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[Michael Womack]

I'm getting an MF8 tiled Megaminx for christmas, what should I expect? I'm really excited

that they take like 5 months to break in and do this mod

 

[asportking]

My one (although it was stickered) was crap out of the box. It gets good if you lube and/or play around with it, though.

You might want to try loosening it too, mine came really tight.

 

[Phlippieskezer]

You might want to try loosening it too, mine came really tight.

Right. Mine did too. (And I indeed did loosen it; just forgot to mention)

Loosening is a probably a good idea.

 

[MaeLSTRoM]

that they take like 5 months to break in and do this mod ((Vid))

I doubt that mod is necessary, considering its for the Mf8 v1, and thats very hard to get hold of, so itll probably be a V2.

 

[RNewms27]

Can somebody give me some really fast algs for the adjacent 2x2 PLL?

R U2 R' U' R U2 R' F R' F' R

 

[BlueDevil]

R U2 R' U' R U2 R' F R' F' R

I used to use a different ending (L' U R' U' R), but yours seems to be slightly faster.

 

[emolover]

R U2 R' U' R U2 R' F R' F' R

I already use that.

BTW times for 2x2 are 1/5/12/100 = 0.67/2.40/2.70/3.61 So I'm not a noob at 2x2.

Also can someone give me some good 4x4 orientation alg that only flip the dedge? I need one that only orients, and one that's for orientation and permutation.

 

[Jaycee]

Also can someone give me some good 4x4 orientation alg that only flip the dedge? I need one that only orients, and one that's for orientation and permutation.

Only orient - r U2 x r U2 r U2 r' U2 l U2 r' U2 r U2 r' U2 r' U2 L R' (U2). The only catch is that lowercase letters in this case mean ONLY the slice, so I guess it's technically

Rw R' U2 x Rw R' U2 Rw R' U2 Rw' R U2 Lw L' U2 Rw' R U2 Rw R' U2 Rw' R U2 Rw' R U2 L R' (U2)

 

[Eleredo]

Should I remove the torpedoes in my Zhanchi? I heard it'll pop a lot more, which is obvious, BUT it would also be a lot faster, so I heard. True or not?

 

[RNewms27]

Should I remove the torpedoes in my Zhanchi? I heard it'll pop a lot more, which is obvious, BUT it would also be a lot faster, so I heard. True or not?

If at all, a lot would be an exaggeration. If it pops without them then you probably shouldn't remove them as pops are longer than .2s of slower turning in a solve.

 

[YrMyKnight]

Theres a lot of lubrication I found out today at the hardware store. I decided to ask b4 getting one so I wont get the wrong type.
There are WR-99 ,CRC and a lot of types,which should I get?
But it also says CRC are for metal only,I'm not surebut there're lots of type.

Btw : Does torpedoes solve guhongs popping issues?
Do torpedoes make the cube slower?

BUMP

 

[Yuxuibbs]

BUMP

Yes to both questions. Most people don't really notice the cube being slower though. As for lube, try to get differential oil (30k-50k) but if you have to get a spray silicone get either jig a loo or crc silicone (should be red and says "not for use on plastics" or something).

 

[JianhanC]

Why is this cube double the price than it was last year? What is the difference between that Square-1 and MF8 Square-1 Gen 2 on Lightake?

Hello? Help please

 

[asportking]

Hello? Help please

I'm guessing the "Gen 2" square-1 has the new ball core, while the other one doesn't. It could be the other way around though.

 

[slocuber]

times (reset):
22.62, 22.25, 22.93, 20.18, 23.49, 31.54, 20.60, 19.64, 21.22, 20.93, 22.92, 23.50, 21.17, 24.47, 17.80, 17.20, 21.15, 16.42, 22.52, 17.33, 19.30, 23.03, 17.51, 19.71, 22.59, 16.73, 22.06, 21.71, 19.43, 19.30

stats: (hide)
number of times: 30/30
best time: 16.42
worst time: 31.54 (pop)

current avg5: 20.15 (σ = 1.11)
best avg5: 18.56 (σ = 1.84)

current avg12: 20.14 (σ = 1.86)
best avg12: 19.18 (σ = 2.12)

session avg: 20.83 (σ = 2.13)
session mean: 21.04

This is what I average at 5x5 cube for 3x3 stage. On the regular 3x3 my average is something like this:

times (reset):
13.31, 12.73, 11.80, 11.79, 12.01, 11.47, 8.85, 12.02, 11.69, 11.76, 13.13, 10.93

stats: (hide)
number of times: 12/12
best time: 8.85
worst time: 13.31

current avg5: 11.83 (σ = 0.14)
best avg5: 11.64 (σ = 0.12)

current avg12: 11.93 (σ = 0.59)
best avg12: 11.93 (σ = 0.59)

session avg: 11.93 (σ = 0.59)
session mean: 11.79

Is there any other way to practice 3x3 stage on 5x5, besides doing averages like above? Or does it get better after time, if you just solve 5x5 over and over again? I average around 1:45 so it is really holding me back. Thanks for the tips!

 

[Ezy Ryder]

I want to get Sub-20 with 20 methods. Like Kirjava, but on Ao5. So, here are my Ao5s for steps of the few main methods. Which one I should work on the most?
ZZ:
EOLine-5.71
4.90, 5.39, (2.04), (7.77), 6.84
ZZF2L-10.37
10.69, 9.33, 11.08, (12.58), (8.79)
LL-3.60
3.56, 3.52, (3.98), (2.89), 3.71
Total:19.68

Roux:
FB-5.96
6.95, (7.78), (4.28), 5.23, 5.70
SB-6.02
5.99, (4.00), 5.65, (6.44), 6.43
CMLL-2.62
(1.75), 2.93, 2.66, 2.26, (4.03)
LSE-7.98
8.53, 9.23, 6.17, (10.76), (5.83)
Total:22.58

Petrus:
2x2x2-2.94
3.30, (2.18), (4.63), 2.34, 3.18
2x2x3-3.79
3.52, (4.71), 3.66, (2.26), 4.20
EO-4.12
(6.46), (2.34), 3.91, 3.70, 4.76
F2L-3.71
(3.19), (4.27), 3.58, 3.55, 3.98
LL-3.93
(2.67), 3.56, 4.00, 4.21, (4.60)
Total:18.49

I used pre-inspection only in the first steps. Also, what other methods would You think I should try? Obviously some of them would be the ones Kirjava used, but wouldn't there be any better for someone who's main instead of Roux is CFOP?

 

[Schmidt]

I average around 1:45 so it is really holding me back.

What is your goal?? IF you ever get as fast on a 5x5x5 as your 3x3x3, that will get you to 1:36 = (1:45-(5x5~21 - 3x3~12=9)) Are you doing the 3x3x3 part with no inspection as you would in a normal solve??

 

[aaronb]

How many times has lolben gotten banned?

 

[Rpotts]

Ezy Rider - Try CFOP FreeFOP CFCE Petrus Roux ZZ PCMS LBL Keyhole Snyder II CFPO Heise etc etc

 

[Phlippieskezer]

This is probably a silly question, but would you call FreeFOP with CLL/ELL FreeFCE?