The 6x6 Rubik's Cube Should NOT Be Possible

[@pixelchord3937]

I'm glad there was a small clip from Code Bullet, I love that guys channel!

[@Frost-rx4ch]

Good channel but a little excessive on the curses

[@Evotionn]

@@Frost-rx4ch well its normal for a coder that has gone insane

[@sandiemishra]

@@Frost-rx4ch I agree

[@thefakesj]

you mean CB

[@RandomBurfness]

I wish Code Bullet would not shove so many details under the rug in every video. I also wish he'd actually make something which the title describes.

[@tyleralmquist7606]

I always wondered why the outer layers of large cubes were bigger and why the inside of my 4x4 was so weird! Thank you for the info!

[@ReverseBurst]

I remember trying to reassemble a 4x4 with my friend. It was the longest evening of my life.

[@iyiniyetlikotuadam]

I just spilled tea on my mgc 4x4. With cleaning lubing and reassambling, it took around 3 hours.(My first time reassambling a 4x4)

[@soosawesome1151]

I have yet to reassemble my 4x4 and I really don't want to

[@stangneshakon]

@@soosawesome1151 It helps to not do it alone

[@X-Cubing]

the same thing happened to me can't wait to try a 6x6

[@Jakc.]

I once disassembled my 6x6 thinking a can reassemble it but it was hard it took me like 5 hours with my sister

[@Kokiri971]

I initially got into cubing around the time the V-cube 6 came out, but I lost interest in the hobby for around ten years after that. It's crazy coming back to it now and seeing how the technology has progressed.

[@MrGameAndToy]

As an aside, the point at 4:10 also explains why all the world record cubes for a while now have been odd-layered. Because making an even-layered cube necessitates that you have a working design for an odd-layered cube one degree higher. Why make a 16x16 when it requires that you know how to make a 17x17?

[@yami_the_witch]

There are also people competing to create the largest even layer cubes. While a bigger number is alluring hiding those center layer in higher order cubes get's increasingly difficult. So it's a feat worth of accolade in it's own right.

[@x520x1314x]

So does that mean i need to learn 5x5 before i can do 4x4..

[@plopsmcgee9672]

Do it just to flex. If someone snatches the record from you by picking the low-hanging odd fruit just above you then everyone will know they compromised and don't deserve the record.

[@silevol]

@@x520x1314x no. If you learn a 5x5 you still have parity issues on the 4x4. However, if you learn the 4x4 you can probably solve the 5x5

[@GhostyOcean]

@@silevol you only need to learn one additional algorithm to solve 5x5 after 4x4. The other way around requires 2 additional algorithms for parity that is avoidable on 5x5.

[@Helio_Asou]

When you mentioned the imposibility of having a proportional 6x6 and 7x7 I remembered one of The Cubing Historian videos. It showed a proportional 7x7 made before the v-cube one, but it had a very different mechanism

[@hamizannaruto]

Yeah, the pieces flexes to allow more room. Its insane. I do wish there is one, so it can be collect as a novelty

[@papergunman145]

I had a MoYu 7x7

[@snowy3869.]

I feel dumb, why have I never questioned the difference in size of the cubes in a 6x6?

[@OrangeC7]

It happens to all of us. For example, it's possible very few people reading this have ever thought about why we say an employee wears a "uniform".

[@mouthlesshater]

@@OrangeC7 why

[@OrangeC7]

@@mouthlesshater Because it makes the workers look uniform

[@hardik8528]

well I never did it because it looked cool to me lol

[@xerisu]

I thought it was like that cause its easier to move after reducing cause algorithms often reduce 4+ cubes to a 3x3 Im saying it without practice with that big cubes ofc

[@nickcarneyphotography]

Man I remember when those V-Cubes came out. That felt like such an achievement. Cube design has come so far.

[@benjaminxiao2352]

i actually always thought the sizing was to make turning easier and to help with outer layer turning for 3x3 stage, thanks for this interesting lesson!

[@xuananator]

That was a highly interesting and informative 8 minute setup to the punchline. This actually got me in the mood for some 6x6 now though...

[@Wick291]

The title: "The 6x6 Rubik's Cube Should NOT be Possible" The 6x6 sitting on my desk: *Guess i'll die* ._.

