Hi there and welcome to my course.
How to do the Rubik's cube.
Now this introduction video now I just want to give you some heads up as to where you can go.
In the course and save yourself some time if you already know how to do keep a little bit.
So the first section this introduction section here we're going to look at how the cube moves around
and then we can take it apart and have a look inside it and then we're onto Section 2 where we will
teach you how to do the top cross.
And now we're stuck with the red side.
I'm going to teach you how to do a cross section too see if you already know how to do that.
You can skip across to Section 3 where we'll teach you how to get from that's top cross to the fully
completed topside and all the all the colours around the side there and get those working.
So that's Section 3 and in Section 4 where are we doing as we be looking at getting a second layer here.
Get that second layer finished and then Section far.
5 2 3 4 5 Section 5 is when we look at getting the the cross on the bottom of the cube.
So we got the top layer.
Secondly and we get the cross on the bottom that's Section 5 and then Section 6.
The last section of all of course when we finish off the corner so we'll do one of these corners.
Then we do the second corner so we've got two down and then we get the last two will be completed and
that's what you do in section 6.
So what do we do next on it is a pause and then I'm going to go and flip the cam around so that you
can see my hands moving and I'm going to solve a cube all the way through and I'm going to stop and
show you each one of the moves that we do the 8 moves and each stage along the way so this is probably
gonna be about 5 minutes or so.
This video and just show you how it works.
But obviously you can either watch that now or you can skip ahead to the bit that you need help with.
The other thing that's also in this program is that I separate out the moves individually as well.
So we've got a full explanation why we give you all the alternatives and all the the exceptions that
you might come across.
For one move.
So for example when you are doing this loops the second layer for example is the left hand move which
moves this piece to here and then move that moves this piece to here.
But of course there are also exceptions to that so there's a when there's a piece in there already that
you need to move out and evacuate for example.
So those are the exceptions to the idea that we might come across.
So that's what I do go through there.
And then we've got the written algorithm as well and I don't really like algorithm's myself but it might
help you if you see them written down then you can print off those to those pieces of paper and just
refer back to them if you need to.
To show you what the algorithms actually are.
But we'll go through those in the next section so you can flip the camera out now and solve a key all
the way through and show you each move and each level and each section of what's going to come up in
the rest of the rest of the presentation.
So if you know how to do this you can skip ahead right now.
Go right ahead and do that right now.
Okay bye for now.
Okay so we start with a mix up key as you can see here.
Now I always start with the red side on top and so there's the red centrepiece and then I'm looking
immediately the first thing I'm looking for is any of these reds side pieces on the bottom and you can
see this one here is actually happens to line up with the other side so it's very easy just to rotate
that up on the top side and you can see those pieces lined up beautifully there.
Then I'm having a quick look on the bottom.
There's no more red pieces down there but there is a red and blue piece just there which is underneath
the police side which is quite nice as well.
Which then leads us on to our first kind of move particularly which is what we do here is to get that
piece up to the top here.
Move it around to the side like that.
Move the centipede's towards us and then rotate that side up and then move the be back across again.
That then leaves us with that readonly piece in the right place and also with this red and yellow still
over here as well.
The next thing to do is then look for another red side piece and here's one here.
And so in this case you can see it's in the right place it's upside down.
That's what we do here we just rotate it to the side and then do the move.
We just did it again to this first move obviously.
If Greenpeace ran to the side but up to the top of the side to be back to our allegan we can see that
red and green pieces is now the right place but yellow and red and blue is not right.
Now just need this one red white piece over here which is actually just there and you can see that if
I put it down to the bottom there it is.
I want to get at the top so we did the same thing and we rotate it.
To the middle there move the middle there towards us.
I hate that sign up to the top or top there and then rotate that's going to go away from us again to
line the colours up.
So I thought place now would go blue and red in the right place.
Red and yellow in the right place and then red and green in the right place.
Now there is one exception to that so I'm going to show you that move so that was the first movie basically
and here's one exception.
We've got to pause it and put it set that up for you.
OK.
So what I've done is taken the red and white these from this corner and stuck it in here.
So it's between these two fixed corners already.
So the second move that's on the list of moves in in my in this program is to take that piece out and
put it back onto the bottom layer.
So what you do there is you take this right side downset pieces on the bottom rotate it towards you
and then put that right side back up here.
Put the red and blue piece back up again.
And now this red and white pieces in the bottom layer and you can rotate it around.
So it's underneath the white plate placed there and then just use that first move again to rotate the
red and white piece middle there then rotate middle there towards us.
Put it up to the top and then rotate the middle area away from us again so that much is at the colours
against red and white.
This is now the right place medically in place red and yellow and red green as white place.
So now we're working on these four corners.
The next part we need to do this just one move here although there's a left version and right there
she actually has to make this sort of two moves to learn here.
And the first one is this one here.
So we put this corner up to the top and you can see that's perfectly lined up already red piece towards
us from the top.
And we've got to stop.
Not yet.
When we pull out the way bring this one down between that one piece background to lie with a table and
then pushed up to the top.
So that piece is now in the right place.
