[Help Thread] What is the problem of K4 method?

[chaos]

I can use K4 method, and my average is not that slower than my ordinary solves.(I use my own method, which is mix between yau and hoya. But I'm gonna switch to yau)
I think K4 is not that bad method. the cross of the yau and hoya can be applied(which makes lot more faster I think), F3L is rotationless, lookahead is just awesome, movecount is efficient, CLL algs are not that much, and ELL can be pretty fast if you have a great understanding of commutator.

Then what is the reason that almost no people use K4 as their main method?

 

[LL Cool Skip]

Good question. I'd say it's probably the ELL part. I played with it for a while and always sat staring at the cube for eternity when I got to that point.

Time to look at K4 again.

 

[shadowslice e]

For the same reason that most people use CFOP and not Roux or ZZ- redux is simple, fairly effective and doesn't require knowledge of stuff such as comms etc.

But most of all cause everyone else uses Yau rather than the other methods.

 

[Deleted member 36445]

is K4 still relevant in 2022?

 

[ruffleduck]

is K4 still relevant in 2022?

 

[Deleted member 36445]

dang it that looks cool

 

[Timona]

Jules has been using K4 for a long time now, he's the 2nd reason why I wanted to learn the method so bad. Sadly, I never understood commutators that well. I'm pretty decent at everything up until the ELL and it really sucks cus it looks so cool.

 

[Deleted member 36445]

ell algs seem pretty bad
maybe I should try it again

 

[Timona]

Old but Gold

http://snk.digibase.ca/k4/

 

[Deleted member 36445]

I barely learned 4x4 OLL parity xD
I need 500+ QI

 

[abunickabhi]

K4 has no problems as long as you get lucky yo, L S U L2 U S' U' L2 U' L'!

 

[Deleted member 36445]

K4 has no problems as long as you get lucky yo, L S U L2 U S' U' L2 U' L'!

and how is that an advantage?