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PetrusQuber

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Lots of new cubes obviously, there’s the Gan 356 XS, Valk Elite, Moyu Weilong WR M 2020 and the Dayan Tengyun V2 M for flagships right now. Cubes like the Meilong M, RS3M 2020 and Qiyi MS are the best budget cubes around and compete to almost flagship levels
 

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For me I learned about Cstimer when I averaged about 25, before then, I would always have to get someone else to time me or use this really bad stopwatch I had at my house.
hmm i used to use cstimer but i didnt really like it. I first timed myself when i got my first single of 5 minutes. Then i used cstimer at around 3 - 1.30 minutes.
 

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From what I can tell, magnets are pretty much present in all new cubes these days except in the very cheapest ones.
 

zslane

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I have a magnetic Pyraminx and a magnetic Skewb that both make an audible click when I turn them. What is causing this clicking noise? (I'm not talking about spring noise; these don't have any of that).
 

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I have a magnetic Pyraminx and a magnetic Skewb that both make an audible click when I turn them. What is causing this clicking noise? (I'm not talking about spring noise; these don't have any of that).
This is usually an indicator that the magnets are not glued into place. They're probably sitting in a slot and can move around when you turn the cube. A drop of glue will fix it.
 

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I've always thought that double moves (like U2) take longer than one move but shorter than two moves. So why not count them as 1.5 moves :thunkful:
 
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I doubt this will have any benefit to speedsolving... But a few days ago i realized that any algorithm repeated an even number of times will not affect EO. If you think of an algorithm as a "toggle" for the some of the edges (by which I mean it switches some edges from bad->good or good->bad) it becomes pretty clear that if you repeat the algorithm twice, all of the "toggled" edges are toggled back... meaning that EO isn't affected.

I know this is stupid but I thought it was interesting nonetheless. there's probably there's some other post that already mentioned this but whatever lol
 
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