How long to Black Belt?

[PhotonGuy]

So while every style that uses belts has its own system and you will find variance in each belt system, I believe many belt systems have some things in common. In many belt systems, from what I've seen the belt color right before black is brown, and usually there are three levels of brown, there's brown 1, brown 2, brown 3, and then black, first degree. Some systems might have a red belt right before black instead of brown but many systems use a brown belt with three levels, from what I've seen.

 

[donald1]

Or both, I've been to one dojo had both brown and red before black

 

[PhotonGuy]

Or both, I've been to one dojo had both brown and red before black

So did the belt order go brown, red, black or red, brown, black?

 

[donald1]

Brown, red, then black, it was a TKD school about 45 miles from where I train (i know cause our school has been invited there few times; nice dojo)