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Communities

Below are some of the online communities used for research. Click the headers to view the communities. Other communities and sub-communities exist on websites such as Facebook, Reddit, and Discord.

Yahoo! Groups (click to view searchable archive)​

In the early 2000s, the Speed Solving Rubik's Cube community was created. Soon after, several other cubing related communities were created using the same platform. Examples include blindfold solving, the fewest moves challenge, and various country specific groups. Click the header above to access a searchable archive of some of these groups.

Some messages in the groups may be missing. There was a series of mergers from 1998 to 2000. In 1998, there was a merger of two mailing lists - ONElist and eGroups. In 2000, Yahoo! purchased eGroups, merged it with their own mailing list called Yahoo! Clubs to form a new mailing list platform called Yahoo! Groups. This change caused a deletion of around a year and a half worth of messages from the Speed Solving Rubik's Cube group and potentially others. The Speed Solving Rubik's Cube group was started in June of 2000 and any messages after August 5, 2000 and before March 27, 2002 were deleted.

To download Mbox versions of some Yahoo! groups, click here.

Cube Lovers (click to view searchable archive)​

This is a mailing list that started on July 12 1980 and ran through January 27 2000. Many of the early puzzle enthusiasts used Cube Lovers to discuss all aspects of cubing - methods, ideas, upcoming puzzles, and it was the primary location for discussing the latest developments of God's Number. Click the header above to view a searchable archive of all messages.

If you want to download the mailing list as .txt files, they are provided below. These files were saved from cube20.org with permission from Tomas Rokicki.

Other archives of individual messages and files can be found in a few different sources:

Cube Lovers still exists on a couple of different domains:

Rec.Puzzles Google / Usenet Group​

Another early mailing group that now lives on Google Groups.

Twisty Puzzles​

Twisty Puzzles is one of the earliest websites for discussion of Rubik's Cube and other puzzles.

SpeedSolving.com​

Formed in 2006, SpeedSolving.com was created with the goal of having a message board better organized than Yahoo! Groups.

Francocube​

The popular French message board.

魔方吧•中國魔方俱樂部（MF8）​

A very large Chinese community.