If I had a square-2, the first approach I would try to solve it with would be pretty different actually. I think I'd notice pretty early on that the edge pieces and the "half-corner" pieces are the same. So what I'd do is skip cubeshape entirely (because it's no longer a separate "shape" of the puzzle, it's more like just an arbitrary set of positions that happens to contain the solved position), and try to use a similar method to the 2x2x3: first orient everything, then permute everything.
I know that's how I'd do it, because I tend to use comutators, and had already figured out the combos to solve the square-2 shortly after it came out of the box. …honestly, it's kinda frustrating - I've got thirty-something different types of rubiksoids, and it's got to the point that I can either get a puzzle that quickly becomes a trivial set of comutators, or I can get a puzzle that shape-shifts and bandages and I can't figure it out.
That’s kinda dumb. It’d be REALLY hard to permute all the pieces, and I tried with my own square-2. You’d have to use a million commutators to do that and it’s a hundred times easier to just reduce it to a square-1 and then solving it like that.
Interestingly, as a designer, these are one of the first puzzles that I thought about. One of the very first 3D-printed puzzles I designer was a square-4. The interesting for all Square-n puzzles is one of the simplest ones to understand and build, which is why this is a good starting point for anyone interested in puzzle design. Most square-1 mechanisms are sturdy enough to even allow for a handmod of literally sawing the pieces in half to create a fully functional Square-2. The logical continuation of a square-2 is a puzzle with 16 pieces per layer, a square-4 has 20 pieces per layer and so on. For the solving, the square-1 should be the hardest one by far. You can just line up the small slices of a square-2 piece by piece instead of reducing it to a square-1 which essentially is a bandaged square-2. To me that's also why the sq-1 doesn't appeal to me that much solve-wise. It is extremely difficult to find a solution due to the blocking. The puzzle that has not been mass produced so far but should is a square-equal (a square-1 with 8 pieces of the same size) which is the bigger brother of the square-0 and the smaller one of a square-2. :)
1:32 You can also change the color scheme on a 4x4 Fisher Cube. Also the corner twisting Dino cube can do it as well. That's so cool that the Square 2 can do that. I love my 2x2x3. I have a banana puzzle that functions like that. It's so cool that the Square 0 is the same puzzle. I got to get one now! Then I will have three 2x2x3's. 😁
@@masteryoshi87 My bad. I hadn't watched the video in a week. I meant that you can change the CS on a windmill cube by taking it apart and swapping adjacent colors.
@@JosiahFickinger well then you can pretty much do that with almost any stickerless puzzle. But I was talking about puzzles where you don't have to do that.
When I first got into cubing in middle school, my pe coach gave me a square 2 and asked if I could solve it, I said maybe and tried and figured it out after a few days
Square -1: The top and bottom are fully flat with 1 slice layer at an angle through the middle, and the middle of the cube instead of being your main slicer, now has different parts and shapes. I feel like it would be pretty easy but fun to figure out
The reason the sq0 have magnet like a sq1 is because they have the same core. they made it possible to swap pieces with the other two puzzle a (sq1 and sq2) and make some strange new fused puzzle.
Ooo, I wanted to do a vid with all 3 also. Beat me to it Edit: If you solve the corners into the appropriate color scheme BEFORE doing cubeshape, that’ll make things easier down the line. I did a vid on Calvin’s SQ2 a while back
Square-2 can easily be solved in 3 steps: 1. solve half a layer 2. solve half a layer on the other side, then put the 2 together (the two half layers should be both white or both yellow) 3. solve the last layer with commutators (J Perm has a tutorial, or just check his square-2 video) I know this is not the best, but it is easy for people who don't have square-1 knoweledge.
imagine being in a rubiks cube competition with square 2 and you get it in a second or something and then the person says "wrong color scheme -6 seconds"
Something I would be confused with is if there would be new notation for the half corners. My thought was this example (-2, 5 1/2) / (6, -4). I think that would be a challenge! Love your vids!
