Cube Sabotage

It was discovered yesterday that we didn’t get the cubes we thought we were getting. Calvin liked Ryan’s cube enough to decide to order it, but Ryan sent Calvin the amazon link to the second generation DaYan cube instead of the third generation one. We took them apart and the third generation one is significantly more sculpted on the inside, which probably means smoother cornering, but it also has a reputation for having pieces pop out easily, so Ryan’s is tightened down to the point that it doesn’t corner as well as mine does.

Either way, I’m happy with mine. It’s a very significant upgrade over my old cube and with it I’ve improved my times nearly to the point they were before I switched solve methods.

Not helping my times is the weather. It’s been well in the negatives the last couple days, and even though my heater is on it’s still chilly inside my apartment, so my fingers are a bit lacking in speed. Tuesday the high was -2 degrees Fahrenheit (low of -14), and despite the fact that it made it all the way up to +3 degrees today it’s currently -15. Tomorrow it’s supposed to get up to a nice warm 35 degrees! At least my car has started despite the cold. It sounds like it doesn’t want to, so I’ve been giving it a few minutes to warm up before I drive anywhere, but the steering is still stiff till about the time I get out of the apartment complex.

I stickered my 3 cube last Saturday while taking a break from stickering the 7 cube. The entire 3 cube only has seven more stickers than a single side of the 7, so I ended up doing it all at once including trimming sticker corners where the shape of the face made that a good idea (I don’t want the tiles sticking out over the edge of the piece, makes it too easy to peel them up).

I’m a little over half way through with the 7 cube, having not worked on it the last few days, but here’s a picture of the state it was in on Friday:

No picture of the new 3 cube, but it looks almost exactly like the standard Rubik’s cube on the outside so there’s not much to see anyways.