[Uh-oh. Someone's onto him. But hey, he's bluffed his way out of worse things. He makes a big show of cracking his knuckles, like this is some impressive thing he has to ready himself for.]
Pfft. The only ones who solve these stupid cubes with algorithms are nerds who can't figure out another way to do it. Give it here, kid.
[He gestures for Dipper to hand the cube over, and he takes it and messes the thing up real good for a few seconds. Since Dipper clearly doesn't seem to trust him (and probably shouldn't to be totally honest) he shows it to him before he does anything else, the way a magician might show a crowd there's nothing up his sleeves or in his hat.
Then, with a flick of his wrist, he needlessly tosses it up in the air and then back and forth between his hands a few times before he starts. The key to slight of hand is misdirection and distraction, after all - to make Dipper pay attention to everything except what he's actually doing with his hands. To his credit, it's actually a pretty good trick he's picked up that's won him a decent amount of bets on the road - after all, he knows perfectly well that he doesn't look like someone who can solve a rubik's cube at all, much less in under five minutes.]
Funny, I figured you wouldn't want any tips. Don't tell me you're giving up on figuring this out on your own, are you?
[It's a very deliberate attempt to rile Dipper up, because if Dipper's temper gets the better of him, he won't be watching Stan carefully enough to figure out what he's doing. As he talks, he's moving his hands quickly at the same time - a few twists one way, a few twists another. The trick does require a bit of his attention though, so he's got his eyes on the cube and not on Dipper - but really that just adds to the illusion that he can actually solve the thing correctly.]
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Pfft. The only ones who solve these stupid cubes with algorithms are nerds who can't figure out another way to do it. Give it here, kid.
[He gestures for Dipper to hand the cube over, and he takes it and messes the thing up real good for a few seconds. Since Dipper clearly doesn't seem to trust him (and probably shouldn't to be totally honest) he shows it to him before he does anything else, the way a magician might show a crowd there's nothing up his sleeves or in his hat.
Then, with a flick of his wrist, he needlessly tosses it up in the air and then back and forth between his hands a few times before he starts. The key to slight of hand is misdirection and distraction, after all - to make Dipper pay attention to everything except what he's actually doing with his hands. To his credit, it's actually a pretty good trick he's picked up that's won him a decent amount of bets on the road - after all, he knows perfectly well that he doesn't look like someone who can solve a rubik's cube at all, much less in under five minutes.]
Funny, I figured you wouldn't want any tips. Don't tell me you're giving up on figuring this out on your own, are you?
[It's a very deliberate attempt to rile Dipper up, because if Dipper's temper gets the better of him, he won't be watching Stan carefully enough to figure out what he's doing. As he talks, he's moving his hands quickly at the same time - a few twists one way, a few twists another. The trick does require a bit of his attention though, so he's got his eyes on the cube and not on Dipper - but really that just adds to the illusion that he can actually solve the thing correctly.]