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Which Cube Should I Get? Up To Date Recommendations

Last updated January 26th 2023 - If you suggest any changes to these recommendations, please comment below which your recommendation and reason for the change. These suggestions are for the community and by the community, so please help keep these suggestions up to date by replying here with changes.
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Budget - Dirt Cheap Cubes only
Great - Pretty good and you won't have to sell your house
Expert - The best cube on the market

Recommended 2x2x2:
  • Budget: QiYi MS 2x2 - $6.95 - A smooth cube with decent performance.
  • Great: MGC 2x2 - $9.99 - Fast cube, corner-cutting is legendary.
  • Expert: QiYi Valk 2M - $19.95 - Used by current world record average holder Zayn Khanani - or YJ MGC2 Elite - $20.99 - Crispy fast cube, corner-cutting is excellent.

Recommended 3x3x3:
  • Budget: Yulong V2M 3x3- $7.95 or QiYi MS 3x3- $7.95 - Cubes that feel crispy and smooth with ok corner-cutting, excellent for the price.
  • Great: MoYu RS3M 2020 3x3 - $8.95 or MoYu RS3M 2021 MagLev - 13.99 - Both are very good cubes with very good corner cutting, the maglev adds more stability.
  • Expert: GAN 11M Pro 3x3 - $64.95 or X-Man Tornado V3 - $24.99-$39.99 or MoYu Weilong WR M (2021 Maglev) - $38.99 - All very stable cubes, the Gan is fast, the Tengyun is controllable, and the WRM is a little bit of both. - The gan is used by many world-class solvers.

Recommended 4x4x4:

Recommended 5x5x5:

Recommended 6x6x6:

Recommended 7x7x7:

Recommended Megaminx:
  • Budget: Qiyi Qiheng - $7.95 - A poor-performing budget megaminx, very slow and locky.
  • Great: YJ YuHu Megaminx V2 M - $13.99 - The fastest megaminx on the market, excellent corner-cutting, and a very crunchy feel.
  • Expert: X Man Galaxy v2 M - $29.99 - or Dayan Megaminx V2 M - $32.99 - Slow cubes, that can be set up to be fast, good corner-cutting. - A moded X Man Galaxy was used by current average and single megaminx world record holder Juan Pablo Huanqui.

Recommended Skewb:

Recommended Clock:
  • Budget: Lingao Clock - $9.95 - Very locky, performance is poor.
  • Great: Shengshou Clock - $9.95 - Locky, overall poor performance.
  • Expert: QiYi Magnetic Clock - $34.95 - Very smooth, honestly your only option if you want to get serious about clock. - All world-class solvers use this clock.

Recommended Pyraminx:
  • Budget: Yulong v2 M Pyraminx - $7.99 - A slower option, poor corner-cutting, but very consistent and good for it's price.
  • Great: Yuxin Little Magic - $8.99 or QiYi MS Pyraminx $9.99 - Both feel cheaper but very smooth and fast. - Both cubes have or are mained by Tymon Kolasinski, a former pyraminx world record holder.
  • Expert: GAN Pyraminx- $18.95 - Very smooth but also unstable, corner-cutting is ok.

Recommended Square-1:
  • Budget: Qiyi Qifa S - $7.99 or Yuxin Little Magic Square 1 - $6.99 - Both feel cheap and locky, but perform well for their price, the QiYi Qifa has better corner-cutting.
  • Great: X-Man Volt $13.99 - Crunchy and good corner cutting but very unstable at high TPS.
  • Expert: YJ MGC Square-1 - $20.99 - A buttery smooth, fast cube, most people consider it the best on the market. - Almost all world-class solvers use this cube.

Recommended MBLD cubes:
  • Budget: Yuxin Little Magic 3x3 $4.95 - A cube that feels cheap but performs ok. - Used by Graham Siggins, the current Multiblind world record holder.
  • Great: MoYu RS3M 2020 3x3 - $8.95 - A hollow, snappy, well-performing cube.
  • Expert: MoYu Weilong WR M 2021 $29.95 - A very smooth, buttery cube with excellent corner-cutting. - Mostly too expensive to use in large muliblind attempts.
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There are many places to buy puzzles, and depending on what country you live in, shipping will be cheaper. Below is a list of stores to consider:
some of the links lead to hacker websites, dont click on them, just look up the cube on google or whatever to stay safe
 
some of the links lead to hacker websites, dont click on them, just look up the cube on google or whatever to stay safe
All of these appear to be legitimate cube stores, CubeDepotUSA used to be pretty notable and they used to sponsor Daniel Goodman before going defunct and that appears to also be why the two other links that don't work for me don't work.
 
All of these appear to be legitimate cube stores, CubeDepotUSA used to be pretty notable and they used to sponsor Daniel Goodman before going defunct and that appears to also be why the two other links that don't work for me don't work.
the one with the qiti valk, it landed me in a site where a bunch of things said "your ip address has been stolen, call this number" and 3 more like that
 
I feel though that at a beginner level its gonna be a lot better just because it's not as slow and the speed is great.
Maybe the MS I tried just had a bad setup or something idk, I didn't like it
This may sound odd, but I think that the MS is a quite divisive cube. Though it has decent performance and a notably plush feel, I feel like it's a love-it-or-hate-it ordeal, which I attribute to the strong magnets. I liked them for a while, but I eventually found them to be too strong. If you appreciate strong magnets, the MS or the M Pro 2x2 are good budget choices, but if not, I recommend the YuPo V2 or the RS2M Evo.
 
I'm looking for a better 5x5 and 7x7 (currently I'm using a qiyi ms 5x5 and a crappy qiyi something s2 7x7)
And I'm wondering are there better options for 4x4 and 6x6 than mgc? I basically need to change my big cube mains
4x4: Vin
5x5: Hong or maybe Gan
6x6: Aoshi WRM
7x7: Aofu WRM
 
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