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- This isn't good.
What's up, you guys, my name is Joel Courtney.
You may know me as Lee Flynn from "The Kissing Booth."
I'm here with Bustle today to give you a homeschool video
on how to solve a Rubik's Cube.
I am, by no means, a master.
I do know how to do this.
Joey King is the one who taught me how to do this
on the set of the first "Kissing Booth."
The first time I ever solved it,
I was wearing a yellow shirt,
I think I was wearing my tie,
had some headphones on
so I could listen to like what was happening on set,
and I'm holding it, and I'm like, eee.
This is not easy,
and I guarantee you,
you will not be able to do this in one day.
Grab a Rubik's Cube, 'cause they are fun.
They take your mind off of things, they distract you.
I like having it around, it's good for me,
it keeps me even-keeled.
I am very fidgety.
Alright, so let's do this thing.
I like to start on the white side.
And what you're gonna do is you're gonna get a cross first.
What you're gonna wanna do
is you're going to wanna line up your T,
and we're gonna get a T on every side.
You're gonna want a T here,
and you're gonna want a T, the vertical bar for the T,
these two right here.
So now one of the hardest things with the Rubik's Cube
is how to think about moving a piece
into a position where you want it
without moving other pieces.
Think of removing something,
setting up something in a position,
and then replacing it in the position that you want.
So you've got your cross.
Say after me away, down, back, up.
So you're gonna take this white piece,
it's directly under where you want it.
You're gonna turn it away from the side
that you want it on, so away.
You're gonna take the side you want it on here,
you're gonna put it down.
You're gonna go back into place,
and then you're gonna turn it up to the top.
And you've got it right there.
Now check this out.
Away, down, back, up.
You've got your entire white side.
You've got a T on all four sides.
Don't worry about this,
we'll move that later.
But the T is what we're on.
Now we're gonna do the entire two rows.
We're gonna fill out these sides.
So what you're gonna do is,
white is on top or yellow is on bottom, okay?
And that's important because now you're looking
for pieces with no yellow on them.
Just these corner pieces
we're gonna rotate and turn around.
So you go to your bottom row
and you look for a piece with no yellow on it,
like this guy, blue and red.
So what you do is you line him up on your blue wall,
in a full T.
So all the way across the top,
all the way across the bottom.
Now this side is red,
so you turn it away from the red side.
And it's the same thing as earlier,
away, down, back, up.
Away, down, back, up.
You do that twice through on this side.
So blue and red.
So you go away from red, down on red side,
back to that side, and then you turn red side up.
Now, oopsies, we've got a piece missing,
but it's lined up immediately ready to go, see that?
So you do the second step.
Away, down, back, up.
So now you've got your entire white side,
green, red, blue, orange, all done.
So this sets up your next step.
You're gonna need to come up with some sort of saying
for yourself to figure this out.
I say what Joey King taught me how to say,
which is "Franco, stop talking.
"Stop talking, Franco."
This is top.
So now this becomes important.
Sides, tops, bottoms become important.
And you wanna see it in that way.
So it looks like nine, 12.
You go front clockwise, top, oh, wait.
(crickets chirp)
It's so hard for me to actually like talk through this
because it's so muscle memory for me.
Oh my goodness, wow, I am tripping.
Hold on one second.
Got it.
So what you do is, this is your top.
You take the front of your cube, the one facing you.
So not the top, the one facing you.
So this is facing me, right?
So I take the front and I turn it clockwise.
The side goes up and the top goes clockwise.
And then you do that backwards.
Issa fish.
It kinda looks like a fish this way,
all the fins right here, this is his body.
You take that.
And the way that you look at it
is you turn it down and to the left.
So you're gonna take the right,
your right hand on the side
and you're gonna turn it up,
and the top is gonna go clockwise,
down on that side.
You're gonna do a clockwise turn.
You're gonna go up again
and do clockwise turn twice on top,
and then replace that piece down, boom.
Okay, so you've got your entire yellow side.
Sometimes you'll need to do that twice, sometimes.
And then check this out.
Boom, we've got our U.
So with the U in your left hand,
you're gonna take this U
and you're gonna put it in your left hand.
You're gonna take your right hand,
you're gonna turn it towards yourself.
You're gonna take this side
and you're gonna go down,
and you're gonna rotate the bottom side
towards you here twice.
This side goes back up, clockwise, clockwise,
and then you're gonna go down, clock, clock, up.
One time on top, top, down, clock, clock, up,
once on top, down, bottom goes clockwise, clockwise.
You've got your white side here.
You rotate that down.
You've got your yellow side completely done.
Check this out, boom.
You're on the last step.
The side that is solid is facing away from you.
So you take the front that is facing towards you
and you turn the front, this side,
this goes clockwise, clockwise.
The entire top goes towards you clockwise.
Both sides come down.
You turn the entire thing over.
Both sides go up.
The top goes clockwise again.
And then you replace the white and yellow, boom.
All right, you guys, that's the Rubik's Cube.
Thank you so much for watching this video.
Thank you for Bustle for sharing this.
I hope you were able to follow that.
Rubik's Cubes are pretty tough.
I'm Joel Courtney.
Catch "The Kissing Booth" on Netflix streaming, July 24th.
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