Entry-level Rubik’s cubes
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Are you thinking what I’m thinking?
Perfection.
For whatever reason the pieces of the first few cubes were a right nuisance to separate the colours, particularly the corners, but for the final half they almost all came apart with minimal fuss.
But now it’s a complete set of perfect fidgeting material, and suitable for all skill levels.
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@kazitor said in Entry-level Rubik’s cubes:
Are you thinking what I’m thinking?
I'm thinking "what kind of cubes are those where there's more than one face of the same color in the same piece?"
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@Zecc
Instead of having stickers, the pieces are solid coloured plastic. Two half-cubes for the edges and three third-cubes for the corners. I don’t know how much attention you or anyone else was paying, but for those who weren’t, picture 2 shows disassembled edges and picture 3 shows disassembled corners.Stickers suck because they peel off. Although I do have a Rubik’s-brand cube with single-coloured sides and no stickers, because it has only the necessary coloured squares embedded in black plastic for all the pieces.
But the precise answer to your question is “MoYu RS3 M.” Very smooth and lenient; excellent fidgeting material at an affordable price. Main problem is the springs start to creak after some use, so you need to get some lubricant in there.
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@kazitor said in Entry-level Rubik’s cubes:
Are you thinking what I’m thinking?
Apparently not.
I was thinking along
lines, and randomly adding the pieces back to the different cubes, with the result that there will be too many/few pieces of each color per cube.
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Took me some re-reading to understand what you were telling me.
Saying they were solid coloured plastic rather than stickers did not help. If anything, it made it worse.
The thing that made it make sense in my mind was finally realizing that the corners and edges are not a single cubic piece with 2 or 3 faces each, but rather wedges with a single outside face.
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@kazitor said in Entry-level Rubik’s cubes:
Stickers suck because they peel off.
It's been a few years since I looked for any information on the topic, so I may not have this all right.
From what I understand, cubes like the ones you have (originally, before you turned them into single colour ones) are banned in competition because you can see what colours are where without actually looking at the faces. However, they're also made of softer plastic that feels nicer to manipulate, so competitive speed cubers would take them apart and put them back together as you have, then put stickers on them in order to make them legal for competitive use.
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@hungrier said in Entry-level Rubik’s cubes:
you can see what colours are where without actually looking at the faces.
do you mind unpacking that for me?I can't see how these cubes allow that (unless each colour has a different texture and you can tell by feel?), and I can't see why that would be a problem for competitions (unless it's a blind competition?)...
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@remi said in Entry-level Rubik’s cubes:
@hungrier said in Entry-level Rubik’s cubes:
you can see what colours are where without actually looking at the faces.
do you mind unpacking that for me?I can't see how these cubes allow that (unless each colour has a different texture and you can tell by feel?), and I can't see why that would be a problem for competitions (unless it's a blind competition?)...
The way I pictured it (and I may be wrong) is that if, for example, the top slice is partially rotated to expose the edge cubies on the middle slice, you could see that one is, say, blue/white even if its faces aren't themselves visible from your viewpoint. On a traditional cube you'd just see black/black.
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@Watson Mmm... OK, I see how in that regard the cubes here are different from a cube with sticker.
But OTOH it's not like this information is hidden in the first place, since the colour you might see is... the colour of the faces.
Then again OTTH any competitive setting is going to worry about tiny minuscule things that normal players wouldn't care about and maybe not having to tilt the cube by a fraction of a degree to see the faces could indeed bring an advantage (or at least could be thought to bring one).
So maybe that's it.
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@remi The times for solving 3x3x3 cubes in competition are insane, so any micro fraction of a second advantage would count
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@hungrier fair enough. Though it's so insanely fast that I'm not sure they have time to look at anything. Then again, blind-folded records are significantly slower, so... I guess they do?
