Rubik's Cube Companies are WEIRD

[@yellowmarkers]

I can't believe I forgot about ShengShou's higher-order circle cubes being asymmetric Edit: I mention them in the second part: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z2qoZH2vosxqe6c

[@lord0fthecubes]

Their crazy 4x4 v1 is not a real 4x4 :(

[@nerdiconium1365]

Question about the orbit cube variant: can the round pieces on the non-red/orange sides not be turned 90 degrees?

[@yellowmarkers]

@@nerdiconium1365 The gimmick of the Orbit Cube is that, when you turn a face 90deg, the four circles on the inside also turn 90deg in the same direction. You can't turn the circles manually. So: - If the puzzle is solved (or if you've turned the non-red/orange sides 180deg only), the vertically bandaged circle pieces block the red/orange sides - If you turn one or two of the non-red/orange sides 90deg, that still doesn't unblock the red/orange sides thanks to the vertically bandaged circle pieces that weren't included in the side(s) you turn - If you turn one non-red/orange side 90deg, you can't go ahead and turn a different non-red/orange side after that because the circles on the side you had turned become horizontally bandaged, blocking any other sides So it's essentially just a floppy cube (3x3x1) but with orbit pieces

[@lukatolstov5598]

Really???

[@cameodamaneo]

WTF is a "circle cube" lmao. That's an oxymoron

[@zyill]

Video is clearly meant to appeal to a specific target audience that I'm not a part of, but I went and accidentally found it really funny anyway despite knowing absolutely nothing about cube puzzles.

[@metachirality]

it will never not be funny to me that what are basically chinese knockoffs are higher quality than the official product when it comes to rubik's cubes

[@conlanger]

As a semi-part of the community this is part of (I’m not really a collector or modder) this is the same reaction I had

[@ingvarsuigin609]

@@metachirality well, the old versions (depicted in this video too) are equally bad - and of course the main feature of the official rubik's cube product was being unbreakable, so your children can throw it at through a wall, and then it still survives to your grandchildren. But nowadays the "speed-cube rubik's cubes" are literally officially rebranded "chinese knockoffs". It went full circle.

[@SrijayDhungana]

Same bro

[@willowthelyxra]

Same

[@AexisRai]

enthusiast : cube as permutation puzzle company : cube as plastic toy line w/ variants

[@PowerPandaMods]

This is exactly it. Well said.

[@thecloudwyrm7966]

I love it when people are clearly passionate about something I personally know nothing about. Like yeah those all sound like annoying little nitpicks but it sure is fun to hear about it

[@lord0fthecubes]

FINALLY, somebody's talking about this. THANK YOU

[@AstonCulf]

4:10 finally someone mentioned that even layered minxes AREN'T SUPPOSED TO HAVE CENTRES

[@Ensign_games]

Finally I don't have to compile normal examples to confuse my friends with

[@radnukespeoplesminds]

I imagine if an ancient human found any of these puzzles they would declare them evil

[@HNBGamer]

I got randomly recommended this video and now I have seen more cursed Rubik's Cube than ever before

[@1mhcl]

awesome video! also wanted to thank you for putting real subtitles on the video. lots of way bigger channels than you don't bother with captions but it helps me a lot to be able to follow along. it is noticed and appreciated :)

[@letter_o_hyphen_letter_o]

rubik's panopticon

[@eon1311]

_Pandemonium - heaven peirce her plays_

[@siyustuff213]

This scramble... to solve... ME?

[@filval387]

This feels like the classic case of: "This product is super popular!" "Great! Now what?" "... How about we use [insert feature here] and put it on [insert cube here]?" "I don't know... [Insert feature here] wouldn't work well with [insert cube here] and-" "We'll make money~" "Let's do it!"

[@Actual-Knight]

oh my God I sincerely hope you keep making more videos. I absolutely love this frantic style, my wife and I were _dying_ watching this

[@etiketi]

Got recommended this despite not engaging with Rubik's cube content for the past 2 or so years. Used to collect nxnxn cubes until I got to 12x12 I think; then I stopped while finishing college. Loving the humor, and this might convince me to go buy a weird cube or just alternative puzzle like a pyramix now, congrats.

[@johnny141093]

I love that the "Super Fisher Cube" from Calvin's puzzle actually makes it easier than a standard one because you cant hit parity if you know which way round middle layer edges go

[@SevenMint]

As a cuber who loves twisty puzzle mods, this is hilarious.

