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How much farther can cube manufacturers go?

prostx23

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Hi,

I've seen commentary on these forums on wether we've gotten close to reaching the human limit for solving the 3x3 (I personally think between 4 and 5 seconds will probably end up being the limit). Can the same be said of hardware design? What else can manufacturers and designers do to make the cube faster and more efficient to turn? Also, how much longer before manufacturers turn their attention away from the 3x3 and towards the bigger cubes with the same intensity and attention that they currently give the 3x3?

Mike
 

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Yeah, true, but 3x3's have had so much effort put into tweaking them, and the end result is you get lots of really good cubes, which people choose between based on feel. With 4x4 what do you really have... everyone saying "well the Dayan is actually quite good, if it didn't pop every third solve."
 

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What about electronic cubes? You can turn with the touch of a finger
(not like a display, one that physically moves)
It doesn't seem reasonable right now, but maybe someday?
 

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in year 2020 they will make a cube that is Brain-controlled NTC or Neuro-Toy-Cube :D
muhahah so the old record set in 2010 will bi finally broken!
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A lot of people think having good gear makes you good. This goes for everything. They fail to accept the fact that this isn't always the case.
 

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A lot of people think having good gear makes you good. This goes for everything. They fail to accept the fact that this isn't always the case.

Sometimes superior gear can make someone who is already good, a bit better though. I just wonder how much more tweaking (or outright innovations) we'll see from cube companies, before nothing else of significance can be done to improve the 3x3 cube.
 
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A lot of people think having good gear makes you good. This goes for everything. They fail to accept the fact that this isn't always the case.

This entire post can be summed by the word "maybe".

I don't think I would be nearly as fast if I didn't have a good cube.
 

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Hmm, its could go more lower then 3 sec i think. Just see with dayan guhong, lbuix, the time is going way better. New cubes, peoples praticing, speedcubing evry day to be better and better. So...
 

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I am not fast but I wouldn't be cubing at all if I didn't get a 'nice' feeling from mycubes. Every non-cuber that plays with my cubes likes them and wants to know how to solve. I, and those other people, will be faster one day because the cubes are good smooth non-store boughts
 
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