40:07 "I just don't know how you turn it that fast" Back in the early years of speed solving, people didn't use methods like CFOP that are designed to be ergonomic and facilitate turn speed, they used methods that minimized the average number of moves. That's why the petrus method used to be common but fell out of use. It wasn't due to breakthroughs in group theory making it obsolete, it was advancements in cube hardware that made better ergonomics more impactful than move count.
As a cuber who averages ~11 I really enjoy this video because it's really funny but also because it shows the take of how others that don't pour "sweat and blood" into cubing see everything in such a cool light
You should learn how its not too hard its really just memorizing specific sets of moves and algorithms after the first layer and its really just fun and relaxing after a long day of work especially if you can figure out how to solve the more complex puzzles like megaminxes pyraminxes and shape or picture modifications
I learned after like 1 hour, it was pretty easy. Granted it was the method where you do a lot of left handed and right handed sexy moves in different places though. Also if you don’t know, a sexy move is just a certain set of 4 turns that you do. Right side up, top side left, right side down, top side right. In cube notation it is R U R’ U’ The left handed one is just the same moves mirrored to be on the left side of the cube. In cube notation that one is L’ U’ L U I won’t go into any more detail because a video would tell you all this.
That original Rubik's 5x5 triggered some painful memories. I remember my Rubik's 4x4 (somewhere around 2006 or 2007) came with a guide with a very, very inefficient way to solve it, and I figured out how apply that method to a 5x5, but a single solve on the 5x5 would take like 15 minutes. It was awful and I didn't it find it very fun. Now, I have an actual good 5x5, and it is also my favorite cube to solve.
Yeah, solving the Megaminx for me is like solving a 4x4x4, it's the same ideas behind a 3x3x3, you just need a few algorithms if you're not trying to be super fast. I still have to try to re-learn how to do S2L, I learned how to solve the megaminx using Ruwix's guide and never quite bothered to learn a more efficient method, I did see a few videos on S2L and tried to practice it for a while, but then I stopped doing mega for a long time and completely forgot. Also, never quite got into 4LLL on mega, so my last layer solves are wildly inconsistent.
@@nasdfigol F2L on mega is even easier to learn intuitively as you have a lot more room to work with the pieces without disrupting what you already solved, S2L, on the other hand, requires some care.
@@ZyroZoro yea except for that last algorithm where you swap the corners in and out of another space the whole thing can literally be solved like a normal cube same aloriths and all
Excellent video, Foafy. I never got into Rubik’s Cubes growing up, but I have seen some alternate Rubik’s products. The main one was Rubik’s Magic, which was a flat tile game held together by strings. And then there was Rubik’s Revolution, which is more of a light puzzle game where the main mode is finding which side is lit up and hitting as many as you can in quick succession. Also I’m glad you mentioned the Perplexus version. I had 2 versions of Perplexus growing up that I could never legitimately solve, but it was fun nonetheless, and then I saw the Rubik’s one a month or two ago at a Barnes and Noble. I’d be interested in seeing you do a follow-up video talking about these kinds of products.
love when a non cubing based youtuber does videos about cubing, especially when they get so much right. terminology, brand names and not undermining it. loved it
A few others have said it, but love to see this from someone who doesn’t do cubing focused content. Your presentation and showcase of your collection was very entertaining!
Word of advice for the puzzle at 27:21, if you know how to solve a skewb, repeating the algorithm to swap centers until they match again will rotate some of them, also the cube slices in half when you turn it and goes 30° around 4 of the corners. 28:06 is literally a 2x2 shapemod, so rather easy to solve
Awesome video man, it's always so cool to see cubing content on non cubing channels! Also just wanna say as a speedcuber myself, learning an advanced method for 3x3 made cubing so much more fun for me! It absolutely doesn't have to be about getting faster if you don't want it to be, I think it just makes each solve so much more interesting for your mind to puzzle out when you're using a more intuitive approach like in CFOP. It's also way easier to learn than you might think! Anyway I'll get off my soapbox, I just think the more you learn about cubing the more fun it gets!
This guy went down the cuber pipeline. Learn to solve 3x3 Rubik's cube, learn faster method, learn how to solve faster, learn bigger cubes, find out about other cubes, collect SO many cubes, die of old age...
I started speedcubing like 3 years ago in my first or second year of high school. It took me about 5 months to learn it, and as of writing this, my best time is 8.15 seconds! I'm proud of it, and I'd like to get a sub-5 single someday maybe. Haven't gone to any competitions, but I highly recommend it, the cubing community is awesome. Update: I just got a 7.81 yesterday, so woohoo, first sub-8 solve!!! Congrats on anyone else that also got a new pb, too! Gonna keep grinding, and I hope you guys keep practicing and getting better too because this hobby is truly amazing. Happy cubing y'all! (Wow that was cheesy but oh well lmao)
Ooh what do you average? My best is 5.6 and I can tell you that it's sooo hard to get even 6 seconds but it's worth it and you kinda just have to have motivation and practice
19:20 i have a gigaminx that i pass the time with, its massive and people always are really impressed when i solve it. The first time it took me about 4 hours to solve it, but ive gotten my times down to 30-45 min
I have an octahedral puzzle I got in China in the early 2010s that I just recently managed to figure out how to solve. Its been sitting with my stuff, scrambled, for over a decade. Love the casual cubing energy of this vid :D
When I was 1 year into cubing I averaged 33 seconds and I have a screenshot where I tell my friend I don't think I have the mental ability to think fast enough to average 25 seconds or less. Just over 2 years into cubing I averaged 15 seconds. I now average 12.5 (8 years in). You're always capable of more than you think in cubing and I find that beautiful. I only practise half hour per day at most, usually 5 days per week.
