Your color scheme

[adamb123]

What's yours, white oppisite yellow or white opposite blue?

 

[ExoCorsair]

Former, but I want a Japanese color scheme.

 

[Rama]

I myself use the PYO anti-clockwise colorscheme, sometimes BOY anti-clockwise.

 

[hdskull]

started w/YOW so i'm not gonna change

 

[mahajarama]

I prefer White Opposite Yellow.

 

[Mike Hughey]

I originally arranged mine to match a keychain cube I had from the 80's. I thought that keychain cube matched my original 1981 Rubik's Cube, but I guess I'm not sure of that, since I can't find my original cube. (It's probably in the same place with my original Rubik's Revenge and my Pyraminx, both of which I also can't find. )

Anyway, it's like the Japanese color scheme, only with red and orange swapped. So it confuses almost anyone who looks at it. And it means I can't solve pretty much anybody else's cube reasonably, which I'm starting to really regret. I kind of wish I had switched to the US color scheme before I got going on speedcubing early this year. And now I have 4x4x4 and 5x5x5 cubes with the same crazy color scheme on them as well. Sigh.

 

[VooX]

Anyway, it's like the Japanese color scheme, only with red and orange swapped. So it confuses almost anyone who looks at it. And it means I can't solve pretty much anybody else's cube reasonably, which I'm starting to really regret. I kind of wish I had switched to the US color scheme before I got going on speedcubing early this year. And now I have 4x4x4 and 5x5x5 cubes with the same crazy color scheme on them as well. Sigh.

Exactly my sentiments. I used to have white opposite blue, but whenever my friend (who uses white opposite yellow) tried to speedcube, he would get confused and frustrated.

I switched to White/Yellow Green/Blue Red/Orange because I live in North America and that is the colour scheme used here on store bought cubes.

White/Blue Green/Yellow Red/Orange is the Japanese system.

I felt like I didn't want to learn a colour scheme that I would seldom, if ever, encounter. I want to be able to pick up any store bought cube that might be in someone's house, and instantly try to speedsolve it with no frustrations (other than turning an unlubed store-bought cube).

Since switching my speedcubing friend can solve on my cube without hassle, and I have ingrained in me speedcubing on a cube that has the most common colour system where I live.

 

[Scigatt]

*gravedig*

On a related question, I use white opposite yellow, but does Blue-Orange-Yellow usually go clockwise (like mine does) around the corner?

 

[*LukeMayn*]

What is up with all these threads?!?!?!
do you really give a stuff what everyone else uses.
BTW most people here use w/y lll o/r lll g/b

 

[rjohnson_8ball]

*gravedig*

On a related question, I use white opposite yellow, but does Blue-Orange-Yellow usually go clockwise (like mine does) around the corner?

Hey, I don't see much wrong with reactivating old threads either. In fact, I'm not sure I saw this one in the first place. The US color scheme has Red/White/Blue going clockwise around a corner, with R opposite O, W opposite Y, B opposite G.

Can someone define "BOY" precisely? Don't both the Japanese and US color schemes have Blue/Orange/Yellow at a corner, but just different opposing colors? This has bothered me ever since I heard the term "BOY", as it always seemed ambiguous to me.

 

[Rabid]

I have a black bottom.

 

[d4m4s74]

white opposite yellow, though I do have 3 keychain cubes with japanese color scheme

 

[shelley]

Can someone define "BOY" precisely? Don't both the Japanese and US color schemes have Blue/Orange/Yellow at a corner, but just different opposing colors? This has bothered me ever since I heard the term "BOY", as it always seemed ambiguous to me.

BOY is the order of the colors going clockwise around that corner.

 

[rjohnson_8ball]

Can someone define "BOY" precisely? Don't both the Japanese and US color schemes have Blue/Orange/Yellow at a corner, but just different opposing colors? This has bothered me ever since I heard the term "BOY", as it always seemed ambiguous to me.

BOY is the order of the colors going clockwise around that corner.

Long ago, on either this forum or http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/speedsolvingrubikscube/ someone said "I prefer the BOY scheme." So that person cares more that Blue/Orange/Yellow goes clockwise than whether Yellow or Blue are opposite White? Hmm.

 

[qqwref]

It's just a description of the color scheme as opposed to the other main common one (which goes BYO). I mean, sure, there are 30 different color schemes given the normal 6 colors, but you don't need to describe every one, because there are only two ones that anyone really uses.

 

[fanwuq]

I thought of something:

I use the standard American Rubik's color scheme. I'm thinking about replacing green with Black so that I can be 2/3 color neutral.
I have 2 opposites: white and yellow that are really light.
My blue stickers are very dark and green is medium shade, so if that is black instead, I can have 2 very dark opposites. That might help me with my recognition when trying to be color neutral.
My blue cross solves (~27) are already the 3rd fastest, behind yellow (~21) and white (~20). Others are about 32 seconds.
Remembering green= black should be as easy as remembering orange = purple on Eastsheens.

 

[rjohnson_8ball]

It's just a description of the color scheme as opposed to the other main common one (which goes BYO). I mean, sure, there are 30 different color schemes given the normal 6 colors, but you don't need to describe every one, because there are only two ones that anyone really uses.

See, this is exactly what irks me. I thought the 2 most common color schemes are US (Yellow opposite white) versus Japanese (Blue opposite white). Both of these schemes typically have Blue-Orange-Yellow cycled clockwise (as far as I know).

 

[Mike Hughey]

It's just a description of the color scheme as opposed to the other main common one (which goes BYO). I mean, sure, there are 30 different color schemes given the normal 6 colors, but you don't need to describe every one, because there are only two ones that anyone really uses.

See, this is exactly what irks me. I thought the 2 most common color schemes are US (Yellow opposite white) versus Japanese (Blue opposite white). Both of these schemes typically have Blue-Orange-Yellow cycled clockwise (as far as I know).

I don't think the Japanese scheme has Blue-Orange-Yellow clockwise around a corner, because mine does, and mine is Japanese-but-with-red-and-orange-swapped. So I would expect a Japanese cube to be Blue-Yellow-Orange.

I honestly thought BOY stood for "blue opposite yellow". I guess that's silly of me, but that's what I thought it stood for.

 

[rjohnson_8ball]

I would like to refer to the US color scheme as "RWB" (Red, White, Blue of our flag). Not only does it indicate how those colors meet clockwise at a corner, but it also notes that White and Blue cannot be opposite colors (as they would be in the Japanese scheme).

 

[Mike Hughey]

I would like to refer to the US color scheme as "RWB" (Red, White, Blue of our flag). Not only does it indicate how those colors meet clockwise at a corner, but it also notes that White and Blue cannot be opposite colors (as they would be in the Japanese scheme).

But the original US color scheme WAS the current Japanese color scheme. (Or at least I have 2 1980's cubes that say so.) I think of the current scheme as the European color scheme. So it seems to me that tying it to the US flag doesn't make much sense.