StackMat’s NEW G5 Cubing Timer - Is it any good? 

I mean a timer is supposed to do one thing: time. Just so happens that that timer works well with cubing. Now that I know it won't count past 10 minutes though... was speedstacks timer chosen for the 'solve max time: 10 minutes' rule or did the rule come as a result of the speedstacks timer not counting past 10 minutes?

They should just use the yj pocket timer

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​@@Dawid23_Gamera bit of both. the 5x5 and 6x6 were added while the 10 minute limit still exist, so up to you what conclusion you want to make!!

the WCA is an affiliate of speedstacks

It exist actually The phone is technically stickerless and can act as a timer

@@jaden_kys yeah

Lmao

2 more likes for a nice number!

@@jaden_kys he says a stackmat timer

True

Been watching the world's best .. they haven't upgraded either .. it's garbage.

and its very durable, according pube head

@@fatsquirrel75 it’s not garbage, per se, but I think it’s just unnecessary if you already have a good enough timer

@@fatsquirrel75 more waste of money if you have a g4. If you don't have either you can get the g5. So it's not really that bad

well the thing is its made for cup stacking

that would be cool

Neodymium magnets the size of each side

Just adding some comments for the algorithm

Lol

It would be so cool for Z3 to actually do it

It looks better than what people say. My friends say it's ugly but when I bought it it looked as good or better than the g4.

I would’ve bought a qj timer lol

@@giantasiansticker8068 *yj*

@@QwerkyCuber no there’s qj timers ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eTcpl-U3gZM.html

@@giantasiansticker8068 ok

Same

I would hold off and make sure that the WCA approves use of the G5, then buy it. But you can't go wrong either way really.

@@Z3Cubing unless you buy the g5 and it isn't approved, then you chose poorly.

I had neither and i bought gen 5

Yes that would be cool and I would buy it 😁

Gan made a bluetooth timer, but it's more similar to G4, than G5. But yeah, SpeedStacks just want MONEY and ir's disgusting.

@@gcubing_4064 speedstacks is NOT good.... they're resetting ALL speed stacking records in September because of this piece of shit timer

@@StackAttack1 My only hope is that WCA will not approve it and it will illigal forever.

@@gcubing_4064 why?

@@NoodleSoup23 Because of unfair advantage. The pads are closer.

and looks better

well the thumb pads are for cup stacking

Its only 1$ more than the g4

@@NoodleSoup23 but that price altogether is super expensive. At least it lasts for a long time...

@@TheWeirdCuber Im not saying its cheap im saying compared to the g4 its not really any difference

@@NoodleSoup23 ik, but i personally dont think that it is worth to buy it if you already have the g4 timer

@@TheWeirdCuber I agree if you already have the g4 you shouldnt upgrade. But in my case i had neither so i went with the g5

Solving the cube in general (with no focus on speed) shouldn't take so long. The beginner's method took me less than a few watches of a 10min long tutorial and couple hours of training (I was able to solve the cube in less than 2 minutes after less than a week). If you mean speedsolving, I learned the beginner's method about 3 years ago and after training it for 1 to 3 months, I would occasionally get below 1 minute, although rarely. Then I left cubing for 3 years and went back to it about a month ago, when I learned CFOP. Learning CFOP took me (with all of the 16 basic algorhytms) about 3 days to be able to solve the cube without a paper with the algs written down. Now, about a month later, I usually get times below 50 seconds with some sub 40 times here and there. If you started cubing right now, I can't really say your learning curve will be the same as mine, since I really like math, numbers and have quite good memory, thus, I have a bit easier time learning algs, but I'd say maybe half a year at most to get from zero to my level. But there are many other factors, including age (I'm 18, so if you are younger, you will likely have easier time learning new things), motivation (you will probably never learn something you don't like doing), source of information... If you want to start cubing, I recommend J perm's tutorials, they are very well done, concise and straight to the point. Sorry for the length of the text, tried to fit all the useful info without making it too long, but it didn't really work out apparently, lol.

@@vit.budina LMAO I can’t tell you how different you and I are in regards to what you have listed so far. I am 46 years old, very dyslexic and ADHD, never been very good at math it took a lot of brute force and tutoring; I got to business calculus and business math, for example logistics. If this didn’t make the whole learning speed to be interesting enough I also am currently suffering from severe back problems meaning that I’m constantly in a lot of pain and on medication. So I fight to have enough mental and physical energy to do things. Cubing has been a wonderful thing to help me move forward. It doesn’t help that the book I decided to use ended up having three mistakes in it and that’s just in a 3 x 3 section. LOL lastly I have to say I’ve never been very good at memorizing things. Learning how to do the cube has been a personal challenge I want to overcome and I have been very much enjoying the challenge. It’s taking me a long time but considering all the obstacles I think I’m doing a good pace. I have even helped three people to start learning how to do this wonderful hobby. I’ve been setting this on and off for about four months and I’m almost able to do it from memory. I need to memorize three algorithms. It takes a long time for for me to get the algorithms to stick my brain. It’s all these opposite direction things that happen but if he is a hell out of me. J perm is an awesome RU-vid I watch his stuff all the time and z3cubing and bunch more! 1❤️

@@beatnrg oh, wow, I admire the effort you put into this awesome hobby! Keep it up!

@@vit.budina thanks! Will do! Have you ever been to a competition? I was thinking about going just for the fun of going.

@@beatnrg I wasn't. Where I live (Czech Republic), these events are very rare, there's usually 1 comp per year, if any. But I would love to go, even if I will probably have no chance to get decent times. For the same reason.

So your cube doesn't scuff if you throw it hard

i know its been a year and you probably already know but no you dont, the competition organizers provide everything you need except for the cube (of course i mean why would you go to a comp w/o a cube)

I only own a G2, G4, and G5. But they're still pretty prevalent around cubing competitions today, you can still see them in a lot of official solves.