How do you Solve a Rubik's Cube?

Well, I felt that someone had to make a thread about them in a section with a name like this. xP
I've seen shows/articles that mention "algorithms" to solving them. People that practice can solve them in under ten minutes easily, the world record is barely over ten seconds.

Does anyone know how to solve them? When ever I try Google, the sites are difficult to understand. :/

I can do one, takes me about 5 minutes on average.

Hard to describe without pictures...but here I go.

To start off, pick a color. I prefer green since its my favorite. Now find the green center piece. To begin everything, you need to make a cross shape of all green. In other words, when looking at the green center piece, all the following pieces are also green: the piece above it, below it, and on each sides of it.

But thats not all. Every piece of that cross (save the center) is a "side" piece, in that it has two colors. (Should be green/white, green/yellow, green/red, and green/orange if I remember correctly) Now when making that cross, the non-green color of the side piece must match up with its own color side piece. This means that the green/yellow side piece touches both the green center piece and the yellow center piece

OK. THAT alone was hard to describe....the rest of it would be impossible to do without physically showing you. Maybe I'll record a TuT and put it on youtube.

Anyway, here's how I do it

Green cross
Green corners
2nd Layer sides
Top cross
Line up top cross
Get top corners in place
Complete top corners

Ta da?

I got that much from the Sites, then they lost me. I never knew (not like I put much thought into it) that the center color was the color that side had to be. :/

Peel off the stickers and put them in the correct order.
(I'm surprised I'm the first one to say that.)

On topic:
The center of the cube is the color that that side is, as it's the only piece which doesn't move.

Peel off the stickers and put them in the correct order.

When I visited my Cousin, he actually tried that. o_o

I can't solve it.

Start with a corner. Get the 3 centres to match the edges and corner between them (7 "cubes" total, 2x2x2 block).

Add another 4 along the one side, so you have a 2x2x3 block solved.

Make sure the edges are good to go.

Add another 1x2x3 block next to the 2x2x3, giving you 2 "layers" solved - 2x3x3.

Solve the top, first get the corners in the right spots, then make all the correct color point "up". Finally, get the edges in the right spots (this is where I have trouble - I tend to forget how to do this)

I just use a Rubix Cube solver online

I once tried to do it on my own. I got REALY close. Then someone took it and smashed it and put it back together the right way

Then someone took it and smashed it and put it back together the right way

Did ya get beat up in high school alot too?

Solve it by layers, not by colors. It's pretty damn near impossible to solve by colors. The first two layers are easy, but the third one involves memorizing multiple algorithms. Stereo's method I've seen before in solving around the 2x2x2 block, but I never really understood it.

Solving by colors is easy. You just need to know the algorithm. I'll post what the peice of paper I have says, that lets you easily solve a Rubix Cube.

Solving by colors is easy. You just need to know the algorithm. I'll post what the peice of paper I have says, that lets you easily solve a Rubix Cube.

Out of curiosity, how long does it take for you to solve by colors?

Start with a corner. Get the 3 centres to match the edges and corner between them (7 "cubes" total, 2x2x2 block).

Add another 4 along the one side, so you have a 2x2x3 block solved.

Make sure the edges are good to go.

Add another 1x2x3 block next to the 2x2x3, giving you 2 "layers" solved - 2x3x3.

Solve the top, first get the corners in the right spots, then make all the correct color point "up". Finally, get the edges in the right spots (this is where I have trouble - I tend to forget how to do this)

o__o
Uhm... English please? xD

Solve it by layers, not by colors. It's pretty damn near impossible to solve by colors. The first two layers are easy, but the third one involves memorizing multiple algorithms. Stereo's method I've seen before in solving around the 2x2x2 block, but I never really understood it.

This is how I do it...layers is easy

I'm still really slow though...I used to be able to do it in 1 minute average but I haven't done one in quite a few months so it's probably slowed down to 2-3 minutes.

Here's a site that i found helped a bit.
http://www.rubikssolver.com/

How many of you who can actually solve it figured it out yourself?
Just wondering cause most of the people I know usually googled how to do it or got someone to teach them <_<

How many of you who can actually solve it figured it out yourself?
Just wondering cause most of the people I know usually googled how to do it or got someone to teach them <_<

I did! It took me a month and a half! Non-stop. No homework done, or anything! This was back when I was in the 9th grade and inspired by my Geometry teacher. Now I usually can solve it under 2 minutes on average.

I solve it 40 seconds average, best time being 29 seconds. I was bored the day before state testing so I decided to actually READ the instruction booklet that came with the Rubik's cube...needless to say, I got pretty addicted. I still use most of the beginner method for F2L, with a 3 step LL, and if I can find the time to memorize the Friedrich method's algorithms (119, golly) I can probably get my times to the teens =) Great for impressing people, and also great for being called a no life =(.

For me I can do it anywhere from 2~3 minutes. Basically I use algorithms, but simpler ones, not the 800step speed methods.

1. Make the green side through common sense
2.make a T of each color on the sides
3. Fill in the colors to the right and the left of the T
4.fill in the top make it a sideways H
5. and just turn from there.

I have one, but I've never been able to solve it.

I suck at rubik's cube.
>_>