The Amazing Smart Cube [IQ Tester] 3x3 Magic Speed Cube - Anti Stress for Anti-Anxiety Adults Kids - Best Puzzle Toy Turns Quicker and More Precisely

I ordered this due to it being a lightening deal and than missed the window to check out and ended paying full price. Although I fully intended to return this, I may now have been converted into keeping this little sucker. I have 4 boys and these little rubik cubes have earned a rise of popularity recently in the 5th-7th grade crowd and I have bought my fair share of Walmart/Target Hasbro Rubik Cubes and as we all know how the quality is of those. Upon receiving this cube, the packaging was not upto Hasbro standards, packed in a lightweight cardboard box, but upon unpacking it and turning it a few times, I was blown away by the quality. The colors are not stuck on stickers but actual color of the plastic, to promote less cheating, in my household! The operation is not shotty at all and is super smooth and easy. The smooth operation is kind of addicting and I find myself oftentimes picking this up not to solve but just to spin it in one hand, lots like fidget spinner, great for fidgeting types. As we know with the hasbro kinds, they sometimes are hard to turn and when you are really on a roll in solving cube and you cant get it to turn fast enough. No problems at all with this smooth gliding cube, feels magnetic somehow in its operation, very quick turning! NOW if that was not enough to purchase this, I turn box over and see this amazing little manual in bright color pictures on step by step how to solve guides! Granted it does contain alot of japanese which can be distracting, but the color pictures are bright and simple enough to figure out. I can't tell you how many times my kids have brought this to me so I can 'help' them solve it and (so many hours of solving!) and now I can just tell them to look in the handy guide and figure it out themselves until they become pro's. I'm sure a simple google search will find same solutions online, but to have a small color picture step by step guide already available, making solving and figuring out the rubik cube even simpler! Added benefit of them using an actual manual to solve something rather than turning to the easily accessible inter web for yet another thing, I like that they can avoid the computer whenever possible. Love this cube, buy it, buy a few, great gifts, for stockings, teacher student acheivement prizes(great educational substitute to pencils and plastic yoyos), Easter baskets, party game prizes, coworker gift, goodie bags, fidget/stress relievers or just to have on your desk during those long afternoon hours and great convo starters!

The Cube arrive promptly in a nice snug box. I absolutely love this cube. When I set out in search of a new cube, I was mostly just looking for something comfortable. I got that and so much more! Highlights: - It is effectively silent (relative to other cubes). So many cubes out there make tons of noises. This one is so quiet!!! - Not having stickers means you don't catch the edges as they start to peel. I hate that feeling. - The plastic texture feels great to the touch - It turns like Magic, so super smooth! No need to lubricate it. - When turning, the cubes don't catch on each other, very smooth and well tensioned. - Colors are vibrant and perfect! It is super easy to differentiate the colors and it looks great. Is it weird if it makes me want to eat it? - Cutting corners works like a dream and makes it so you don't have to line up the rows perfectly - It is light weight, but feels like a solid construction I haven't used those high cost cubes that run over $20 so I can't compare to those, but I am really not sure what those could offer me. There is no functionality or convenience known to me that is lacking in this cube. I should say that I am not all about speed cubing. I enjoy solving the puzzle and just playing around twisting the cube in my hands while doing other things. That being said, I am a fast solver and I can solve this cube much much faster than my previous (regular brand) cube.

I bought this cube because I am a manchild who thought learning to solve this puzzle would be a fun way to impress people at my desk job. Though my experiences with these things are somewhat limited, let me give you the pros and cons. Pros: - It's definitely a cube. Full 3D. Has both height, width, and depth. Amazing. - The colors are pretty bright. - Since the colors are printed on the plastic itself, nobody can see you solve it and say "hurr durr, bet ya just swapped the stickers around didnt ya" with that smug look of self satisfaction that they give to the checker when something doesn't scan and they remark that it must then be free - Though the cube was stiff at first, it did loosen up, much like me at a party after consuming enough Pabst Blue Ribbon to keep my social anxiety at bay, which at the time of writing is approximately seven 16oz cans - People are sometimes impressed at watching me solve it and it makes me seem much smarter than I really am Cons: - Even as a grown adult people are still able to laugh and call you a nerd for owning one - People will also call you a nerd for knowing how to solve it - You are probably a nerd for buying this - Sometimes the cube is a little too loose and while trying to move sides you'll catch the other sides as well. I wish it'd lock at 90 degree angles, but the thing was like seven bucks so what're you gonna do Overall it's a great cube. I bought it as a kind of weirdo new years resolution to learn to do something new every now and then and after sticking with a guide I can solve it fairly easily. Once you know the algorithms it's just a matter of working through them. I also learned an important life lesson that much like in my everyday life, it may look like I know what I'm doing but I'm just running through patterns and in reality I couldn't have less of a clue. Anyway 5/5 would buy again