@kiwi43373 Good job dude keep up the practice and your times will improve for sure, if you know F2L and some OLL you're definitely capable of 30 seconds. Just don't learn algs and methods too quickly, learn 1, become very good with it, then learn the next. That way you'll get the most out of each method.
30:00 I was surprised you didn't know this, but gan produce the only magnetic mirror cube which is also UV coated, it's pretty amazing to turn I'm sure you'd enjoy it as a gan fan
i got into cubing in at the very start of december 2022 and im now averaging sub 11 on 3x3 and pretty fast on every other WCA event. I also just have generally good cube knowledge for puzzle theory, history, etc. But it was nice to see some random guy who seems to not usually talk about cubes actually go in depth starting with rubiks brands that everyone knows and explaining quite a few of the things that make up cubing
Lubricating cubes in 1981: talcum powder! 🙂 I purchased a Roxenda speed cube a few days ago and learnt how to solve it, having not touched a cube since 1981/82. I have a few more on order, including the Gan Bluetooth one, a 2x2, a 4x4 (I've never tried those before) and a couple of other magnetic 3x3s by Qiyi. My current best time is 4' 47" - probably about as good as I was in the 80s, but i only know a couple of simple algorithms which are not speed efficient, so I'm hoping to do a lot better😄 I still have my original Ideal Rubik's Cube from 1981, but it's in storage. I'll probably put it in a display case one day. ☺️ Great video and i really enjoyed seeing all those different ones - especially your early cubes and the Gan robot.
I got a cube for either a birthday, or a Christmas when I was a kid, and I scrambled it once, and it stayed on a shelf scrambled for years. But a few years ago (around 2018), when a classmate brought one of his cubes to school, it rekindled my interest in them, and he taught me how to solve it the basic way, and he even gave me one of his old cubes (one that actually turns well) when he got a new one (up until this point, I was using a Rubik's cube from around the early 2010s) Now a few years and several breaks from learning to solve later, I have gotten relatively fast (I got a PB of 32 seconds yesterday)
my PB on 3x3 is 33 secs and on 2x2 is 3.25 secs. Im not very good at 3x3, but not bad! im 12 and i started when i was 11, i main the moyu super rs3m with the ball core and maglev im really proud of my 2x2 personal best! And im super jealous of your gan 14! :D it's so cool!
Hey Ryder! Longtime fan. At 26:27, the cube in question was invented by Eitan Cher, who’s a pretty big name in the puzzle designing community. A bunch of his designs have been mass produced (the ivy cube being the most notable, but also Eitan’s Star and the Edge Turning Octahedron), but he has even cooler ones that are currently just 3D-printed prototypes. This is another rabbithole entirely, but us designers are probably even more crazed than the speedcubers. If you ever wanted to dive down that rabbithole, feel free to shoot me a message! P.S. when Eitan first invented the Ivy Cube, he actually called it the Eye Skewb! So technically you weren’t incorrect!
Randomly got recommended this, i average about 15 seconds on a 3x3, i cube since 2022, also i love solving other WCA puzzles like 4x4, 2x2, megaminx, pyraminx, square-1, blindfolded etc I think you should join a cubing competition nearby because it's just fun to do, no matter what place you get as you meet other people, tell stories, etc.
The megaminx and gigaminx are actually surprisingly easy to figure out, just think of them as complicated 3x3 and 5x5s. Actually the minx series cubes have been getting big jumps in intensity and quality as of late. They even released a magnetic stickerless teraminx recently.
5x5 is so much easier than 4x4. 5x5 doesn't have the oll and pll parities, and the edge parities that show up with 5x5 are solved with one easy to remember alg
Hearing him mention Uber, I used to speedcube while waiting for passengers when I was doing Uber. My average time is about 2 minutes depending on the scramble and how focused I am, my record is 58 seconds using only the super basic beginner methods I learned from a cubing site. I knew about speedcubing but had never solved a cube before, and I bought a speedcube and keychain mini-speedcube off Temu to mess with. It only took half a month or so to learn it well enough to solve in about five minutes. Really fun, I'm thinking about getting a 4x4 at some point.
Gigaminx is my favourite puzzle. You can solve all but the last layer of the megaminx with 3x3 beginner method knowledge, you just need to figure out how to apply it. The gigaminx works like the 4x4 to 3x3 principle of 'turning it into a 3x3' to solve it. You have to turn the gigaminx into a megaminx. My greatest puzzle achievement to date is figuring out the gigaminx without looking it up. Great vid man!
Fascinatingly, while the 200 quattuordecillion number given on the retro 4x4 box is exaggerated, it's surprisingly close to reality. There are actually 7.4 quattuordecillion permutations on a 4x4.
Nice video! I've also been speedcubing since March of 2020 and I've been competing for 1.5 years. You should go to a competition sometime; it's a really fun experience. Most of the day is spent talking to people around you, not competing.
