abctoshiro
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Hey.I'm just new here, but I wanna share my method of solving a 3x3x3. It's kinda like Waterman + Roux + OLL and PLL.
NOTE: I'm a 14 year old boy from the Philippines, forgive me if there are li'l mistakes, I'm just a kid.
I'll say everything about this in here, but if you want the file, I can mail you.
My mail is [email protected].
NOTE: This guide requires knowledge of PLLs and OLLs.
MY METHOD FOR SOLVING THE RUBIK’S CUBE
1. Solve the first layer. Choose the color of your top layer and solve it with correct edges and correct corners. The cube should look like this:
correct edges
correct corners
Trust me, it’s intuitive. You can build it on your own.
2. Orient corners on bottom side. OLL.The OLL's with correctly oriented edges. If you dont see the edges this time, ignore them.
If corners are correctly oriented,
The first layer is at the bottom, and the last layer on top. The corners are oriented, but not permuted. That’s the next step: permute corners.
3. Permute corners. We will now move the corners to the right places without disturbing their orientation. If you know PLLs, good.
4. Solve bottom edges. This step is hard to understand. If you really don’t understand this step, do the algs on a solved cube and observe what happens.
We return with the first layer ON TOP. The bottom layer is on, well, bottom.
Look for the pieces in the middle or 2nd layer.
IF THE EDGE IS FACING LEFT...
Then now, adjust bottom layer so that the opposite color of the one to be solved will be at your front. Here’s what I mean:
PICTURE THESE.
I use blue to opposite green, red to orange and white to yellow. It depends on your cube. Blue is our front face so I adjusted the bottom layer to green. Look at the yellow edge. It faces left.
If that is the state, then do: F’ M’ F2 M F’
IF THE EDGE IS FACING RIGHT...
We can’t apply the algorithm above because the edge to be solved is facing right, not left.
Adjust bottom edge.
Well, orange is at the back, so the bottom edge is already adjusted.
Then do: F M’ F2 M F
We solved the orange-yellow edge.
To take out incorrect edges, try to understand the alg. Use it on a solved cube and if you understand it, then you can take out the edge easily without help.
But if you really want the way to do it…
Just do:
Face the incorrect edge, adjust bottom face and do any of the two algs I put there and solve the edge. In the case above I first take out the red-yellow edge then solve it so at the same time I can take out the green edge then solve it.
Bottom layer…solved. Remaining: four pieces. But sometimes this step solves the cube. Just sometimes :]
5. Orient middle edges. We now make the bottom and top layers our L and R to make things easier.
Here’s what I mean:
An H on each side except L and R face.
We will now orient the four edges to their right position.
In the case above (case 1a), we need to cycle three edges downwards twice. First, we put the part of the cube which is already oriented (If there is none, the position is either case 2 or 3) at the back of the cube.
Then do: M’ U2 M U2 twice.
Case 1b is simply the case where you will execute M’ U2 M U2 once.
case 2:
We need to swap edges at the front and back face simultaneously. We do:
M2 U2 M2 U2
case 3:
This is the hardest case to identify. The clue here is the pieces have gone to their opposite face. We now do:
E’ M E U M U’ M E’ M E M2 U M’ U’ M
To memorize: do this on a solved cube, then do this again.
Then we proceed to our final step: flip edges. But sometimes this step solves the cube. Just sometimes :]
6. Flip edges. There will be two or four edges that need to be flipped.
Again, there are three cases.
case 1: Incorrect edges on top
do: M U M U M U2 M’ U M’ U M’ U2
case 2:
It’s case 1…but with another two incorrectly flipped edges at the bottom.
Do: Face this and do:
M U M U M U2 M’ U M’ U M’ U2-x2- M U M U M U2 M’ U M’ U M’ U2
It’s case 1, put the other pair on top, then case 1 again.
case 3:
Woah. The two edges are not at the same layer.
Do: F2 M U M U M U2 M’ U M’ U M’ U2 F2
F2 sets-up the cube for case 1, then another F2 at the end returns everything.
