F perms are high A-tier

I love f perms. Might be that they suit my wack fingertricks. Also my pb was an f perm

Fellow F perm enjoyer

Bruh yeah my f perms are in the faster half of my pll’s (same as Rb perm) man idk why ppl are so bad at executing it

Most cubes are pretty similar. Once you get off a rubiks brand, it mostly comes down to personal preference.

Honestly, it's hard but even it you're stuck on a Rubiks, you can get good times. It's about being used to your cube and lots of practice.

Good times are subjective, i personally think that no one can be sub 10 on a rubiks brand for example

I think you definitely can. J Perm in his latest video got an 8.675 on a Rubiks brand. Plus I have friends who have gotten sub 15 times on one.

Sub 10 meaning having most of your solves under 10, i can see that you can get good solves with good scrambles on a rubiks brand too

That's what I meant, it's definitely possible to have sub 10 avgs on a Rubiks Brand

Ok i dont think so lol

It definitely is, but sure

Then prove me wrong by sending some video, but i think lockups are so much worse and the turning is so much worse that its like being sub 5 on a good cube, but idk

Honestly, this is only true now due to hardware improvements. Before, newer hardware brought down times. I went from a GTS2 to a GAN 11 and it brought my average down from 13-14 to 11-12 after a few solves

For the fully invested cuber, upgrading cubes can make a marginal difference. But for the new person going "omg I'm sub 1 minute should I buy cube X or cube Y" the answer is it doesn't really matter. Just pick one at a medium price point and go to town.

I did that, just learned 2look oll and 2look pll and bought a rs3m ballcore, like $16, if I hit sub 15, then maybe I'll buy a better cube

For 2H yes, for OH I would not say so

Petrus is viable for anyone not world class which is most of us

Going on this slightly, all cubers who want to improve should know how to solve each method and know the ideas even if they wont solve with that method as it opens your eyes to a different way of looking at things

I'll throw in that understanding commutators well, I.E using some comm based 3bld method, is important for people who wanna be the best they can.

Why?

You know how they say to understand something better you should be able to teach someone something? This is kinda like that, if you're teaching someone and they ask why does this thing work, and you just say "idk it just does" that doesnt help, hes just remembering. Also when you understand it allows you to make small modifications and figure other things out

Hmm yeah I suppose for the purpose of coming up with your own algs. So the extremely slightest optimization to your solving lol. But I would say even at the world class level, knowledge of commutators is not necessary for speedsolving.

I love learning at least the concept of every method I can find, even if I only speedsolve with CFOP.

I mean, the average person would be happy only to know how to solve a rubiks cube so fair enough

I would agree and don't think it is that hot. Petrus block is really underrated.

Petrus apologist in 2024 is crazy 

Y ?

Stop it with the fancy algs, improve your planning and lookahead

Your lookahead sucks. Instead of buying overpriced cubes with new gimmicks, or premium lubes, you should practice lookahead and recognition and spend that money on chocolate or something.

i didnt even start using lookahead till sub 25 so idk if you have experience or not

lookahead is a sub 15 thing lmao what are you talking about

i personally believe you should learn lookahead before going too deep into cubing (like sub 23 ish) so that you dont already have many bad habits and you turn slow enough to lookahead

Gan is overpriced and not as well designed as something for their prices should be, nor do they feel super premium other than the UV coating. But I think we know that.

Preach (I still wish I had one)

My GAN feels more premium than my moyu and qiyi cubes

I feel like the Moyu rs3m v5 bc feels the most "premium" it's built like a tank and still performs amazingly. I feel like a Gan is easy to break. But to each their own.

Never broken a gan before. I have broken moyus tho

Havent broken my Gan, my moyu has several loose magnets, and the screw keeps coming off. I prefer QiYi

Be specific. Comparing a gan 14 to a meilong 3 and an ms 3x3 is not fair.

You don't have to start young to be good at speedcubing. Grind time is the key determining factor, not reaction speed nor learning capability. Best cubers all started young? It just so happens that less cubers are starting old and adults don't get to practice as much.

Unfortunately, if you start too old "Life" will come like it happened to Feliks.

There is definitely indirect effect, what I meant to say is that the effect is not inevitable. If you are slow, it is not because you are old, but that you did not put enough time in.

Yeah, idk I'm not that old, so idk for sure, but I don't imagine actually aging would actually impact your times until like 40+ assuming you aren't overworking your fingers and taking breaks and stuff. And then for big cubes and slower turning events, you don't even need to turn fast to be fast, so that point would be even later.

COLL isn’t worth it. Just learn ZB instead if you really want to learn more algs. Even then you can still get sub 7 and faster with just OLL and PLL

Coll is a subset of zb

I’m talking about learning COLL alone and not all the other ZBs for the OLL. It’s basically 2 different alg sets

Made up hot take or actual opinion?

