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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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!
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
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.
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
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
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!
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
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!
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.
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!
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
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
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.
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)
Whenever someone wants me to teach them how to solve a cube (I’m rly bad at explaining things) I’m just like uhhh it’s really complicated just get one from the store and look up a video on how to do it if you’re interested
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.
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!
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
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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
GAN naming system goes like this: GAN356 Maglev, 3 stands for 3x3, however 56 stands for 56 millimeters, maglev stands means that instead of springs there are repelling magnets. GAN251 v2, 2 stands for 2x2, however 51 stands for 51 millimeters, and finally v2, well… it stands for version 2.
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.
Fun thing about bluetooth cubes is that you can even do a 1v1 with your friends while being oceans apart. The mobile phone company, XiaoMi, also came up with a bluetooth cube which is called XiaoMi Giiker cube.
I remember when I first got the rubiks 5x5, it took me upwards of 15 minutes to solve it, and didn't do it much because of how difficult it was to turn, but when I finally got a non rubiks 5x5, it instantly took like 5+ minutes off my time.
I have a wonderful puzzler cube from since I was a child At one point I thought my brother moved the stickers around because I thought one of the squares had matching colours but I was wrong and did manage to solve it (with an online Rubik’s cube solver)
@@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.
The Rubik's pyramid is just a 2x2 shape mod called a pyramorphix. The thing that makes it difficult to figure out is that the flat pieces that have only one color are technically corners just as the corners are corners (all the pieces are corners even though there are two different types) If you use the 2x2 beginners method, you should be able to solve it pretty easily given that you can already solve a 2x2. It's just a matter of changing your perspective slightly. I got into speedcubing and twisty puzzles myself about 5 years ago, and I'm fairly old compared to the normal cubing community. I'm sub 10 on a 3x3 but I don't expect to get faster. I'm a software engineer and I've had carpal and cubital tunnel, so for me, playing with these cubes is all about trying to find the most ergonomic way to solve them. I am always fiddling with a cube or a yoyo while I'm on a meeting or doing some thinking, but I also love trying out various solve methods and trying to optimize the existing methods with little modifications to allow them to require less moves. Always nice to see the collection of a fellow cuber.
I found my old childhood Rubik's cube in my box of old stuff ( it's a 2000's Rubik's cube so it turns like absolutely garbage). And I finally solved it for the first time. This led me to buy a new and improved cube and practice solving it. Needless to say I'm now addicted. I spend all day practicing solving the cube and trying to pick up tricks so I can do it faster.
As a cuber and youcuber myself, I loved this and would suggest that you do in fact buy the weilong wrm v9 as it is amazing, thanks for making this and I suggest trying to learn some new stuff for it, also the way he says moyo is hilarious, it's usually pronounced mo-(you), but you do you man!
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I love it when a non-cubing RUclipsr 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
Same
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We are cubers
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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!
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
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.
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?
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
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
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.
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
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!
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!
1:50 the fact that green is right next to blue tho 💀
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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
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.
welcome to the rabbit hole!
multi bld wr soon (again)
Yooo it’s graham
No way
Facts
yo graham whats up, mbld legend!!
"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)
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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"
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
Weird observation but we buy the same brand/kind of band aid, that's kinda neat i noticed that around like 27:43
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.
I’ve been cubing on and off for a little less than a year, just recently learned f2l, oll, and pll and I average around a minute 20 seconds
@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.
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!
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
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
17:30 that's the QiYi Fanqiu 4x4
Beat me to it. Recognized the logo immediately.
WOO! WELCOME BACK TO THE CUBING COMMUNITY FOAFY!
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
8:32 don’t worry I can’t even solve a Rubiks cube.
Well you might be bad at cubing, but at least you are the 5.8% who can solve one
6 minutes in
" this is the most intimidating thing ive ever seen!"
-someone whos probably satan" here" hands him a puppet cube.....
I love how you're like "six minutes is not a great time." Meanwhile, give me six hours, I might get one side.
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.
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
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.
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
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)
Whenever someone wants me to teach them how to solve a cube (I’m rly bad at explaining things) I’m just like uhhh it’s really complicated just get one from the store and look up a video on how to do it if you’re interested
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.
I love pyraminx 😀
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!
"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...)
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
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.
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.
Oh my, seeing you struggle with the Ivy cube was so adorable and funny.
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?
39:15 "MoYO WRM" I'm crying T-T
Moyo worm
8:13
Mom don’t come in my room.
Why hunny?
Im gonna make a RUclips video of me solving my puzzle cube.
NOOOOO!!! THEY’RE ALL GONNA LAUGH AT YOU!!!
