another cool yau variant for 4x4, is k4. k4 is quite interesting too, you do yau up to all centers done, then you solve the 4 f2l edges, which leaves you a messy last layer, however you can use commutators and ell algs to solve the pieces, personally i cant wrap my mind around it so i stuck to yau for 5x5, i kinda switched with 2 methods when i started, yau and redux, but soon i became more of a yau solver, but i realised, 6 centers and only 2 to choose from? i dont have colour neutrality, so i started using redux. then i found out hoya exists and started using both hoya and yau

Great video Micheal Would be great to see videos like this about different techniques by differents world class solvers.

I do the "solve 4th edge before centers" on 4 and 5 lol, but I use redux for 6 and 7

I agree I also do yau on my 4x4 and I plan on going to a competition my second

Although I don't do Yau, this is interesting!

The replacing technique on 4x4 is not actually new at all. It was widely used when I started cubing (2014ish) and I used it as well, only switching to the normal method a year or two later as top players stopped using that as well.

For 5x5 and up I do before l2c

thanks mr dumpster

Before anyone really did yau on 5x5 I would make my first four edges after centers like that. Make two, put the third in the wrong spot and then make the fourth and replace them. The reasoning was the white edges were easiest to find and I wanted to skip cross. I never made it past two mins with this method tho.

Feliks also mentioned all of these techniques in his free Cubeskills big cube courses

0:51 *bleep*

Far too lazy, just gonna stick with hoya for 4 and redux for anything bigger lmao

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