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Sausage's Hybrid Speed Solution
Step 4 - The Second Pair

The next corner that has a blue sticker in it is the YELLOW, ORANGE & BLUE corner cubie. Remember again, taking away the blue, means that it's mate is the YELLOW and ORANGE edge cubie.

They both happen to be on top, but again, we are not in Situation No 1. We are aiming to get into Situation No 1, or No 2 again.

 

In this case, trap the corner cube underwater by turning the orange face once clockwise.

This also pushes the hole to the top layer. This is ok, because the hole contains garbage cubies and we are now free to move our edge cubie around without disturbing our corner piece.

 

So now, turn the white face twice so that the yellow and orange edge cubie ends up here. Can you see what's about to happen?....
Turn the orange face once anti-clockwise once to return our corner cubie to the top again, which has also joined it together perfectly with it's edge cubie. They are now a pair, and we are in Situation No 2 again!

All that's left is to get our orange and yellow pair into the hole between the orange and yellow centre pieces. So to best see this happen, let's look on the side of the cube where the orange and yellow centre pieces are. Notice our pair are on the other side of the cube.

 

 

Let's get them readied into place by turning the white face twice.
Now turn the orange face clockwise once to line it up with the pair, ready to receive them.
Turn the top face anti-clockwise once to join the whole section together.
Turn the orange face anti-clockwise once to place the whole block back under the waterline. Great. We now have two pairs in place. Two to go.

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