Basically as the title says. A 3x3 is pretty fast to solve, but many have already seen it. Way fewer have seen a bigger cube like a 7x7 get solved, but its much slower to solve. Maybe a non cubic puzzle like a megaminx? What do you guys think?

Not sure if this is the right place to ask, if there's a better place let me know!

I'm looking for a puzzle I had in the 90s or early 00s. It was a long flat rod with twisting knobs along the center. The object of the puzzle was to separate two pieces - the flat rod with the knobs was fixed, but the other part would slide a certain distance, depending on the configuration of the knobs. To separate the pieces, you had to work the knobs in essentially binary code to move it along the track.

Does that sound familiar to anyone at all?

I am visiting my family and teaching my nephew (10 years old) all the cubes that he has. This is his collection. He mastered the big cubes today (in just one day!) and only needs to learn megaminx, Axis cube, and the 2x2 mastermorphix. 🥸

Can mouse pads like these

https://amzn.in/d/e6ko30R

https://amzn.in/d/isKSfSK

https://amzn.in/d/fEDRfTI

https://amzn.in/d/21p0b3t

Be used as cube mats?

Also does anyone know what materials cube mats are made up of?

Very occasionally you get the same time twice, e.g. 12.54 and then 12.54 on the next solve. When you do so cstimer's difference in time thing ,which is either red or green saying if you solved the current solve faster than the previous solve, is 0.00 but the 0.00 difference is green, I think it should be grey to signify no time difference (This is kind of a joke I'm not that serious about it). What are your thoughts on this potential addition? I should just make it clear that this is not real and won't be

Hi guys, I've been practicing 3x3 BLD for a few months now and have reached sub-2, looking to start learning 3-style. Can someone explain to me the following things?

• I don't understand the notation UFR UFL and all those, couldn't find anywhere to explain what they mean

• does 3 style involve memorising algorithms more or intuitively learning the process?

• what should i learn first in 3style?

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is this sacrilige? i kinda wanna get a cube and sticker it like this.
not sure if it'll cause complications, what do yall professionals think?

https://preview.redd.it/1nbcr20i871d1.png?width=4096&format=png&auto=webp&s=bc1a0107cf72dd2913a16a09426875d536e7d374

I’m planning to buy the Qiyi Backpack but I’m not sure about some things. Will it easily bulge? Is it suitable for school use? How many books can you put in it? Is it gonna remain slim after putting many books in it? Lmk thx!

Ok so, i got that cube(?) as a present and i have no idea what is it specially the name so anyone know the name of it? I've searched everywhere but no result

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i average sub 10 on 3x3, but for 4x4 i average over 50! I feel absolutely terrible and i just cant improve! everyone else that is my 3x3 speed is so much faster at 4x4 and i just feel that im terribly slow for what i should be doing. I use Yau method. Any tips?

I have two competitions coming up that have former or current world record holders attending that I would like to get the signatures from. How do I respectfully and politely do this? And at what time would be the best time?

Was doing my typical, between jobs, cubing session and got this scramble with a pretty lucky cross and first pair. After solving it and crushing my previous PB by 3 seconds, I went back to reconstruct it and couldn’t achieve the same OLL skip I had gotten in the original solve. Turns out in my attempts to recon, I was being too efficient with my F2L pairs.

Here’s the recon.

Inspection: y x’

Cross: (U’ D) F D’

1st pair: L U’ L

2nd pair: (the bad one): U2 F’ U F U R U2 R’ U2 R U’ R’

3rd pair: F U’ F’ U2 F U F’

4th pair: y (sexy) R U R’

OLL: Skip

PLL: U2 (Jb Perm)

AUF: None

Hey guys, long time casual cuber here. First started 20 years ago with the name brand cube and method from the included booklet.

Somewhere along the way I had forgotten all 4 of its OLL+PLL algs, so in highschool when I picked the hobby back up I wanted something more intuitive. Ended up finding the Heise method, and was able to get sub50avg with it. These days I do a simpler variant of that with a couple of custom algs for the final steps, and average around 2min.

Now, I'm curious if anyone else uses other intuitive-style methods? What do you like about yours?

Every single NxN cube Rubik's has produced has gone through at least 2 redesigns to my knowledge, except for the 5x5. The 5x5 has never had a modern redesign. The 5x5 is the only normal, non-special edition, non-keychain cube that still has stickers as opposed to imbedded tiles. Why do you think Spinmaster hasn't dipped their hands in redesgining the 5x5? No motivation nor incentive? Not wanting to deal with legal troubles with V-Cube?

It's not like Spinmaster doesn't have a 5x5 mechanism, their 4x4 mech is like all modern cubes with a 5x5 mech with the middle layer hidden inside the other pieces.

Using flush cutters, cut triangular holes into the non magnet part of one side of the layer. This reduces the friction, greatly improving speed, and making the turning feel lighter. Worked very well to speed up inner layers on my meilong 7x7 v2m

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