[@fernandostrodrigues1]

Oh Boy i can't wait for the Rubiks quasi-rhombicosidodecahedron

[@aloading444]

one of the best cubing videos i've seen in a while, i gotta say

[@knghtbrd]

Katie over my shoulder: "thaaat sounds like a rant video." 🤣

[@Blue_Guy_The]

Who’s Katie? Nobody knows about your personal life we haven’t met you

[@TimofeiSopin-ov6dp]

This video is actually great and very funny! Keep it up!

[@DrakonPhD]

Me, who has never solved a normal rubik's cube: Ah yes, what a strange conundrum.

[@albireo2990]

the first one should have been called the floppy mirror pentagon

[@CalderTF2]

I have a mirror 2x2 that isn't a true mirror and it pisses me off to no end. Also would love to see more of these

[@gt1975]

I was so disapointed that I had to 3d print extensions for my 2x2 so it bacema real mirror 2x2

[@fezziegd]

he mentions that one in the part 2 he released recently

[@Trojan073]

6:30 this one legit makes the cube easier to solve bc there would be no edge parity

[@JonFawkes]

I'm not ashamed to admit I own most of the cubes mentioned. Hate solving them though, so I never do unless a guest comes over and thinks it would be fun to scramble all the cubes on my shelf

[@PureZOOKS]

Now this video is some good 'tism ramblings, you got any more?

[@FeatherVoid]

Today I learned there are way too many overly complex variants of the Rubix cube

[@timbomb374]

Oh, I have that floppy ghost cube. It's not my favourite but it's kind of neat

[@DinoCuber]

Part 2? Please.......

[@ianmoore5502]

This video gives jan misali vibes

[@Unknowntrashcan]

Ok but what if we mixed every single cube from this company into one really big one

[@angelrivera1551]

5:16 I was laughing with water in my mouth and it went in my nose

[@Ethan783]

Who’s here after the second video cause they’re quirky?

[@G-Cole-01]

calvin's puzzle seems to have a very "random bullshit go" mentality for puzzle design

[@spawnnumber2126]

3:07 the like button glowed for some reason?

[@missingsemi]

Best guess is that youtube misheard "master" as "smash the" so highlighter the like button lol

[@OkieDokieSmokie]

@@missingsemiWhat an odd feature to for them to add in the first place

[@RelativelyInsane14]

I really hope that someone makes something like this with the ridiculous world of the ever changing landscape of WCA hardware improvements across different companies (excluding clock lmao)

[@testedcatgaming7714]

I don't really do Rubik's Cubes, how do they suspect you to solve the one at 5:24 Does it even move???

[@yellowmarkers]

The image in the video is the puzzle's solved state. The goal of the puzzle is to get it into that shape, with the weird bit sticking out like that. If you're asking how it turns, it's mechanically the same as a regular 4x4x4 cube, but some of its pieces have different external shapes, which is why it looks weird from the outside.

[@testedcatgaming7714]

@@yellowmarkers Rather cool I guess, though it looks rather hard LOL. Thank you for the explanation!

[@sonicwaveinfinitymiddwelle8555]

they're fine cuz we don't actually want to solve them they are there just to fill up the space

[@austinchavers2025]

Finally I'm not the only one that thinks some of these piece swaps dumb.

[@NathanWood23]

That was kind of amazing. Thank you.

[@JamesonJamestackSwick]

Can someone talk about the maddening mess of the Mixup puzzles

[@yellowmarkers]

This comment inspired my favourite section in Part 2 of this video

[@geeteevee7667]

2:57 killjoys

[@Bubitalk]

holy shit jtoh

[@spidey5558]

What

[@Bubitalk]

@@spidey5558 you wouldn't know

[@RayquazaPhantom]

​​@@spidey5558 some roblox obby game about towers, theres a tower called "tower of killjoy" with the same shape as the cube

[@thatonedude-s7f]

What- what are you doing here?

[@draakisback]

Yeah it's unfortunate that a lot of the nonwca puzzles aren't really standardized so you get this mishmash of nonsense. There are certain cube collectors who will basically buy anything and these companies feed into that idea. Also, I have to imagine that some of the designers over at Calvin's want to be the next Erno Rubik.I mean I don't blame them, it is the most popular toy of all time.

[@yellowmarkers]

Most of the designers of the base puzzles are independent of Calvin's Puzzle, but their names get put on the puzzle and in the full name of the puzzle. The video is more about the variations, which are all done by Calvin

[@ianmoore5502]

3x3xX bloat is a real epidemic

[@not_estains]

hell nah not the cube glazing from calvin

[@baguetteking4417]

The fact that more companies keep making them tells me that there are people actively buying these and I want to know who

[@ceqell]

my hyperfocused ADHD couldn't even keep up with this

[@bwayagnes]

Same 😭 had to pause a couple of times

[@KosmoYeeps]

Jan misali ahhh voice

[@kiwi_2_official]

ym1 popping off

[@MoroccanSpace-s1y]

Wow! A dodecahedronal rubic cube? How it’s work literally ?