[@noone8740]

lol no

[@zeng833]

@@noone8740 mean

[@noone8740]

@@zeng833 +_+

[@aquilyxus]

421st like hahaha

[@pauldavis5665]

Why did you let your 6x6 watch this video?

[@SyphistPrime]

I forgot about this stuff for so long. I used to speed cube a bit in high school. I still have my old cubes and I sometimes solve them for fun. It's cool to see where cube design has gone.

[@Diego.Vargas]

Jperm: A 4x4 is a 5x5 Me: *visible confusion*

[@xiaoqing2846]

Literally

[@tuneboyz5634]

Smol dogo

[@sloniaswinfrid1346]

a 2x2 is a 3x3, except with all the centers and edges hiding

[@ericcartman80085]

A 8x8 is a 9x9

[@PLNTGMING]

A 20x20 is a 21x21cube

[@Cubefinity]

4:10-4:26 literally i never thought that way , absolutely blew my mind

[@CANVASARTS123]

Me: about to sleep Jperm: uploads Sleep: i will wait

[@yummynomz581]

I can relate

[@yumeyamamoto]

hmm

[@kyub3rkyub165]

Totally relatable

[@apurvawankhede3008]

Same for me

[@origamidude6560]

that is the same case for a lot of people, agreed

[@StudioRevoct]

I'm glad that you explained how the mechanics work, and how it was previously impossible, because I struggle to even understand the crazy mechanics behind stuff like the 1x2x3 and other odd shaped cubes.

[@hy_s-officiaI]

The 1x2x3 has a similar . mechanism as the 2x2 and 3x3, because the corners and edges are held by the centers, unlike the Squares, the corners on the 1x2x3, 3x3x1, and 2x2x3 are just edges, but the leg and foot are on the Edges instead of the Middle

[@bluexfang5101]

Jperm: uploads cube theory video Me : I could listen to this for every second and not get bored

[@bobomb1667]

Hi reddit person

[@Newfox2053]

Hi real life person

[@bluexfang5101]

@@bobomb1667 hey how did you know?

[@GenMemes]

@@bluexfang5101 True Reddit Person

[@locrianphantom3547]

I’ve always wondered why bigger cubes had weird pixel sizes. I thought it was so they’d be downward compatible to other cubes, like a 6x6 to be used as a 3x3 without damaging your eyes squinting. Or a 4x4 to a 2x2, a 4x4 also could be synced to 3x3 logic.

[@romanlinnik7441]

What? This makes no sense lmao

[@david203]

it's really visible on the 21x21, which has giant corners and large edges and tiny inside pieces.

[@CodesOfLine]

​@@david203and if the 21x21 cube wasn't pillowed, it would have even bigger corners and edges.

[@david203]

@@CodesOfLine But then rotation would not be possible.

[@iamerror6546]

@@romanlinnik7441basically, If you turn a 4x4 2 layers at a time, you can turn it in an equivalent way to a 2x2 Same with the 6x6

[@cuberdoge22]

Wins the lottery Jperm uploads Me: let someone else win I’ll watch jperm

[@JPerm]

collect your winnings and share it with me

[@smove2823]

Seconds ago wow

[@ReddingDoesEverything]

@@JPerm sounds like communism

[@cuberdoge22]

@@JPerm the jperm bundle gives you $7 thank me later.

[@JulianGarcia-fl8bc]

POG

[@wiredwireless8256]

J Perm, Thank you so much for explaining this. I remember when Rubik's incorporated cane out and said that the 6x6x6 was practically impossible, and the 7x7x7 was theoretically impossible, so quit asking us. These cubes won't be coming out any time soon. And we waited a quarter of a century! There was another wait between the V-Cube 7x7x7 and the Shengshou 8x8x8, but not as long. This is hard for current cubers to understand when it feels like there is a new larger cube every year. My only complaint about this excellent video is you didn't mention V-Cube's original solution, pillowing. It was Shengshou that made the outside layers larger. And I believe it was Shengshou that had the spherical core. Anyway, thanks for this excellent video!

[@doublearobloxians]

The V cube he showed had no pillowing?

