Recent content by BMcD308

There are a number of GAN 11 series cubes. All of them share the GES pro system for adjusting tensions. They differ in magnet setup (and maybe other ways). The GAN 11 Air is not magnetized. The GAN 11M has corner and edge magnets like traditional magnetic cubes but does not have the extra corner...

I would strongly prefer stickerless EXCEPT that it is difficult for me to quickly tell the difference between white and yellow on many stickerless cubes, particularly in low light or fluorescent light.

Why? What's different about it that makes you say that?

Is the Dayan the larger YJ MGC size or the smaller X-Man size (these are the only two I have, and the cube stores don't list the size on megaminx listings).

We also need a beginner's guide to choosing a beginner method. The Cubicle's sexy move method has the advantage of being very easy to learn, but it does not translate well to trying to get faster. The J Perm method is harder to learn than the Cubicle method, but the additional algs you learn...

I have the YJ MGC and the X-Man. I have no experience with any of the others on your list. Of my two I prefer the YJ because it is slightly larger, and I find it better fits my giant hands (honestly I would prefer an even bigger one). That said, the downside of the YJ is that if I try to get all...

My son and I have the YJ MGC 2x2 recommended on the first page of this thread, as well as a few others. Based on my experience, I concur with the recommendation of the YJ MGC. There is nothing really bad about it. It does not have the same high quality feel as the more expensive GAN and Valk...

I wonder how this site pulled the data ... I'd be curious to see "new competitors" over time (which is just the first derivative of this graph, whose slope appears to go to something close to zero during COVID), as well as "total active competitors," defined as something like the number of...

I'm going to buy about a dozen 3x3s to seed a cubing club at my son's school. What's the best "superbudget" (like, under$5) 3x3? Is it still the Yuxin Little Magic? It seems like a few years ago no matter the puzzle if you wanted a cheap one, the best cheap one was the Yuxin Little Magic. Just...

Is "total competitors" the number who competed in that year? Or is it the cumulative number of people who have ever competed?

I competed for the first time!

I am by no means an expert at F2L. In fact, when I use F2L right now, it takes me about as long to solve F2L as it takes me to complete the entire puzzle using LBL, so using F2L results in times that exceed by LBL solve times by pretty much the whole last layer. That said, I find the corners...

I googled around and found the method in the book I mentioned above, which was written by James G. Nourse. I did falsely malign his last layer method. It is actually quite similar to other beginner methods, just performed upside down. While I remember the last layer being super difficult to...

My son is 7. It's the "righty alg" in our house.

In the imgur pic above, it appears that if the U and D faces are held still, I could move the M slice less than 45 degrees to match up the M and U layers. But then I would need to move the D face more than 45 degrees to match the now repositioned M slice, which would be aligned with the U face...