Why I am now Color Netural

[clifford2704]

in the 15 seconds inspection time how do you find the "best cross"? atm as a white cross maker I can somewhat do this but if I have to inspect the same way for every colour not sure how that'll work.

 

[riffz]

Just eyeball it quickly. Look for any faces that have all their pieces in a nice orientation, 1 or 2 cross pieces already solved, or even a connected F2L pair that would allow an easy x-cross. (That's what I do, anyway.)

 

[DavidWoner]

Yeah you don't necessarily look for the *best* cross as much as you look for a *good* cross.

 

[bwronski]

the *fastest* is what i look for

 

[LeighzerCuber]

You want to look for a cross that is mostly made or could be done fast with nice finger tricks. Fewest moves might not be the fastest. Hence, you look for a cross that you can execute well.
(and a good transition into f2l is also ideal.)

 

[markthema3]

Thanks for this. For the 3 years I have been solving, I have always done red on bottom/red cross. When I started learning Petrus method 2 weeks ago, I always used red on bottom. Thanks to this thread I'm now almost completely color neutral. Now I'm just waiting for my ZhanChi to ship so I can see what I can do with a good cube.

 

[IanTheCuber]

I'm semi-color neutral: I do either the white cross or yellow cross.

 

[Jaycee]

I'm semi-color neutral: I do either the white cross or yellow cross.

Just a fun fact : It's normally called "opposite colors neutral".

When I finally pick up my 3x3 again (It's been all 2x2 and 4x4 for weeks), I'll be working towards opposite colors neutral.

 

[xabu1]

I find it interesting, trying to move towards colour neutral

I use roux, and I always do the orange/white on DL block, now I am just trying to do other blocks with white still on the bottom, I used to do fridrich with white cross, but still, I find even this quite hard

if I get used to all blocks with white on D, I might think about moving on to trying to become colour neutral

the only thing I am worried about it the inspection time, right now I use most of it, I am worried that if I go for colour neutral, I will go over, right now, I am just checking for first 1x1x2 that I can use and going with that block

 

[kajitatsu]

Just a fun fact : It's normally called "opposite colors neutral".

When I finally pick up my 3x3 again (It's been all 2x2 and 4x4 for weeks), I'll be working towards opposite colors neutral.

Interestingly, if you look at Michal's WC 2011 3x3 final solves he only did White and Yellow (I think one) crosses, just saying. Might've been a coincidence that all the white crosses were nice.

 

[jonlin]

You said "why i am now color neutral." When you started this thread.
It's not worth the change unless you started with it in the first place.
Why does everyone all of a sudden want to learn color neutrality?
Maybe because of Rowe and Faz.
In 2008 no one who was a serious CFOP user recommended color neutrality(Hardwick, Erik, etc.).