List of cubing memes

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Memes created by the cubing community, mostly on the Speedsolving Forums. See also the 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?)

This was an extension of the existing meme "I accidentally the whole coke bottle" from 4chan. It was brought to the Speedsolving Forums through a post in the accomplishment thread (?), and it is unsure whether this was intentional or not. Several users caught on and would post "I accidentally a _______" without a verb.

Examples on the Speedsolving Forums:

Other examples:

  • I accidentally the whole database." - Tyson Mao

i can't go because i live in ___ but you should do ___. just a suggestion (October 2009)

Third post into the Speedsolving thread Belleview Open 2009 (unofficial), user ianini posted the following message: "i can't go because i live in California but you should do a megmnix [sic] round. just a suggestion". Rather than merely pointing out the absurdity of suggesting an event for a competition he was not attending, other users (first none other than Dene) soon started parodying his phrase, forming an ever-extending quote tree. Here are the first few examples:

  • i can't go because i live in New Zealand but you should do 6 and 7. just a suggestion
  • i can't go because i live in California but you should do magic BLD. just a suggestion
  • i can't go because i live in New Jersey but you should do a 2x2 bdl [sic] round. just a suggestion
  • i can't go because i live in New York but you should do a tehtreball [sic] round. just a suggestion
  • i can't go because i live in great britain but you should do a ball-in-cup round. just a suggestion
  • i can't go because i live in Texas but you should do a mini chess tournament as a side event. just a suggestion
  • i can't go because i live in Canada but you should do a fihgt [sic] to the deth. just a suggestion

These posts mirrored the capitalization and punctuation, and in some cases the misspelling of the event name, in the original message. The most nested quote tree (this message) consisted of 25 of these messages. This quote tree won the award for the "best quote tree" in the 2009 Forum Awards.

lolben (2009)

"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 is yet to make a malt liquor video.

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.

F R U R' U' F' is a Y- perm (2010)

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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", all identical. This was clearly a troll thread (goatseforever has made many in the past), 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 thread was the "catch of the day" in the very first episode of the Cubecast Podcast.

Andrew Kang loves skewbs (July 2010)

In the third episode of the Cubecast Podcast Andrew Kang, the host, revealed that he absolutely loves skewbs. Andrew's love for the skewb event is one of the biggest on-going themes of the podcast, as it gets brought up several times each episode. He also knows everything there is to know about skewbs, and other cube-shaped puzzles that do not turn like a 3x3x3.

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.

Same thing happened to me with some other pants (2010)

This meme originated from a Skype conversation between Stachu Korick and Waffo. They were talking about Lady Gaga and Waffo was saying how he didn't have a good first impressioin of her music, but after he listened to a variety of her songs he liked her music more. Stachu agreed and meant to reply "same thing happed to me with some other bands", but instead of "bands" he typed "pants". Waffo found this typo hilarious and spammed some threads on the speedsolving forum with "same thing happened to me with some other pants". Dan Cohen banned him for one day for spamming. Waffo recieved a message from him saying "You have been banned for the following reason: Too many pants." Regardless of him being temporarily banned, this meme gets brought up on occasion. Some users mistook this phrase for something along the lines of "same thing happened to me in someone else's pants", and posts like that also come up on occasion.

  • Sarah Strong's signature: "[9:34:25 PM] Stachu: same thing happened to me with some other pants"

3q (October 2010)

The user Zhizhou Zhang posted 3q very much in a thread he made asking for help with the Roux method. His native language is Chinese. 3 is pronounced like "san" or "sun" in Chinese (and also in Japanese), so 3q sounds like "sun-Q", which is like "thank you" with an east Asian accent. It may not be too funny for those who did not see the post, but when user Blah, Chester Lian, posted a reply to it, several other people caught on. The most amusing part about this was that Zhizhou Zhang used it casually, forgetting that not everyone on the speedsolving forum knows Chinese. 3q gets brought up on occasion on the forums, but only a handful of people understand it.

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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