Also somebody peeled the stickers off of a few pieces of my first cube and somehow swapped the stickers on 2 corners and I had to buy walmart label stickers and color it with markers to fix it
13:05 yoooooo. Im green aswell the thing is that i have an cousin that has a pb of 8 seconds and averages 15 seconds tried teaching me how to solve it. We got somewhat far but he had to go away. Later that i decided to practice alone and asked my sister to scramble it and pick a random color since my cousin told me that i shoud prqctice on multiple colors. It was a bit of a back and forth untill she said green and manadged to solve it. She coud have said anything else that time. What if i didnt notice the words luckiest scramble cuz of that? Anyways my pb is 23:35 and i average between 33 and 38 seconds
Dude good on you for having multiples lol. I also was obsessed around the same time and then took like a 9 year break just just came back a year ago and I'm obsessed again. I should collect more of the rubiks brand stuff.
After I got pretty decent with my cube, we got a pyraminx, an 8-sider (I don't remember what it's called right now), and a Megaminx. My kid only really tries the pyraminx and won't even do the cube. My husband is good with the 8-sided one, and I love my Megaminx. (By "decent" I mean consistently solving without looking up algorithims, rather than being any good at speed, which is good because our regular cubes are all official Rubick's.) We also have a Phantom, which is fun to mess with, an Impossible that I've solved twice but largely keep on a high shelf, and a mirror cube and a slanted version where the axes are diagonal.
@@andrewplayz7588 Well, I started with white. I suppose it isn't as odd to him, but it is very odd to people like me who only started with white and find it hard to solve with green cross or any other color other than yellow and white.
7:27 it’s my main cube:) Soo fricking good Edit: 10:28 I use that one for one handed solving bc I have super small hands Edit 2: 16:55 that’s not even that bad, you wouldn’t get last in a competition with that time.
If you want another weird challenge, try the Square-1. Or if you want something fun and easy, try the Clock, or don't, I don't know why, but lots of people seem to hate clock. I think it's a quite fun puzzle that you can even learn how to solve without having to read a guide, just by playing with it for a while. 6:10 I'd love to see statistics on how many people: a) never scrambled b) scrambled once, never solved c) solved once, never scrambled again d) solved two to five times e) solved more than five times I suspect there will be a strong power-law like distribution on that one. 😅 Anyways, Rubik's has a PDF guide with tips on how to solve this cube and a nice cut-out for you to print, fold and glue to use as a reference if you're stuck trying to solve it, it is helpful, but it's still not super easy to solve it even with such help, as there are some "trick pieces" that can go in two different configurations and you can't really tell if they're in the right way or not until you get to last layer and keep finding the cube is in an "impossible" state. 17:22 I love the yj zhisu, it fit's into 3x3x3 carrying boxes and I can thow it in my backpack and carry with me without it taking too much space or getting covered with lint and other stuff. The only issue is that you can't turn it too aggressively or it can pop spectacularly. It happened a few times at home and it was quite an ordeal finding all the pieces and putting it back together, if it pops in a public place I don't have much hope of finding every piece again. Pity QiYi doesn't seem to sell those boxes anymore, they were really cheap and handy. Their newer boxes are super nice, but are quite bulky and don't close super securely, so they're more useful to keep dust off the puzzles in a shelf than as a carrying case. 17:28 that's a QiYi cube, not sure what model is, but that's a QiYi logo. 25:49 The Megaminx is just like a 3x3x3, but with more layers. You actually don't need to know many more algorithms on it than you need to solve a 3x3x3 if you don't care about being super fast. Fun fact: I probably forgot almost half the algorithms I used to solve the Megaminx after over a year of not solving it, but I still recall enough of them to solve it, I just need to repeat the ones I still remember a few more times. 25:56 looks like an old basic QiYi, there are some great and cheap new models out there. There's also some "pro setups" you can buy that are just heavenly. Steven Wintringham also gives great tips on how to mod stock some pyraminx models into his preferred setups. 28:35 yeah, the ghost cube is one of those that are conceptually "easy" to solve, but I don't think I could do it without a lot of painfull trial and error. Another one I'd put in the same category is the Mastermorphix 28:49 it is a 3x3x3, it just has an off-center core. At least you don't have to "half turn" some of the faces to get into the "natural" position where you can move all the pieces, like some other shape mods do. 30:00 GAN makes a magnetic mirror blocks, it's pretty good. The shape still trips me up and I can't do algorithms super fast in it and often I do LBL instead of F2L, but at least it handles way better than the other ones I've tried so far. 31:47 that reminded me of a meme "genuine fake watches" 😂 32:05 check out the moyu meilong macaron if you like such oddball colors, I even magnetized one 3x3x3 macaron and it worked pretty damn well as a speedcube. 35:42 It can work with other GAN cubes, they sell center caps that work with the 356 X and XS, I haven't tried them on the 11 or anything newer though, they're availed as both stickered and stickerless, but only on matte/frosted finish, no UV coating on those. 36:35 I've got a few corner twists on the i Carry as well, but those are quite rare, the one thing that's more painful about corner twists on a smartcube is that you can't just twist any corner to solve it, you have to untwist the exact one that twisted or otherwise you won't be able to solve it, as those cubes only detect movements of the center pieces and have no way of knowing if something funny like a corner twist happened. 37:10 well, there's a couple of self-scrambling / self-solving puzzles as well, the eX-Mars is one such example you can buy, the other I think was just a DIY project, not a commercial product.
"This is the 50th anniversary Rubik's cube!" Oh man, no wonder the one I'm practicing on sucks, it's the *25* year anniversary model. Time for a new model to learn on.
