@skippingmoonrocks I love this! I never thought about taking them apart or cleaning them. :)
We had a rubiks cube when I was a kid, but it was just colored stickers on black cubes. My brother moved the stickers around when he got frustrated with not being able to solve it. So of course it could never be solved, and I never learned how to solve a rubiks cube!
@bright_helpings yeah my grandma had ones of those cubes in her toybox.
When I became a cuber in 2012 we still had stickers, because otherwise they would not be fit for competition.
So 'the stickers are peeling of' would be a common reason to replace the cube.
Then finally (maybe 2015?) they changed the competition regulations and it would be very hard to find a cube with stickers now!
I cubed in public a lot, since for me it's a stimtoy to navigate anxiety with, so i must have had at least a hundred strangers tell me that they would just peel the stickers of. I would often then show them how to take the cube apart and that that's a better method for 'cheating'.
But, be careful when you cheat, switching two blocks or rotating a block, and you now might have an unsolvable cube (until you take it apart again).
I have long hair, and my long hair gets into anything so i've always had to open up my cubes every few weeks to remove the hairs.
@skippingmoonrocks I once got a "make your own" kit. The real challenge with that was that it didn't come with instructions. 😬
I also dropped a 4x4 a couple of years ago and, uh, haven't gotten around to reassembling because 😵💫
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