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Had half a comp this past weekend (I could attend only 1 of the 2 days) and surprisingly had PBs on 3x, 4x and 5x (I only expected the last one)

3x: finaly broke sub 19 even though I started with a 20 +2, can't wait now for sub 18 to come :)
4x: broke sub 1:10 with 7/10 parities, so pretty happy with that, my JukiMods Wuque was the difference, that cube is close to perfection.
5x: shaved another 10 seconds of my average (2:16.96 now IIRC) and almost hit sub 2 single, 2:00.016, that was close. Again the Juki Wushuang was perfect. Need to edit some videos from this comp and from Spanish nationals one of these days.

watching @mark49152 motivates me to keep doing some blind but I have to rethink my whole system if I want to stop failing.

That and practice, I guess.
 
phreaker said:
I've got some Silk... How would you describe it? I'm wanting to figure out what to mix it with to produce feel I like.

I used to use a GTS2M (magnets similar to yours) with Valk springs. (I really recommend Valk springs in a GTS2M for OH... The cube can full cut OH, no problem. I'm still not sold I've made the right choice going to the SM... But I want to give the SM a good try before I go try the GTS2M again.)

The original YueXiao shades were horrific... ugh.

I'd love a stickerless gan... Almost tempted to look into modding one, to see if it can be done without making too big a mess... But I haven't had time. And besides learning stickered recognition again is nice.
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Silk for me is slightly gummy, so it helps slow things down a little by making the pieces stick together a little more, so on the internals I think it works really well. DNM37 on the pieces is simply amazing. If there was only a single lube I could use it would be DNM37 for sure.

I have a spare Valk that I can take the springs out of and give them a go on the GTS2 ... you have me intrigued ... I think I'd like to give that a go to be honest.

I use the stickerless GTS2 and the stickered GAN interchangeably at the moment which has helped with switching recognition between stickerless and stickered. Although having said that the change in shades between the original Air and the SM has thrown me a little. That fluro red on the SM is so close to the bright fluro orange on the original Air that I've had to do a little more thinking with the SM.
 
JohnnyReggae said:
Silk for me is slightly gummy, so it helps slow things down a little by making the pieces stick together a little more, so on the internals I think it works really well. DNM37 on the pieces is simply amazing. If there was only a single lube I could use it would be DNM37 for sure.

I have a spare Valk that I can take the springs out of and give them a go on the GTS2 ... you have me intrigued ... I think I'd like to give that a go to be honest.
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Silk sounds nice for what I use 10k + DNM-37. Interesting.

I went to Valk springs so I could get enough travel to allow the cube to be full cutting.. I couldn't set up the GTS2 well without them. At the comp, some people could even feel something "Valky" about the cube. The springs are not an exact fit... you'll need to play with it a bit.. But they do work ;).
 
Selkie said:
The cubes I really want are the 6x6M and 7x7M. The 4x4 and 5x5 gave me an instant reduction in times.
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6x6 is a pain to magnetize, but doable if you don't mind fiddling with it for a few hours. 7x7 really isn't too hard. 3x the magnets of a 3x3, so roughly 3x the work, but not really any more complicated if you've got the right magnets. Both 6x6 and 7x7 are, in my opinion, well worth the effort to magnetize. If you do a Wuji (which I recommend) you can't do bigger than 4x1 in the corners, but those fit just fine.
 
mark49152 said:
Sounds drastic. What's wrong with your system?
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I've been making words on the go with letter pairs and they rarely turn up as good images, I also have lost practice with roman rooms because I don't use them at all in 3BLD and 4BLD and very little on 5BLD.

I want to at least make a list with good images to have something to fall back on, and work from there. I also want to begin practicing multi, 3/5 in 37 should not be my level.

Biggest problem is I'm having fun lately with 4x and 5x, but I'll get back to more blind practice.
 
Selkie said:
The cubes I really want are the 6x6M and 7x7M. The 4x4 and 5x5 gave me an instant reduction in times.
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Chris, a very good friend magnetizes cubes here in spain, I've been helping him lately with the web (soon to be translated) and I have all the cubes he offers (2x to 7x) 4x and 5x have turned into instant PBs, 6x and 7x I haven't had the chance yet, but they're performing great at home.

He sells a pack with both cubes (http://jukimods.com/productos/pack67.html ) for 180€ please tell me if you are interested so I can help both of you :)
 
mitja said:
I magnetised 6x6 Wuhua yesterday. When i saw those small openings that don't fit even 3mm ,I thought it will be a disaster, but on the end it was quite fun. The cube feels very nice, as good as 5x5M. Also did a spring swap with a bit softer springsView attachment 8578 View attachment 8579
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They really did do a number on those pieces. If the inner baffles were taken out it looks like it would be wide open for magnets even bigger than 4mm. I'd love to see what kind of effect 5 or 6mm wide magnets would have in a big cube.

I'm glad you're happy with the result. I look forward to hearing what you think of the G6 M if you ever get to that.

Does anybody here have a Wuhua V2 to compare? I'd love to know if they made the new version easier to magnetize.
 
