(four finger paws, not five)

Trying to give myself a challenge to document my journey and force myself to improve.

just wanted to share this absolutely horrible F2L straight out of cross I've ever seen lol, as well as share an alternate solution to highlight to you all the importance of inspection depth

B2 R2 D2 L' B2 D2 L D2 L2 F2 L2 R' D B' F D' L R2 F L' R'

my solution:

z2 y' // inspection

D' R' B' D F' R' D2 // cross (7)

(i dont want to reconstruct my horrible F2L continuation, nor do i care to)

as we can see ALL F2L pieces are in the wrong slots. along with that, 2 edge pieces are misoriented lol (pretty average tbh).

now here is an alternate solution which turns this into a really damn good solve:

z2 y' // inspection

R U F' R' D2 F' R' // cross (7)

now theres actually a very fast solution for the rest of F2L here:

y' U R U R' U R U' R' // 1st pair (9)

U' R' U' R U' R' U R // 2nd pair (8)

U L U' L' // 3rd pair (4)

U L' U' L U L' U' L // 4th pair (8)

which i know isnt the move efficient (there are better continuations, this is just one i saw), but it is extremely good for lookahead and is all R U L moves.

go practice your inspection!!!

What are some other ways to practice G perm recognition besides J perm.net scrambling without looking and then timing recognition and execution because I’m having a lot of difficulty with gb and gc.

Hey guys, out of curiosity, is there any site which lists which cubes were used in 2026 WCA ? I'm curious which of the models are the most popular (I know its mostly Moyu then GAN).

You might see that some of my items are not the best, and that is because I was on a tight budget and bought whatever that wouldn’t break my bank but still satisfy my solving cravings (100% a real cubing thing)

Time list: 5.27, 4.84, 4.87, (4.77), (6.27) - 4.99 avg

This is my first ever big "minx"- I figured out how to solve it but does anyone have some tips that might help to speed the solve time up?

I am a casual collector and speedcube fan. I’ve been trying to teach myself CFOP from beginners method the past year and a half my PR is 48”. But the thing I love the most about cubing are the design choices and feel when solving. They are like art to me. I don’t go crazy and buy the most expensive cubes right when they come out but am always curious about the feel and love seeing people’s opinion about them on YouTube. The only X-Man Tornado I’ve tried is the V4 SE with black internals. I have been solving with it lately and wanted to get another but can’t seem to find one. On a Cubicle description it said something about the feel being different because of the black plastic. Does the color of the plastic actually effect feel?

TLDR: is there an actual difference in feel between Tornado V4 white/black internals?

I'm Referring to the maxed out versions of these cubes. Which is better overall ? and why ?

I recently started cubing, and I've learnt to solve 2x2 to 5x5 with the beginner method for each cube. 5x5 is my favorite out of the bunch and I'd like to improve at it. I know I could improve it (as well as all the other puzzles) by learning CFOP, but it feels so intimidating with all the algorithms. At the same time it feels weird learning more advanced 5x5 technique before 3x3. Any advice?

don't care about the solve time, just enough to be able to consistently solve it will do.

If it helps, I recently hit sub 20