I accidentally dropped my cube and the middle pieces fell out. I carefully studied my other cube to put them back in the correct order. Now, when I do my usual solving routine, I am getting strange results. How do I solve two mis-matched middle pieces on the yellow layer?

So I started cubing(seriously) again after like leaving it for almost a year. I currently use drift 3×3 jelly which is pretty good and has a very great feel. But the translucent colors sometimes ruins my speed because guess what I solve it in dim light. Although that's not an issue. I wanted to know that how viable is a magnetic cube. Like I heard it's good but how good. And I have few options which looks good. Just need opinion on which one to buy or to even buy at all.

Edit: Thanks to everyone for responding. I'll be buying rs3m v5.

Learned a lot about cubes doing this. I knew it had many magnets but I always assumed it had some mechanical thing at the center. Nope - A Rubik’s Cube is actually many interleaving shells of unconnected plastic with a network of high-powered magnets at its core that they slide across.

It was surprisingly easy to do as long as you find some YouTube video on it to walk you through it. The hardest part was putting it all back together, particularly OLL (oddly unsurprising lol).

edit: I ended up maxing out everything (magnet strength, tension, and center travel), which is about twice what the default GAN16 settings are.

Hi guys I recently started cubing and I got a new cube from one of my best friends and I have no one to share it with but this subreddit. It’s not magnetic but it’s pretty cool and it got me from sub 1min to sub 46. I’ve only been cubing for about 2 weeks, and learning OLL and PLL right now!

I've been using the beginner's layer-by-layer method. I've already learned the entire process except for solving the yellow face and permuting the last-layer corners. Those are the only things I still need to learn properly.

Hi guys, I just got this Rubik’s cube a month ago off Amazon. I’m getting into speed cubing so I figured it might be the time to buy a speed cube. I accidentally dropped it once at work and now it feels very loose and feels like the magnets don’t work as well either. I watched videos on how people remove the pieces to tighten it and I’m not trying to break it by putting too much force. I can’t find any videos do this Rubik’s cube specifically. I want to know if it’s possible to tighten it or anything?

Please let me know.

Hello, I’m an old cuber looking to scratch an old itch.

Years back I left my black AoLong V1 in a movie theater and lost it forever. Since losing it I went back to my WeiLong V2 as my main despite getting a RS3M and TengYun M in recent years. And I can’t forget the one that got away.

Anyways, when I lost it, I was a high schooler unable to afford the used prices of V1s after that infamous corner twist led to the hasty discontinuation.

I’m hoping there’s a collector out there with their hands on a black AoLong V1 willing to part with it for the right price. I’ve tried looking on eBay now and then but have never had luck seeing one. Also please let me know if there’s other places to look, I’m unaware of any cubing dedicated second hand markets. My only other hope is to start wearing a shirt with “sell me your black AoLong V1” to comps lol

I've made a cubing website to introduce cubing to Pakistan. It's called "cubewithali". You can improve your skills with our FREE tutorials and also use our timer to time your solves. You can also interact in our chatrooms with other cubers.

If you have any feedback, please write in the comments of this post.

My teacher bet me $100 I couldn’t teach him how to solve a cube so here’s the lesson plan I plan on using, thought I’d share just in case any non-cubers could benefit off it. And for any seasoned cubers, would apprec some constructive criticism.

The description in English and German:

Hey, I built a Rubik’s Cube out of a LED strip and an Arduino Nano. It is controlled by an infrared remote and so can do every possible turn and rotation (both directions). It can be scrambled on command and also jump into solved position (it doesn’t solve itself on its own yet…). I have included an y-perm (because why not) and the possibility to lower or increase the brightness, it also can be turned off (at least the LEDs) with one button press. When it is solved it plays the blinking animation. Last but not least it has a rainbow LED mode which makes it phase through all possible colours and then returning into the colours it had before.

I didn’t generated code with ai, this project was made by notes on paper and many (sometimes painfully obvious) errors.
By now this project is far from finished, my next step is to plan and do the aesthetics like colouring the wood black and diffusing the LED‘s light.
If you have some ideas that could be added please comment them, thank you.

Hallihallo, ich habe einen Rubikscube bestehend aus einem LED Streifen und einem Arduino Nano gebaut, welcher über eine normale Fernsehfernbedienung gesteuert wird. Jede mögliche Drehung oder Rotation kann mit der Fernbedienung durchgeführt werden. Man kann den Würfel automatisch verdrehen und auf Befehl wieder in den gelösten Zustand bringen (er löst sich dabei nicht selbst).
Spaßeshalber habe ich auch noch einen Y-Perm hinzugefügt, welcher auf Knopfdruck ebenfalls automatisch durchgeführt wird. Wird der Würfel gelöst, erkennt er das von selbst und blinkt kurz.
Die Helligkeit der LEDs lässt sich durch zwei Tasten ebenfalls anpassen oder auch mit einer Taste komplett verdunkeln oder wieder aufleuchten lassen. Zum Schluss gibt es noch eine Animation welche alle möglichen Farben durchgeht und dann wieder in den letzten Zustand des Würfels zurückkehrt.

Für dieses Projekt habe ich keinen Code mit KI generiert. Es basiert auf Notizen auf Papier und vielen Fehlern.
Natürlich ist der Würfel noch nicht fertig, demnächst werde ich mich um das Äußere kümmern, beispielsweise das Holz schwarz zu färben und das LED Licht durch eine Blende zu verteilen.
Falls ihr noch Ideen habt, die man hier umsetzen könne, bitte kommentiert diese. Vielen Dank

Had to redo the cube all over again but i think i got the centers right this time…now what

My cousin once rearranged the colours so I'm not sure if its solvable now?

All I want to know is that pieces I need to twist to make it solvable

As soon as I solve the yellow the white messes up again. I had solved it 4 times the night before and now it just won’t work again. Help please ☹️

So I have this situation where the edges are swapped. Same on the other two faces that you cannot see. I know how to complete it but it’s a long method. I was looking for an algorithm that can swap all four edges without ruining the blue face

Can expert Rubik’s Cube solvers freely create any color pattern they want? I don't mean solving the cube, but being able to arrange the colored stickers into any specific pattern they choose.

3x3 is so difficult. I don’t know how people solve it in just 4–5 seconds. It took me 2 days to learn and solve it completely. 🥲

I wanna look at the data so I can get a good idea of some statistics, skip questions you don’t know