[@GODDAMNLETMEJOIN]

The exact same way as the regular Rubik's cube.

[@LeoStaley]

I can't find that 2x2 cross cube to buy anywhere anymore

[@yellowmarkers]

You are everywhere

[@LeoStaley]

@@yellowmarkers did you mean they? Because I haven't actually looked for them in years, maybe it's changed.

[@yellowmarkers]

@@LeoStaley Sorry about that; I did mean "you". I'm saying I see you in comments sections all the time in various videos I watch. I am glad that you have wandered onto the comments section of a video of mine as well. I acknowledge that I completely ignored the subject matter of the comment you wrote, so I'll try to make up for it: It is true that the ShengShou Crazy 2x2x2 and Crazy 2x2x4 are very difficult to obtain as of now, because they were first produced many years ago and they haven't been restocked in a while. I only brought them up in this video because the entire video is just me cherrypicking the funniest quirks I could find and I thought that Crazy 2x2x4 existing and not the 2x2x2 cross cube itself was especially funny (and I have pointed it out in the past), so I thought it would be appropriate for this video

[@LeoStaley]

@@yellowmarkers speedrunning videos? math videos? General edutainment?

[@yellowmarkers]

@@LeoStaley Mostly math videos, but I've seen you in a few other places as well

[@Negreb25]

You need more subscribers 🔥

[@fezziegd]

and about the even layer dodecahedra the newer versions that are being made are only being made in stickerless which means you cant get the proper version if you get one of those :/

[@NoenD_io]

Cant wait for skewed cubic circular star mirrored 6x5x3x7 fardagon

[@Agent_508]

With your mention of stickers making it look like a hypercube. Doesn't that make picture cubes "hyper cubes" as well?

[@yellowmarkers]

If you meant supercubes, then yes, picture cubes require the centre pieces to be rotated a certain way, so they are supercubes. The stickers I mentioned in the video are just one way of requiring the centres to be oriented, I've also seen putting arrows on each sticker and a few others

[@oliviareillyyoutube6652]

2:46 Mmh ah yes this is very information

[@slimekittenv]

My double skewb got put into a bag in the closet never to be looked at

[@MoroccanSpace-s1y]

Ok but tesseract? It’s a 4D Cube that means it isn’t in our 3D world it contains 8 Cubes

[@HenryY8]

I love this video, it's fun and interesting but tbh there's so much text sometimes and I keep struggling to pause and read all

[@schoclatesouce3784]

GREAT FUCKING VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@lukatolstov5598]

3:11 I like it!

[@1HundoGames]

Been trying to find one 3x5x5 cross puzzle with hexagons at each end but can't remember its name. Made up by a guy who made a contest for people to innovate on the design and I can't find it anywhere. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

[@yellowmarkers]

You're thinking of Gregoire Pfennig's Dual Hexangle: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mHiunKp4pqeFkJo

[@1HundoGames]

@@yellowmarkers thank you. I've been searching 'custom rubik's puzzle' and this never came up

[@theredrighteye4380]

Your should named this video ,,cursed Rubik’s cube,, 😂😂😂.

[@MoroccanSpace-s1y]

Infinite rubrics shapes

[@rabbitmario751]

i really hate calvins puzzle for their lazy variants and disgusting prices, they make a few cool puzzles tho

[@willowthelyxra]

...What?

[@VitaEmerald324]

Please lay off the text that appears for a split second that you need to pause to read, I’m less than a minute in and already sick of it

[@yellowmarkers]

I'll keep this in mind for the next video. Oftentimes there's extra information I don't want to leave out, but isn't all that important and I can't find a way to fit in the video script without it getting too cluttered. But, I'll try to minimise that next time

[@yigitdogan27]

1:33 just buy 2 of them and swap the pieces around. Profit.