[@Finian1]

Shengshou More Like Shing Shong

[@utubeiskaren7796]

Phineas and Ferb could make a 9999999999x9999999999 Rubik’s Cube without breaking a sweat

[@shehannanayakkara4162]

If each cube piece was 1cm long, the whole cube would have a side length of 100,000 km or a third of the way to the moon.

[@Kgon2929]

And they will still somehow hide it from their mom

[@ChipsonAnimates]

​@@Kgon2929The rubik's cube has a self destruct mechanism when solved and it happens to be hit by doofenshmirts' solve-any-puzzleinator

[@DinGamingRobloxRealAlt]

Candace: MOOOOM!!! PHINEAS AND FERB BUILT A 9999X9999 RUBIX CUBE!!! Mom: It’s just a Rubix cube

[@antirogue825]

@@shehannanayakkara4162 🤓

[@donaldasayers]

I had an early 4x4 and it was not like yours inside at all. Inside there was a ball with 3 tee shaped tracks in which the edges ran and the corners ran on the edges. there was some clever shenanigans with blocks in the the tracks that made the ball maintain the proper orientation and not get twisted about one axis relative to the cubes as you demonstrated with the 6x6. It was vey difficult to disassemble and reassemble.

[@michalvallo5051]

This video and video of disassembling a 4x4 led me to a q if it is possible to create a 6x6 with a sphere core as the one in a rubik's 4x4, but more commonly used in a 2x2. And I already started working on it but first I want to replicate the 2x2 then the 4x4 and then finally try to aply the same sphere core to a 6x6. Now I don't think it's possible but I would love to know and if I get around to do so I'll have an answer. Another crazy idea is to make the corner and edge pieces lock to the surrounding center pieces when it turns. Or make a bigger 6x6 with thin but strong leg. Or magnets with high chance of popping out.

[@Blue_Cubes_silly_animations]

1:14 OH GOD WHY DID YOU HAVE TO SHOW THIS IT GIVES ME A HORRIBLE FEELING EVERYTIME I WATCH IT-

[@vinnykitty1983]

No, it's rly satisfying

[@Blue_Cubes_silly_animations]

@@vinnykitty1983 you have a strong soul

[@SMBudge]

@@vinnykitty1983 agreed

[@vinnykitty1983]

@@SMBudge only that one?

[@SMBudge]

@@vinnykitty1983 to quote Siri, “I’m not sure I understand”

[@ggamer_death9308]

Him: The 7x7 cube hasn’t been invented yet Also him: pulls out a 7x7 cube

[@h-Films]

that sentence was set in the past

[@enochliu8316]

The full line is "And remember, if you are inventing [the 6x6 cube] for the first time, a 7x7 has not been invented yet."

[@diedoompokemon7282]

CONTEXT MATTERS

[@belchop11]

123rd like

[@tpc31415]

@@enochliu8316 exactly

[@superpie64]

J Perm: The 6x6 should NOT be possible Every 6x6: *My time has come*

[@treehann]

this video blew my mind, I never realized there was so much complicated math inside a Rubik's Cube

[@arnavtripathi1610]

Your solving a square-1 video has had over 2 million views! You have to upload a tutorial on how to solve a square-1! I love your technique!

[@boo7948]

0:19 Banana is my favorite cube, my best time is 13.74. Had a good peel but the chewing was off rhythm and i was pretty full. Solid time all around, would recommend trying the speedrun it's harder than it sounds

[@Pikmin_.]

I tried the bannana one but i ended up gagging on it since its was a humans

[@dmrroag4590]

*reads the title* Me: This is gonna be GOOOD

[@kaydenyap2539]

69 likes

[@Finian1]

Oh thats why big cubes have big corners and tiny center pieces and the edges are long and streched oh thanks i was wondering that for a long time and i see it on my 5x5 and the tiniest bit on my 4x4 thanks

[@frosta2335]

I feel like j prem would be one of those people who would be a great person to meet in real life

[@CaelJavier]

Yep!

[@theyfoundmeaaa]

Hmm yes

[@user-rh3qo9vx7u]

Shut up no one asked

[@dahippopotamus5825]

@@user-rh3qo9vx7u do I care?

