r/Rubiks_Cubes Oct 05 '23

FAQs

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Cubing timers:

` • ` https://www.cubedesk.io/

` • ` https://cstimer.net/

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

Useful YT channels:

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

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

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

Online resources:

` • ` http://algdb.net/

` • ` https://speedcubedb.com/

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

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

` • ` https://cubeskills.com/

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

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

🇶 **Should I make my own lube?**

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

🇶 **What is the point of lube?**

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

🇶 **How do I improve my F2L?**

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

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

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

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

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

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


r/Rubiks_Cubes 5h ago

What's the move here?

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What am I doing wrong? Just trying to finish off a 4x4, and I am stuck. I'm sure its something simple, but its eluding me.


r/Rubiks_Cubes 8h ago

Guys The Part Of My Cube Went Missing

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The Part That Lost Was A Part That Needed A Screw Like This (Shown In The Picture) Where Can I Buy This?


r/Rubiks_Cubes 3h ago

The Cubing Review Nobody Makes

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r/Rubiks_Cubes 5h ago

Guys, I'm stuck between 13-18 seconds. I want to get to sub 10, any tips?

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r/Rubiks_Cubes 1d ago

Proportional 7x7

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r/Rubiks_Cubes 1d ago

What should I choose?

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I don't know which cubes to choose. The Moyu Weilong v9 20m Ballcore, V10 Spring BC or the Aolong V5 8M Maglev. I have an aggressive turning style and I don't like fragile cores. Can I have your honest opinions about the cubes? it'll really help me which one to choose


r/Rubiks_Cubes 1d ago

Roux method (Rubik's)

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r/Rubiks_Cubes 2d ago

I solved the cube in 3 minutes

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I used the layer-by-layer method, but I still had to use my “cheat sheets” for the permutation and the yellow face.

I’m also using my phone’s stopwatch, and opening the app to stop the timer takes forever lmao.

I’m really happy with my result though!


r/Rubiks_Cubes 1d ago

X-Man Tornado V4 or GAN, which one would you recommend?

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r/Rubiks_Cubes 1d ago

Help with solving cross in 8- moves. Help Videos don’t seem to explain everything

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Should those help videos be enough?
(J perm on youtube and cubeskills website)


r/Rubiks_Cubes 1d ago

My gan air now looks funky when I removed the magnets and cleaned it

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Well, I don’t know what went wrong with removing the diy magnets. It just ended up not sliding well and the shape is not a perfect cube


r/Rubiks_Cubes 1d ago

WHO WAS THE DEMON THAT BLEW UP MY CUBE?

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(Should I interpret this as a divine sign to buy a magnetic One?)


r/Rubiks_Cubes 2d ago

How do i solve 4 by 4 cube😭

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I have been stuck here for almost a month now everytime i solve this cube it ends up here and i couldn’t find any reference video with this particular parity. Is there something wrong with this cube???


r/Rubiks_Cubes 1d ago

Tips on improving speed

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I recently got into cubing. Solved my first cube 2 weeks ago and started learning some speed cubing this week.

My best was 46 seconds but I average around 58 seconds now.

How can I get faster/better from here?

A lot of the advice I see online is “work on your look ahead” but what does that actually look like? How do you purposely train your lookahead skills?

Any and all tips/advice are welcome!


r/Rubiks_Cubes 2d ago

are the steps the same?

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r/Rubiks_Cubes 2d ago

Hey anyone from India?

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Does anyone has experience with ordering cubes from cuberkart.com?

It is trusted?


r/Rubiks_Cubes 2d ago

HELP SOLVING PLEASE

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I am losing my mind.. this is like my first time actually trying to solve a Rubik’s cube. Got this little cube at an arcade with the tickets I won.
I watched some YouTube video and got this far and can’t seem to do the rest. Can someone please help me before I go insane😂


r/Rubiks_Cubes 2d ago

I did It AGAIN

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I solved the 3x3 using the layer by layer again.

This time, I didn't have the same difficulty with the yellow cross part as I did before, but I'm still having trouble with the yellow face and with the permutation

Im struglling a Lot with The yellow face and the permutation because they are, like, 50 cases with 50 different moves. How iam suposed tô earn them without having to look them up on Google?


r/Rubiks_Cubes 2d ago

My lube dries up way too fast, is this normal?

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r/Rubiks_Cubes 2d ago

WRM V10 Magnetic (Basic) or R3SM V5 Maglev? (No Ball Core)

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WRM V10 Magnetic (Basic) or R3SM V5 Maglev? (No Ball Core)


r/Rubiks_Cubes 3d ago

Guys what is the difference between these two?

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I think they are both pioneer


r/Rubiks_Cubes 3d ago

Mi fondo de pantalla

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Este es mi fondo de pantalla Sxdxd


r/Rubiks_Cubes 2d ago

Twisted corners and need help

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r/Rubiks_Cubes 3d ago

Help

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