Color Neutrality

Which do you think is the best?

  • White cross

    Votes: 13 15.3%
  • White and Yellow cross

    Votes: 18 21.2%
  • Color Neutral

    Votes: 54 63.5%

  • Total voters
    85
He should have done what someone above suggested, and asked if people think single cross, opposite cross, CN, or some other variation, is the best. specifying white and yellow was just silly.
 
The poll options are foolish because this is a new member who makes a thread every time an idea pops into his head. He just needs to sit back and lurk moar.

Edit: He's started eleven threads since he started, most of which are useless and could have been resolved in the OAQT. Anything with a poll has had options similar to this one in that they're not well thought out and are all around sub par.
 
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I chose white cross, from personal experience. I would fail at CN and even a yellow cross. I think that if you were really good at it(Rowe, Faz), then CN is best, but I made my decision based on what I personally prefer.
 
I've been color neutral since I solved the cube for the first time. I really don't understand why people do fixed cross in the first place...

When you consistently use only one color f2l is very easy because you are used to looking for the same 8 pieces every time and you recognize bad pieces faster. CN people just have developed that recog from one side to all sides by practicing a hell of a lot more. That is why sticking w/ one color or dual cross solving is beneficial to relatively slow people.
 
I tried color neutrality with CFOP and hated it. From my experience it's only good if you want to find an easy start. I build EOLine, not cross, on either white or yellow and recognition during F2L is so much easier. Instead of going for color neutrality for an easy start or because it's the hip thing to do it is better to learn how to deal with harder cases efficiently.
 
I tried color neutrality with CFOP and hated it. From my experience it's only good if you want to find an easy start. I build EOLine, not cross, on either white or yellow and recognition during F2L is so much easier.

In your case it might be easier. You learned to recognize colors and color neutral people learned to recognize patterns. A fixed cross in no way enables you to have better recognition.
 
In your case it might be easier. You learned to recognize colors and color neutral people learned to recognize patterns. A fixed cross in no way enables you to have better recognition.

That would make a much more interesting poll and discussion. What is best/better/good? Recognising colors or recognising patterns?
 
Full colour neutrality annoys me. My LSE is faster with white/yellow on L/R but my blocks are so much slower this way. So I have to stay white/yellow colour neutral.

The problem is, if I practiced colour neutrality, won't it slow my progress and only give me a tiny tiny advantage? Any colour neutral Rouxers out there (hello Cool Frog), does it benefit you a lot?
 
Full colour neutrality annoys me. My LSE is faster with white/yellow on L/R but my blocks are so much slower this way. So I have to stay white/yellow colour neutral.

The problem is, if I practiced colour neutrality, won't it slow my progress and only give me a tiny tiny advantage? Any colour neutral Rouxers out there (hello Cool Frog), does it benefit you a lot?

My lse is only a sec slower when i dont do it with yellow U.
im reallllly thinking about becoming CN, cause my blocks are a mess.
And since im not that good(as you), there would no problem, right??
 
I started out this week with cn and i do at least one avg of 12 a day with all the colours.
I'm around 15 with yellow and 25 with the rest.

It's not that hard, just be patient.

P.S. it's also quite fun to see my times drop down by the seconds again instead of tenths and hundreds.
 
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CN Could be better but CFOP isn't the only method. Are there any color neutral ZZ users out there?

I am white/yellow EOLine color neutral too, but I wouldn't say this is color neutrality, since I need orange/red on F/B and white/yellow on U/D. I think it would be very hard to be full color neutral with ZZ, and also, how would one inspect? Checking EO for the 6 different possible orientation (counting them in groups of 4) is rather impossible to do in 15 seconds.
 
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