{"id":576,"date":"2013-10-19T19:28:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-19T19:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesixsides.com\/?p=576"},"modified":"2018-03-12T20:14:43","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T20:14:43","slug":"dayan-panshi-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thesixsides.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/19\/dayan-panshi-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Dayan PanShi Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-579\" alt=\"cubo\" src=\"https:\/\/thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cubo-939x1024.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"392\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The PanShi is a combination of daring and lazy. On one hand they were trying to make some thing new and better. On the other hand you can see exactly how the designers just copied the ZhanChi <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Computer-aided_design\">CAD<\/a> file and made a few small modifications. These modifications include wider &#8220;wings&#8221; on the edges, and a higher &#8220;lip.&#8221; Both do a really good job of keeping the pieces from popping, but at the expense of wide corner cutting margins and hence speed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_580\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-580\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/corners1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-580  \" alt=\"ZhanChi corner on the right, PanShi on the left.\" src=\"https:\/\/thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/corners1-1024x607.jpg\" width=\"270\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-580\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ZhanChi corner on the right, PanShi on the left.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_581\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-581\" style=\"width: 162px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/edges1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-581 \" alt=\"ZhanChi edge on top, PanShi edge on bottom.\" src=\"https:\/\/thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/edges1-743x1024.jpg\" width=\"162\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-581\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ZhanChi edge on top, PanShi edge on bottom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s a bad cube. I can certainly get sub-15 times on it, however not very consistently. (For context I consider myself to average a mid-14 with a ZhanChi). I&#8217;ve been trying to get better at blind solving and I think this is a really good cube for my practice. It&#8217;s hard to make accidental moves on it and the sides click in such a way that is very distinct. It gives the same kind of good feeling the clicks from a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Keyboard_technology#Mechanical-switch_keyboard\">mechanical keyboard<\/a>\u00a0give, that is I get tactile and audible feedback from a turn.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_578\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-578\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cutaway.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-578\" alt=\"You can see the mechanisms that keep the edges in here.\" src=\"https:\/\/thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cutaway-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-578\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">You can see the mechanisms that keep the edges in here.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I can see this being a really good cube for people still over 25-30 seconds. It encourages clean turning, and it doesn&#8217;t pop as frequently as a Rubik&#8217;s brand might. However in the end this is a prime example of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Innovator's_Dilemma\">innovator&#8217;s dilemma<\/a>, it just doesn&#8217;t stand up to its predecessors at all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Dayan PanShi can be bought on <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/AyG8Mi\">Lightake.com for $13.08 USD<\/a> and they have they have free shipping anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_577\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-577\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/stickers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-577\" alt=\"The stickers are actually pretty nice.\" src=\"https:\/\/thesixsides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/stickers-1024x431.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-577\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The stickers are actually pretty nice.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PanShi is a combination of daring and lazy. On one hand they were trying to make some thing new and better. On the other hand you can see exactly how the designers just copied the ZhanChi CAD file and made a few small modifications. 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