(Backup) Buy Speedcube – GAN?

Hall Habeinefrage321,

A pretty cool question! I’d like to answer you. First I’ll explain to you what Warm-Up is actually there and then I’ll show you some methods that I see more often on competitions.

What do you need warm-up?

Let’s look at the Wikipedia description:

The Warm up, also Warmingthe Sports before Exercises or Competitions practiced to Muscles to prepare for the load and thus the sport Performance to increase and increase Risk of injury to reduce. It is mainly done by active exercises such as Entering, Stretching and loosening.

So what is the meaning of a warm-up?

1. Prepare muscles for stress
2. increase sporting performance
3. Reduce risk of injury

I don’t want to say that there are no injuries in cubes, but this is more rarely the case. It is much more important to increase or increase the sporting performance. the “In-Form Compensation” so that you are at the usual level during your official Attempt, on which you are always.

All Cubes dive as a warm-up cube

When we get back to Cubing, what’s different to you when you’re warmed up and do a brine and if you’re NOT warmed up and do a brine? Solution: You have warm fingers that have already become used to the rotary movements, you simply have good turning.

There is no greater difference at all. They are mainly the played fingers. To get your fingers in shape, you can actually use all cubes and this is not limited to 3×3, but all cubes. If you’re going to a competition, you’ll see that many just take anything to the Waiting Area to warm up there.

In most cases (independently of the current discipline), I take a 3×3 with it because my fingers become very warm. For longer events, there is often no time in the Waiting Area to make a complete Solve, otherwise I would also take longer events, but other events are also suitable.

But you can also make untimed Solves with nem 7×7 or so, but there I would have no motivation to get a good time (are untimed), which would end up in that I turn slower and my fingers get warmer.

For example, if you look at footballers: are they warming up with a football before they go into a match? Not really, as stretching exercises etc. also fulfill their purpose and if not even more effective.

Maybe not all cubes as warm-up cubes

In the last section, I have already indicated at the end that the fingers do not get warm as fast as you turn slower. At least, this makes me sense, but also somewhere: movement is energy and heat! So the more you move, the warmer your fingers become. The faster you turn, the more you move per unit of time. Conclusion: The faster you turn per unit of time, the more your fingers become warm.

So you better take a cube with which you can turn at your normal speed. So, like a Pyraminx, I wouldn’t recommend as a warm-up puzzle now if you don’t know about Pyraminx. Such a Rubik’s original I would also not recommend you because you cannot turn smoothly on it.

Bad 3×3 are well suited as warm-up

Ah, didn’t I just say that a Rubik’s original is not suitable as a warm-up cube? On the other hand, there are people who think that the Rubik’s original is quite suitable, generally bad cubes. Why is that?

If your fingers get used to a bad cube before each solve and then turn the super smooth speedcube at once, then the solve feels much more liquid and you spin much more accurately.

That’s at least the theory. I just don’t think so much fun and if that’s really better than an ordinary 3×3, if you already have warm hands, I dare to doubt.

Larger dimensions are better than warm-up

This is at least often claimed. For example, if you have solved a 5×5 a lot and then change to a 4×4, the 4×4 looks a lot more clearly what makes your look-ahead better. Therefore, many take a cube into the Waiting Area to warm up, the dimensions are larger than the event that is currently taking place.

Whether the look-ahead is really better than if you would normally turn, I dare to doubt. But you have at least this impression and very many people would say that it is true.

There are also many people who practice larger puzzles to get better automatically in smaller puzzles.

Use hand warmers

Hand warmers are quite self-explanatory. Things are there to warm up your hands, which is exactly your goal. It only works conditionally. Your hands get warm, but your muscles don’t really. They haven’t been used to speed cubing yet. That’s why I’m not sure if it works at all. So I don’t use hand warmers. Nevertheless, there are many Cuber (also professionals) that use hand warmers for this reason (especially in winter).

I got my normal times out in the cold winter when I waited for the bus. That surprised me. This however shows that it is not necessarily important that the hands are so really warm. Of course I can be mistaken.

I can also imagine that warm hands are warmed up faster than cold hands, no idea.

Just take what you have Bock

Each thing fulfills another purpose in warm-up because there is not only the muscle-warm-up:

• a good, fast 3×3: Turning get and “Warm-Werden” (Warm-Up stop)
• larger dimensions (e.g. 6×6, 7×7): Look-Ahead
• a bad 3×3: Accuracy and smoother Solves
• Hand warmers: get warm hands

Therefore, it is also important to look at what you want. But in the end, you can just take what you’ve got. I simply recommend you some other 3×3 you like, because even the one I think will be able to promote all warm-up categories. It’s just important that you should make sure you have some kind of gymnastics if you want the round to go well.

I hope I could help you with this answer

Gruss