Rubik’s Cube (3x3) Online Solution The Rubik's Cube 2020 Solution Guide uses the layered method - TOP layer, MIDDLE layer, & BOTTOM layer. Whether you solve 1 layer or all 3, be sure to tell your teacher about this program so all your classmates can solve with you! Teachers from all over the country use our program, at no cost, to teach their classes not only to solve, but content area STEAM. To solve this step, you’ll need to run through some algorithms, or rotation patterns that result in a specific cube placement. Rotate the bottom layer until a white edge piece is positioned below an empty spot on the top face. A few tips to help you solve the Rubiks cube much easier: a) Center-squares’ colors are unchangeable which means these are your bases as to what color to put on a side just as shown below: b)Kinds of Pieces: 8 Corner pieces, 12 Edge pieces, 6 Center pieces. See below: c) Turning the Faces – In this 7-step guide on How to Solve a Rubiks Cube. The first step to solving your rubiks cube is to shuffle the cube. This means that you mix it up so that you can solve it. Before we continue, you need to know how to read an algorithm. Here is how: L is for moving the left face clockwise, L' is for moving the left face counterclockwise. U is for moving the top face clockwise. How to Read Rubik's Cube Notations. 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).

So You Want To Solve A Rubik’s Cube…

You’re in luck! Somehow you’ve stumbled upon the easiest method to solve a cube. Before we begin, you should make sure you’re in the right place.

• This method will NOT make you a speed-solver. (Fastest time with my method is probably about 2 minutes… which is considered really slow in the cubing world)
• This method will NOT be using complex algorithms.
• This method will NOT make you look cool. (Okay, it actually might)

Just tell me how to solve already!!!

So last year, my eight-year-old son handed me a cube and told me to solve it. Of course, I had no clue. Rubik’s cubes are impossible. I went to Youtube and looked at a lot of tutorials. The people on the videos went on and on about just how awesome they were, whipped through a solve, and I still didn’t know what they were doing. I kept shouting, “Just tell me how to solve already!!!”

Finally, I found some videos that were a little slower but… they were still full of complex algorithms.

• Fun Fact:Cubers will always say that they use “complex algorithms” to solve a Rubik’s cube. (Makes them sound smart).
• Advice: After you start showing off your skills using my easy method, people will ask you how you do it. Just tell them you use “complex algorithms.” (They’ll have no clue how easy it is… unless you tell them.)

So… I went through the process… kept pausing the video, trying to figure out what was really going on. Finally, I understood what they were trying to say. Once this happened, I wondered why they didn’t explain it simpler. They were making me memorize algorithms that weren’t necessary and steps that I didn’t need. I just wanted to solve it! So… I came up with my own modifications, taught them to my 8 year-old, and he learned quick!

Steps To Solve Rubik's Cube 3x3

Tell me like I’m an 8-year-old

My steps go very-very slow. I am going to teach as if you are an 8-year-old. It is slow, but you’ll get the cube solved without having to memorize unnecessary junk. You may have to memorize something… but its the minimum–No fancy frills–just solving. My son is 8. This is how he learned. It’s easy. If he can learn this, you can too.

To help you learn, each section has:

• Text Explanation
• Illustrations With Captions
• Video Demonstration

The Basics

Know What Side You Are On

Look at your cube. Pick a side and then look in the dead center. What color is the middle piece? If the middle piece is red then you are looking at the “red side.” If the center piece was white, you would be on the “white side”. Easy.

Every Side Has A Permanent Opposite Side

Find the red side (that would be the side that has red in the center.) Then look at the opposite side of the cube. What color is in the middle piece on that side? If you said, “orange” you are correct! After a few minutes of looking at different sides, you might notice that you can guess what color is on the other side without even looking. (but you can look if you want.)

The Red side is opposite of the Orange side.

(Hot Colors are opposites, that’s awesome!)

The Blue side is opposite of the Green side.

(Cold Colors are opposites, that’s great!)

Steps To Solve Rubik's Cube Last Layer

The White side is opposite of the Yellow side.

(Daisy Colors are opposites… that’s… girly)

Middle pieces don’t move! And That’s a good thing!

