Warm-up solves..

[Neutrals01]

hmm...just curious to know whether anyone have to do a few warm up solves before they can start timing their average? lets say u havent solved a 3x3 cube for maybe 2~3 days? then when u start ur first few solves of the day, ur time is like 5~10 seconds away from ur average or even more? It is because everytime I want to time my average, I need to have like 4~6 solves first before I am able to reach my usual average time.

 

[PCwizCube]

Yes, most people do warm up solves before there averages (unless they're lazy).
If you find that it works for you, just do it.

 

[badmephisto]

definitely yes. My first 5 or so solves are usually quite embarrassing. That's why I hate it when my friends tell random people that I can do the cube in 16 seconds, and then expect me to live up to that with no warm up and a random store bought cube that they shove in my hands.

 

[StachuK1992]

definitely yes. My first 5 or so solves are usually quite embarrassing. That's why I hate it when my friends tell random people that I can do the cube in 16 seconds, and then expect me to live up to that with no warm up and a random store bought cube that they shove in my hands.

lol...takes me like 10 minutes until i'm at my average

 

[waffle=ijm]

R U R' U' a bunch of times followed up by L' U' L U a bunch of times.

Then some R D' R' D followed by L' D L D'

I don't do F and B because I rarely use them (usually just twist the Entire Cube)

Then I do about 3-5 Solves or until I get 20.xx that's when I start timing.

 

[AvGalen]

I should, but I don't.

During official competitions I try to do 1 or 2 warmup solves AND I keep solving a spare cube between official solves.

 

[guitardude7241]

i do all of the 2 look olls, and 16 plls, and do that, then a few solves, then im completely warmed up. also, a hand warmer or something warm helps you alot

 

[StachuK1992]

i usually go into the bathroom and warm my hands in a sink-full of warm water

 

[Ryanrex116]

I usually just do a few algorithms.

 

[DavidWoner]

*sigh*

it usually takes me at least 20 solves to warm up on 3x3. sometimes 50. its really unfortunate. luckily my hands don't get tired until about 200 solves.

 

[aznblur]

I solve a 7x7x7. Usually does the trick. If not, solve a 6x6x6

 

[Ton]

At home and during competions I need 2 sloves for the 3x3 and 1 for 5x5 and 4x4 before my brain is ready , for me the warm-up is not need for the mussles, only to wake-up the look-ahead

 

[mrbiggs]

I solve until my averages drop to an acceptable level. It's usually pretty noticeable, about 3-5 seconds.

I generally need to do 1-4 averages of 5 before this happens. If I was solving it recreationally earlier, like cubing while walking, it's usually just one or two.

 

[Faz]

i do a couple of averages of 5

 

[Neutrals01]

definitely yes. My first 5 or so solves are usually quite embarrassing. That's why I hate it when my friends tell random people that I can do the cube in 16 seconds, and then expect me to live up to that with no warm up and a random store bought cube that they shove in my hands.

Store bought cubes...I hate it the most when people call me to demonstrate my solve with store bought cubes(somehow my schoolmates have lots of store bought cubes that are absolutely easy to pop..), because I have like a 90% rate of popping for those cube.

 

[Statical]

I do like 6-7 solves before getting into groove. Not warming up for a few solves will make me perform lousier

 

[MTGjumper]

I wash/warm my hands in warm, soapy water, then do ~10 solves until I feel my lookahead is good, my cube loosened and my times improve.

 

[mpohl100]

For me it's different sometimes it works from the beginning and sometimes I have to doe ~25 solves to reach ~15 secs average

 

[Winston]

I haven't had any contact with the cube for a couple of days as I was away from home and my first 20 or so "warm up" solves today when I came back dropped to a 28 sec average. It took me a whole morning before I more or less got back to sub 25