For the modern (But crappy) Rubik's brand 4x4, the reason opposite sides can get caught and turn weird is because of the mechanism. Instead of the standard even layer big cube mechanism where it's actually the mechanism of the next size up with the very center lines hidden underneath the main pieces, it uses a core that operates as a 2x2 that's connected to the corners of the greater 4x4. So when you hold the middle layers together and rotate one side, the inner 2x2 mechanism is dragging the opposite outer edge along with friction.
This is such a comfy video GG, btw I'd suggest trying different solving methods as well (for 3x3x3 specifically), such as simplified Roux which is really nice for slow solves and pretty intuitive, only sune, J-perm as algorithms are enough, you could even use sexy moves instead of sune thoretically to make it even easier. Another nice method is called "8355 method" and is entirely based on sexy moves. It's nice to learn new methods, because it give you the impression of relearning to solve the puzzle again and it makes you see it from a different prospective
I love it when a non-cubing UA-camr suddenly uploads something cubing related, it's just really cool to see :D
Same
Yeah it's just like "Hey I know that! I can solve that! I'm gonna click on that!"
Me too
hollow knight fan cuber? rare fr
yooooooooooooooooo fellow cubers
30:00 Actually a magnetic mirror cube exists, and it's, of course, made by GAN.
Fun fact the gan 14 is also a anti tank weapon when turning àggressivly😂😂
nah it isnt lol the popping issue has been fixed for like half a year already @@dprinting
I have the magnetic mirror cube and yes it is from gan
What does bro mean "of course"
Cuz he mentioned gan alot in this vid@@L4ngyAge
I love it when non cube tubers do cubing stuff
Edit: I meant Chanel’s that don’t focus on cubing srry
same
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We are cubers
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40:07 "I just don't know how you turn it that fast"
Back in the early years of speed solving, people didn't use methods like CFOP that are designed to be ergonomic and facilitate turn speed, they used methods that minimized the average number of moves. That's why the petrus method used to be common but fell out of use. It wasn't due to breakthroughs in group theory making it obsolete, it was advancements in cube hardware that made better ergonomics more impactful than move count.
The first method used was corners first
@@goldenwarrior1186 yh but petrus was extremely popular in the early years of the wca
I'm still convinced roux could be a top tier method if more people used it
Wasn't ready for the jump scare at 11:48
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Oh snap speedcube shop. Love you guys
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Omg it’s ScS
I was super confused and then looked again and was like, wait who?
As a cuber who averages ~11 I really enjoy this video because it's really funny but also because it shows the take of how others that don't pour "sweat and blood" into cubing see everything in such a cool light
my times vary from 20 - 44 (usually)
I relate to this so much!
I don’t know how to solve a Rubik’s cube but I enjoyed watching you talk about them for the better part of an hour.
You should learn how its not too hard its really just memorizing specific sets of moves and algorithms after the first layer and its really just fun and relaxing after a long day of work especially if you can figure out how to solve the more complex puzzles like megaminxes pyraminxes and shape or picture modifications
@@MR-SINISTER76yeah it's mostly jus memorization
I learned after like 1 hour, it was pretty easy. Granted it was the method where you do a lot of left handed and right handed sexy moves in different places though.
Also if you don’t know, a sexy move is just a certain set of 4 turns that you do.
Right side up, top side left, right side down, top side right.
In cube notation it is R U R’ U’
The left handed one is just the same moves mirrored to be on the left side of the cube.
In cube notation that one is
L’ U’ L U
I won’t go into any more detail because a video would tell you all this.
You learning with green is kinda awesome 13:07
He might just be neutral, when I learned beginner method I could pretty quickly do it with any color. But now with cfop im white and yellow only
@@lildrummerboy5673that’s how I was, now I am total dog crap with any other color than white or yellow with CFOP
That original Rubik's 5x5 triggered some painful memories. I remember my Rubik's 4x4 (somewhere around 2006 or 2007) came with a guide with a very, very inefficient way to solve it, and I figured out how apply that method to a 5x5, but a single solve on the 5x5 would take like 15 minutes. It was awful and I didn't it find it very fun. Now, I have an actual good 5x5, and it is also my favorite cube to solve.
Solving a megaminx can be done very similarly to a 3×3 cube. There are just extra layers and the last layer requires different algorithms.
Yeah, solving the Megaminx for me is like solving a 4x4x4, it's the same ideas behind a 3x3x3, you just need a few algorithms if you're not trying to be super fast. I still have to try to re-learn how to do S2L, I learned how to solve the megaminx using Ruwix's guide and never quite bothered to learn a more efficient method, I did see a few videos on S2L and tried to practice it for a while, but then I stopped doing mega for a long time and completely forgot. Also, never quite got into 4LLL on mega, so my last layer solves are wildly inconsistent.
It's literally F2L for like 6 colors and then LL has diff algs
@@nasdfigol F2L on mega is even easier to learn intuitively as you have a lot more room to work with the pieces without disrupting what you already solved, S2L, on the other hand, requires some care.
I just use the 3x3 beginner last layer algs for it. They all work, you just have to add an extra U move here and there 😂
@@ZyroZoro yea except for that last algorithm where you swap the corners in and out of another space the whole thing can literally be solved like a normal cube same aloriths and all
Excellent video, Foafy. I never got into Rubik’s Cubes growing up, but I have seen some alternate Rubik’s products. The main one was Rubik’s Magic, which was a flat tile game held together by strings. And then there was Rubik’s Revolution, which is more of a light puzzle game where the main mode is finding which side is lit up and hitting as many as you can in quick succession.
