Hi everyone! Any exciting plans this week? Any new cubes or comps planned?
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I’m annoyed that I’ve only just found this community. I’m not using Reddit anymore, but I have gone back to the Cubers subreddit a few times. I quit Reddit and started Cubing together at the start of summer, Cubing was my Reddit replacement.
So I just found this community today and see it’s a graveyard with zero discussion. Which sucks! I want to talk about cubing with people.
IRL the addition of a cube to my biker/metal head look has left a lot of people confused lol. I have a friend that used to cube but he never replies, and there’s a guy at my kids school that has solved in front of an Assembly but I’ve yet to meet him.
Anyway, ramble ramble, Hi there anyone alive?
Hi! I’m also here from Reddit and created this community because I enjoyed the subreddit back then. It’s nowhere near as active but I hope we can create a good community here too.
Work is a bit busy these days so I’m less active and cube less these days.
This week I’ve upgraded from a magnetic RS3M to a UV Tornado which has no springs!
I love my RS3M but always knew it was gonna be a transitional cube, like when I learned how to play guitar on an old POS I had laying around knowing I would buy a good one if I really stuck with it.
Now I’ve seen people doing reviews and saying “Bare in mind that buying this premium cube won’t magically make your solve times better” but this upgrade really has. I average between a minute and 1:10 usually, but I’m getting much more 40-45 second solves this week.
It’s super fast lubed up, I’ve had to turn everything up in the tensioning to slow it down. Corner magnets on full strength is really nice, you can feel the cube hitting the corner, which allows me to do more algs without looking, a skill I’m working on so I can get Look Ahead working.
For lube I bought some Gravitas and Dignitas and I made my own from a YouTube video, 1 part conditioner and 2 parts Vegetable Glycerin. You can use any oil instead of VG apparently.
I bought a RS3M 2020 when it first came out, but never cared for it (too loose). Finally got around to lubing it (cubicle weight 1) and tightening the screws a bit and holy cow, can’t believe this is a budget cube. If I didn’t just get the tornado flagship, I could be content using the RS3M as my main.
Brizzon Side Open V 2023 with unexpected Austin Reed from USA in attendance
