Cube standing up or sitting down?

[HelloiamChow]

When I solve standing, I feel like I waste a second or 2 picking up the cube and getting into the "solving position." Sitting down, cube is right there. Standing up makes you look cooler though.

 

[Erik]

100% sitting for me, even magic!
I'll only stand if there is REALLY no other way. It's so unnatural, you don't practise while standing behind your desk at home either do you?

At competitions, don't they make you either sit down or stand up? For example all the footage of the world championships that I have seen show the contestants standing up.

At the WC they indeed kinda forced us to stand but after a few rounds we could also sit!

 

[AvGalen]

I sit down because I do the entire weekly competition at once. I cannot imagine having to do Fewest Moves standing.

The only other times I cube I don't time myself

 

[Kristoffer]

I'm lazy so I like to sit

 

[Lotsofsloths]

I'll only stand if there is REALLY no other way. It's so unnatural, you don't practise while standing behind your desk at home either do you?

I get better lighting when I stand, being like 5" 1' it really sucks, and my desk is (sort of) tall so I get to stand up

 

[jazzthief81]

I always sit and mostly for the following reason: if you get a pop while standing, the pieces could go anywhere (under the table, off the podium,...) leaving you little chance to recover quickly and still set a good time. If you sit down you can keep your wrists nicely above the table and if you pop a piece it will just fall on the Stackmat in front of you.

 

[Erik]

good point Lars!

 

[Jacco]

I prefer sitting down, never practised while standing.

 

[AvGalen]

I always sit and mostly for the following reason: if you get a pop while standing, the pieces could go anywhere (under the table, off the podium,...) leaving you little chance to recover quickly and still set a good time. If you sit down you can keep your wrists nicely above the table and if you pop a piece it will just fall on the Stackmat in front of you.

It is a good idea, but it doesn't always work out this way. I was sitting down at Dutch Open 2007 when I had a pop on my second cube (multiple blindfold). The piece fell of the side of the table opposite to my body and I looked like a fool trying to find the piece.

 

[darkzelkova]

I can do either, I get a lot of practice sitting down at school, and a lot of standing up on transit it always impresses the people around me lol
In conclusion, I think I am about the same either way.

 

[Mátyás Kuti(shaipo)]

At home I always sit down.
At competition I always stand while magicing, and blindsolving, and sometimes when I do bigcubes...

 

[alexc]

Sometimes I sit, sometimes I stand, just depends on what I feel like doing.

 

[Mike Hughey]

I always stand in competition, except for big cubes BLD. I'm tempted to try standing for that as well next time around.

That even goes for most of the online competition solves (again, except for big cubes BLD). But practicing I'm usually sitting.

I seem to have quite a boost in my times when standing versus sitting, which is why I do that.

 

[philkt731]

I practice sitting so I compete sitting also, since I 'm used to it and it helps keep me relaxed

 

[AlexandertheGreat]

I like to sit while practicing (doing 100+ cubes in a row standing would be more of a workout) and while doing online competitions. For competitions in person I prefer standing, it seems more competitive to me and keeps me more alert and focused.

 

[jackolanternsoup]

I like my chair...

 

[Paul Wagner]

i sit during practice but stand competitively i can see more parts of the cube

 

[xSwiftxClawx]

I always practice sitting down.
It seems like a pain to be standing up.

 

[12150w]

I like sitting down because I can practice longer but I also like standing up just because I can hold my cube lower (for some reason it helps me).

 

[fanwuq]

I tend to be faster when I stand, sometimes it's even faster when I walk, but it's slow when I run. However, I like to sit at competitions because I don't want to slam and damage my cubes and also see Harris's post. I actually alternate between sitting and standing at home while practicing to keep me focused. BLD is done either sitting on the bus or laying on bed. OH and 4x4 are done standing or walking. I do 3x3 sitting about 90% of the time, then I suddenly switch to standing and it either reduce my times by 3 seconds or make it worse by 3 seconds.

Edit:
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