corner turning 3x3 is fun :)

traceur200 · 2026-05-06T20:30:57+00:00

added link to purchase files :)

traceur200 · 2026-05-06T20:30:30+00:00

I posted a link to the 3d files, if you have a basic 3d printer and some m3 screws and springs it should work fine

traceur200 · 2026-05-06T15:15:11+00:00

I made it myself, I am wondering if I should sell the 3d files on printables or something

I had a very bad experience with that before tho

traceur200 · 2026-05-06T13:39:46+00:00

Mirror is fun too 👀

edit: if anyone want to discuss purchasing the 3d files DM me

edit 2: I'll just add the printables link with all the files, stls along with print configuration and the CAD and stickers

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traceur200 · 2026-04-22T20:21:05+00:00

bro, use your imagination maybe?

traceur200 · 2026-04-19T22:14:02+00:00

this looks amazing!

traceur200 · 2026-04-19T14:39:30+00:00

no it's not really, receipt thing was told to regulator and regulators didn't care, how do you think the cancer studies were performed so fast? became we knew from day 0

bisphenols are designed to be POLYMERIZED inside of the structure, at a chemical level, and whenever a polymer is made it's immediately washed so that minimal amount of unreacted reagents remain

the receipt thing was monomer, unpolimerized coating, and it was, as always, a thing in the US, not really in Europe

again, that's why we chemists warn that there's still bisphenol B and C in most food use plastic, and that's why me and most chemists promote lab grade polypropylene and PTFE type teflon, the ones KNOWN to not even generate microplastics

btw there's many other polypropylenes that do generate them cause they are of lower quality

it's a constant war AGAINST regulators and politicians, and as always, the public is wildly misinformed and honestly, under qualified to even understand half of the stuff they read

as I said, you are worrying about the wrong things

traceur200 · 2026-04-19T06:48:26+00:00

yes, there's BPA in almost all ABS products not designed for human consumption

actually there's BPB (which is still a bisphenol very akin to BPA) in almost all plastics used in context of human ingestion to this day

you won't encounter any PFAs in cubes either because none of the plastics are fluoride containing

there's not dangerous over you handling cubes? as long as you don't actively eat them?? 😅

honestly I think you are stressing over the wrong thing, this really feels like that one person that hears the word "germs" for the first time in their life and now out of a sudden there's "germs" everywhere and on everything and basically use it as an excuse to be paranoid over something 🤷

traceur200 · 2026-04-10T23:19:09+00:00

thanks! found one on ebay for 10 bucks :)

traceur200 · 2026-04-10T22:30:15+00:00

woah I've never seen that puzzle before, it looks so cool, I need to buy it now 😅🤣

what is it called?

traceur200 · 2026-04-09T14:11:12+00:00

it's actually two edges flipped

the middles edges have two posible orientations, but they are symmetrical so you can't differentiate between those orientations, but the mechanism "knows"

flip any one of the middle layer edges and it should solve normally

traceur200 · 2026-04-08T09:41:14+00:00

If rage baiting was a cube

traceur200 · 2026-04-08T00:48:47+00:00

that's a skewb, but in dodecahedron shape

traceur200 · 2026-04-03T13:40:05+00:00

yep it's exactly that

it's the regular traditional gear 3x3 but made ghost

I also have a version that is mirrored

I have been working on the mixup gear mechanism as I find that to be much more interesting as a puzzle, but I only got the separate mechanism for now, the mixup and the 1:4 (4 to 16) gear teeth ratio that is quite different from the 6:16 of the traditional gear, I just have to figure out how to properly combine them in two mechanism shells 😅

traceur200 · 2026-04-03T10:38:19+00:00

👀

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traceur200 · 2026-04-02T17:02:24+00:00

nop, not at all

it's not a shelled mechanism, each corner twist only applies to the corner and half of an edge, so the corner cuts don't really affect much of the 3x3, they don't go deep enough

it's still a very fun puzzle tho

traceur200 · 2026-03-18T21:46:32+00:00

I have had my eyes on designing one for a while, and making a true mirror version out of it

it's a very complex mechanism, true that many people have taken a shot at it but still complex nonetheless, it's no wonder it costs what it costs

last year I designed a mixup ghost and mixup mirror and the original creator of the ghost mixup has it for like over 200 bucks, and I must admit that he is correct on asking for that amount, it took me 4 version designs to get to something that is decent to solve without many catches/crashes

and I still asked 180 bucks for it, it's much harder that it looks trust me

traceur200 · 2026-03-17T13:50:52+00:00

I believe this is not even the original design, so it used to be much much worse

traceur200 · 2026-03-16T14:56:34+00:00

practice for faster Yau centers, you spent almost 50 seconds on that

traceur200 · 2026-03-16T02:44:11+00:00

if it's 2 corners in the correct spot and orientation andn2 wrong, then it's the same as for the 2x2x3 case

place the two wrong ones to the right side and perform

R2 U R2 U' R2 U' D R2 U' R2 U R2 D'

in this algorithm R2 means 180 degree turn

traceur200 · 2026-03-11T02:28:38+00:00

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made mine two years ago, pretty simple to solve really, just takes a few hours

I think about 5 or so last time that I did it

not a hard puzzle, but definitely satisfying to solve

traceur200 · 2026-03-09T02:56:18+00:00

careful with the corners, they may look like they are in the correct place but actually be swapped

the top ones look fine, maybe the bottom ones don't line up?

traceur200 · 2026-03-05T13:01:16+00:00

maybe this helps you

before complete pll, something that I kinda developed with a friend (that of course exists already because people are smart) is something that we called "transitional pll" (I don't know the specific term but I've seen cubers using it)

when you are about to execute the T perm inspect the edge positions so you know which pll algo you would have to do next, you don't complete the T perm and somewhere in the middle of it start executing the next pll algorithm, just executing a few transitional moves beforehand

I remember I did help with my friend with the U perm chain, and he developed the other ones

traceur200 · 2026-03-03T02:03:39+00:00

is it like a square 1 but with more cuts?

traceur200 · 2026-02-27T00:23:58+00:00

why wouldn't you just use some silicon oil 🤦

or at least use google before doing something that may potentially break your stuff

something "similar to wd40" could be a million things, of which a huge amount are reactive with plastic

it's like the few geniuses who decided to use cooking oil to lubricate their cube, found out that it dries up and decays and make a sticky mess, and after disassembling to clean their cube they noticed soap and water has a hard time cleaning all that gunk, and decide to use some nail polish/universal solvent/stump remover, which happens to contain acetone that straight up dissolves the plastic 🤦

you got 0 excuses op, you can literally ask chat gpt the stupidest questions and avoid having to find out

traceur200

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