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 Simply cool... August 23, 2007
F Bogarin
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Reading other reviews I noticed that people are not pleased with the durability of the Professor Cube. However, in the package it states that is NOT for speedcubing. Maybe is a little pricey, but that only makes me take more care of it. Durability if just fine.
The stickers are another story. After a few weeks of constant usage, they start to peel off their transparent cover and the colors begin to fade. Just make sure you are gentle with the cube and you'll enjoy plenty of hours of fun.
 A Great Challenge! August 17, 2007
Alice Ong (Aliso Viejo, CA United States)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This puzzle is a great challenge. There are so many more pieces to put together, and the smaller cubies feel great in the hand. However, the cube is inherently fragile, due to the much much greater number of moving parts (all held together by each other, buy the way). If you are careful of this cube and buy it from a place you know has a good return policy, it shouldn't be a problem, but it is easy to misalign it by accident and have a piece twist out of its spot...
I don't solve competitively, but I do spin the sides around pretty fast when solving. The durability is really dependent on the tension of your cube, which unfortunately varies a lot and isn't adjustable in this cube. I had a cube before the one I am reviewing, and in 4 days it popped and I returned it. The one I have now is nearly perfect tension, and it turns well and hasn't popped yet.
The stickers peel easily, and that is the main flaw of this puzzle. Fortunately there are sites that sell great quality stickers for cheap, but the cube really should include great stickers stock, the ones it comes with peel within the first solve.
And, of course, its a rubiks cube design, so its fun and educational.
I recommend it!
James Best's 5x5 Review August 2, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
The cube is very fun and cool, but the colored stickers started falling off after a few days. In my opinion, it was still worth it. I will not purchase replacement stickers because they won't stay on. I just used colored permanent markers on the squares missing stickers.
Much Fun July 19, 2007
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
About 2 months ago I bought a 3X3 and decided to solve it. The first time, it took me about one hour to solve. In three weeks I was down to just under one mineut, not fast by some standards, but it was fun. I then turned to the 4X4 cube. This one was a little more of a challange. It took me about 4 hours to solve this one for the first time. Finally I moved on to the 5X5. This one took me one hour to solve the first time and I am now down to about 5 mineuts to solve (mostly because you are not able to turn it very fast without tearing it up.) This one is no harder than the 3X3. In fact if you can solve a 3X3, you can sove this cube with the same algorithms joint with simple intuition. Overall very much fun. And a great way to waist a couple mineuts if your bored of the spherical nature of everything around you.
Great puzzle June 26, 2007
David Webb (Oregon, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you've mastered the 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube and the 4x4x4 Rubik's Revenge then the 5x5x5 is the toy for you.
It provides that extra challenge, but you can use
strategies from the smaller cubes too.
My only disappointment is that it did not seem quite as
robust as my smaller cubes which I have had for
over 20 years. Also a couple of the colors are already
showing some signs of peeling at the edges - whereas my 20 yr old cubes look as good as new.
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