CUBE SOLVED.
again, mail me if you have a hard time understanding this.=P
NOTE: I'm a 14 year old boy from the Philippines, forgive me if there are li'l mistakes, I'm just a kid.
I'll say everything about this in here, but if you want the file, I can mail you.
My mail is [email protected].
NOTE: This guide requires knowledge of PLLs and OLLs.
MY METHOD FOR SOLVING THE RUBIK’S CUBE
1. Solve the first layer. Choose the color of your top layer and solve it with correct edges and correct corners. The cube should look like this:
correct edges
correct corners
Trust me, it’s intuitive. You can build it on your own.
2. Orient corners on bottom side. OLL.The OLL's with correctly oriented edges. If you dont see the edges this time, ignore them.
If corners are correctly oriented,
The first layer is at the bottom, and the last layer on top. The corners are oriented, but not permuted. That’s the next step: permute corners.
3. Permute corners. We will now move the corners to the right places without disturbing their orientation. If you know PLLs, good.
4. Solve bottom edges. This step is hard to understand. If you really don’t understand this step, do the algs on a solved cube and observe what happens.
We return with the first layer ON TOP. The bottom layer is on, well, bottom.
Look for the pieces in the middle or 2nd layer.
IF THE EDGE IS FACING LEFT...
Then now, adjust bottom layer so that the opposite color of the one to be solved will be at your front. Here’s what I mean:
PICTURE THESE.
I use blue to opposite green, red to orange and white to yellow. It depends on your cube. Blue is our front face so I adjusted the bottom layer to green. Look at the yellow edge. It faces left.
If that is the state, then do: F’ M’ F2 M F’
IF THE EDGE IS FACING RIGHT...
We can’t apply the algorithm above because the edge to be solved is facing right, not left.
Adjust bottom edge.
Well, orange is at the back, so the bottom edge is already adjusted.
Then do: F M’ F2 M F
We solved the orange-yellow edge.
To take out incorrect edges, try to understand the alg. Use it on a solved cube and if you understand it, then you can take out the edge easily without help.
But if you really want the way to do it…
Just do:
Face the incorrect edge, adjust bottom face and do any of the two algs I put there and solve the edge. In the case above I first take out the red-yellow edge then solve it so at the same time I can take out the green edge then solve it.
Bottom layer…solved. Remaining: four pieces. But sometimes this step solves the cube. Just sometimes :]
5. Orient middle edges. We now make the bottom and top layers our L and R to make things easier.
Here’s what I mean:
An H on each side except L and R face.
We will now orient the four edges to their right position.
In the case above (case 1a), we need to cycle three edges downwards twice. First, we put the part of the cube which is already oriented (If there is none, the position is either case 2 or 3) at the back of the cube.
Then do: M’ U2 M U2 twice.
Case 1b is simply the case where you will execute M’ U2 M U2 once.
case 2:
We need to swap edges at the front and back face simultaneously. We do:
M2 U2 M2 U2
case 3:
This is the hardest case to identify. The clue here is the pieces have gone to their opposite face. We now do:
E’ M E U M U’ M E’ M E M2 U M’ U’ M
To memorize: do this on a solved cube, then do this again.
Then we proceed to our final step: flip edges. But sometimes this step solves the cube. Just sometimes :]
6. Flip edges. There will be two or four edges that need to be flipped.
Again, there are three cases.
case 1: Incorrect edges on top
do: M U M U M U2 M’ U M’ U M’ U2
case 2:
It’s case 1…but with another two incorrectly flipped edges at the bottom.
Do: Face this and do:
M U M U M U2 M’ U M’ U M’ U2-x2- M U M U M U2 M’ U M’ U M’ U2
It’s case 1, put the other pair on top, then case 1 again.
case 3:
Woah. The two edges are not at the same layer.
Do: F2 M U M U M U2 M’ U M’ U M’ U2 F2
F2 sets-up the cube for case 1, then another F2 at the end returns everything.
CUBE SOLVED.
again, mail me if you have a hard time understanding this.=P
