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MoYu RS3M 2021 is considered a better budget cube nowadays. Many people use it as their main, which is not something that can be said about the YLM.
Cool, I didn't know about this one. Looks awesome. But it's over twice as expensive! :)
For anyone looking to dip their toes into speed cubing or cubing in general I highly recommend checking out a YuXin Little Magic. https://www.thecubicle.com/products/yuxin-little-magic-3x3 The cube is only $6 (recently inflationed from $5) and it's one of the best cubes I've ever used. I have a stack of these sitting at home that I sometimes give to people who show an interest. Incidentally, YuXin makes some very smo…
MoYu RS3M 2021 is considered a better budget cube nowadays. Many people use it as their main, which is not something that can be said about the YLM.
I am not a "real speedcuber" tho. My average is about 40s, but it's a nice cube and I enjoy playing with it.
Where should a complete beginner start from? Please suggest videos or tutorials... Are the cubes all the same? https://www.amazon.it/s?k=rubik+cube
I recommend learning from J Perm. https://jperm.net/ - also on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@JPerm Interestingly, the official Rubik's cubes are very poor quality. I have a GAN speedcube and can recommend.
That used to be true but hasn't been for years.
The Rubik's branded cubes (e.g. that you can get a Walmart) now have decent, fast action and real plastic faces rather than stickers. They don't have the beveled inner corners for the smoothest action, but are usable.
I've seen YT videos of people solving them in 20 seconds or less.
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I recommend learning from J Perm. https://jperm.net/ - also on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@JPerm Interestingly, the official Rubik's cubes are very poor quality. I have a GAN speedcube and can recommend.
> Interestingly, the official Rubik's cubes are very poor quality. Official Rubik’s cubes solve a different problem: being a good toy : sure they’re horrible to turn, but they also they never explode, can’t corner-twist, and can even survive being thrown into a wall. That being said, I would never recommend this brand to any one above 12.
Rubik's cubes have a long history of being crap. They used to have crappy stickers that would peel off, and would explode. The newer ones don't explode.
You can definitely corner twist.
Modern Rubik's brand cubes have hidden screws under two of the faces (yellow and white, I think) where you can adjust tension to some extent.
The first to do it will likely be another olympic-level skilled 10 year old kid with a knack for puzzles, honed hand-eye coordination, and a naturally high level sense of visual acuity and a decent understanding of either functional composition or a base intuition of group theory.
If you can solve the cube, I'd encourage you to learn 3BLD. Or, solving a 3x3 blindfolded. Solving the cube was cool... Memorizing the cube and solving it and taking off the blindfold to see a solved cube, is really damn cool. I remember my 1st attempt taking me 1/2 an hour to get a success, times have dropped, but it's been a while since I did it. I should fix that :)
I also learned that actively memorizing is extremely exhausting.
For anyone looking to dip their toes into speed cubing or cubing in general I highly recommend checking out a YuXin Little Magic. https://www.thecubicle.com/products/yuxin-little-magic-3x3 The cube is only $6 (recently inflationed from $5) and it's one of the best cubes I've ever used. I have a stack of these sitting at home that I sometimes give to people who show an interest. Incidentally, YuXin makes some very smo…
That's crazy they sell apparently decent 11x11 cubes these days. I remember back when I was getting into cubing, late 07-early 08 and you could only get up to 5x5 cubes. Vcube had a website up for what seemed like forever (I was 10 so it may not be as long as my memory tells me) showing that they were going to be selling 6x6 and 7x7 cubes, and at some point it started feeling like vaporware and I thought maybe the si…
I'm so happy that large cubes are not only commonplace, but well made and affordable. I absolutely love my 7, 9, 11 and 13s.
And I still hate even-order cubes.
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Cool, I didn't know about this one. Looks awesome. But it's over twice as expensive! :)
Ah, whoops, the 2020, not the 2021! Should only be $9 at the right place. In my opinion, the extra couple dollars are worth it :)
Breakthroughs where the newest "zeta-slotting" technique and mathematical group theory are crossing may see sub-4 second averages to those savants skilled enough to optimally solve the needed corner-edge pairs and insert them while either subconsciously optimizing for the penultimate pair or just by getting lucky. The first to do it will likely be another olympic-level skilled 10 year old kid with a knack for puzzles…