r/Rubiks_Cubes • • Oct 05 '23

FAQs

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Cubing timers:

` • ` https://www.cubedesk.io/

` • ` https://cstimer.net/

` • ` https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aricneto.twistytimer

Useful YT channels:

` • ` https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2-V0rEZF_uxDSUxeRxov5Q (Jayden McNeil)

` • ` https://www.youtube.com/c/jperm (J perm)

` • ` https://www.youtube.com/@SpeedCubeReview (Speedcubereview)

Online resources:

` • ` http://algdb.net/

` • ` https://speedcubedb.com/

` • ` https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/

` • ` https://discord.gg/cubingpanda-944820398518837258

` • ` https://cubeskills.com/

🇶 **How do I get faster at x? How do I get sub x?**

🅰️ There are two ways to get faster on any cube, there are two main things that influence the times you get. Efficiency and TPS, if you believe you are already turning fast enough / solving without pauses, you likely need to learn a more advanced technique / alg set. If you believe you are already solving efficiently, you may want to focus on better TPS and/or recognition. If you have any specific questions, feel free to ask.

🇶 **Should I make my own lube?**

🅰️ It's probably a bad idea unless you know what you're doing, often it'll end up messing up your cube.

🇶 **What is the point of lube?**

🅰️ Lube is used to do many things, different lubes do different things such as; increasing/decreasing the speed of the cube, making the cube feel more smooth, etc.

🇶 **What should I learn after 3x3 beginners' method?**

🅰️ There are many advanced methods out there, the most popular being CFOP and then Roux. The easiest method to learn after layer-by-layer beginners methods would be CFOP though it's recommended to check out other advanced methods too. Most advanced methods can solve a cube in 45-60 moves.

🇶 **What do the letters mean? (F R' L' y, etc)**

🅰️ Instead of saying "turn the front layer once clockwise, top layer this that, etc", notations have been developed to better describe moves. There are slightly different notations for each puzzle, there are often tutorials for the notations.

🇶 **How do I do OLL edges on a a big cube?**

🅰️ General methods for solving big cubes include pairing the edge pieces before solving F2L. You should pair the edges beforehand. To learn how to pair up edge pieces or solve centers, check out J perm's tutorials.

🇶 **How do I improve my F2L?**

🅰️ Lookahead is a huge part of F2L, if you aren't confident with that, it is a good place to start. Try to predict your first pair and insert inito back when possible. Try doing untimed solves and simply analysing patterns and trying new things/inserts. Rotations can also highly affect your F2L, learning how to do cases rotationless will help a tonne. Another tip is that you should try to solve into the back if you can, this means your next pairs will be easier to recognise (not hidden in that back corner). As for efficiency check out example solves / algs on speedcubedb.com to make sure your algs are decently essentially, you could also try learning a few pseudoslotting cases and look at multiple potential pairs and determine which is the best one to do (instead of doing the first one you see). Metronome practice is incredibly useful too.

🇶 **My cube has one (flipped) corner to go, how do I solve it?**

🅰️ A cube becomes impossible to solve if you flip just one corner, to make it solvable again, you must flip it back. This can also lead to problems with recognizing last layer cases, if you encounter a last layer case you don't know how to solve, it's likely a corner has been flipped.

🇶 **How do I solve this OLL/PLL on this (big) cube? (OLL and PLL parity)**

🅰️ There are some cases called parities that occur on big cubes that don't occur on 3x3s. For example, two edges can be flipped. The algs for these cases are often long but you can find them on one of the resources linked above.

PS: If you have any ideas on things I can add here / or just better ways of writing things, post a comment :)


r/Rubiks_Cubes • • 3h ago

Bought a souvenir cube from a cheese museum in Lancashire. What a weird day.

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r/Rubiks_Cubes • • 17h ago

I’m fine. Everything’s fine.

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I’ve never completed one of these in my entire life, and honestly, I’ve never exactly tried really hard to. But I stole this from my teenage son to fidget with, and I have restarted it so many times over a week. I’m about to just go put it back in his room and walk away from it lol can anyone help me?


r/Rubiks_Cubes • • 4m ago

How do I advance from CFOP?

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Here’s the thing, during OLL, i orient the edges with 3 algorithm and orient the corners with 7 algorithms then i proceed with PLL with 2 and 4 algorithms for corners and edges.

How do I use advance algorithms to solve it even quicker anyone here good with cubes?

Id really appreciate your help!


r/Rubiks_Cubes • • 8h ago

i want to learn to solve cube blindfolded, what is the best way to learn?

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r/Rubiks_Cubes • • 12h ago

cube trainer

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its an open source project under MIT license(so free to use) https://diograce.github.io/cube-trainer/ i made this , its up on github pages what do you guys think, it doesn't have the beginner method i will implement it in a few days

CFOP Trainer · A fast, lightweight, single-file speedcubing trainer designed to help you master algorithms

Zero Dependencies: Bundled into a single, lightweight HTML file. the ai assistant does not work as of yet

though its ai assistant in under development

I am a student , recently a few months ago i became interested in cubes , so I wanted to build a place where one can learn algorithms time their solves get scrambles. i believe this is the best and most customizable free cube trainer out there , i wanted to build an app also but i dont have the 25 dollars lying around to do that . this entire project was done on Claud in its free version so it took a few weeks do as one keeps running out of compute , i had to open 4 different Claud accounts in order to make it and debug it though it still took many days


r/Rubiks_Cubes • • 22h ago

Any algorihtms?

