hey guys today I'll show you how to solve this 4x4 Rubik's cube now you
should already know how to solve this 3x3 rubik's cube if you don't make sure
you learn it check out my video up here and the link in the description from
my tutorial on how to solve this because it's very important this is a base
foundation for solving big cubes like the five by five six five six seven by
seven and even bigger cubes let's say the 17 by 17 in the future if you want to
get this far if you have any questions on how to solve this make sure you comment
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and you figured out how to solve this Rubik's Cube now let's get into this
tutorial alright so just like the 3x3 there's the
white blue orange red green and the yellow side, in the 3x3 tutorial you had
the U U Prime and the R R prime notations for these algorithm and it's
the exact same for the 4x4 u u prime R R prime you have this Uw which turns
two layers so Uw Uw' RW RW prime LW Lw prime and etc so you turn two
layers if there is a W following the notation
now let's scramble this cube up let me show you what the step looks like
overall first I'll get the right center then the yellow center and then all six
centers will be solved then all the edges will have been paired up there are
12 total edges and then I solve it just like a 3x3
first I want to start with the white center I see that there's two white dots
so I want to start connecting blocks two by one blocks so if I turn it like this
they won't match so what I do need turn one piece so when I turn it up to turn
this layer up this will have this two by one block I was talking about and once I
have that I'll make another two by one block with the white piece I can connect
this white piece move it up just like that and it'll be a block but it it does
just connect that piece that block already made so what I want is twist the
top layer so that it's vertical so when I move this piece up it will not break
up this block so now there's one block right here and one block right here now
to connect them I want to move one so that is faces like that and then just
simply connect them like that now on to the yellow Center I see one piece there
in one piece there I can simply match it turning the side won't mess up the white
piece and then the white will be on the bottom if I want to move that up to the
top layer which it belongs and it messes up the white center piece but I can do
so if I can move it up turn the top layer twice put it back down the white
will still be intact and I'll have this two by one block on the top layer and
there's another piece if I turn it like that it won't match up so I move one of
them like so and then turn the left side up so that the two by one yellow block
is made the white is still intact I want to get that piece on top but if I do I
mess up the white center again and I can't seem to put it on top so what I do
I make the yellow blocks vertical so next to each other and then turn it to
side up and then I'll get the white and yellow Center so once the white and
yellow centers are done I want to put the white and yellow centers on the side
I can turn the outer layer any way I want so it doesn't mess up the white and
yellow Center so let's say I want to go for the blue side since I already have
this 2x1 block I don't want it horizontal I want it
vertical so then when I turned the two layers at once it will still be intact
like that so I find a piece right there top left corner and the top left corner
for that I want to make sure they're like that so when I turn this up this to
my one block is formed and that is still intact so I can simply turn it and
connect it white and yellow is still intact and blue Center is solved now
from those 3x3 I can see that red is on top right on top of the blue Center so
this side will be the red side so I want to build the red side two by one block
so if I do that this blue Center get messed up I can do this by turning the
red block to the side and then putting the blue Center back down so the 2 by 1
red block is made I want to move it to this side so what I do I turn it like
that turn that twice and then put the blue Center back so now there's one two
by one block or the red another one this is diagonal each other what I want
to do is take out the red Center piece to another layer and then turn it twice
move that piece back up so it preserves the blue Center
and then I want to connect this those two pieces so move one layer like that
and then put it up turn and there's another 2x1
red block let's move this red block to this side make sure it is right next to
each other on top and then two layers to the side and boom red and blue centers
are done I see I have two by one block Center Green Center already made but the
others block is not made so what I can do move this piece out of the way bring
it down to the Green Center turning it twice and then I can match it up with
this lonely green piece on top move it to the side and then put it back down
now I can finally bring this two by one block green to the green Center and then
it automatically solves the last Center which is the orange Center in one
scenario there could be diagonal what I can do is move the green piece up turn
the top layer and then put it back down and now you have a 2x1 block and a
lonely piece and that can be matched up move it up and I can do that but I can
just put the green block there so when I move the layer back down the green
solved and the our solves automatically the next step is to make these edges red
so I see this red and white piece and one right here one right here I want to
move this to the same layer like that so it's directly across from each other
horizontally you don't want to on the top or to on the bottom if you do you
can just simply move it out of the way to the top layer or bottom layer and
then put it back and then you rotate it back to that layer and notice how if I
just move the outer layers it won't mess up the center's at all now I have the
red and white I can turn two layers and mash them together so they connect and
move it either to the top or bottom layer so if I move it to the top layer I
have to replace another piece and I moved that layer back down before
on slicing the center the middle centers and now I have the red and white keep
doing this for all the center and this is red and yellow one right here and
then I want to get this to the same face horizontally right across from each
other so when I make this middle slice it connects the two pieces like that and
then I move it to the top layer bring an unsolved piece in place put it the layer
back down and then unsliced it sometimes there may be a finished edge piece in
the middle layer but when you slice it it gets messed up you replace the piece
with the new piece and when you unsliced it it gets put back together like that
so you don't have to worry about that but another scenario may be if you have
two edges and then you look at the top layer they're all solved edges you look
at the bottom they're all solved there should be one in the middle layer you
can just move that up so when you do slice it this will be the piece the edge
to replace like now you should either have all the edge
salt or you could have two remaining edge that are left if you have two
remaining edge want them on the same layers what you want to do is have them
both on the front face who are going to do this algorithm DW R F prime U R
prime F DW Prime and that will connect all the edges and you will have all 12
edges salt green and white piece it will correspond to the green and white edge
on a 3x3 and etc now you will just solve it like a normal 3x3 Rubik's you first
two layers done now there are two kinds of parodies that you will have to
remember one of them is the OLL parities you could either have one or
three yellow edges that are finished you put this on the front layer and then
with this algorithm it will flip that edge piece RW2 B2 U2 LW U2 RW
prime U2 RW U2 F2 RW F2 LW prime B2 RW2 and that's what the yellow and red
edges now as you solve the last layer if there's two corner pieces are flipped a
small r turns only the middle right layer so this algorithm is a small r2 U2
small r2 Uw2 small r2 and Uw2 that should fix it and in this case we
have a T perm there could be two edges next to each other or across from each
other and you would do this algorithm from any sides and it will basically
reduce the parity and you will be able to solve it just like a normal 3x3
Rubik's cube
thank you for watching this video I also posted my 2x2 my 3x3 tutorial hopefully
my 5x5 tutorial will be coming out soon if you have any questions leave them in
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