{"id":566,"date":"2013-10-11T03:52:50","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T03:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesixsides.com\/?p=566"},"modified":"2018-03-12T20:14:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T20:14:52","slug":"42mm-dayan-zhanchi-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/11\/42mm-dayan-zhanchi-review\/","title":{"rendered":"42mm Dayan ZhanChi Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/iso.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-570\" alt=\"iso\" src=\"https:\/\/thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/iso-1024x624.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I said it twice in the video review: it&#8217;s just a ZhanChi. But when you hold it and play with it, it feels like so much more. I imagine it has something to do with our perception of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cute#Hormones_and_cuteness_variation\">small things<\/a> being cute? The stickers are pretty decent actually. Historically <del>DIY&#8217;s<\/del> <em>specialty cubes from China<\/em> have had really bad greens, yellows, and oranges.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-567\" alt=\"front\" src=\"https:\/\/thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/front-300x214.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a main cube, you&#8217;d be crazy to use this as a main cube. The ergonomics of it just don&#8217;t work either, my thumbs end up feeling tweaked after a short session with the cube. One thing I didn&#8217;t mention in the video review is how you physically have to push less, to be precise: the arc length your finger travels to turn a side is shorter.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-568\" alt=\"hands\" src=\"https:\/\/thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/hands-300x152.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"152\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a good small cube, this is most likely your end all solution. The 42mm ZhanChi can be bought at <a href=\"http:\/\/lightake.com\/detail.do\/sku.42mm_3x3x3_DaYan_V_Zhanchi_Magic_Rubix_Cube___Black-61317?utm_source=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/Thrawst\/videos&amp;utm_medium=video&amp;utm_campaign=Amy\">Lightake.com<\/a> for $8 and the ship anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-569\" alt=\"pieces\" src=\"https:\/\/thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/pieces-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I said it twice in the video review: it&#8217;s just a ZhanChi. But when you hold it and play with it, it feels like so much more. I imagine it has something to do with our perception of small things being cute? The stickers are pretty decent actually. Historically DIY&#8217;s specialty cubes from China have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,5],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","category-speedcubing","tag-dayan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","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=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":712,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions\/712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}