Main cube progression

ShengShou 3x3 (1:40-50 sec)
GuHong V2 (50-35 sec)
ZhanChi (35 - 26 sec)

I'm thinking of getting a Lubix Zhanchi just to see how good it is.
 
1. Storebought Rubik's brand
2. Gray Transformers cube that my friend gave me after he broke my Rubik's brand. This guy cubes too so he understood my pain and bought it for me because my dad refused to by me another cube (I had no money at the time). God those weeks without a cube were actually quite difficult xD
3. Black Zhanchi.

And that's it. I have some other cubes (stickerless Guhong, white FII, and another black Rubik's) but the above are my only mains in history.
 
1. Dollar Store Cube (does it count if I couldn't solve it?)
2. Rubik's Cube (I lost my dollar store cube and never bothered to buy a 3x3 until I saw badmephisto's video; it motivated me to buy one)
3. Original Shengshou
4. Dayan Zhanchi Stickerless
5. MoYu HuanYing
6. Dayan Zhanchi 42mm (I didn't have time to sit down with a regular-sized cube, because I was outside a lot so I used this one for a couple weeks since it could fit in my pocket. I have my PB with it.)
7. Fangshi ShuangRen (The corner of my MoYu HuanYing broke, so I used this one a lot)
8. MoYu WeiLong (In the beginning, I was so disappointed, everyone was saying how fast it was while mine was worse than a Dollar Store or Rubik's (ok, so I might be exaggerating). After lubing, it is an infinite amount of times better)
 
I had a Rubik's until I was somewhere below a minute I think, and switched to a ShengShou. I don't remember, but I believe I got to 40s with it, and then I used an A V-f until sub-30. Now I have used a GuHong since then, and have gotten a few sub-20 solves on it. I am considering the HuanYing now, but haven't decided yet, only used it for a day.
 
1. Rubik's Brand - First steps
2. Some speedcube of an unknown brand from China - Sub 1 min
3. C4U - Sub 30 seconds

Progressively down to where I am not, which is around 20ish seconds on average.
4. Dayan Guhong v2 Stickerless
5. FangShi ShuangRen
6. CPM-modded Milky Dayan Zhanchi
7. MoYu WeiLong
8. Probably not gonna happen, unless some radical change happens.
 
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Rubik's storebought up to ~25s average -> F-II up to ~15s average -> Dayan Lunhui up to ~12-13s average -> Currently using Zhanchi, still average 12-13, haven't seriously practiced 3x3 for a really long time
 
I, like many people, started out with a Rubiks 3x3 that I learned on. I bought an F2 thinking it would make me faster, but I foolishly put cubesmith tiles on it that ruined the color recognition and made finger tricks very difficult. After much modding, the rubiks was still the better cube for me. It still is to this day! My f2 sucks... I had this cube until I was about 40ish seconds.

I don't remember much from that time when I was learning f2l and getting 50ish seconds until I had memorized 2look and was averaging 30 secs. All I know is that somewhere in there, I bought my guhong. It was a diy and it was an incredible cube. It remained my main speedcube from that moment on for over a year and a half. I tried getting many other cubes, but none surpassed the guhong. A few that came close were the A6 because of awesome recognition and the A V-f for turn quality and overall speed.

I eventually got an orange plastic lingyun about 2 years ago which beat the guhong because of amazing turn quality and crispiness that I couldn't stop loving. Shortly after though, the Zhanchi came out, and the reviews were fantastic. I bought a zhanchi a few months later and was amazed! It felt more like my guhong than anything else, but it was much faster and more controllable. The zhanchi has remained my main for much of the time since then.

Now, recently there have been some cubes to come out that are finally able to challenge the zhanchi. I no longer have that same first zhanchi from long ago, that one was left behind at some bbq restaurant... But around the time I was finally getting sub 20 (yes I know, it took a while), the funs cube came out. I bought that and my initial impression was amazement that I no longer have to use my crappy colored plastic cubes with horrible recognition (I had been using a purple plastic zhanchi and guhong v2). I recently bought another zhanchi with black plastic, and I'm happy to say that the zhanchi has once again made a comeback. I've been experimenting with brighter stickers for better recognition and now I'm using the purple zhanchi, my black zhanchi, and my funs cube all 3 as mains. I now average about 18 seconds and I'm getting better.
 
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