[Help Thread] Axis Cube Discussion and Help Thread

[CTriple]

So, for my birthday recently i received an axel cube and a windmill cube. The last is irrelevant. I'd played with the axel cube for a couple of days and enjoyed solving it. However, i ended up dropping it fully scrambled on a hard floor, and two centers popped out. i didn't know where the centers were supposed to go, so i put them in the empty spaces (i guess those were incorrect) and to this day i'm popping various centers out and putting them in. I've watched tutorials from people such as JRCuber and CrazyBadCuber and neither could help me. This wouldn't be a problem if my cube didn't have a different color pattern than others. Any suggestions? I've been considering taking it apart and putting it back together, however I've never rebuilt a shape mod.

I took a look, and if this is relevant at all, my white/blue center is opposite of green/yellow. Orange/blue of green/red and red/yellow of orange/white.

If there's anything i need to specify, please let me know. First post and all.

 

[DGCubes]

Hmmm... personally I'd recommend solving as much as you can like a void cube (ignoring centers), and then swap the centers to match the other pieces. Or you could use the brute force method and just take it all apart and put it back together. By the way, that's not much harder than on a 3x3.

 

[CTriple]

Done. Thanks for the input. How do i close a thread?

 

[shadowslice e]

Done. Thanks for the input. How do i close a thread?

You don't. Only mods can but you don't really need to as generally people don't post in thread such as this without reason so the thread will just die off and eventually move off the page.

 

[CTriple]

I've been playing with it these past few days and this time i have the entire thing solved except for 2 edges (need to flip) and 2 corners (need to flip). Is this parity or is there a special alg for this?

 

[FourTK]

Hey, I need some help on my axis cube. My issue is that two centers are oriented incorrectly and earlier I had only one oriented incorrectly. Is that allowed or do I need to reassemble the cube? Also if it is legitimate please help me with the solve.

Thanks,
FourTK

 

[Berd]

Hey, I need some help on my axis cube. My issue is that two centers are oriented incorrectly and earlier I had only one oriented incorrectly. Is that allowed or do I need to reassemble the cube? Also if it is legitimate please help me with the solve.

Thanks,
FourTK

Experiment with doing U M E' M' E U' E' M E M'!

 

[stoic]

For supercubes and shapemods I like (R U R' U)5 - to rotate U centre 180 degrees - and (M' U M U')5 - to rotate U and F 90 degrees - as I find them easy to remember.

 

[rumarfer28]

To rotate one center 180º I use always T-perm twice, so I don't have to remember new algs. And if you orient the centers while doiing f2l you can not have two centers missoriented, only the top one and 180º.

 

[AlphaSheep]

And if you orient the centers while doiing f2l you can not have two centers missoriented, only the top one and 180º.

Only if your OLL and PLL algorithms preserve the orientations of the side centres. U perms for example don't.

 

[rumarfer28]

Only if your OLL and PLL algorithms preserve the orientations of the side centres. U perms for example don't.

I forgot to say Iuse beginners method for the LL on shape mods

 

[FourTK]

Thank you to everyone, especially to stoic, and for the quick replies!
I managed to get it

-FourTK

 

[Euler]

Hi, all!

I need some help... someone gave me an axis cube and I've solved it this far, but can't find if there is a parity error or if the cube itself is screwed up. Students give me strange cubes all the time and I never know if they were taken apart and put back together.

 

[Euler]

Is there a quick fix for this? Is my cube messed up?

 

[UseableCuber0o]

Is there a quick fix for this? Is my cube messed up?

Hey, the axis cube is a super cube which means you need to know algs to rotate centers. So just look up super cube algs. You have in that case a 90 degree rotation

Just do M' U M U' five times with it on the front

 

[mafergut]

Hi, all!

I need some help... someone gave me an axis cube and I've solved it this far, but can't find if there is a parity error or if the cube itself is screwed up. Students give me strange cubes all the time and I never know if they were taken apart and put back together.

That looks like a single center rotated 90º which should not be possible. You can have a single center rotated 180º degrees or two centers rotated 90º each. I'd say somebody had a pop and put the cube back together wrong.

 

[shvartz]

I joined the site just to say that I also encountered a single center twisted 90 degrees like in the photo and this happened with no cube disassembly. It happened when I tried to solve the cube into a specific color pattern. I did not know how to solve the cube with one center twisted like that and so I just started from the beginning and the cube got solved just fine. Maybe it is a special case that can appear in an axis cube. Just try using regular 3x3 beginners method from the start (maybe re-scramble the cube) and it should solve fine. Good luck.

late edit: on a second thought, it could be that this situation is possible only when the cube is not in its default state. Trying to solve it into a specific color pattern could allow for such a case. But if you get this case with the cube in its original state, that could be a result of disassembly.

 

[Euler]

Thanks for the tips, everybody... Turns out the piece was easy to remove and replace correctly! Thanks again

 

[Pushkar amodkar]

I bought around one month ago, saw bunch of youtube videos, tried solving it by myself, Still I'm not able to solve it.... Please help... That cube haunts me...

 

[AlphaSheep]

The key to figuring it out is getting used to seeing the pieces for what they are - centres, corners or edges. Which part are you getting stuck on?

For me, there were two major challenges. The first was working out where to start, which I resolved by identifying the centres. I found a Petrus block building approach quite natural once I saw how the different types of piece worked, but a cross first method is just as easy.

The second part was the last layer. At first, I resorted to a 4LLL at first - EO (FRUR'U'F' and inverse), CP (Niklas+Y perm), OCLL, EPLL. Turn the U face to line up each piece individually to determine whether or not it is oriented, then work out the case like that. It took me a few attempts to get each alg correct because I was making incorrect turns because of the weird shape of the cube.

It's much easier the second or third time you do it.