List of cubing memes

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Memes created by the cubing community.

Smerbia (2008)

Or you could just use Petrus (August, 2009)

The earliest use of "Or you could just use Petrus" on the Speedsolving Forums seems to date from August 2009. Examples on Speedsolving.com: August 2009, August 2009, June 2010

lolben

An Example of a lolben moment

When speedsolving.com was still young and many claims were being doubted, a user came across the forums and the forums had its haxxor detector mode turned on to the max. The user was ben1996123. ben1996123 created a video with an extremely fast solve long before sub-9 was the new sub-10. In fact, he made several of these videos and tried to defend each one of them fruitlessly. First through writing the solution which then escalated to useless rants about how he wasn't really doing hax. The community of speedsolving.com frowned upon this since they had super haxxor detector powers activated at the time. As simple chants of hax spread across the board, the community became violent. Flames were being thrown like Haiyan throwing his cube while demanding another round of BLD. The flames grew and the fire spread from being 2-3 threads of ben1996123 claims to flaming him wherever he posted. The raging flames of the intarwebz grew into a hell on screen. Alas, the fire could no longer grow and the constantly flaming receded, the community that is speedsolving.com became less violent. The community saw the error of its ways as they spammed the board with flames with long posts that made many users go tl;dr. Instead of creating posts, many users utilized the term "lolben" simply to flame with ease. The term caught on as many users started using lolben for moments deserving it that were outside of posts made by ben1996123. So whenever we see an erroneous claim or video hax or even just a funny moment on the forums, we simply lolben.

tl;dr - lolben because lolben is lol

Speedcubin? (June-July 2010)

Speedcubin.

This meme from come a thread titled "[Speedcubin?"] [1]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)

There was a newspaper article about Shane Rowland containing the phrase "Famous Deaf Rubik", and when Shane saw it he started refering to himself as that. His reasoning for being the Famous Deaf Rubik was that he was "famous" amoung 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 ROUNDS OF [insert event]" became a joke to parody Haiyan.

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.

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