The Cubies News

As we approach summer holidays, speculations are swirling in the air, as to what events will happen, what cubes will be released, and more.

In this weekly newsletter, i'll be covering everything from new and upcoming cubers, cube speculations, and everything there is cubing.

Part 1: Cubers and Champions

I know, I know, you want to skip to the new cubes, but i've got to build up excitement some way, right?

We all know that there are very few people in the world who are capable of competing on the cubing world stage, infact, there are only 400 people in the world who average under 10 seconds on a 3x3x3!

Yiheng Wang, The current world record Ao5 holder for 3x3, dominated speedcubing in the past years.

But now, his reign of terror is most likely coming to a close, having lost two world cubing championships in a row, and his most recent competition, YanCheng Open 2025, to Xuanyi Geng.

Xuanyi Geng is a rather new speedcuber who is most well known for achieving a 3x3 single world record using full ZB method at age 6.

(ZB is a method of solving the last layer of a 3x3 in one algorithm. This method requires 500 algorithm memorizations!)

Xuanyi is well on track to compete against some of the best cubers in the world, and he wont be stopping any time soon.

Notable achievements this week (week 24 of 2025, June 9 to June 22)

Feliks Zemdegs - 5x5 Average at 40.10 seconds - Austrailian continent record

Seung Hyuk Nahm - 5x5 Average at 37.05 seconds - Asian continent record

Part 2: New Cubes!

This section of the article is one that may be full of contreversies, but we'll try to break it down a bit to be more clear.

Confirmed Releases

The GAN 15 summer edition is, well, a summer special edition of the GAN 15.

We are one of the first to cover this cube, as there is currently only one official video that confirms this release, and we are speculating (based on past years) that it will be a emerald green transparent GAN 15, looking at the emerald shaped packaging. Unlike other special editions, this one doesnt come in a typical box, but what seems to be a high quality metal box.

This hints at it potentially using different materials that will have a different feel/texture, considering their recent all black internal GAN 15 release.

Now, for the GAN square one (this is the last GAN ill be yapping about, i promise.)

As most of you know already, some top square one cubers already have access to the GAN square one, and after perpetuous begging from our friends on reddit, we finally get a look at the internals.

This confirms that this is infact the largely speculated GAN square one thats been shrouded in secrecy for quite a long time now.

We still dont know when it will release, but we think that it will be somewhere around late summer 2025, given that the plastic core the gan square one prototypes currently have wont make this cube sell very well.

Now for a cube that isnt GAN, the X-man shadow V3 is a brand new 6x6 released by QiYi that features ball core technology, as well as a UV-coated surface. This cube really transforms the premium experience that we get on other cubes, and adapts it perfectly to the 6x6.

Conclusion

So, thats all that I can cover for today, and if youve read this far, I really appreciate it if you give some feedback at charles123hu@gmail.com , or in the comment section of the reddit post.

Thanks!

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