List of cubing memes

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Memes created by the cubing community. Corresponding Speedsolving thread.

Smerbia (2008)

Or you could just use Petrus (August, 2009)

"Or you could just use Petrus" represents the largest quote tree in Speedsolving.com history. The evidence for the original piece of art was erased at the discretion of the forum moderators but the memory remains firm. The thread is still hilarious and well worth a read.

This is the original thread with the quote tree removed

Later examples found on Speedsolving.com include: August 2009, August 2009, June 2010

I accidentally a 5x5 (2008?)

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lolben

"lolben" is a phrase used to flame or lightly ridicule users on the Speedsolving Forums. It is applied almost exclusively to user ben1996123 (Ben Whitmore).

ben1996123 posted several videos in late 2009 and early 2010 that were severely flamed for being blatantly rehearsed (e.g. 8.16 second 3x3 solve (with scramble and solution)). These videos showed extremely fast, some sub-9, single times with correspondingly ridiculously easy solutions, along with poor fingertricks and blatantly rehearsed reactions afterward. Understandably, the forums had its haxxor detector on max mode. ben1996123's defense, which started by providing Cube Explorer-generated scrambles and solutions, degenerated into rants protesting that his solves were genuine. Subsequent posts by ben1996123 were also flamed, until the community realized the futility of long flames. Instead, the term "lolben" was coined to flame with ease.

The term is now used whenever users encounter an erroneous claim, a fake video, or even just a funny moment. As Waffo says, "tl;dr - lolben because lolben is lol."

An Example of a lolben moment:

I'm calling you out! Time to make a malt liquor video! (February 2010)

A drunk man uploaded a video on Youtube calling out Sa967St (Sarah Strong) after he saw a video of her official 10.21 3x3 solve. Throughout the video he drinks a 40oz bottle of malt liquor while trying to reason out why she should quit cubing and make a malt liquor video. He repeates the lines "I'm calling you out", "time to make a malt liquor video", "run down to your nearest store and get yoruself a 40", and several others. She made a thread for the video on the speedsolving forum. The user removed the video off of Youtube after many members of the speedcubing community commented on his video.

On Sarah's 19th birthday (19 is the legal drinking age in Ontario, Canada), user Reisen Bunny made a thread to remind her that she needs to run down to the nearest store and get herself a 40. The thread had a poll asking if she should make a malt liquor video, and over 40 people votes 'yes'.

Sarah yet to make a malt liquor video.

Speedcubin? (June-July 2010)

Speedcubin.

This meme from come a thread titled "Speedcubin?" from the user goatseforever. The post asked "Speedcubin?" and the thread had a poll with eight options of "Speedcubin". This was clearly a troll thread (goatseforever makes many of them), but several users decided to have fun with it and post about which Speedcubin was best. The thread had over 250 replies but it was closed about a week after it was posted. This thead was the "catch of the day" in the very first episode of the Cubecast Podcast.

Famous [insert adjective] Rubik (2010)

After seeing a newspaper article about himself containing the phrase "Famous Deaf Rubik," Shane Rowland started to use it to refer to himself. His reasoning was that he was "famous" among the deaf community for solving and collecting Rubik's puzzles. Of course this does not make any sense in English, and some cubers spread around "Famous [adjective] Rubik" to parody Shane's title.

I DEMAND TWO ROUNDS OF [insert event]! (Summer 2010)

Two threads were posted in the speedsolving forum about Haiyan Zhuang getting banned from WCA competitions for unsportsman-like behavior. One of the things he did was demand more rounds of BLD, in order to have more attempts to try to break his (former) 3x3 BLD world record. After the community learned about how Haiyan threatened people at competitions, "I DEMAND TWO [or more] ROUNDS OF [insert event]" became a joke to parody Haiyan.

Examples on the Speedsolving Forums:

Non-Example (note date)?

Orangina (August 2010)

After the second day of US Nationals 2010, a small group of cubers went to the store in the student centre to obtain mass amounts of soda (or pop to some people) and junk food. Upon browsing the selection, Sarah Strong was puzzled when she saw a bottle of Orangina and she asked "What's Orangina?", pronouncing it incorrectly (oh-ran-gy-nah). The group proceeded to break into hysterical laughter. As the laughing receded, one of the cubers in the group told her that the name of the drink is actually pronounced oh-ran-GEE-nah and so was the start of the meme. That night, Chris Tran, Sarah Strong, Waffo, and several others spammed the US Nationals 2010 thread of this discovery as they posted pictures of Orangina ads from the same hotel room. On the third day of US Nationals 2010, Orangina was the joke among that small group, and Ethan Crislip bought several 1L bottles of the carbonated beverage just to try it. Waffo wanted to time it and his first attempt at the bottle was 5x.xx. Soon after Felix Lee and Chris Tran followed Waffo's attempt but were unable to break it. The chugging drew in a crowd as Waffo attempted another 1L of Orangina only a few hours after his first attempt, racing with Sarah Strong, Ryan Reese, and Stachu Korick. He broke his previous UWR with a 48.46 and threw up mere minutes later. Waffo still practices Orangina chugging to date.

After US Nationals was over, Orangina was a wide spread story on the Speedsolving Forums as people changed they avatars to Orangina logos and bottles for quite a while. Many people have tried to take Waffo's throne at a competition but were unable to beat the 48.46 set at US Nationals 2010.

Waffo holds the current UWR for chugging a 1L glass bottle of Orangina (starting with the cap off) at 30.02 seconds.

Zeroing (November 2010)

Supposedly Feliks Zemdegs's secret method, zeroing is a hoax started by the following post by Anthony Brooks on the Speedsolving Forums: post: "Feliks got the nickname Faz because of the method he uses actually. FAZ stands for F2L After Zeroing. What's "zeroing" you might ask? Only Faz knows at this point. It's apparently his secret weapon, but he won't share. :-("

Alot Profile Picture Takeover (November 2010)

An Alot is an "imaginary creature that kind of looks like a cross between a bear, a yak and a pug" introduced in the blog Hyperbole and a Half's page on Alot.

On November 22, 2010, user TheRubiksGod created the thread "I Will Make Your Avatar :D" on the Speedsolving Forums. Prompted by Lucas Garron's reply linking Hyperbole and a Half, the thread turned into a request for Alot of ___ avatars. Many of these were made by Shelley Chang. Within a week, many prominent users on Speedsolving had changed their profile to some type of Alot.

OrtegaZB (February 2010)

Late February, Thom Barlow introduced his method for solving the 2x2 cube basing of the Ortega Method called "OrtegaZB". Upon reading the description, many people immediately picked up that it was just CLL. It was pretty obvious that Thom was just joking and many people joined in on the fun while others were not entertained by the thread even though it was just for fun. Joey Gouly said so himself "This thread really was just for fun! Me and thom were just cubing (in a pub), and came up with the idea!" Perhaps another alcohol fueled Thom Barlow moment.

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