is there any kind of cubing scene on /toy/? Mostly just wondering if there's any recommended brands (or other cubes worth picking up, I know they make stuff like 4x4s for example.)
>>11221485I remember seeing a skills based (not a general but just a thread); I forget if it was an actual board, but I remember somewhere seeing a table top gaming thread or board? Not vidya and not necessary DnD and stuff like Magic the Gathering, but more stuff like Cards Against Humanity or even evergreen things like Monopoly, it might have been a discord I was in during lockdown, can't honestly remember. I see all sorts of varied cubes, with weird patterns and shapes, even at Dollar Tree type stores. It probably depends on what you specifically want. With that men's gymnastic pommel horse dude that won the gold medal has been about it when he did media, it's certainly brought it back into popular attention.
>>11221485If you are starting out, dont buy anything from Rubiks, even though it may be your first thought. Their stuff is fine if you only wish to feast your eyes upon it. Their cubes are terrible for practicing your muscle memory, as they pretty much dont allow for corner cutting.Gan i remember as the top brand for speedcubers, you could always see feliks zemdegs use these during tournaments. Kinda expensive for what they are.Personally i settled for MoFangJaoShi, I think they are daughter brand of MoYu, sold as "cubing classroom" speedcubes. Best bang for muck imo. I have them from 2x2 up to 7x7, nothing extreme, but they give you a lot of room for imprecision when doing quick sequences.If you are more into modded cubes and puzzles, MoFangGe has great ones like Square-1 or gear cube. QiYi also does a lot of cool stuff. I have a Megamorphix from them
There's no harm in starting a thread on /toy/ but as you can see, you are not getting a lot of response to this.
>>11227256>If you are starting out, dont buy anything from Rubiks, even though it may be your first thought. Their stuff is fine if you only wish to feast your eyes upon it. Their cubes are terrible for practicing your muscle memory, as they pretty much dont allow for corner cutting.all of that changed with their recent 50th anniversary speed cube(which is actually just a collaboration with a chinese brand which already released this cube some 3 years ago), it has decent corner cutting, magnets, and a tension adjusting system, for $17which is a tiny bit steep when you consider you can get a similar performing moyu cube for like $8-10 on any speedcubing site, but once you factor in shipping, $17 as a retail price sounds good enough for your first cube
>>11227887>>11227256I see these at walmart all the time for about half the price of a branded cube. I always thought they gave the impression of being a cheap knockoff (between the price and the stickerless design) but from some quick research it's a rebranded moyu cube, and also speedcubers prefer stickerless design? I guess it's something about reducing friction.
>>11227904stickerless is 100% the way to go and it's been for a few years by now
You would think with that Men's Gymnastic's gy who is now on Dancing With The Stars at the moment being asked to solve one of these every goddamn time he does an interview or appears somewhere that there would be more people talking about cubes but it doesn't feel that way?
>>11221485I can solve a regular cube in around 30 seconds but those dollar store hello kitty cubes are impossible
>>11228355i concur those suck ass
>>11221485>>11227256>>11227887i recommend the RS3M V5 from MoYu, magnetic dual adjustment version; look it up on amazon, they are magnetic and fairly cheap, turn pretty great for the price, those 20 usd ballcore or whatever versions are a bit overkill and probably for top solversfor lubes, which are basically half of a cube's performance (in case you want to get into speedsolving) i'd getting gettong of GANCUBE lubes, no.1 works best, (but fyi no.2 are for speed and no.3 are for slowness in case the cube is too fast, no.1 is just a mix of them), 7-8 bucks for a 10ml bottle, doesnt seem like much but it'll last you a good few years in my experience, you dont use much anyway, all fairly cheap, around under 15-20 usd for this setup and a great starting point in cubing and stuff imo.
>>11227904its popular because it was made legal by the WCA, the governing body for speed rubik's cube competitions, you can see more colors and plus all the new speedcubes these days are stickerless because its cheaper for the manufacturers so the regular stickered style has been falling off for quite sometime now, rubik's has their own tiled design so you cant peel them off anymore, so that sucks.
Probably a dumb question, but it has always bugged me. With the level of skill and min maxing speed cubers have reached, isn't is just down to number of turns required? Would that not just be random luck and up to whoever shuffled the cube? I mean, couldn't you technically be the worlds fastest cuber if it only required 1 turn? Or are there some rules to how many turns to be official or something?
>>11221485I use a Gan 12 magnetic, but ai have a few other puzzles as well
>>11227904Rubiks brand cubes are the worst honestly for speed>>11227887This is a rebranded Gan cube, you might as well order a Gan instead.
>>11230783There are valid and invalid scrambles for competition, so no 1 turn solves, also solutions require a minimum number of turns usually.The fastest cuber in the world actually uses more turns on average than slower cubers.
>>11230783also, this isn't chess - filthy with people doing illegal performance enhancing drugs and computer assisted cheating
>>11230783In most competitions they score an “average” time out of several solves to avoid a lucky scramble being easier than others.
>>11235428if the competition is providing the cubes, this really shouldn't be necessary?
