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QiYi MoFangGe Company Founded: unknown Location: Guangdong, China Years Active: 2013-present Areas served: Worldwide Website: [1] Production Products: QiYi Cavs 2x2, QiYi Thunderclap 3x3, QiYi WuQue 4x4, QiYi WuShuang 5x5, QiYi WuHua 6x6, QiYi Square-1, and others

QiYi (Chinese: 奇艺), also known as MoFangGe (Chinese: 魔方格) is a Chinese cube manufacturer.

Company

QiYi Toys is located in Chenghai District, Shantou city, Guangdong Province, China. Their development platform, MoFangGe, was founded by cube inventor Du ChaoYu to provide "a creation, development platform to the outstanding designers which come from the whole world."[2]

Products

3x3

QiYi Bullfight (DouNiu)

The QiYi Bullfight is known for the controversy involving this and the Newisland Phoenix. Newisland got ahold of QiYi's plans of the Bullfight, and made their own version and called it the Phoenix. The Bullfight's release came after the Phoenix did, so for a while, many people thought that QiYi had re-branded the Newisland Phoenix. However, Newisland later came clean and admitted that the Phoenix was indeed a knockoff of the Bullfight.

QiYi Thunderclap (LeiTing)

The QiYi Thunderclap was released in May of 2015, and is an improved version of the Bullfight. It is fast and clicky. It can corner cut nearly two pieces and reverse corner cut about one piece. It was widely considered one of the best budget cubes, and many speedcubers used it as their main.

It is also worth noting that Newisland re-branded the Thunderclap as well, calling their version the Lightning.

QiYi Sail (QiHang)

The QiYi Sail is a 3x3x3 budget cube. It is fast and clicky, and can corner cut about 45° forwards, and approximately half of a piece reverse. The edge pieces will pop out on looser tensions. The edge and corner pieces have caps on the sides, which can fall out, and the cheap plastic is known to break under stress. However, it was considered to be one of the best budget cubes on the market for its performance.

QiYi Thunderclap V2

The Thunderclap V2 is generally considered inferior to the Thunderclap V1.

QiYi Big Sail

The QiYi Big Sail 3x3 is a 6.8 cm 3x3 version of their budget 3x3, the Sail.

QiYi Warrior W (YongShi)

The QiYi Warrior W is an updated version of the original Warrior 3x3. It is a budget cube like the Sail, but it has generally better performance than the Sail.

Skewb

QiYi Skewb

The first ever skewb to 1) have an adjustable elasticity mechanism, and 2) be available in stickerless.

QiYi QiCheng Skewb

The QiCheng is a beginner-friendly budget Skewb. The stickerless version is made from frosted plastic like the Warrior W and some of QiYi's other budget puzzles. It features a ball bearing alignment mechanism. It is a bit slower and more controllable than many other skewbs, with good corner-cutting in both directions.

Square-1

QiYi Square-1

The QiYi Square-1 is the first ever Square-1 to have a stickerless variant, and is primarily known for absolutely destroying all other Square-1s in terms of quality upon its release.

Non-WCA

QiYi Ivy Cube

The QiYi Ivy Cube is what appears to be a Cubominx-type puzzle, but is actually a skewb shape mod.

Sub-Brands

X-Man Design

See X-Man Design

TheValk

TheValk is a sub-brand created for the release of the Valk 3, a 3x3x3 cube designed by former world record holder Mats Valk that he used to set a former world record single of 4.74 seconds. It was the main of a large percentage of speedcubers after its release. Afterwards, TheValk 3 Mini and TheValk 3 Power also came out with positive feedback.

QiYi Cube

QiYi Cube is QiYi MoFangGe's line of budget cubes.