Random Cubing Discussion

[precompsubwr]

@precompsubwr

Fun fact that is exactly where my name comes from

 

[Chicken-Cuber]

Fun fact chickens can’t physically solve cubes but they do it anyway

 

[edward_9x]

I just got ZZ printed on a shirt: My image is a cube with dark grey corners, light grey oriented edges and white+blue line edges.
But they increased the contrast on the whole photo so now the oriented edges are coloured the same as the line way edges. So basically they turned my EOLine into an EOCross

 

[eeeeeeeee]

meep

 

[Eric4112]

Yeah so ss didn’t update the 3x3 wr yet for the security question

 

[precompsubwr]

meep

Bro thinks he’s

Spoiler

No competitors from 1982’s world champs are from the same country

 

[eeeeeeeee]

meep

sry i was tired yesterday but kirjava-meep

 

[Caleb Valenzuela]

meep

meep city

 

[FaTyl]

just put o-rings on my 10 year old gen3 timer for the lolz

still my main timer btw

 

[Hazel]

just put o-rings on my 10 year old gen3 timer for the lolz

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still my main timer btw

Those full-covering stickers bring me back. Stickerless cubes are so convenient, but a big part of me misses the customization of black plastic cubes.

 

[qwr]

I bet those nonmagnetic cubes are crunchy or smooth as hell
Magnets are great but we lost some of the extreme smoothness of nonmag

 

[NukesAway]

Yeah this is random

So I got pretty good linear FMC solves with (somewhat) easy lookahead like this
Heise (allowing for one mismatched 2*2 block)
ZBLS (looking up algsheet)
ZBLL (looking up algsheet)

Alright don't try this because I figure you have better things to do than memorizing 1000 algs
But as a way for new FMCers to get any sense of achievement consistently I think it's okay
Now forget about this shitpost

 

[FaTyl]

With Clock's removal being all but imminent, and with big cubes getting smaller and smaller, do you think cube stores & comp organizers will soon start selling & using shorter cube covers, similar to the GAN cover?

(images shamelessly ripped from TheCubicle)

 

[acrystal]

With Clock's removal being all but imminent, and with big cubes getting smaller and smaller, do you think cube stores & comp organizers will soon start selling & using shorter cube covers, similar to the GAN cover?

(images shamelessly ripped from TheCubicle)
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I always thought they were small, never saw a big cube cover in my life
but yeah.. inflation

 

[FaTyl]

I always thought they were small, never saw a big cube cover in my life
but yeah.. inflation

You should've seen TheCubicle's 2022 cube cover. Comically large. It could fit 12 3x3s.

My only experience with those covers was at a comp a few years ago. They were used for multiblind

 

[acrystal]

You should've seen TheCubicle's 2022 cube cover. Comically large. It could fit 12 3x3s.

My only experience with those covers was at a comp a few years ago. They were used for multiblind

It mustve changed alot then!

 

[FaTyl]

Speaking of TheCubicle, today I learned that their old shop page is still available through their old domain. It hasn't been updated since November 2018, which presents us with a little view back to the past. As someone who ordered from them before they switched domains, it's strangely nostalgic searching through their old catalog.

(Note: your web browser might warn you of an invalid certificate. The domain is registered to TheCubicle themselves, so the site should be fine to visit. Just to be safe, do NOT try to log into your account.)
legacy.thecubicle.us

 

[acrystal]

If you take the best ZBLS algs from an F2L case, and compare all of them together to get the best alg, that is the standard alg for that F2L case.
PROVE ME WRONG

 

[K3n]

Did the wca website just change parts of its appearance or am I tripping?
The logos of the events in the rankings, records, and any person profiles is now closer to each other and smaller than normal, if I'm not mistaken.

 

[-Cube Kid-]

Did the wca website just change parts of its appearance or am I tripping?
The logos of the events in the rankings, records, and any person profiles is now closer to each other and smaller than normal, if I'm not mistaken.

I think you are right!