V-Cubes!

Now the most important question to the guys who have already received their cubes... how are they? Mine are also delivered but to Görlitz and I'm not in Görlitz this weekend. So I'm kind of excited about Monday evening ;) Too bad there is an exam on Tuesday morning. So playing with them all night should not be the best idea.
 
Argh, they tried to deliver at the street address at work, but in the city i live in... So it looks like i'll have to wait till monday or tuesday :-(

The error was by v-cubes not dhl, so check the address in the shipment notification email.
 
cmhardw said:
Order #135 here, and I just received my e-mail from DHL saying it shipped. The most recent note shows that it was picked up in Greece, so I guess it's on the way!

Hopefully I'll get them soon! I can't wait! I'm already itching for 7x7x7 BLD (too scared out of my mind to even attempt any sort of relay yet).

Chris
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Chris,

I thought I would warn you that I'm planning on trying 7x7x7 BLD too first thing once I get my cubes. You probably don't have anything to worry about, since I figure I should probably be about 10% accurate at best with 7x7x7 BLD (and that's not taking into account the new types of centers, which I'm likely to mess up). But if you want to be the first in the world to do it, you need to move quickly, or I might beat you to it. :)

Sorry - I just think it would be cool to do a 7x7x7 BLD before I ever do a 6x6x6 BLD. And I know I can handle the memory for it, because 4 5x5x5s were significantly more memorization than a 7x7x7. But I'm sure I'm going to mess up the commutators on the "6x6x6-type" centers at first; it's going to take a while to get used to them.

By the way, do you have a name for those extra type of centers? What do you call them? I figure for the more normal ones, we can call them "outer X centers", "inner X centers", "outer + centers", and "inner + centers", (and I guess you have "outer and inner wings"), but what do you call the other ones?

I'm hoping I can do a 7x7x7 BLD in under 3 hours. I figure it won't be much less than 3 hours, though. And the weird color scheme will throw me; I might move some stickers around first to get closer to my color scheme before I start.

I'm saving the relay attempts for after I've solved the individual cubes.
 
well people have to take into considereation how much in demand the v-cubes are. they got well over 800 orders in just a few days, and they cant ship all 800+ as promptly as they could lets say 20
 
I'm #1085 and I live in Austria. When do you think it will come? I think most of the people got it in a shorter time than 2 weeks. The funny thing is, that I will be in Greece in August for 2 weeks.. I could have saved a lot of shipping costs :-/
 
Ok, I take back everything I've said. I think that they just got late with sending the shipping e-mails. It seems that they actually shipped almost all of the small orders, but didn't send the e-mails right away. I guess I sounded like an ass, and I apologize :p
 
Mike Hughey said:
By the way, do you have a name for those extra type of centers? What do you call them? I figure for the more normal ones, we can call them "outer X centers", "inner X centers", "outer + centers", and "inner + centers", (and I guess you have "outer and inner wings"), but what do you call the other ones?
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Eventually we will have to switch to a scalable notation like aUbRcF where abc are numbers from 1 to the amount of layers the cube has (7 for a 7x7x7) and URF are the Up-Right-Front layers. I am visualising this right now and somehow I got the idea that you will only need 2 of the 3 coordinates because there are no inner pieces but I am not entirely sure about this
 
hr.mohr said:
Argh, they tried to deliver at the street address at work, but in the city i live in... So it looks like i'll have to wait till monday or tuesday :-(

The error was by v-cubes not dhl, so check the address in the shipment notification email.
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I had the same problem, except the mixed up addresses are in different states in my case. I'm still trying to get it worked out, and I think it might be fairly difficult.
 
I couldn't resist so I've just met the guy who ordered the cubes and I took up my 5x5^^
and it's awesome. even without lubing it (and with the strange black stickers) I can get my normal average times. it's still a bit stiff though and needs some break-in.
also I like the sensation of the springs;)
 
hmm... according to a person a few posts back, it said his was still said to be in the processed stage and with no email. but he got his already. Thats the same case with me, hopefully i wont have to wait 2 weeks before i practise 5x5 again (i gave up on my rubiks 5x5, after davinci it turned to crap. well atleast it got me 2 sub-2s there =)
 
one thing i wanted to mention to everyone that got a 6x6. be sure to take it apart, or be very attentive to it (turn it until its dry) when you lube it. you know if you let lube just sit it can make pieces stick together, and this can be very annoying for a 6x6. hope this saves someone my aggravation :)
 
Here are some pictures from the TwistyPuzzles forum.


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Gargh!!! I want them all, so bad!!! But I calculated the cost of one of each and it came to $226, which I just cannot afford unless my parents pitch in big time, but my mom is like "Cubes are not worth 226 dollars and blah blah blah. I actually kinda wish I had a job and could actually make money to pay for them. :P Oh well, maybe I could get one just for now, (I would get the 7x7) and get the 5x5 or 6x6 for my birthday or something. (In october :()
 
They do look nicely made, except what about the little burrs on the middle edges of the pieces? I know those are very close up and probably exaggerate the problem, but wouldn't that make them a bit rough to the touch? Of course, I would assume that's nothing a little sandpaper couldn't take care of.
 
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