Which cube revolutionized speedcubing the most?

[Johnny]

I haven't been a cuber for that long but it sounds like I didn't miss much because the GuHong was the first truly "good" speedcube. Is that accurate or am I overestimating the GuHong's influence? If I am, what speedcube changed the industry the most?

 

[Deleted member 19792]

Alpha or Type A since it was the first speedcube I guess.

 

[goodatthis]

Probably the Aosu or guhong.

but overall, I'm going to say the original rubiks cube revolutionized cubing the most

 

[Johnny]

Probably the Aosu or guhong.

but overall, I'm going to say the original rubiks cube revolutionized cubing the most

This might be semantics, but IMO you can't revolutionize something that didn't exist before

 

[LeighSC]

I've only been around for about a year, and from what I have seen, the Aosu wins by a fair distance.

Not exactly part of the question but I would say that the emergence of Moyu seems to be one of the most revolutionary events in speedcubing.

 

[LucidCuber]

I'm tempted to say the Dayan. The weilong was an improvement, and the aolong an improvement on the weilong, but the Dayan was the first mass produced cube which basically came straight out of the box as good as the best modified and lubed speedcubes before it.

 

[Randomno]

C4U one was quite popular, not sure about revolutionary though.

 

[Robert-Y]

I would have to go with the Guhong. To me, it was by far the best cube available at the time. Before I was using a type F and I thought type Fs were amazing.

 

[Randomno]

I'm tempted to say the Dayan. The weilong was an improvement, and the aolong an improvement on the weilong, but the Dayan was the first mass produced cube which basically came straight out of the box as good as the best modified and lubed speedcubes before it.

Dayan is a company, not a cube. You mean the GuHong?

 

[ZamHalen]

Easily the Guhong. Everything now is essentially just improving upon it's ideas and it was the cube used by a large majority of the first big wave of sub-10 average cubers shortly after it came out.

 

[Carrot]

GuHong, basically the first cube to efficiently cut corners both ways!

 

[Johnny]

I have to ask, how the heck did Dayan come up with the GuHong mechanism? Because before the GuHong, literally every cube was a slightly modified Rubik's brand.

 

[Randomno]

I have to ask, how the heck did Dayan come up with the GuHong mechanism? Because before the GuHong, literally every cube was a slightly modified Rubik's brand.

Maybe some company thought "cubes might be faster if the pieces aren't shaped like exact cubes"... The reason I slightly dislike my 3x3x4, trying to reverse corner cut almost rips the cube apart.

 

[Chree]

V-Cubes. Their mech is the backbone of most modern cubes, especially in the big cube arena (obv).

 

[Johnny]

V-Cubes. Their mech is the backbone of most modern cubes, especially in the big cube arena (obv).

yes, but the v-cube 3 sucks. 3x3x3 is the main twisty puzzle and therefore the most important.

 

[Thompson]

Guhong

 

[Rubiks560]

To me the biggest change (in 3x3) came from the GuHong.

 

[Chree]

yes, but the v-cube 3 sucks. 3x3x3 is the main twisty puzzle and therefore the most important.

In that case: Guhong.

 

[~Adam~]

GuHong. It's still competitive and it's been out for 4 years (?).

I have to ask, how the heck did Dayan come up with the GuHong mechanism? Because before the GuHong, literally every cube was a slightly modified Rubik's brand.

They knocked off the awful V-3 from the future but left out the torpedoes.

 

[bobthegiraffemonkey]

I'd say the GuHong, and anyone who says AoSu is silly or clearly hasn't been around long enough. V-cubes 5-7 made a big impact too, although they were really a one-hit-wonder for the mech idea - they weren't good at actually making the best use of it or trying to help the speedcubing community, whereas Dayan continued to make high quality cubes and innovate further.