Out of the box this cube was not nice. Very rough, very noisy, tough to turn and very poor corner cutting. The good news is that with some effort you will be rewarded with a perectly useable cube. It's taken me 5 seperate applications of 3 diferent lubes and a number of tension adjustments to get there, but get there I have. It's still noisy and rough but it moves well enough and I think it looks very nice with it's black internals visible between the pieces. Personally I prefer a smoother quieter cube but I keep picking this one up so it cn't be all bad. Decent enough or the money.