As you can see I can see right away there's a red piece here is red yellow and blue which is nice with
us right in the neetha places as well.
So if you did put that up again same move push it up the way bring the two down.
Line them both out again and put it back to the top of eye.
So that's that move.
And then this one is red green and white.
And luckily that's perfectly under there as well so that's it he gave me give us a move again move it
up the way we have to down push it back across and got the three back up.
I mean this is when you start to see the the patterns and how similar they are to to each other.
So.
So you'll see that as we go through know that this piece now is underneath here.
But it's the red side is on the front.
It's not on the side as it needs to be.
So this is going to go into.
This is the fourth move now.
We need to learn and that is to rotate the right hand side down so that pieces of the pack rotated all
the way around.
So it's now facing us here and then push that right side back up to the top again and then rotate.
This peace around to the side actually we have the right and then turn to pick the key brand that's
the actual move.
And now we have this red piece underneath.
And this is now the left action.
So you recognize the right side to move out the way we do about the way that way and then put this one
down.
This time they had a way round so we moved this out away to the right.
Bring the two down.
Push it back across.
So it matches up here and then rotate that side back up to the top.
And now we've got the top layer nor the colours around the side.
And then we're now moving on to the second layer.
We're going to do now is move the pieces that are on the bottom here that needs to be moved from here
to here from here up to here.
So that's we're going to do now and they see a yellow and green piece which is not an orange piece.
And that would mean that needs to go here.
You know when orange yellow and green needs to go up to the in between those two sides there is the
right hand.
This is actually the left version of this.
This is what they need to move the peace up to the left.
So we do as you move out away to the right.
This is where you start to see the pattern's bringing that side down back across and then rotate that
side up and you'll see what's happened is you've joined these ones up.
And if you rotate the key to the right you can now see that that red corner is a but underneath that
which is the same as me we would of course get out of the way.
You see that side piece comes with it.
Bring those two down.
Push back across those three out.
And that swipe is still there and then push back to the top and you can see that Greenpeace's now in
the right places.
So we're now looking for the next piece.
And I'm looking on the bottom line here.
So Steve at the red on top always get ready to go.
And we've got a blue and white piece here which needs to reach.
You rotate around until the colour that's facing you underneath here and you can see us here in white
which is going to be up here.
It's going up into that slot here.
And you could see red or blue and yellow piece there that's now going to be released when we move that
one out of there.
So now we've got to move it forward.
This is this is the right move.
So they're moving this piece to the right so it's just the opposite.
What we did before so move the piece that we want to move out the way bring those three down.
And the piece we want to move back across the TV here and then rotate those to back up to the top.
And will join these this corner with that side piece and we rotate the key.
And then you can see it was just underneath as it was the left move from this side and move it out the
way which brings the side pieces away with it.
It means to track down push that one back across which lines up those three and let's eyepiece with
it and then rotate it back to the top again.
So this you can see that's very similar to the other moves we've done.
And as we you will have noticed we've released the yellow and blue piece.
So we rotate that around until the colour facing us is underneath the colour.
We move on to and then see that the yellow bleepers needs to move round to the right.
So it's a it's a right move to move the peace out of the way bring this side down the piece back across
and then put those two pieces back up again join those up there we'll take the cue Brown.
So we now get that red face facing us.
We just need to put it back at the top again.
Or any of it out the way bring those to track down move it back across.
Push it back up to the top.
And you can see it's in the right place.
The second is almost done.
You see we've got one exception going on here.
So we call the white and Greenpeace in place but the wrong way round.
So all we need to do now is just imagine we're going to put this piece up into that slot instead and
then that will obviously release it.
So we just rotated out the way bring the three down bring the piece back across really take that side
that way rotate it around to the right and then we got to this corner piece back up there again and
move it out the way bring the two down pull it back across and push you up.
So what that's done is to put that blue an orange piece from here up to there.
Now the white and green piece is now in the knee here.
So again we rotate the bottom around until it's underneath the current needs to be and see that white
and green is to go up to the source side.
So you take it around to the left at the way when these three down to one backcross.
We want to move to the right side back up again put those two up there.
Now you can see that join those up rotate the cable around so that the red faces is facing us and then
work with the red face back out there the same as we always are before.
But take it out the way bring the two down twist the one cross connects up and then push out to the
top again.
Now extend done the top two layers.
So once we've created the top two layers We're then looking to try and make the cross on the bottom
and are the three possibilities you might find when you get to this point here.
And so I just set those up for you over here so you can see the first one is just the orange dot at
the middle which is what we've got there.
The second one is a seven.
And the back there I think in some way other videos refer to this as an inverted L but you can quite
clearly see that that's my 7.
Somebody mentioned to me that it looked like.
Seven.
So that's that.
And then the third one is the horizontal line.
And of course the fourth one would be the Cross already completed.
So those are the three options.
And I am going to show you on the cube that we're working on.
Had to go through those three options.
It's basically the same move.
He is Do it several times and it'll work through all three of those.
So we do we take this right hand side.
We bring it down and we push the right the bottom across.
But those two three back backup to back up on the right hand side and then bring that one back across.
Now you can see that that feels like what you want to do is push it across and then to back down.
