How To Solve A Rubik's Cube

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1. Step 1: How to solve a rubiks cube:

   First, find the white centre. Then look on the opposite side, which is yellow. You want to make a white X with the yellow centre. There's one already in place, you want to find the others. There's one here, let's put that in. There's one. There's the last one. And there it goes. There you have an X.

2. Step 2:

   Now you want to look on one of the white ones. This side it's green, you want to match that green to the green center. Now after you do that you want to twist that side twice. Now the white one's on the right side. You want to do that for the rest of them. Now you should have a white X.

3. Step 3:

   Now you need to find the corner pieces. OK, there's one. Look at the other colors on it. That's green and orange. There's orange and green and you'll put that one in between those two right there. OK, so now the whites are matching, the orange and the green. Now you want to get the other three sides in. One more left. Where's the last white one? There it is. You might have to play with this a couple times to get the feel of how to get the pieces in place. Now you should have a strange figure looking like that on each side, and a white face. OK, now repeat the step if you do not have this. This is step one.

4. Step 4:

   Step two in solving the Rubik's cube. Now you want to find these pieces. OK, let's look. Orange, Green, let's find the orange and green piece. It's on another side so let's get that piece out. OK, let's do green and orange. There's the green and orange piece. Match it with its centre. Now you want to look so it's orange. This is green, green's over here; you want to twist it away. Twist the left side up. Twist it like that, twist this back down. Twist it like that, like that back and the white back down. Now you have that piece in. Do that for the rest of the sides. Two more left. One more. OK, now you have these pieces thrown in with the correct colours and this piece. That is step two.

5. Step 5:

   Step three in solving the Rubik's cube. Now you want to solve the top face. OK, let's start by finding you a yellow piece. OK, now what you want to do is put that, twist it to the side. That up. That back. That down, like that. Now you made a yellow cross. You may have to do this a couple times. Now take one of the yellow corners, match it to the corner. OK, now that matches blue and orange. Now you want to follow the next steps and see what you have to do to solve the Rubik's cube.

6. Step 6:

   Step four in solving the Rubik's cube. Now you want to finish the top surface. OK, let's get to one of the yellow pieces. Go up, top to the right. Down. Up top twice so the white matches, and back down. There you go. Now you should have this little object on there. You want to go to this little corner down here, match it to the correct colours. Blue, red, that. Now you want to go to that two more times. Twist it, so it's in the corner again. You got one more time. And watch this. The top surface is complete. OK, follow the next steps to see how...

7. Step 7:

   The next step in solving the Rubik's cube is finding these two places and matching them to their centres. I already have one matched, and it's green. So then you're going to face it the opposite. Face it the farthest away to you. Go down, that way, down, back twice, this back up like that. Whoops. That twice, twice again. Now you should have all of them. Now I have three there. I'll show you want to do in the next step.

8. Step 8:

   The final step in solving the Rubik's cube is this; yellow on top, white at the bottom. And I'll leave that side here. Blue, blue goes over here. Twist it twice. Twist it to that side. If it was on this side, I'd twist it the other way. Go down for each one, twist it twice, go up. Twist it. There you go. You have solved the Rubik's cube.

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