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Today's featured article The Last Layer Today's featured article is Last Layer. The term last layer (normally abbrevated as LL, also called Last Slice) refers to the complete movable "layer" of a twisty puzzle which is the last to be solved in a Layer-By-Layer-related method. The last layer is the layer that must be solved on a cube when all of the other layers have already been finished. All pieces of the last layer can move together. Last layer is different from a last face: Rather than just including the stickers of the last side of a twisty puzzle, the last layer includes all of the stickers on all of the pieces of the last slice.

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Today's featured picture This is a Siamese Cube. This is the version 3.

Did you know EOline is the first step of the ZZ Method. The mainly used methods for the 3x3x3 are CFOP, Petrus, Roux and ZZ.

General Information FAQ Cubing terminology Puzzle notations History of cubing The 3x3x3 cube (also known as "Rubik's cube" and "magic cube") was invented by Ernő Rubik in 1974, and was quickly unveiled in the early 1980s. This is a mechanical and geometric puzzle composed of with 26 elements (called cubies), which can be moved with a system of axes, that is hidden in the center of the cube. Each of the six faces is covered by 9 stickers, among six solid colours (traditionally being white, yellow, orange, red, blue, and green). The system of axes enables each layer to turn independently, thus mixing up the colours. For the puzzle to be solved, each face must be a solid colour. It is said to be the world's best-selling toy, with over 350 millions cubes sold worldwide as of 2009. It has inspired many widely available variations such the 2×2×2, the 3×3×3, the 4×4×4, the 5×5×5, larger sizes ones, the Pyraminx (tetrahedron), the Skewb Diamond (octahedron), the Megaminx (dodecahedron) or the Dogic (icosahedron). All of these items belong to a broad category of puzzles commonly referred to as "twisty puzzles". Some twisty puzzles are shape-shifting (such as the Square One) or custom-built (such as shape modifications of existing mechanisms). Many subjects have been built around cubing: Speedcubing Cubing competitions Blindfolded solving Feet solving Fewest Moves One-Hand solving Optimal solution Puzzle softwares Puzzle solving

Solving Variations Speedcubing Blindfolded solving (BLD) One-Handed solving (OH) Fewest Moves (FMC) Solving with feet

Cubing methods and substeps Common substeps : Cross, F2L, LL, OLL, PLL, CMLL, PBL, CLL, ELL, CxLL, ZBLL, more... Common cube states : Scrambled, Solved, F2L, Eoline, 2x2x2 block, 2x2x3 block, more... 2x2x2 beginner methods, as the Ortega method 2x2x2 speedsolving methods, as the EG method 3x3x3 beginner methods, as The Beginner method 3x3x3 speedsolving methods, as the CFOP method Blindsolving methods, Fewest Moves methods, Experimental methods, Big Cubes methods Fastest Videos for each Method

Puzzle Hardware 2x2x2 cubes 3x3x3 cubes Bigcubes Other Puzzles Breaking in Lubrication Cleaning Puzzle Types: 2x2x2, 3x3x3, 4x4x4, 5x5x5, 6x6x6, 7x7x7, Pyraminx, Megaminx, Square-1, Magic, more...

Competitive Cubing Introduction to Speedcubing for Beginners Road to Sub-15 Second Averages Competitions General

Lists List of Official World Records List of Unofficial World Records List of Puzzle Shops List of Cubing Methods

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