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[Q--]

I wouldn't be surprised if it is already magnetic.

That would be really nice, it might spark up the movement for kilo/kibi to be an official event again.
Although I hope they would do a center/edge magnet scheme, since there's never much contact between corners or corner/edge in kilominxes.

 

[xyzzy]

That would be really nice, it might spark up the movement for kilo/kibi to be an official event again.
Although I hope they would do a center/edge magnet scheme, since there's never much contact between corners or corner/edge in kilominxes.

There's a gap between the corners, yes, but the corner/edge contact in a kilominx is exactly the same as in a megaminx. It's only a question of whether there's space in the pieces to place the magnets.

 

[Sub1Hour]

New 2x2 Megaminx from QiYi! Definitely looks promising!

Immediately reminded me of the ShengShou Kilominx. I'm wondering if it will have the same design. I honestly hope not, but we'll see. I wonder if it will come in stickerless eventually.

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I'm very excited for this one, my shengshou is actually pretty good compared to other kibiminxes I have tried but It's still pretty bad compared to megaminx hardware. Maybe this one could replace my main!

 

[cuber314159]

There's a gap between the corners, yes, but the corner/edge contact in a kilominx is exactly the same as in a megaminx. It's only a question of whether there's space in the pieces to place the magnets.

Why can't it just be magnetized like a 2x2?

 

[xyzzy]

Why can't it just be magnetized like a 2x2?

Consider two adjacent corner pieces; the internal sides that face each other are not parallel (remember, it's a dodecahedron, not a cube), so unless you can place the magnets at the very edge and the edge pieces are very thin, the magnets will be separated by a large distance and hence have a much smaller effect (less added stability, less alignment snap).

 

[cuber314159]

Consider two adjacent corner pieces; the internal sides that face each other are not parallel (remember, it's a dodecahedron, not a cube), so unless you can place the magnets at the very edge and the edge pieces are very thin, the magnets will be separated by a large distance and hence have a much smaller effect (less added stability, less alignment snap).

I guess that makes sense but you could surely just use stronger magnets at the very tip of the edge and it would make it a whole lot easier than trying to squeeze magnets into the edges inside. I have noticed on alot of cubes recently that the magnets are very small (like 3x1) and they still aren't weak.

 

[teh yoshi]

I wouldn't be surprised if it is already magnetic.

I, for one, would be extremely surprised.

 

[xyzzy]

I guess that makes sense but you could surely just use stronger magnets at the very tip of the edge and it would make it a whole lot easier than trying to squeeze magnets into the edges inside. I have noticed on alot of cubes recently that the magnets are very small (like 3x1) and they still aren't weak.

Perhaps! With corner-corner magnetisation, there would be 10 pairs of magnets holding the layer in, so 3×1 ought to be strong enough. (The Galaxy v2 M already uses 3×1 and it has only 5 pairs of magnets per layer; it also has thinned plastic, though, so it's not directly comparable.)

 

[Daxton Brumfield]

Yep... Shengshou decided to go at it again

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Yep... Shengshou decided to go at it again

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The design looks a bit like Gan's piece design on their stickered cubes.
edit: it looks a lot like Gan's design, the magnets are looking exactly like Gan's.

 

[I'm A Cuber]

Yep... Shengshou decided to go at it again

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The design looks a bit like Gan's piece design on their stickered cubes.
edit: it looks a lot like Gan's design, the magnets are looking exactly like Gan's.

It also looks like a cheap Valk box

 

[rubik2005]

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[Nmile7300]

Just saw The Cubicle's Everyone Solves on the RS3m 2020. All the testers seemed to agree that it is a contender for the best cube under 10 dollars. They also had Yusheng Du on as a guest and it is his new main.

 

[Rafaello]

RS3M 2020 is on Ziicube for ~3$

 

[teh yoshi]

RS3M 2020 is on Ziicube for ~3$

Here's the link for everybody's convenience: http://www.ziicube.com/Moyu-RS3M-2020

 

[Q--]

More info about the QiYi kilo is out on their Instagram. It seems like it turns okay, but not a significant amount better than my meilong. We’ll have to wait and check out some reviews of it, because I don’t want to spend another weekend magnetizing another kilominx (it’s a long painful process).

 

[Nmile7300]

yj yulong v2 m 50mm really good for oh

That doesn't really belong in this thread and doesn't any thing to the discussion

 

[Nmile7300]

But it was already mentioned multiple times in this thread and saying it is good for OH is not relevant to the discussion

 

[Cubingcubecuber]

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