Rubik’s Cube solutions
Have you given up solving the Rubik’s Cube? Or worse, have you end up changing the stickers’ places?
If you’re tired of hazy and confusing solutions to Rubik’s Cube… in TheRubiksCube.com we’ll explain step by step all you have to do to turn your chaotic Cube into a solved one. Follow our instructions and you’ll be able to solve the Rubik’s Cube in a couple of minutes. Surprise your friends solving the most popular puzzle all around the world. So, you know, solving the Rubik’s Cube is in your hands!
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Know your “enemy”: the Rubik’s Cube
This is all you have to know before starting to solve the Rubik’s Cube (please, never write Rubic, Rubick, Rubrik or Rubix).
The Rubik’s Cube is a mechanical 3D puzzle that has 6 colors (one for each face) and it’s made of three different types of pieces:
The center pieces: there are 6 (in brown in this image), one for each face, and there’s only one of each color. They rotate around themselves and they don’t change their position, so they are always “in the correct position”.- Corners: there are 8 (in purple in the image), each one with three different colors.
- Edges: they are the pieces between the corners (in pale blue in the image). There are 12 edges in the Cube, each one with two different colors.
In total there are 20 pieces “moveable” (12 edges and 8 corners) in the Rubik’s Cube, being all of them different from each other. If we rotate one face, we see that the centers stay in the same place, while edges change to positions where there were edges, and corners change to where there were corners. What I mean to say is that each piece is of one type and that type can’t change (an edge will always be an edge).
Objective: solve the Rubik’s Cube
Our objective is to put all the pieces into their correct place, and with the correct orientation. To know the pieces position and orientation we focus our attention in the centers, which as we’ve said are fixed. For example, the edge that goes between the green center and the red one is the green and red edge, and being well oriented when its green color is beside the green center and the red beside the red center. Consequently, a corner has 3 colors, so its position will be between the centers that have those colors.
Let’s start now solving the Rubik’s Cube!
Step 1: Edges of the first face of the Rubik’s Cube »
jenna
Jan 18, 2012 @ 00:04:59
hi so im stuck in the white in the shape of a T? will you help me?
Rubik's Cube
Jan 18, 2012 @ 15:31:22
Hi Jenna! In which step are you stucked? In the third step?
norden sherpa
Nov 02, 2012 @ 15:39:02
plese teach me
Rubik's Cube
Nov 02, 2012 @ 17:20:06
Just follow the steps!
l
Sep 02, 2013 @ 06:24:12
I am stuck on bottom and top
Fritz
Jun 12, 2012 @ 07:39:50
Hi Jennna
There’s a good online Rubik’s Cube program. I learned how to solve the cube with this, it will help you a lot: http://online-rubiks-cube-solver-program.ruwix.com/ I learned to
Rubik's Cube
Jun 12, 2012 @ 09:42:51
Fritz, that helps to solve the cube once, but it does not help to LEARN how to solve the Rubik’s Cube.
Frici
Nov 09, 2012 @ 22:28:10
On the same site you can find the beginners’ method on how to solve the cube: http://ruwix.com/the-rubiks-cube/how-to-solve-the-rubiks-cube-beginners-method/
Epicer
Jul 14, 2013 @ 23:50:18
That’s true. All that does is it finds the answer.
z
Mar 20, 2012 @ 08:39:55
how do you switch edges(what algorithm?)
Rubik's Cube
Mar 20, 2012 @ 13:45:16
Hi z! Take a look to Step 5. But it is better if you follow the Rubik’s Cube solutions step by step.
superslinkey7799
May 26, 2012 @ 01:44:59
hey i don,t get this
Rubik's Cube
May 26, 2012 @ 08:27:12
This is just the introduction. Follow the seven steps and you will be able to solve the Rubik’s Cube!
John Aardrian
Jul 21, 2012 @ 06:34:04
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR HELPING ME SOLVE THE RUBIK’S CUBE!!!!!!!!!
Rubik's Cube
Jul 23, 2012 @ 18:59:56
Congratulations John! Thank you for your comments
Sasa from Serbia
Aug 21, 2012 @ 21:38:52
This is so good,i learn it just for one day…i like this so much,and i think that i will practise this and after that i will go on some chalenge in this :)
Rubik's Cube
Aug 27, 2012 @ 19:16:40
Congratulations Sasa! Good luck in your future competitions :-)
Lucas Andersen
Sep 14, 2012 @ 22:15:42
Thank you for a Nice guide! I was stuck on the videos of how to solve a rubics cube on http://www.professorterningen.dk
I Will recomend your page to everybody!
