How to solve a 4x4x4 Rubik's Cube (3_3)

I like to use a phone app instead and I use twisty timer .

There may be better timers , but this one pretty much does everything I need it to keep in mind .

There's no right or wrong answer to what timer you're using .

It just records your times and it's not going to make you faster or slower .

Although you probably noticed in most of my videos , I use a different timer and then I type it into the computer .

Why am I doing this ?

Well , this is called a stack mat timer .

A stack mat timer is kind of really expensive for what it does .

But this is the timer used in official WC A competition .

So if you care a lot about your competition results , then it's worth getting used to this .

And how it works is you put the cube here , you wait for the green lights and then you go solve the cube and then stop like this .

This is actually just a completely different habit from starting like this with a space bar on your computer .

It sounds ridiculous .

But once you're serious about competitions , that habit change is actually a really big difference .

If you get this timer , I also recommend getting a mat otherwise you're going to be dropping your cube on the table and this just prevents damage .

Here it is , you're going to line this up so that it is opposite this green and orange .

And then what you're going to do is you're going to line them up like this , you're going to move this into the top layer , you're going to move this out of the way so that you can rotate this back down and then you're going to realign your centers and you have solved one edge group right there , sometimes you're going to find yourself in a position where the two corresponding pieces .

For example , this white and orange and this white and orange are across from each other instead of kitty corner from each other .

And when they're like this , you can't very easily get them grouped together .

So what you have to do is you have to do this algorithm and I call this the magic algorithm because I love this algorithm .

It goes like this with these in the front side and it doesn't matter if they're on the bottom or the top , it works .

But of course , this is all completely unnecessary if you don't care about competitions yet .

So you can just use your computer or your phone .

Next is lubricants or lube here are just some of the lubricants cube shop has sent me , I don't use all of them .

In fact , let me show you something .

This is just some random cheap cube .

The cube itself is not amazing , but this already turns really fast .

There is no loop in here and it works great .

In fact , a lot of cubes with no lube are actually going to be really good .

However , if I use this cube for a few days or maybe weeks , depending on the conditions of where I live and how much I use it , it can start to get really dusty on the inside and that makes it absolutely terrible .

So unless you're ready to take your cube apart every few days to completely wipe off everything with a cloth , you'll probably want to just buy lube .

So I recommend getting weight five and lunar despite being called lobe , it doesn't just speed up the cube .

In fact , weight five often is going to slow it down and I have a guide on how to lube your cube .

So you know how to use this .

This lasts for a very long time and you can pretty much use it in any puzzle .

However , if there's a puzzle that you need to get faster , especially for big cubes , then lunar is really good as it does make it faster , but it doesn't last quite as long .

Also , don't be fooled by how small these look .

I've never gone through a full bottle of lunar or a full syringe of weight five .

So those are all the main things I recommend buying and maybe not these .

If you're not as serious , you can get all of this stuff from speed keep shop dot com and make sure you use the discount code J Perm at checkout after you've been using the beginner method for a while , it's going to be a lot harder to improve .

So I recommend learning a better method .

The method that I teach on this channel is CFO and there are tons of other good methods .

The main other one being root that is comparable to CFO and potentially being the fastest method .

I have a video comparing them giving my thoughts .

Nobody really knows which one is definitely faster .

But if you had to pick now knowing the beginner method , it's going to be easier to transition into CFO because it is more similar .

And instead of thinking too hard about which method you want to go into which one is the right choice for you .

Just picking one is better than not because then you get to start learning the more advanced techniques like finger tricks and how to recognize cases faster , how to turn faster and all this sort of stuff .

The basic idea for CF is you'll make the cross but not on the top , you'll make it on the bottom , which can be done really quickly and also makes it so you don't have to turn the cube upside down afterwards .

Then instead of doing the first layer corners like this , you're going to do some extra moves before inserting a corner .

So here's the edge that would go with it , you would just move them in just the right way .

So that when you put the corner in the edge goes in with it , and there are a lot of techniques for this , but this is the main idea for F two L or first two layers at the same time , then you would just solve four of these pairs around the cube .

And then eventually all of F two L will be solved .

In the next step , you use one algorithm that makes the top all the same color .

And then afterwards , you're going to do one more algorithm that makes all of them solved .

Yes .

And we have parity parity is a situation that can occur on a four by four by four , Rubik's cube that cannot occur on a three by three by three .

Rubik's cube .

Um There are various different parity cases , all of which require a long and beastly horrific , awful , terrible stinky algorithms .

But it's part of solving the four by four by four Rubik's cube .

In this case , we have this piece switched with this piece .

We'll call this parody case number one .

What you're gonna wanna do is you're gonna wanna hold it so that one of the pieces is in the upper right of the front face and the other is in well directly across there's no other way for it to be .

So hold it like this .

There is a lot of knowledge you have to put in your brain to make all of this possible .

But all of it can also be segmented into easier parts to make learning easier .

And also , so you don't have to commit so much before you decide you want to learn this .

For example , there's beginner F two L where you would find both of the pieces that have to go here , make sure they're both in the top layer , then do some pairing stuff that I teach in the video to get them together and then put them both in with advanced F two L getting them into the top layer would be done in a specific way so that they can be put in together right away and you can go even further than that and learn specific tricks to avoid doing cube rotations .

There are WC A or World Cube Association competitions .

Now , you don't have to be whatever you think is good at cubing to go to a competition .

Think of it more as a meet up of people who all have the same hobby .

Some people set world records .

Some people are really serious about winning the event , but most people are just there to meet people and have fun .

You can find local competition through World cube association dot org .

Although due to current world circumstances that I may not be able to mention without getting demonetized , there may not be competitions around you right now .

Although I hope that one day that will change and the last thing is once you get pretty decent at cubing and you're willing to start learning more advanced things .

I recommend trying one handed or trying blindfolded .

Not only are these two really fun , but they're also incredibly impressive when you show other people .

All right .

So that's it .

Thanks for watching and I'll see you all next time .

And that will flip that around and you should be able to solve it like normal .

Here we have parity case number three where this wedge is flipped from this wedge , even though the entire blue side looks like it's solved from the top .

See , see what you do is you hold it with either one of these in the front and you do this algorithm two little R to you .

Two little R , two U star , two little R too little you and that should solve it .

Here we have parody case number four where this piece is flipped with this piece and the rest of the cube is salt .

Hold it in the front and do this algorithm to you .

Star to star to you two little to you .

Two L star to you .

Star F prime , you prime F , you s our prime two F , you f you F prime U prime S are salt .

Finally , we have parody case number five .

Now what we're gonna do with parity case number five is just a little bit different from the rest of the parody cases .

We're actually going to use an algorithm that we used for parity case number three .

And we'll show you what happened when we do that .

So it is two little R to you .

Too little R to you .

Star too little R to little you .

And then when you , then what you have is a situation where you can solve it just like a normal cube .

So there you have it .

That's how you solve a four by four by four .

Rubik's revenge cube feels good , doesn't it ?

Yeah , I bet .

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There's a spider attacking , there's a spider attacking the ribbon .