Mine has worn in enough to start jamming up, but I've mitigated that by pressure washing it at our water park almost every day. That helps a lot, but I've been reluctant to actually lubricate it, not like I want oil on my hands every time I tinker with it..

Advice very welcome, as the puzzle you see above, I can solve it blind and single handed, but the thing keeps jamming up..

Update: I figured out where the main wear and tear is coming from. I used a cloth wipe to clean all the crevices of plastic dust. Then I noticed circular grooves worn into pretty much every piece internally.

Turns out, it was caused by plastic burrs from the clips on the covers of the center pieces. If I had realized that to begin with, I would have flattened those out and cleaned them up when I first had it disassembled.

Anyways, now it's already pretty well worn in, no reason to bother now. Still, if I knew in advance, I would have trimmed, smoothed out, and lubricated those manufactured plastic burrs before even using it much.

Based on my modified Rubik's Cube/Die.

Yes obviously it's not a proper die as far as the dot pattern goes, but it's fun figuring out patterns like this.

Reference post..

https://lemmy.world/post/21009190

What's your current favorite cube/puzzle?

Also he's now using MoYu instead of Gan?

I don't like time my solves. I only like to solve.
So, I practice every day and I feel when I was fast or not. And about once a month, I time few solves to see if the new things I learned are effective or those I try to improve have an impact. And…

Every time I break a personal record! Single and less often an average.
It is very satisfying and it means I am progressing.

This morning, no warm up, my first solve was under my best Ao5. Which is a good sign, I think.

Voilà. I just wanted to share my experience as an average cuber :)

Keep learning.

If using CFOP best way is

y U’ (R’ F R F’) U’ (F’ U’ F).

In ZZ method, you don’t rotate and those moves would break EO.

Using ZZ best solution I can think of is

(L’ U’ L) U’ (L’ U2 L) U2 (L’ U’ L)

which just feels inefficient. I wonder if there is a better way?

Saw people like this puzzle so I picked one up. Surprised how often I pick it up to solve. Cube turns well for what it is.

I tried to take a picture that showed how it works. It's a normal 2x2, but the corners twist, and the edges twist. No shape shifting or anything funny.

The solve is pretty easy. Just find and pair pieces to build the corners, then solve it as a 2x2. Not really any special cases that need special algorithms or anything. It is a bit tedious and can be hard finding pieces that you need, but that can be mitigated a bit with methods I'll let you discover for yourself.

I like puzzles like this that don't feel like I have to learn a bunch of new information to be able to solve them. But that are also unique and interesting

Rowe Hessler's solve during the Cubicle's Gan 15 review.
About 6.20 s transformed into 9.38 s.

For anyone interested in my modified cube/die, this is the dot pattern I laid out. Sorry but not sorry for pixelated image, it shouldn't matter.

Reference post: https://lemmy.world/post/21005772

Yes, it's a proper (though cheap) mini cube. I added proper dice dots to it for the hell of it. Fully solved, it's a proper die. Also, the red/white/blue pattern here is a proper and easily solvable die-cube. The opposite sides are autumn colors yellow/orange/green.

I also discovered a Christmas color theme proper die-cube.

I've found it very fun and interesting to play with, as obviously it's now a dual puzzle.

Thoughts?

Edit: Another post from I Made This, showing the autumn colors corner from the fully solved cube..

https://lemmy.world/post/20039223

Is the unbeatable WR just going to sit there?

[WR] 3x3x3 OH 5.66 single by Dhruva Sai Meruva.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88_TpF7WKVo

Previous single by Sean Patrick Villanueva: 6.05.

5.66 is the first sub-6 OH. It was also the first sub-6 333 by Feliks in 2011.

Pll-skip, but the TPS is insane!

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@cubers

Hi all! So sorry for being late. I missed the monthly thread for October so I thought lets try weekly threads a try. How's everyone doing? Any comps coming up? Any new puzzles?

Hi :)

Have you ever dreamed about cubing? About solving a cube?
I didn't. But I'm curious. If yes, can you tell us?

[WR] 5x5x5 31.60 single by Tymon Kolasiński

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT-oT2moPcc

Previous single : 32.52 by Max Park (Mar 16, 2024). And the previous, and the previous and … (It was 7 consecutive WR single by Max Park).

Reconstruction https://reco.nz/solve/11096

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@cubers

Been playing with my new FTO for a dew days - wasn't able to solve it without help. I went with the Bencisco method and it's a really fun solve. It did take a bit for me to fully grasp solving centers (it's like 4x4 Yau method, but with a restriction). And I still don't fully comprehend solving the last 3 triplets, but I can always get them.

Some of my favorite twisty puzzles are ones that don't take a lot of learning. Just intuitive moves if you have a method. So more like solving a puzzle than following a list of steps. The FTO is almost that. The few algorithms I had to learn are basically intuitive once you see them once.

I definitely see myself picking this cube up a lot to solve for fun. My main complaint is that sometimes the puzzle is just solved after solving the centers. I actually really like the last step, but often multiple steps get skipped at the end. But then that's just an excuse to scramble it up again!

[WR] 3x3x3 4.08 average by Yiheng Wang (王艺衡)

https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=OTgzEUd6cQE

3.83 (6.16) 4.55 (3.71) 3.88

Previous avg : 4.25 by Yiheng Wang

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@cubers