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You need to pair ALL the edges before you move on to 3x3 stage. This includes all the yellow edges.
You need to pair ALL the edges before you move on to 3x3 stage. This includes all the yellow edges.
I’m not the paragon of 4x4 achievement, but my guess is mostly you need practice. I used this tutorial to learn Yau, and after a couple thousand solves I average just above 1:30.So I'm now aiming to get faster on 4x4 but I don't know where to start. I'm currently using the yau method, probably not the correct way but I am. I'm currently sub 2min.
And the solution to that would be to temporarily stop thinking of the composite edges as being composite edges, but to attempt to solve the individual edge pieces with 3-cycles. No infinite loop!AbsoRuud, by that logic, he/she could solve the dedges/composite edges on the left-hand side simulator (see that earlier linked page) by a U move (plus a 3-cycle of those pieces). However, then he/she would be stuck in an infinite loop (if your recommendation would be applied).
And the solution to that would be to temporarily stop thinking of the composite edges as being composite edges, but to attempt to solve the individual edge pieces with 3-cycles. No infinite loop!
Does that work for OLL every time?Yep! hold the cube with yellow in top and green in front and do this to solve OLL:
U R U R' U' Rw R' U R U' Rw' U R U R' U R U2 R'
In general though, if you're trying to learn to solve 4x4, don't use layer-by-layer. Instead, look up a tutorial for the reduction method.