[@yellowmarkers]

If you did that, the 3x3x5 would have two yellow faces and the 3x3x7 would have two white faces, so you would have to swap some of the stickers between the two cubes as well

[@leotaku5216]

4:56 No

[@AlexMaass]

CalvinsPuzzles does piece swap mods so much, it's so lazy imo to just try to sell more editions of puzzles

[@Afrncul]

My brain is on life suport

[@Ice.burrrg]

It’s a cash grab

[@RandomGameClips27]

exactly this. Doing low effort just for some weird people to waste their money to gain big profit

[@jbot8108]

lol, more pls

[@yellowmarkers]

Part 2 is in the works

[@clayday5299]

i have no idea what this guy is talking about

[@5h3i1ah_and_Nik0]

{this video has so much split-second text holy shit please slow it down a bit}

[@yellowmarkers]

I'm working on a second part, so if I finish that, I'll make sure to tone down the split-second text. Sorry about that

[@5h3i1ah_and_Nik0]

{@yellowmarkers oh, thank you! and, sorry for being a bit harsh there, dunno why i was like that... it's honestly a pretty small thing. i should, perhaps think more about when my tone when commenting ^^}

[@bwayagnes]

Felt 😂 had to pause a ton

[@hrac88]

ah yes horros beyond my comphrehension

[@YellowBlue3x3]

Why do you sound like my friend lmao

[@DrCoolGuy88]

Awesome video, but you need to sloooooe down, my guy. Be mindful of your punctuation and take a breath, it'll be much easier to follow along. I understand you may want to speed through, maybe partially for a more comedic effect, but it hurts your topic. I don't know much about Rubik's cubes beyond the standard one, but it was very hard to follow along, especially with all the text on screen that I missed, because I don't have the same knowledge on cubes you clearly have (lots of, by the sound of it! Lol)

[@MoroccanSpace-s1y]

From Amazone

[@YellowBunny]

Nice video! But none of the twisty puzzle companies you talked about are Rubik's Cube companies, as only Spin Master has the rights to that name. I'm sure you can relate to me getting mildly annoyed about a detail like that :)

[@yellowmarkers]

The title is clickbait. "Twisty Puzzle Companies" would have indeed been more accurate, but I think it's a less recognisable term and the one I did use is still reasonably related to what I'm talking about; twisty puzzles are often colloquially referred to as "Rubik's cubes". You are correct, though

[@wildawnnaviane2187]

Real. . .

[@FurryEskimo]

A lot of these feel like gimmicks of the exact same mechanism, just changing up the shape, and I know a lot of people are fascinated with this type of puzzle, but I'm actually kind of glad that I never became one of those people who's really good at solving them, not because it's bad or anything, but because I don't see a genuine advantage to perfecting the skill. What is it transferable to? Other shapes of the exact same product? There's all running an army of people out there who can solve these things in a matter of seconds, and computers that can solve it even faster, but what are they contributing to the world in general? I'm genuinely asking because I don't know why it's so popular.

[@tastyl2356]

people have hobbies

[@FurryEskimo]

@@tastyl2356 Yes, I'm not challenging that, but I literally don't understand the fascination. Do you? From my perspective it's a bit like collecting decorative jacks. I know each is functional, but they seem functionally identical, so the interest lies in the visual novelty?

[@rabbitmario751]

@@FurryEskimo they are not all functionally identical, you dont get it cause you have no idea what youre talking about

[@tastyl2356]

there's multiple parts to the cubing community - some enjoy speedsolving more than collecting various puzzles. speedsolving, especially depending on the puzzle requires years of optimisation and dedicated practice. however, on the collecting side, most puzzle vary drastically in their solves. it is true that some puzzles are simply shape mods of others, however it is far from the truth to say that they are all functionally identical. even in official puzzles, for example, take a skewb - a puzzle that rotates around its corners. this clearly cannot be compared to a 3x3 for example.

[@FurryEskimo]

@@rabbitmario751 Dude, why the hell are you being so mean? Yes, I don't know about rubric cubes, I literally have zero interest in them and asked about why others were fascinated in them.

[@FinlandHappy23Cubing]

Congrats to the Yuxin Master Pyraminx for calling a "speedcube" without magnets... AND MAGNETS IS THE ENTIRE POINT OF A SPEEDCUBE.

[@rabbitmario751]

no it isnt? speedcubes existed long before magnets

[@R-BGamingUK]

"Fun" fact:I have more than 40 more videos than you, but less than a quarter as many subscribers Fml

[@Bubitalk]

nobody asked

[@Pinkcircleguy]

either it's because your videos are low quality (not an insult) or yellowmarkers makes more high quality videos than yours. Pick your poison

[@marcelborkowski4192]

Literally no one cares, just make shorts or high quality content and you'll get subs

[@cubixthree3495]

Grr imagine having a youtube channel... Nobody care! 😂🤬 blah blh bleh. You have subs? Yhat's so mean !! Grrrrrrr