How To Solve A Rubik's Cube!

Step 2 Solving the top corners

So, what you want to do now is solve the top corners.
-Pick your favorite color (I always use blue, some use white, it really doesn't matter)
-Locate one of the corners
-Make it so that your favorite color (we'll use blue from now on) is facing upwards and that the other two colors on the corner piece are on the side of the cube. (You can just rotate the cube so that the blue part is facing up)

-Rotate the cube so that the first blue piece you found is in the top-left hand corner
-Find another Blue corner piece, this time with one of the same "side colors" as the first one you picked (In my case red or white)
- Get your target (new) corner piece right under where you want it to go by rotating the bottom or side rows or columns, keeping the original piece in the top left hand corner, then follow the steps in the pictures until you have all four top corners solved!


As for notation, a capital letter by itself represents a 90 degrees clockwise turn if you were looking at the face itself.
For Example: U means turn the top layer 90 clockwise as if you were looking at it, or to the left.
L means turn " Left " " " " " " " " " " " , or down
R means turn " Right " " " " " " " , or up.

I've included some pictures that help explain all the moves.

(I need permission for the pictures first, so they'll be up by tomorrow, probably)

Comments

[adamye]

It's confusing... a video might make it easier to understand...

[seabeepirate]

ok, so I'm on step 8 and I can't seem to get it right, I was wondering if maybe I was doing the middle columns wrong. is M' up and M down, or is M up and M' down?

[jademasker]

I couldn't understand this at all.... :(

[planeglory]

me neither. There is a you tube bid that is great,it is done by pogo.....nevermind the name it is the first one with a cube sitting on a table

[hojop25]

POGOBAT, dan brown, an awsome video!

[planeglory]

sorry I said bid I meant vid

[Dallas S.]

Your really smart with great methods! But it's a little difficult to understand what your trying to say in some of the parts between the into to the beginning of the third step. It may be better to put them in more of "lemon's' terms. (just a suggestion... have a nice day.)

[planeglory]

this is so true, I can't even solve it. What do you mean by side color?

[enad]

i solved it!! the center piece in each side is irreplaceable meaning you can't move them.then the nxt piece beside them that coincides only have two combination color.they are the pieces that make a cross shped when in properplace. it means that they have a fixed final position which is in the middle.then the corner pieces have three combination colors.just 1,2,3.then its up to your intellectual prowess to think the diff.ways to solve it as you enjoy playing it.GOODLUCK!:-)x

[zahin]

please tell me how to solve a rubic

[jillg]

read the instructions that come with the cube when u buy it

[musicninja17]

Read the instructable! :)

[liamdoydoy]

u r smart!!

[Taga-dagat]

Well, there are other ways to solve a Rubik's cube... and the way I solve it is kind of different from this instructable.

[mharq0h]

Hhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmm thats is so slow !!! how to solve faster?????

[michellecharbzneedstosolveherrubixcube]

Im comfused. what does it mean when there's an appostrophy at the end of a capital. :S:S:S:S frick I dont think I have enough patients to play with these

[2 uses]

kind of confusing but cool