Ah yes, forgot that the version 2 gave it torpedoes.
I did a little photo shoot pairing some cubes with throws:
1. Syy Eh yo-yo with a Rubikās 30th Anniversary wood cube with textured cubesmith tiles affixed
2. ILYY St. Eel yo-yo with a Maru mini transparent cube with stock transparent stickers
3. Duncan FHZ yo-yo with Cube4u transparent interchangeable tile cube
4. Yoyofactory Severe delrin yo-yo with Cube4u white gas assisted cube, stock stickers
5. Antiyo Dri-ywet yo-yo with Cube4u copper colored cube, no stickers
6. Xcubed Lagoutte yo-yo with Maru Special Edition Gold cube
7. ILYY Noctu yo-yo with Maru standard 3x3x3 custom Star Trek Borg cube
8. YoyoJam Chaser yo-yo with a pink Edison cube, stock stickers
9. CLYW Chief yo-yo with Mefferts Feliks pillowed cube, stock stickers
10. C3yoyodesign Token yo-yo with Alpha mini cube, stock stickers
11. Yoyojam New Breed yo yo, with yellow Edison cube, stock stickers
12. One Drop Y Factor yo-yo with Rubikās Cube, Cubesmith stickers affixed
13. Oxy Ti 9.06 yo-yo with Metal 3x3x3 cube, Cubesmith tiles affixed
14. General Yo KLR yo-yo with blue Sheng Shou cube, original stickers
15. Yoyofactory Starlite yo-yo with glow cube.
16. Yoyofactory Starlite yo-yo with glow cube.
17. One Drop Cascade with Dayan Linyun stickerless cube.
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Havenāt solved a 7x7 in about 4 years. The largest factors of that being that I donāt particularly care for the chore involved in higher order cubes, and also that I donāt actually own this one.
I know Iāve been posting lots of pictures, but I like to keep this thread alive.
Iāve never been one for Square-1s and their expansions, but Iāve been doing okay with this four layer Square-1. The turning is horrid compared to the mf8 one I had years ago, since the pieces arenāt the right sizes, but Iām surviving.
How long is it taking you to solve that one? ^ :-\
Iāve had it on my desk for a couple days, but really only picked it up until now. If I was to gauge the time Iāve put into it so far based on the albums Iāve been listening to in the process, Iād guess around two hours? The inside two layers are super annoying to visualize, and therefore take more time, but are otherwise the same as the top and bottom.
I have been visualizing it in my head for a bit though, and thought of a trick that makes it behave more like a standard square one when youāre trying to solve the last two layers. So is that considered a head start?
Hmmmā¦quite advanced for me at this stage. Do you have a collection photo of all your puzzles? Do you buy new? Trade? Cube store of choice? I stopped cubing awhile and have gotten rusty, so Iām back at it now. But, before I slowed down, I was using icubemart and cubedepotusa a lot.
Iāll take a picture when Iām back in my dorm. I have most of them there.
Iām actually using amazon for a lot of my purchases. I donāt like the shipping times Iāve encountered with most of my purchases from other places.
I plan on purchasing some higher order cubes to see if I can get back into solving them, though Iām really preferring unique turning qualities in the Curvy Copter, Rex Cube, and Square-1. My 5x5 core cracked for the last time so Iām fixing for a replacement, and might as well get up to a 9x9 while Iām at it.
I have found that site has some very good third party sellers, who ship amazingly quick. I have also been on the auction site too and found a few unique things. But, I have been out of the game awhile, so Iām back at it. Where I left off, I was able to do 2x2, 3x3, 3x3x2, and 4x4. But, none of them were speed solved, and I could just do them. The 4x4 was taking me like 14 minutesā¦felt like all day 
3x3 was like a minute and change. So, now that Iām rusty, Iāll have to revisit the algorithms for 4x4 and pick up some momentum from there. I was going steady for awhile and started spending all my time with yo-yos.
My 3x3s are all in a box. Iāll add some to my BST eventually:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8242/8576154230_c2d4f569df_z.jpg
cubes3x3cubes by The TotalArtist, on Flickr
I have 2 3x3s a 4x4 a 5x5 and a masters pyramorphinx. The 4x4 is so much fun!!! The masters pyramorphinx is hard xD
I have not ventured into the odd shaped puzzles, but I bought a few that I have not yet figured out. I just sit and look at themā¦just got them because the shape is cool. I have no clue what to do with it thoughā¦yet. :-\ This is one of themā¦cute:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8105/8575061431_635138ab7a_z.jpg
cubediamond by The TotalArtist, on Flickr
I have it in green too. Funny how we call non-cube shaped puzzles, cubes.
My brother got it for me 2 years ago when he went to china, Iām going in April and will be getting as many odd shaped cubes as possible
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These are the ones I have on my desk at school, minus broken ones and ones being lent to friends. The Four Layer Square-1 is also not mine.
Four Layer Square-1, Modified China Megaminx, Eastsheen 4x4, Dayan ZhanChi, Curvy Copter, Rex Cube.
Nice collection of complex puzzles. I donāt have the Eastsheen 4x4, but I hear it is one of the best for turn quality. I just donāt like the pink substitute for orangeā¦I think they are the ones that have that pink side. I am enjoying a LanLan 4x4 though, turns great too.
i think the shengshou v3 and v4 blow both of those out of the water, especially if you take the time to mod them, plus they are like $10
do you guys wanna do some races on here? one of us can post a scramble or something, just an idea 
I can only participate in a tortoise and hare race, but I make a cool spectator. I was using cubetimer.com for an online timer, but realized today, it will not work from my Ipad 
I have a stackmat at home, but not sure I want to bring it with me daily. Post if you know an alternative online timer that might work for me.