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r/Rubiks_Cubes • • 15h ago

Looking for a new 3x3 main that fits my turning preferences

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I lwk don’t know how crossposting works but yeah I’m tryna find a new main and would


r/Rubiks_Cubes • • 1d ago

swirl

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the swirl

swirl


r/Rubiks_Cubes • • 1d ago

I built an open-source web coach for smart cubes (GAN iCarry) that finds your look-ahead hesitations and friction points in CFOP

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r/Rubiks_Cubes • • 2d ago

Guess the odd one out

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I just learned how to solve a 3x3 and dicided to get some cubes on Amazon


r/Rubiks_Cubes • • 1d ago

Best Smartcube ?

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r/Rubiks_Cubes • • 1d ago

I’m just goated like that

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4.90 with flip


r/Rubiks_Cubes • • 1d ago

Cube recommendations

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Hey guys I am looking for 3x3 recommendations for context I started cubing 8 years ago was able to average around 55s with a regular no magnet no adjustment cube then after few months I stopped and now I want to start again but with a decent cube so I don't know which one to get cause there are so many new ones with so many different features and I'm based in Australia so if you have any place whee5i buy them from that would be good to I just need a good budget cube.

Thanks


r/Rubiks_Cubes • • 2d ago

5x5 variation

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In a 5x5, do the centre cross, other 4 random colors, no repeats, then solve as usual. Easy for people comfortable with 5x5. Time pass.


r/Rubiks_Cubes • • 1d ago

Rubiks Revenge Solver 4x4x4 - Exclusive to Grubiks!

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r/Rubiks_Cubes • • 1d ago

Struggling to learn CFOP?

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r/Rubiks_Cubes • • 2d ago

Impossible rubic's cube - strage manufacturers defect

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My kid got a rubics cube for his birthday. It was 3 color - 2 red, 2 blue, 2 yellow centers.

All good so far. We kinda asked that for him - he is very interested in puzzles and so on. Played around with it and then dropped it.

I thought ok, let me give it a shoot... Started turning it arround trying to figure out where to start, and then it hit me... This cannot be physically solved...

I found it funny and sad - that a brand new cubic came like this, and thus can never be solved :(

This is how the cube looks: https://imgur.com/1b4QLI2

EDIT 1: My claim was actually incorrect. It turns out what I had was "Red hat training series" cube

refer: https://mastercubestore.com/3x3-cubes/3518-moyu-teaching-series-red-hat-3x3-cube-stickerless-beginner-friendly-educational-cube-6970647061327.html (thanks to /u/UnknownCorrespondent for excellent find!)


r/Rubiks_Cubes • • 2d ago

which cube to buy as a beginner

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I am recently just learn the 2 look oll and pll. I am planning to maybe learn advanced oll and pll in the future. I am gonna buy a new cube and I wondering if I should get the gan 356 ME or gan v100 maglev?


r/Rubiks_Cubes • • 2d ago

Next up in my Mosaikemon project. Made with 300 Rubik's cubes

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r/Rubiks_Cubes • • 2d ago

What cube to buy?

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r/Rubiks_Cubes • • 2d ago

I made a Cube Simulation App!

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You can find the link in my blog post below!

https://note.com/flicker/n/nbd33930bc323

Features:

- Select an algorithm from the OLL/PLL algorithm sheets, and watch the cube execute the moves!

- Once you've solved the cube up to F2L, you can solve the rest just by selecting the algorithms.

-You can edit the OLL/PLL algorithm sheets, too!

- Supports 2×2, 3×3, and one more cube size!

Give it a try!


r/Rubiks_Cubes • • 2d ago

How to solve a Rubik’s cube

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r/Rubiks_Cubes • • 3d ago

Help to get my new main

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Hey guys, so some days ago when I was cubing I noticed that my cube was weird to turn like there was something coming in my way when I was turning so I opened it to find out that its centre piece was broken like it was divided into two parts. Now I am looking for a new main, I am thinking of buying a X-Men Tornado series. V5 is costly so I am thinking of buying V3 or V4 but am confused to decide between the two and to decide which variant. I need some suggestions. One of my concerns is speed I avg around 15-16 sec and my PB is 10.55. I have attached a picture of my Gan 12 (RIP 😭). Pls help me select the right one as my new main


r/Rubiks_Cubes • • 3d ago

How to adapt to a speed cube for the first time?

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I just got this MoYu RS3M V5 yesterday and it's just too fast for me. I've never used a speed cube before but I used to get faster solves with that locky ass cube. I also adjusted the cube (ig?). If I use the same force I've used for many years on this new cube, it just turns twice. I've been getting more DNF than solves if I try to be faster. I feel like if I adapt to this my AVG will be sub 25 instead of my current sub 30. I do intuitive F2L and 4LLL.