I had the idea to make a forum like this this morning, and I thought this would be the best place to put this forum. Let me know if it's been done before.

...you see that a truck is a V-8 and the first thing you think of is "When will the next V-Cubes come out??"

...the number of cubes you own is greater than your age.

You Know You're A Cuber When...



You think that Piet Mondrian was the first twisty puzzle designer

When you can't help mentioning puzzles every day to people you know have zero interest in them.

Been there, done that. And then I might ask them to scramble a puzzle while I solve another one, to save me the time.



Is Georges a cuber yet, then?

...when you've considered switching the key-less entry touch pad with a Rubik's Clock.

You know you're a cuber when someone brings a cube to english class, and you casually work your way over to solve it. Then, you gradually begin to bring in your entire collection of 50+ unique puzzles, revealing each creation slowly over the course of a few months. During that time, you see that you have built an army of slow cubers, one of which always buys a piece of crap Rubik's 5x5 off of amazon and makes you solve it between classes.

But, that's just me.

that happens to me all the time with different groups of people. but it's really awesome when someone learns to solve the cube because of you.

Ditto!

I bought a Fisher's Cube and was showing enthusiastically to a friend that have no interest in cubes:

"See?? This is a Fisher's Cube! You solve it as a 3x3x3!"
"Wow! This really looks like a Fish!"
"No... in fact it's not solved... when you solve it, this will be in a cubic form... and Fisher because it was invented by a man named Tony Fisher"
"Oh... wow..."


And you know you're a cuber when you begin to open your cubes and try to "enhance" them...

...you really can't get to the top of your desk because there are too many puzzles on it....
...the number of puzzle t-shirts you have exceeds the number of Mickey Mouse t-shirts you have...
...you see a newly published book on puzzles and you have to buy it even though you can't read the language it was written in...
...you have Twisty Puzzles running in the background all day long...
...you check the forum in the morning before you check your email...
...you feel you backpack is heavy and when you empty it out, there are no less than 3 different puzzles inside....
...you stay up way past your bedtime searching obscure websites in the hopes of finding a new puzzle...
...you 'disappear' for a few years and return. only to triple your collection in a few short years...
...you decide if you stop drinking your 3 daily Starbucks you can use that money to buy one enw puzzle per day...

...you spend $400 on a big chunk of plastic from Shapeways!
Oskar's Big Boulder

This one's true for me. ratio of 2:0.

Your significant other asks you when you're going to put down that cube and you reply "sune".

This just made my day.

EDIT: I'm going to stop posting in here, now.

You always talk about puzzles at dinner and then your dad lectures you about talking about boring things.

"no,you can't have that during our movie."

You wake up cuddling a megaminx.

All the ink pens from work are disappearing because you're harvesting the springs from them.

You put your Dogic between two mirrors to see what it would be like to have a gazillion of them.

You only date women who have perms.

You have at least one puzzle mounted on the wall like a deer.

You have your friends trained to log all appearances of Rubik's Cubes in their daily lives so that you can investigate and become a top poster in the "Puzzles in Public" thread.

1. When I turn back to look my shelf and search for my regular cube.......where? where? where?........found!! only one 3x3!!

2. When I cut every item that I bought.

You know your a cuber when you don't think R2D2 is a robot

I love this topic.
Your neighbor is convinced you're a cenobite after you leave
your house one night holding a Golden Cube.

...you opt not to have a car in order to buy more puzzles.
...your room is littered with Meffert's invoices.
...you have "Right inverted, down inverted, right, down" stuck in your head for days.
...you use a whip-it style puzzle pen to write with at your desk, and when you're done, you return it into your whip-it style calendar pen holder.
...the neighbors complain about loud clicking noises coming out of your room at night.
...you would totally wear Rubik's Cube Converse shoes if they had it in your size.

I'll try and think of better ones that might not apply to me.

Ben

...when trying to think of a Lego Mindstorms robot to build the first thing that comes to your mind is one that solves some sort of puzzle...

