. It helps having a good cube that doesn't pop, which now makes me want to the the new QiYi even more.
ith the continued practice in 4x4 the PB's have all fallen again, except for single .... I've come close a few times though
That's my target too, along with sub-6 4BLD. I am trying to mix up my practice and keep pushing myself. It gets easier as I get faster and more competent with memo, for example I can do maybe 5-10 4BLD attempts in a session now whereas until 2-3 months ago it was mentally exhausting and I could do only 2-3 attempts without a break.
I learned from Noah's and use advanced U2/r2 for centres and wings, with comms for corners. r2 is very similar to M2, and U2 is similar in concept. They are pretty efficient already so I'm in no hurry to switch to comms, although people say centre comms are easy. Of course that only makes them fast if you can execute them as brainlessly as U2 with zero pauses. I use a handful of comms for the cases that are inefficient with U2.
I haven't done any bld in a while. PB is still over 2 minutes. I need to practice 3BLD for sure before learning 4BLD, but I think it could be interesting to learn the basics so that I could already practice sighted solves on the 4x4 with bld techniques and get a feel for how they work.
Check out Noah's tutorial. He teaches OP corners and M2 edges. I found it a little but too much to take in initially and did full OP but ended up switching to M2 after a while anyway. As you aren't in a hurry then OP/M2 would be your best bet.
Go for it, you're ready. I'm not sure how well 3x3 edge comms translate to 4x4 since I don't know edge comms. Wings work a bit differently to 3x3 edges as the pieces can't be flipped. Some M2 stuff doesn't work or screws up the centres. Centre comms you could probably work out for yourself easily enough.
I agree with Mark A, go for M2/OP. Learn OP corners first as it's a good introduction to the concepts. Learn it sighted before you go blind, there's no point frustrating yourself wondering where you're going wrong if you're making mistakes you would also make sighted. Once you can do corners, learn M2 edges. The concept is the same as OP corners but there are a couple of added complications.
Ah, I see. My edge cycles don't work at all on 4x4, will have to look into something else. I'll have a look at different options to see which would fit me best. I don't know anything about 4BLD yet, so probably best not to decide on what technique to learn until I do know something.
I know you know. And there are always 7 or more center pieces solved so you need only memorize 16 or less of them. Writing it I must add that still centers are the biggest problem for me. I didnt practice it much.Yes, I use RU or LU comms for edges. I already tried substituting wide moves, but couldn't find anything that would get even close to solving single edge pieces on a 4x4. I'll have a look at those different options you mention.