💀
17:29 that's a qiyi 4x4, very budget cube, basically just for beginners
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've never seen this youtuber before but I'm getting a dankpods feel from them and I like it
Just so you know, Cubers are really positive and love when new people get into cubing.
foafy: posts
Speedcubers have joined the game
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
Now THIS, this is my jam (im obsessed with cubes)
"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.
You own a shocking amount of puzzles for the amount of cubing knowledge you have...
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
We as the Speedcubing Community would love to help you to get better
My man is one of the best wristers I’ve ever seen
You are also supposed to only put 4 to 5 drops of lubricant in a puzzle
What is best your time? Just curious.
Check out the magaminx. If you like the extra challenge of the 4x4 you’ll like the megaminx a lot
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
GAN naming system goes like this:
GAN356 Maglev, 3 stands for 3x3, however 56 stands for 56 millimeters, maglev stands means that instead of springs there are repelling magnets.
GAN251 v2, 2 stands for 2x2, however 51 stands for 51 millimeters, and finally v2, well… it stands for version 2.
17:33 if you dont know the company its called Qiyi
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.
Omg.. the color scheme of the old ones💀✨️
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.
Fun thing about bluetooth cubes is that you can even do a 1v1 with your friends while being oceans apart. The mobile phone company, XiaoMi, also came up with a bluetooth cube which is called XiaoMi Giiker cube.
As a beginner cuber i love that Foafy actually talks and show some cubing things
I remember when I first got the rubiks 5x5, it took me upwards of 15 minutes to solve it, and didn't do it much because of how difficult it was to turn, but when I finally got a non rubiks 5x5, it instantly took like 5+ minutes off my time.
awwe this is taking me back to my early cubing days :)
I had a Rubiks clock. I solved it, having the times right on both sides at the same time. I think I did that in elementary school.
I had to force myself to not touch Rubik's Cubes when I was younger. I have such an intense urge to break them. They're just too orderly.
15:14 thats two hundred quattuordecillion
I've recently started getting into the cubing rabbit hole and it's really nice seeing one of my comfort RUclipsrs talk about it :3
I have a wonderful puzzler cube from since I was a child
At one point I thought my brother moved the stickers around because I thought one of the squares had matching colours but I was wrong and did manage to solve it (with an online Rubik’s cube solver)
as a cuber its awesome to see someone talk about cubing stuffs
30:30 yes the gan mirror blocks theres a uv and stickerd one and its pretty good
Cool video
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@@Hounkey grrrr stop being so rude to me!!!!!!!!!! 😡😡😡😡😡
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.
the 4x4 you show at 17:28 that you bought off ebay is a qiyi brand cube
32:07 turns really well,
Almost like speedcubes😂 btw im a speedcuber and i find this video really fun❤
I was judging until he said purple was his favorite color. Now I’m not judging, I like purple to.
The Rubik's pyramid is just a 2x2 shape mod called a pyramorphix. The thing that makes it difficult to figure out is that the flat pieces that have only one color are technically corners just as the corners are corners (all the pieces are corners even though there are two different types) If you use the 2x2 beginners method, you should be able to solve it pretty easily given that you can already solve a 2x2. It's just a matter of changing your perspective slightly.
I got into speedcubing and twisty puzzles myself about 5 years ago, and I'm fairly old compared to the normal cubing community. I'm sub 10 on a 3x3 but I don't expect to get faster. I'm a software engineer and I've had carpal and cubital tunnel, so for me, playing with these cubes is all about trying to find the most ergonomic way to solve them. I am always fiddling with a cube or a yoyo while I'm on a meeting or doing some thinking, but I also love trying out various solve methods and trying to optimize the existing methods with little modifications to allow them to require less moves.
Always nice to see the collection of a fellow cuber.
I LOVE RUBIKS CUBES!
I can solve 1x1 2x2 3x3 4x4 and skewb and pyraminx
Megaminx too
I found my old childhood Rubik's cube in my box of old stuff ( it's a 2000's Rubik's cube so it turns like absolutely garbage). And I finally solved it for the first time. This led me to buy a new and improved cube and practice solving it. Needless to say I'm now addicted. I spend all day practicing solving the cube and trying to pick up tricks so I can do it faster.
bro is the most invested yet casual cuber I’ve ever seen 😂
Did you know that you can use a 6x6 as every NxN smaller than it
0:38 The pair😭😭😭😭
As a cuber and youcuber myself, I loved this and would suggest that you do in fact buy the weilong wrm v9 as it is amazing, thanks for making this and I suggest trying to learn some new stuff for it, also the way he says moyo is hilarious, it's usually pronounced mo-(you), but you do you man!
I unironically love how the Rubik’s 4x4 feels