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My Cubicle order has just been marked "Shipped", as in I could swear this is within the last hour. Not that I obsessively check such things. :p

I asked this question in the one-answer thread, but does anyone know of an online store that offers used cubes? I could swear I ran across one in my travels, but I neglected to bookmark it. If so, it might mean in principle that I could send them anything that didn't work out for me, and at least get a little bit of store credit.
 
So I'm quite excited, I just got an email from Phil Yu, one of the creators of thecubicle.us! He apologized for the delays and told me several things including:
  • Yes they got bombarded by the Holidays.
  • The current space they are in compounded the issue due to the order volume, and they are working on moving to a larger space!
  • They had to disable the bump feature as it was interfering with some of their packing slip programs (hope is they won't need Bump at all in the future).
  • The support inbox got cluttered by the Holiday issues also, apologized for not responding sooner.
  • He hopes they do better in the future!
Personally I love the site, selection, ease of use, and everything else. I am going to have faith they will work out these growing pains and stay with them next time I order. Reading their "About" page it just does not feel like hot air to me, plus a crappy company usually does not become so popular so I think they are trying to do things right. I'll let everyone know in the future how my ordering experiences go.
 
That's all understable and I'm sure they'll sort it out, but they should have put that text in their home page so they can spent their time in other things that are not answering mails inquiring about the delays. Even if that would temporarily decrease the number of orders (maybe not even a bad thing) maybe it would have caused less long term effects.

I'm probably too used to waiting 5-6 weeks to my orders from lightake or fasttech to see what the big deal this delay issue is.
 
muchacho said:
I'm probably too used to waiting 5-6 weeks to my orders from lightake or fasttech to see what the big deal this delay issue is.
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I use cubezz now and they mostly ship in 1 - 2 days and I pay for registered shipping (around $3-4) and receive my package after about 2 weeks. I just received my GuoGuan Yuexiau this week. :)
 
I agree that there's every reason to give Cubicle the chance to work out their growing pains. From what I've heard so far, they've had some difficulties in shipping speed and in communication, but at least seem to make all their customers whole eventually. I like the review system on their website, and the fact that they even go so far as to let us know how these brand names are pronounced by native Chinese speakers.

On my YouTube journeys, I've come across nerdbubblegum's channel. He seems to be very talented at modding puzzles, even to the point of preferring this hobby over actual speedcubing. In fact he even has a video in which he explains why he doesn't personally prefer speedcubing, although he does like at least knowing how to solve puzzles, in addition to his work in modding. In that video he said a lot of things that I identified with rather strongly.

I feel bad about it because (like nerdbubblegum) I think this community is really awesome and I wish there were some way I could contribute. I could even see myself making YouTube videos, but I can't think of a single thing I could do in those videos that anyone here would find interesting. I certainly don't know my way around a bandsaw.

I will keep thinking about it, and mostly lurk in the meantime. At least I'll try to keep an open mind. For starters, I think at the bare minimum I would like to be able to solve the simpler twisty puzzles, at least efficiently if not quickly, without looking at a cheat sheet. With the 333 puzzles, I will admit that these F2L algorithms have me the most intrigued in terms of efficiency. (EDIT: grammar)
 
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Quote:"With the 333 puzzles, I will admit that these F2L algorithms have me the most intrigued in terms of efficiency."
In terms of move efficiency, there are often quoted guidelines as to how many moves it should take if you 'do it correctly', so you have some measure of how good or bad your technique is. I recall 6.5 moves per slot is considered normal, and 6 or 7 moves for creating the cross. However this doesn't take into account cube rotations, which will slow you down if you perform too many, especially half-turn ones. And there's the ergonomic aspect, too. 8 moves can be faster than 6 if they're more 'turn-friendly'.
 
