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  1. OldSwiss

    GamerTechs magma-glove (heating and compression)

    I just stumbled across a review of a gaming glove https://gamertech.gg/pages/magma-glove https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/wearable-tech/gamertechs-magma-glove-is-a-heated-compression-glove-targeted-at-competitive-gamers This should warm and compress hands and wrists for a better gaming...
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    Ortega based beginners method

    Whenever I teach 2x2 with LBL to a beginner, they encounter the same problems Understanding the color scheme on a cube with no fixed centers is not so easy Building a full layer is not so easy for beginners, especially if you have to stick on white. The Algs for T-Perm, J-Perm, Y-Perm or...
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    Germany vs. Switzerland, young vs old, Lio2010 vs. OldSwiss... The battle thread (in german)

    Da wir aktuell beide etwa gleich schnell sind, (AO100 ~26.xx ) und beide deutsch sprechen, können wir hier unser Battle auf Sub23, oder vorerst auch Sub25 austragen ;-) Hier meine aktuellen Smartcube Resultate aus Cubeast Ich hatte auch schon ein par bessere Singles bis 17.0x runter, die...
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    Getting faster at Megaminx

    I just started with megaminx and still need around 5 minutes. Any Tips to get faster? I use F2L and 4LL. Are there any special fingertricks and tricks to move pieces to the other side of the ball? I think finding pieces and moving them around is what takes me the most time in the moment. Also...
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    Can you follow other cubers solves?

    If you are judging or watch a frieds solve, can you see what they are doing? For cubers at around my speed, I can see the solving method (if it's LBL, CFOP or Roux) and cross color, sometimes OLL if they don't start it to fast and PLL if its an easy to recognize like H-Perm but no chance on...
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    Professional Cubers

    If we talk about the top cubers of the world we talk about "the Pros", but how many of them do that really professional in the meaning of "as a fulltime job"? I think most of the younger cubers are still financed by their parents. Is there enough money to make to do professional cubing? I think...
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    What's the largest cube you've disassembled and (successfully) reassembled

    I was on vacation on the beach with some of my older cubes. After this they were full of sand and salt, so i had to fully clean them so rescue them. The 3x3 was no problem but I was surprised how many additional parts there are in a 4x4 core and it took me quite some time and nerves to...
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    [Member Intro] New but old

    Hi I am from Switzerland and started about half a year ago with (speed)solving. It began with my partents in law who bought some cubes for my sister's kids, but no one could solve it. As a kid of the 80's I had a cube as a kid but could never solve more than one face (i guess not even with the...
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