CubingGenius
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Its not necessary to count all of the edges from all sides. When I use y neutrality, I first count edges on my preferred orientation, which is yellow top blue front. Then to work out the affect of a y rotation, I mentally flip each edge on the E slice with a yellow or white sticker, and each edge on the U or D slice without a yellow or white sticker. That way I need to count a maximum of 8 edges on the second face, but it's often less. I also found it easier to do that than to get used to recognising EO from a different orientation.
It's also possible to do something similar with x rotations. An x rotation only flips edges in the M slice with L/R stickers, and edges in the L/R slices without L/R stickers.
I actually do count them from the same angle. I look at an edge and work whether it is oriented or not on every one.
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