{"id":274,"date":"2011-07-17T09:13:17","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T16:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesixsides.com\/?p=274"},"modified":"2011-07-17T09:13:17","modified_gmt":"2011-07-17T16:13:17","slug":"extended-review-of-the-shengshou-5x5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/17\/extended-review-of-the-shengshou-5x5\/","title":{"rendered":"Extended Review of the ShengShou 5×5"},"content":{"rendered":"

I felt relatively\u00a0uncomposed\u00a0through the whole review of the ShengShou 5×5<\/a>, perhaps it was watching all the takes I did over and over again in editing and picking which ones to include and exclude. Nevertheless I hope the information and my opinions came off well. If they didn’t they’re basically this: the ShengShou 5×5 offers more consistency, but faster solves are still possible with the V-Cube 5. So if you’re trying to set averages with low standard deviations, then yeah the ShengShou will be fine, but the V-Cube is still<\/em> faster. I just did two averages of 5 on Cubemania that can show this very clearly. The V-Cube 5 average was done directly after the ShengShou average.<\/p>\n

ShengShou 5×5 Average<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. 2:07.94<\/li>\n
  2. 2:02.76<\/li>\n
  3. (2:02.49)<\/li>\n
  4. 2:03.79<\/li>\n
  5. (2:18.74)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    • Average: 2:04.83<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      V-Cube 5 Average<\/span><\/p>\n

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      1. (2:08.87)<\/li>\n
      2. 2:08.08<\/li>\n
      3. 2:06.52<\/li>\n
      4. 1:56.85<\/li>\n
      5. (1:46.31)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
          \n
        • Average: 2:03.82<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          Sure it’s only 1.01 seconds faster, but I like the looks of those two sub-2 times in the V-Cube 5 average. Peoples’\u00a0criticism\u00a0of the V-Cube 5 is that it’s slow from the box and hard to turn. So what? You do a corner mod on it, give it some time, do some averages, strengthen those wrists. You make it a good cube. The problem with ShengShou, Maru and other cubes that rip off the V-Cube 5 design or take it and slightly modify it, is that you get what you pay for (usually about $15), I’ve always found off brand cubes besides the V-Cube 5 to feel cheap and flimsy, the ShengShou not as much, but it shows in the times and the 3×3 stage, no matter how consistent it makes me.<\/p>\n

          I realized in the beginning of the ShengShou Review I pose the question if the ShengShou can really take “brand dominance” over the V-Cube 5, more simply I ask if the ShengShou is better.\u00a0After a week with it, I can safely say it is not, I’ll be sticking with the V-Cube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          I felt relatively\u00a0uncomposed\u00a0through the whole review of the ShengShou 5×5, perhaps it was watching all the takes I did over and over again in editing and picking which ones to include and exclude. Nevertheless I hope the information and my opinions came off well. If they didn’t they’re basically this: the ShengShou 5×5 offers more […]<\/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-274","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\/274","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=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}