I have just learned how to solve the 2x2x3 so I know how to solve the Square-0 because you said the Square-0 solves like a 2x2x3 (i don't know if that's the word).
I want to see a square-3 now
The square 3 isn’t even going to be a square anymore, it’s going to be a sphere lol
Square for two
What about a Square-1½?
No, just no
God please no
Next up: Square-3
Narrow the corners, widen the edges and split the edges into two.
- Just a thought
Or (like they did with the corners on the top and bottom layers) slice moves on the edge of the middle layer.
nah square--1 (negative 1) will be better
@@lukasjetu9776square+1
Imaginary cube
Better Square+1 lol
square 2 enjoyers when they pronounce a move wrong and their rubik's cube collection starts levitating
the cubes get a little quirky at night
If I had a square-2, the first approach I would try to solve it with would be pretty different actually. I think I'd notice pretty early on that the edge pieces and the "half-corner" pieces are the same. So what I'd do is skip cubeshape entirely (because it's no longer a separate "shape" of the puzzle, it's more like just an arbitrary set of positions that happens to contain the solved position), and try to use a similar method to the 2x2x3: first orient everything, then permute everything.
I know that's how I'd do it, because I tend to use comutators, and had already figured out the combos to solve the square-2 shortly after it came out of the box.
…honestly, it's kinda frustrating - I've got thirty-something different types of rubiksoids, and it's got to the point that I can either get a puzzle that quickly becomes a trivial set of comutators, or I can get a puzzle that shape-shifts and bandages and I can't figure it out.
As a person who has dementia, I can’t become a cuber.
@@olivesttree oof man that must be rough
That’s kinda dumb. It’d be REALLY hard to permute all the pieces, and I tried with my own square-2. You’d have to use a million commutators to do that and it’s a hundred times easier to just reduce it to a square-1 and then solving it like that.
I’ve always wanted to try a square 4
same
Same
Although square-5 😉
rookie mistake: try a square 4
Hi kewbix
Interestingly, as a designer, these are one of the first puzzles that I thought about. One of the very first 3D-printed puzzles I designer was a square-4. The interesting for all Square-n puzzles is one of the simplest ones to understand and build, which is why this is a good starting point for anyone interested in puzzle design. Most square-1 mechanisms are sturdy enough to even allow for a handmod of literally sawing the pieces in half to create a fully functional Square-2. The logical continuation of a square-2 is a puzzle with 16 pieces per layer, a square-4 has 20 pieces per layer and so on.
For the solving, the square-1 should be the hardest one by far. You can just line up the small slices of a square-2 piece by piece instead of reducing it to a square-1 which essentially is a bandaged square-2. To me that's also why the sq-1 doesn't appeal to me that much solve-wise. It is extremely difficult to find a solution due to the blocking. The puzzle that has not been mass produced so far but should is a square-equal (a square-1 with 8 pieces of the same size) which is the bigger brother of the square-0 and the smaller one of a square-2. :)
No one is gonna read that... I almost passed out doing it
Dude, the fact that i come back every year to watch the pi video means you are incredible. Keep up the good work!!
1:32 You can also change the color scheme on a 4x4 Fisher Cube. Also the corner twisting Dino cube can do it as well. That's so cool that the Square 2 can do that. I love my 2x2x3. I have a banana puzzle that functions like that. It's so cool that the Square 0 is the same puzzle. I got to get one now! Then I will have three 2x2x3's. 😁
I can do a color swap on the Windmill cube
@@JosiahFickinger No You Can't.
@@masteryoshi87 My bad. I hadn't watched the video in a week. I meant that you can change the CS on a windmill cube by taking it apart and swapping adjacent colors.
@@JosiahFickinger well then you can pretty much do that with almost any stickerless puzzle. But I was talking about puzzles where you don't have to do that.
@@masteryoshi87 Except Stickerless aren't that easy. Yeah 👍
I think these puzzles would be fun as an official wca puzzle
if a pyraminx isnt in wca, square 2 has no chance
@@watchfbut it is?
