SOLVING THE RUBIK’S CUBE
Some Designs you can make once
solved:
Terms and Notation Yes this sounds boring, but without it, you can’t
learn the: Algorithms, Permutations,
Orientations, Formulas, Tricks, whatever you want to call them. (the series of
movements)
TermsParts of a Cube
Corner Piece
Center Piece
Edge Piece
Notation F: Front side (side facing you) L: Left side (facing left hand)
R: Right side (facing right hand)
U: Up (or top) side D: Down (or bottom) side B: Back (or reverse) side
If holding the cube with two hands with one side facing
towards you
Notation (cont.)U
sideL
sideD
side
R side
F side
B side
For those of you who can picture
in 3-D well
Notation (cont.) F, U, L, R, B, D
Seeing any of these mean to turn the
side the letter represents 90°
CLOCKWISE
Notation (cont.) F’or Fi, U’or Ui, L’or Li, R’or
Ri, B’or Bi, D’or Di Seeing any of these mean to turn the side the letter represents
90° COUNTER-CLOCKWISE
Notation (cont.)
F2, U2, L2, R2, B2, D2 Seeing any of these
mean to turn the side the letter represents
180° (either direction, doesn’t matter)
So, can anyone figure out what:
“R-F’-U2-B2-D’-L” Is telling someone to do?
R - F’ - U2 - B2 - D’ - L
Right 90° Clockwise
Front 90° Counter
ClockwiseUp 180 ° Either
DirectionBack 180 ° Either
DirectionDown 90° Counter
ClockwiseLeft 90°
Clockwise
The Cube The Rubik’s Cube is solved
layer by layer by the average solver. Many professional solvers (speed-cubers), have their own special orders that they solve the cube in, but for today, we’ll go with simple.
Steps: Solve First Layer (FL) “Cross”
(edge pieces) Solve FL Corners Solve Second Layer (2L)
Edges Solve Last Layer “Cross” Then from there, there are
many orders you can solve in.
Now, Finally we can start
Step One: Solving the Cross on First layer
The pieces in between the center tiles on these pictures below are called EDGE
pieces. During this step you line up the EDGE pieces with a white tile on them between
the centers with the same colors. This is done on the first layer, usually the
white side.
Step Two: Solving the Corners on First Layer
From this: To this
To finally, this.
To Start: Take an edge piece with a white
(or whatever color you are starting with) tile on it.
Line up the piece so that the white tile is on the first layer.
Layer 2 Your cube should
now look somewhat like this:
And when the second layer is done, it will look like this:
Only Step: Putting second layer edge pieces into place
If this is the case:
U-R-U’-R’-U’-F’-U-F
If this is the case:
U’-F’-U-F-U-R-U’-R’
If this happens solve for case one or two
anyway, and then start at beginning of layer
two.At advanced levels, there is
a formula to fix this, but that’s for another day.
Case 1: Case 2: Case 3:
Visual Example of Second Layer Formulas
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