How Is This Not Cheating?!

[Rama]

Hello Fellow Speedsolvers,

Recently my parents handed me a cube and it does:

I have been quite out of the loop and I am quite baffled by this endorsed mechanism.

If this monstrosity is allowed, I suggest we might as well have a cube with a built in motor attached with artificial intelligence and us humans having a...

Well,... Hopefully someone would be willing to elaborate on this "mechanism", why it is condoned or whatnot and why?!

Rama

 

[OtaMota]

• 3a4) Puzzles must not have electronic components (e.g. Bluetooth or Wi-Fi capabilities, motors, sensors, lights). See Regulation 2i.
• 3h) Modifications that enhance the basic concept of a puzzle are not permitted. Modified versions of puzzles are permitted only if the modification does not make any additional information available to the competitor (e.g. orientation or identity of pieces), compared to an unmodified version of the same puzzle.
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• These are the only regs I could find that relate to what you are talking about. Look at the regs, and see if you think this mechanism fits the regs
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[n0nco]

i personally am not well versed in wca regulations and not deeply versed in cubing technology, but you do have to push the side, its not as if you tap it lightly and it turns, i think the mechanism is either ball core (i think? idk much abt ball core) or repelling magnets in the edges which are pushing against the core, maybe something else, as i said im not very knowing of stuff to do with that so i recommend taking what a say with a pinch of salt,

 

[BirdCubing]

What cube are you using? Check the inside and see if there are magnets inside the core.
If there are magnets in the core It's probably due to the corner to core magnets in the mechanism. This is a new thing in cubing technology that usually comes in many cubes (Specifically GAN puzzles). I don't own a corner to core magnet cube but I have seen videos on it.

 

[OtaMota]

If you want my opinion, I think it’s fine. The cube is not making any decisions for you, and is only making turns easier, I think it’s good.

 

[BirdCubing]

If you want my opinion, I think it’s fine. The cube is not making any decisions for you, and is only making turns easier, I think it’s good.

I Agree, nothing is really wrong here because I seen cubes just like this before as well and probably in comps as well.

 

[An Animating Cuber]

Hello Fellow Speedsolvers,

Recently my parents handed me a cube and it does:

I have been quite out of the loop and I am quite baffled by this endorsed mechanism.

If this monstrosity is allowed, I suggest we might as well have a cube with a built in motor attached with artificial intelligence and us humans having a...

Well,... Hopefully someone would be willing to elaborate on this "mechanism", why it is condoned or whatnot and why?!

Rama

Cubes like this are very common nowadays, they have magnets in the edges and corners and on the corners to the core, theses are entirely allowed as what they do is help alignment and stability

 

[TheSpeedSkewber]

• 3a4) Puzzles must not have electronic components (e.g. Bluetooth or Wi-Fi capabilities, motors, sensors, lights). See Regulation 2i.
• 3h) Modifications that enhance the basic concept of a puzzle are not permitted. Modified versions of puzzles are permitted only if the modification does not make any additional information available to the competitor (e.g. orientation or identity of pieces), compared to an unmodified version of the same puzzle.
• 
  
• These are the only regs I could find that relate to what you are talking about. Look at the regs, and see if you think this mechanism fits the regs
• 
  

OP is talking about Auto-Aligning via corner-to-core magnets.

 

[OtaMota]

OP is talking about Auto-Aligning via corner-to-core magnets.

I wanted to show what was not allowed in a cube, and show that corner to core does not really apply here.

 

[Rama]

Hmm.... maybe I should just enjoy my beer and let you youngsters just do whatever at this point.

Cheers!