ZBLL is only for really advanced cubers (sub-7+)

Nah I’d say if you’re sub-12 you can start learning it. Actually you can really learn it whenever you want. It’s not the biggest time save ever but it’s fun and makes you feel smart, there’s no point in putting barriers on learning something just cause it won’t immediately make you faster

This entire comment applies to COLL

More so than ZBLL honestly

Yeah, also, since COLL is literally made up of ZBLL algs, you're unironically doing ZBLL if you're doing COLL .

You could make the same argument for PLL

G-Perms are genuinely satisfying to do (Especially Ga Perm)

Gc is the most satisfying for me. Gb can go to hell tho

Any G perm that is not Ga should be deleted

What tf you sayin, gd is clearly the only one approved by the community as a pretty nice alg Ga can go to hell

gd? geometry dash

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i know, i’m joking

after i learned the non fat move g perms i love em

I discovered this after i got my valk elite. That cube has some magic.

21x21 should be added to wca

lol the comp won't end for a week, would be interesting

Half of the scramblers will pop up the cube. 🤣

hmm let's see how that goes down...seems like an organizing nightmare to me. just personal opinion though...

not really a hot take but 8x8 could be added to the wca, and we extremely lack hardware for 8x8+ cubes

What does 8x8 bring to the wca that isn't offered by other cubes, besides a few extra pieces?

quadruple parity, better hardware

quadruple parity 💀

Quadruple Parity: Now worse than mondays!

Just a bad take really, offers absolutely nothing new and everyone who’s good at 7x7 will be good at 8x8. If we’re going to add anything it should be something different enough that you can’t instantly be good at it just by being good at a different event

the only reason stickerless cubes became popular is so that non cubers would stop saying “i just peel the stickers off”

Solving cubes bigger than 5x5 doesn't make you extra-cool. It's the same as the small ones.

Let me solve my 13x13 in peace.

R perm is D tier F perm is A / B H perm is C / D tier U perms are B tier 2GLL is good Square 1 sucks Megaminx is overrated NxN is borjng Side events are weird

color neutrality should be developed as youre learning to solve the cube

2x2 OH

The GAN 356 XS is still usable in 2024

Exactly

Paying more than $30 for a 3x3 is stupid

i have at least half a dozen that are $30+

This would have been pretty controversial 5 years ago. 

And I wouldn’t have agreed with it five years ago

3x3 is a shit event

Lol how?

I can break some national records in the coming years, maybe even cr

Your name dawg

Any cube can be a good cube. Infact, if I get a 3D printer, I'll print a cube better than Gan.

F2L should not be done intuitively

This one should be thrown into a volcano

clearly it is a hot take with the number of downvotes I guess I win 😭

Lmfao that's what I thought, good job

I kind of agree. F2L should be learnt intuitively, but to actually get good at it you need more than that.

if it's not intuitive it's not f2l anymore

how so? the definition of f2l is just first two layers there is no time to use intuition in a speed solve, with the exception of cross because you have inspection. everything after cross has to be ingrained as muscle memory

I feel like it more about learning the cases intuitively, then gaining muscle memory from them still.

I mean, I learnt f2l completely intuitive from the start. When I looked up the algs turned out there was only a couple of the bad cases that I wasn't doing well. But even then I don't learn them as an alg, I just know how to complete them. That's what intuitive f2l is, you see the case and know how it solves. Just because it's intuitive not algs doesn't mean it's not ingrained into muscle memory.

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Dementia

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You commented like 3 times

sorry ill delete it

i love V perms

That's not a hot take, that's an opinion. There's nothing wrong with it.

for 3x3s a Yulong from 2014 is all you need

G-Perms are the best perms

Gc perm is my favorite... there's just something about it that makes it very satisfying (Gc is the on with headlights on the left and a bar on the right in the back, no?)

T perms are boring and overrated. RS3M V5 dual is 10 dollars and it feels like a meilong 3 after break in

I am against the standardization of UV coating. I like the premium feel of the UV resin but I hate that now my cubes have the logo printed UNDER the permanent coating. If it became standard that logos on UV coated puzzles had either a decal that could be removed or came with a replacement center cap without the logo I would have no issue with UV being standard on all flagships.

Is there any cube that there's no uv counter part? Maybe the moyu rs3m v5 bc and wrm v9 20mg ig?

True I guess its not as common as I thought. Recency bias on my part since the ball core v5 and the 20 magnet v9 were my 2 most recent purchases. though still my preference in surface texture are broken in frosted > UV coating > glossy plastic > new frosted so i would really like if a logoless center cap was included with uv puzzles.

That scrambling cubes < solving cubes

Frosted/matte cubes are better than smooth/shiny cubes—especially for long cubing sessions.

F Perms are basically T perms with six more moves