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This is a fantastic cube, and it feels very satisfying to turn. I would give it 5 stars if it was a bit cheaper, because for this price range, you probably want the best performance available, full stop.
This is not quite that IMO. And that is pretty much entirely because it is not the fastest, lightest option.
While people say that some cubes come “too fast”, the best cubers use the fastest cubes. So it follows that if you learn to turn well on an ultra fast cube, you will be able to take the most advantage possible from the hardware available on the market.
This is not quite the cube for that. It’s just a *touch* too heavy and controllable.
That does mean, however, that it is very comfortable! It doesn’t feel uncontrollable at all for me. It also deals really well with a very loose tension, which I tend to love on cubes that can handle it.
I keep mine loose, so it feels very liquid and squashy. Fluid. Extremely forgiving! It never locks up. Literally ever. You either miss the turn and end up doing an unintentional turn in another direction, or you make it through the turn you were going for, with a slight catch that does not lock the cube. You make it through the turn, pretty much no matter what, unless you turn *directly* into the corner cutting dead zone (which is very small! Smaller dead zone than the v2, it’s really less of a “zone” and more of a “spot”).
It *never* catches hard and locks.
Its small size feels fantastic. I wish the V2 and the GAN cubes were all this size! It is easy to manipulate with less travel distance required from your fingers/wrists. Smaller movements are faster movements, so a smaller cube (within reason) allows for more efficient, “twitchy” turning. Almost like on a guitar - you want to master picking the strings with smaller, more efficient movements, which allows you to pick much faster.
And if the cube was ridiculously, unreasonably fast, that combo of features would make it a serious contender for top performance, I think. But because it is so nice and controllable, it’s not quite there.
Essentially, it feels like it’s a bit too in my “comfort zone”, when I want to push myself out of that zone.
This was my main for a few weeks, and it is certainly mainworthy, but for 75-80+ bucks, you can get a cube that is more than just *worthy* of maining. I mean, the tornado is worthy of maining and it’s like half the price. For this much money, you can get the best cubes that are currently out, and unfortunately this does not *quite* make the cut for that standard.
But man, what a forgiving, smooth cube that is very fast yet still controllable! For this style of “fast and light” cubes, it is the most comfortable to use. You will have the least amount of problems with it, like catching or overturning. It is such a user friendly cube. It wants to be nice to you.
But for the absolute top performance, you gotta master the beasts of catching and overturning on less forgiving and comfortable cubes.
Overall, it’s a five star experience with four star performance, at an unfortunately steep price point. It’s maybe the rolls Royce of cubes; built to feel good to drive, but it is not going to win the Grand Prix.
Still, it really does feel SO good… but I don’t think I can justify a full 5 stars like I could for the v2, just from that raw speed aspect.
If you want a really comfortable cube that performs at the general top level, but sacrifices just a little bit of performance for forgiveness to your less accurate turns, *and you don’t care about the price,* this is a perfect, 5 star cube for you.
Side note, it also auto aligns more dramatically than most ball core cubes, but not as dramatically as my GAN 14. I have the 8 magnet core, and it aligns more dramatically than the V2 (which only comes in 20 magnet core). But not by a whole lot; the difference between the v1 and v2 auto alignment is smaller than the difference between GAN’s auto alignment and either of the super weilongs.
Great cube. Not worth the money at all. You could get something the same quality or Better for way cheaper. The watch is pretty great though.
