Reviews of the Yomega RPM yoyo. Add your own review or post a comment!
Awesome concept, but incredibly heavy. Tends to snap strings within half an hour of focused play, i.e. trying to max out the RPMs, and DO NOT play with a thinner string, like the Spintastics ones. It will break sooner and mangle even the most calloused yo-yo finger. I just got mine a couple of days ago and now my finger and hand are so raw I can barely yo-yo with anything now (but still try). I can get it to 9697 RPMs, who knows how accurate it is but at least better throws always produce better RPMs — very consisent. A friend of mine got it to 9999 RPM which is where it stops, and unfortunately it didn’t calculate his miles/hour correctly, giving an impossible 999.99. All it really calculates is RPMs and everything is based on that, it basically just divides RPMs by 35 to get miles per hour. The sleep timer is accurate and fun, the loop counter is a bad idea — who’s gonna do 60 seconds of loops with this mega-yo-yo without breaking the string? You can count throwdowns with the loop counter if you consider that a trick…Definitely fun for competing with other yo-freaks, and for putting arrogant newbies in their place, especially when they throw it too hard and let it jerk, sending the very heavy yo-yo painfully skyrocketing into their knuckles, palm, or bicep. The weight is a bit too much, but otherwise it rocks. If you’re lazy on replacing the string, you will eventually send the yo-yo flying at 3-4 g’s of acceleration towards the ground (sadly it doesn’t calculate g’s), and break off bits of plastic inside and hear them rattle forevermore — but it still keeps ticking as accurate as it ever did. This happened to me and a friend of mine, it’s a yo-yo and rattle now. Definitely buy this one at yoyoplay.com, you’ll escape the sinking feel of stupidity that I felt after paying $24 for one elsewhere.
Submitted by ellaych 2/15/01
This yoyo is the bomb its a little on the heavy side but this works out great because the extra weight also gives it more spin time.I especailly like the Rpm, Mph, Loops, and sleep gauges on the Rpm this helps out a lot. Now i dont have to get a stop watch to time myself it just automatically saves them and you can try to bet your own records or a friends (pretty cool). Now i have a little contest for you, you don’t win anything or nothing but I thought it would be fun though. Go out and buy an RPM and try to beat my records. My longest sleep time is 60.8sec., my fastest speed is 200mph, my fastest rpm speed is like 8,000, and my loop da loops wich arent many are 16 in 15sec, 28 in 45 sec, and 39 in 60 sec.
Submitted by Tabby0405 2/15/01