PetrusQuber
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Cool. I’ll speak as if I was talking to someone who didn’t know how to solve a cube.I just want to show him how the method works. This dude hasn't solved a cube in his life. What the different steps are, and everything. I don't want to show him how to solve the cube, just show him what is happening.
So the first step is to make a cross. I want to get the white edges (ones with two colours) next to the white centres, and make sure their other colour (not just the white) is matched up.
This will form a kind of base for us to work with.
Then we move into a step called F2L - first two layers. We don’t actually solve cubes side by side, we solve them in layers as it is easier to do.
You will notice that once we have made the cross, there are 4 slots in its corners that we can fill to finish the first two layers - four pairs. Those pairs are made up of a corner and an edge. You need to match them up, and then put them in the slots. This will take some fiddli by back and forth, and possibly learning some basic moves or algorithms, a few moves long.
Once you’ve done that, you only have the lat layer left. This bit is the trickiest because you cannot do anything without breaking up the first two layers, so we need to learn some algorithms. You can start of simple with just a few algorithms, but at an advanced level, there will be two steps. The first is OLL - Orientation of last layer. Since it is so hard to move things around here, we don’t care about getting them to matchup everywhere yet, just making a complete top side. At an advanced level, we can pick from 57 different algorithms to finish this in one go, but at a beginner level you will only need a few, albeit having to do two sub-steps.
It’s a similar thing for PLL, which stands for permutation of last layer. We’re going to now move all the pieces around to their correct places on all colours.
At an advanced level, we can pick from 21 different algorithms, but again, we can simplify it into two sub steps to need to learn less algorithms as a starter.
After finishing this step, the cube is solved!
I would advise you to solve a cube while explaining this for easier visualisation, and possibly also explain the stickers don’t move, it’s the individual pieces that do.