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[CodingCuber]

What size is the normal rubik's cube?
I want to buy a new cube and want a normal size, but I don't know what size that is, if you could answer me, thanks!

just get something under 58mm but above 54mm and you'll be fine. It doesn't affect much.

 

[abunickabhi]

In the market, cubes used to be 57mm. Recently smaller cubes are getting more popular. By smaller, I mean 55-56mm cubes, U2 L' U' S' U M U M' U S U2 L U2.

 

[Existential Shrimp]

Usually 56 is the normal size.

 

[SH03L4C3]

56 is normal, but some manufacturers are making 55mm cube which I like more.

 

[Deleted member 55877]

2x2:
51mm: most cubes
50mm: some cubes
49mm: small cubes

3x3:
57mm: most old cubes
56mm: most modern cubes
55mm: some modern cubes
54mm: small cubes

4x4:
61mm: most old cubes
60mm: most modern cubes
59mm: small cubes

 

[SH03L4C3]

I disagree for 2x2.
51mm is not standard yet, but its becoming popular. 50mm is still standard.

 

[DNF_Cuber]

2x2:
51mm: most cubes
50mm: some cubes
49mm: small cubes

3x3:
57mm: most old cubes
56mm: most modern cubes
55mm: some modern cubes
54mm: small cubes

4x4:
61mm: most old cubes
60mm: most modern cubes
59mm: small cubes

A lot of modern 3x3s are 55mm

 

[SH03L4C3]

I think you should make it clear that for 4x4 smaller is better unlike 2x2

 

[Scollier]

I have the speedstacks arctic fox timer and mat, and for the timer, I am confused on what the save button and the triangle button above the large reset button. Does anyone know what those buttons do?

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[Deleted member 55877]

I have the speedstacks arctic fox timer and mat, and for the timer, I am confused on what the save button and the triangle button above the large reset button. Does anyone know what those buttons do?

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Saving times

 

[Scollier]

Saving times

And what does that do? Please elaborate.

 

[Deleted member 55877]

And what does that do? Please elaborate.

There isn't much to elaborate on. It's a very simple feature that lets you save up to 3 times. Nobody uses it really.

 

[Nmile7300]

There isn't much to elaborate on. It's a very simple feature that lets you save up to 3 times. Nobody uses it really.

The save and play button features are actually meant for sport stacking (since that was the original use of the timer). You can save 3 times because you are supposed to save your best 3-3-3, 3-6-3, and Cycle times (Those are the 3 main events in speed stacking).

 

[Kaiju_cube]

Confused by the brand names with (offbrand) names first. D-fantiX, Cuberspeed, etc.

I only own five cubes (five 3x3 and two 2x2). I notice whenever I shop on Amazon a lot of brand names have 'other' names in front of them. Like I bought a Moyu Weilong GTS3 M, but it's listed as a LiangCuber Moyu Weilong GTS3 M, I bought another Meilong and it's listed as CuberSpeed Moyu Meilong 3x3 M Magnetic, I bought a Gan 356 lite and it's listed as Cuberspeed Gan 356 M Lite, ... you get the idea.

Now I can search through all the results and try find for example a Gan cube from the Gan store that looks identical and comes with the same stuff, but it doesn't say 'Cuberspeed' in front of the title.

Mostly I'm confused why these name brands have another brand name preceding them in the listing?

Pretty sure I should just start ordering from The Cubicle but I have to admit sometimes it's just too easy to open the Amazon app and order a new cube.

the cubes I have seem nice, they don't seem like knockoffs or anything. I'm just curious why it was listed as CuberSpeed Gan and not just 'Gan'.


Thanks for any info offered. Usually I just lurk but this question has been really bugging me lately. I see so many 'D-FantiX' cubes on Amazon and I'm like, "Who the heck are these guys?"

 

[Kaiju_cube]

I think I found the answer last night after a bunch of googling. D-FantiX is just a webstore. I have no idea why they're putting their name in front of cube listings, or why the other stores are doing it either.

That's like saying it's not a Rubiks Cube,.. it's a Walmart Rubiks Cube.

Anyway I was worried somehow a couple of the cubes I bought were licensed 'versions' and not the real thing, but it appears they're the real thing, just listed in a really weird way on Amazon.

 

[SH03L4C3]

Yep. Cuberspeed, dfantix, and liangcuber are the 3 main Amazon web stores.

 

[qwr]

One of my youtube project ideas is to make a stackmat timer display. The easy way to do this is with a LED matrix display because large seven-seg displays require manual wiring and for some reason are much more expensive (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001649607621.html) although if I actually complete this project I might try to wire it up later

So can someone who has a stackmat display tell me how tall the numbers are? I guess 2 inches

 

[2018AMSB02]

One of my youtube project ideas is to make a stackmat timer display. The easy way to do this is with a LED matrix display because large seven-seg displays require manual wiring and for some reason are much more expensive (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001649607621.html) although if I actually complete this project I might try to wire it up later

So can someone who has a stackmat display tell me how tall the numbers are? I guess 2 inches

I just measured on mine. They are slightly slanted, but the height (not side length) is almost exactly 1.75

 

[qwr]

I just measured on mine. They are slightly slanted, but the height (not side length) is almost exactly 1.75

ok ty. I was even looking at 4" and 6" digits before realizing those were way too big and would probably draw too much current (I've had weird things happen when trying to hookup very long LED strips in SPI daisy-chained)

 

[JohnnyReggae]

I did this as a project probably about 2 years ago. Was a great learning experience.

I used this tutorial to build the display .... https://jayanth-rajakumar.github.io/ledmat/