Why does cubing hold our interest?

[pcharles93]

Mine didn't even make it to the table

 

[Nilxchaos]

And an even-sided cube sounds scary

All cubes I know have 6 sides, and 6 is even. I would be more scared by an odd-sided one

Haha, (not sarcasm, that actually made me laugh) but you know what i mean... a 4x4 cube, or actually anything that you need to build up the centers... AKA not a 2x2.

@AvGalen: Been going for about three minutes.... Wait , sister took it. Oh well.... Nobody else knows how to solve it, they just love making patterns.

 

[shicklegroober]

People will always not understand things they know nothing about, I get the same reaction with skateboarding they always say "I thought it was just a phase" some people are just exeremely ignorant.

 

[envy253]

getting faster is fun, and so is making people go OMGWTF!! HOWD YOU DO THAT WTF!!!

and yeah, leaving a cube scrambled is impossible. it HAS to be solved.

 

[rahulkadukar]

Well I love the way I constantly improve, so I love the cube

 

[Aeonstorm]

This is slightly off topic, but does relate to why people ask the questions such as "why do you cube so much?". I have also gotten this question from people before, and I love answer option C from the OP. I'll have to try that next time I get this comment

I'm not sure if this is just my area, but I feel most adults have a generally negative attitude towards cubing where I am at. I teach kids how to solve the cube at the math tutoring center I work at. This is of course at appropriate times such as during scheduled puzzle seminars during our day camps, or after they are finished with their hour of actual math instruction. Almost always the kids think cubing is so cool, and want to learn more. Adults sometimes think cubing is interesting or neat, but mostly the parents think it's a "toy" or waste of time somehow. I've even heard indirectly from other tutors that some parents, seeing that I cube a lot and teach kids to cube, have asked "is that guy (referring to me) ever going to grow up?" My outward response to people like that is just to smile and not really say anything. Inwardly though I want to yell at them "f#ck you", but of course I never do. I mostly just don't pay any attention to people like this, but it does irk me that people can be so haughty and look down on cubing/other people like that.

I hope my experience is not the experience of everyone, but that is what I have seen at least.

Chris

Aaargh, my parents keep saying I'm wasting your time, and I'm not achieving anything worthwhile. And then they tell me to learn chess or something, which is a 'real' sport, unlike cubing, which is somehow just a toy.