Thanks
Rubik's Cube
Sep 15, 2012 @ 10:17:18
I’m glad you like it! And congratulations for solving it!
baljinnyam
Jan 17, 2013 @ 09:36:38
hi
Rubik's Cube
Jan 17, 2013 @ 12:19:59
Hello Baljinnyan!
rubik's cube
Mar 07, 2013 @ 04:16:48
hi, thanks for your share. i like cube . but who can solve 11*11*11 cube ? like this . please reply me.
http://www.superrubikscube.com/shop/product/2-111111-.html
Rubik's Cube
Mar 07, 2013 @ 10:52:00
That’s a little bit more difficult than the 3×3 cube, hehe.
wesley
Oct 10, 2013 @ 03:05:51
to solve the 11x11x11 cube you first have to know how to solve the 5x5x5. to solve the 11x11x11 just use the same method you would to solve a 5x5x5.
Vitaly Korolev
Apr 12, 2013 @ 22:38:55
The solution works great! Any tips on how to better memorize the steps? Would be nice to see an explanation for the goal of some steps. As in why certain moves get you where they do.
Rubik's Cube
Apr 15, 2013 @ 12:56:20
Do not try to memorise each movement. Try to memorise how some pieces move around the cube.
Epicer
Jul 14, 2013 @ 23:51:19
:) Thx for the help!
Buzz
Jul 19, 2013 @ 03:19:12
Hi. Can you help me what’s wrong with my last layer (yellow cross).
I’m confused why after I’ve set and finished the two layers, I don’t usually come to the “usual” 4 cases that most tutorials in youtube show how the yellow should be.
So that even if how many times I do the notation on the yellow I couldn’t make the cross I tried a hundred times.
Is there something wrong with what I was doing?
I’d really appreciate any help.
Thanks :))
Rubik's Cube
Jul 19, 2013 @ 09:45:22
Buzz, maybe your cube is unsolvable. You should take some pieces apart and put them back in their solve position, and try again.
Buzz
Jul 20, 2013 @ 02:07:08
Hi again. Thanks for the reply. I did what you advised (take all the pieces out) and I also put in some jelly there to grease it.
And then I tried again, funny I got to solve it this time.
But I am confused and I wonder. Because where and when I got it the first time, the cube is fully solved. Is it possible for a solved cube to be “unsolvable?” What I mean is, have I perhaps committed mistake in trying to solve it so that by consistent tries the cube state turns to an unsolvable state?
Is it okay to do the 1st layer without any notations? What I mean is I just try to go as I can with it till I get it done.
Then I only start using the notations on the “Making a T” and the other cross on the last layer/
Thanks for the help and remarks.
Love,
Buzz
Rubik's Cube
Jul 20, 2013 @ 08:41:52
HI Buzz. No, it is impossible to make a solvable cube into in a unsolvable just turning the faces. Because if you ‘undo’ the movements you have done, it will be solvable again. So, it wasn’t unsolvable.
Normally what happens is that while someone is solving the cube, one piece may go apart by accident and put it but it back together but with the incorrect orientation. And you get an unsolvable cube.
There are many ways of solving the cube. Just do the one that works for you ;-)
kartheek
Aug 02, 2013 @ 14:03:16
How to do the Rubik cube
crazy
Aug 25, 2013 @ 09:04:21
rubiks cube solving itself http://youtu.be/uCwF5rcvMp8
Rubik's Cube
Aug 26, 2013 @ 11:52:40
Hehe! Funny!
venky
Sep 24, 2013 @ 13:57:01
how did u got interest in solving rubik’s
Rubik's Cube
Sep 24, 2013 @ 14:06:04
I found a Rubik’s Cube when I was 13-14 years old. I tried to solve it several times, but I couldn’t. Finally, months laters I solved it by myself.
Years later I even went to competitions and solved it one-handed and even blindfolded.
wesley
Oct 10, 2013 @ 03:12:49
I have solved the 3x3x3 one handed, but how do you solve it blind folded? It must take some serious concentration.
santosh
Sep 28, 2013 @ 14:03:55
ilove rubiks cube. i have dayan
althea Bagalay
Oct 02, 2013 @ 00:46:20
oh! its hard to solve the rubiks cube.. i can’t follow the instruction!!!!! help me
Rubik's Cube
Oct 02, 2013 @ 07:26:25
The first steps are the most difficult to explain. Then, it’s easier!
wesley
Oct 10, 2013 @ 03:35:36
This is one of the best explanations about how to solve the Rubik’s cube I have ever found.
jaichandra
Dec 06, 2013 @ 10:14:07
i finished 1st layer but i am not getting 2nd layer can you help me!
jaichandra
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jaichandra
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