Also I’m glad you mentioned the Perplexus version. I had 2 versions of Perplexus growing up that I could never legitimately solve, but it was fun nonetheless, and then I saw the Rubik’s one a month or two ago at a Barnes and Noble. I’d be interested in seeing you do a follow-up video talking about these kinds of products.
Your name is one letter off from Michael Nielson, who is the US Pyraminx national champion!
love when a non cubing based youtuber does videos about cubing, especially when they get so much right. terminology, brand names and not undermining it. loved it
1:50 the fact that green is right next to blue tho 💀
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Weird observation but we buy the same brand/kind of band aid, that's kinda neat i noticed that around like 27:43
A few others have said it, but love to see this from someone who doesn’t do cubing focused content. Your presentation and showcase of your collection was very entertaining!
Word of advice for the puzzle at 27:21, if you know how to solve a skewb, repeating the algorithm to swap centers until they match again will rotate some of them, also the cube slices in half when you turn it and goes 30° around 4 of the corners.
28:06 is literally a 2x2 shapemod, so rather easy to solve
"moyo worm" Got me dying XD
Bro wanted to say moyu wrm
15:19 for those of you that are wondering the number on the 4x4 box is 200 pentadecatillion
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Actually, this is 200 Quattourdecillion
Grubiks said the total was 7.4 × 10 ^ 45 which is 7400000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 (7.4 quattourdecillion)
Awesome video man, it's always so cool to see cubing content on non cubing channels! Also just wanna say as a speedcuber myself, learning an advanced method for 3x3 made cubing so much more fun for me! It absolutely doesn't have to be about getting faster if you don't want it to be, I think it just makes each solve so much more interesting for your mind to puzzle out when you're using a more intuitive approach like in CFOP. It's also way easier to learn than you might think! Anyway I'll get off my soapbox, I just think the more you learn about cubing the more fun it gets!
Great to see you here haha
This guy went down the cuber pipeline. Learn to solve 3x3 Rubik's cube, learn faster method, learn how to solve faster, learn bigger cubes, find out about other cubes, collect SO many cubes, die of old age...
He's still in the early stages. He only has one cuboid and can't solve shape mods yet. The rabbit hole awaits us all though
@@ethandavis7310there are many different rabbit holes though
welcome to the rabbit hole!
multi bld wr soon (again)
Yooo it’s graham
No way
Facts
yo graham whats up, mbld legend!!
I started speedcubing like 3 years ago in my first or second year of high school. It took me about 5 months to learn it, and as of writing this, my best time is 8.15 seconds! I'm proud of it, and I'd like to get a sub-5 single someday maybe. Haven't gone to any competitions, but I highly recommend it, the cubing community is awesome.
Update: I just got a 7.81 yesterday, so woohoo, first sub-8 solve!!! Congrats on anyone else that also got a new pb, too! Gonna keep grinding, and I hope you guys keep practicing and getting better too because this hobby is truly amazing. Happy cubing y'all! (Wow that was cheesy but oh well lmao)
Ooh what do you average? My best is 5.6 and I can tell you that it's sooo hard to get even 6 seconds but it's worth it and you kinda just have to have motivation and practice
It took me 6 years to be able to get a 6.93 single 9.42 average
damnnn good job bro
Dude 8.15 nice!!
I’ve only recently gotten my time down to 18s and I’ve been at this for 4 years 😅. Then again, I am basically using beginner’s method.
6:30 EVERY SPEED CUBE HAS MGNETS!!!!!!!!!!
19:20 i have a gigaminx that i pass the time with, its massive and people always are really impressed when i solve it. The first time it took me about 4 hours to solve it, but ive gotten my times down to 30-45 min
I have an octahedral puzzle I got in China in the early 2010s that I just recently managed to figure out how to solve. Its been sitting with my stuff, scrambled, for over a decade. Love the casual cubing energy of this vid :D
17:33 that brand(奇艺) is Qiyi (pronounced (Chee-yee)
omg thanks I bought it recently with no clue what the symbol meant lmao
17:30 that's the QiYi Fanqiu 4x4
Beat me to it. Recognized the logo immediately.
8:32 don’t worry I can’t even solve a Rubiks cube.
i also love a how foafy explains what magnet cubes are to us, who already know exactly what speed cubes are. 'this one has MMMMMMAAGNEETS"
39:15 "MoYO WRM" I'm crying T-T
Moyo worm
6 minutes in
" this is the most intimidating thing ive ever seen!"
-someone whos probably satan" here" hands him a puppet cube.....
When I was 1 year into cubing I averaged 33 seconds and I have a screenshot where I tell my friend I don't think I have the mental ability to think fast enough to average 25 seconds or less. Just over 2 years into cubing I averaged 15 seconds. I now average 12.5 (8 years in). You're always capable of more than you think in cubing and I find that beautiful. I only practise half hour per day at most, usually 5 days per week.
@kiwi43373 Good job dude keep up the practice and your times will improve for sure, if you know F2L and some OLL you're definitely capable of 30 seconds. Just don't learn algs and methods too quickly, learn 1, become very good with it, then learn the next. That way you'll get the most out of each method.
