Hi I'm Matty, and as of now I'm ranked sixth in the world in the WCA rankings: the official Rubik's cube competition organizer. And I will teach you how to solve your first Rubik's Cube today. And I am Milan, also known as CubeHead on YouTube, and I'll be joining you guys today to solve my first Rubik's Cube, going over some of the mistakes I made, so you don't have to make them. Good luck to you! I guess we can start by using a cube that's actually solvable. Let's start by going over the different pieces of the Rubik's Cube. It doesn't matter what kind of 3x3 you own, this method will work on any cube. I will be using this Speed Cube. * epic boss move * This is a center piece and they always stay in place. On modern Rubik's Cubes, white is always opposite of yellow. So no matter how much I turn it, * What is happening? * * Matty using 5% of his powers.* white is still opposite of yellow. This is an edge piece which has two colors. This is a corner piece which has three colors. The goal when solving a Rubik's cube is to get each piece in its correct position. First, let's start by solving a white cross with each white edge in its correct position. The easiest way to do this is by first creating a daisy around the yellow center, like shown here. You might be able to figure out how to create the Daisy on your own but I'll show you how to do it. We're only going to focus on edge pieces with white on them. Some pieces require only one move to solve, like this one. And this one also only requires only one move. However, sometimes pieces like this one which is in its correct place but flipped, require multiple moves. You can bring it down and then connect it with the yellow center. Then for this edge piece you cannot just bring it up like this, because it pushes this edge piece out of its position. Instead what you do is bring the spot where the edge piece wants to go above it and then replace this, with this. To turn this Daisy into a correct white cross, we need to align the side colors of the white edges to their correct centers. Let's start with this one. This is orange. Turn here, this is green, this doesn't match. This is orange, it does match. The next step is to bring this white piece down to the white center: solving that edge piece. We just do the same for all white edge pieces until we have a white cross. Okay I'm going to start by placing this white piece next to the yellow center. * That's a corner bro. * Oh yeah, okay I'm going to start by putting this white piece next to the yellow center. Now we're going to solve the white corners into their correct position thus creating the first layer. To do this, you will need to learn two simple algorithms or sequences of moves you need to memorize. They are really simple so don't worry. You got this! The first one we're going to call the "Righty Algorithm" and it goes like this: you turn the right side clockwise, the top clockwise, the right side counterclockwise, and the top counterclockwise. The second algorithm we're going to call the "Lefty Algorithm" and it goes like this: first, you turn the left left side counterclockwise, the top counterclockwise, the left side clockwise, and the top clockwise. Practice both algorithms until you can do them by heart. Holding the white cross on the bottom, we're going to find a corner piece in the top layer that has white on it, like this one. Now look at the other two colors on the corner piece: because the two colors are blue and orange, we're going to find the blue and orange center pieces and place the corner in between the two center pieces. So now it's on top of the spot where it needs to go. Looking at the corner piece, if white faces to the left: then we hold the corner on the left and do a Lefty Algorithm. This solves the corner. If white faces to the right: we hold the corner on the right side and do a Righty Algorithm. This solves the corner. If white faces up: we hold it to the right and do three Righty Algorithms. This solves the corner piece. You just do the same steps for all the white corners in the top layer. If you cannot find any corner pieces with white on them in the top layer and the first layer is not solved yet, look for an incorrect white corner piece in the first layer. Then hold it on the right side of the cube and do a Righty Algorithm. This takes out the corner piece letting you insert it like normal. Okay so now we hold the cross at the bottom, we look for corners with white in them like this. It faces to the left, so Lefty Algorithm... * That's the wrong spot dude! * Oh! So this one has green and orange in it, so we put it above the green and orange centers, now it faces to the left, we hold it to the left and do a Lefty Algorithm. Now we're going to solve the edges on top of the first layer to build the second layer. To do this, we hold the white cross at the bottom again and look for edges in the top layer without yellow on them. Like this one. Now we're going to look at the color on the side and match it to the correct center piece. Now while facing the edge, we need to look at which side it needs to go: if it needs to go left, like this edge, we use the upper layer to move the edge piece one turn away from where it needs to go, then we do a Lefty Algorithm. This takes out the corner. Then we can proceed and insert this corner the way we learned before. We look at the corner, we see that white is facing to the right, so we put the corner on the right and we do a Righty Algorithm. This solves the corner again as well as the edge. If the edge needs to go to the right: we use the upper layer and turn the edge piece one turn away from where it needs to go, then we do a Righty Algorithm. This takes out the corner. Then we can just insert it like we learned before. This solves