Bh13
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CFOP. Pretty much CN. ~3-4 seconds slower. Does that count as CN?
How many of you are color neutral?
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stoic
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White cross solver. I recently decided to spend the month of May doing yellow cross, and found it pretty quick to get used to. My times were similar within two weeks. Next I'm going to try and apply that to see how quickly I can assess which cross is best.
CubeSurfer
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I solve white cross, but I practice yellow from time to time. Maybe after I learn full PLL I will work on solving with opposites.
Ltsurge
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I think it is a mistake not to be colour neutral from when you first learn to speed cube. Habits start from 'young' and young in terms of your speedcubing journey is when you first start... That's just my opinion anyway. I'm definitely colour neutral, have been since I learn't the beginner method.
SolveThatCube
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I solve with white and yellow (equally as good)
Tezzeract
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I was taught to solve the green cross, and everbody I saw on YouTube solved white crosses in tutorials, so I became color neutral after seeing a color neutral solver teach me CFOP.
QQW
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CN ever since I learned F2L (avg 1:30)
IRNjuggle28
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I only solve white and yellow, and I don't regret at all that I didn't go with being fully neutral. I like cubes bigger than 3x3 for the most part, and the effort spent being color neutral would really only affect the 3x3 stage for redux solves. And being fully color neutral with Yau is thought to not be advantageous. Many color neutral 3x3 solvers decide to not be color neutral with Yau. For my purposes, white and yellow is perfect. For what it's worth, when using reduction, I'm color neutral on the order that I do centers and edges and stuff. With Yau, I either do white or yellow.
I tried doing a few solves on the 4 cross colors that I don't do. Surprisingly, my times weren't THAT much worse. I average 18 seconds usually, and I still averaged sub-25 with the cross colors that I don't ever practice. A significant difference, but less than I was expecting.
I tried doing a few solves on the 4 cross colors that I don't do. Surprisingly, my times weren't THAT much worse. I average 18 seconds usually, and I still averaged sub-25 with the cross colors that I don't ever practice. A significant difference, but less than I was expecting.
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if you are slower with some colours then you are not colour neutral
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wow, compared to the poll results, CN has really picked up the last few years. About 5 years ago it was only faz, myself, yau and a few others
PJKCuber
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I am CN. Pretty new to cubing still. I average sub 30.
You, faz and yau popularized it. Faz pretty much made me think that being color neutral was mandatory. So I started color neutral
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Ninja Storm
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kcl
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CN is the best
I'm tempted to practice blue green cross for a couple weeks.
Is it bad to feel bad about not being color neutral? lol
But deciding which color to start with in inspection seems only useful if one could recognize which cross would be the fastest. After that, it's the luck of the scramble. Makes little difference to me, but I'd still like to know how to do it, y'know... just 'cause it seems like a tricky yet cool ability.
Maybe I'll start practicing soon.
But deciding which color to start with in inspection seems only useful if one could recognize which cross would be the fastest. After that, it's the luck of the scramble. Makes little difference to me, but I'd still like to know how to do it, y'know... just 'cause it seems like a tricky yet cool ability.
Maybe I'll start practicing soon.
PJKCuber
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I'll make a tutorial if you want. I am color neutral
I probably wouldn't use it, but go right ahead, I'll check it out. I feel it's just practice solving from different sides until I get used to how the colors have been reoriented. I just choose white as my D because it's easy to spot from the beginning, and yellow is an easy to spot LL especially when it comes to orientation.I'll make a tutorial if you want. I am color neutral
Vossy
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I am working on it, that i am color neutral
Ninja Storm
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IMO it's not really worth it to be CN if you're not naturally CN. It'll help, but by how much?
kcl
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In a way yes, but I feel like it's going to be the same deal that I did with yellow cross. It was weird at first so I just started using it and got used to it. I bet the same thing can happen with green or blue.
IRNjuggle28
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It'll take way longer. The difficult thing is the E layer color scheme, which is the same with white and yellow. Blue and green will be way harder and you're too fast to switch IMO. But, I didn't say anything you don't already know.
