![]() Having said all that, I only learnt how to solve a Rubik's cube when I was 16. However it is slower to perform - the fastest I could ever do with this method was about 3 minutes while I managed 45 seconds once with the 'standard' ( Cow of Doom's) method (and could reliably do uner 2 minutes). It is also easier to learn for the absolute beginner (yes, I've tried) as it has fewer formulas to remember. I know both this way and the way Cow of Doom described. I'll admit my ability at ASCII art sucks. Much as I would like to divulge the formula here, it would take me *days* of work to represent it in a manner as well as Cow of Doom has. Getting the corners of the last row right.Getting the edges of the last row right.There is a simpler way to solve the Rubik's cube and it involves different phases: RimRod says Thanks to your help, I was finally able to solve a goddamn Rubik's Cube. Phase 7: Orient the remaining edges (Rubik's Move) Phase 4: Fill the edges of the opposite side (Keyhole phase) Phase 3: Orient the corners of the opposite side Phase 2: Position the corners of the opposite side Phase 1: Solve one side, with the edges correct ( you should be able to do this yourself) I could have said "7 steps", but I dig the word phase. It's important not to change the orientation of the cube as you do these moves, because then you may forget which side is the left and which is the front and so on. T-1 F1 = "Turn top side 1 quarter-turn counterclockwise, then the front side 1 quarter-turn clockwise" L1 = "Turn left face 1 quarter-turn clockwise (towards you)" 1 = "one quarter-turn counter-clockwise"ΔΆ = "two quarter-turns clockwise", or "half a turn, either direction" since direction doesn't matter for a half-turn. I'll write out moves in shorthand as follows: In these instructions, you will only need to move the front, left, top, and the horizontal and vertical slices. There are 9 ways you can move the cube - you can rotate one of the three vertical 'slices' (left side, vertical slice, right side), the three horizontal slices (top, horizontal slice, bottom), or the three stacked slices (front, middle slice, back). Your job is to move the edge pieces into place around those center pieces. If the center piece is green, that's the green side. This is important - each face is defined by the center piece. No matter how screwed up the cube gets, the center pieces of each side will always be like this. White is opposite yellow, blue is opposite green, and red is opposite orange. You have to realize that you can't really change the locations of the center pieces on each side. On mine, the colors are white, red, blue, orange, green, and yellow. When I talk about the colors of my cube, I'm talking about the standard Rubik's Cube - some of them have different colors, and if someone's taken it apart the colors might be in different places. My directions attempt to tell you how each move changes the cube, so you can understand how the solution works, but this makes it lots harder to simply follow my directions and get a completed cube. I find his directions to be easier to follow (since he has pretty pictures) but purely mechanical - he doesn't really explain how the moves affect the cube, he just tells you what to do to solve it. It was derived from Matthew Monroe's presentation of the solution at: The method I'll describe here is easy to remember, but requires a pretty good imagination, since I can't use pictures or colors. However, no one has come up with a solution this short that works for all possible mixed-up cubes. Theoretically, the shortest solution is 22 moves from a given combination of colors on a mixed-up cube. There are many different methods to solve a Rubik's Cube.
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