It turns out the thing that was rattling around was the catch on the box. It appears mine was cracked at some point so a piece came off. Doesn't matter since I'm not taking this FTO anywhere where it needs to be super secure. Also, please excuse the watermark in the bottom left corner, I forgot I had that turned on!
In my opinion Qiyi has the best aesthetic out of the modern FTOs, but my favourite is obviously the DaYan, i got mine on Friday and i have been spending HOURS solving on it
Wait, QiYi is making one too? Wow! Such a bonanza of hardware within 6 months. I'm glad there are more options now, but I don't think the QiYi looks like the one for me. I really don't like the tiled look, and with the size of my thumbs, I quite like the larger size of the Dayan. I do hope they offer some alternate tile colors, though, so people with color vision limitations can customize like they do with 3x3 stickers.
@@TheBookDoctor This one isn't a sample; the QiYi FTOs have been out for several weeks now. And I agree, the DaYan is still the best for me too. I wonder if perhaps we just need a company to make a stickered version so that people with colour vision issues can change the stickers 🤔
would you recommend the qiyi over the dayan i dont have any ftos rn and the dayan is a bit to steep of a price for my first for me so which one would u recommend for an absolute beginner?
@@ColorBlock11 hard to say I can't recommend the QiYi or the Diansheng for anyone who wants to speedsolve FTO because DaYan is so so much better. That being said if you want a decent FTO as a beginner, then either the Diansheng or QiYi is good enough. The Diansheng is smaller and smoother but the edges pop out a lot, it performs well but those explosions can be devastating. If you'd prefer stability and reliability at the cost of a slightly blockier puzzle then go for the QiYi. I have fast times with the DS and QiYi so they're still usable, they just hurt my hands and fail to perform at the same level as the DaYan
@@ColorBlock11 you'd want to Florian mid to reduce the catches, and the springs are very short so there's not a lot of room for tensions You could get by on the QiYi just fine as a beginner though
@@EddtheRexMan I've done spring mods before so I don't think that that is a problem and I wouldn't be able to do a florian mod. I'll get the qiyi one thx for the tips man rlly appreciate them
It turns out the thing that was rattling around was the catch on the box. It appears mine was cracked at some point so a piece came off. Doesn't matter since I'm not taking this FTO anywhere where it needs to be super secure.
Also, please excuse the watermark in the bottom left corner, I forgot I had that turned on!
In my opinion Qiyi has the best aesthetic out of the modern FTOs, but my favourite is obviously the DaYan, i got mine on Friday and i have been spending HOURS solving on it
Agreed! If we could have a mini DaYan (in black tiled too maybe) I would be soooo set 🫡
@@EddtheRexMan that would be amazing tbh 🙏🏻
It needs to be modded into a Super Ivy Cube.
@@solver5k 😂😂😭😭
Oh noooo this hurts 😂
Lmao I get the reference
Wait, QiYi is making one too? Wow! Such a bonanza of hardware within 6 months. I'm glad there are more options now, but I don't think the QiYi looks like the one for me. I really don't like the tiled look, and with the size of my thumbs, I quite like the larger size of the Dayan. I do hope they offer some alternate tile colors, though, so people with color vision limitations can customize like they do with 3x3 stickers.
@@TheBookDoctor This one isn't a sample; the QiYi FTOs have been out for several weeks now. And I agree, the DaYan is still the best for me too.
I wonder if perhaps we just need a company to make a stickered version so that people with colour vision issues can change the stickers 🤔
and shengshou announced their fto
@@igortarasow ikr? 💀 Based on their photo it's not gonna be a speedcube option so at least we can still confidently buy the DaYan 😅
The QiYi sounded so dry that I had to take a sip of water
@@DarkH4X0 you'll be glad to hear that I have wasted about 0.5ml of xmt-10 making the QiYi not dry 😅
honestly dayan already made a diferent size version of their mega after the release, so it's definitely not out of question
@@igortarasow I hope so I hope so pleeeaaase DaYan 🙏🙏🙏🙏
I haven't bought it yet because I expect a mini sized one.
FTO needs to be a WCA event.
@@JamesonJamestackSwick truuuue #fto4wca
would you recommend the qiyi over the dayan i dont have any ftos rn and the dayan is a bit to steep of a price for my first for me so which one would u recommend for an absolute beginner?
@@ColorBlock11 hard to say
I can't recommend the QiYi or the Diansheng for anyone who wants to speedsolve FTO because DaYan is so so much better.
That being said if you want a decent FTO as a beginner, then either the Diansheng or QiYi is good enough. The Diansheng is smaller and smoother but the edges pop out a lot, it performs well but those explosions can be devastating.
If you'd prefer stability and reliability at the cost of a slightly blockier puzzle then go for the QiYi.
I have fast times with the DS and QiYi so they're still usable, they just hurt my hands and fail to perform at the same level as the DaYan
@@EddtheRexMan I’ll most likely get the Qiyi cuz it sounds like the ds has more downsides then the Qiyi
And most of the issues u were describing in the Qiyi can be fixed with setup
@@ColorBlock11 you'd want to Florian mid to reduce the catches, and the springs are very short so there's not a lot of room for tensions
You could get by on the QiYi just fine as a beginner though
@@EddtheRexMan I've done spring mods before so I don't think that that is a problem and I wouldn't be able to do a florian mod. I'll get the qiyi one thx for the tips man rlly appreciate them
What alg do you do at 9:54? I need to learn that stupid case
The TCP? It's the same one from Aedan's video a couple of years ago: T Uo U’ D
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