Yau-K5 mix technique?

[SenileGenXer]

I love doing Yau for big puzzles and I've loved ottozing's and Robert Yau's walkthroughs.

When I follow them I'm not color neutral so I make my white and yellow centers, three white tredges, the rest of the centers, another white tredge, 4 middle layer tredges, and I F2L two adjacent ones into place. like this

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With straight Yau you would; finish tredge pairing, finish F2L, OLL, PLL.

There seems to be an opportunity at that point to do something different. To finish it like K4. I have all the middle layer tredges so I could just do all the F2L. like this

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Do CLL to have guideposts like this

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And that's were my skills get really weak. I don't know many good commutators that work on one layer only, I don't know how to orient things a few at a time. Any good suggestions to understand this type of ELL, Good videos? Thanks.

P.S. Would there be any advantage in doing this? The people I've seen who can do K4/K5 knock this step out so fast.

 

[qqwref]

On odd cubes, for the last layer, it's better to just solve the middle edges and corners like you would a normal 3x3x3. CLL is better for even cubes though.

As for ELL it's pretty much the same as K4 (as you know) so of course the best resource is Kir's page: http://snk.digibase.ca/k4/7.htm

 

[Robert-Y]

This is how I do K4 on 5x5x5 because I think it's much faster. My best single is 1:03 with this variation and my average is roughly 1:15. I've been calling it YK4. So it means something like Yau-K4, i.e. my "variation" of K4.