Gigaminx Solving?

[hawkmp4]

So, there's not much information about the actual solving of a Gigaminx out there. Clearly, vanilla reduction works. But it seemed slow to me, so I took a look at Balint Bodor's UWR video.

It seems that he solves half of the centres, then using the area of unsolved centres, pairs edges and solves one half of the Gigaminx. Then he seems to solve centres, edges, and the other half of the puzzle in standard reduction fashion.

I have a few questions for the faster solvers than me. Do you use this method? If so, how do you do the second stage of edge pairing? It seems to me that Balint is using the beginner's method of edge pairing for 5x5 from bigcubes.com. (http://bigcubes.com/5x5x5/edges.html) Is that correct? I've experimented with using the one free side to do 6 at a time pairing, like 4x4. This doesn't seem any faster to me, though.

Thoughts?

EDIT: I mean 6 at a time pairing on 4x4, of course, it is 5 at a time on a -minx.

 

[qqwref]

I pretty much use that method. I use reduction a while ago but Dan Cohen suggested that idea to me. I pair edges two at a time because I found it too difficult to consistently setup more than that, and freeslice isn't really an option.