So I have been messing around with
the Aolong V2 recently and I must say it’s amazing. I don’t know what changed,
whether I just got used to the feeling, or did enough solves to grind out any
previous problem, but the cube is much better now. It turns well and is so
stable. I am able to keep it on loose tensions and have no lockups at all. The small
feeling of the cubies has completely gone away and I can’t find anything wrong
with it to tell. It is so good in fact, that I annihilated my previous best
average at 19 seconds with a new best at 16.86! In addition, I also got a 13.75
no lucky solve, which is very close to my personal best. This cube has also
improved my overall average by about a second and it continues to perform astonishingly
well.
Issues with this cube are, as I said before,
nonexistent. This V2 is the new plastic version, so I don’t have the issues
that many cubers had with the other plastic. Corner twisting, as I have said
before, doesn’t happen to me so I can’t really attest to that, but from what I hear
in other reviews, this is fixed too. The only sort of “problem” I have is the
tensioning. While it is great performing, the feel isn’t perfectly what I want
but I am not great at tensioning and I fear if I try to change it from its
current state, it will feel very bad. This won’t be an issue for most though as
I assume a lot of cubers are much better at finding the perfect feel for their
puzzle than me.
As an
overall grade, I want to raise this cube to an 8.5 out of 10. It has given me
many new records and I have great hopes for it in the future, but until I can
find some more comfortable tensions, I can’t raise it any higher. However,
expect another blog at some point with the progress of this cube, because I can
see huge potential in it yet, and can’t wait to sort it all out!
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