#RUBIKS CUBE FLIP MIDDLE PIECE HOW TO#
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Important for us is only: If you have an odd number of yellow eges (on the regular 3×3 Rubik’s Cube), then something is not right with that cube. Mathematicians explain that with parity, but I understood that not completely until now. Note: Maybe you ask yourself why there are always 0 or 2 or 4 yellow edge pieces and never 1 or 3. The cross is yellow now, but it’s probably not positioned already. If it was already like this after your first 2 layers, then you were lucky and have skipped one step. Now the cube should look as shown on this picture. With a maximum of 3 Fru-Ruf you can do the cross if you make sure that the angle or row is in correct postion.īut of course it’s faster with small-f or Fur-Urf. No Yellow > Angle (hold it on 9 o’clock) > Row (horizontal) > Cross

With every Fru-Ruf the cube changes as follows: Tip: If you like, you can do the whole cross only with F R U R‘ U‘ F‘. If you have done the first alg, then your upper side shows 2 yellow edges.

Start with F and then a second time with f: 😉 Then you have to do both algorithms successively. If you have the case that there is none of the edges showing yellow on top, then your chances for a new world record are bad. I myself use both ways, depending on how the situation looks after the first two layers.

#RUBIKS CUBE FLIP MIDDLE PIECE FREE#

Then you turn F U R U‘ R‘ F‘ (which is Fru-Ruf backwards, Fur-Urf).įeel free to choose what you like more. You hold the angle in „9 o’clock“ position so that it is on the opposite side, going from the left to the back. Tip: The cross can also be done without a wide f move. You have to turn both front layers, a wide F move (that’s why it sometimes is also written Fw). If you already learned the notation then you know that this means to turn the contiguous layer, too. Only that we turn a small f at the beginning and end instead of a capital F. In this case the easiest way is a simple variation of the „Fru-Ruf“ move:Īs you see, it’s almost the same algorithm. You could also say it’s like watch hands that show a quarter past six. Then we hold the cube as shown, so that this angle looks like a „right turn“ from the front to the right. Together with the center piece they build an angle of 90 degrees. Often you also find the situation where two edges are yellow, but they are adjacent. That should be okay now – all edges show their yellow sides to the top. This algorithm also changes some of the yellow corners, but here we only look for the yellow cross. FRU is turning clockwise, and then R’U’F‘ is turning anti-clockwise (see notation). You only have to remember that the second half of the move sequence is anti-clockwise. I call it „Fru-Ruf“, but exactly it goes like this:Īs you see, the name „Fru-Ruf“ describes this algorithm almost completely. And now we need a very simple move sequence. You can turn the whole cube or only the upper face to bring this row to the shown position. Then you have to hold the cube in the shown way that this row or line goes horizontally across the upper face of the cube. If you have two opposite edges showing yellow to the top, then they build a row together with the center piece. If these are 2, then the two can be in adjacent or opposite position. If the first two layers are solved, you see 0 or 2 or 4 edge pieces showing yellow to the top. Here it’s only important that all yellow sides of the edges show to the top. Also it doesn’t matter if some of the corners are yellow, too. In this step we do not have to care about the position of the yellow edges. Our first goal is to make a yellow edge cross, like you see on the picture. The white layer and the middle layer are already solve, now to the third layer: 3.1 The Yellow Cross Also I try to show algorithms that are also useful if you like to go on with speedcubing and the CFOP method.īut before that we start with the 4-steps solution that I described above. The Last Layer (yellow)Īs I did for the first two layers, I also try here for the last layer to show a solution that has not many long move sequences to learn.

#RUBIKS CUBE FLIP MIDDLE PIECE HOW TO#

That’s why I show now how to orient the corners first and after that how to position them. But it was more to learn and also not consistent with the CFOP speedcubing method that you might want to learn later. That’s how I explained it some years ago. Note: The steps 3 and 4 can also be done in different order.

Position the yellow corners at their correct places.

Turn the yellow corners so that they are oriented correct.

Position the yellow edges at their correct places.

Turn the yellow edges so that they are oriented correct.

There are only 4 steps left until the cube is fully solved: Tutorial in 3 steps: Īfter showing how to solve the bottom and middle layer of the Rubik’s Cube in the first two parts of this tutorial, now the third and last part explains how to solve the remaining third layer that contains all pieces with yellow sides.

Rubiks cube flip middle piece