Do you start with the same color every time? (was: General question)

[mati rubik]

90% white cross, 10% yellow cross

my best avg it's like 16, pb 10.xy (white)
with yellow only my best it's like 17.5 avg and 12 pb

 

[alifiantoadinugroho]

well, I'm color neutral

 

[ErikJ]

being color neutral is only good if you practice it. it slowed me down when first started but after about a week I was back to normal times.

 

[alifiantoadinugroho]

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[Sa967St]

For me it depends on the puzzle. For 3x3x3 I always start with white, but for 4x4x4 and 5x5x5 I pick whichever colour has the easiest first centre.

 

[Dene]

I'm not a beginner, but not extremely fast either. I just think this would be the place for this question.

I was watching Yu Nakajima's videos of him just annihilating his cubes.
I noticed he build's his blue cross first most of the time. I didn't see that part, because it's on the bottom, but most of the time he had white for OLL going on. I thought this was a beginner trait, and that the extremely advanced solvers start on whatever is mostly done. Perhaps I'm wrong?

I normally do the blue cross first, too. For me it's just easiest to recognize the rest of color orientations. I tried a red cross once, and try to haul *** through it, but it slowed me way down.

What about all of you. Do you normally start on the same color?

Most people start using the same colour every time, or else some people use what we call opposite colour cross. This means that they can do one colour, and the opposite (usually they do the opposite if they see it will be easy, and their normal colour is bad).
The other option is, as you say, to use any colour. Personally, this is what I do. I can make the cross on any colour. Usually I just go for what I immediately see. However not many people use this technique. The best user of this is probably Rowe Hessler, who once held the WR for 3x3 single solve.

 

[Ellis]

The best user of this is probably Rowe Hessler, who once held the WR for 3x3 single solve.

Do you mean 3x3 single... bld? Rowe had a couple NARs for 3x3 single (and still does), but never a WR.

 

[jdouglasusn]

being color neutral is only good if you practice it. it slowed me down when first started but after about a week I was back to normal times.

I'm color neutral since I started to speedcubing and it never slow me down

You already said you are color neutral. You don't need reply to someone else to say it again to prove how terrific you are at life.

 

[shelley]

being color neutral is only good if you practice it. it slowed me down when first started but after about a week I was back to normal times.

I'm color neutral since I started to speedcubing and it never slow me down

Well of course; if you've never tried anything else, what would it slow you down from? What if you find that focusing on one color actually speeds you up? But you wouldn't know that, because you haven't tried.

 

[Dene]

The best user of this is probably Rowe Hessler, who once held the WR for 3x3 single solve.

Do you mean 3x3 single... bld? Rowe had a couple NARs for 3x3 single (and still does), but never a WR.

Oh right NaR. I knew it was something like that although I don't care enough to look it up .

 

[Hadley4000]

I am 100% color neutral. I most credit that you figuring it out myself. Once I could get a side I'd just do it on whatever was easiest.(You should have seen my try to figure it out. I took crazy notes before I knew notation).

A lot of people use fixed cross so that they have more time to start looking for F2L pairs, rather than am extra second or two to find an easy cross.

 

[d4m4s74]

yellow-black color neutral (My primary cube is white)

though when in a not-so-well-lit room I pick only yellow (I have the tendency to mix up black and blue)

 

[jackolanternsoup]

hmm. When I use Petrus, I am completely colour neutral. But if I'm using Fridrich I have to use white for cross

 

[mcciff2112]

White cross 98% of the time, yellow cross 1.5% of the time, any other color because I feel like having a fun solve that isn't very fast 0.5% of the time.

If it wasn't important for this discussion...then why add it?

Because he doesn't do a CROSS.

That's great...but I didn't ask about a CROSS. I asked about color. Chill out.

He doesn't use Friedrich at the moment, so his first layer is part of a method that not as many people are familiar with. That's why he didn't say it was important, because he would rather stay on topic than start a discussion on EOLine.

 

[rahulkadukar]

Start with white otherwise I become slow

 

[Novriil]

I'm yellow white color neutral.

+1

NOTASHORTPOST!!123

 

[jdouglasusn]

White cross 98% of the time, yellow cross 1.5% of the time, any other color because I feel like having a fun solve that isn't very fast 0.5% of the time.

If it wasn't important for this discussion...then why add it?

Because he doesn't do a CROSS.

That's great...but I didn't ask about a CROSS. I asked about color. Chill out.

He doesn't use Friedrich at the moment, so his first layer is part of a method that not as many people are familiar with. That's why he didn't say it was important, because he would rather stay on topic than start a discussion on EOLine.

Yes true...but using any method you can start on the same color again, and again. Especially if you're new at it. Whenever I mess around with Petrus method, still tinker with the cubes with blue on them.
*off topic* That last comment I made ("chill out") was really toward guy typing in caps. That just got on my nerves

 

[veazer]

I think most people are either 1 color, 2 opposites, or completely neutral.

Me? white/yellow neutral
(used to be blue/green, but I realized I'm half colorblind)