[@tekrola7592]

@@user-rh3qo9vx7u i did

[@lonesomepiper6783]

It’s difficult to fathom how come jperm keeps bringing these incredibly interesting contents about cubing. Seriously...

[@Ilsyde]

I'm staying away from even numbered cubes because they're a pain to magnetise. At the same time it's annoying to see that a 12x12 is much cheaper than a 13x13, which according to your video makes no logical sense :)

[@elementalstudios8280]

Yay, an upload from our master j perm. The one and only.

[@zackpackinator706]

Could you do a video on improving when you don’t know what algorithms to do next? I know basic pairing with 2 look oll and pll for 3x3, with an average of 30-40 seconds, but I don’t know where to go from here in the way of learning new algorithms.

[@samueldeandrade8535]

Man, this video is amazing. I never understood, because I never thought about, why people made big cubes with big corners pieces. Just thought "probably a weird design choice". Now I get it.

[@kid_w_specs]

3:15 J perm: okay students in today's le ture we will be learning about cube anatomy and how odd numbered cube mechanisms differ from even numbered cube mechanisms

[@goldeer7129]

That's absolutely not what I expected when I saw the title for some reason, but then again stumbled accross an amanzingly high quality video, thanks J Perm

[@someonewhorandomlypostsrar5313]

The mechanism is crazy in bigger cubes! Imagine what it would be like if you would be MAKING the cube!

[@Kris18]

Maybe a bit of a misleading/clickbaity title and thumbnail, but a good video to watch. Used to be a cuber and got the VCube 6x6 and 7x7 when they came out, so it was a nice throwback to see this history told again!

[@ZephyrusAsmodeus]

I love how engineering these puzzles is harder than solving them, guess that tends to be how it goes

[@bigbosspanda1976]

Of course engineering a cube is harder than solving it? How is that surprising at all?

[@u1zha]

​@@bigbosspanda1976 Engineering the 15 puzzle is easier than solving it I'd say. There are plenty of examples I think. But you're right that usually "creating" is still harder than "consuming the creation" (The original post maybe didn't even imply it was surprising, just that it's a lovely observation, an epiphany.)

[@bigbosspanda1976]

@@u1zha interesting. I’d still say trying to engineer it on your own is harder than solving on your own but I’m pretty sure no one makes a 15x15x15 on their own so you could be correct.

[@rcgldr]

The original 4x4x4 Rubik's Revenge design uses a spherical core, where the center pieces have long thin and somewhat fragile legs to slide in slots in the spherical core. There are no hidden middle layers on the Revenge. The original 5x5x5 Professor's cube design was the first to use a cube in a cube core. That led to the later Eastsheen 4x4x4 design also using a 5x5x5 like cube in a cube core. The Wikipedia article includes images of Revenge and Eastsheen internals.

[@ShadyHero]

great video! I thoroughly enjoyed learning about cube mechanisms.

[@ramonhamm3885]

That's a super interesting breakdown of the different sized cubes and their parts, thanks!

[@cloudy9592]

Ay, Code Bullet vid is here :D Thanks J Perm

[@tiletapper4ever]

I'm proud of being born the same year with the 6×6

[@GreenFem.]

Hey, Vcube! Michael here. A 6x6 is impossible, OR IS IT?

[@petrolheadshed]

This deserves a reply.

[@Blob9]

this deserves a reply

[@chnlofrndmvids8282]

this deserves a reply

[@JosiahFickinger]

Tell me about it! No matter how hard I try and how many hours I put in, it's practically impossible to build a fully proportional 5x5x3 Rubik's cube! Even using illegal techniques such as an an edge piece folding at 90 degree angle. But even if I accomplish that, if both of the center edge pieces on the 5x5 face are aligned adjacently vertically on a 5x3 face, it cuts the folding edge piece off completely!!

[@ryanhunter6029]

Great video! Though i found it interesting that my 4x4 cube that i own is not hidden 5x5 like the one you showed. the internal mechanism of mine was just a big plastic sphere with grooves to slide the pieces in. I just figured thats how all the even numbered cubes worked turns out i was wrong!

[@tysoncook5152]

Came here to learn why is 6x6 shouldn’t be possible. left in awe over my new cube design knowledge.

