The European Championships in 2026 has now been announced to be taking place in Arnhem in the Netherlands, I actually competed in that city for Dutch Nationals 2024. The announcement...
Samuel McNeil is a young speedcuber from Scotland, in 2023, he received a 21x21 for Christmas and refused to scramble it for many months, eventually he agreed to actually solve...
Puzzle designer, Tony Fisher, has now uploaded a video where he demonstrates more moves on what is being claimed to be a 100x100, in the video, he turns a few...
on Sunday morning we woke up to the news that YiHeng Wang had finally broken the world record single with a solve of 3.08 seconds, this beats the previous world...
Tony Fisher is a very well known puzzle designer and has previously held the world record for the largest 3x3 of over 2 meters which is still sat in his...
As the average age of the cubing community has decreased and as cubes have improved, I have noticed that newer cubers are no longer able to even do basic pop...
The Premier Speedcubing League has been announced and is set to hold its first competitions next month. These competitions will be different from official WCA competitions as they will be...
The Zeal Timer is a very exciting introduction to the cubing market, while other cube brands have been working on smart timers and cubes that connect to mobile apps, the...
The MoYu RS3M 2020 is probably the best selling speedcube of all time, it has sold incredibly well both on my stall and on many other cube stores around the...
In this video I seek to predict the new cubes I expect we will see in 2025 based on my analysis of releases in 2024, speedcube innovation is always exciting...
Former world champion blindfolded speedcuber, Tom Nelson, recently completed a 10 year project setting the world record for longest delayed 3x3 blindfolded solve. Tom Nelson won the 5x5 blindfolded event...
Matty Hiroto Inaba from Hawaii, USA seems to be Gan's most trusted person for testing out new cubes as he has recently received yet another Gan 4x4 sample, he posted...
The DianSheng 2x2 FTO M isn't actually the first magnetic 2x2 FTO on the market but it is obviously superior to the QiYi version which was released just beforehand, maybe...
The UK Cube Association has confirmed that the UK Championships 2025 will take place in Birmingham, this time it will no longer be in late October/ early November as it...
Last weekend at Stevenage January 2025 we saw Nicholas Archer break the world record for 3x3 with one hand, in many ways this was a long time coming, Nicholas has...
YACT (Yet Another Cube Timer is a speedcubing timer built for Bluetooth smartcubes. It has been tested on 8 different smart cubes from various brands, such as the Gan I3,...
Gan released their prize pool for world and continental records in different events on Instagram recently, essentially if you break a world record using one of their cubes and have...
The QiYi Clock is still the best clock on the market without any dispute, when a world record is broken, no one asks what clock was used as everyone should...
When YiHeng Wang first got his 4.05 world record average, we heard that there was a new MoYu cube coming because YiHeng Wang was using it, there were rumours circulating...
Last Saturday we saw Lachlan Gibon from New Zealand break the clock world record single with a solve of 1.86 seconds, this is only the 2nd solve ever done in...
Many newer cubers can get confused and think that they have to solve a 4x4 or a 5x5 in a very similar manner to the 3x3, this causes lots of...
The DianSheng Petaminx is the first mass produced magnetic petaminx puzzle and it certainly performs much better than any other petaminx on the market. The Petaminx is a 9x9 minx...
Luke Garrett, from the United States, has recently become the best speedcuber in the world by average sum of ranks, sum of ranks is a measurement of overall speedcubing ability...
The UK will held its first ever regional championship at the end of May this year. This was confirmed during Edinburgh Winter 2025 after much speculation, the competition will soon...
The MoYu WeiPo V5 is a new 2x2 speedcube from MoYu, the design was initially released a few months ago as a smartcube but now has been released as a...
On Saturday 11th June at Gem City Ohio Showdown 2025 in the USA, Sammer Aggarwal broke the Square-1 world record average with an average time of 4.69 seconds, this beats...
QiYi have made a strange release recently as they have previously not released UV coated versions of their 'flagship' cubes, only their 'pioneer' cubes. The Flagship version usually features a...
Chinese New Year is the longest annual holiday in China and can be a frustrating time for cubers and for cube stores. Chinese New Year officially takes place on January...
The ShengShou FTO is available in both magnetic and non magnetic versions, the non magnetic one is the cheapest FTO on the market and the magnetic one is only slightly...
The YuXin 17x17 was once the largest mass produced puzzle available but that was beaten by ShengShou's 19x19 and MoYu's 21x21 and the MoYu 21x21 has stood as the highest...
ShengShou are often rather quiet with their new releases as they don't have much western social media presence but this morning I noticed they now have a yottaminx listed on...
The DianSheng Googol series is a series of larger than normal puzzles from DianSheng, they first released a series of 7CM-10CM 3x3 speedcubes that were also magnetic and turned pretty...
FTO for WCA??? That is the question that many cubers have been asking over the past year, for many years the only FTO available was the LanLan and it required...
The YuXin Little Magic V3M is the 3rd version of the YuXin Little Magic 3x3, the first version was by far the most popular and YuXin have struggled to make...
Last weekend, XuanYi Geng From China achieved an average of 4.32 seconds which is incredible, especially considering he is even younger than YiHeng Wang! The cube just looks way too...
Last weekend, YiHeng Wang reclaimed his 2x2 world record that he had lost after 3 months due to the sliding controversy. After his 0.78 average was eliminated due to him...
The QiYi Warrior M Pro is another new ultra-budget 3x3 speedcube from QiYi, it is magnetic but has a very simple design and is only £6, despite its low price...
Thomas Patterson finally broke the UK's longest standing national record on Saturday at Norwich Winter 2024, the previous record of 32/33 by Steven Kearns had stood since 2019 and many...
The QiYi Warrior Plus is a very large version of the QiYi Warrior which is a budget cube from QiYi, the Warrior Plus is 18CM which makes it the 6th...
The X-Man Spark was first released all the way back in 2019 and was the best 7x7 for a while, it was what got me into 7x7 speedsolving and one...
When I first received the 3x3 double cubes I was eager to figure out how to make them myself, however, I very quickly decided that I couldn't just be satisfied...
YiHeng Wang is completely dominant in 3x3 right now and he cemented his dominance even further on Sunday 8th December as he broke his own world record average yet again...
DianSheng have shown a fully functional prototype of a magnetic petaminx on their Instagram which suggests it is going to be released soon. Since DianSheng began caring about making competitive...
DianSheng have recently teased a magnetic skewb diamond or 2x2 version of the FTO. DianSheng started a revolution with their Face Turning Octahedron as it was the first mass produced...
The YJ ZhiLong 4x4 has been out for a few years and has been quite popular, it has been used by quite a few younger cubers and those with smaller...
The QiYi XT3 V1 was a bit of an unexpected release, there had been rumours that Max Park had another cheaper cube from QiYi that was in development at the...
Knowing what sort of presents to get your friends and relatives for Christmas can often be difficult and if your friend or relative really loves cubes then it can be...
Isaac Corker broke the Square-1 national record average today at Manchester pyraminx day 2024. Isaac Corker achieved an average time of 7.01 seconds which places him 41st in the world....
Aidan Grainger broke the national record single for megaminx again today at Wiltshire November 2024. While Aidan Grainger received significantly more attention two weeks ago for breaking the national record...
co-joined cubes or fused cubes are not a new idea, I have seen pictures of them for years but had never actually tried one until recently. I noticed that Calvin's...
