Don’t keep changing it unnecessarily during the construction stage. That is white will always be opposite yellow, green opposite blue, etc.Īlways hold the cube in a consistent position. Only the sides rotate: The centre blocks remain constant. This simple approach will help describe the rotation direction of the cube. When the “family” block is facing you consider the colours on the adjacent sides as “cousins”. Terms Usedįor reference purposes, consider each side colour of the Rubik’s Cube as a “family”. There are only FOUR algorithms to memorise and are explained further on. The earlier build stages are just following rules to position blocks. That is the part of the building process that must be memorised. The algorithms simply record a sequence for rotation. That is, after moving the blocks around to build the roof you want to restore the lower layers to their original position. The algorithms only come into play after you have built the first and second layer and don’t want to disturb what you have done. Whilst doing that, it is just a matter of remembering a “general maintenance” process to restore the layers while putting on the roof. The house is built in stages: The first layer (foundation) must be complete before you build the second layer and then the third (the roof). Layer THREE is MEMORISING the ROTATION of the CUBE The TOP TWO LAYERS are VISUAL - JUST FOLLOW the RULES Use the cube’s white face as the foundation and the yellow as the roof. You start with the foundation and then build the floor level and finally the roof.
Figure 4: After solving the white corners, your cube should have a solved first layer as well.Completing the Rubik’s Cube is like building a house. Once you have solved the white corners, you should notice that not only is the entire white face solved but the first layer of the cube is solved as well, like in Figure 4. Figure 3: The algorithm was repeated 3 times here to get the bottom corner into the right orientation and position. Then repeat the algorithm until the white face finds its way on the top face in the right orientation. Here, the right position is highlighted position 2 where the corner consists of white and its surrounding colors. Next, find corners on the down face of the cube and rotate the down face to the right position. This now classifies it as a corner on the down face of the cube. If they are not in the right position, perform the algorithm once. The algorithm is performed twice to get it into the right orientation. Figure 2: The top corner is in the right position but not orientation. If they are, perform the algorithm and repeat it until the white face is oriented properly. If they are in the top highlighted position, look to see if they are in the right position (the connecting colors corresponding with the connected faces of the cube). Look around your cube to find the white corners. The following algorithm changes the orientations of the colors in these two corners: On your cube, there should be some white corners that are in the top highlighted position and some in the bottom.
Note: Do not move the up face of the cube during this step to avoid messing up the white cross. For this particular case you would be looking at one of the highlighted corners to see if they contain the colors white, green, and orange to match the adjacent faces. Figure 1: The pink corners are going to be manipulated in this step. The highlighted corners are the ones that are going to be manipulated by the algorithm in this step. Firstly, look at figure 1 to see how your cube should be oriented for this step. The white corners are going to require a bit of grunt work to orient them in the right position.