{"id":14,"date":"2008-07-09T21:25:45","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T04:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesixsides.com\/blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2008-07-09T21:25:45","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T04:25:45","slug":"v-cube-6-extended-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/09\/v-cube-6-extended-review\/","title":{"rendered":"V-Cube 6 Extended Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before I start I&#8217;d like the revise a statement about the 6&#215;6 tutorial in the video. I might make one, I&#8217;m considering a written guide rather than a video tutorial as its more common of a medium for communicating How-To&#8217;s. So I&#8217;ll make the final decision on that later.<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;ve already seen my most recent video on YouTube then you already know the majority of my opinions about this cube. What I wasn&#8217;t able to mention were the things that I&#8217;ve found out on the second day of owning it.<\/p>\n<p>To start, this cube isn&#8217;t perfect, no cube is there are some cons and pros I wasn&#8217;t able to list in the initial review due to that I only wanted to have an hour to try it out and make a video of it showing my true first thoughts on this product. It&#8217;s a little over 24-hours since I made the video, and despite the cons and pros I&#8217;ve discovered over the last few hours, my opinion that was expressed in the video remains unchanged.<\/p>\n<ul> Discovered Pros:<\/p>\n<li>You can cut corners like a pro without popping: As mentioned in the video this cube is extremely sturdy and takes a lot to pop it significantly. The only limit is how willing are you to push this characteristic to it&#8217;s advantage. Even on the second day of owning it I still move the sides rather cautiously, but at least <em>twice<\/em> as fast since yesterday.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thesixsides.com\/junk\/staded.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/li>\n<li> Without lubrication, it&#8217;s still pretty fast: (wow that&#8217;s dirty) Like any cube it can be worn down, and is naturally adjusted to your solving style, this cube does exactly that.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul> Discovered Cons:<\/p>\n<li>Like a Rubik&#8217;s 5&#215;5, the center corners occasionally twist: This is the scariest con I&#8217;ve discovered, anyone whose seriously tried a Rubik&#8217;s 5&#215;5 knows of the curse of the center corners twisting and sometimes breaking. You&#8217;d think that this fear completely carries over to the 6&#215;6. However the two pops I got today are reassuring, closer examination of the center corners reveals that they&#8217;re built totally different than a flimsy Rubik&#8217;s 5&#215;5&#8217;s center corners. So while they may not break (phew) they still twist (awwww).<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thesixsides.com\/junk\/ctwist.JPG\" alt=\"the center corner ahhh!!\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yes, I only discovered one con. The final thing I want to write about is why I only got the 6&#215;6 and not a 5&#215;5 or 7&#215;7. There are several reasons behind this. For one, I already have a 5&#215;5, it&#8217;s not very fun, somehow the 6&#215;6 with all it&#8217;s parities is. As for the 7&#215;7 this one&#8217;s a no-brainer for me, as much as I&#8217;d like a massive cube with pillowed sides, if the WCA introduces any of these cubes into competition, It&#8217;s most likely going to be the 6&#215;6, due to it&#8217;s size and the time it would take to solve it, i believe that the the 7&#215;7 will not be introduced to competition.<br \/>\nSo there you have it, hope you&#8217;ve enjoyed the the pictures that came with this post. Keep cubing!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thesixsides.com\/junk\/centers.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I start I&#8217;d like the revise a statement about the 6&#215;6 tutorial in the video. I might make one, I&#8217;m considering a written guide rather than a video tutorial as its more common of a medium for communicating How-To&#8217;s. So I&#8217;ll make the final decision on that later. If you&#8217;ve already seen my most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speedcubing","tag-cube-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}