How to solve the Rubik’s Cube
How to solve the Rubik’s Cube
The Solution step by step
1. White Cross
Let's
begin with the white face. First we have to make a white cross paying attention
to the color of the center pieces. This step is quite intuitive, you can do it
for sure. Just move the white edges to their places not messing up the ones
already fixed.
Good White Cross Bad White Cross
2. White
Corners
In this step we have to arrange
all the white corner pieces, so we finish the first face. This step is still
intuitive, you can do it without learning any algorithm. If you don’t have patience
I give you some clue. Move the white corner below the spot it’s going to come,
then do one of the three algorithms according to the orientation of the piece,
aka. in which direction the white sticker is facing. If the white corner piece
is where it belongs but turned wrong then first you have to pop it out.
R’ D’ R F D F’
R’ D D R D R’ D’ R White face solved
Until this point the procedure
was intuitive, from now on we have to use some algorithms. In this step we will
solve the first two layers (F2L). There are two algorithms we use, symmetric to
each other, they’re called the F2L Right and F2L Leftalgorithms. These algorithms insert an edge piece from the
top layer in the middle layer not messing up the already solved white face.
Wrong orientation F2L solved
4. Yellow Cross
Now make a yellow cross on the top of the cube. It
doesn’t matter if the pieces are not on their final places so we don’t have to
pay attention to the colours of the sides now. Just make a yellow cross on the
top, we will swap them in the next step.
We can get three possible
patterns on the top. We can get from one to the other pattern with a single
algorithm as seen on the image: F R U R’ U’ F’
1. If you have a yellow “L”
shape you’ll have to apply the algorithm twice, holding the cube in your hands
as seen on the image.
2. In case of a horizontal
line you just have to make the permutation once.
Yellow cross on the top
5. Yellow Edges
After making the yellow cross on the
top of the cube you have to put the yellow edge pieces on their right places
where they belong. Switch the front and left yellow edges with the following
algorithm:
R U R’ U R U U R’ U
There are situations when you have to apply this
algorithm more than once.
Switch the edges
Yellow edges done
6. Yellow Corners on their places
Only the last layercorner pieces left. First we have to get them to the right spot, so don’t worry
about the orientation in this step.
Find a piece which is already on the
right place, move it to the right-front-top corner then apply the following
algorithm to switch (rotate) the three wrong pieces:
U
R U’ L’ U R’ U’ L
Do this twice to do an inverse
rotation of the pieces. If none of the yellow corners is on the right place
then do the algorithm once so one of them will go to the right spot.
Switch three corner pieces
7. Orient Yellow Corners
Now all the pieces
are on their right places you just have to orient the yellow corner pieces.
Hold the cube in
your hand so the piece you want to orient is on the front-right-top corner,
than to the R’ D’ R D algorithm
twice or four times until that specific piece is oriented well. It seems like
you messed up the whole cube but don’t worry, it will be all right when all the
corner pieces are oriented.
After that with a U’ turn move an other
yellow piece you want to orient to the front-right-top corner of the cube and doR’ D’ R D again
while this specific piece is ok. Be careful not to move the two bottom layers
between the algorithms.
Orient the corner pieces
THE CUBE IS SOLVED
