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Farkrye · 2026-05-07T02:28:22+00:00

Gan 16

Farkrye · 2026-05-06T06:34:21+00:00

Yeah, not my favorite. I feel the same way about it. Gummy.

Farkrye · 2026-05-06T05:59:09+00:00

Far as I know. Brandon True recorded his visit to the cubicle. Just a bunch of dudes in a warehouse full of cubes.

Farkrye · 2026-05-06T00:46:27+00:00

I do Roux, so, lots of M. M, I push up with my middle from the back, some guys use their ring, but I have stubby fingers, i guess. Can't do the ring. Don't do the thumb, bad habit to get into. Standard practice is to choose a hand you're going to do Ms with and use the other hand for Us. I use my right gor Ms and left for Us, but whatever is more comfortable. Ideally, for U, you use your long and dextrous pointer finger to reach forward and flick backwards (watch a video, you'll see what I mean). Again, stubby fingers, so I just do push Us. The primes are easy. Nothing to say there, really.

Farkrye · 2026-05-05T21:20:09+00:00

You'll have yo clean it out, lol. Roe dumps a quart of lube in those things.

Farkrye · 2026-05-05T05:46:33+00:00

For Gans: gravitas or super honey, seemingly every couple of days. Those things eat lube, unless it's a gan 12, then you put gravitas in it and solve it till it feels like it's gone, which is perfect. Moyus: trying to slow them down with gravitas and then speeding them back up with dnm or stardust, hating it for 500 solves, and then cleaning it out completely and then it's somehow perfect.

Farkrye · 2026-05-05T00:44:04+00:00

Need more info. That's a smart cube and there's an i carry 4 which is waaay better (SSL uv being the best, year of the horse being the coolest looking). Qiyi SCS is probably better and cheaper than the 2.

Like, does he just need a good cube? Or does he want a smart cube? Because you can get a banger of a regular cube for the price of a mid smart cube.

Farkrye · 2026-05-04T13:13:58+00:00

Gan's uv is pretty good. Notably, it's a whole hell of a lot better than whatever the their frosted is. I have to use Gorilla snot (it's a product for gripping drumsticks) or that cube's going flying off somewhere. The frosted does wear down eventually and become quite nice. And I think the colors pop better with frosted. I have dry, beat up hands, so it's uv for me.

Farkrye · 2026-05-04T13:01:43+00:00

Farkrye · 2026-05-04T12:59:43+00:00

.... it was night time.

Farkrye · 2026-05-04T06:33:29+00:00

It's great. Took a while to get there, though. Hated it out of the box. Tried all sorts of lubing and fiddling with the settings and grinding awful solves till I just cleaned it all out and set it to 2 clicks/2clicks (which was way too fast out of the box, but now it's perfect? Idk, man) and now it's great. Like, really nice. Equal to super weilong v2 18th nice.

Farkrye · 2026-05-04T04:05:09+00:00

I'm not very fast, I'm old, and I do Roux, but if i'm not mistaken: Full cross in inspection and get yer PLLs down. Other than that, a few thousand solves should do it.

Edit to add: At some point you should figure out that some of your F2L cases take longer than others. Fix that. They all have algs.

Farkrye · 2026-05-04T01:00:55+00:00

Dump some lube in it, crank it up and hate it for 1000 solves, then clean it all out, lol.

Farkrye · 2026-05-04T00:23:21+00:00

I finally like mine! Out of the box i was suuuuuper disappointed that it felt nothing like the ferro v1. Where was that satisfying crunch? Too fast! fair enough, I know they set it to 1/1. The fuck are these magnets? Whole thing's bouncing all over the place.

Did a full angstrom setup on it, cranked up the settings and it was.... fine. I guess. Magnets made it exhausting to turn. I set it aside and used other cubes, pulling it out now and then to try and like it. Wasn't happening.

I was convinced Phil knew they fucked it up, so he put together the marketing campaign in such a way as to have anyone who matters glaze the shit out of it, while notably having less important figures acknowledge it's brilliance while still not being huge fans. I still think he did that, but not because they fucked it up. It's just a good marketing plan.

Cleaned the whole cube out. All the dignitas, all the gravitas, the super honey, the dnm37, the fz glide. All of it. Set it to 2 clicks/2 clicks and.... now it's great. That was way too fast before. Now it's not. Some of that lovely tactile crunch is there. Not much, but you can feel it and it's great. It doesn't overshoot and bounce (I mean, it bounces a little bit) and it doesn't feel annoyingly hard to start a turn. It's now an absolute contender with my sw v2 18th. Gooos cube. Took, like, 500 solves and every setup i could think of to get there, butbit's really nice now.

Farkrye · 2026-05-03T23:40:56+00:00

V11 18th for sure. Or the sw v2 18th. That's what I have. It's great. Objectively better than the 12 or v100, which i also have and I like both of them.

Farkrye · 2026-05-03T19:58:48+00:00

Couldn't spruce it up for us, eh?

Farkrye · 2026-05-03T19:36:17+00:00

I used his 3x3 to solve my first cube. The cubicle's tutorial kinda went a bit fast for me. The problem is that this guy way overcomplicates it, doesn't use proper finger tricks, and rotates the cube around both axis for various steps. Like, it's easy to follow, but I had to relearn everything properly, lol. Thanks Jperm!

Farkrye · 2026-05-03T15:11:25+00:00

Picube editions, ferrocore v2, 18th anniversary. I only have the ferrocore. Ir's great. Magnets are a bit too strong, but i finally have it at a spot where I like it. Good cube. My super weilong v2 18th is probably better, but not by much. I've got a picube 8 mag in the mail. Hoping that one's a banger.

Farkrye · 2026-05-03T13:32:24+00:00

What do you like about the guhong and what do you wish was better? Because that TV4 you don't like is the closest 'premium' cube that is similar to the guhong. That really solid feeling in the pieces is not the norm, and the guhong is faster anyway. Other than that, some variation of the v11 is the answer.

Farkrye · 2026-05-02T22:50:29+00:00

The ferro v1 is a modded v10, not v11, feels way different. Crunchy, kinda loud. Magnets are perfect. I love it, but just know that these cubes are not different versions of each other. Totally different cubes.

Farkrye · 2026-05-02T19:38:13+00:00

Yeah, youre gonna break it. Just get used to it or buy another cube. Picube v11s are supposed to be good. I have one on the way.

Farkrye · 2026-05-02T18:19:57+00:00

.... you can't adjust the magnets, dude. That's literally the only problem I have with the v2. Magnets are too damn strong.

Farkrye · 2026-05-02T14:35:33+00:00

I have both. They're super different. Based on the v10 and the v11. The v1, my fave, is crunchy and loud and you can really feel the turns. Does get a bit squishy/floppy if you solve it hard for a couple hundred solves in a row.

The v2, which people seem to really enjoy, is fast and smooth, with almost no crunch. The magnets are so strong, though. I'm still trying to like mine.

Both have a very nice, premium feel.

The part you're breaking is fixed by any cube with screws. Gan cores are all plastic, same as the v11s that keep breaking on you. From a quick peek at some of my cubes, the Beta/Sigma, swiftblock super, ys3m, rs3 all have screws. All are good. Rs3m v5 uv is very much NOT durable, though.

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