@@alixx_legenddark_xx2819 don’t know what I was thinking
Nice! There are certain non WCA puzzles I wish were produced in stickerless and not stickered.
Like the pentaminx💀
@@ChristmasRavenGT Yeah. And some of the lanlan puzzles like the curvy copter and jumbly clover cubes
@@JosiahFickinger man the 33x33 looking sad
Stickerless and not stickered
You know there’s square 3 . It’s like on one side it’s square 1 and on second it’s square 2
0:28 square 0 square 1 and square
When I first got into cubing in middle school, my pe coach gave me a square 2 and asked if I could solve it, I said maybe and tried and figured it out after a few days
i know i am 2 years late but i am so glad staff in your school cared about your cubing, but they just like to confiscate my cubes
also i hope you are doing well in life
Square -1:
The top and bottom are fully flat with 1 slice layer at an angle through the middle, and the middle of the cube instead of being your main slicer, now has different parts and shapes. I feel like it would be pretty easy but fun to figure out
The reason the sq0 have magnet like a sq1 is because they have the same core. they made it possible to swap pieces with the other two puzzle a (sq1 and sq2) and make some strange new fused puzzle.
i just bought a sq-2 and TWO videos from big cubing channels about it come out? incredible.
Tbh might buy the square-0
That's very good 'corner cutting'.
0:38 square 2 , 2:30 square 1 , 3:38 square 0 , is a all square
I ordered the square 0 a couple days ago I’ve been waiting for a video like this
Now buy the square -3
@@rainekrizztovsantacera9892 aye aye captain
Geez this guy deserves more subscribers
Haha those cubes look so cool! I've heard of the square 2, but I've never heard of the sqaure 0
I can’t believe how people solve these, you are special 😂
Alternate title: ShengShou's Super Square-1 Swarm
I think the way you solved the square 2 is the best casual way to do it
“I have never seen any puzzles like this before”
The square-1 he put off screen: “am I a joke to you?”
He means the square-n puzzles that are not 1.
wait i’m a year late
@@albireo2990 yeah you are
I remember making a Square-2 by cutting the corner pieces of some cheap stickerless Square-1 in half. It actually worked lol.
Did this on an MGC because it turns so badly and I wanted a speedsolvable Sq-2
Hi Josiah
@@JosiahFickinger Hi Josiah
Ignore the squares. Lets talk about how he did no intro
For the Square-2 My approach has always been to match up the corner halves and then solve it like a normal Square-1.
Ooo, I wanted to do a vid with all 3 also. Beat me to it
Edit: If you solve the corners into the appropriate color scheme BEFORE doing cubeshape, that’ll make things easier down the line. I did a vid on Calvin’s SQ2 a while back
would love dg to come back and see him review the square 0
He's sometimes active on the Forum
you should try the floppy super square-4, you can get it from Chewie's custom puzzles for 35$
Nice vid z3!
Square-2 can easily be solved in 3 steps:
1. solve half a layer
2. solve half a layer on the other side, then put the 2 together (the two half layers should be both white or both yellow)
3. solve the last layer with commutators (J Perm has a tutorial, or just check his square-2 video)
I know this is not the best, but it is easy for people who don't have square-1 knoweledge.
My first solve was on a 1x2x3 polar bear. You can count the permutations. Easiest solve of my life.
Wait till the square -1 comes out
Everytime he said "trivial" and "super easy", another slice of my trivial soul died, while my brain imploded simultaneously.
As someone who had never seen a sq1 alg written/spoken out, that hit me like a freight train
now we waiting for the square-3
Ye
Been waiting for a true Sq3 since 2012
Funny to see your synchronisation with our friend jperm
Cool cool… now make square -1
sq-0 should be a WCA cube
OK now this is cool. So much variety
I'd love it if you could do a more in depth tutorial on how to solve the Square-2
But a square -2 will be a cube with no movement, right?
it'll have just 2 pieces on top and bottom, square -3 is just a cube
the ultimate way to end a sentence ...!?