[@rohaancubing]

When u don’t do big cubes, but watch it cause it’s J Perm

[@samus88]

I remember when "v-cubes" were THE thing. Now there's a gazillion off-brand cubes that are superior to those in every single way. How time flies.

[@fenek6562]

I always click so fast J perm video makes my day

[@norwegiansmores811]

thanks to magnets we can go 10x10 proportionally sized. and if you are worried about polarities the magnets could be freely rotating inside the plastic of the cube pieces, as well as certain pieces being a magnetic metal that accepts either polarity.

[@logen9729]

At 7:45, You'll notice a little brushing noise from the right side if you're wearing headphones lol

[@cecilarthur3579]

That actually happened twice, at 6:36

[@Bot_18302]

Wow thx I was wondering why the outside was bigger than the inside for a while I was thinking

[@mywonderfulchannel5657]

My 3x3 and 2x2 are so hard for me to take apart, I can’t take them apart, but I had no trouble taking apart Delilah’s spinner, except for the corner pieces. Delilah was able to do it as well, and it wasn’t put together like the other cubes because it’s like a 1x3 or something so it was able to be user as a fidget spinner which is why I call it this. I also got a slider from McDonald’s which you can turn like a normal cube but it has a missing white piece (it’s meant to have a missing white piece) so it can slide too. It has 6 sides, 3 pieces on each side except white, with a missing piece. White looks like this when solved: ⬛️ ⬜️ ⬜️.

[@kjkapinos]

Does anyone else remember getting excited when V Cubes came out in 2008 and we were all excited because it could outperform the eastsheen 5x5? And does anyone else remember gluing pins to the centers of their 6x6 so it wouldn't lock up? And you also had to pay to get them shipped from Greece...

[@samrashah3182]

"It is impossible for 6x6+ cubes to have equal pieces" V-cube 6:

[@TheAllRounderMemes]

Once I dropped a 6x6 cube and it smashed into pieces. It took 8 hours to reassemble.

[@MattMcConaha]

I thought I remembered the original V6 and V7 being pillowed in order to solve the corner problem, am I misremembering? Either way I think it would be worth noting that pillowing is one option instead of making the outermost layers thicker.

[@cubicstellar]

J Perm: "A 7×7 hasn't been invented yet". Also J Perm: 'picks up a 10×10'

[@whomigazone]

I have a V-Cube 7, 5, 4 and 2 - the V-Cube 5 is my usually go to cube if I just feel like solving a cube. The even number cubes have a parity that can kick in requiring a very complex move which I've never been able to keep memorized for any length of time, while odd number cubes don't have it. I can solve the 7 just fine, but the 5 takes less time and as mentioned above doesn't contain the possibility of the parity problem.

[@partitionhlep]

at first, i didn't understand why it should not be possible but later in the video i found out why

[@RGC_animation]

I was always very baffled of how a Rubik cubes worked since you needed to turn every piece in every way, it was only recently that I found out.

[@hy_s-officiaI]

The fact that 4x4 was maybe before the 5x5 even when the 4x4;has the same mechanism as the 5x5

[@whatyballsenglish]

​@@hy_s-officiaI maybe the first 4x4 didn't have the 5x5 mechanism

[@gkxyxoxgkfjfjfzktzkgozchlc5189]

I finally know why corners and edges are bigger on 6x6 and up

[@bwwt]

Jperm: a 7x7 hasn’t been invented also him: is holding a 7x7

[@enochliu8316]

The full line is "And remember, if you are inventing [the 6x6 cube] for the first time, a 7x7 has not been invented yet." It exists now, but not when you made the 6x6 cube.

[@ikramxiii9424]

My first 4x4 was a mess .. it wasn't of a good quality so i kept having problems when it gets stuck and i can only turn it one way.. now i can understand it was the invisible middle layer that caused the problem ..

[@sanseverything900]

About the corner piece needing to be extra large in order for a 6x6 to actually work... later in the video you show a 6x6 where the corners and edges are all the same size as the rest of the pieces. How does that design overcome the corner problem?

