Meffert's Gear Cube - Black (difficulty 8 of 10)

Object: Mix up the cube and put it back to the start The Gear-cube is a brand new concept in cube design and has the following inventive steps. Using a full gear mechanism that requires twelve 90° turns to complete one rotation but having said this it is still slightly easier then the Rubik€s cube, Designed by M. Oskar van Deventer and inspired by a gearing idea by Bram Cohen, it will be Meffert€s Puzzle Of the Year for 2010.
Placing the gears externally, so that their orientation can be seen, Adding gear teeth to the corner and edge pieces and using a new speed cube inner core.
These steps result in a twisty puzzle that on the one hand has some of the features and attractiveness of the original Rubik€s Cube. Whereas on the other hand it creates a completely new and unexpected solving experience.
To summarize, the following aspects add to the attraction of Gear-Cube;
A first solving reward is getting the puzzle to its cubic state. This is relatively easy.
A second solving reward is getting the puzzle to a state where each face has only two colors (of opposite faces).This is a bit harder, but achievable for many people.
Hardest is solving the puzzle as a whole, which is still easier than the original Rubik€s Cube.
We would like to thank Laura Ohrndorf for giving us permission to use her video on Youtube.