Big cube edge pairing methods...

[jcuber]

I know for 5x5 there are two main methods, 2 at a time and 1 tredge at a time, but what about bigger cubes?

I use one quedge/pedge at a time, but I don't think it is possible to get good times doing one set of 4x4 edges and one set of 5x5 edges (or two sets of 5x5 for 7x7)

Imagine doing a 2 at a time 7x7 solve!

 

[qqwref]

I use one quedge/pedge at a time, but I don't think it is possible to get good times doing one set of 4x4 edges and one set of 5x5 edges (or two sets of 5x5 for 7x7)

No, you're totally wrong. That's called multi-reduction and I (along with plenty of others) can get sub-5 7x7 times with it... besides, I use that method on hi-games, and if you think my bigcube times there are not good I'd like to see you go beat them (hint: unless you're Michal, you can't). Multi-reduction isn't slow at all, but the recognition can be a bit harder than doing one edge group at a time, which is why most of the fast bigcubers don't use it anymore.

 

[jcuber]

I have to agree with you, it just seemed like to big a # of edges to do multi-redux on, but I just did a time on 7x7 with it, and got 8:3x.xx (I did centers slowly because that wasn't what I was paying attention to, I could easily get sub-8 otherwise)

If you practice, recognition on it could be improved greatly. I may actually switch over to this for a while, until I get consistent sub-7, then switch back, and so on.