I didn’t expect the puzzle to be quite small. The cube was quite sluggish. After a couple of solves, it was turning fine. The slice layer was turning quite smooth. The other layers were also smooth, but they were a bit sandy. I am not a square 1 solver, so I can’t give a 100% recommendation to this puzzle, but I can say it is a challenge to beginners and this puzzle is a great way to get started to solving the square 1. If you are square 1 solver who wants a better option, consider the YuXin little magic or even the popular X-man volt... Hope this review helps. Overall I’ll give this a 4.5/5 but since there isn’t ‘4.5’, I’ll just put 5. Remember (MGC) Make good choices.

This cube is very fast and has amazing cornercutting! This was my main for a long while until I got my little magic. Great cube!

This cube is great! Here are all the factors about it out of 10
Speed: 9.5/10
Control:10/10
Pops: 0/10
lock ups: 0/10
Corner cutting: 8.5/10
Structure/piece design: 4/10 (Because it is very hard to reassemble once you set it up

Overall I give this cube 9.75/10 just because of the structure making it very hard to reassemble and set up
Thanks to Qiyi for making this puzzle!

Really bad popped and one of the peices broke within two days dong get the original get the qiyi qifa s square one

So I got this puzzle for my birthday after looking at a bunch of reviews of it online. I got it and it was great! Turning was smooth and the shades were bright. After a while, I noticed a few tiny gaps between the parts on the edges and corner pieces. This usually wouldn't bother anyone but for some reason it bothered me. I felt like it would break any second. Also, a few run-ins with noncubers soon had my puzzle scratched up a bit. I wish Qiyi would produce this square-1 with the frosted texture like the one in the cubing classroom set. But this is a great puzzle and I recommend it to everyone. :)

I had it for 1 day and it started popping like crazy. Literally every turn it popped. Dont waste your money!

I got this way back near when it was first released, but completely forgot to do a review on it after I broke it in and stuff. Well, needless to say it's as broke in as it could be by now, ha ha!

The first thing you'll notice with this is that the top and bottom layers are quite sluggish.That's not necessarily a bad thing though because Square-1s are often known to be uncontrollably loose and are not adjustable aside from the middle slice. So a bit of friction on said layers can help. The friction though is mysteriously inconsistent depending on how the pieces are mixed within each other. So I presume it has to do with slight inconsistencies in molding. It didn't get much more consistent after said breaking in time either so I feel it's a bit easy to over/undershoot turns as a result. However, it's not that much of an issue aside from feel because of the corner cutting. It'll cut almost a whole corner piece (Contrary to the X-man which won't cut as much) which is remarkably forgiving for a Square 1, but will seem like they stick a bit to the point you need to use some force to cut, which again has a way of feeling odd. The reason why this happens is because of the green center stems stabilizing the pieces from popping out. If you remove those stems, corner cutting becomes buttery smooth but it will probably pop. So I'd leave them in and just get used to the sticky feel during a cut. It will also reverse corner cut a tad, but only up until the end of a piece's roundness. But there really aren't that many viable Square-1s to choose from when it comes to performance: this and the X-man, which is also QiYi.

There is one thing to look out for though when it comes to a QiYi Square 1 of any kind is the nylon nut that holds the screw in place. They all are known to strip over time and allow the puzzle to loosen. So the solution people have been using for that is to use a locknut or to just glue the screw to the current nut, which was my method.

Even with the flaws, it's still probably the best option out there thanks to that corner cutting. I wouldn't be surprised if this was improved on by some company any day now though. Just that all Square-1s in existence right now for whatever reason just seem to have some sort of design flaw(s) that prevents them from being truly great. Low corner cutting, pieces breaking, uneven tensions, etc...

This cube is alright. the tensions are very bad out-of-the-box. Some edges caps are coming off, and need to be glued. Corner cutting is non existent. Alright to learn on, and based off of other reviews, I may just have a bad one.

This is my first square 1 but when it came a peace was broke! i glued it together and it worked:)

This cube has an amazing slice layer and slightly slower outer layers. But my square 1 has a problem when turning the slice layers 2 of the small pieces collide and its very annoying also it causes the colored caps to come off you have to be careful when turning the slice layer so this isn't really speed solvable.