8 layers of awesome!!!

[Wij]

https://www.v-cubes.com/index.php?o...uct/product&path=61&product_id=108&Itemid=268

 

[Scouse]

8 layers of boredom more like @Wij

 

[CorNokZ]

I got the 7x7x7. That's a lot of fun

V cubes are quality, but simply for speed solving i got a cheep Chinese cube that i bought for less than a quid and it is really smooth

 

[old.Tohtori]

"V-CUBE™ 8 is a uniquely designed and constructed skill game." *cough* Sure it is

 

[CorNokZ]

What are you trying to imply toht?

 

[DaGaffer]

...so are Rubik's Cubes out of patent or something?

 

[old.Tohtori]

What DaGaffer said, have i woken up to a world where Rubik's never existed?

 

[Hawkwind]

What DaGaffer said, have i woken up to a world where Rubik's never existed?

Along with New Romantics a best forgotten part of the 80's.

 

[DaGaffer]

Along with New Romantics a best forgotten part of the 80's.

*Hides pictures of my Phil Oakey haircut and eyeliner*

 

[TdC]

pics from the 80's Gaff, not yesterday :-P

 

[DaGaffer]

pics from the 80's Gaff, not yesterday :-P

I've actually got a lot more hair than Phil Oakey does these days. Grey as a fucking badger mind, but still there.

 

[Wij]

...so are Rubik's Cubes out of patent or something?

I'd imagine so but an 8x8x8 cube requires a very different mechanism anyway.

 

[CorNokZ]

I'd imagine so but an 8x8x8 cube requires a very different mechanism anyway.

Do you cube @Wij ?

 

[Wij]

Do you cube @Wij ?

Used to cube a lot. Could average 45 secs on a 3x3x3 and solve the 7x7x7 no bother. Not bothered much in the last few years due to a touch of arthritis and the time demands of kids.

 

[CorNokZ]

45s is very nice tbh. I average about 55-60s. Been awhile since I last timed myself and actually made an effort to improve. I use the 3 by 3 as a stress relief usually and try to memorise some of the more complicated algorithms.

When I was at my best I contemplated competing on a national level. Then I looked up the best times from the year before and I stopped bothering, haha

 

[Wij]

Yeh, you think you're as fast as can be and then realise there's a lot of people who are totally not normal and you'll never come close.

 

[Wij]

I solved a vendor's branded cube today whilst bored on a call but was horrified to realise I could only remember two OLLs and had to keep repeating them til it worked

 

[CorNokZ]

Got one of those for Christmas and thought it'd be a piece of cake. Had to use an old OLL method I never use anymore due to it being so slow

 

[babs]

And there was me feeling proud at remembering the algorithms I need to get the first two layers done... I can't seem to get the top layer ones to sink in at all.