Comment on [Preston Alden] 49x49 Rubik's Cube
HarriPotero@lemmy.world 3 months agoEven-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.
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Typo?
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.
HarriPotero@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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.
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
“Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time…” :)
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?
HarriPotero@lemmy.world 3 months ago
MF8 sounds familiar, but I might have had some other puzzles of that brand.