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Break the habit of watching what your currently doing. Do you know F2L yet? If you know F2L do some slow untimed solves. When it's time to insert an F2L pair close your eyes and do it blind. Open your eyes find the next pair - do it blind again. Do a couple solves closing your eyes for the...

Printables link also thingiverse link. reddit user u/Tarnagona had asked for a 3D designer to help her make a labeling system for blind and or sight deficient cubers/twisty puzzlers. We worked together on the symbols and this is the design I came up with. It uses braille tape and a braille...

Anyone know what's happened to the new site? Is there a newer site?

I do. It involves cuss words. What I do when starting this with two deges solved is I count 1-2-crap. Before the first slice I put in the edge for the first pair and count 1, put in the edge to make the second pair and count 2, put in garbage that won't make a pair and say crap. That usually...

My thinking was looking at the orbitals. I don't know if anyone has named and numbered them but I think they work out like this: 1) You can assemble it correctly. 2) you can assemble it with a corner twist (+1) 3) you can assemble it with a CC corner twist (or -1) 4) You can assemble it with an...

1/3 chance of getting a clockwise corner twist. 1/3 chance of getting a counter clockwise corner twist. 1/3 chance of getting it correct. More along the lines of what I was thinking. Post updated. Even and odd edge/corners sounds right but are you sure about their probability?

We know there are 12 orbits of the cube. It is assumed that the probability of randomly assembling the cube and having a solvable puzzle is 1 in 12. Have we checked that? I was thinking of all the ways it's possible to misassemble the cube. 1) Clockwise corner twist (1 in 3 chance) 2)...

Meaning is use in a Wittgenstein-ian way. While you may desire people to use more precise language to avoid ambiguity you live in a culture where there are not precise singular definitions of words. You understand what was said. Maybe for you belief is an inappropriate word but for many it...

Let me preface my answer with this. I am not religious, this is not a christian perspective. I love the book of Genesis. The stories are the briefest - the least filled in. The bare bones of a story. The fewest words possible. They say so little and people fill in the rest with assumptions. The...

Sorry you've been two weeks without and answer. Other hobbies have grabbed my attention and I haven't been about cubing too much recently. I used the springs from a simplified Cyclone boys in the 5x5. I haven't tried any others.

Welcome Speediant Darn good void cube parity.

Assistant at a car dealership. I was in the mechanical department. Wore jeans or overalls that became coated in grease and oil everyday. Did light routine mechanical work (removed tires, balanced tires, rotated tires, greased wheel bearings, and some oil changes) that the experienced mechanics...

Sometimes a nail buffer or two is more readily available than ultra fine sandpaper. Consider using the nail buffer wet to keep it's surface from being clogged up with plastic. A nail buffer is often the same idea as different grades of sand paper. It starts with a "corse" grade and goes up to...

Not so much cheating but someone has already designed and built a bluetooth enabled cube that transmits the face turns to a computer. Looks like it transmits rotations as well. Check out the "interface cube" on this project. Doesn't look stock and I have no idea how it feels. I was thinking of...

You need half of this sensor board's functionality and size. Then you need a battery and accelerometer and time to program. It's not that far fetched. This was an 800 node network in 2001. Darpa has poured in money. Consumer electronic demand has shrunk wireless and accelerometer size and...

Don't mean to diminish the theoretical discussion but I was thinking of hardware that could cheat... Not to actually cheat but to think of how it could be done. I was thinking of six networked little machines that could fit under the center caps, had a led and knew their relative positions to...

In the video AlexMaass it shows the posts on the centers at about 1 minute in and talks about how they are aligned at about 1:30. One of your posts is probably not aligned right and that's why one or more middle slice is stuck. Unscrew it, put it on right and reassemble the puzzle and your good...

I think the DaYan with ridges has to take it. Lube the springs and the puzzle and it's really good. I have a stickerless DaYan with ridges and it's super. I also have a very well modded Shengshou. I put blood sweat and time into doing it right and it is smooth but if I can't get the right...

My first megaminx (from not that long ago) was a shengshou. The stickers were not that good to begin with and then I modded it with the stickers on and they got worse. Really love the modded megaminx and it's smooth movement. It does need some more grip. My plan was to try tiles. The MF8 tiles...

I just got the simplified one today. Ordered it from lightake just before christmas. It's the one the cubicle is calling the FeiWu. I really like it. It's 56mm (not 55) and weighs 89grams. Came in a hard to open retail blister pack. Lots of packaging. Somebody really believes in packaging and...