Recent content by marco768

I own both the Valk 4M and GTS2M, though both are only standard cubes set up by myself. IMO the Valk is a slower cube than the GTS2M, and I think that is inherent to the design/mechanism. So if you are looking for a fast 4x4 it might be better to speed up the GTS2M. I also heard the Mystic...

For some background & context, I cubed competitively at around 2007-09 and competed in 3 competitions in those years. My skill level is pretty unremarkable though. (Average times at that time period: 3x3 sub-18, 4x4 sub-1:20, 5x5 sub 2:15, 6x6 sub-4:00 and 7x7 sub-6:30)...

Fingertrick friendliness of Fridrich VS Fewer moves for Petrus and Roux A classic debate topic Personally I think Fridrich would remain as the most popular method, while remaining as one of the fastest. One reason I think Fridrich is fast is because there are dedicated solvers who provide all...

My (perfectionist) mind thinks that putting all the caps in and having a totally enclosed cubie is a distinctive feature of this cube, even though putting the caps and sanding the tabs seemed pointless and troublesome. I still did it and I'm happy with it. I'm not sure whether there will be...

If you have a version with arched-with-gap-for-tabs centres, just leave it as it is. If you have a version with normal arched centre, put in all the caps and sand off the tabs. My recently retired cube is the second one I've described.

For mine I didn't sand off the ridges completely, I just sand the two straight part of the ridge to a 45 degree angle on each side for all 12 edges.

Actually he uploaded another one, just scroll down more on the first page