the corner again, as well as the edge. Do this for all edges in the top layer without yellow on them. If there are no edges in the top layer without yellow on them and the second layer is not yet solved, we look for an edge without yellow in its incorrect position. Let's say this one. Then you insert a yellow edge in that position. This takes this edge out of the second layer and we can then proceed and insert this how we learned before. All right, let's look for edges without yellow in the top layer, here we have one. Okay so this piece needs to go here, so we put it one away... * You didn't align the edge yet! * Oh yeah that's right! Let's first align the edge so it is like this, it needs to go to the left, one turn away, Lefty Algorithm, and then insert this corner. Now we only need to solve the last layer and the cube is finished. But beware, if at any point from now on you have a case that we don't cover, you have to disassemble your cube and put it back together in a solved state. We're going to start by creating a yellow cross on the top by looking at the pattern of yellow edges. If there is already a yellow cross in your cube, you can skip this step. If you have a line on your cube: you're going to rotate the top like this, so that the line is horizontal. Then you turn the front side clockwise, you do a Righty Algorithm, and you turn the front counter clockwise. And there's yellow cross. If your cube has a hook on it: you're going to rotate the top so that the hook is in the back left, you're going to rotate the front clockwise, you're going to do two Righty Algorithms, and finally turn the front counterclockwise. And there's the yellow cross. If you have a dot case, then you do the same steps that you would do for a line case. This creates a hook, then then go ahead and solve the hook. All right, so I'm done with my first two layers... * BuT wAiT a MiNuTe * There's just one edge facing up! So I have to reassemble my cube. All right, let's scramble it again and start over. Now we need to put the edges of the yellow cross in the correct position, like I'm showing here. To do so, you'll need to learn an algorithm called a "Sune". For this algorithm, we're going to keep track of these two pieces or "pair". Start by putting the pair in the top layer, take it out of its slot and realign the white side. Then put the pair in the back, put its slot into the top layer, reinsert it into its slot, then fix the white side. Do this algorithm a couple of times to familiarize yourself. Start by aligning as many edges to their center as possible by turning the top layer. If you can match all of them, like this, then you can skip this step. Right now, none of them are aligned, so let's just try turn the top layer. All right so now I have one, this is not aligned, but this is. If the aligned edges are across from each other, like in this case: do a Sune holding yellow on top. Then you should be able to align two edges that are next to each other. If the edges are next to each other: hold them in the back and right and do a Sune. Now this time you should be able to align all of the edges. We just need to solve the yellow corners and the cube is solved. We will need one more easy algorithm called a "Niklas". For this algorithm, we're going to keep track of these two front pairs. First bring the right pair up, put it in the back. Then bring the left pair up and put that one in the back. Now we can solve the right pair again, and finally insert this pair back in its slot and fix the white side. This was one Niklas. Do this algorithm a couple more times until you're familiar with it. To see if a corner is in its correct spot, we look at the colors that aren't yellow. If they match the colors of the edges next to it, then it is in the correct spot. Here the corner is not in the correct spot: this blue does not match with this green. However, if you look at this corner: this is in the correct spot because this blue matches with this blue and this orange matches with this orange. When there are no corners in the correct spot: do a Niklas from any angle, realign the edges and then you should have one corner in the correct spot. If you have one corner in the correct spot: you hold the correct corner in the front left and do one Niklas. If we then align the edges again you will either have all the corners in the correct spot, or you'll have to do one more Niklas. Align the edges and here we go. All of the corners are in the correct spots. Now we only need to flip the corners and the cube is solved. To do so, we will flip the cube upside down with white on the top and yellow on the bottom, and solve each corner one by one. Start by holding the cube in a way that the corner in the right bottom is not solved yet. Then we can do Righty Algorithms until this corner solves. That's one... and then it is solved. Once this corner is solved, turn the bottom layer. !! Don't rotate the cube !! Keep it here, turn the bottom layer until another corner that is not solved is in this position. Then repeat the Righty Algorithms until the corner is solved. That's one and here it is solved. So now we can rotate the bottom layer again. But here we see this corner is already solved, so we can skip this and move on to the next one. Do Righty Algorithms until this solves now. There's one, and then we can just realign the bottom layer, and the cube is solved. LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOO All right so I'm at my last step I just need to twist the corners. But wait, can I not just do... Congrats solving your first Rubik's cube, once you're used solving the Rubik's cube using this method, check the video in the top left corner to start your journey as a speed cuber. 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