Many people give up on it after playing it for only a few minutes and never pick it up again. Here is the secret: It's almost impossible to solve the cube without knowing the basic solution method.

The solution pamphlet that comes with a store-bought cube can be very confusing, so I've arranged this article to make it simple, and I've included pictures and videos. You do not have to memorize long complicated algorithms to solve the cube using this article. For beginners, the layer-by-layer method is the easiest. The first step in this method starts with picking a color to build the 1st layer.

Jun 26, 2017 The Rubik's Cube can be very frustrating and may seem next to impossible to restore to its original configuration.

A layer is 8 cubies, has 9 stickers on the face, and 12 stickers around the outside edges of the face. For the purposes of this article, I will pick the white side as my first color to start solving the cube. A 'face' is a side of the cube (9 stickers only). In the picture above you can see the white face. It is the side of the cube that is always facing you on the front, no matter what color it is.

Its opposite is the back face. Nokia 5130 Xpressmusic Java Application Download. The rules for the faces are the same as the colors: 1. Face (F) & back (B) are on opposite sides of the cube, the front and the back. Left (L) & right (R) are on the left and right sides of the cube. Up (U) & down (D) are on the top and bottom of the cube. The standard notation for the cube is up, down, left, right, face, and back, or U, D, L, R, F, B for short.

Rubik's cube instructions will tell you to rotate to different sides. So, when the instructions tell you to move up, it means to turn the up side clockwise 90 degrees (1/4 the way around the top of the cube). Tamil Dubbed Movies Battleship Hd. Another way to look at it is to imagine you are looking at the top of the cube and you want to turn a hand on a clock from 12 o'clock to 3 o'clock, so you would turn the top layer to the right one time.

The short video below shows the basic cube notation, and solves the checkerboard pattern at the end. NOTE: For all the videos in this article, be sure you have the annotations turned on to see the instructions. Watch full-screen & high quality to see the instructions better.

Slow the video down if necessary. Pause the video at anytime. The settings for the videos can be found in the lower right hand corner of the video. • The algorithm: (U L U' L') (U L U' L') Continuing from the previous video, this step will twist the corners and solve the cube.

• Place one of the twisted corners at the top-front position and do the algorithm one time. • The corner will either be solved afterwards, or not. • If not, then do the algorithm one more time and it will be. • Important: After that, rotate the 3rd layer to put another twisted corner in the top-front position, and do the algorithm again. • Then it's the same as before. The corner will either be solved afterwards, or not. • If not, then do the algorithm one more time and it will be.

Watch this last video to see it in action. (It looks like it is really messing up the cube a lot, but have no fear, it will solve itself in the end!). Mark, Above someone else wrote their name was 'CK Towels' after my comment. I'm not sure why. My issue was the two pieces that would not fit.

If I remember, I was using a Void at the time, so I think that is where the problem came in. Essentially the center squares (which are missing) on the Void puzzle must have been in the wrong location. It would be impossible to tell this while doing the puzzle. So that makes it a little challenging because the puzzle has to be shifted once we've figured out that it won't solve. I'm not sure if you responded to my comment.

All I saw was that you said you misspelled my name because of the person who posted after me 'Thi is the bomb you rock'. 4x4, basically the same as 3x3, only difference is that you have to solve the 4 dots on each center piece first (and get them in the correct place on the cube, Red Opposite Orange, Green Opposite Blue, Yellow Opposite White. The way I remember how to get this correct (it is easy to get it wrong. I learned the hard way) is to solve the white dot, then, as your holding the white dot on the face side, remember that the Blue dot belongs on the UP side, and solve it, then, again looking at it with white on the face (and blue up), the Red belongs on the right face. Solve that dot, then just do the opposites from there. Once the dots are done, the edges have to be paired up.

Not much explaining to do there, as long as you remember to move the center dots back where they belong after each time you pair up an edge. Once the Edges are Paired, it becomes a 3x3 cube, and you solve it as that. The only real problem on big cubes is Parity. There is 2 parity cases that I run into a lot on big cubes. The algos for them are on youtube.

I can help you more if you wanna talk to me, I cannot post the links that I would like to on this page, they do not allow it (well. They do, but there is a risk of having the hub page shut down because of re-directing). Hit me up at markwipfler2@gmail.com •.