You can tell that an edge piece that has green on one side and orange on the other side goes in the middle of the picture above in order for it to look like this: Now twist the top face so that the center cube on each adjoining face matches in color with the three squares above it so they make small T's on each side, like so. Look what you've just done: Step 2: The Middle Row The piece you need is now on the bottom row somewhere to the left. What if the corner you need is on the top row already, but is in the wrong place or has the wrong orientation? Do this while holding the cube so that the desired corner is in front: The "2" means to turn that side 180 degrees. Depending on how the corner is oriented, you can decide how to move it. There are three ways to move this corner to the top row without disrupting any edge pieces. So don't move a corner piece that has blue, yellow and orange on it directly underneath the blue-red and blue-green edge pieces. Remember that the colors have to match up when it gets to the top row. If the corner you want to move is on the bottom row, move it directly underneath where you want it to go. Once you've got that down, you can move on to solving the corners. Move the top side so you can avoid messing up what you've done already.Īlways remember to make sure that the colors on the side of the edge pieces line up with the other center squares (VERY IMPORTANT). When moving an edge piece to its place, make sure that while you're turning the sides it doesn't interfere with the edge pieces that are already in place.
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However, sometimes you will get this little dilemma.Ĭlick here for an animation of the above sequence. This will make positioning the corners easier. When you're trying to do this for the first time, it's always a good idea to solve the edge pieces first, so you have a cross on the top like this. What you're basically trying to do is this:
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Solving the top row is the hardest part of the solution, believe it or not. If a segment is in the right place but is facing the wrong way, then it is oriented incorrectly. If a segment is in the wrong place, it is said to be in the wrong position. There is a difference between oriented and positioned. Even if you do finish replacing the stickers, you make solving the cube more difficult and awkward to a person who actually knows how to solve it since the colors are not in the same place in relation to each other. Peeling off the stickers is not the solution (in fact if you start to peel off some of the stickers but never finish putting the rest in their places, you are most likely going to cause an impossible combination and make the cube unsolvable). If you want to move one of the colors to another position, the other has to come too. Those two stickers will always stay next to each other. They only twist around in place, even though it looks like they change places.
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Others require lots of both but are extremely fast. Others require lots of thinking but little memorization. Some solutions require quite a bit of memorization and little thinking.
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This is a simple solution to the Rubik's Cube composed of various methods that I merged together that I felt was the easiest for beginners to learn.