some thoughts after a week of trying VCubes (3x3 -> 7x7)

[Deleted member 36445]

I havent been cubing for long enough... Whats zanchi? (nooob)

check this out:

DaYan Zhanchi

Available in 57mm, 55mm, 50mm, and 42mm Used in the 5.66 and 5.55 former World Record solves by Feliks Zemdegs and Mats Valk

www.speedcubereview.com

 

[Kaiju_cube]

check this out:

DaYan Zhanchi

Available in 57mm, 55mm, 50mm, and 42mm Used in the 5.66 and 5.55 former World Record solves by Feliks Zemdegs and Mats Valk

www.speedcubereview.com

DaYan is so underrated imo. The DaYan Tengyuin V2 M cubes I have easily rival the Gans, for much less money. They are fantastic.

And the DaYan megaminx is almost exactly the same as the Gan megaminx. The same size, lightness and smooth crisp turning. Even the colors are identical.

Look on Aliexpress for the 15x15. I got mine from there for about $169 (maybe less?). I found a listing that guaranteed delivery in 2 weeks or the cube would be free. Man, I have never been so disappointed to have a cube arrive faster than promised...

I've always been hesitant to order anything on Aliexpress. It just seems shady or something. I usually stick with eBay, Amazon, and The Cubicle. I wouldn't mind giving SpeedCubeShop a try but the Cubicle is only a day or so away since I'm on the East Coast.

 

[abunickabhi]

DaYan is so underrated imo. The DaYan Tengyuin V2 M cubes I have easily rival the Gans, for much less money. They are fantastic.

And the DaYan megaminx is almost exactly the same as the Gan megaminx. The same size, lightness and smooth crisp turning. Even the colors are identical.



I've always been hesitant to order anything on Aliexpress. It just seems shady or something. I usually stick with eBay, Amazon, and The Cubicle. I wouldn't mind giving SpeedCubeShop a try but the Cubicle is only a day or so away since I'm on the East Coast.

Yeah I agree Dayan became underrated in the last 8 years. I hope they revive as a company, and become the best!

 

[Deleted member 36445]

I wouldn't mind giving SpeedCubeShop a try but the Cubicle is only a day or so away since I'm on the East Coast.

1 day? That's awesome.

As I live in Brazil, buying from inside the country is very expensive because of the taxes, so you can pay like 3 or 4 times the price of the cube sold in china. So I buy from cubezz, it's cheap but it can take 3 months to arrive

 

[Kaiju_cube]

Learned something pretty cool about V-Cubes today. (didn't want to make a new thread)

My 5x5 > 8x8 all came with sheets of extra stickers. I had no idea. In the cardboard section and bottom of the packaging they all have extra sets of stickers for the cube.

Pretty cool. Wish I'd known that before I cut and replaced a couple stickers on the 7x7.

 

[qwr]

I've always been hesitant to order anything on Aliexpress. It just seems shady or something. I usually stick with eBay, Amazon, and The Cubicle. I wouldn't mind giving SpeedCubeShop a try but the Cubicle is only a day or so away since I'm on the East Coast.

Old post but I would go cubing stores like Cubicle, SCS, ziicube, cubezz first, then ebay, then amazon or aliexpress as a last resort.
Aliexpress is great for buying very cheap electronic components tho.

 

[Kaiju_cube]

yeah I generally just use The Cubicle, SpeedCubeShop, or Amazon,... then I check eBay if I can't find what I want at the first three.

Though since poking around that HKnowstore.com site I'm tempted to try and order a couple from them. They have some odd stuff I haven't seen before.

to update the thread, the V-Cube 5x5 and 7x7 are still incredibly hard to turn. The 6x6 broke in, as did the 8x8. They're not 'fast', but they're loose enough to solve easily.

all but the 5 and 7 are pretty good. Not 'speedcubes', but solid little puzzles with a nice clacky 'Rubikesque' type of feel.

the 5 and 7 are still painful and I have no idea how to get them to loosen up.


....for the sake of completion I admit being tempted to get the 9x9.

 

[qwr]

yeah I generally just use The Cubicle, SpeedCubeShop, or Amazon,... then I check eBay if I can't find what I want at the first three.

Though since poking around that HKnowstore.com site I'm tempted to try and order a couple from them. They have some odd stuff I haven't seen before.

to update the thread, the V-Cube 5x5 and 7x7 are still incredibly hard to turn. The 6x6 broke in, as did the 8x8. They're not 'fast', but they're loose enough to solve easily.

all but the 5 and 7 are pretty good. Not 'speedcubes', but solid little puzzles with a nice clacky 'Rubikesque' type of feel.

the 5 and 7 are still painful and I have no idea how to get them to loosen up.


....for the sake of completion I admit being tempted to get the 9x9.

did you try just loosening them?

 

[Tabe]

I've always been hesitant to order anything on Aliexpress. It just seems shady or something. I usually stick with eBay, Amazon, and The Cubicle. I wouldn't mind giving SpeedCubeShop a try but the Cubicle is only a day or so away since I'm on the East Coast.

I've purchase cubes several times from Aliexpress, never had an issue. Got my Moyu 15x15 from there, in fact.

 

[Kaiju_cube]

I was under the impression this one (and the Rubiks Professor 5x5) weren't really adjustable.

Both of mine, V-Cube and Rubiks 5x5, barely turn. Outer edges have a hard click to them on the V-Cube.

 

[EngiNerdBrian]

Learned something pretty cool about V-Cubes today. (didn't want to make a new thread)

My 5x5 > 8x8 all came with sheets of extra stickers. I had no idea. In the cardboard section and bottom of the packaging they all have extra sets of stickers for the cube.

Pretty cool. Wish I'd known that before I cut and replaced a couple stickers on the 7x7.

I have my original replacement stickers and some cubesmith sticker sets for my V-cube 7. Every time I’ve resticketed a “classic” cube I’ve regretted it though, goung to leave it as-is!

 

[abunickabhi]

I have my original replacement stickers and some cubesmith sticker sets for my V-cube 7. Every time I’ve resticketed a “classic” cube I’ve regretted it though, goung to leave it as-is!

I have had a similar experience when I restickered my shengshou 5x5 cube in 2014. The cube turned out worse, and the I just switched to another cube called MoYu Aochuang.

 

[Megaminx lover]

I've found MoYu, MGC, Shengshou, YuXin, and YongJun all make much, much nicer big cubes, for less money. At the moment I'd say MoYu and Shengshou make my favorites, but MGC, YuXin and YJ are not far behind them.

Gan?

 

[CubeRed]

Gan?

To expensive for the about same quality as other brands

 

[Kaiju_cube]

Gan?

they don't really have "big" cubes. They have the incredibly overpriced 4x4, and they have a very nice Megaminx, and that's about it unless I totally miss something.

They're in the top 3 for 3x3's,.. of course.