GoCube™

This app is incredibly hard to use. I did have a basic Rubics cube before and my son in law just knew I would enjoy this. I have the stupid cube messed up and it says you need to connect when your cube is correct. So now what ? I turn it the suggested times and it says “solved” and it’s not half way done. I can work the top and the T’s without help but I cannot find a way to get instructions from there. I hate this thing.

I love this cube how it teaches beginners into a pro

The academy part of the app is great. I do find myself re-orienting the cube a couple times. Every time I try to use the cube solver it kicks me out. The cube unpairs itself. That part is a little annoying.

It never let me do the tutorials an easier way. It just jumped right into a weird pattern that I didn’t even know what it was. I had to give up. Now my cube is all messy and I don’t know how to unscramble it! I’m going to have to break it apart and put it back together again.

I’m a novice at the cube, and went through the tutorials and course a couple of times. The app works fairly well. I constantly have to reorientate and calibrate my cube to have it display properly on my iPad screen. Other than that, the teaching method is a rote memorization of steps and algorithms. After enough practice, most people should be able to accomplish solving the cube. Having said that, the teaching methodology leaves me wanting in the sense that the student is not taught how or why the algorithms work, and how to visualize why they work. I would personally enjoy a course of how the algorithms came to be, and the first principles thinking process that created the algorithms. Mr. Rubik himself was able to visualize in his head what needed to be done and the steps involved. He made this puzzle to teach his students this skill. Perhaps after all these years, what the cube has proven is that few people possess the ability Rubik himself did, however most people can be instructed on a methodology if instructed. The problem is that very few people can solve the cube from scratch, without instruction. Perhaps in this way, I was hoping the app would guide me how to teach myself to solve the cube through first principles thinking. It doesn’t do that, rather it opts for rote memorization and pattern recognition approach. All in all, a solid 4 stars.

The app has so many different games and so many fun things to do. Only thing it’s missing is the ability to rewatch solves and matches when you’re done.

Overall this would be 5 stars but two major issues prevent this from being possible. 1) there is no sound on the videos, which makes the expert advice null and 2) I’m always having to reload my cube even after it’s been sitting with no one touching it. Fix these and you’ve got yourself a 5-star app.

Pretty good app. I recently got this app since I got the GoCube as a Christmas present. The app was pretty good at first, but it was sometimes slow, which was annoying. There is a “challenge” button in a the app. This button lets you try to match up one of your cube sides with a randomly scrambled online cube that shows the “pattern” that you are supposed to make. You do this against a random player. Now here is the annoying/slow part: every time I click on the challenge button, it shows a white blank screen. It loads forever, and rarely ever works. This is very annoying and stressful. PLZ FIX!!!!😡😡😭 Overall, it’s OK, but SERIOUSLY needs more things to do since I get bored sometimes and needs to be faster. 4/5 stars…

It is a great teacher for inexperienced cubers!

So when I got my first go cube I was excited so I got the app and I signed in I didn’t ask me how good I was I had three options and since I only knew the beginner method I chose I’m a beginner or something like that. I don’t exactly remember it. So I clicked on it and now I had to start from the beginner method and work my way up. I just wish that I could change that though it still is a pretty good app I would recommend