You probably do not care about these old speedcubes but I do.
Daniel Evans
I am beginning to fill the gaps in my cube collection to try to get a record of the evolution of modern speedcube design, in this video I unbox a few interesting old speedcubes including the ShengShou Fangyuan and rainbow 3x3x3, witeden type C4 (with its very strange centre design which makes putting an edge piece back in quite difficult) and 4x4x4, lanlan 2x2x2 and FangShi Jieyun 3x3x3 and XingYu 2x2x2. Obviously these cubes do not stack up against the speedcubes we have today which is why I am not going to be selling them on my store but speedcube design did slowly improve over time, it did not just go straight from an original Rubik's brand to a Gan 12 Maglev UV coated, there were many intermediate steps and some which people would consider flops but desginers could learn from these 'flops' to aid them in designing better cubes in the future.
I got in touch with Daniel about a spare part. He very quickly responded that the part was available and I was able to order it on the very clean and efficient website. I was delighted by how quickly the part arrived and I would highly recommend speedcubing.org to anybody.
The Mo Yu Meilong is, on the whole, an excellent cube. The only issue I had was with a bit of “sag” and misalignment when performing multiple moves. This may be true of all larger cubes, but this is my first large cube. The service from Speedcubing.org was spot on, and I’ll definitely visit them again.
I love this cube. The corner cutting is really good, as for most GAN cubes. I like how easy it is turn and the customisation for me is really good as is the corner cutting.
All the different centre settings are good, but I found the blue (1.7N) tension nuts work best for me. The magnet adjustment system is easy to use and I think corner-to-core magnets is a great idea.
Looking forward to using this in my first competition!
Thomas (8)