A funny story about the Rubik’s Cube
Dominic (10, Philippines)
My name is Dominic and I am 10 years old from the Philippines and this is my funny story about the cube.
My name is Dominic and I am 10 years old from the Philippines and this is my funny story about the cube.
I have a lot of funny stories about cubing. So many, that in fact I think that’s why it was created.
Cubes look very funny inside. Most would expect a symmetrical, repeating pattern of squares bound together by a magical force. The harsh reality is simply, a unique and unexpected design.
I know the Category says to tell a “Funny” story about the Cube, but I haven’t really got any. So instead I’ll tell you a few other stories that may or may not be funny depending on your “Funny” standards. Bare with me.
It was a dark and stormy lunchtime and I was teaching my friend Xavier how to solve the 4×4. Continue reading “Otto”
Today I’m going to tell you a story of perhaps the weirdest (and funniest) cubing day of my life. It was your typical Monday morning, bad hair, didn’t finish my homework, woke up late and overall I knew this day was going to be terrible. Continue reading “Sol Sutter”
During a class, I broke out my cube to solve quietly minding my own business as I had completed the assignment.
My first experience with a Rubik’s cube was when I was about 2. I had no idea what it was, all I knew was that it was bright and colourful. I introduced it to my teeth straight away. Hello Mr Colourful, how are you doing today? I’m fine, thank you Mr Teeth. Needless to say, that cube didn’t make it far. Continue reading “TH”
It was my friends and I sitting in study hall cubing as usual. My friend Asher was timing himself on 2 by 2 with my timer while I recorded him on my phone. He seemed to think that he could break the world record. Continue reading “Toby Perstadt”
Solving the Rubik’s cube has always been a fun pastime for me. I do it when I have time in school, giving me a distraction from the busy and crazy school life. Every Friday my school has a study hall. Continue reading “Benjamin Voller-Brown”
When I received my gift from my uncle, I was really happy. I had asked one for my birthday and my uncle remembered to get it. I did not know how to solve it. I would make four turns and then reverse it. One day my friend scrambled the cube totally. I was completely confused and had no idea how to solve it and moreover the centers had fallen off. I checked a few tutorials on how to solve the cube and followed it step by step.
Continue reading “Shashank Naik”
Once upon a time, there lived two adult 3x3s, one a female and the other one a male. As it turned out, both cubes fell in love and they got married a month after they started dating. After about a year, the two cubes had a baby! They were very excited as there would now be another cube in the world(they were the only ones back then). Unfortunately, when they saw the baby, they were not prepared to see what they saw. Their baby cube was born scrambled! His body parts were moved all around and he was very ‘jumbled’.
One day in early 2015 I had got a new 3×3 for Christmas; a Moyu Aolong and it was OK but was not what I expected and may well have been a fake. I heard that if you loosened the tensions, cubes could be faster. So I tried it out and my cube was way faster, but it popped a lot. I decided to leave the tensions really loose and went into school. I solved it in under 40 seconds so I thought it was great and then went to run Cubing club again.
You are standing in your room staring at the damned twisty puzzle. You ask yourself why it is so meticulously crafted to incite frustration and misgivings. You glance at your nearby alarm clock until you realize you’ve been cursing it for the past 20 minutes. Then a brilliant idea comes into your troubled brain. The Google. The Google knows everything. You sprint out of your room to retrieve your laptop as you wonder why you didn’t think of this before you uttered profanity at the little devil for 20 minutes.
We all were amateurs at one point, you can’t deny that. Whether you’re playing basketball or gaming, you started out as a noob. I’m in the same boat as everybody else, and I can’t stand thinking about me as a cubing noob.
For many years my grandmother has tried to rekindle our childhood Easter spirit. Forcing us to do many things, including an Easter egg hunt. Sadly, the youngest member of the family is 16, and the oldest 42. Never the less, she keeps on trying to get us into the Easter spirit.
This incident happened on the sixth of March, earlier this year.
4th grade was reaching its end, and we were more or less passing time till the end of school. Our teachers handed assignments that we finished in the wink of an eye, and finally resigned to giving us free time.
One day I was competing at a Science Olympiad competition, and to past my time I brought my Moyu 3×3. I went into the cafeteria and this one kid that I was supposed to compete against, came over to me.