Poll: Edge Pairing Methods!

[Zaxef]

Please be sure to select one of the last two options!

I use the Big Cubes method for 5x5 but I'm curious to see if people use the same method for 4x4 and 5x5.. Since it seems to me that AvG would be much faster on 4x4 than just random pairing, so I'm curious to see what others do..

And I'm aware there are many types of 4x4 edge pairing methods such as 3/6 at a time, and there are different orders like 2-2-2-2-2-2 and 6-3-2 etc (those are probably wrong but you know what I mean)

I'm just trying to distinguish if people use random pairing like Big Cubes or they use some kind of 2/3/6 "at a time" method.

 

[Daniel Wu]

I use AvG for the 4x4 and the 5x5 but I use the big cubes method for the 6x6 and 7x7.

 

[Zaxef]

Lol yes I'm assuming most people use Big Cubes for 6 and 7..
But thanks

 

[Daniel Wu]

Haha. You never know. I was using AvG for the inner edges on the 7x7 and then using AvG a second time to solve the outer edges.

 

[DavidWoner]

Lol yes I'm assuming most people use Big Cubes for 6 and 7..
But thanks

A rather poor assumption.

 

[stiwi griffin]

how does the AvG method works?

 

[Zaxef]

Lol yes I'm assuming most people use Big Cubes for 6 and 7..
But thanks

A rather poor assumption.

k4? Reducing to 4x4/5x5 then AvG? Those are the only alternatives I can think of and I doubt many people use them

Edit: Judging by the poll so far.. It seems like most people do BC 5x5 and AvG 4x4, as I thought

 

[Dene]

I put bigcubes for 4x4, but I'm really not sure if my edge-pairing method deserves that title. I pair 2 at a time, and try to use a fixed buffer, but that rarely works out nicely on 4x4, and I tend to end up pairing what I see. I would prefer to call this "freestyle", but my guess is that by "bigcubes method" you mean exactly that.

 

[MichaelErskine]

Freestyle edges FTW \o/

(..but I'm not fast so FTL )

 

[Zaxef]

I put bigcubes for 4x4, but I'm really not sure if my edge-pairing method deserves that title. I pair 2 at a time, and try to use a fixed buffer, but that rarely works out nicely on 4x4, and I tend to end up pairing what I see. I would prefer to call this "freestyle", but my guess is that by "bigcubes method" you mean exactly that.

Yes I would consider Freestyle/slice and Big Cubes the same thing

 

[trying-to-speedcube...]

Syuhei 4x4!

Freestyle 5x5!

Freestyle 6x6!

Freestyle 7x7!

 

[mazei]

Freestyle everything.

 

[Zava]

I do the AVG idea (2 at a time, or 2 half at a time) just lot more freestyle, and a bit FMC-ish style.

 

[rahulkadukar]

I use Chris Hardwicks advanced Edges for 4x4x4 and for 5x5x5 I use a mixture of AVG and Bigcubes

 

[RampageCuber]

I use Nakaji's method for all big cubes

 

[anythingtwisty]

Bigcubes for 4x4x4 and 5x5x5
On 6x6x6 and 7x7x7, I don't speedsolve, and my method is reducing the edges to 4x4x4 edges or 5x5x5 tredges.

 

[Mike Hughey]

AVG for 4x4x4, 5x5x5, 6x6x6, 7x7x7, and gigaminx.

I can see where big cubes is probably better than AVG for >5x5x5, but I'm about a minute slower with the big cubes method on 7x7x7, on average. Then again, I rarely ever practice it. And I use AVG for the last 4 edges even then.

AVG is particularly nice for gigaminx. (I'd love to try it on a real puzzle someday.)

 

[trying-to-speedcube...]

Bigcubes is impossible on a Gigaminx, so I had no choice... That's why I'm so slow at Gigaminx; AVG sucks (for me)

 

[Muesli]

I use the standard Pairing. I've yet to learn AvG.

 

[liljthedude]

Haha. You never know. I was using AvG for the inner edges on the 7x7 and then using AvG a second time to solve the outer edges.

I do the same!