(well, for me anyway )

...you've stuffed your sandwich with the wrong cheese
...you need to warm up in order to play with your toys
...you lift tiny dumbbells to keep your fingers in shape
...you regularly post on TWISTY PUZZLES DOT COM!
...you can identify cube brands based on the feel of the cube


...and when you think to yourself "finally!!!" when you see a thread like this was made

You know your a cuber when your girlfriend finally gives in to the idea of you teaching her how to solve the 3x3x3. SUCCESS!

Chris

...your puzzles (and wrists) make VeryDemotivational.

Dave

when you have to untercept postie or ya getting divorced...

you can't close your ebay window because it keeps filling up with new puzzles you just have to "keep your eye on" (or should this be in a new thread "you know you're a collector when..." )

Me too!

...when a puzzle makes its way into your dream.

When peoples say that you have to much cube/puzzles, and you only have less 50 lol.

When you use names of rare puzzles as password

You write an English essay about cubes and get an "A"

When you have a 5x5 in science class and your teacher takes it becuase your distracting the other students by solving it. I always hate that.

you sit at a traffic light, hoping it doesn't turn green until you're done your cube...

Is that illegal?

Same with me as well. I remember one occurrence when I saw a very flat Square-1...

@Knite that's illegal at least where I live.
@Kevin my Spanish teacher just lets me solve because it keeps me focused and i'm one of the few who pays attention in that class.

... when you know $2,000 is a great price of a toy.

Nice topic!!! Well, cuber is too specific, I would say "puzzler" (mechanical that is!)

- When your room looks more like a prototype puzzle lab and workshop put together.
- When you invest your life savings in producing puzzles and traveling to "puzzle places".
- When you are able to convince the University's department board to give more
puzzle seminars than research seminars!
- When you organise WCA speedsolving competitions in the middle of nowhere
(i.e. Perth is the most isolated major city in the entire world!)
- You have met almost all major inventors *and* their families!!!
- When you wake up in the middle of the night just to go to the desk and finish
the write up of a new idea (to avoid forgetting it).
- When you bring more puzzles than clothes every time you travel!

And my favourite:
- When you treat your girlfriend/partner/wife, as a... puzzle!!!




Pantazis

Nobody would doubt this is a very complex one.

...twistypuzzles.com is your homepage on your browser.
...you can reach a puzzle wherever you are in your room.
...you have a tower of 4x4x2s in your window.
...you have more puzzles than papers on your working desk.
...scientists looks like big ? when you try to explain how a v-5 works.

When not even anyone in your family on the table at breakfast believes you that your new teraminx has 1.16 x 10^525 permutations whereas the number of atoms in the universe is only 10^78 about.


Totally.

..when you quit cubing and start building LEGO, and realizes that you're building cubes out of LEGO.

Happened to me, but i hope to get back into cubing soon again

...when you annoy your friends with talking about cubes, so they start threating you that you will ate your puzzles so you can play tetris in bathroom...

....you're reading this thread.

...When you imagine tiles on the floor as 2x2's or 3x3's and so on.

there are a lot of 3x3x4s on my bathroom floor, and the biggest cube is an 8x8x8


I found a proportional 5x5x13 at the school playground

....when you take a cube on a 5-minute car trip.

Hmm? Jig-A-Loo and personal= you have an problem, lol.

When you give an 'bath' to your cube? Peoples really take you for a maniac lol.

When you solve your cube a couple of times, than decide it's enough and that you have solved it the last time now and when you look at it the next time you notice you had scrambled it again without realizing/doing it concously.

You know you're a cuber when you got 100+ puzzles and it's nowhere near enough puzzles!!

You know you're a cuber when people around you start to call you "Cube"

You know you're a cuber when you start talking to your cube and you call him "buddy"

You know you're a cuber when you have solved your buddy 1000+ times!

There is an diffrence between being an cuber and being a little crazy lol

100 puzlles only have like 50 :O

You when your a cuber when you can solve a rubik's cube!
*Learned the skewb,pyraminx, rubik's magic,supper floppy, and a couple fo other cube before learning how to do a single 3x3

You know when you are a cuber, when you are palying bingo and you say "solved!", when you win .