Solving the Rubik's Cube
Posted on Thu 03 April 2014 in play
See notation.
Cross of the first layer
Moves cube FD -> FU
- F->F, D->U
- F2
- F->U, D->F
- D R F' R' or F' M'D F MD
Corners of the first layer
Moves cube FDL -> FUL
- F->F, D->L, L->U
- L D L'
- F->U, D->F, L->L
- F' U' F
- F->L, D->U, L->F
- ( F' R' ) D2 ( R F )
Second layer
Moves cube FD
- F->F, D->L
- ( D L D' L' ) ( D' F' D F )
- F->F, D->R
- ( D' R' D R ) ( D F D' F' )
Placing side cubes of third layer
- Moves cube FU -> LU
- (U F R ) U (R' U' F' )
Cross of the third layer
Rotating cube UR
- Rotate UR and UB
- ( R MD )4 U ( R MD )4
- Rotate UR and UF
- ( R MD )4 U' ( R MD )4
- Rotate UR and UL
- ( R MD )4 U2 ( R MD )4
Placing corner cubes of third layer
Moves cubes FLU, FLR, RUB, cube ULB is not moving
- Shift by one position clockwise
- ( R' F' L' F ) (R F' L F )
- Shift by one position counter-clockwise
- ( F' L' F R' ) ( F' L F R )
Final placement
Rotate the cube FUR
[ ( R F' R' F )2 ]n {U | U' | U2 } [ ( R F' R' F )2 ]n
- n - rotates FUR by n/3 clockwise
- U - rotates FUR and RUB
- U' - rotates FUR and FUL
- U2 - rotates FUR and LUB