Some may recall one of my Christmas goals was to get a sub 14 average of 5 on film. I did not get it over Christmas unfortunately but just managed to get a 13.54 Average. Video to follow a little later guys :)

Average of 5: 13.54
1. 13.07 D' L' F D L2 U' F R D' F' B2 L' D2 R' L2 U2 L' U2 D2 L' U2
2. 14.54 R2 U2 F2 R2 U2 L' F2 L' F2 U2 R2 U B' R2 U L R U2 B2 D' F
3. 13.02 L2 U2 B2 D' F2 L2 D' L2 D' R2 D F' R' D L2 D' L F L R U2
4. (17.21) D2 R2 F U2 B' D2 R2 B2 F' D2 F2 U' F L F' L' U' L U R' U2
5. (12.05) L2 D2 F R2 B F2 U2 B' U2 R2 D2 L' D2 B' L2 B2 F' L2 D R F2
 
Selkie said:
Some may recall one of my Christmas goals was to get a sub 14 average of 5 on film. I did not get it over Christmas unfortunately but just managed to get a 13.54 Average. Video to follow a little later guys :)

Average of 5: 13.54
1. 13.07 D' L' F D L2 U' F R D' F' B2 L' D2 R' L2 U2 L' U2 D2 L' U2
2. 14.54 R2 U2 F2 R2 U2 L' F2 L' F2 U2 R2 U B' R2 U L R U2 B2 D' F
3. 13.02 L2 U2 B2 D' F2 L2 D' L2 D' R2 D F' R' D L2 D' L F L R U2
4. (17.21) D2 R2 F U2 B' D2 R2 B2 F' D2 F2 U' F L F' L' U' L U R' U2
5. (12.05) L2 D2 F R2 B F2 U2 B' U2 R2 D2 L' D2 B' L2 B2 F' L2 D R F2
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Wow! Simply... wow! It's an inspiration. I'm not sure I will be able to reach there before old age starts to get in the middle and I actually start becoming slower.
 
mafergut said:
Wow! Simply... wow! It's an inspiration. I'm not sure I will be able to reach there before old age starts to get in the middle and I actually start becoming slower.
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Thank you :) Though my hands are getting slower but really trying to push TPS to the limits is beginning to pay off.

Here it is:-

 
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Hi Grzegorz (and other BLD solvers here). I just saw your WC post full of BLD events and I thought I should start to slowly enter (again) into the BLD world. I would like to take it easy and I thought that maybe I could start doing 2BLD for the WC and see how it goes. I barely remember the concepts of OP from when I learned basic OP for 3x3 more than a year ago (for corners I would just use the altered Y-perm to shoot from UBL buffer to RFD target). What would you recommend for 2x2? Just to go ahead with OP corners? Do you use a different method? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
 
mafergut said:
Hi Grzegorz (and other BLD solvers here). I just saw your WC post full of BLD events and I thought I should start to slowly enter (again) into the BLD world. I would like to take it easy and I thought that maybe I could start doing 2BLD for the WC and see how it goes. I barely remember the concepts of OP from when I learned basic OP for 3x3 more than a year ago (for corners I would just use the altered Y-perm to shoot from UBL buffer to RFD target). What would you recommend for 2x2? Just to go ahead with OP corners? Do you use a different method? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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I'm happy only with my 3bld results in this week. But doing WC (and all set of blind events in it) gives me motivation to keep practice.

For 2bld you can choose 2 ways: first one - one look solve. For me it's too hard. The second is the mentioned by you - corners with OP. Just straight ahead. In 2x2 theres no centers and you have to choose the sticker which is always in proper orientation. The tutorial I saw suggests it should be BUF but I choosed DFB. I think BUF is a little better for 3cycle and DFB is quite good for OP. Of course when you get a few pieces solved or even a block you should orient cube in this posiotion. Memo I do is just audio pairs: AB CD etc. Twists I do the same as in OP corners. With OP I could do ~ 40 sec solves after some time of practice. With 3style it's quite easy to be around 30. In this week my results are poor (bad day - I had a car accident yesterday) but earlier I could do solves around 20 seconds. You can make algs like OP Y-perm (without first F). Y-perm with F - i do it for UBR (obvious) and FDR (R as a setup), LFD - setup D R... etc. You can Ja and Jb too. It depends which ones you do in normal solves.

I think that's all. Let me know if I wrote it quite clear. :) Good luck and practice.
 
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