speedcubenoob
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zhan chi - watch out!
@DaveyCow
Hi, I have a simlar collection as you including F2, Memory cube, Lun Hui, Gu hong coloured, Lun Hui coloured.
I recently received a zhan chi and was not too pleased by this. This morning I received a second zhan chi in the post, so I must have ordered 2 by mistake !
At first I was disappointed by my mistake, but soon was pleasantly surprised, this 2nd model was very different from the previous one. The stickers on it were placed correctly instead of half of them being at slightly the wrong angle and some of them almost hanging off the cube faces, and more importantly it is really smooth, the first one was clicky, seemed to snag or catch (just slightly) all through each turn, the edges ahd a tendency to twist badly out of place, all the corners seemed very loose and rattly, and the thing I noticed that I had heard in a youtube reveiw also, turns are clicky but distinctly seem to 'want' to click into slightly the wrong place, so it's naturally out by about 3mm from the correct angle. ie. not like the Hayan memory cube which almost as its name suggests, naturally seems to want to click as you would want it to, into just the right position. I tried tensioning but makes no difference. I think I prefer all my other cubes to this zhan chi. The second model I just got now, which is from the same company and all the packaging is identical, is not like this at all, it seems more uniformly smooth with no preferred clicking angles, and only now I can understand the good reviews. I looked at a corner piece of the first model and it does have some small but rough plastic protrusions, that maybe do snag or do not help. Now, I may prefer my second new zhan chi to the black lun hui, I'm not sure though.
My favourite cube so far, easily by far, is a Lun Hui in multicoloured plastic, this is a little similar to the black Lun Hui, which would have been my second favourite, but it feels much, smoother and faster. It looks and feels totally finer and superior in quality in every way. I got it originally only because I noticed stickers were easily getting chipped off .
I also have a coloured Gu Hong which is nothing like the reviews describe the (black) Gu Hong, , it feels rigid and quite crude compared to the lun hui and not very easy to do corner cutting with this. I feel the Lun hui feels much smoother and more sophisticiated and much better at corner cutting. But, I haven't modded or lubed this, I have a hunch it could become much better.
It may be that a fast cuber would prefer different cubes than I would, however, based more on speed, but I find the Lun Hui very fast for me (beginner) , unlike one review I read, which described it as slow. It does seem to have some ( but, very smooth and pleasant) resistance in the turns, that I suppose a hardcore speedcuber might rather not have.
Hope this helps someone in their buying decisisons
Harvey
@DaveyCow
Hi, I have a simlar collection as you including F2, Memory cube, Lun Hui, Gu hong coloured, Lun Hui coloured.
I recently received a zhan chi and was not too pleased by this. This morning I received a second zhan chi in the post, so I must have ordered 2 by mistake !
At first I was disappointed by my mistake, but soon was pleasantly surprised, this 2nd model was very different from the previous one. The stickers on it were placed correctly instead of half of them being at slightly the wrong angle and some of them almost hanging off the cube faces, and more importantly it is really smooth, the first one was clicky, seemed to snag or catch (just slightly) all through each turn, the edges ahd a tendency to twist badly out of place, all the corners seemed very loose and rattly, and the thing I noticed that I had heard in a youtube reveiw also, turns are clicky but distinctly seem to 'want' to click into slightly the wrong place, so it's naturally out by about 3mm from the correct angle. ie. not like the Hayan memory cube which almost as its name suggests, naturally seems to want to click as you would want it to, into just the right position. I tried tensioning but makes no difference. I think I prefer all my other cubes to this zhan chi. The second model I just got now, which is from the same company and all the packaging is identical, is not like this at all, it seems more uniformly smooth with no preferred clicking angles, and only now I can understand the good reviews. I looked at a corner piece of the first model and it does have some small but rough plastic protrusions, that maybe do snag or do not help. Now, I may prefer my second new zhan chi to the black lun hui, I'm not sure though.
My favourite cube so far, easily by far, is a Lun Hui in multicoloured plastic, this is a little similar to the black Lun Hui, which would have been my second favourite, but it feels much, smoother and faster. It looks and feels totally finer and superior in quality in every way. I got it originally only because I noticed stickers were easily getting chipped off .
I also have a coloured Gu Hong which is nothing like the reviews describe the (black) Gu Hong, , it feels rigid and quite crude compared to the lun hui and not very easy to do corner cutting with this. I feel the Lun hui feels much smoother and more sophisticiated and much better at corner cutting. But, I haven't modded or lubed this, I have a hunch it could become much better.
It may be that a fast cuber would prefer different cubes than I would, however, based more on speed, but I find the Lun Hui very fast for me (beginner) , unlike one review I read, which described it as slow. It does seem to have some ( but, very smooth and pleasant) resistance in the turns, that I suppose a hardcore speedcuber might rather not have.
Hope this helps someone in their buying decisisons
Harvey