30:00 I was surprised you didn't know this, but gan produce the only magnetic mirror cube which is also UV coated, it's pretty amazing to turn I'm sure you'd enjoy it as a gan fan
Correction, gan has a magnetic mirror cube that comes in stickered but also has a UV coated version without stickers
Well you might be bad at cubing, but at least you are the 5.8% who can solve one
i got into cubing in at the very start of december 2022 and im now averaging sub 11 on 3x3 and pretty fast on every other WCA event. I also just have generally good cube knowledge for puzzle theory, history, etc. But it was nice to see some random guy who seems to not usually talk about cubes actually go in depth starting with rubiks brands that everyone knows and explaining quite a few of the things that make up cubing
As a cuber this is the most triggering and funniest video i watch about cubing no offense
LOL
Me too
I know right. 😂😂
The part that triggered me was the fact that the 1980 Rubik’s cube color scheme is wrong
Same
8:13
Mom don’t come in my room.
Why hunny?
Im gonna make a UA-cam video of me solving my puzzle cube.
NOOOOO!!! THEY’RE ALL GONNA LAUGH AT YOU!!!
💀
Lubricating cubes in 1981: talcum powder! 🙂
I purchased a Roxenda speed cube a few days ago and learnt how to solve it, having not touched a cube since 1981/82. I have a few more on order, including the Gan Bluetooth one, a 2x2, a 4x4 (I've never tried those before) and a couple of other magnetic 3x3s by Qiyi.
My current best time is 4' 47" - probably about as good as I was in the 80s, but i only know a couple of simple algorithms which are not speed efficient, so I'm hoping to do a lot better😄
I still have my original Ideal Rubik's Cube from 1981, but it's in storage. I'll probably put it in a display case one day. ☺️
Great video and i really enjoyed seeing all those different ones - especially your early cubes and the Gan robot.
I got a cube for either a birthday, or a Christmas when I was a kid, and I scrambled it once, and it stayed on a shelf scrambled for years.
But a few years ago (around 2018), when a classmate brought one of his cubes to school, it rekindled my interest in them, and he taught me how to solve it the basic way, and he even gave me one of his old cubes (one that actually turns well) when he got a new one (up until this point, I was using a Rubik's cube from around the early 2010s)
Now a few years and several breaks from learning to solve later, I have gotten relatively fast (I got a PB of 32 seconds yesterday)
my PB on 3x3 is 33 secs and on 2x2 is 3.25 secs. Im not very good at 3x3, but not bad! im 12 and i started when i was 11, i main the moyu super rs3m with the ball core and maglev im really proud of my 2x2 personal best! And im super jealous of your gan 14! :D it's so cool!
33 seconds for 3x3 is already impressive! It took 4 years for me to get to that time...
@TheH-Perm tysm!!!
@@nanamacapagal8342 oh, i mean i practice alot, and im serious about it!! i have a lot of free time too because im only 12
hey thats not bad
ur probs better than me on 2x2 but idk bc i dont solve it competitively
@@nanamacapagal8342it’s not impressive but it isn’t bad either
Nice to see you doing something cube related! And I've watched someone solve the Rubik's Impossible Cube! It was neat to watch it happen.
Hey Ryder! Longtime fan. At 26:27, the cube in question was invented by Eitan Cher, who’s a pretty big name in the puzzle designing community. A bunch of his designs have been mass produced (the ivy cube being the most notable, but also Eitan’s Star and the Edge Turning Octahedron), but he has even cooler ones that are currently just 3D-printed prototypes. This is another rabbithole entirely, but us designers are probably even more crazed than the speedcubers. If you ever wanted to dive down that rabbithole, feel free to shoot me a message!
P.S. when Eitan first invented the Ivy Cube, he actually called it the Eye Skewb! So technically you weren’t incorrect!
Randomly got recommended this, i average about 15 seconds on a 3x3, i cube since 2022, also i love solving other WCA puzzles like 4x4, 2x2, megaminx, pyraminx, square-1, blindfolded etc
I think you should join a cubing competition nearby because it's just fun to do, no matter what place you get as you meet other people, tell stories, etc.
The megaminx and gigaminx are actually surprisingly easy to figure out, just think of them as complicated 3x3 and 5x5s. Actually the minx series cubes have been getting big jumps in intensity and quality as of late. They even released a magnetic stickerless teraminx recently.
I love how you're like "six minutes is not a great time." Meanwhile, give me six hours, I might get one side.
32:07 turns really well,
Almost like speedcubes😂 btw im a speedcuber and i find this video really fun❤
WOO! WELCOME BACK TO THE CUBING COMMUNITY FOAFY!
5x5 is so much easier than 4x4. 5x5 doesn't have the oll and pll parities, and the edge parities that show up with 5x5 are solved with one easy to remember alg
the "easy alg" for 5x5 is the same alg as oll parity for 4x4 and pll parity is 6 moves so you are just wrong
@tyronium2 4x4 has 2 oll and 2 pll parities, for a total of 4 algs. How is memorizing 4 algs easier than 1?
@daIvidmenard5906 I only use 2 parity algs
@@davidmenard5906 you only need to know 1 OLL parity alg and 1 PLL parity alg on 4x4 to solve any parity you get
@@JoshuaTheCuberYT I stand by what I said. You're not going to change my mind.
17:29 that's a qiyi 4x4, very budget cube, basically just for beginners
1:17 AAAHHHHH WHAT IS THE COLOR PATTERN ON THAT??!?
also how do you have so many speedcubes, but you still use some terrible wrist finger tricks XD
Hearing him mention Uber, I used to speedcube while waiting for passengers when I was doing Uber.
My average time is about 2 minutes depending on the scramble and how focused I am, my record is 58 seconds using only the super basic beginner methods I learned from a cubing site.
