Your color scheme

[rjohnson_8ball]

Ok. Anyway, I still feel the anagram "BOY" is not the most direct way to indicate the European style verses Japanese style, because it's hard to remember which style cycles those colors one way or the other. I wish we had the convention of using "BOW" (Blue Opposite White) versus "YOW" (Yellow Opposite White). (By the way, my first cube around 1980 had blue opposite white, but it's long gone, so I didn't know its CW, CCW ordering.)

 

[jcuber]

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[shelley]

I noticed, but there was a new question brought up (what exactly does BOY stand for). The people who are still posting what color scheme they use are the ones that haven't noticed.

 

[Hadley4000]

So it confuses almost anyone who looks at it.

I'd be fine

 

[Kit Clement]

Japanese color scheme FTW. I use a Black instead of White for my white cube though, which makes it very confusing for the scramblers at competitions.

My first cube was stickered on the recommendation of my friend, who bought cubesmith stickers, and I put them on the Japanese way just to be different, he mentioned this alternate color scheme to me. I've kept it that way since.

 

[Thompson]

I use White opposite Yellow because that's what my first cube was and I got used to it.

 

[jcuber]

Did anyone notice that this thread was started over a year ago?
This thread was dead for a long, long time. It's like trying to tell someone in a casket to wake up for breakfast.

Sorry about that, just saw it (thread start date) on the home page, and didn't read it first.

 

[EmersonHerrmann]

I use both...my tranparent type b has blue opposite yellow, so does my black type A and my ES 4x4. My type a with rubik's corners uses white opposite yellow.

 

[byu]

I prefer white opposite yellow.

 

[d_sprink]

I learned on White/Blue Green/Yellow Red/Orange and used it for a few years, but switched when I started learning Friedrich. I use a ccw BOY scheme.

My understanding was that "BOY" usually means clockwise Blue on top, Orange on right, and Yellow on front.

 

[d4m4s74]

my apologies for the (small) bump

I found a cube I used to have on my keychain some time ago and I have no idea what color scheme it is

Green on front, blue on right, red on top
Green opposite yellow, blue opposite white and red opposite purple

any info?



(img. related, it's the cube)


also: the cube is the size of an ES 2x2 cubie

 

[Spyyder]

my apologies for the (small) bump

I found a cube I used to have on my keychain some time ago and I have no idea what color scheme it is

Green on front, blue on right, red on top
Green opposite yellow, blue opposite white and red opposite purple

any info?



(img. related, it's the cube)


also: the cube is the size of an ES 2x2 cubie

Japanese color scheme, with purple stickers instead of orange.

 

[krazedkat]

White-Yellow. Simple reason is because they are similar...

 

[Tim Major]

I'd rather bump than make a new thread so....

I've just changed my colour scheme, and I have the norm, except white opposite black. Black just replaces yellow.

This way on white and black cubes, I have the same colours. Plus when doing white cross, in f2l I can completely block out cubies containing black. It was awkward at first, but after about 5 solves, I'm fine, and perhaps slightly faster. (it might just be the a2 I just got.)

 

[Zubon]

I'd rather bump than make a new thread so....

I've just changed my colour scheme, and I have the norm, except white opposite black. Black just replaces yellow.

This way on white and black cubes, I have the same colours. Plus when doing white cross, in f2l I can completely block out cubies containing black. It was awkward at first, but after about 5 solves, I'm fine, and perhaps slightly faster. (it might just be the a2 I just got.)

This is my color scheme. Having no stickers on the last layer face sometimes helps recognition in F2L. It is easier to ignore cubies that have no stickers.

However I think this is only good for beginners because I often hear that advanced cubers can automatically ignore yellow stickers.

The only disadvantage is that OLL recognition is a little hard at first but you get used to searching for "holes" rather than yellow stickers. I am glad more people are trying this color scheme.

EDIT: I also use an A II cube and I am also originally from Australia.... We have the same cube!

 

[LNZ]

I like white or black opposite to yellow and modern cube color scheme.

I do own a 1980's knockoff Rubik's 3x3 (made in Taiwan) though.

 

[Tim Major]

I'd rather bump than make a new thread so....

I've just changed my colour scheme, and I have the norm, except white opposite black. Black just replaces yellow.

This way on white and black cubes, I have the same colours. Plus when doing white cross, in f2l I can completely block out cubies containing black. It was awkward at first, but after about 5 solves, I'm fine, and perhaps slightly faster. (it might just be the a2 I just got.)

This is my color scheme. Having no stickers on the last layer face sometimes helps recognition in F2L. It is easier to ignore cubies that have no stickers.

However I think this is only good for beginners because I often hear that advanced cubers can automatically ignore yellow stickers.

The only disadvantage is that OLL recognition is a little hard at first but you get used to searching for "holes" rather than yellow stickers. I am glad more people are trying this color scheme.

EDIT: I also use an A II cube and I am also originally from Australia.... We have the same cube!

Pity the 8 colour PP stickers I got with the a2, have red and orange super similar. Right now, I'm still using my Edison. I find OLL recog fine. I wish the red and orange weren't sooooo close.

YAYAYAYAY Aussie!

 

[ronaldraymond2]

i have just seen a "none of the above" scheme. and it is good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTkhA3RO5fU

this is the original rubik commercial from 1981. after a few replays i think the color scheme is y-o, r-w, g-b. the actual cube being played with has o-g-w clockwise, while the animation at the end has the mirror image.

this really intrigues me because i remember reading in the nourse "simple solution" book way back when, that yellow and orange are not always adjacent colors. that statement boggled me, because i had never seen a real-life example to prove it. until now.

has anyone seen this y/o color scheme? virtually every ideal (80's) cube i've seen has the japanese color scheme or its mirror, plus a very few y/w cubes here and there. so i'm wondering where this y/o scheme came from. maybe it was the original design by mr. rubik?

i love how they got the # of combinations wrong too...

 

[Logan]

I have BOY (white-yellow, blue-green, & orange-red)

except on my type c: BYO (white-yellow, blue-gree, & orange-red)

 

[Sa967St]

I can't vote, I have white opposite purple on my main 3x3x3