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No picture today, just a question. Like, my brain doesn't work well when I gotta keep the center squares fixed in place, I'm almost always rotating the cube around.

Adding dice dots to it totally throws off the conventional algorithms, but in a good way. Often I'll use green or blue as my top side, but other times I'll use white or yellow as my top side. It just depends on the puzzle.

And yes I'm a wrist turner.

Previous post reference:

https://lemmy.world/post/22597387

Update on my modded Rubik's Cube Dice Studies

Since there is apparently no algorithm out there (that I know of) that incorporates dice dot patterns on a Rubik’s Cube, I’ve been on my own to study the interesting patterns that I’ve discovered.

Your cube does not necessarily need the dots to accomplish these patterns, but it’s definitely fun playing with my modded cube!

If you have any suggestions or additions, or happen to spot any errors or even possible duplicates, by all means please let me know.

Previous post references:

https://lemmy.world/post/22558418

https://lemmy.world/post/21009190

https://lemmy.world/post/21879626

Since there is apparently no algorithm out there (that I know of) that incorporates dice dot patterns on a Rubik's Cube, I've been on my own to study the interesting patterns that I've discovered.

Your cube does not necessarily need the dots to accomplish these patterns, but it's definitely fun playing with my modded cube!

If you have any suggestions, or happen to spot any errors, by all means please let me know, and happy Cubesgiving!

Edit: The two left columns are all proper dice, where all dot patterns 1 through 6 are there, and opposing side dots add up to 7. The right column is what I call 5/5/5 patterns, or the Trypophobic sequence of patterns.

Previous post references:

https://lemmy.world/post/21009190

https://lemmy.world/post/21879626

Apologies for the late post!

Mine has worn in enough to start jamming up, but I've mitigated that by pressure washing it at our water park almost every day. That helps a lot, but I've been reluctant to actually lubricate it, not like I want oil on my hands every time I tinker with it..

Advice very welcome, as the puzzle you see above, I can solve it blind and single handed, but the thing keeps jamming up..

Update: I figured out where the main wear and tear is coming from. I used a cloth wipe to clean all the crevices of plastic dust. Then I noticed circular grooves worn into pretty much every piece internally.

Turns out, it was caused by plastic burrs from the clips on the covers of the center pieces. If I had realized that to begin with, I would have flattened those out and cleaned them up when I first had it disassembled.

Anyways, now it's already pretty well worn in, no reason to bother now. Still, if I knew in advance, I would have trimmed, smoothed out, and lubricated those manufactured plastic burrs before even using it much.

Based on my modified Rubik's Cube/Die.

Yes obviously it's not a proper die as far as the dot pattern goes, but it's fun figuring out patterns like this.

Reference post..

https://lemmy.world/post/21009190

What's your current favorite cube/puzzle?

I don't like time my solves. I only like to solve.
So, I practice every day and I feel when I was fast or not. And about once a month, I time few solves to see if the new things I learned are effective or those I try to improve have an impact. And…

Every time I break a personal record! Single and less often an average.
It is very satisfying and it means I am progressing.

This morning, no warm up, my first solve was under my best Ao5. Which is a good sign, I think.

Voilà. I just wanted to share my experience as an average cuber :)

Keep learning.

If using CFOP best way is

y U’ (R’ F R F’) U’ (F’ U’ F).

In ZZ method, you don’t rotate and those moves would break EO.

Using ZZ best solution I can think of is

(L’ U’ L) U’ (L’ U2 L) U2 (L’ U’ L)

which just feels inefficient. I wonder if there is a better way?

Saw people like this puzzle so I picked one up. Surprised how often I pick it up to solve. Cube turns well for what it is.

I tried to take a picture that showed how it works. It's a normal 2x2, but the corners twist, and the edges twist. No shape shifting or anything funny.

The solve is pretty easy. Just find and pair pieces to build the corners, then solve it as a 2x2. Not really any special cases that need special algorithms or anything. It is a bit tedious and can be hard finding pieces that you need, but that can be mitigated a bit with methods I'll let you discover for yourself.

I like puzzles like this that don't feel like I have to learn a bunch of new information to be able to solve them. But that are also unique and interesting

Rowe Hessler's solve during the Cubicle's Gan 15 review.
About 6.20 s transformed into 9.38 s.

For anyone interested in my modified cube/die, this is the dot pattern I laid out. Sorry but not sorry for pixelated image, it shouldn't matter.

Reference post: https://lemmy.world/post/21005772