Next cube innovation: Square-3
Less bandaged pieces on the sides and you can slice on BOTH axes (axes? axis? idc its confusing for me)
Square-3 coming soon?
NOOOOOOOOO
@@heystopthatnow maybe square 2.5?
@@al_cuber square 6.9
@@khachuli 7.7?
What will sheng shou add to the new one
the only way to make the square-0 the 2x2 to the square-1 is to remove the middle layer
That just makes it a fancy 2x2
So why is it called Square?
Exactly
It's named after the term "back to square one" which means that [the puzzle] usually leads you back to where you started
imagine being in a rubiks cube competition with square 2 and you get it in a second or something and then the person says "wrong color scheme -6 seconds"
I love how z3 cubings intro is short
can't wait for them to make the square-negative
Bro imagine them making a circle-1
Z3 Cubing made a Square-1 Barrel, which is essentially just a Circle-1
Maybe circle-1 will be a ball version of square-1
Square -1???
oh man can't wait for the Square-minus 1
Whoever made the square 2 took corner cutting too seriously
YOO AT 2:31 You see his watch tanline lol
Did u know the square-0 is just the 1x2x3 extreame (just a puzzle I imagined before) it’s just the the top and bottom are sliced but not the middle
Everybody gangsta 'till some crazy cube company maks a Square--1 and Square-3
Square--1 would just be a 2x1 with 1 extra move
i still remeber when your channel was called Legoboyz3 and now you removed the Legoboy and added cubing in front of it XD
aww yea time to see it
Square 0 - 2x2 square 1 - 3x3 square 2 - 4x4
corner cutting taken literally
Something I would be confused with is if there would be new notation for the half corners. My thought was this example
(-2, 5 1/2) / (6, -4). I think that would be a challenge! Love your vids!
for sq1 a corner is 2 so for sq2 it would be te same
Amazing video
Would love to see a Square -1
game theory style thumbnail lmao
Square-2:
The 4x4 of Square-1s
Let's see a square-9 trillion now!
you should make a square-(-1) that’s just a cubic 1x1x3
Imagine Square-3😏
I watched this last week and I got the sq-2 immediately
Now I want to see a Square--1.
I'd like to see a square-1 that could also cut in the blue and green sides.
It wouldn't really solve much different, but that's a really cool idea!
@@Z3Cubing sometimes it's just the novelty
2:30 you forgot your watch
now introducing the Square -1
Sengso at the top of their game
You taught me how to solve a square-1
People are so dumb. You can literally solve the square 2 with 1 alg. The 3-cycle is barely any moves and allows you to solve every piece. 🤦
Shengsho made the Square-0 from dg cubes omg
square 0??
you start with the sq-2 but you can switch the caps so it becomes a 1 or 0
I just figured out that the algorithm for U Perm is:
(1, 0)/(-3, 0)/(-1, 0)/(0, 3)/(1, 0)/(3, 0)/(-1, 0)/(0, -3)/
The mirror blocks can shape shift !!!???
And it's a WCA event !!!!????
Bro he read my mind with the square 0 reaction.
I have just learned how to solve the 2x2x3 so I know how to solve the Square-0 because you said the Square-0 solves like a 2x2x3 (i don't know if that's the word).
Sqaure ones old name was back to square one meaning the other ones old names would be
Back to square 2
Back to square 0
next video: square-857
Square 3 would have slice layer between blue and green
square 0 is a badenged 2x2x3 ok.
Mme want Square -1
Square 2 looks like a minecraft tnt block
gonna make a square-3 and a square+1
I probably cant even solve a square negative 1 if it exists
I was literally just talking to my brother about the square series
one time i dreamed about a "square-H" lol
Maybe next year there will be a Square-3?
And the 4, 5 and 6
cant wait for the sq- -1
Square-Negative 1
1:50 correction square 2
Time for the square -1