<p>For some reason, everyone started learning how to solve the infamous Rubik’s cubes in my school, and I have made it a personal goal to learn how to do it. A lot of the guides I’ve found on the internet, however, seem to be incomplete. The best so far is the one on wikihelp, but it doesn’t explain how to solve this:</p>
<p>When solving the second layer (with the white face complete), what do you do if all of the edge pieces contain yellow? (Thus forbidding you to solve the opposite yellow cross)</p>
<p>(BTW, I understand there are various methods, but the one I’m using (which is supposed to be the easiest to memorize) is layer by layer)</p>
<p>Rubiks was popular in the 80’s and I used to be able to solve in 1.5 minutes. Once you know the techniques its not bad but sorry I don’t remember. I do remembertaking the cube apart and sanding down the surfaces and even coating them with light vaseline to make them turn faster.</p>
<p>The cubelets you need are still in the middle layer (instead of the bottom where you want them so you can place them) Just use the algorithm D L D’ L’ D’ F’ D F or D’ F’ D F D L D’ L’ to knock it down to the bottom using a yellow peice depending on which side (left or right) you need to place the cubelet</p>
<p>Note: Using your layer by layer technique, you can only get as fast as maybe 1.5-2 minutes. Once you get a little more advanced do some internet searching and you’ll discover techniques that can cut that in half. (Though my personal best is only 47 seconds, not that good compared to the world records)</p>
<p>EDIT: I tried using it, and it seperated two of whites, so I assumed I had to replace them in opposite spots. Is this right? If so, must I place them in the upper level and move them down because otherwise I keep putting them back (so the yellow edge problem persists)?</p>
<p>white’s on top now, am i want to solve the yellow on the bottom, but is it true that you must find an edge piece on the bottom with no yellow in it? because all 4 on the down layer do </p>
<p>and is there a way to solve it initially w/o having yellow on the bottom?</p>
<p>have you solved the middle yet? if you have then you totally should have all your four yellow edge pieces on the bottom. think about it and it should make sense. and if you haven’t, well i guess someone else can give you the algorithm to solve the middle.</p>
<p>why don’t you go and Google “rubik’s cube”?</p>
<p>I had several for a while, spent a lot of time trying to constantly beat my own records…Huge waste of time IMO since just about everybody and their grandmother knows how to solve one now…</p>
<p>Yes, ali. An easy beginner way involves just using the algorithm F R U R’ U’ F’ Until you get the cross (Assuming you have the middle correctly solved) </p>
<p>Make sure you have the inverted “L” in the top left corner (if you dont when you start just do the algorithm anywhere until it appears):
<em>y</em>
yy*</p>
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<p>then do the algorithm, and you should have something like:</p>
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<p>yyy </p>
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<p>than do it again to get</p>
<p><em>y</em>
yyy
<em>y</em></p>
<p>That should help, if it doesnt PM me and i’ll give a more detailed set of instructions.</p>
<p>That’s the method most speed cubers use today.
I can solve the Rubik’s cube under 20s using this method, but you have to memorize over 100 algorithms to solve it like me.</p>
<p>Wow, i didn’t know there are speedcubers on this forum. lol.
Ali153, if you have any questions just go on speedcubing.com and there should be a forums for beginners like you. Yes, cubing is also very popular at my school. I am actually the fastest one,thus my personal best was 40 seconds. Heh, I use the Semi-Friedrich method.</p>
<p>To see someone playing with a rubrix cube (esp at my school, obsessively playing) reminds me how rubrix cubes are;</p>
<p>1.) A Waste of time
2.) The most homosexual piece of crap I’ve ever seen/heard of</p>
<p>only in application to some ppl though who do it ‘obsessively’, not accusing any of you of doing so of course (as long as your not obsessors o_o)</p>
<p>^ The Rubiks Cube is a great hobby, exercises your brain, and makes you think of new strategies to solve it certain ways. Certainly the Top Selling Puzzle in the world. It was very popular in the 80’s and still is today. Don’t come here and rant about how its a piece of crap. Please don’t post if your going to say something negative. Your utterly pointless. Maybe your jealous that everyone in your school can solve it, but you. haha</p>
<p>I could solve it and have, just I find ppl who obsess over how fast they can solve it (“OMG I LOWERED MY TIME BY 3 SECONDS OMG OMG OMG”) to be simply too into it, knowing one or two ppl at my school who spend all their free time simply practicing rubrix-cube speed, including some things like blindfolded and with one hand…=</p>
<p>plus, as you can see in my post, I clearly admitted what I said was a rant and not to be misunderstood/taken as an attack, and im sorry if it did seem so</p>
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