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Rubik's 360 in Competition

Should Rubik's 360 be in competition?

  • Add the 360!

    Votes: 8 5.7%
  • No way!

    Votes: 101 72.1%
  • I couldn't care less...

    Votes: 31 22.1%

  • Total voters
    140

yomaster

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I know many people like to solve Rubik's 360's. Why not have them in competitions? A lot of people can not solve them terribly fast, but as long as you can do it under 10 minutes, there would be no problem. Tell me what you think of the idea by voting in the poll.
 

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No way, It's the last thing that should be added, I personally think that the Rubik's Clock and Magic and Master Magic should as well. They aren't twisty puzzles just because they have the name Rubik's on them.

Other puzzles like cuboids should be added IMO
 

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No way...
A LOT of people who buy the puzzle don't like it - at all.
I don't even find it fun, plus it's boring to watch.

True, I find it annoying to try to solve. I have it and I've only solved it once, and it wasn't timed. That's why you'll see in my signature my best for the 360 is DNF!
I just want to see what other people think of this idea.
 

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No way, It's the last thing that should be added, I personally think that the Rubik's Clock and Magic and Master Magic should as well. They aren't twisty puzzles just because they have the name Rubik's on them.

Other puzzles like cuboids should be added IMO

I would call the magic puzzles twisty. They just aren't turny.
 

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I personally say no to adding Rubik's 360s in competition. Firstly, I believe that Erik Akkersdijk posted a video in him solving it in 1:49, and considering he is one of the fastest cubers out there, there would probably be a lot of people not able to make the 10 minute time limit. Secondly, there would have to be a whole new sort of notation for the puzzle. People would have to learn the new notation in order to be able to scramble it for competitors. Going about making the 360 an event and such seems more like a hassle than anything.
 

Daniel Wu

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I personally say no to adding Rubik's 360s in competition. Firstly, I believe that Erik Akkersdijk posted a video in him solving it in 1:49, and considering he is one of the fastest cubers out there, there would probably be a lot of people not able to make the 10 minute time limit. Secondly, there would have to be a whole new sort of notation for the puzzle. People would have to learn the new notation in order to be able to scramble it for competitors. Going about making the 360 an event and such seems more like a hassle than anything.
I'd agree with no 360 in competition, but not for your reasons. The day I got a 360, I solved it three times. The second and third solves were well under ten minutes. Being a fast cuber has little correlation to solving the 360 quickly. And notation to scramble?? Why would any notation be necessary? All the balls just start in the middle.
 

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The 360 can be modified without changing the mech to be extremely easy to solve quickly to the point of triviality.

It wouldn't be against the rules to do this.

I can solve a modded 360. Can't solve a non modded one.

Skewb <3
 

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pretty much.

I noticed that the stiffness of the axis varies from 360 to 360, stifer ones being better. I basically just ramped up the stiffness.
 

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Rubiks 360 is a dumb idea. The events have spread off from the 2-5 Rubik's Cubes and have branched off to other TWISTY puzzles such as the pyraminx, megaminx, square one, and so many others. If the WCA were to add another event, IMO it would definitely be a twisty puzzle such as Skewb, not a dumb gimmick that Rubik's recently released.
 
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