How Does Plastic Color (Black vs White) Affect Your Times?

[miniGOINGS]

Um, I think I'm better with black because of my colour recognition, and the fact that all of my cubes are black.

 

[Faz]

I am better with black (I think), but I don't have any good black cubes

 

[Sebastian-1]

For Square-1 I only use white, 2x2 both, 3x3 both but better with black, Pyraminx both but better with white, 4x4 only use black, 5x5 both but better with black, 6x6 & 7x7 only black, Megaminx only black.

 

[ChrisBird]

I am better with black (I think), but I don't have any good black cubes

Then buy black ones ^_^

 

[waffle=ijm]

all my puzzles are white...anyone who has seen my box will confirm this. Why? I like white puzzles

 

[ChrisBird]

I just did an experiment (Black vs White) on 7x7, the cube where (IMO) the color difference will show itself the most.

And on black I got 8:47
White was 9:13

Same scramble of course, done of different days to avoid remembering cases.

 

[Daniel Wu]

That's pretty close considering the fact that it was a 7x7.

I think I'm better on black, but I've gotten more used to white because my two main cubes are white.

 

[jcuber]

I just did an experiment (Black vs White) on 7x7, the cube where (IMO) the color difference will show itself the most.

And on black I got 8:47
White was 9:13

Same scramble of course, done of different days to avoid remembering cases.

I would declare these times to be too close to be definitive. Other factors such as time of day, warm-up (or lack of it) lighting, energy level, etc. could easily have influenced this result. Do an average of 12, but alternate cubes (black solve, white solve, black solve...) so you do 24 solves in total. Then find the average for both, and the one with the better average wins.

You would also get alot of 7x7 practice with this.

 

[esquimalt1]

I don't thing white or black makes a difference for me. Also there's also the high chance of making a mistake in your 7x7 scramble which isn't very hard to.

 

[SaberSlash49]

Seeing how I only have 2 cubes (yes, I know, pitiful), I 'm better on black because I've never used a white./ I used green, and it burned my eyes, xD. The green one I used felt like a type b with a core screwed pretty tight.

 

[rahulkadukar]

I am black and white color neutral. As for the other color cubes I dont know. But If I am using a White Cube then it just needs to have Black stickers

 

[xTheAndyx]

i prefer black over white, but since i've spent so much mony on cubes /lost cubes somewhere in my house, i use black for 3x3/4x4/pyraminx, but white for everything else. also, my 3x3 has transparent center caps. eez nice =P

 

[jcuber]

I'm neutral on this, except 4x4 and 5x5, where I prefer black. I hope to change this on 5x5 soon enough.

 

[Strobeez]

What about the actual qualities of different plastic types other than recognition? I heard that white plastic is stronger than black plastic making it better. But others like soft plastic, take force cubes for example, and prefer coloured cubes. I honestly don't care much about plastic colour, i just so happen to have a white 2x2, black 3x3, white 4x4, black 5x5 and a white 6x6... so my colours are even. The one thing that interests me is the price of different plastics. Compare this original / primary coloured zhanchi http://lightake.com/detail.do/sku.3x3x3_DaYan_V_ZhanChi_Magic_Cube_DIY_Kit_Original_Color-44613 for $10, vs. this white one (black is same price as white) http://lightake.com/detail.do/sku.DIY_55mm_3x3x3_DaYan_5_ZhanChi_Magic_Cube_Kit___White-56081 running for almost double that price. Thoughts?

 

[applemobile]

Price purely comes down to demand and production numbers.