[Help Thread] Puzzle Choice Thread

[Fukuoka Kengo James]

It’s not necessary but while you wait for your cube or clonk to be scrambled you can keep warm with a backup

Oh that’s a really good point. I was thinking if there are any scenarios that I will possibly have to use my backup for official solves

 

[Tabe]

Oh that’s a really good point. I was thinking if there are any scenarios that I will possibly have to use my backup for official solves

Only if you break your main.

 

[Fukuoka Kengo James]

Only if you break your main.

Like if I got some cracks on it making it not WCA legal? (It always happens with the lingao clock back in the days)

 

[OldSwiss]

Or if you lose it, it gets stolen, falls into the toilet... whatever...

It doesn't hurt to have a backup

As the others said, you can also use it as a warmup cube.

 

[Tabe]

Like if I got some cracks on it making it not WCA legal? (It always happens with the lingao back in the days)

Unless you throw it on the floor, the Qiyi won't crack.

 

[Fukuoka Kengo James]

I’m having my very first comp soon and I would like to ask if a backup main is necessary?

It’s not necessary but while you wait for your cube or clonk to be scrambled you can keep warm with a backup

Or if you lose it, it gets stolen, falls into the toilet... whatever...

It doesn't hurt to have a backup

As the others said, you can also use it as a warmup cube.

I have just received my shengshou clock with professional setup and customised weaker springs. I have extended the pins and I can say that it is just as good as a stock qiyi clock but with clickier pins, but it’s just less than half the price of the qiyi clock. However, I still prefer my well setup qiyi clock over it.

 

[Fukuoka Kengo James]

I have just received my shengshou clock with professional setup and customised weaker springs. I have extended the pins and I can say that it is just as good as a stock qiyi clock but with clickier pins, but it’s just less than half the price of the qiyi clock. However, I still prefer my well setup qiyi clock over it.

I have done some solves on my well setup qiyi clock with customised stronger magnetic gears, and my professional setup shengshou clock with customised weaker springs and extended pins. I average 0.5s faster on my qiyi clock than on my shengshou clock. The only problem of the shengshou is that the gears do not align.

I got my premium setup shengshou clock from pi cube shop, a well-known cube retailer in China providing WCA puzzles setup services like the Cubicle and SCS. I got my Weilong pyraminx and yj mgc elite 2x2 from them as well, both with premium setup. The pi setup yj mgc elite was an instant main after just a bit of breaking in like 10 solves. The Weilong pyraminx was not that great ootb but as I further lube it according to the advices from their customer service and adjusted the magnet strength, it has become my main over the GAN enhanced pyraminx and the yuxin little magic M pyraminx. I have already ordered a pi setup weilong skewb as well as I found my GAN enhanced too loose even with GAN pyraminx nuts and my maglev wingy v1 catches quite a bit. I just don't really understand why I do better on the aoyan than both the GAN enhanced and my maglev wingy v1. Btw actually the gts2m used by YuSheng Du to set the 3.47 WR was set up by pi cube shop.

Pi setup shengshou clock: https://www.picubeshop.com/products...?variant=9649fc38-c554-4821-9cb7-934e668c90dd

Also I want to buy a Steven's Yuxin Little Magic M Pyraminx, but I don't know where can i get it. I am already asking on this forum if anyone would like to sell or trade their Steven's Yuxin Little Magic M Pyraminx. Not sure why but pi cube shop do not have the Yuxin Little Magic M Pyraminx.

 

[Fukuoka Kengo James]

Where can I get a Steven's Yuxin Little Magic M Pyraminx?

 

[UncleFrank]

Where can I get a Steven's Yuxin Little Magic M Pyraminx?

Since Cubicle isn't making and selling them anymore, you have 2 options -
Find someone to sell you a used one
or make your own.

Steven and Cubicle both have videos of how they set it up, so it's easier and cheaper to make your own.
The Cubicle video is just Steven doing it for them, so it's the same setup.

Cubicle also has a video on how to setup Steven's WeiLong pyraminx, which is the custom one they sell now in place of the YLM custom setup, since they said the YLM quality control has gone downhill so bad that they no longer recommend the YLM at all.

 

[Tabe]

Where can I get a Steven's Yuxin Little Magic M Pyraminx?

Message Steven and ask him to make you one.

 

[qwr]

Which 3x3 feels most like a controllable Valk2?
I might break my long hiatus of buying cubes to get one

 

[Fukuoka Kengo James]

Which 3x3 feels most like a controllable Valk2?
I might break my long hiatus of buying cubes to get one

Yuxin kylin v2 M

 

[qwr]

Yuxin kylin v2 M

is that the one that came in transparent plastic? the performance was kinda lacking

 

[CatSharked]

What is a good budget megaminx for beginners? I am thinking of getting one but there are too many to choose from and I need to know what the best one is

 

[Fukuoka Kengo James]

What is a good budget megaminx for beginners? I am thinking of getting one but there are too many to choose from and I need to know what the best one is

YJ YuHu v2 M

 

[CatSharked]

YJ YuHu v2 M

Is it better than the YJ MGC?

 

[Fukuoka Kengo James]

Is it better than the YJ MGC?

Depends. If you have larger hands, the YJ MGC may suit you better but it may corner twists.

 

[CatSharked]

Depends. If you have larger hands, the YJ MGC may suit you better but it may corner twists.

Alright, I will get the YuHu V2. For a more advanced cuber, would the GAN be worth it?

 

[Fukuoka Kengo James]

Alright, I will get the YuHu V2. For a more advanced cuber, would the GAN be worth it?

GAN or DaYan v2 M

 

[Fukuoka Kengo James]

GAN Megaminx ($30)

Btw I’m selling a GAN Megaminx at price similar to the dayan v2, and it includes full sets of ges nuts, where the later batches of the stock one do not include extra ges nuts. Get mine if you want the GAN but found it too expensive.