New ShengShou 9x9

[Mike Hughey]

Looks like Mike is going is going to have something to occupy his time now

Um, yes.

 

[qqwref]

Incidentally, anyone want to buy a cheap YJ 9x9x9 DIY kit?

Is anything broken or is it just disassembled?

muwahahaha, I love how you have to specify this now

Well, after Ben did some big "one-handed" solves abusing the surface, I feel it's necessary... and honestly using the surface takes a lot of the difficulty out of the bigger stuff.

 

[Kirjava]

"one-handed"

no need to use quote marks.

using the surface takes a lot of the difficulty out of the bigger stuff.

or makes it less dumb

 

[qqwref]

or makes it less dumb

If you find it impressive to see someone pushing a cube around on a table and occasionally moving the top layer, great. But I don't, because for me the interesting and difficult part of one-handed solving is having to both hold the cube and do turns on it with the same hand. And since I don't find table-abuse solves impressive, I'm not gonna bother getting or caring about times achieved in that way. Your mileage may vary and that's fine.

 

[PanCakez001]

im gonna buy this for sure i can sub10 my 8x8
i average about 34 on 11x11 hmmm i wonder how i would do with this sub 15? idk yet
guess we will have to see!

 

[Czery]

Big cubes are fun to play with but they aren't practical for regular practicing.

I would love to get a 9x9 but I just know that once I solve it once I am just going to let it sit on my table for many many years before I pick up again.

 

[emolover]

Big cubes are fun to play with but they aren't practical for regular practicing.

I would love to get a 9x9 but I just know that once I solve it once I am just going to let it sit on my table for many many years before I pick up again.

Why? It would take a decent cuber 12 minutes which is not very long for a solve.

Do you have so little patience that you can't do a solve that takes 10-20.

 

[rubixwiz031]

Sweet!

 

[Czery]

Why? It would take a decent cuber 12 minutes which is not very long for a solve.

Do you have so little patience that you can't do a solve that takes 10-20.

It'd take me at least 5 minutes to scramble by hand, maybe more for computer gen-ed scramble. Solving is fun. Scrambling is not.
In the time it takes me to solve one 9x9 I could probably do thirty 3x3 solves.

 

[JHB]

Is anything broken or is it just disassembled?

Nothing's broken, but heed the warning: Everyone says YJ 9x9s fall apart and everyone is correct. I was turning that bad boy carefully with both hands and all of a sudden I was engulfed by a cascade of intricate white plastic pieces! I'll probably try to put it back together this holidays but I'm not looking forward to it! I hope I got every little piece
But anyone else is welcome to it.

 

[sa11297]

im gonna buy this for sure i can sub10 my 8x8
i average about 34 on 11x11 hmmm i wonder how i would do with this sub 15? idk yet
guess we will have to see!

woah, you posted shon

anyway, i think this will cost $99 bucks and go down to 75ish after a little while. Atleast, the 8x8 followed that kind of trend.

 

[Michael Womack]

SS is proving to V-cubes that the "PILLOWNESS" is not nessasery to keep the puzzle together.

 

[qqwref]

SS is proving to V-cubes that the "PILLOWNESS" is not nessasery to keep the puzzle together.

V-cubes is way smarter than you give them credit for. They didn't think being pillowed was necessary for the mechanism, but that it lead to puzzles that were easier to hold and better-looking. In a way they are right; both shapes have their upsides and downsides.

 

[cubegenius]

Incidentally, anyone want to buy a cheap YJ 9x9x9 DIY kit?

How cheap???

 

[JHB]

How cheap???

Whatever someone would think was fair. it's Australia Post's ridiculous postage that'll get ya!

 

[Kattenvriendin]

According to what I read on CBC facebook's page it is straight out of the mold and the mold is still being tweaked. Mass production hasn't even started yet.

 

[MostEd]

I want to se Gritsenko do this before Mike...

And i want this and an 8x8

 

[asportking]

I don't think it'll be that much more expensive than the 8x8. I mean, it probably won't be any more expensive that the YJ, and assuming the SS 8x8 uses the usual mechanism with the middle layer hidden under the other eight layers, a 9x9 really wouldn't have any more pieces than the 8x8.

 

[kbh]

there are now more pics of the SS9 on 51morefun
http://51morefun.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=289&products_id=965

 

[PeelingStickers]

Damn that looks sexy. Only just fully modded my 5x5 and I have no intentions of buying this BUT; whoever does fully mod this deserves a pat on the back. My God.