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[Daniel252]

Do any of you know where to get blank stickers for my own printing for the pyraminx?

 

[aybuck37]

Do any of you know where to get blank stickers for my own printing for the pyraminx?

scs has transparent stickers!

 

[TSME3]

I have been cubing for so long, yet this is the first time i encountered this pattern, what?

 

[AlphaSheep]

I have been cubing for so long, yet this is the first time i encountered this pattern, what?

It's most likely that your cube has popped and you put two edges in on the wrong order. The easiest way to solve this is to pop out the two edges and swap them around that way.

 

[Daniel252]

are they printable?

 

[Px_Ushi]

Hello everyone !
I wanted to know if someone knows where I could buy a Tony’s Skewb Xtreme ? (I'm from Europe by the way)

 

[DGCubes]

Does anyone know what 'rulz' means in 'fazrulz'?
I know the meaning of FAZ: F2L After Zeroing.
But I wonder,is rulz an algorithm of Rw Uw Lw and Z rotation??

It just means "Rules." Also, FAZ doesn't actually mean F2L After Zeroing; it's just Feliks' initials. So basically fazrulz just means "Feliks rules."

 

[Abare Killer]

Is there a competition rule where it says during a scramble ? color as to be on the U face and ? color on the F face or do we just randomly scramble it?

 

[obelisk477]

Is there a competition rule where it says during a scramble ? color as to be on the U face and ? color on the F face or do we just randomly scramble it?

White, or Lightest color on the cube on U, and green, or darkest adjacent color to U, on F

 

[shadowslice e]

It doesn't really matter at home but wca orientation is white on top green on front for a standard western colour scheme.

e:ninja'd

 

[Abare Killer]

Thanks for the help guys!

 

[JustinTimeCuber]

Note that if someone uses an odd color scheme with black instead of white, it would not be scrambled with black on top but rather yellow, the lightest color.

 

[gavinz]

I'm ordering stuff from cubes so should I get a WeiLong GTS2 and MoHuan ShouSu Chuwen or a QiYi WuShuang? (I'm allowed to spend up to $25 or two cubes, which ever comes first).

 

[xyzzy]

I'm ordering stuff from cubes so should I get a WeiLong GTS2 and MoHuan ShouSu Chuwen or a QiYi WuShuang? (I'm allowed to spend up to $25 or two cubes, which ever comes first).

Well, which do you want more?

You can practise 2×2×2 on any cube, so there's no point getting a real one unless you're attending a comp in the near future. This then boils down to: do you already have a good 3×3×3? A good 5×5×5?

 

[#CubingForPeace]

I will be going to my first ever competition on June 2017 and I am making a list of necessary things to bring to the competition. Can you please suggest any correction/addition to this list:-
1.My cube
2.My phone
3.My lunch
4.My bag
Please suggest any corrections as I'm both nervous and serious about this.

 

[AlphaSheep]

I will be going to my first ever competition on June 2017 and I am making a list of necessary things to bring to the competition. Can you please suggest any correction/addition to this list:-
1.My cube
2.My phone
3.My lunch
4.My bag
Please suggest any corrections as I'm both nervous and serious about this.

I take a spare cube to keep my fingers warm between attempts. Some people like to take some lube and a screwdriver so that they can adjust tensions, etc, but I think it's a bad idea to start messing with your setup on the day of the comp.

Other than that, I can't think of anything else. Just make sure you give the regulations a quick read the night before, and go prepared to meet people, have fun, and not worry about your times.

 

[Gold Cuber]

I've been wondering... If a 3x3 cube is 2 moves away from being solved but can be solved with an M slice, is it considered a +2 or DNF?

+2 because M is a move

 

[Gold Cuber]

I will be going to my first ever competition on June 2017 and I am making a list of necessary things to bring to the competition. Can you please suggest any correction/addition to this list:-
1.My cube
2.My phone
3.My lunch
4.My bag
Please suggest any corrections as I'm both nervous and serious about this.

Bring all your cubes because you will have fun with other contestents with non official competitions and looking at others collections

 

[Gold Cuber]

I will be going to my first ever competition on June 2017 and I am making a list of necessary things to bring to the competition. Can you please suggest any correction/addition to this list:-
1.My cube
2.My phone
3.My lunch
4.My bag
Please suggest any corrections as I'm both nervous and serious about this.

some comps will suplie lunch for a small charge or for freeso check that

 

[AlphaSheep]

+2 because M is a move

Actually no. An M slice away from solved is a DNF because the regulations count an M slice as two moves. Here are the relevant parts of the regulations:

• 10e1) For each two adjacent parts (e.g. two parallel, adjacent slices of a cube) of the puzzle that are misaligned more than the limit described in Regulation 10f, the puzzle is considered to require one additional move to solve (see "Outer Block Turn Metric" in Article 12).

• 10e3) If one move is required, the puzzle is be considered solved with a time penalty (+2 seconds).
• 10e4) If more than one move is required, the puzzle is considered unsolved (DNF).

• 12a1) Face Moves:
  • 12a1a) Clockwise, 90 degrees: F (front face), B (back face), R (right face), L (left face), U (upper face), D (bottom face).
  • 12a1b) Anti-clockwise, 90 degrees: F', B', R', L', U', D'.
  • 12a1c) 180 degrees: F2, B2, R2, L2, U2, D2.
• 12a2) Outer Block Moves (outer slice plus adjacent inner slices; n is defined as total number of slices to move; n may be omitted for two slices):
  • 12a2a) Clockwise, 90 degrees: nFw, nBw, nRw, nLw, nUw, nDw.
  • 12a2b) Anti-clockwise, 90 degrees: nFw', nBw', nRw', nLw', nUw', nDw'.
  • 12a2c) 180 degrees: nFw2, nBw2, nRw2, nLw2, nUw2, nDw2.
• 12a3) Outer Block Turn Metric (OBTM) is defined as:
  • 12a3a) Each move of the categories Face Moves and Outer Block Moves is counted as 1 move.