Should judges and scramblers wear gloves?

[GenTheSnail]

I definitely think it would be a nice option. At a comp I went to last summer, I submitted my cube (with a clean exterior) and when I started the first solve it had a lot of lube on the outside of the puzzle that was NOT there before (presumably from them handling some kid's nasty overlubed cube) and I ended up messing up an alg because of it lol.

How would gloves help with this though? Lube would still get from a dirty cube onto the gloves and back onto your cube. If the scramblers didn't have gloves on they might be able to have the foresight to wipe their hands off before scrambling the next cube, but if they've got gloves on it would be much harder to tell if they've touched a greasy cube.

However, it would help if scramblers have naturally greasy hands. Even if I can't necessarily articulate it, I would definitely appreciate it if scramblers wore gloves.

 

[qwr]

For cleanliness, alcohol wipes may be more effective