Can You Solve a 4x4 Rubik's Cube Like a 2x2?

Harder than solving a 3x3 with only J perms 🤦

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[LemonCookies]

when solving any size cube. i always reduce to a 1x1

[emhogg]

Dylan: I will not do that ever again it's pointless
Also Dylan: Why dont we solve 6×6 like a big 3×3

[stefanchelarescu]

it doesnt matter, in the end we always reduce every Cube to a 1 x1

[LivingWithTheCoopers]

You taught me how to solve a 3x3, 4x4, 5x5 and beyond.

I will happily admit you got me through lockdown here in the UK by opening up the world of speedcubing.

You break things down so well, but when you got onto commutators you absolutely destroyed my mind.

I still use the beginners method, but I'm working on it, to be fair I was 35 when I started and I'm 38 now, so it's a little harder for things to get into my head these days ha ha

Thank you.

[cuttlefishn.w.]

I've become obsessed with doing it this way. This has been great commutator practice, and the f2l/fl/f4b has become a lot simpler and less daunting than how you did it here.

F2L algs covers all the corners and edge pieces for the first 4 blocks, keeping what you've solved at the bottom and repositioning them in optimal positions to continue solving. Putting the centers in place I found was easiest after first making them face the bottom and using 2 slice moves (assuming a desired center piece was somewhere along the sides).

[megangibbons]

I dare you to do an official solve like that in a comp after Covid

[M.athematech]

Reduction to 2x2 is my favorite way of slow solving a 4x4, I do it completely intuitively and don't need to worry about parity. Even the ugly case you got I solve intuitively. After the bottom layer 2x2 blocks are built the top layer 2x2s are built doing nothing more than R'D'RD and turning U and swapping positions of 2x2 blocks.
But if I really feel masochistic I go for a layer by layer solve of the 4x4, first 3 layers are easy, last layer is challenging.

[johnyzhang]

2030: This day 4-8-2020 Wang Method had been invented the best 4x4 method

[wongcayven]

Fun fact : solving a rubik's cube, no matter how big it is, is reducing it to a 1x1x1

[weilfug]

I think this video is second only to "watch for falling rocks in half an A press" for the most insane thing I've ever seen on here. Good effort

[Ethan-ezti]

me seeing the title
also me: yes
me realising what he means: no
me after watching the video : yes

[ranveerkapoor]

Nobody:
Jperm in his next video: reducing 12x12 to a 2x2 and solving it

[alexcheng]

If you only solve 3 "corners" instead of a whole layer, it is much easier.

[jakerussell]

me who reduces it to a 1x1: don't ever use the word "smart" with me

[samuelnguyen]

Jperm:
the first 2x2 corner: easy
the second 2x2 corner: easy
the third 2x2corner: medium
Last 2x2 corners: too hard

[cookiecubing]

“You could, but why, why would you do that” 😂

[cubingnetwork]

The YuXin animals are watching in the background wondering what is happening.

[sunilnaugain]

I saw this video 2 years ago when you posted it.

It just got recommended to me 2 years after you uploaded it. You have changed alot since then and your channel has hit 1M Subscribers.

When I had earlier saw this, I thought this challenge was very hard, but looking back at it today, just to put every HARD challenge you have done so far after this one into perspective this seems very easy.

Can't believe that this was posted 2 years ago. And damn time flies by pretty fast. This video just brings lots of cubing memories from earlier times.

[georgistankov]

Hey J Perm can you please make a proper "how to plan your whole cross" because i have watched all of your cross tip videos and you say that i should plan it out during inspection but i really struggle with it . I cant memorise my plan i would love some tips for memorization! ♥

[krzysztof_jablonski]

Like you said, instead of reducing to 2x2 it's instead possible to solve the pieces into correct spots right away, one by one. The resulting method would still be a bizarre and laborious 4x4 layer by layer with unnecessary piece order restrictions. You did it the hard way, congrats.