Believe it or not, the middle pieces don’t move. Go ahead, mix it all up. It won’t matter. Blue will still be opposite of green, red will be the opposite of orange, and white will be the opposite of yellow. This makes things a lot easier. If you are looking at the blue side, you can know what the other side is without even looking. There is a 100% chance that the opposite side of the cube is green. Can you solve without knowing this color rule? Yes. But, I think you’ll still find it helpful.

Solve the Cube in Eight Simple Steps

I am going to break this down into eight steps. Don’t Rush! Remember, this isn’t for speed, but ease. If you follow the steps, you WILL solve a Rubik’s cube. (Then you can scratch it off your bucket list and move on to skydiving.)

The Megaminx, previously called as Hungarian Supernova was patented by Uwe Mèffert. It is a dodecahedron-shaped face-turning twisty puzzle which is very similar to the classic Rubik’s Cube. The solution is almost the same, just a few new algorithms come in when you reach the last layer, so if you’re familiar with the classic 3x3x3 Cube then you won't have problems solving the Megaminx either.

There are many variations but the most common version has 12 different colors, having 11 pieces in a star-pattern arrangement on each face with five corner pieces, five edge pieces and a fixed center piece. It has a total of 50 separate pieces.

The Megaminx is an official WCA competition event. The World Record is held by the Korean Yu Da-Hyun with a 33.17s result.

On the image above a white and a black-body Megaminx is accompanied by their smaller brother, the 2x2 Kilominx (Flowerminx), a dodecahedron-shaped Rubik's Cube shape mod and a 3x3 cube. The bigger dodecahedrons are called Gigaminx, Teraminx, Petaminx, Zettaminx, all the way up to the record-breaking Yottaminx (image below).

Solution of the Megaminx

To solve the Megaminx first you need to know how to solve the Rubik's Cube because the methods of the two puzzles are very similar. There are a few steps where you might get stuck but the algorithms below will help you go through the difficulties.

Let's use the same FRU notation that you are probably familiar with. Each letter means a clockwise rotation of the face, while apostrophes mark the anticlockwise turns. Note that in this case F2 = F'3 and F'2 ≠ F2.

1. White face

The start is similar to solving the white cross on a Rubik's Cube. Fill the gaps between the white and side centers with the matching colors. In this case we're not building a white cross, but a white star on the top.

When the edges are done insert the white corner pieces, just like you would for a Rubik's Cube.

This step is really intuitive and it shouldn't be a problem, try to do it without checking the links.

2. Second layer

Turn the cube with the solved face down and use the same F2L algorithms that you already know from the 3x3 to solve the next set of edges. When they're are all done, locate the corners above each completed edge and turn them where they belong to.

3. Third layer edges and corners

This is the first step where you might need a little help, even if you know the 3x3 solution. Use the left or right algorightms below to insert the marked pieces from the top layer:

Left: F' R' F'2 R F
Right: F L F2 L' F'

When the edges are in place go ahead and solve the corners. Use the same method that you used for solving the white corners.

4. One more time

We've reached a point where we have to perform another set of 'first layer corners' and 'second layers', but we already know how to do these.

5. Top star

For the Rubik's Cube we call this step solving the yellow cross. We can use the exact same algorithms but here we have to form a star, not a cross on the top of the puzzle.

First case (flips F and R edges): F U R U' R' F'
Second case (flips F and B edges): F R U R' U' F'

6. Cycle edges

This step is similar to swapping the yellow edges on the Rubik's Cube. The algorithm is the same with a small tweak: instead of making U2 we have to make U3 in the clockwise algorithm.

We can cycle three edges on the front face of the Megaminx in the desired direction with the algorithms below. The two algorithms are the inverse of each other.

Clockwise: R U R' U R U3 R' U
AntiClockwise: U' R U2 R' U' R U' R'

7. Cycle corners

How Do I Complete A Rubix Cube

Positioning the last layer corners is the penultimate step before completing the puzzle. There are two algorithms that cycle the corners as shown on the image below.

Clockwise: L' U2 R U'2 - L U2 R' U'2
Anticlockwise: R U'2 L' U2 - R' U'2 L U2

8. Orient corners

However the algorithm is simple, orienting the last layer corners is the most confusing part of the Beginner's Method.

Doing U rotations bring the unsolved corners to the highlighted position one by one. Repeat the R' D' R D algorithm for each piece until they are all positioned correctly.

R' D' R D

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