Learn to solve the cube step by step!
The cube has 6 colored sides, and your goal is to get each side with a single color only.
There are 3 piece types:
They have a single color, and are the ones that define that side's final color.
Are made of 3 colors each.
Are made of 2 colors each.
The cube's moves can be represented as letters, one for each face:
(This is pretty much a pre-step for starters. Once you get more used to the cube you will be able to do the white cross directly.)
Your goal is to achieve something like this:
On the yellow side, try to get a white edge adjacent to all 4 sides.
On this step, you will only rotate the yellow side, to align the white edges one by one with their respective centers. After that, you rotate that color's side 180°. That way, you will correctly align them on their respective sides.
Place your white side to the bottom. Keep it there for the rest of the solve.
On this side, you will try to locate a white corner on the top side, and align it above where it should go. In the example below, I have the white-green-orange corner. So I put it between the green and orange sides. Then I position the cube so that the white sticker of that piece is located on my Front side, and do the following algorithm:
Move the piece to the opposite side. If the piece is on the left, I move it right, and raise the left side up. If the piece is on the right, I move it left, and raise the right side up.
If the white sticker is facing up, you can do either the left or right algorithm. You just have to do it 3 times.
Up-facing (3x algorithm)
If you want to know a faster way to insert the up-facing sticker, you can do the following:
(Green is front)
After you have done all 4 corners, the first layer should be solved!
For the second layer, you will want to locate an edge piece that does not have the top side's color (in this tutorial, that would be yellow). I will be using the green-orange edge.
Align the sticker that is not on the yellow side to its corresponding center, and take note of which way it needs to go.
Same as the previous step, mind the opposite side. If the piece needs to go right, I move it left and raise the right side up, then I move it back and lower the right. If the piece needs to go left, I move it right and raise the left side up, then I move it back and lower the left.
After that's done, you can just rotate the cube and repeat step 2, by reinserting the corners.
After doing the 4 edges, your second layer is done!
When you arrive in this part, your yellow side should be in one of these states:
You will do the same algorithm for any of them, just be sure to reorient the top side accordingly.
(State 4 is the goal!)
And there's your yellow cross!
Once again, there's only one algorithm. Just be sure to position your top side accordingly:
Refer to the images below:
0 corners facing up
1 corner facing up
2 corners facing up
Then, do the following algorithm:
You will need to do it 3 times at most.
For this part, you will have to look at the last layer's corners, and try to find a side with 2 matching corners.
If there are none, you can do this algorithm from any side, and then there will be.
Move the 2 matching pieces to the back side, and do the following:
One more step to go!
For this step, you will need to look at the remaining edges. If you have 3 of them in the wrong place, you will either need to rotate them clockwise 🔃 or counterclockwise 🔄.
If you have all 4 in the wrong place, you can do either algorithm once, then one of them will be correctly positioned.
