tensioning

I've been thinking a lot lately about how much lube, tensioning, and quality of cube impacts a person's speed. For example, if you took your main and cleaned the lube out and tried to solve it dry how much of an impact would it have on your speed? What about a different cube of the same affects...

Ive been swapping from loose and uncontrolled corner cutting, to tight and quick, snappy cutting. i have been trying to get it right for 3 years now

A screw is stripped. How do I fix it.

Hey! Can you suggest some ways to make my Valk 3 ( non - magnetic better? The problem is that it lags too much , corner cutting is not perfect 45° and I am feeling that I wasted my money over it . I am a beginner ( PB-53 seconds ) , so I don't know how to tension the cube the right way , how to...

Im sorry in advance if there is already a thread about this. Im new here :P So I recently got my 2nd zanchi, and am not sure what to tension it to. First, with my first zanchi i was on a plane it piped and a piece shot back a few seats and i never found it :( I had not tensioned it and had...

Yeh. I know it’s a bold title but this is what I’ve found out. About a month ago I was having a lot of problems with my cubes popping locking up and some issues with speed. I kept noticing that the majority of my pops were occurring on one side and it finally dawned on me why. Even though when...

I recently received a Shengshou 8x8 and I know the mod you can do to it. But I was wondering how you guys lubed and tensioned yours. I loosened mine quite a bit seeing the pieces didn't stretch much at all and lubed it the way Convinsa lubed her 7x7 and 6x6 with Lubix. Do you guys have any...

Hey guys, im still relatively new to cubing ( 2 months ) and i have purchased a white Guhong from icubemart. I love it, however there seems to be a slight problem. No matter how loose, or how tight i adjust the tension screws, the tension doesn't change. The white and yellow sides are so lose...