Color Scheme Recognition

[jdh3000]

Just wondering everyone is identifying their color schemes...

I use cfop, white on bottom, and sometimes if I'm choosing to ignore the center pieces, I do O/B(thinking of Obi Wan) and G/O is just GO, R/G(Achie)...

Another way is looking at the centers and if they are not the same as the bottom edge, or opposite of it, then the center on the right and bottom edge on left match, and the center left and bottom edge one right will be opposite. This will tell you it is offset by one turn.

I like the last method, but the first method springs to mind quicker for me, I don't know why except that's the first way I learned.

The second method would work better for color neutral solvers as one wouldn't have to keep the color scheme in mind. I give credit to Caleb Miller on YouTube for thus method.

I know many with the first method just know blue is to the right of orange, but I need something to trigger it, therefore I use the mnemonic device.
Some may just have orange/blue fixed in their minds, but I do not.

Opposites are no problem, but offset matching is where these two methods come in handy.

Thought this might help someone, and if anyone has something better please add it.

 

[tx789]

Just solve a lot. You don't need to learn the colour scheme with mnemonics. That might be useful for you for 4x4 and 6x6 but for 3x3 just use the centres.


Fto may need you to have mnemonics because its colour scheme is complicated. But 3x3s have centres.

 

[jdh3000]

Just solve a lot. You don't need to learn the colour scheme with mnemonics. That might be useful for you for 4x4 and 6x6 but for 3x3 just use the centres.


Fto may need you to have mnemonics because its colour scheme is complicated. But 3x3s have centres.

Yea the second way I mentioned uses looking at the centers. I did it the other way a long time, then I learned how ro recognize them by relating two same side centers and two opposites.

Sometimes in a split second I don't recognize this and my mind reverts back to the mnemonic device.

Just knowing orange is to the left of blue doesn't register with everyone the same way. I wasn't able to immediately able to recognize opposites , but if it was offset by one turn, I never could recognize it well, and I've been cubing a long time.

Most people I'm sure don't have to do anything more that just solve a lot and get used to it, but it never worked for me.
So, I used the mnemonic device until I learned the center/side way I was talking about.