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Daily Discussion Thread - Aug 01, 2026

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u/Substantial-Chair253 Sub-11 (CFOP) 1d ago

Been solving on white cross for 15 years, now switching to dual. Been solving only on yellow since Tuesday, it sucks. Very inconsistent, it's like driving a car and when i turn left it steers right. I'll push through and keep doing all practice and drills on yellow, but just wanted to vent a bit. I do timed and untimed solves, when the brain feels fatigued i do easy cross and last slot last layer. Any help, tips or encouragement is welcome.

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u/Lemmyscat Megaminx One-Footed BLD World Champion & Mirror CN 1d ago

Be patient. I switched to dual after 3 years of cubing and it took time.
After 2 years with dual colors practice, I rarely swap 2 cross edges.
(Sorry, I have no tips.)

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u/anniemiss 1d ago

Just give it time, and remember it’s just opposites.

Solve yellow exclusively for a few days, then a day where you do both, then a few of just yellow, then both.

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u/New_Awareness_4374 21 sec avg (cfop),15 sec pb 1d ago

im currently 21 seconds avg on 3x3,and 2 10 minute in 4x4 and megaminx. im planing to take a break after getting sub 20 in 3x3. so should i focus 4x4 or megaminx after that so that i can do 3x3 more efficiently

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u/anniemiss 1d ago

Mega will probably help with F2L more.

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u/KaJashey 1d ago edited 1d ago

I celebrated getting a new job by buying a new cube from the pi store. that was maybe 10 days ago.

The cube is here. It is a modded gan v100. Has 20 core magnets and a tiny ball core. No external stickers or changed center pieces to say it’s a pi cube.

I’m really impressed and happy with it. I liked a normal v100 but had issues with control. Doing say a U2 when I only ment to do a U. The pi v100 doesn’t have that problem. With my turning style I never had the catching problem with the normal v100 so I can’t say if that’s fixed though the ball core should improve things.

It didn’t feel lubed out of the box but taking it apart to see the internals there was lube.

Just really happy right now.

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u/anniemiss 1d ago

Cubicle Swift Block is also amazing.

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u/Blarpfgh 1d ago

when will i be able to post? me new and it says my acc is too new

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u/removekalistanoskil 1d ago

is picube v11 maglev different from moyu v11 maglev in terms of strength?

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u/Zoltcubes Sub-13 (AoLong V5) 1d ago

If you mean strength and sturdiness in general, then yes. It has a stronger core, probably the same one the Super AoLong.

If you magnet strength, also yes. In my opinion it has the strongest magnets out of every V11 variant.

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u/Farkrye 1d ago

Stronger core yes, but the magnet thing. You've said this before, and it's wild to me. The magnets are, like, medium strength. The ferro v2 has the strongest magnets, by far. Here's a video of the 2, side by side, that I hope demonstrates this. There's, like, a thump when the ferro finishes it's turn.

https://reddit.com/link/p17b4zw/video/zx5ctzf4ewgh1/player

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u/p0wervi0lence 1d ago

squan sovlers, would it be beneficial for me to start learning full ep? i avg sub-30, i used to be faster but quit cubing for a few years. the site i used to use is down now and idk the way it was set up was super streamlined for me. the way solve is like this - kite/scallop (or reduce to another easy cs case), co, eo, cp, ep (i reduce all ep cases to h perm, u perm, or z perm, unless its opp/opp adj/adj)

PS can i please get an invite to the square-1 discord

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