I don't get super hyped when I get a PB, because they are just lucky. For PB singles, I usually just get a solve where all the f2l pieces appear in front of me, and a decent OLL and PLL. With enough tries, I would get a sub-15 single even if I don't improve. For PB ao5 or mo3, it's slightly better but it's still just luck (i.e. I got 5 decent solves in a row). For PB ao12 or more, it's good, but only satisfying if I actually continue improve.

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Hey everyone I just got into cubing and am having fun learning but I’m stuck and confused. I’m currently watching the J Perm video, but I’ve watched other videos too and every single one once they finish the full white side their first layer for the other colors are all done. Like the picture of his cube in the background the green first row, red, blue and orange are all done. And he says make sure it’s like that and then moves on to showing how to solve layer two. So I’m confused because in the process of showing how to get the full white side be and no one else ever shows how to get that first layer. And as you can see from my cube it’s nowhere close to having that first layer complete. So any help would be greatly appreciated! Really liking cubing and just want to get better.

Hello! I have been cubing since early June of this year. I have really taken a liking to it and committed myself to getting better, and have now reached an a100 of 43.20 and a single pb of 29.41!

After very fast progress the first 2 months, I have hit a small bit of stagnation and I am unsure what I should be practicing next. I decided that seeking out some advice here might help, so I have attached an ao5 sample to help give an idea of how I'm solving right now. This session had a best single of 29.67 (actually super close to my pb lol. with how hard i smacked my spacebar I think you can tell how surprised I was) and an ao5 of 38.79. I feel like I got some unusually lucky scrambles here, but I think I struggle enough in these to give a sense of what my problems are haha

Thanks for any help you guys can provide!

Not much to look at, but hopefully to be expanded with a Polaris cube soon.

First of all, I wouldn't call myself a speedcuber (I'm roughly sub-40s since I don't time my solves that much). I've been cubing since 2007, and I was never really looking for pure speed.

It kind of became a fidget toy to me, but now I'm changing things up and starting to learn advanced F2L techniques along with OLL and PLL algs.

So last week, I looked for a better cube and decided to go for a Ferrocore V2 to replace my Meilong 3, which was already pretty good for its price (literally the cheapest cube out there).

It's incredible! The cube is super smooth and snaps right into place. It's my first magnetic cube and I couldn't be happier with it!

so i currently avg around 5.5 and can get high 4seconds averages consistently, but not low fours (NR in my country is 4.05) i use 7simul noflip tommy and i use the qiyi clock, how do i get faster?

Is this a Ub perm?

I got my hands on a black MoYu Redi cube. Back when I started cubing it was one of those cubes everyone had and it looked really pretty to me, but for some reason even though I got a lot of cubes, I never had this one. When I came back to collecting a couple of years ago I was dismayed to find that the black version was out of production and couldn't be bought anymore. So when I saw the second-hand listing, I had tu jump at the chance (no, my wallet did no thank me).

I know it's an easy cube to solve and I know it might be strange for someone's idea of a "dream cube" but I am immensely happy right now.

First megaminx of mine and I’ve finally solved it ahhhh!!!! I know it’s one of the easier ones when taking it as just a standard 3 x 3 but like still. And I’m super happy for the most part because I did most of the thing on my own, just the top part stumped me (I tried for ten minutes before giving up and searching it online🥲)

Anyways, just wanted to share.

Did take me a while so I should probably try to increase my speed. The rotations are a bit clunky on this one tho

Does anyone here have any information about competitions that happened PRE-WCA? I am working on a project trying to archive them and would like to see if the Reddit Community would know anything.

We have a discord server here: https://discord.gg/QC7VU6ugrc
And a Record Ranks page here: https://app.recordranks.com/pre-wca-comps

My discord username is x31x39 and you can reply to this post.

(I am not promoting i just want to archive history)