That's obviously going to do nothing because that's exactly the same as a reverse of exactly what we
just did.
So now what we do is slightly different with this move as we move that piece up to the top then rotate
the front face to the left then move stays six pieces at the weight make room for those two that we
moved out the way back then we rotate the front face back across the right.
And what that has done is create that 7 or than L in this case and then we rotate the keep around until
it looks like a 7.
So that right on top.
And then we got the 7 thing here and then we do the same move again so we move the right side down to
the bottom cross.
Put those two back up again and move the bottom back across to the right.
We want to put that piece up to the top.
So we moved up to the top which means those to off the back.
Take these three to the left or six and to the left actually bring those to cross that up there and
then put the front face back around to the right.
To fix everything and then you see we've got the horizontal line which is option two which age of thought.
Then what we're doing is we do the same thing again move rotate the right hand side down bottom across
two back up again and back across again.
Now move that piece back up to the top so it's going to move those two off the back.
Take the three over to the left of six and then bring the two back across and then rotate a six pack
to make the top two let us sort it out and then we find out we've got a cross on the wall and know those
two right there.
The next thing we do is rotate the bottom until the colours in the middle here match up with the centrepieces
here.
What we have done on several of the other moves as well.
I always like to start with the blue side.
See that matches up.
Then look around to see whether or not the white side matches up which he does.
And then check to see whether the green does.
And the elders in this particular case we perfect we got it exactly right.
But there is a move an extra month in here which will swap these two pieces around here and show you
that now here.
So we rotate the right side down the down to the bottom side across side yes bottom layer.
Actually those two back up again.
Now instead of bring this across we just move it around again bring that side back down and then bring
that piece is going to move all the way around.
So joined by have again pushed them back to the top again and then we just finished move by moving the
column to the left.
What you can see that's done as a SWAT team over the green and yellow piece here and kept the blue and
white back together again here.
So if we stopped those two back now so he writes down very close to the left right side back up again
right across the left again might say down to the police all the way back around again to that joins
up with the three back up to the top again and then we rotate the bottom around to the left.
And you can see that's green and yellow pieces are in the right place.
Now the Blue The LAPD the right being the white pieces in the right place.
And I've still got that cross on the bottom I can ignore that corner for now.
So that's what we'll do there.
The other possibility when they got the cross on the bottom is that the blue and the green side match
up the yellow and white are opposite sort of opposite sides.
Those are exceptions that we go through in Section 5 of the of all the electors coming up.
So the next thing we do is we put the one of these corners in the right place.
So that's what I'm going to do now and try and work out what the best movie is and the best one to move
is that one cost there which I can do with the moves it on the bottom layer.
And the last four corners there's only one move left right left and right.
Version of it.
And it's very similar to what you've seen already.
So he moved his right hand side down.
But now he moved the left side down as well.
In this particular case going to move to the bottom to the right because it moved those two pieces is
right there got pushed outside by again.
The move is to back across line those three and push it back up to the top.
Now going to move this piece up to there we do it the same way as we did before we got out of the way
bring those two down back across join those three and push them back up to the top there again.
That's what that will have done.
He didn't do it.
Now again this is just the joys of this part of the key sites.
Obviously made a mistake.
And I moved that piece over to there instead of there.
But we can just see the same thing again so it's very easy we need to move this piece across to here.
It's right on top.
And then we do the same thing.
So now we're moving this piece across to there.
That's the left version of the one we just did so that it's move this side down the left side down and
then move from there to the left.
We want to leave that piece of course put those two back up again.
Move those two we moved back around those three to three to the top.
Now I've got the same as we've always done here here and we have this peace out of the way bring it
down line everything back again pushing back at the top of you and what you'll see that's done now is
it's put that piece in place.
Again we go through all these exceptions in section 6 of this tutorial so there's quite a lot of varieties
and variations going on with these pieces here.
So now I know that you do a right hand move here.
So we move those two pieces down move the bottom to the right.
Put those two feet back in.
That is to back across those three out back to the top.
Move this piece away from the top back down and again push it up to the top and.
Then we're looking at what can we do next.
Just to do that again.
And now that there's peace in the right places so we now need to flip that down then back up again so
we do a left move and you can see haven't done it's the most efficient way possible because I wasn't
really focussing on what I was doing and then rotated around to the right and then moved them to the
right the right move again.
Now I've got these two pieces completed and now we just got to do the last little bit which is these
two pieces here on the cube.
And the way we do that from here is it's happen to be remade we're made into a little rotating keep
around with the police space on top.
Now again we talk about these exceptions in section 6 and we go right moved from here in a three back
together and push up to the top and we drop on out the way to down and back up to the top.
We take the key around keeping that in place.
We're going to let me have.
We need three down left.
Move those two back up bringing the two back around my nose three plus three to the top.
We want peace now out of the way.
Bring it back down.
Push back across and then pull those three to the top.
You'll find that we've completed the key at that point there.
So again we get all of that in the rest of the lectures.
And in particular a lot of those exceptions for those last four corners in section 6.
So I hope enjoy and ask lots of questions if you do get stuck.
Thanks so much need for that.