I knew about speedcubing but had never solved a cube before, and I bought a speedcube and keychain mini-speedcube off Temu to mess with.
It only took half a month or so to learn it well enough to solve in about five minutes. Really fun, I'm thinking about getting a 4x4 at some point.
0:55 Cubers:😂😂😂
I have one and it turns pretty good
"This is actually a really good cube"
*proceeds to show a Rubik's brand speedcube.*
Sure okay, you have fun with that.
I felt so much pain as a gan lover (so even for speedcubes loose cubes compared to Rubik's...)
Gigaminx is my favourite puzzle. You can solve all but the last layer of the megaminx with 3x3 beginner method knowledge, you just need to figure out how to apply it. The gigaminx works like the 4x4 to 3x3 principle of 'turning it into a 3x3' to solve it. You have to turn the gigaminx into a megaminx. My greatest puzzle achievement to date is figuring out the gigaminx without looking it up. Great vid man!
28:17 Have the smallest side on the top and turn the right 90 degrees. You can still turn and get in a weird shape.
Fascinatingly, while the 200 quattuordecillion number given on the retro 4x4 box is exaggerated, it's surprisingly close to reality. There are actually 7.4 quattuordecillion permutations on a 4x4.
5:46 for the record, the Rubik's Impossible is much easier than it looks. It only took me, like, 20 minutes to solve for the first time.
Nice video! I've also been speedcubing since March of 2020 and I've been competing for 1.5 years. You should go to a competition sometime; it's a really fun experience. Most of the day is spent talking to people around you, not competing.
Now THIS, this is my jam (im obsessed with cubes)
17:33 if you dont know the company its called Qiyi
Oh my, seeing you struggle with the Ivy cube was so adorable and funny.
Also somebody peeled the stickers off of a few pieces of my first cube and somehow swapped the stickers on 2 corners and I had to buy walmart label stickers and color it with markers to fix it
If you can get hold of one, the Rubik's Slide (the new cube, not the older game-type thing)is so much fun, it's basically a 3d klotski puzzle
0:38 The pair😭😭😭😭
I've never seen this youtuber before but I'm getting a dankpods feel from them and I like it
the 4x4 you show at 17:28 that you bought off ebay is a qiyi brand cube
13:05 yoooooo. Im green aswell the thing is that i have an cousin that has a pb of 8 seconds and averages 15 seconds tried teaching me how to solve it. We got somewhat far but he had to go away. Later that i decided to practice alone and asked my sister to scramble it and pick a random color since my cousin told me that i shoud prqctice on multiple colors. It was a bit of a back and forth untill she said green and manadged to solve it. She coud have said anything else that time. What if i didnt notice the words luckiest scramble cuz of that? Anyways my pb is 23:35 and i average between 33 and 38 seconds
Dude good on you for having multiples lol. I also was obsessed around the same time and then took like a 9 year break just just came back a year ago and I'm obsessed again. I should collect more of the rubiks brand stuff.
You own a shocking amount of puzzles for the amount of cubing knowledge you have...
30:30 yes the gan mirror blocks theres a uv and stickerd one and its pretty good
awwe this is taking me back to my early cubing days :)
3:37 The color scheme 😭😭
After I got pretty decent with my cube, we got a pyraminx, an 8-sider (I don't remember what it's called right now), and a Megaminx. My kid only really tries the pyraminx and won't even do the cube. My husband is good with the 8-sided one, and I love my Megaminx. (By "decent" I mean consistently solving without looking up algorithims, rather than being any good at speed, which is good because our regular cubes are all official Rubick's.) We also have a Phantom, which is fun to mess with, an Impossible that I've solved twice but largely keep on a high shelf, and a mirror cube and a slanted version where the axes are diagonal.
8 sider is an FTO?
13:05 GREEN??!?!?!??! WHO TAUGHT YOU TO START WITH GREEN?!?!??!?!?!
Dosnt matter it's the same as starting with white just diffrent colors
@@andrewplayz7588 Well, I started with white. I suppose it isn't as odd to him, but it is very odd to people like me who only started with white and find it hard to solve with green cross or any other color other than yellow and white.
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7:27 it’s my main cube:) Soo fricking good
Edit: 10:28 I use that one for one handed solving bc I have super small hands
Edit 2: 16:55 that’s not even that bad, you wouldn’t get last in a competition with that time.
If you want another weird challenge, try the Square-1. Or if you want something fun and easy, try the Clock, or don't, I don't know why, but lots of people seem to hate clock. I think it's a quite fun puzzle that you can even learn how to solve without having to read a guide, just by playing with it for a while.
6:10 I'd love to see statistics on how many people:
a) never scrambled
b) scrambled once, never solved
c) solved once, never scrambled again
d) solved two to five times
e) solved more than five times
I suspect there will be a strong power-law like distribution on that one. 😅
Anyways, Rubik's has a PDF guide with tips on how to solve this cube and a nice cut-out for you to print, fold and glue to use as a reference if you're stuck trying to solve it, it is helpful, but it's still not super easy to solve it even with such help, as there are some "trick pieces" that can go in two different configurations and you can't really tell if they're in the right way or not until you get to last layer and keep finding the cube is in an "impossible" state.
