Friday, March 3, 2023

short notes to solve a rubik's cube

1) Make a white cross by your own. There are 6 faces- Right , Left, Up, down, front ( facing)
2) Hold it keeping the white face up .
Bring the white corners in down one by one  if not already.
Rotate that white corner to just below the missing corner. Then do R'D'RD
First layer completed .
3)Keep the white face down .Match one of the  top layer edge piece  with  center . When white face is down , the yellow center will be at top. So, the edges with yellow on any one side will not go to the middle ( or second ) layer. So, you don't have to match the edge pieces  with yellow on any side with the center. You have to match only edge pieces with no yellow on any side.  Then depending on the direction of colour of the edge piece on the top , you have to do either of the following.At this point, the edge piece center is matching and facing you. Basically, what you do is to turn the edge piece from top layer by quarter to bring to second layer and match with second layer center.
Also note that , the below step is needed to be executed only one time to bring the edge piece from top layer to the second layer.
clockwise ( meaning the colour of edge piece on top is matching with center on right) - URU'R'U'F'UF
anticlockwise (meaning the colour of edge piece on top is matching with center on left)- U'L'ULUFU'F'
Above steps will be completed one by one depending on the colour of the edge piece matching the side whether left or right.
Second layer will be completed after you match all the pieces of second layer using the above approach.
4)Do FURU'R'F'
FRUR'U'F'
If while making yellow cross , two incorrect edges are adjacent to each other . Then put those edges in front and right and do
URUR'URUUR'
Basically, this step shifts edge piece on top layer facing you by quarter to the right.
 Yellow cross is completed
If 2 incorrect edges are opposite to each other, 
Then , execute 
URUR'URUUR' twice. After first execution, incorrect edges will be adjacent to each other . Then , put the incorrect edges in front and right and execute URUR'URUUR'

5) Putting the yellow corners 
 pieces

Only the last layer corners are left unsolved. 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 (cycle) the three wrong pieces marked with grey on the image.

Do this twice to do an inverse rotation of the pieces. If none of the yellow corners is on the right place then execute the algorithm once and look for a good piece again.

URU'L'UR'U'L
6)
Now , we have to orient yellow corners

Start by holding the cube in your hand having a misaligned yellow corner in the highlighted Front-Right-Up spot (see image).
Repeat the R' D' R D algorithm until this piece comes to the correct position with the yellow sticker upwards.

Turning only the Up face, move another wrong yellow corner to the highlighted spot and repeat the R' D' R D algorithm until that yellow piece is oriented correctly.
Move other misaligned yellow corners to the marked spot one by one and do the formula until all corners are solved.

The puzzle might seem to be scrambled between the moves but don't worry because everything will come together when all yellow corners are oriented properly.