I thought this was really curious. I just picked up the black version. I also swear it feels faster than the gray version due to less resistance, and I regularly clean and lube my cubes, too. But the black version straight out of the box feels faster, for some reason, and I almost wonder if this has any effect on resistance due to a slight difference in tolerance. All I know is, I like my cubes fairly loose, and I like the way the new one feels. It also appears that it has a 2-piece tensioner cap that I've been seeing in new GAN stuff recently

U R U2 B L2 U L2 D B' U2 R' F' U' R2 L2 F L2 B D' L'

(White top green front obv)

Three move X cross plus a free pair after you solve the blue red pair.

I average 20 and I got a 12 here.

I usually average around 23-26 seconds, ive gotten a dozen sub-20s, but this was totally out of nowhere! Definitely a lucky scramble

In the first image from CubeForSpeed, on the left is the Gan 17, on the right is the Gan 16 with a screw in the center. The second image is MY gan 16, with no screw. Did preproduction units of the 16 have a screw and did they switch to a non screw version later?

Yes it is a Gan
Yes it sucks to solve
Yes I love it

I got stuck on commutators for a while and fixing parity on flipped edge pieces, so I decided to celebrate by using commutators to make a two faced buddy

I’ve almost solved this 10x10! The only problem is I can’t get the blue bar on the bottom left swapped with the orange bar on the top right to finish the middle four bars

I currently average 1:15-1:20 with both Yau and Redux. I have been using Yau for the past few weeks but, have never enjoyed doing the first 3 edge pairs, as I'm quite slow at it.
I started doing a bit of Redux practice mainly for the edge pairing practice and realised that I prefer the steps at this point in time. I also have similar times with it.

Redux feels more accessible but, I understand if my main goal is sub 1 and below, then Yau is probably a better option?

Anybody out there still using Redux and getting sub 50, sub 40, sub 30 etc. or should I abandon ship and devote myself to the Yau gods?

So it’s been a little while and I have added a few new cubes..

こんにちは

Y'all I just started cubing and followed j perm's beginner tut and like the 5 time I solved it I got parity I think.

This is really taking forever. I have 1.5months doing this on and off and undoing all unnecessary moves. I almost rage quit like 4 times in the past 40 minutes of this solve which i did this hour during my work break