Recent content by Doctor Hedron

Who needs that one for $600 when you can buy a diamond 3x3 for $4?

Don't forget that "WR" means both "with ridges" and "without ridges".

Yeah, they might be good. I have an old 57-58 mm 5x5 - a Shengshou Mini Linglong. It's trashy, but with a modern mechanism and with magnets, the size can be perfectly usable.

During that fidget spinner craze, a guy I know decided to get one. He was like, "I'm a grown adult with a job, I can perfectly afford to buy it locally instead of waiting for a month for some cheap bootleg version to ship from China!". He found some really overpriced one, paid extra for it to be...

Oh boy, here we go. The first ever listing of the Shengshou 19x19 has it for $740 USD. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4001289848324.html (credit to reddit user apcubes for the discovery of this) Disclaimer: do NOT buy it from there. This is for reference only. The seller is legit but is well...

Yeah, here they are. Two shells in the mechanism, the inner shell is a 5x5, like the Yuxin 17x17 (not sure about the distribution of layers on the *Shengshou* 17x17, but *all* of their big cubes have two shells). Also, an earlier photo of a 18x18 from last year (not sure who the manufacturer is).

Yuxin if you want to impress your guests with a mega chonker on your shelf. Shengshou if you want to speedsolve. The actual turning quality of the layers is about the same, both of them are "good", but Yuxin is enormous and heavy. 3 kg vs. 1 kg! CKSuperLevis, the dedicated big cube solver who...

If you have either the Shengshou Tank 6x6 or their 6x6 morphix, is it the same mechanism? Are the pieces interchangeable?

23x23 is claimed by YJ, this is clearly a 33x33. /s

And the facebook post has even more, including specifications for each cube. At least the Meilong 5M is smaller than the "old" Meilong 5. A few weeks ago, someone on Reddit wrote that he received a "Meilong 5" which was 60 mm instead of 62, and had magnet slots. So apparently that was it, but...

Actually, Grégoire Pfennig (Greg's Puzzles) - the designer of Yuxin Multi Cube, 3D printed 33x33x33, etc - recently released a video talking about exactly these things. View counts, the workload of running a puzzle channel, scammy facebook pages stealing views, ads on videos, monetization...

Yeah, that was me. That's my personal yellow one in the photo. Stickers hopefully arriving soon (at last). --- Speaking of which, this guy from China, Ao Kesong, made force Moyu 15x15s a few months later: I think I'm not at liberty to disclose some certain numbers, but none of us Westerners...

Wrt this discussion about force examinxes and the price of doing that. I won't be outright quoting myself because I wrote A LOT of text there so it would clutter the page here, but I wrote up a detailed analysis of cost and other associated risks. TL;DR: - don't buy from Cubezz, buy from...

Nice. Currently $218 + 1.8 kg of shipping for VIP users, $245 + shipping for regular users, and will be $355 + shipping (for regular users) after the current Covid Sale ends. Gotta love this, though: Unless there's a miniscule measurement error (due to rounded pieces or whatever), this one is...

My two cents on the force examinx idea, speaking as someone who made force 12x12s (cubes, not minxes). I ended up typing waaay too much, but hopefully someone still finds this useful or interesting. Yeah, it was me. Was it you who said that a literal cow is cheaper than the examinx? :) But...