Megaminx: Which color for cross?

[MichaelErskine]

Is that why I suck at megaminx? I've only solved it around 15 times ever and get better just about every solve, and last solve (the best) was around 4:30.

Dude! You don't come close to sucking at the megaminx: Since mid-November, when I finally worked out how to complete the last layer, I've done hundreds of solve my times are quite consistently 12 minutes!

That might in part be due to my minx being less than user friendly - after a solve my arms are usually aching! It's quite a wrestling match

 

[Ellis]

I'm even less color neutral on the minx, If I did my 3x3 the same way I would be doing all the F2L slots in the same order

 

[fanwuq]

Is that why I suck at megaminx? I've only solved it around 15 times ever and get better just about every solve, and last solve (the best) was around 4:30.

Dude! You don't come close to sucking at the megaminx: Since mid-November, when I finally worked out how to complete the last layer, I've done hundreds of solve my times are quite consistently 12 minutes!

That might in part be due to my minx being less than user friendly - after a solve my arms are usually aching! It's quite a wrestling match

But I think I'm reach a limit. I started off at about 10 minutes (on gelatinbrain) and the times are decreasing very slowly, I don't see myself getting sub-4 minutes. The last 5 solves or so are all about 5 4:30-6:00
My execution is decent, even fast on 2gen algs, but my lookahead really sucks.
This is terrible compared to my 3x3 times.

 

[TMOY]

I tried a few solves with star on a randomly chosen color instead of white: my times were 4:25 (light blue), 5:05 (red) and 4:13 (purple). Of course the difference with my usual times was entirely due to crappy recognition.
I think focusing on one color for the star and knowing your color scheme by heart greatly helps It's very difficult to get good times when you always have to ask yourself "well, which piece should I get now ?"

 

[qqwref]

Sorry but I think 4:30 kind of does suck considering the best solvers are near 1:00 average :| For comparison that would be like a 45 second 3x3 average, or around 6 minutes on 5x5. I average about 2:30 on my minx (no lockups, but I have to wrist it, so no fair ) and 2:00 on the gelatinbrain computer minx, and personally I feel like those times are just on the boundary of being decent.