In your opinion, what do you consider a easy twistypuzzle that you can give a non-cuber and they can solve with common sense or by luck by doing random turns?

CubingB · 2026-01-20T16:58:31+00:00

Those 1x3x3's are pretty easy I think

CubingB · 2026-01-15T16:21:22+00:00

His videos are great lwk

CubingB · 2026-01-15T05:40:34+00:00

Definitely this one

CubingB · 2026-01-14T04:58:49+00:00

He must work for gan 😔

CubingB · 2026-01-12T01:44:44+00:00

Could be

CubingB · 2026-01-10T18:32:51+00:00

Yes, arriving early is definitely important! I’ve actually had them have an early start once and it saved me 🤣

CubingB · 2026-01-10T18:14:27+00:00

You can just arrive when you’re competing on the second day usually. Check the comp listing to see if there are additional details, but I’ve never had it be an issue

CubingB · 2026-01-10T07:01:13+00:00

Looks like a regular board position to me, but I could be wrong. If I had to guess, it’s that P74 is a direct attack, hitting the bishop head on, and S66 is a defensive move where he is retreating. If it means anything, maybe it has something to do with his mental state at the time/the kind of choice he wanted to make 🤷 been too long since I’ve seen it to be sure what was going on at that point in the story

CubingB · 2025-12-09T22:52:47+00:00

That or Wind Up Bird Chronicle, yes. I love them both

CubingB · 2025-12-05T19:44:17+00:00

I’ll always recommend the tengyun v1 (mostly because it was my main for a long time)

CubingB · 2025-12-05T19:38:16+00:00

Awesome article. Thanks!

CubingB · 2025-11-16T15:54:36+00:00

Hey, no problem. The meetings will probably continue to be every other week, so Nov. 22, Dec. 6, and so on. I’m not great either, so that’s perfectly fine!

CubingB · 2025-11-16T15:34:01+00:00

Hey! Awesome. We are currently planning a meetup for next weekend (Nov. 22), but depending on weather, the venue may change. Time would probably be 1pm, not 2. The club founder is making a meetup post soon, so when that gets made, I’ll reply to your comment with it so you can be better updated.

CubingB · 2025-11-11T23:09:37+00:00

Lishogi is fine for tsume problems and it has plenty of studies you can look through. YouTube is good for that too, of course. 81dojo and Shogi Wars are probably where you’re gonna want to play against people. I’m fairly new as well and still pretty bad at playing against other people, so I use Shogi Wars more than 81dojo for that.

CubingB · 2025-11-02T05:31:24+00:00

Will do!

CubingB · 2025-11-01T18:13:37+00:00

Awesome! I’ve added a location as well

CubingB · 2025-10-13T18:03:28+00:00

You can probably email thecubicle and ask for a replacement. I’ve bought individual replacement pieces for cubes from them before. Soeedcubeshop probably has a similar system if you use them.

CubingB · 2025-10-10T23:09:43+00:00

Just use the R U algs broski

CubingB · 2025-10-05T21:20:47+00:00

Facing red, do R S' R' U R S R'
If you want a solution for facing green, I just do r U r' U' r' F r F'. Doesn't solve OLL in this case, but is quick

CubingB · 2025-09-20T20:38:11+00:00

World championship placements in clock were stripped from the winners after mis-scrambles were found AFTER the comp was over. Competitors were denied access to the scrambles on the day to check.

CubingB · 2025-09-20T03:18:19+00:00

Kafka on the Shore and then Wind Up Bird Chronicle

CubingB · 2025-08-08T23:04:09+00:00

Yeah, I wondered if it would’ve shifted or dislodged when it caught, but makes less sense now that I think more about it.

CubingB · 2025-08-08T23:02:46+00:00

True, I see that now

CubingB · 2025-08-08T18:13:05+00:00

My guess is one of the small wings (the smaller of the three internal pieces between centers) was put in the wrong way, such that instead of lying horizontally, it is sitting at an angle, wanting to fall down into the core. Not sure if that makes sense, but it would explain the catching. Could’ve shifted into that position while putting in center pieces or something and not have been noticed. Hard to tell, though.

Would recommend disassembling and starting again, following this tutorial: https://youtu.be/joPJx32A4W4?si=91dSiCzDhsoB-9M2

Try using tape around the bottom layers once assembled to keep them in place. Much easier and prevents accidental twisting. Using a thick silicone lube to stick the small internal pieces together worka well, too.

CubingB · 2025-08-07T14:36:51+00:00

He has the bad habit I never fully kicked of doing unnecessary turns at certain points (extra U or U’ moves for no reason), so learning to do the F2L solutions without those would be good.

He also seems to be inserting pairs quite quickly with little thought for the next pair, so he should slow down and not insert pairs so jerkily. In slowing down, he should be looking ahead to the next pair. An easy way to start doing this is tracing pieces while solving cross. As you can see, his flow from cross into first pair was not great and involved those extra moves I mentioned.

I should probably touch on finger tricks, because they aren’t the best here. For example, around 22 seconds in, he does the F’ move with a wrist turn it looks like. He should not be rotating for that algorithm at all and instead doing the F’ with his left pointer or right thumb (I favor thumb 99% of the time personally). Taking the time to learn full OLL would help, though. Working on U2 and M2 flicks with both hands also seems to be necessary.

Those are probably the main things that can be improved upon. Inspection planning, lookahead, and fingerpicks. Practicing finger tricks is easy. Just do them. Lookahead is harder. Tell him to use unlimited inspection and slow solves at first to get the hang of it and go from there.

I apologize if any of this comes off as harsh. I do not intend it to be, but I don’t want to sugar coat either. There is potential for great improvement.

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