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The Gan Debate Thread

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so basically, Gan is the Supreme brand of cubing, hypebeasts are Gan fanboys.
To an extent. With supreme you are buying the name to flex, not because the product is good. With Gan it’s the best option for a lot of people, although I’m sure some spoiled kid gets them just to flex...

Edit: Gan = Apple down to the letter. Naming scheme, high quality, no change in design, overpriced, everything.
 
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I'm not sure if anyone else sees this at competitions but in my area, I notice that on average the faster a person is the less likely they are to use a gan cube. When I staff I see all of these people that avg 1:15-45 on 3x3 and most of them use the X or XS. Once you get into the final round the most common cube is the WRm followed by Valk variants, GTS3s, and then MF3RS3s and Tengyuns. At the final round of 3x3 that happened in my area, there was only 1 person using a gan cube.
 

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To me Gan is the Louis Vuitton, Rolex, newest Apple product, Cadillac of cubes. Yeah they’re nice but tons of other products accomplish 99% of the features at 25%-75% of the price.
The marginal increase in quality or features is not worth the large difference in cash. I think there are many other more economical choices out there that offer similar stability and speed. Gan cubes do have a unique style and feel, and if that works for you I could see why someone would become a big fan of their products.

They market themselves as premium and that marketing effort is powerful and has been very successful. They are good cubes but they aren’t THAT good...mostly just a little bit different.

I’m glad I purchased my XS at a discounted rate ($35)-it’s the most expensive 3x3 in my collection and still not my main...hard to justify paying such a premium for any more Gan cubes when I reach for a $20 YLM over the XS daily.
 

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Love em or hate em, we all have an opinion on them. What do you think of Gan and their puzzles? Do they need to start making something unique and not just a bunch of extremely similar 3x3s, or is Mr. Gan today's Thomas Edison?
This os good question. For me turning is insane, but VEEEERY unstable. Let's get my main(gan r s) this is very good cube, but in the box are not any springs or settings. For this money i can buy valk 3, but i know it have more potential than the gan r s. Gan are very expensive, but actually the parts are for something like 10 dollars. I can't understand why gan x s is too expensive, because the magnets are not too much expensive and rhe springs are nothing special. There are budger cubes like little magic m, who are better than the gan cubes. For me gan are high-cost trash. They want to put cheaper ipg in their cubes(the plastic ipg)and sold them for expensive. Now let's get the gan 356 m- the lite version is 5dollars cheaper, because in the box are not ges nuts, but wait Are too expensive just 20 springs? For this money i can get new cube. Noo, gan no!
 

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I'm not sure if anyone else sees this at competitions but in my area, I notice that on average the faster a person is the less likely they are to use a gan cube. When I staff I see all of these people that avg 1:15-45 on 3x3 and most of them use the X or XS. Once you get into the final round the most common cube is the WRm followed by Valk variants, GTS3s, and then MF3RS3s and Tengyuns. At the final round of 3x3 that happened in my area, there was only 1 person using a gan cube.
I guess newer cubers are more likely to think because of the high price tag, Gan is the best, and when they get faster, they switch to different cubes? And newer cubers think new cubes help a lot with times.
 

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Gan cubes are good and all but I feel like they are overcomplicated now and they have too many variants. Releasing a new flagship every 4-5 months and then raising the price by 10 dollars or so. Tbh none of the gans new installments are inherently better than their old ones. I think the SM, 354, X, and XS are relatively similar in performance, yet they range from 35 dollars to 60 dollars, just for magnet and spring customization? And for me they 100% aren't worth is because the M slices generally don't have good flow into U moves so Roux users like me won't get them. I think gan is too focused on customization and they are making it needlessly hard. The X had the perfect easy to understand system and the XS ruined that (for me).
 

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I guess newer cubers are more likely to think because of the high price tag, Gan is the best, and when they get faster, they switch to different cubes? And newer cubers think new cubes help a lot with times.
I do think that is a big part of it, I also think that newer cubers only care about performance and customization but don't even think about stability. Stability is something that I value in my cubes. My last 4 mains in order were the GTS3 Valk3 Valk Elite and most recently the Mystic WRm. I love these cubes because they feel quite stable and I look for that when choosing a main. This is also the same reason that people don't use the Qiyi Square-1 or Qifa competitively. Their corner cutting is by far the best but they are so unstable and unreliable (Something I notice in gan puzzles) that it's just not worth it. I think that once people begin to try highly stable puzzles like the Valk line and RS3, they realize how important it is to have a stable puzzle. I also would like to give out a PSA to gan cube users, please don't dump an entire syringe of weight 2 inside of your cube. I have felt so many over lubed Xs while scrambling at competitions. Gan cubes can be great if they are set up correctly, but if you have to dump a ton of lube inside of your gan to make it more controllable, try switching to something else.
 
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