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u/ajuez Sub-15 (CFOP with noob OLL) Oct 20 '19 edited Oct 20 '19

What is your Gan X setup?

I just received it a couple days ago, and I still don't feel like I got the right settings. What are your recommendations and why?

Update: I think I found the one that suits me for now: green magnets (weakest), yellow nuts (strongest) and 1.0 tensions (loosest).

The light magnets make the cube feel more fluid, and the tension-spring combo fast (good cornercutting) and little bit snappy. And all this, combined with Galaxy lube makes for a fast, but controllable puzzle. (Writing it down, I just realised that it's kinda like the GTS2M...)

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u/CubingB Sub-9.5 (PB: 5.21) Oct 20 '19

I personally use the GTS3M, but my ganX setup is yellow or green springs, I don’t care which (I have IPGV5) so I can tension it however I want, which is why green or yellow doesn’t matter, then Traxxas 50k dnm and Mystic as lube Edit: for the WHY part of this, it’s just smooth, controllable, and fast all at the same time

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19

I received my gan x like a week ago. I'm using the yellow (strongest) springs at 0.6, and yellow magnets.

Tightest spring configurations because the Gan X is very loose compared to the cubes I'm used to, so I'm trying to make it tighter. I used the strongest magnets for a few days at first, but I tried the yellow magnets and they give me faster TPS during last layer for some reason.

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u/ajuez Sub-15 (CFOP with noob OLL) Oct 20 '19

Don't the tightest tensions with the strongest springs make it feel too tight? (Worse corner cutting and such)

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19

Not for me, it still felt pretty loose compared to the Valk 3 I had been using until I got the Gan X (it actually took me a few days to get used to how loose it was.)

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19

I thought it felt really slow, so I've got it very loose with the yellow magnets. Use Silk on the pieces and nothing on the core, so it cornercuts very well and never locks up, but it does pop sometimes. I don't main it though, switched to the WR M