17:22 I love the yj zhisu, it fit's into 3x3x3 carrying boxes and I can thow it in my backpack and carry with me without it taking too much space or getting covered with lint and other stuff. The only issue is that you can't turn it too aggressively or it can pop spectacularly. It happened a few times at home and it was quite an ordeal finding all the pieces and putting it back together, if it pops in a public place I don't have much hope of finding every piece again. Pity QiYi doesn't seem to sell those boxes anymore, they were really cheap and handy. Their newer boxes are super nice, but are quite bulky and don't close super securely, so they're more useful to keep dust off the puzzles in a shelf than as a carrying case.
17:28 that's a QiYi cube, not sure what model is, but that's a QiYi logo.
25:49 The Megaminx is just like a 3x3x3, but with more layers. You actually don't need to know many more algorithms on it than you need to solve a 3x3x3 if you don't care about being super fast. Fun fact: I probably forgot almost half the algorithms I used to solve the Megaminx after over a year of not solving it, but I still recall enough of them to solve it, I just need to repeat the ones I still remember a few more times.
25:56 looks like an old basic QiYi, there are some great and cheap new models out there. There's also some "pro setups" you can buy that are just heavenly. Steven Wintringham also gives great tips on how to mod stock some pyraminx models into his preferred setups.
28:35 yeah, the ghost cube is one of those that are conceptually "easy" to solve, but I don't think I could do it without a lot of painfull trial and error. Another one I'd put in the same category is the Mastermorphix
28:49 it is a 3x3x3, it just has an off-center core. At least you don't have to "half turn" some of the faces to get into the "natural" position where you can move all the pieces, like some other shape mods do.
30:00 GAN makes a magnetic mirror blocks, it's pretty good. The shape still trips me up and I can't do algorithms super fast in it and often I do LBL instead of F2L, but at least it handles way better than the other ones I've tried so far.
31:47 that reminded me of a meme "genuine fake watches" 😂
32:05 check out the moyu meilong macaron if you like such oddball colors, I even magnetized one 3x3x3 macaron and it worked pretty damn well as a speedcube.
35:42 It can work with other GAN cubes, they sell center caps that work with the 356 X and XS, I haven't tried them on the 11 or anything newer though, they're availed as both stickered and stickerless, but only on matte/frosted finish, no UV coating on those.
36:35 I've got a few corner twists on the i Carry as well, but those are quite rare, the one thing that's more painful about corner twists on a smartcube is that you can't just twist any corner to solve it, you have to untwist the exact one that twisted or otherwise you won't be able to solve it, as those cubes only detect movements of the center pieces and have no way of knowing if something funny like a corner twist happened.
37:10 well, there's a couple of self-scrambling / self-solving puzzles as well, the eX-Mars is one such example you can buy, the other I think was just a DIY project, not a commercial product.
Just so you know, Cubers are really positive and love when new people get into cubing.
Omg.. the color scheme of the old ones💀✨️
17:28 it is a Qiyi cube you can tell from the logo
great vid btw
Edit: 21:26 - also Qiyi
26:03 also Qiyi
"This is the 50th anniversary Rubik's cube!"
Oh man, no wonder the one I'm practicing on sucks, it's the *25* year anniversary model. Time for a new model to learn on.
Cool video
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@@Hounkey grrrr stop being so rude to me!!!!!!!!!! 😡😡😡😡😡
I LOVE RUBIKS CUBES!
I can solve 1x1 2x2 3x3 4x4 and skewb and pyraminx
Megaminx too
15:14 thats two hundred quattuordecillion
We as the Speedcubing Community would love to help you to get better
17:31 that cube is a qiyi 4x4, i think is like a 2015 version of the 4x4 cube or something
My man is one of the best wristers I’ve ever seen
For the modern (But crappy) Rubik's brand 4x4, the reason opposite sides can get caught and turn weird is because of the mechanism. Instead of the standard even layer big cube mechanism where it's actually the mechanism of the next size up with the very center lines hidden underneath the main pieces, it uses a core that operates as a 2x2 that's connected to the corners of the greater 4x4. So when you hold the middle layers together and rotate one side, the inner 2x2 mechanism is dragging the opposite outer edge along with friction.
I love how he called it the moyu WORM 🤣🤣
most people do
17:20 The mini is what I what I used for my most recent 4x4 pr average!
Also it does not matter which side you solve a Rubik's cube from regardless of the color you still have to solve it in the same way
Cool video! I noticed you said you like the MoYu Weilong WR M v9 for speed cubing which is the exact same cube I use!
17:29 its a Qiyi cube
21:27 same with this one, also a Qiyi
26:01 also a Qiyi
You are also supposed to only put 4 to 5 drops of lubricant in a puzzle
This is such a comfy video GG, btw I'd suggest trying different solving methods as well (for 3x3x3 specifically), such as simplified Roux which is really nice for slow solves and pretty intuitive, only sune, J-perm as algorithms are enough, you could even use sexy moves instead of sune thoretically to make it even easier. Another nice method is called "8355 method" and is entirely based on sexy moves. It's nice to learn new methods, because it give you the impression of relearning to solve the puzzle again and it makes you see it from a different prospective
Still got a bit left of the video, but thought I'd give you a hint for the "Rubik's Pyramid" at 28:10
The inner mechanism is exactly like a 2x2
Check out the magaminx. If you like the extra challenge of the 4x4 you’ll like the megaminx a lot
As a beginner cuber i love that Foafy actually talks and show some cubing things
I've recently started getting into the cubing rabbit hole and it's really nice seeing one of my comfort UA-camrs talk about it :3
as a cuber its awesome to see someone talk about cubing stuffs