Dayan Megaminx I

Mine arrived and it's awesome. Following the advice here, I loosened it up but it was already nice before that. I've been playing with the ribbed one only. My other cubes are getting lonely.
 
I recieved mine this weekend, and it's awesome! I will have a review coming up on my youtube channel soon.
I want to resticker mine. Will mf8 stickers be too small since the Dayan in signifcantly larger?
 
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Also, some of the stickers were loose. This doesn't bother me much because I plan on painting it anyway.

But this is an awesome cube. It arrived on November 9th and my first Prisma solve time on it was a bit over 14 minutes. Now it's Nov 15th and I just did 4:40.05, my first sub 5:00. My ao12 is 5:50; I think I'll be consistently under 5:00 by the end of Thanksgiving break.
 
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Michael Womack said:
NEVER I REPEAT NEVER BUY FROM ALIEXPRESS
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Once I bought something from eBay, that didn't work out. conclusion, never buy from eBay.
Once I bought something in Copenhagen that turned out to be bad quality, never buy from Copenhagen.
Actually, I once got something bad in Thailand, never buy from Thailand.
Actually when I think about it, once I paid for something on the internet, that was really not the expected quality, never ever, I repeat, never buy from the internet!
oh **** I just realized, I don't remember where, but it was a really bad purchase... Don't ever buy ANYTHING!!! seriously!! IT'S A SUPER BAD PLACE TO BUY!!! (the world)


You could atleast tell the name of the store instead of the marketplace, or did you actually bother buying from every single store on one of the biggest marketplaces in the world? you must really have some s***load of money to buy from every single store on aliexpress to back up your statement.
 
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To be fair, Odder, I would say aliexpress IS in general dangerous. That doesn't mean you should never buy from them, but it's definitely not as guaranteed as a major and well-known cube shop. Some big marketplaces can definitely be safer than others, and when it comes to aliexpress you have the dual issues of random Chinese sellers, and inferior buying protections compared to eBay (not to mention the cube shops who will work with you to make sure you get great customer support).

Speaking of Dayan Megaminxes, I finally got mine to the point where I'm getting significantly better times than my other minxes which I was more used to :D Haven't modded it and don't intend to. I think I can definitely shave off 5-10 seconds on the last layer, but after that we'll have to see...

To anyone who does face-by-face (as opposed to that "last 5 c/e pairs" style at least one sub1 person was using back when that was impressive), do you orient edges before doing the last two faces? And do you think it's worth it?
 
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To be fair, Odder, I would say aliexpress IS in general dangerous. That doesn't mean you should never buy from them, but it's definitely not as guaranteed as a major and well-known cube shop. Some big marketplaces can definitely be safer than others, and when it comes to aliexpress you have the dual issues of random Chinese sellers, and inferior buying protections compared to eBay (not to mention the cube shops who will work with you to make sure you get great customer support).
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That I will not argue against, because I agree. I am just saying that his argument is invalid.

However, I bet he has no problems with screws not being straight, which would explain the longer wait time, since Dayan chose to take back some of their orders and re-send them with an updated version of the megaminx (just rumours I heard somewhere, I don't know if one should believe them or not)

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Speaking of Dayan Megaminxes, I finally got mine to the point where I'm getting significantly better times than my other minxes which I was more used to :D Haven't modded it and don't intend to. I think I can definitely shave off 5-10 seconds on the last layer, but after that we'll have to see...
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I played a bit around with a few Dayan Megaminxes, they are really good when you tension them correctly and apply lube, seriously. tension should be set sometihng like the edge of the screw's head is aligned with the edge of the thingy (you'll know what I mean when you tension it). At least that is my prefered tension, actually I like it a bit more loose.

qqwref said:
To anyone who does face-by-face (as opposed to that "last 5 c/e pairs" style at least one sub1 person was using back when that was impressive), do you orient edges before doing the last two faces? And do you think it's worth it?
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at least one sub 1 person is using that, at least of those do orient edges before doing the last two faces and at least one of those replied to your post.

I have no idea if it's faster or not, I have always been doing EO before L2F, it's probably a bit slower, but it feels more epic, which is why I like it (2-gen :3 )
 
dat LUgen

Any ideas on a good non-pure Bunny EP? Yours just looks like two EPs cancelled, lol.

e: hmm.
R U R' U R2 U2' R2' U' R2 U2' R2' U2' R U' R'
e2: I think I like it more mirrored.
R' U' R U' R2' U2 R2 U R2' U2 R2 U2 R' U R
 
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dat LUgen

Any ideas on a good non-pure Bunny EP? Yours just looks like two EPs cancelled, lol.

e: hmm.
R U R' U R2 U2' R2' U' R2 U2' R2' U2' R U' R'
e2: I think I like it more mirrored.
R' U' R U' R2' U2 R2 U R2' U2 R2 U2 R' U R
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Also for bunny EP non-pure:
-RU Gen:
R2' U2' R2 U2 R2' U' R2 U2' R2' U' R2 U R2' U2 R2
R U2' R U R U2 R2' U' R2 U' R2 U R2 U2' R2'
-RUL Gen:
R L U2 L' U R' L' U' R U2 L' U2 R'
-RUF Gen: (probably the best one)
R U R' U' R' F R2 U' R' U2' R U R' F' R U R' U' R' F R F' (T-perm cancelled into Y-perm)
 
Thanks for sharing the algorithms. I'm using RUR'U', etc., and commutations.

What I really need to do is to speed up my fingers and for this I first need to know exactly what moves are fastest for me. I'm thinking I should break the thing for another week before doing that.
 
qqwref said:
To be fair, Odder, I would say aliexpress IS in general dangerous. That doesn't mean you should never buy from them, but it's definitely not as guaranteed as a major and well-known cube shop. Some big marketplaces can definitely be safer than others, and when it comes to aliexpress you have the dual issues of random Chinese sellers, and inferior buying protections compared to eBay (not to mention the cube shops who will work with you to make sure you get great customer support).

Speaking of Dayan Megaminxes, I finally got mine to the point where I'm getting significantly better times than my other minxes which I was more used to :D Haven't modded it and don't intend to. I think I can definitely shave off 5-10 seconds on the last layer, but after that we'll have to see...

To anyone who does face-by-face (as opposed to that "last 5 c/e pairs" style at least one sub1 person was using back when that was impressive), do you orient edges before doing the last two faces? And do you think it's worth it?
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I agree it's like when we first started to buy from Lighttake, Dealextrem, and Popbuying.
 
Originally Posted by schuma

Does anyone know if the ridges on the corners competition legal? They should be all right, shoudn't they?
One could write the WCA and ask. But unless they stick out more than 1.5mm (the max for stickers and tiles to stick out) I'd say you're good with this one.


Answer - "Megaminxes with Ridges: Dayan has recently started producing a Megaminx with ridges. WCA have agreed that these puzzles do not violate any regulations. Therefore, the stickered version of this puzzle is legal for use in WCA competitions. The puzzles with multi-colored plastic, however, are not allowed."

Got this from cubeloop.com
 
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