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For anyone unaware, a GiiKER cube is a 3x3 with sensors on each center piece that relays each move performed on the cube via bluetooth. The simplest way this could be used for cheating would be by handing over a GiiKER cube for scrambling, and then using a phone in the waiting area to know the...

I was just solving a scramble and had this case for the corners: L2 F2 L2 U2 L2 U' L2 U F2 L' U' L' U' F2 L U2 L'. I use UBL as the buffer, so the very first corner should go to UFR; using Speffz, a solution for the corners could be: CB FP SB. However, I suck, and messed up with the very first...

I've noticed that when I DNF I'm more likely to have messed up corners than edges. So I got curious about how others usually DNF their solves. This is why corners are more problematic for me: Yes there's less corners than edges during memo, but each corner has 3 orientations instead of just 2...

I've noticed an increase in threads of cubers asking for help which can barely be met by the amount of advisers out there, so I thought it'd be good to write down a few guidelines so you too can help those noobs improve! 1. Whatever the cuber's doing is wrong If the cuber turns fast, tell...

Many people seem to think that you should reach certain speeds before learning certain algs/techniques/methods (I learned 3-style BLD from Noah's videos where he advises not to look into the method unless you're at least sub 1:30). I always ignore such suggestions because to me it makes more...

ScramBLD ("scrambled" or "scram BLD" if you're mad at BLD after a few DNFs) Hello, ScramBLD is a web app that can be used to practice BLD execution. Cubers new to BLD can also use it to help them figure out how Speffz letter pairs can be selected to solve scrambles. - You can input a scramble...

Hello! Hello? Anyone? Anybody? No? Well this is awkward. ... I'll show myself out.

A couple of weeks ago I switched my N-perm algorithm. I can still perform the old one easily, but I just tried to write it down without a cube at hand and it was nearly impossible! Muscle memory > memory.

An old teacher from college visited me today to wish me a happy new year. When she saw my new un-stickered type C on the table she told me I should put the stickers on at random, and then try to solve it. I told her that would most likely result in an unsolvable cube, and proceeded to explain...

I think this would be very helpful to facilitate the writing of mathematical equations, which seem to be posted quite often. This is an example thread from a forum that has integrated LaTeX: http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=239408 All you'd need to do is install LaTeX...

Is it OK if I start a thread where every question must be answered with another question?

I saw a single snowflake and for a second thought there was something messed up with my monitor.

Hello everyone. Do any of you think that starting with a white/yellow cross offers any advantage in f2l recognition? Ever since I started cubing I picked the blue cross. I've noticed that sometimes I insert a wrong edge during f2l. For instance, I'll insert the white/red edge with the...