Not a lot of practice lately between work and experimenting with a timer as a pet programming project. It'll be two steps back when I return to bld again :o.

mark49152 said:
Funny thing with that was, I looked at the cubes and thought "that's not right, they're all in the same orientation" - before registering that they were unscrambled. I told Andy afterwards and he said he'd seen it the same way!
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Okay, finally got around to this and I'm getting suspicious you're staging this stuff just to land on the "best reactions" videos. :p

Seriously though, pure gold.
 
mitja said:
I magnetised 6x6 Wuhua yesterday. When i saw those small openings that don't fit even 3mm ,I thought it will be a disaster, but on the end it was quite fun. The cube feels very nice, as good as 5x5M. Also did a spring swap with a bit softer springsView attachment 8578 View attachment 8579
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Waiting for my new WuHua to arrive and want to do this. A couple of questions ... which magnets did you use in the end ? and looking at the pic with the separate pieces .... with each "line" that you have does the polarity flow right through from left to right ?
 
JohnnyReggae said:
Waiting for my new WuHua to arrive and want to do this. A couple of questions ... which magnets did you use in the end ? and looking at the pic with the separate pieces .... with each "line" that you have does the polarity flow right through from left to right ?
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About the process. First, I did the inner 4x4 part,( inside layer between inner wings)used 3x1 N50 and 3x2N50 magnets. I combined because 3x1 are very week and 3x2 that i got are from ebay and have no idea how strog their N50 is, probably more close to N35. The next 4x4 part( next layer between inner and outer wings) should be the strongest magnets, but 4mm cannot fit( i planned 4x2 N38) so just used 3x2N50 and decided to improvise with stronger outer layer ( 3x3 part) combined 4x2N42 in corners and 3x2N50 in outer wings. Ond end the 3x3 layer is quite strong but I like it. The second layer is weaker and the middle is good. the overall strenght of leyer is correct, the distribution of strenght between layers is up to personal preference.
About magnets polarity:
If i speak from inner layer to out. When you do second stage the polarity neds to reverse so the 4x4 polarity goes NS SN. the third stage just keep polarity in line ( no reverse).just like when you do 3x3. So all toogether NS SN SN
But I belive you did it correct on the photo you published on magnets thread https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxhjd6HVoV6kbmlKVFJSR3NqYzA/view
I will do it different with g6 as there are bigger openings. I believe G6 design is better for inner layers . The distribution on all three layers in G6 is much more even. Qiji has more problems with all bigger cubes central parts. Their design makes inner layers tight and outer lite, so they have very good 3x3 stage but not the rest. I was solving this prolem by making springs softer in 4x4-6x6 cubes( didn't try 7x7 yet) it is perfect in 4x4 and let's say Ok in 5x5, 6x6.
 
One Wheel said:
They really did do a number on those pieces. If the inner baffles were taken out it looks like it would be wide open for magnets even bigger than 4mm. I'd love to see what kind of effect 5 or 6mm wide magnets would have in a big cube.

I'm glad you're happy with the result. I look forward to hearing what you think of the G6 M if you ever get to that.

Does anybody here have a Wuhua V2 to compare? I'd love to know if they made the new version easier to magnetize.
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I was tempted to use cutters and cut that plastic wall, but I guess it has purpose, probably for overall structure stability?
Anyway 6x6M is much better than non M cube. But, G6 feels so good. I wonder how it will be with magnets. I will use N38 4x2 for second layer N35 4x2 for outer, but I cannot decide about inner yet. 3x1is too week. Maybe a combo of 3x1N50 and 4x2n35 if it fits. It would be interesting to try bigger 5mm magnets. They could distribute force nicely.
It is always a gamble when you put that many magnets in a big cube, how the tightness will change. First change I need to do is loosen the screws. The result can be pops and I don't want that. So My system: I cut a piece of the spring, it gets shorter and weaker. That way i get the cube loose but can screw it toogether enough to have less pops and still have loose and fast turning. I compensate for shorter spring by adding washer from plastic. The few mm of cut lollipop stick fits perfect in Qiji cubes.
 
Hi guys! I did an experiment today. I was thinking about how much newer cubes are really helping my times and what part of the very slight improvement over the past couple of years was me and what part was the cube. I also have said here that in new cubes, squared off corners increase catching at times for me and I don't think the trade off for less corner twists is worth it.

So I took out my last main 3x3 before I started to move to recent cubes like the Valk3 and the GTS2/GST2M. This is a Congs Design Yueying. It took me like 10 solves to adjust to stickers again but after that I did a ful Ao50 with it and, for the 1st half of it I was 2-3 tenths below my current PB Ao50 (17.79) but I spoiled the streak around solves 30-40, improving a bit again in the last 10 for an Ao50 of 17.98, which is just 2 tenths above my PB and surely way better than anything I had done before on my Yueying (which I stopped using more than 1 year ago).

Conclusion: Improving or not improving... it's me, not the cube :) Maybe a Yuexiao Pro / Pro M would be a good cube for me if the stickerless shades are better than in the original Yuexiao. And, by the way, I had no corner twists whatsoever in the whole Ao50 so... what are these squared corners for really? :)
 
Today I had some spare hours, as I was home alone with my kid and decided to start recording videos for my YouTube channel more frequently. I have decided to do then in Spanish, but I'm including English subtitles as well. The change from English to Spanish is because I think it will be easier for the thousands of new Spanish subscribers I'll get with the new content :D.

For my first video I have chosen a review and solve (not a complete tutorial) of the TomZ Constrained Ultimate. Hope you like it and, please, leave suggestions about camera angle, video and audio quality (not very good, to be honest), language preference and whatever else that comes to mind, as well as ideas for future videos.

 
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