[@softwarelivre2389]

Yeah, we can see one right at 5:19

[@Obi-WanKannabis]

The 6x6 is the crossover point. There is just about enough space for the mechanism to fit, but it won't be as durable. Therefore V Cube decided that it had to be all of the same size since that was the standard back then, but that caused issues, so these days every 6x6 has big corners. The V Cube doesn't really overcome the corner problem, it just is barely possible with a 6x6.

[@jhgvvetyjj6589]

The stickers are square but there is still a thicker border outside the stickers which has the extra thickness of outer layer

[@bellaiscoolcool]

Doesn’t the V-Cube have equal sized pieces on the outside as the centre pieces?

[@theaveragecuber5307]

6x6: not possible Every 6x6: fades in to dust

[@maxmyzer9172]

3:21 thought newer cubes didnt use a cross core. Also, the vcube looks like the size is the same

[@Galagalin]

You should a video on how many solved positions there are on a 4x4(the center pieces can be in different places)

[@GarryDumblowski]

Well, if you only consider one center, then there should be 24 (4!) different ways to arrange it, since any center piece can go anywhere. If you take into account all of the centers, then, there are 24 possibilites for each of them, meaning there are 24^6 (191,102,976) different solved states. The interesting thing about this is that the same logic applies to even bigger cubes, since they're all sort of laid out in "classes" like this: (here's an 8x8 for example) | A | B | C | D | F | A | | F | G | H | J | G | B | | D | J | K | K | H | C | | C | H | K | K | J | D | | B | G | J | H | G | F | | A | F | D | C | B | A | Any two pieces in the same "Class" can be swapped without unsolving the cube, and notice! There are always 4 of each class. Since the number of pieces on a cube of size 2n is equal to (2n - 2)^2, that means that the number of classes is equal to ((2n - 2)^2)/4. (You can do a bit of simplification to get the formula k = (n - 1)^2, where k is the number of piece classes) Therefore, for any cube of size 2n, there are 24^(6 * (n-1)^2) different solved states, which is interesting because it means the number of solved states is always equal to a power of 24.

[@GarryDumblowski]

@Kshitiz Pokhrel Craaap you're right, I realized that a while ago. Not really sure how the math for that one would work out.

[@bilalogy7586]

Finally i got the answer to my question that why the corners are bigger than the centers

[@Shining4Dawn]

I have to mention that although the 6x6x6 has to have larger corners and edges, the V-cube 6 hides that fact very well. It seems like V-cube made their corners larger by the smallest margin possible to make the cube seem like it's proportional. The difference is even less noticeable on the pillowed version. It's interesting that they would make this choice based on aesthetics.

[@jowbloe3673]

Had to dig out my cube and check because I never noticed the size difference before, it is a very small difference.

[@sagnikdas6049]

I was wondering about that. He mentioned how impractical it is for a proportionate 6x6 but we have the v cube 6. That was so confusing till I found your comment

[@jawedakhtar5883]

Jperm. After 7 times losing . I succeeded in reducing 4x4 to 2x2 .At 8th try at last I got parity and then I did the parity alg and it swapped some centers around as shown in your video . After that when I solved the centers and it was reduced to a 2x2 . I got inspired by your video.

[@TheSilkySkewber]

People trying to make a 6x6: damn this is impossible Vcube: allow me to introduce myself

[@greatstitchmaster2723]

Is this why bigger cubes are pillowed? So that the corners and maybe some edges can connect to the core?

[@ReirtoRRNTX]

Well yes Also there still flat big cube with the edge longer (as shown in the video)

[@p4rf252]

0:19 Him: rubiks cubes come in many shapes and sizes also Him: shows a banana cube on screen Me: ...

[@manioqqqq]

The monke's rubik's cube. The Monke's 3x3

[@AlmostM]

Neat! The internal design of these larger cubes is way more complicated than I would have expected.

[@bragtime1052]

Considering the V Cube 6 has outer layers the same width as inner layers and it works just fine, I'm pretty sure you don't mean that a 6x6 *has to be* designed with wider outer layers (since a fully functional one could be designed with uniform width layers), but that having wider outer layers decreases the chance of a corner piece breaking and thus is preferred for modern 6x6s.

[@TyperMarlinGames]

It’s an incredibly small difference, but the V-cube 6 does have bigger outer layers. You can just barely see.

