In this video, I'm going to show you two different ways we can get the checkerboard pattern
On a 3x3 Rubik's cube
If you need a detailed explanation of any of these steps
Then please refer to my other How to solve a Rubik's Cube video
The links in the description, as well as the timestamps to skip straight to the step you need
Check out my other videos showing you how to solve a 2x2 Rubik's cube
A 3x3, a 4x4 and even a 5x5
There's a couple of different ways we can get this crisscross pattern
There's an extremely easy way
And there's also a more fun way
Both ways you need to know how to solve a Rubik's cube
So lets jump straight to the easy way
The easy way is, once you've got a Rubik's cube solved like this
So yes you do need to be able to solve a Rubik's cube
The easiest way is just to turn each middle row
On each axis, 180 degrees
Simple!
But the fun way to try and do this is to actually solve the Rubik's cube from mixed
But in this order
So we've mixed the cube, I find this quite fun because
Once you know how to solve the cube it's not that difficult
So this gets your brain thinking and you do need to know what colour is opposite what colour
So I'm going to start with green for consistancy
And we want to make the cross and we want to know what colour we want to put here
Because it doesn't want to be green for the crisscross
Well if you remember, blue is our opposite face
And if you cant remember what colour is opposite, just look at the center piece
So we want to make these four colours blue
So lets find our first blue
And we've got yellow [on the side]
And what I said about lining the sides up
First line your side up
But again we want a crisscross
So look at your center, white is opposite yellow
And bring white around
And now for the next
Bring this one up
So this one would normally line up with red
But we want this side opposite aswell
Opposite red is orange
So bring it this way
Now we've got the next one
For this one here
Put it on the bottom so it's easier to work with
What colour does it want to be?
Normally it would be with orange
Orange, red is directly opposite
So we'll put this orange with red
Bring it up
And the final one
Put it on the bottom
And this is white
This is white so opposite white is yellow
So it wants to go here
And bring it up
And now for the corners
Well the corners are just how they would be
They're the normal ones because they want to be green
And just look for the middle of which one we want
The middles also want to match
So the middles are exactly the same so
We want to find a green on the bottom, so I'll bring one down to the bottom
So orange and yellow
Orange and yellow
So this wants to go under
Turn it into the green
Bring it down
Back up
Now we've got this one alternate and also alternates here
Got one on the side here so, yellow and red
Look for yellow and red
Yellow and red
Bring it underneath
Turn it into the green
And bring it up
I'll just bring this one down
We've got white and orange
So find white and orange
White, orange, underneath
Turn into the green
Bring it down
And up
And the final one
It's already in the corner so we want to bring it out
And then into the green
And up
So now we've done the first checkers face
On the edge too
So now we want to turn it over
Now this is where you need to start to think
What colour do you need to put here
Just use these colours as your reference
So what wants to go here is yellow and orange
See if we have that on the top.. we do
We have yellow and orange here
Now whichever colour is on the side
Will remain on this side
So if I match the orange to this
When I bring it down we will have orange here
And this yellow will be here
So this is our stage 3 algorithm of the Rubik's cube
And it's
This on is the
Ui Fi U F U R Ui Ri
And it is correct
So look on top we have orange and a white
So lets figure out where that wants to go
We will look at these pieces
We've got orange and white
Orange and white
And we want to line the white up with this piece
So it wants to be lined up with there
And it's the same algorithm again
Ui Fi U F U R Ui Ri
Find another piece
We've got yellow and red
So we want to look at these pieces for yellow and red
Yellow and red
So it wants to go here
Again line this colour up with this colour
Ui Fi U F U R Ui Ri
Brings that piece down
And now look for the final one
We've got red and white
So we have red and white
It just so happens that they've all ended up on this side
Bring this one down to here again is
Ui Fi U F U R Ui Ri
Now these are checker
The next step is to form our cross on the top but remember
We're doing opposites, our blues are down here
So the outer part of the cross, these want to be green
So we've actually already got the line made
If it was the L this one would be green
If we didn't have any, well we wouldn't have any
So we want to bring the line cross ways
And do the FruRuf algorithm
Which would be stage 4 in my tutorial
F R U Ri Ui Fi
And now we have made the cross except they're alternate
We've actually got quite lucky because the next step would be arranging these colours
And they've happen to already have fallen in the correct place
But lets say they didn't, I'll mix it up one time
So I've just mixed these side colours up
And now we'd be looking for a colour here that matched either this bottom one
Or these pieces here
And you don't want more than one matching
So in this case we've got two matching
This one doesn't, this one doesn't, so turn it
This one matches the bottom
This one doesn't, this one doesn't and this one doesn't
So we can the algorithm from this face here
Because this one is the only one that matches the bottom
And then we do the algorithm in stage 5 which is
R U Ri U R U U Ri
Does this one match? Yes
[Brain fried moment]
This one matches, this one matches, this one matches, this one matches
So the next step is to put the corners in the correct places
So again you don't want to use the centers, but you want to use the corners
So try and match the corners
This is white and red so you want a corner here that is white and red
Which we don't have
This one's red and yellow, which we don't have
Yellow, orange
Don't have
Orange, white
So none of the corners are in the correct positions
So we just do the algorithm
U R Ui Li U Ri Ui L
That algorithm just moved the three
And the we look for one's that's correct
So we've got white, red
White, orange
This is red, yellow
Red, yellow
Now we have got one in the correct place
So we'll keep our thumb on that
This is white, red
Not the same
So we now, we have only one in the correct place
So we put this in the top right corner as before, as per my tutorial
And we do the algorithm in stage 6 for rotating these three amongst eachother
Which is
U R Ui Li U Ri Ui L
Not yet in the correct position so we do it one more time
U R Ui Li U Ri Ui L
And now this one is in the correct position
Remember we need to look at these bottom colours to match
Yellow, orange yellow, orange
And now it's just a case of rotating these pieces
We want to rotate them until we put blue on the top
This blue will match with this green
Using stage 7 which is Ri Di R D
Ri Di R D
Ri Di
There we go
R D
Remember we're matching the blue with the green
And bring the final corner round
Ri Di R D
Here it comes
Ri Di
There we go
R D
And there we've completed the Rubik's cube in this alternate checkerboard pattern
Actually solving it that way
As I said before check out my other how to solve a Rubik's cube video
for a detailed explanation on any of these steps
The links in the description as well as the timestamps to jump to the step you need
Hope it helped and thanks for watching