Get rid of all the stickers currently on the cube, order some fresh stickers from Cubicle/SCS/etc. and apply those. Proper stickers are much more durable than the random crap some companies (ahem, Qiyi) use. They'll still wear out over time, but they generally don't peel (with normal use) so sticker bits won't get under your nails, etc.I got a stickered 4x4 and scraped my fingernair on the sticker, making It bleed. i ditched 4x4 as an event all together, very sad since i enjoyed it. It happened during a regrip, and my 4x4 is slow, so i had to turn aggressively. the sticker peeled too
Thinking about this some more, delegates who are picky about those defects in stickerless puzzles probably are also very pick about sticker wear and tear, so this isn't really an advantage or disadvantage of stickerless either way.
I don't own many stickerless cubes but the only one I have that have white stress marks is my 55mm stickerless zhanchi, and only on the orange side. It might've been that way from the factory All my other stickerless puzzles, including both glossy and frosted plastic, have never had this issue.
Yeah, I prefer stickerless, but I do agree that stickered should still be an option.Honestly I think stickerless is kind of overrated. Yeah I get that a lot of people prefer it, but the problem is that a lot of cubes nowadays are only coming out in stickerless
Stickered puzzles won't ever fully go away just because people want to use custom shades. How many people actually do that idk.
What you're talking about is known as a "tiled cube". They look like stickered cubes but they have removable tiles instead of stickers so no problem of sticker peeling. Unfortunately, the only tiled cubes that I know of that are in production are the Rubik's-GAN speedcube and the regular Rubik's Cube you get at toy stores.Why can't we have the best of both worlds? We all know that stickerless cubes should function better, as it has less weight, and bigger colour areas, and smoother or more consistent feel (friction). Stickered ones look classy with its black lines and allow choice of colours, which besides aesthetics can help performance depending on one's eyesight. It should be more enjoyable not just because of having one's favourite colours but it is also less distracting to others, being slightly quieter. I wish stickerlesss cubes will be made with black lines to look stickerless, and with bright but more traditional colours. I am happy to pay more for such cubes, and not just pay more for the fancy cases with magnets, pretty bags, display stands, wipe cloth, useless cards and the nth screw driver (which does nothing more than screwdrivers we already have in every house. How many little screwdrivers do you have?