[@alexishunt525]

How come 4x4 doesn't have the same lockup problems as 6x6 with the core out of alignment?

[@hy_s-officiaI]

i love how the 22x22 pop is the most replayed

[@justacommentercommenting]

I like this history/information video better then your normal other videos :). No malice intended

[@willbagthegreat]

Oh, when I saw this video I assumed you meant solving it. Still turned out to be entertaining though!

[@h.oang0802]

If you can scramble it you can solve it

[@kyanj8405]

I’m still confused, it looks to me as if the v cube 6 is fully proportional so how does the corner piece stay on?

[@haadynaushahi8716]

The way he smacked that 10x10 on the table🤣🤣🤣

[@JetSayRun]

This video takes me back. Well done with this one!

[@adriandepetro2798]

I looked at the thumbnail and counted the area of the cube to see what was wrong with the cube. Didn’t see anything wrong. After watching the vid it made sense.

[@key_bounce]

Hold on. Isn't the V-Cube 6 uniform in size for the "outer squares"? ... Yes, the modern speed cubes have bigger outer layers, how did that original solve this?

[@thoop6795]

I remember seeing the v cube 6 and thinking “Now this is the future of cubing”

[@David_Poole]

I've been speedcubing for almost 14 years. Yes I'm one of those people who got a V-Cube set back when you had to order it from europe and wait 2 weeks for it to ship. I was part of the generation that thought a V-Cube 5x5 was the future. I remember seeing videos of people talking about how the V-Cube beats the eastsheen 5x5. There was videos on youtube of how to modify the 6x6 to make it turn much better. The youtube community for cubing is so big now. 12 years ago it was just a bunch of nerds sharing webcam recordings of solves and tips. Thrawst was the largest cubing channel at 12000 subscribers. I want to make sure people understand how game changing it was that someone made a 6x6 and a 7x7. It was thought to be impossible until V-Cube made it happen. The new kids will never understand, and thats okay. I'm glad you guys got to grow up in a market of great cubes that have amazing turning and corner cutting out of the box. No longer are the days of modifying you rubik's brand 3x3 to get better turning and corner cutting. Thank you for this nostalgia JPerm

[@wiredwireless8256]

V-Cubes pillowed 7x7x7 really was a game changer, as was Shengshou's flat 8x8x8.

[@literallylegendary]

2:20 link to all those beautiful diagams including 8x8 and up?

[@zeinette_]

I've always wondered why "big cubes" corners are bigger

[@origamidude6560]

Yes, now i can watch it as it just uploaded! loads of work ahead of you procrastination occurring

[@janAlekantuwa]

I remember when I was a little girl and I got the V-cube 6 as a Jól present. This video really sent me on a nostalgia trip. I still have my V-cube 6 and 7 in my closet somewhere and I should definitely take them out and fool around with them again

[@soliban7252]

You know that someone has actually made a fully proportional 7x7x7 in 2004. somaone called Etienne DeForas made a 7x7 by extending an eastsheen 5x5 with epoxy molded pieces, and it was proportional, that way he used for preventing the corners to fall is that when you turn, at the middle of the turn the center pieces come of like a bubble, making enought room for the corner to stay in place

[@Im_him10_]

Hi j perm I just learned how to solve a 3x3 on a Rubik’s brand cube and I was wondering what Rubik’s cube to get

[@i_I-I_i]

Everyone else: Woohoo I have a rubik's cube :) Me: Some guy stole it :(

[@thatonekid1792]

Tperm lol

[@Corn138]

Hey! That’s not a t perm

[@kurzackd]

Explain something to me, please... J Perm first went at length to meticulously elaborate why a 6x6 is impossible, assuming standard cube designs which were dominant until that time... However he then shows the 6x6 by V-Cube... ....which uses the EXACT same OUTWARD design as previous 3x3/4x4... ....as opposed to the "mandatory" *BIGGER CORNERS* design, which J Perm had just explained was the only possible way a 6x6 could be built. What the fuuuck...

[@mathiasbrio2105]

I am pretty sure it's edges/corners are barely bigger.

[@kurzackd]

@@mathiasbrio2105 after taking several closer looks it appears that you're right!!! Thanks for opening my eyes to it! :)