Its essentially the same, but I could see myself getting very confused with the dots.

ooooo i really like that first one lol, nice.

Back in the days of the original rubiks cube, my older brothers classmate had the world record for solving it. His name was nicholas Hammond and took him on average 30 secs to solve it.
He was once on 'Record Breakers' with Roy Castle......back in the day "

Thats awesome, my time still ranges from about 1 minute to 1:36, so I'm still improving, but i love the challenge my new cubes are going to give me, I'm sure they will take me awhile to figure out lol.

if i remember it right, the second cube was photoshoped, but it still looks like a good idea for me the changed appearance makes whole thing a bigger challenge.

i must say i bow down to those of you who can solve it on their own without resorting to someones tried and tested techniques.
I'm totally **** at them :dead:

Haha usually it turns out that you use the same method as someone else, even if you dont meant to. I spent about a weekend or so figuring it out, and it turned out I used the same algorithms a ton of other people use.