Introduction

Rubik’s Cube is a puzzle made in 1974 by Erno Rubik,

the professor of 3D design. He always almost the same
age as his student, his teaching is boring for them, so
he came up with a idea, the Rubik’s Cube. The puzzle
with 43 quintillion different combination, and took
Erno Rubik him self one month to solve.

Pieces of the Rubik’s Cube:

The centre piece will only contain 1 colour, edge piece

with 2 colours, and corner piece with 3 colours, first
layer contain one centre, 4 edges, and 4 corners,
second layer contain 4 centres, 4 edges, the third layer
contain the same as first layer.
How to solve a cube
8 Steps:
-Daisy
-White Cross
-White Corner
-Second Layer
-Yellow Cross
-Yellow Corner
-Corner Orientation
-Solve The Cube!
Daisy
The daisy method is a very easy method to solve the
white cross, with no complex algorithm. You can do it
just by using common sense and basic knowing of the
turns. Here’s some common turn:

The only one you need to know for your method is R,

R’, U, U’, L, L’, F2 these are the common one. To do daisy
method, just by putting all the white edge on the
yellow centre. You can refer introduction for what is
edge and centre. There are four edges you need to get
on the yellow centre, the red-white, green-white, blue-
white, and orange-white edges. Daisy when done:
White Cross
To do the white cross, you just have to hold the cube in
the right way first, put the white centre on bottom, and
yellow centre on top, and any centre in-front of you.
After that, look at the centre in-front of you, not top,
not bottom, but front. The only possible colours are
red, green, blue and orange since yellow is on top and
white on bottom. Let’s say the front colour is green,
then we pair up the white-green edge with the green
centre, you just need to do U moves for it to pair up.
Pair up meaning the colour matches the white-green
edge’s green should be facing you, and the green
centre also facing, then the white-green edge is paired.
After pairing, you should turn the front twice (F2) then
the white-green edge should be solve (It’s not white-
green depending on the colour you are doing) After
that, just rotate left (You can rotate right, but I prefer
left), after rotating, do the same thing, pair up, then
turn the front twice (F2) until you get all 4 edges

solved, it look like this when solved:

White corner
White corner is slightly harder than the cross, which
you need to perform an algorithm. Algorithm is a set of
move usually 4 moves or above that you need to
memorize there’s only two you need to know to solve
the entire cube: R U R’ U’ (Right Sexy Move) and
L’ U’ L U (Left Sexy Move). Now, you just have to find a
white corner, example: White-Blue-Orange corner, after
find white corner which is White-Blue-Orange corner,
we don’t look at the white, White-Blue-Orange which
left us with blue and orange, then we just put the
corner between the blue and orange centre, and the
corner should be at the top layer (with the yellow
centre) if the corner is at the bottom with white centre,
then perform right sexy move (R U R’ U’) to get it out of
the bottom slot, after doing that, put the white-blue-
orange on the right side of your cube, then perform the
right sexy move (R U R’ U’) until the white-blue-orange
corner’s white faces with the white centre. Then you
have that one corner solved, now repeat it to all the
other, if the corner is inserted wrongly, you can put
that wrong inserted corner on the bottom right of your
cube, then perfrom right sexy move (R U R’ U’) then the
wrong inserted corner should be out of the slot.
Second Layer
After solving the first layer, we move on to the second
layer, which you need to perform left sexy move (L’ U’ L
U). First find a non-yellow edge on/with the yellow
centre, non-yellow edge meaning the edge without
yellow colour, we can ignore the white edges in this
part. After finding a non-yellow edge, pair it up with
the centre just like how pair up edge in the daisy, then
look at the edge, let’s say it’s green-red edge, then the
edge must be in between the green and red centre the
edge may need to go to left side or right side of your
cube, after pairing, just look at the centre and you will
realise where it belongs, if it needs to go left, then turn
the edge away from the place you want to go (left) so
do up move (U) to turn it away then left sexy move (L’
U’ L U) then rotate the whole cube to left and do right
sexy move (R U R’ U), if we need to go right side, we do
the opposite, we go with U’ move then right sexy move
first (R U R’ U’) then left sexy move (L’ U’ L U) and you
have a edge inserted, then to the same to all the other
three, if there is edge inserted in the wrong place, then
just put it on your right side, and do right sexy (R U R’
U’) then left sexy (L’ U’ L U) then you have a edge
outside of the wrong slot.
Yellow Cross
Yellow cross is same as the white cross but yellow and
on the opposite side of white. You can do the yellow
cross very easily, it is the easiest of the entire cube.
There are 4 cases for yellow cross, firstly a solved
yellow cross, a line which contain 2 edges and one
centre, a L shape or V shape also contain 2 edges and
one centre, and the worst one, just a yellow dot. For
the solved yellow cross, you don’t need to do anything,
for the line case, just hold the line horizontally, do not
hold it vertically or you will mess up the line, after
holding it horizontally, turn your front (F) and do right
sexy move(R U R’ U’) and done! For the V or L shape,
put the V or L shape on your top left corner,
surrounding the top left corner, then turn your front (F)
and do two right sexy move (R U R’ U’ R U R’ U’) and
done! For the dot case, we can hold it anywhere, and
turn front (F) and do right sexy move (R U R’ U’) then
we will make a L or V shape, then we do what we do
for the L or V shape case and done!
Yellow Corners
Yellow corner is a step to put the yellow corners in the
correct place, we can know they are in the correct
place by looking at the colour of the corner let’s say
mine is yellow-red-blue corner, then put it at a corner
surrounded by the yellow, blue and red centre then it’s
in the correct place. We must at least match up one
corner to do this step, but we can also match up 2 or 4,
it’s impossible to match 3, because there are only 4
corners, if you match 3 then the fourth one will also be
matched. After matching then 1 corner, we will just
swap the others to match the entire thing, you must
use common sense on where the corner belongs, but
there’s a algorithm for you to swap the corner. This
algorithm swap the two corners on your right side, so
if you want to swap the corner, make sure to put it on
your right side, then do three right sexy move (R U R’
U’ R U R’ U’ R U R’ U’) then rotate your entire cube to
the right side, and do three left sexy move except you
don’t do the final move of the three left sexy it goes
like (L’ U’ L U L’ U’ L U L’ U’ L→Uwe don’t put a U
here as the last move) the entire algorithm goes like
(R U R’ U’ R U R’ U’ R U R’ U’) y (L’ U’ L U L’ U’ L U L’ U’ L
U) y stands for rotate cube to left.
Corners Orientation
The second-final step is to solve the cube, to do that,
rotate the entire cube upside-down meaning the
yellow centre is now on bottom, and white centre is
now at the top of the cube, then you should see

