How to use it
- Choose how to paint: face by face (one face at a time, as the solver tells you to hold the cube) or with the unfolded cube (all six faces at once).
- Pick a colour and tap the stickers that have it on your cube. The centres are already painted: they never move, so they tell you which face is which.
- When the 54 stickers are painted, press “Solve”.
- Follow the moves. Tap any move to see it on the 3D cube, or press play to watch the whole solution.
Shortest solution or our method?
The shortest solution undoes the scramble in 20 moves or fewer (every position of the cube can be solved in 20 moves or fewer). It is the best option if you only want to get your cube back to its original state, but it is impossible to remember: each position has its own solution.
The solution with our method is longer, about 130 moves, but it follows the 7 steps of our beginner's solution case by case: for each stage it tells you the step and the case you have, how to hold the cube and which moves to make. Each stage links to its case, so you can learn the method while you solve your cube. After a few times, you will not need the solver.
How to read the moves
Each drawing shows the layer that turns in light blue and the direction with an orange arrow. Below it is the move in the usual notation: R (right), L (left), U (up), D (down), F (front) and B (back) turn that face clockwise, as if you were looking at it; with an apostrophe (R'), anticlockwise; with a 2 (R2), twice. In our method, sometimes you also have to turn the whole cube: the solver tells you which colour goes on top and which in front. The same drawings are used on the patterns page.
My cube has other colours
Most cubes have white opposite yellow, green opposite blue and red opposite orange, but not all of them. If yours is different, press “My cube has other colours”: you can choose the Japanese scheme (white opposite blue) or a mirrored one, or paint the six centres yourself. If one of your colours is different (purple instead of orange, for example), you can change its shade so that the drawings look like your cube.
It says my cube cannot be solved
First check the colours: a single wrong sticker is enough. The solver tells you if a colour appears more or fewer than 9 times and marks in red the pieces with colour combinations that do not exist. If everything is right and it still cannot be solved, someone has twisted a corner, flipped an edge or taken the cube apart and put it back together wrongly: see how to fix an unsolvable cube.
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