Starting Colour

[nitrocan]

Change to blue.

Seriously though, there's no reason to switch to white... just because most other people use it. Use whatever color you are most comfortable with.

White is shiny!

It doesn't matter. E.g. Macky and Katsu uses blue cross.

It's very common amongst Japanese cubers.

 

[soccerking813]

I personally use white, because I found it easier to recognize the cross pieces with white on them. It seems like it would be reasonable to say that when doing fridrich F2L, the white stickers are harder to tell apart from the yellow than other colors. I do not believe that though.

Just stick with what you have now. If you try to switch, it would ruin your times forever.

 

[nitrocan]

I personally use white, because I found it easier to recognize the cross pieces with white on them. It seems like it would be reasonable to say that when doing fridrich F2L, the white stickers are harder to tell apart from the yellow than other colors. I do not believe that though.

Just stick with what you have now. If you try to switch, it would ruin your times forever.

Orange and red are pretty similar too.

 

[Cloud_9ine]

I say for you to stick with green but maybe switch to doing G/B neutrality, and while your at it switch to petrus.

 

[soccerking813]

Yea, that's what is bad and good about the standard color scheme. The opposite colors are similar.

 

[DavidWoner]

Yea, that's what is bad and good about the standard color scheme. The opposite colors are similar.

How is it bad?

 

[Poke]

What should I do? I have a blue cube and I like green cross... maybe it will increase my F2L recognition because it is hard to see blue on blue.

 

[Cride5]

I always use white on bottom and blue on front for three reasons:

1. Using exactly the same colour scheme each time makes F2L lookahead much easier (assuming you don't do cube rotations).
2. DF-edges easier to find since its the brightest colour
3. Makes red/orange 'bad' edges on U/D-faces

Although I'm using ZZ, points 1 and 2 can still apply to Fridrich. For speedcubing I think the most useful thing is to stick to the same colour each time, since you get an instinct for where pieces belong and lookahead becomes much easier. Althogh recommended for FM solving, colour neutrality is probably less useful for speedsolving unless you are a Petrus user IMHO

 

[shelley]

go with beige or pink. those are what i start with

I'm partial to puce myself. Then I end up with a fuschia last layer. It's the way to go.

 

[iggyzizzle]

As a general rule IMO, pick a cross and/or starting color and stay with it. Whether it's yellow, white, blue, green, turquoise, fuchsia, sunburst, just do it the same each time. I prefer white, but do whatever works. But Petrus users should probably be color neutral, as Cride said.

 

[irontwig]

I always use white on bottom and blue on front for three reasons:

1. Using exactly the same colour scheme each time makes F2L lookahead much easier (assuming you don't do cube rotations).
2. DF-edges easier to find since its the brightest colour
3. Makes red/orange 'bad' edges on U/D-faces

Although I'm using ZZ, points 1 and 2 can still apply to Fridrich. For speedcubing I think the most useful thing is to stick to the same colour each time, since you get an instinct for where pieces belong and lookahead becomes much easier. Althogh recommended for FM solving, colour neutrality is probably less useful for speedsolving unless you are a Petrus user IMHO

Well for ZZ I would say that always having the same cube orientation is a requirement for efficient planning of EOline. Also the same thing can be said about Fridrich, the time "wasted" on looking for easier crosses can be spent planning for F2L. To me it seems that a more helpful type of neutrality would be cross/block neutrality for better F2L.

Btw how good are people at seeing past EOline (so they can plan for F2L)?

 

[Cride5]

Btw how good are people at seeing past EOline (so they can plan for F2L)?

Since EOLine is usually quite difficult, I never plan for F2L during inspection. Sometimes difficult EO cases can even make planning the Line part difficult. I usually move quite slowly during EOLine tho, which means lookahead to the first F2L block comes fairly easily. I'm only an intermediate ZZ'er at best tho. I'm sure there's a lot better EOLiners out there!!