Do cubes get old

[The Torrent]

do cubes get old? Does it ever get to a point in a cubes life where you go ‘this cube is too old now, I need a new one’, or do cubes only get better as they get more and more ‘broken in’

 

[Hazel]

do cubes get old? Does it ever get to a point in a cubes life where you go ‘this cube is too old now, I need a new one’, or do cubes only get better as they get more and more ‘broken in’

eventually they get worn out, when thousands and thousands of solves are done on them, and they get sluggish and worse. At that point it's a good idea to get a new main.

 

[FireCuber]

Yeah. I agree with @Aerma. Cubes do get worn out.

 

[MiaSponseller]

do cubes get old? Does it ever get to a point in a cubes life where you go ‘this cube is too old now, I need a new one’, or do cubes only get better as they get more and more ‘broken in’

They get broken in but sometimes after they get there, their performance starts to go downhill. My gan air was great for awhile but then the nuts started to wear out. The plastic was also starting to get really soft feeling.

 

[The Torrent]

eventually they get worn out, when thousands and thousands of solves are done on them, and they get sluggish and worse. At that point it's a good idea to get a new main.

Hmm... so if you practice 10 minutes a day, lets say that 20 solves in about 3 months you'll have almost 2k solves, does that mean you'd need a new cube every 3 months??

I'm asking because i'm thinking of investing in a Gans 356 air sm, and its really expensive, so i don't want to have to buy another one, or should i just go a bit cheaper and get something like a non-magnetic valk if its going to wear out??

 

[shadowslice e]

Hmm... so if you practice 10 minutes a day, lets say that 20 solves in about 3 months you'll have almost 2k solves, does that mean you'd need a new cube every 3 months??

I'm asking because i'm thinking of investing in a Gans 356 air sm, and its really expensive, so i don't want to have to buy another one, or should i just go a bit cheaper and get something like a non-magnetic valk if its going to wear out??

He means closer to the range of 100 of 1000s not just a few 1000.

 

[FastCubeMaster]

Hmm... so if you practice 10 minutes a day, lets say that 20 solves in about 3 months you'll have almost 2k solves, does that mean you'd need a new cube every 3 months??

I'm asking because i'm thinking of investing in a Gans 356 air sm, and its really expensive, so i don't want to have to buy another one, or should i just go a bit cheaper and get something like a non-magnetic valk if its going to wear out??

I've done about 3000 solves on my gan air SM already and it's still fine. I could probably estimate at about 20,000-30,000 it may need a clean or good core lube up or something.

 

[Ordway Persyn]

It actually takes quite a lot of solves for a cube to start declining. probably at about 50k solves will a cube pass its prime.

 

[EmperorZant]

Of course cubes get old! After their plastic is worn, their corners stop cutting, and lube just makes them slip out of your hands, they spend the rest of their poor cube lives in the Feliks Memorial Home for Cubing Wasters of Life and Limb. The only cubes that have been known to actually die, on record, are 3x3's (when strangled, melted, crushed, or blown to pieces) and Feliks' Shengshou 7x7, hence the name of the memorial home. I mean, credit to Pink Floyd for that one, too.

 

[genericcuber666]

when strangled, melted, crushed, or blown to pieces

that hurt a little to watch

 

[AidanNoogie]

Of course cubes get old! After their plastic is worn, their corners stop cutting, and lube just makes them slip out of your hands, they spend the rest of their poor cube lives in the Feliks Memorial Home for Cubing Wasters of Life and Limb. The only cubes that have been known to actually die, on record, are 3x3's (when strangled, melted, crushed, or blown to pieces) and Feliks' Shengshou 7x7, hence the name of the memorial home. I mean, credit to Pink Floyd for that one, too.

Those poor cubes lol

 

[mDiPalma]

i have used the same cubes since 2011, and they are exactly the same as they were back then.