O-P (say it really fast)
Idiot: WHAT?
Me: If you eat an apple, then you can solve it.
Idiot:*eats an apple*
Me: :fp
Idiot: :fp-ing isn't nice!
Me: This is why your name is "Idiot"...
Idiot: Teach me!
Me: Okay, fine.... What you do first, is you do these moves. *solves the cube*
Idiot: ...

EDIT: If an adult asks, I tell them to go to Rubik's.com

He's not an idiot, you're being an ass.