Post by Blake

First of all, you will not be able to solve a Rubik's Cube immediately after reading this page only once. It takes a lot of work to learn this method thoroughly. The time it takes to learn depends on your devotion. I have friends that every once and a while return to this page thinking they can learn the entire thing in the couple minutes of online time they have, and they have yet to solve a Rubik's Cube. On the other hand, I have friends that have learned the entire solution in about a day of intense memorizing. If you are serious about learning how to solve a cube, I suggest that you don't start learning until you know that you will have a lot of spare time in the near future to work on it. Print these pages out if you want to.

Another thing I'd like to say is that this solution won't break any world records. If you learn this solution thoroughly, your best time might be around a minute or a minute and a half. Once you get this method down pretty good, and you want to work on your solving time, I suggest you learn the Fridrich Speed Cubing Method. Pretty soon, I'm hoping to put a page on here about easing into the speed cubing method from the simple solution I have here.

Axioms To Keep In Mind:

• The cube consists of 21 individually moving parts. These include 1 triple-axis, 12 edge pieces, and 8 corner pieces.
• A center square will always remain a center square no matter how you turn the cube.
• An edge piece will always remain an edge piece no matter how you turn the cube.
• A corner piece will always remain a corner piece no matter how you turn the cube.
• Center pieces never change their position in relation to each other. They only twist around in place, even though it looks like they change places.
• An edge piece has two stickers on it. Those two stickers will always stay next to each other. If you want to move one of the colors to another position, the other has to come too. The same idea goes for corner pieces.

Peeling off the stickers is not the solution (in fact if you start to peel off some of the stickers but never finish putting the rest in their places, you are most likely going to cause an impossible combination and make the cube unsolvable). Even if you do finish replacing the stickers, you make solving the cube more difficult and awkward to a person who actually knows how to solve it since the colors are not in the same place in relation to each other.

A Side Note:

There is a difference between oriented and positioned. If a segment is in the wrong place, it is said to be in the wrong position. If a segment is in the right place but is facing the wrong way, then it is oriented incorrectly.

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