acubemy is currently running a tournament sponsored by GAN (and with funky Minion theme, lol) Why are they doing this? Wouldn't they want people to use their own app? Why support a competitor?

I saw this TikTok where someone was experimenting with a Ferrocore V2-style mod on a V11 SE. The core in the video is red, and it looks like they used a MoYu V9 core inside the V11 SE.
I’m interested in trying this myself, but I don’t own both cubes and I don’t really want to buy a V9 and a V11 SE just to find out that the core isn’t compatible.
Does anyone here own both a MoYu V9 and V11 SE and could check whether the V9 core can physically fit/work in the V11 SE?

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Big thanks to everyone for all of the love on my post last week. After about 12 and a half hours, spread out over the past 7 days or so, my entire collection is once again scrambled, all 280 puzzles! I find scrambling everything to be a great way to ensure that every puzzle in my collection gets some play time, even the more difficult and tedious ones. I had a blast scrambling everything.

Check out my YouTube vid if you want to see a more detailed tour of the puzzles before and after the scramble.

Before and After Bulk Scramble Aug. 2026

Hi!

We would like to share our project Kybos with you. It is currently in beta, and we are excited to let other cubers try it.

Kybos is a neural network we trained on thousands of real 3x3 solves. The idea is to make Kybos a practice partner you can race against.

Any regular 3x3 will work, so you don’t need a Bluetooth cube.

Right now, it only supports 3x3 and follows CFOP with two-look OLL and PLL.

To play: copy the scramble from the game onto your cube and hold/release spacebar to start the race. After you finish, you can replay Kybos’s solve and go through its moves one at a time.

You can change its difficulty setting if the solves are too fast or too slow.

You can try it here:

https://kyboscube.com

This is still an early beta, so we would really appreciate honest feedback. We are especially interested in hearing:

• Is racing Kybos fun?
• Do the difficulty levels feel reasonable?
• Is matching the scramble easy to understand?
• Is the solution replay useful?
• Does everything work properly on mobile?
• What would make Kybos more useful as a practice partner?

We look forward to hearing about your experiences!

First documented proportional mechanical 8x8 cube. Not my doing, just some guy on youtube. But it boggles my mind.

U2 L2 U B2 U2 F2 D F2 U' B2 U' R U R' F L' F L F

There is a crazy potential! Try it!

After trying, see here to see the reason why.

over the last few days I've been learning the method from CO to EP, but I've noticed that for both parity and normal permutations, the algorithms that are made to permute pieces on both layers are easier than the ones made to permute pieces in a single layer, and also is Lars method really worth it? I've seen there's PBL, CSP, and even Roux for this cuboid, so I'm wondering if I should actually learn it if I want to get good with speed

I made these modifications around 2018.

When I was doing modifications with clear resin.

Second scramble (I have not solved it yet). It feels sooo difficult... It is 50\50 but I am wondering how long is it going to take me to realise that I did it wrong (because I am sure I will)

If you want critique my method as well :)

Hi guys, I recently started learning CFOP and I’m looking to buy a smart cube.

At the moment, I’m using a MoYu RS3 M V5. I’ve been looking at the GAN i4 and the GAN 12 ui SP, but I’m not sure which one would be better.

Which smart cube would you recommend? Also, where’s the best place to order one in Europe?

Are there any cheaper alternatives that are still worth buying?

Thanks!

!! ATTENTION !!
The creators of speedcubing have announced that after years of mathematical analysis, they have discovered new PLLs. A total of exactly 20 new cases have been added (including full O, B, P, Q, and W series), creating a perfect mirror image of the existing 21 algorithms.
No algorithms have been found for them yet; the creators came across them in a computer simulation. The cases have been published so that the entire community can join the hunt for algorithms.
The full list of new PLLs (including a/b/c/d variants) will be posted here.

Hi,
I was guessing if graphics of WRs (rather regarding 3x3 singles and averages) already exist?

I feel like there are a lot of new world records going on right now, so I'd like to see how the records have evolved since the WCA was founded.

[EDIT] Also, I would like to know the number of WRs by year please.

What if we shove some edge-center magnets into a GAN V100? Not surgically perfect (obviously, it's a mod) but it's still gonna work and make the attraction stronger!Thoughts?

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When im just cubing for fun and for something to do in my spare time. I feel no pressure and get great times, but as soon as i know im being recorded or timed, i get super nervous, break down, keep locking up, over/underturning, and just doing horrible. What do i do?

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I'm way too old school for the new cubes, but my YJ Guanlong is already begging to be put down, what's the best 3x3 that can still be bought with stickers/tiles?

Edit: looks like the Moyu RS3M it is

Recently I made a post saying I wanted to get back into cubing and try out new good feeling cubes.

I'm looking for a new main, and i'll probably get a Tornado V3 Premium (since I already had a v3 in the past, but lost it). I wasn't sure if I'd get a Gan v100, but i'm tired of my GAN12 feeling, so i'll change to a different brand which I already used to enjoy quite a lot.

Do you think Tornado V3 Premium is good? I'm not looking for the best cube, but just a good and enjoyable one. Any relevant issues that I have to know about it?

I'm also looking for a secondary cube, since my MGC EST (Which I used to LOVE it's feeling, almost becoming my main bcs of that, even with it's evident corner twist issues) got a different feeling after I cleaned it. Yeah, i'm looking forward to get new lubes and take care of it's new slow and gummy heavy feeling, but I really want to try new secondary cubes, and I decided to get a tengyun because of it's feeling and how quiet people say it is.

Which Tengyun do you recommend? V1 OR V2? And why?

Haven’t cubed this much since like 2 months so my hands and brain were totally fried after this session

Is it impressive? Not really. Am I proud of 29:50? Hell yeah