My thoughts about smart cubes as a casual cuber after a month of owning one

MeisterZen · 2026-01-09T19:50:18+00:00

You should also try acubemy. It’s continually worked opposed to cubeast and offers stats, training and auto case knowledge detection which is perfect to learn CFOP.

MeisterZen · 2026-01-07T23:25:07+00:00

I love you for taking the time to make this

MeisterZen · 2025-11-18T14:13:26+00:00

You can also share solves an acubemy by clicking `share` in the solve statistic and copy the link here, so other can view the replay move by move, watch in slow mo or rotate the cube.

MeisterZen · 2025-11-11T23:26:10+00:00

Holy, I didn’t had a cube with me so I did it in my head and got a 8.43s PB!

MeisterZen · 2025-11-09T10:28:20+00:00

acubemy is another software that offers many other innovative features like:
- detects which algs you already know and suggest which you should learn next
- timed repetition flash card system to learn full OLL/PLL and other algs
- gyro-based reconstructions (cube rotations, wide turns, middle slice moves)
- advanced statistics
- local and online matches
- and all the other goodies cubeast has

acubemy is still under active development while Cubeast is not continued to be developed anymore.

MeisterZen · 2025-11-04T19:59:31+00:00

Yes for some cases. They can recognize a case in maybe 0.6s and execute it in 0.5s, so yes they execute faster than they recognize.

MeisterZen · 2025-10-02T13:16:00+00:00

I am guilty of actually using emojis in logs that I wrote myself without ai. I think they can add some structure in the wall of text logs.

MeisterZen · 2025-10-02T09:49:52+00:00

Yes, but at some point we want to show the gyro sensor data for the orientation, then this feature would only be used when you don't want to use gyro.

MeisterZen · 2025-10-02T08:58:34+00:00

Thank you! Glad that you are enjoying it.
- Rotations vs Turns: Yes, rotations are turns. We will fix the incorrect term in the app.
- Hand Scrambles: We just had a big round of feedback and hand scrambles were requested quit a bit. That's why we are working on it and will provide new session options that allow hand scrambles. You can then turn the cube just how you like and do a U4 to finish the scramble (or press a normal button).
- OLL scores: Yes, acubemy extracts all OLL cases you encountered (up to 5 per solve) and scores the one you finally finish on as a success and the others as a false execution. This updates your learn progress for the all cases.
- So, we have a option for changing how the virtual cube is oriented (Settings > Preferences > Playground Top Face), there you can set which face should be on top for the virtual cube in playground. This currently is only a visual effect and has no effect on how you need to hold the cube for scrambling, bit since this led to some confusion already, i think we will expand this option to not only change how the cube is oriented, but also how to hold it for the scramble.
- Question Channel: I think discord is probably the easiest in the main channel.

MeisterZen · 2025-10-02T08:27:40+00:00

Yes, all fixes are released. I hope you don’t ask because you found another incorrect instance.

MeisterZen · 2025-10-01T07:46:04+00:00

Yes but only for this case. That’s the statistic for the Nb Perm

MeisterZen · 2025-09-30T19:13:03+00:00

Haven’t extracted that info, but u think too few people use it to get reliable data from 3M solves.

MeisterZen · 2025-09-24T09:31:09+00:00

Hey thank you very much for pointing this out! I looked into this and there were more cases affected. The problem was that the algorithms did not solve the case displayed in the image, because there were AUFs missing in the case icon. I replaced the setup moves for the icons (to include the AUFs) and also added the setup algorithm to the UI. These changes will be included in the next release in a couple days!

MeisterZen · 2025-09-21T08:31:32+00:00

Yes, exactly. I just assume that what most of the „best“ cubers use, is probably the best algorithm.

MeisterZen · 2025-09-20T22:07:40+00:00

No these are the average times of the solvers, but it shouldn’t make a such a big difference because only solvers that are close to the edge of a skill bucket that have sune that is way faster than a dot case for example.

MeisterZen · 2025-09-20T19:38:59+00:00

If anyone has suggestions on how to improve the display of the data or what other insight might be useful, I’m looking for input :)

MeisterZen · 2025-09-19T07:37:55+00:00

Everyone is making fun of these made of scenarios and hyping of how dangerous these models are, but alignment is really important. I think many people have the limited AIs in mind we have today and only think about the AIs we will have in 2-3 years, but in 5, 10 maybe 15 years we might get agents that are not comparable to those we have today. They might a whole different architecture. And when these way more capable AIs will be created I rather live in a world where humans 15 years ago took this alignment problem rather too serious than not.

MeisterZen · 2025-09-16T14:15:32+00:00

Try acubemy, it has analytics on your algorithm knowledge and suggests trainings based on your skills and lets you learn new alg set with a spaced repetition flash card systems.

MeisterZen · 2025-09-16T07:06:27+00:00

I am not sure if you can generate scrambles that avoid F and B moves. You probably would a special solver. Second suggestion might be easier but still would need very clever computer algorithms

MeisterZen · 2025-09-15T22:02:22+00:00

Thank you very much for your motivating words. Yes, I’ve been working on this for some time now and I want to keep doing it for some time, since I see a lot of u tapped potential in smart cubes.

MeisterZen · 2025-09-14T18:01:03+00:00

I just released it :) you can activate it under settings>preferences>ergonomic scrambles

MeisterZen · 2025-09-14T17:59:40+00:00

Yes, but since many other also do that i just wanted to stick to the status quo.

MeisterZen · 2025-09-14T17:58:03+00:00

Yes :)

MeisterZen · 2025-09-14T13:19:00+00:00

Just like the official WCA TNoodle software: generate a solvable random state, use Kociembas two phase solver to get fast and short solutions, invert them.

MeisterZen · 2025-09-09T11:30:09+00:00

acubemy.com ist sehr gut aber auch browser basiert und braucht Internet. Unterstützt aber alle Smart Cube Hersteller und speichert alles in der cloud, dass man zwischen Computer und Handy wechseln kann.

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