Cross Color Horoscope

[Lucas Garron]

I've been trying on and off to practice color neutral cross, but I don't feel like I'm good enough at most colors to pick a good cross each time.

Sticking with a color for a day isn't a new idea, but I had a silly idea: don't pick it yourself, but still make it easy to find which one to use! By day of the week, using a mnemonic!

Presenting the Cross Color Horoscope:

Monday	ORAN-day
Tuesday	BLUEs-day
Wednesday	REDness-day
Thursday	VERTs-day (green)
Friday	FRIES-day (yellow)
Saturday	DESATURE-day (white)
Sunday	FUN-day! (wildcard / all colors)

Poster/meme format:

Fun fact: "horoscope" means time observer, and horoscopes originate from observing the sky. The seven-day week also originated from astronomy, so this is as legit as a horoscope gets.

 

[qwr]

How did you come up with this lmao

 

[Lucas Garron]

How did you come up with this lmao

• "Hmm, I should practice other colors."
• "I'm not good at picking colors. Maybe I should just pick one color at a time and stick with it for a day?"
• "How do I pick? Maybe day of the week, since there are just under days in a week?"
• "How do remember which color is which day of the week?"

Sure is easier than carrying around a spare 1x1x1 and rolling it before every solve.

 

[SH03L4C3]

nice.
I just practice by looking at which cross has the best outcome during inspection and doing that one.

 

[Swagrid]

alright I'm using this for ZZ and nobody can stop me

 

[qwr]

Sure is easier than carrying around a spare 1x1x1 and rolling it before every solve.

That's a good idea!

nice.
I just practice by looking at which cross has the best outcome during inspection and doing that one.

Yeah I usually stick to white or yellow but if both of those are bad I quickly look around the cube if there are easy (5 or fewer) move crosses on other colors.

 

[lawofthecube]

I did this showing the cross "bottom" color and side colors

 

[SenorJuan]

Electronics tinkerers will likely know their standard 'colour code' used for marking resistors, capacitors etc. Rolling a die can then be used to select the cross colour:
2 : red
3 : orange
4 : yellow
5 : green
6 : blue
1 : there's no brown in cubing ( good thing ) so it has to be most folks primary choice of white.

(( totally unrelated, but useful to mechanics/engineers:
Spanners can be colour-labelled with 'resistor' codes, to make them easily identifiable. Standard PVC electrical insulating tape can be wrapped around them, or sometimes coloured heatshrink sleeving works. Just label with the 'least significant digit', no need to distinguish between 6mm and 16mm.
6mm / 16mm = blue
7mm / 17mm = purple
8mm / 18mm = leave it silver, as a grey-equivalent
9mm / 19mm = white
10mm / 20mm = black
11mm / 21mm = brown
12mm / 22mm = red
13mm / 23mm = orange
14mm / 24mm = yellow
15mm / 25mm = green
Hope this is a handy tip for someone )))

 

[qwr]

I did this showing the cross "bottom" color and side colors

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I never memorized this, I just use centers as reference

 

[lawofthecube]

I never memorized this, I just use centers as reference

The sides are the centers!

 

[ruffleduck]

Just practice full CN at once, I don't get why people waste time learning 1 color at a time.

Absorb it all at once!

 

[lawofthecube]

Just practice full CN at once, I don't get why people waste time learning 1 color at a time.

Absorb it all at once!

Exactly, which is why it is all 6 different combinations and their unique side/center colors in my picture ...lol