something call “twisted corner” like

It is actually not twisted, you can twist it back by put
the yellow centre on bottom as stated, then perform
right sexy move (R U R’ U’) until the yellow colour faces
with the yellow centre, you can rotate your cube a bit
to see if the yellow face is facing down with yellow
centre (The yellow face is the yellow colour of the
yellow corner) after doing this, you cube might look
mess up, but do not panic, we just do the same to all
the colours until all yellow faces down but do not
rotate the cube to left or right to do right sexy move
to make it face down or it will actually mess up, you
are you going to do down move (D) doing down move
will bring the “twisted corner” to you so that you can
Perform right sexy move (R U R’ U’) until the yellow
faces down, just keep doing down move and “twist” all
the corners back until all the yellow faces back up. If
the all the yellow corners are already twisted (solved)
with the yellow centre then you skipped this, but if
the yellow corners are twisted (solved) but not in the
correct place, you still need to swap it to make it go to
the correct place. And actually, these are not “twisted
corners” we just say it that way so we can understand,
in the more advance way, we say orient the corner
instead of twist the corner back (Unless it’s a actual
twisted corner)

WARNING: If your cube mess up even with doing D

move, you might want to get your self a Pro Cuber or
coach to help you, because it is twisted corner. Or you
can solve the entire 2 layers and the yellow cross,
then orient the yellow corners by twisting ALL of them
Solve the cube!
After doing corner orientation, you will realise three of
your edges, or even four of your edges are swapped,
but that is very easy to fix, if three are swapped, then
we hold the cube at the solved side (not white or
yellow side) do not hold the swapped one or it will be
endless, then we perform one right sexy move, then
left sexy move, then five right sexy move, then 5 left
sexy move. If this doesn’t solve the cube, then do it
again one right sexy move, then left sexy move, then
five right sexy move, then 5 left sexy move. If there are
four swapped edge, then we can go any side and
perform one right sexy move, then left sexy move, then
five right sexy move, then 5 left sexy move, then there
should be one solved side, then do what you do for the
3 swapped edge one.
The End
This is the end of “How to solve a Rubik’s Cube” and
the method you just learnt is layer by layer method,
known as LBL method which is great for beginners. If
you want to be faster at cubing, you can watch some
CFOP tutorial on Youtube, or you can learn Roux, ZZ or
any other method to solve the cube. But even with LBL,
you can solve it under one minute, Happy Cubing and
enjoy! Secret