Random Cubing Discussion

[PetrusQuber]

Lots of new cubes obviously, there’s the Gan 356 XS, Valk Elite, Moyu Weilong WR M 2020 and the Dayan Tengyun V2 M for flagships right now. Cubes like the Meilong M, RS3M 2020 and Qiyi MS are the best budget cubes around and compete to almost flagship levels

 

[zslane]

Question for all: At what point did you start timing your solves?

 

[Spacey10]

Question for all: At what point did you start timing your solves?

Approx 50 seconds

 

[BenChristman1]

Question for all: At what point did you start timing your solves?

About 25-30. I got a Stackmat really late compared to most people. I didn’t know about csTimer until after I got my Stackmat. Another question, I got it about 1.5-ish years ago and haven’t had to change the batteries. Is this normal?

 

[SpeedyCube]

Question for all: At what point did you start timing your solves?

Years ago, I first started timing when I got down to about 3 minutes. Haha, now I average 55 seconds or so and dropping

 

[PetrusQuber]

I started timing as soon as I could solve .

 

[Username: Username:]

Question for all: At what point did you start timing your solves?

Immediately after I solved the cube.

 

[I'm A Cuber]

I started timing as soon as I could solve .

Immediately after I solved the cube.

Same

 

[Nmile7300]

For me I learned about Cstimer when I averaged about 25, before then, I would always have to get someone else to time me or use this really bad stopwatch I had at my house.

 

[Nir1213]

For me I learned about Cstimer when I averaged about 25, before then, I would always have to get someone else to time me or use this really bad stopwatch I had at my house.

hmm i used to use cstimer but i didnt really like it. I first timed myself when i got my first single of 5 minutes. Then i used cstimer at around 3 - 1.30 minutes.

 

[Skewb_Cube]

Question for all: At what point did you start timing your solves?

As soon as I finished learning how to solve the cube because I wanted to improve so much and just became addicted

 

[Bh13]

Not sure if there's a better thread for this, but do most cubes now use magnets? It seems like magnetized cubes are pretty prevalent.

 

[zslane]

From what I can tell, magnets are pretty much present in all new cubes these days except in the very cheapest ones.

 

[Tabe]

Not sure if there's a better thread for this, but do most cubes now use magnets? It seems like magnetized cubes are pretty prevalent.

Yes. For WCA puzzles, even budget cubes have magnets. There are exceptions but those are becoming far less common.

 

[zslane]

I have a magnetic Pyraminx and a magnetic Skewb that both make an audible click when I turn them. What is causing this clicking noise? (I'm not talking about spring noise; these don't have any of that).

 

[Tabe]

I have a magnetic Pyraminx and a magnetic Skewb that both make an audible click when I turn them. What is causing this clicking noise? (I'm not talking about spring noise; these don't have any of that).

This is usually an indicator that the magnets are not glued into place. They're probably sitting in a slot and can move around when you turn the cube. A drop of glue will fix it.

 

[qwr]

I've always thought that double moves (like U2) take longer than one move but shorter than two moves. So why not count them as 1.5 moves :thunkful:

 

[PetraPine]

It would be more awkward to do FMC+more awkward to do reconstructions

 

[abunickabhi]

Anyone here into doing 3-cycles and 5-cycles for 3x3 speedsolve event?

 

[Deleted member 55877]

I doubt this will have any benefit to speedsolving... But a few days ago i realized that any algorithm repeated an even number of times will not affect EO. If you think of an algorithm as a "toggle" for the some of the edges (by which I mean it switches some edges from bad->good or good->bad) it becomes pretty clear that if you repeat the algorithm twice, all of the "toggled" edges are toggled back... meaning that EO isn't affected.

I know this is stupid but I thought it was interesting nonetheless. there's probably there's some other post that already mentioned this but whatever lol