At this point, U and D should each have 4 finished edge groups. When you are done, move the finished group into U or D. You can use moves like RUR' to get the fifth unfinished edge group into E. When you have 7 of them, you will not be able to do this any more then, move the M layer to the E layer (just do z), and group another edge group together using horizontal slices. Once DF is completely grouped up, you can do something like R' L F to move it into the R or L layer keep doing this, while never disturbing the previously grouped edge groups. Now, looking at the R and L layers, find edge pieces which match that color pair and move them to UF or UB using R/U/L moves, then shoot them down to DF with the appropriate slice move. Make sure to remember which color is on top. Using only the outer layers, move an edge group with a lot of similar pieces to DF (but if you can't find one in 4-5 seconds don't bother), and choose a color pair of edges that you will place in that spot. I'll mostly be using 3x3x3-like moves for this part, so think of everything as corners, edge groups, and center groups. My current step 1 is done by matching up pieces of edge groups.

This is useful for generalized algorithms. For example, on a 6圆圆 cube r*' would mean to turn the 2nd and 3rd R slices counterclockwise. Throughout this guide, I'm going to use the r* notation what this means is, on an NxNxN cube, to do a clockwise turn on all R-side slices from the second slice to the floor(N/2)th slice. Each step has many different ways to complete it, and there are a lot of small (but very useful) shortcuts. They must be solved relative to the centers on an odd cube.Ģ) Solve all of the centers without disturbing the edges and corners (much). This method does use about 30-50% more moves than a reduction strategy for a given size of cube, though, and although you have better recognition you will need more physical endurance to be able to complete a cube with this strategy.ġ) Solve all of the edges and corners. Suffice it to say, though, that if I ever attempt a truly huge cube (say 40x40x40) I'm not going to use reduction. I decided to make a topic because I want to keep a permanent reference for this method, and because I just recently improved it a bit and I thought I'd like to share that with you.įrom personal experience, it becomes faster than the reduction method for cubes of a certain size or greater, but that size is determined by a lot of factors (such as how fast you can make slice moves and how good you are at finding pieces for reduction).

This is a method for solving arbitrarily large cubes. I haven't changed up the method much if at all since then.)

(Disclaimer: I wrote this guide in June 2007, on.

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