Helping a color-blind friend to cube

[Leander Wyss]

Hi guys

I found this thread most suitable for the hardware area, so here is my question: I got a friend, who is "a bit" color-blind; that means he can tell apart one color from another, especially when they're sort of complementary. But the problem is, it takes time, sometimes he has to look twice to be sure, now you can assume the problem of him speedcubing, every move has to be executed very fast (with sometimes 10-20 moves per sec). His birthday is soon, and I wanted to make him a cube as a gift.

I have several ideas to solve this problem:
One is just to use a speciual color scheme (suggestions?).
The other one is to use tiles, which I could modify (cutting one side of tiles in striped and the other one in circle line, etc.), like a combination of the colors of the tiles, the feeling of their surface and seeing the different "shapes" of the tiles.

What is your meaning of my ideas? Or have you even better ones? That would be great

thx in advance and greez

 

[Pandadudex96]

maybe you could get some cubesmith bright/fluorescent stickers?? They stand out a lot

 

[Engberg91]

http://www.cubesmith.com/colorblind.htm
There you go =)

 

[5BLD]

I have a colour blind friend who I have been teaching roux to.
Bright stickers help. I gave him the money to buy some (I can't order from cubesmith ) and now he can differentiate between colours fairly easily now.

A different colour scheme might work too.
Or a huge contrast between the 'colour blind colours'.

Must suck to be colour blind :/

 

[Leander Wyss]

Yh of course, cubesmith's are just great^^ But hm, I honestly think that won't be enough difference to a normal cube...

 

[StachuK1992]

Fluorescent stickers + replacing orange with black helped me out a lot.

 

[Leander Wyss]

wow there are very great suggestions, thx so far for every idea
would like to listen to a few more ideas, just to figure which one is the best for my friend.

 

[Leander Wyss]

Or what do u guys think of tiles?

 

[Pandadudex96]

Or what do u guys think of tiles?

IMO stickers are more distinguishable compared to tiles so stickers are better

 

[Hershey]

Harris Chan is a really fast colorblind cuber. I think that after some time, he started to get used to regular colors. If this is too hard, what people said in above comments.

 

[NeedReality]

I use white cubes and brighter stickers for the most part to help me distinguish the colors (I'm partially colorblind as well) and it helps me quite a bit. I'm in the process of changing my color scheme, though, as I still have problems with yellow/orange and red/green. Try and find what colors he has the most trouble with and just get different colored stickers, as that's what I'm doing with my new color scheme and it seems to work well.

You can't really do that easily without letting him know what you're doing, I suppose, but it's probably best if he has some input even if he doesn't know exactly what it's for.

 

[cubernya]

Harris Chan is a really fast colorblind cuber. I think that after some time, he started to get used to regular colors. If this is too hard, what people said in above comments.

Why didn't I ever realize Harris is colorblind?

 

[Leander Wyss]

I use white cubes and brighter stickers for the most part to help me distinguish the colors (I'm partially colorblind as well) and it helps me quite a bit. I'm in the process of changing my color scheme, though, as I still have problems with yellow/orange and red/green. Try and find what colors he has the most trouble with and just get different colored stickers, as that's what I'm doing with my new color scheme and it seems to work well.

You can't really do that easily without letting him know what you're doing, I suppose, but it's probably best if he has some input even if he doesn't know exactly what it's for.

That's one of the best suggestions Thank you, I'll try to find out what colors he isn't able to recognize well.