Comment on [Preston Alden] 49x49 Rubik's Cube
Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 months agoHow does it not get more difficult? Do the algorithms stay the same regardless of rows?
Even-dimensioned cubes (4x4x4, 6x6x6, …) are harder because they introduce some parity errors. Odd-dimensioned keep their fever center piece in the right spot.
Otherwise the size just makes it more tedious. I keep up with a 4x4x4. I had a gigaminx dodecahedron that I solved a few times, but it just made my hands tired from the weight and kept popping out pieces because of their tinyness.
fever center piece
Typo?
gigaminx dodecahedron
just made my hands tired from the weight and kept popping out pieces
What brand of gigaminx did you have? My old MF8 gigaminx is a bit stiff, but it’s never popped on me. I’ve heard good things about the more modern YuXin and DianSheng ones.
As an aside, are you subscribed to !cubers@lemmy.world? Would be great if we could get more people on there.
What brand of gigaminx did you have?
I can’t recall. It’s been well over ten years. I think I solved it two or three times. It was just tedious. Whatever cheap brand they had on dealextreme at the time.
dealextreme
“Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time…” :)
Whatever cheap brand they had
If I recall correctly, the first brand to release a gigaminx was Cube4You, second was MF8, third was Shengshou. Any of these ring a bell?
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Yes, exactly. The same algorithms used to solve a 6x6 can be used to solve an 7x7, or a 10x10, or a 49x49. You just need to repeat them for each layer.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Makes sense. I’ve only ever worked with an original cube
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
New patterns emerge in a 4x4 compared to a 3x3, and some more new ones show up at 5x5, but after that it’s all the same thing just more layers.
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I’d argue that 6x6 centers intoduce some intricacies you don’t see on a 5x5, but beyond that, it’s pretty much just more of the same.
As an aside, are you subscribed to !cubers@lemmy.world? I’d really like to grow that community.