Multi-slotting

The algs for the 4 slots can be found on Bob Burton's website...not sure where you'd find multislotting thogh
 
The only kind of multi-slotting I actually do sometimes in a speedsolve is the mis-aligned slots trick. From a solved F2L (on D) do:
D R U' R' D'

Basically you have the edge solved in the FL slot, and the corner solved in the FR slot. Just do D to make both unsolved pieces have to end up in the FR slot and solve like a regular F2L slot.

It's a bit hard to do, and it's very rare that it comes up. I still think it's worth doing though. I feel the time lost in the harder recognition comes at least close to equalling the time gained by getting a slot "for free" so to speak. I'm not all that fast though, and I don't think many people use this approach.
 
It's a bit hard to do, and it's very rare that it comes up. I still think it's worth doing though. I feel the time lost in the harder recognition comes at least close to equalling the time gained by getting a slot "for free" so to speak. I'm not all that fast though, and I don't think many people use this approach.

I actually use this quite a bit. Yes the recognition takes me a bit longer, but it saves me 12 moves (That's about 1/5 of the solve!). Don't forget about the x-cross, though. It may not be multi-slotting, per se, but it's a kind of "multi-stepping" technique that can also save a good amount of moves.

I find that a good thing to keep in mind is that multi-slotting isn't solving two corner-edge pairs, but rather influencing the next corner-edge pair while solving the current one.
 
It was under my impression that the general consensus on multislotting is that it is too impractical and requires too many cases and algorithms for it to be efficient.

Add on top of that the fact that most world top cubers never use this method at all and you have a pretty long nail in the coffin for this method.
 
I actually have algorithms for multislotting 2 at a time but 4 thats a lot(i average 10-12 pretty easily with 2) 4 that could be deadly
 
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