• 30 pieces
  • Checked October 2026

ASCII Cube

Tap a cube to copy every line of it; the first is a small one in outline.

ASCII Cube

+----+ / /| +----+ | | | + | |/ +----+Small cube in outline6 lines, 8 wideReady to copy

30 pieces. Tap one to copy it.

Your own words 1

One line 2

Small, 2 to 4 lines 5

Medium, 5 to 9 lines 17

Large, 10 lines and up 5

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How it works

ASCII cubes in keyboard characters, drawn for this page: 30 pieces. Cubes in outline, shaded and see-through, from three lines to twelve, with stacks, two dice, ice cubes, a flat net and one whose front face takes your words.

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How these cubes are built

A plus sign is a corner, hyphens and bars are the level and upright edges, and a slash is an edge running back. A solid cube drawn this way shows seven of its corners, nine of its edges and three of its faces; Wire cube, twelve edges draws them all.

Write on a face

Cube with your words takes 11 characters in place of YOUR WORDS; longer words push the right edge of the face out.

  • Squash-proof has six pieces with no run of spaces: the two one-liners, a tiny cube, a pyramid, an outline cube and a shaded one.
  • For maths notes, Cube with edges marked a labels one edge in each direction: the volume is a times a times a.
  • The cube root sign is on cube root symbol, and the six die faces as single characters are on dice symbols.

Questions and answers

How do you make a cube with keyboard symbols?

In three lines. Type a space and three underscores, then /__/| under them, then |__|/ on the third line. That is Tiny cube, three lines, five characters wide. The larger cubes use plus signs for corners.

How many faces, edges and vertices does a cube have?

Six square faces, twelve edges and eight vertices, by Wikipedia's Cube article. Cube seen corner on shows three of the faces meeting at one vertex, and See-through cube, dotted marks the three edges a solid cube hides.

How many nets does a cube have?

Eleven, by Wikipedia's Cube article: eleven different ways to join six squares edge to edge so that they fold into a cube. Cube net, six squares is the cross, four squares in a row with one above and one below the second.

Do opposite sides of a dice add up to 7?

On a modern die they traditionally do, by Wikipedia's Dice article: one faces six, two faces five and three faces four. So Dice cube showing five can show five, one and three at once, but never five and two.

All 30 pieces

Your own words 1

  • Cube with your words The front face is a label. Type over YOUR WORDS. 9 lines, 18 wide.

One line 2

  • Cube face on one line One line has no room for depth, so this is the front face alone. 1 line, 3 wide.
  • Three cube faces, one line Three front faces side by side. 1 line, 9 wide.

Small, 2 to 4 lines 5

  • Small cube, four lines Underscores for the level edges, a doubled bar for the thin side. 4 lines, 8 wide.
  • Squash-proof cube pyramid Six front faces in rows of one, two and three, padded with periods. 3 lines, 12 wide.
  • Squash-proof tiny cube The tiny cube with a period where its one leading space was. 3 lines, 5 wide.
  • Three tiny cubes in a row The tiny cube three times, a space apart. 3 lines, 17 wide.
  • Tiny cube, three lines The smallest cube here that still shows three faces. 3 lines, 5 wide.
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Medium, 5 to 9 lines 17

  • Cube made of underscores Level edges are underscores, so the corners have no plus signs. 5 lines, 10 wide.
  • Cube net, six squares The six faces laid flat in a cross. Fold on every line and it closes into a cube. 7 lines, 17 wide.
  • Cube pyramid, flat view Nine blocks seen from the front: five, three and one. 7 lines, 21 wide.
  • Cube seen corner on A corner points at you: three equal faces meet in a Y inside a hexagon. 8 lines, 13 wide.
  • Cube seen straight on Seen from straight in front: the far face is the small square and four slanted edges run back to it. 9 lines, 15 wide.
  • Ice cube with a shine Rounded corners and two slanted strokes of shine. 8 lines, 13 wide.
  • L-shaped stack of cubes Two cubes on the ground and a third on the left one. 9 lines, 13 wide.
  • Melting ice cube A small ice cube sitting in its own puddle of tildes. 7 lines, 12 wide.
  • See-through cube, dotted The three edges at the back are periods and colons. 9 lines, 13 wide.
  • Small cube in outline Three faces showing: front, top and right side. 6 lines, 8 wide.
  • Small dice cube One pip on top, four on the front and two on the side. 8 lines, 10 wide.
  • Solid cube, shaded Periods on the top face and number signs on the side, so no face looks see-through. 9 lines, 14 wide.
  • Squash-proof cube The small outline cube with periods where the spaces were. 6 lines, 8 wide.
  • Squash-proof shaded cube No outline at all: equals signs on top, number signs in front, slashes on the side. 7 lines, 12 wide.
  • Stack of two cubes One small cube standing on another. 9 lines, 8 wide.
  • Three cubes side by side Three small cubes joined in a row. 6 lines, 18 wide.
  • Wire cube, twelve edges Every edge is a full line, so the cube can be read as seen from above or from below. 9 lines, 13 wide.

Large, 10 lines and up 5

  • Big cube in outline The largest plain cube here. 12 lines, 19 wide.
  • Cube with edges marked a The letter a on one edge of each direction, for notes on side length and volume. 10 lines, 15 wide.
  • Dice cube showing five Five pips in front, one on top and three on the side. 11 lines, 15 wide.
  • Nine-square cube The front face is cut three by three. 10 lines, 16 wide.
  • Tower of three cubes Three small cubes, one on another. 12 lines, 8 wide.

How this list was compiled: Own work: every piece was drawn for this page on 2026-10-15 and checked in a monospaced font; none is copied from an archive or another site, and no puzzle, game or product with a name is drawn. The cubes share one construction: a plus sign for a corner, hyphens and bars for the level and upright edges, and a slash for an edge that runs back. The smallest use underscores for the level edges, and the ice cubes have rounded corners. A cube of three lines can be drawn in very few ways, so a small piece here may look like one drawn elsewhere. The facts on the page were read on 2026-10-15 in two Wikipedia articles. Cube (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube, CC BY-SA 4.0): a cube has eight vertices, twelve edges of the same length and six square faces; its volume is the third power of its side length; it has eleven different nets. Dice (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dice, CC BY-SA 4.0): opposite sides of a modern die traditionally add up to seven. Every character is one of the 95 printable ASCII characters, U+0020 to U+007E. Squash-proof means no line starts with a space and no two spaces touch. The comment box badge means at most 8 lines and 30 columns: a rule of thumb of this site, not a promise about any app. Licence: own work

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