- Hi guys, I'm Dylan Henry Lau.
I play Slo-Mo in We Can Be Heroes,
and today, I'm going to teach you how
to solve a Rubik's cube.
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There are three important things I want you to know first.
First are triggers.
There are right triggers and left triggers.
To do a right trigger,
you move the right piece clockwise,
upper piece clockwise,
and the right piece counter-clockwise.
To do the left trigger,
you move the left piece counter-clockwise,
the upper piece counter-clockwise,
and the left piece clockwise.
Second are notations.
Notations is a rotation on the cube.
If I say "R," then you move the right piece clockwise.
If I say "L," you move left piece clockwise.
If I say "U," then you move the upper piece clockwise,
and if I say "F," we move the front piece clockwise.
If I say "R Prime,"
then you move the right piece counter-clockwise.
If I say "L Prime," then you left piece counter-clockwise.
If I say "U Prime,"
then you move the upper piece counter-clockwise,
and if I say "F Prime,"
then you move the front piece counter-clockwise.
Third are algorithms.
Algorithms is a set order of notations.
There are many different algorithms
on many different situations on the cube.
Now we're going to finally solve the cube.
First, we got to scramble it.
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Now that is scrambled,
we're going to install the first step
which is the daisy.
To solve the daisy,
you want to put all the white edge pieces
on top of this yellow face.
There's one right here.
I'm going to turn it until it's on the yellow face.
There's an edge piece right here,
so I'm going to turn this
so it doesn't interfere with any white edge pieces.
I'm going to turn like this.
I'm going to turn it back so it doesn't interfere again,
and boom!
You've solved the daisy.
The second step is to solve the white cross.
To solve the white cross,
you want to go to a white edge piece, right here,
and go to this color on the same piece.
You want to rotate it
until it matches the same color as this color,
and then once it matches, you want to rotate it two times.
Now you want to do that
with all the other white edge pieces.
Not that I had you solve the white cross,
now you're going to solve the entire white face.
To do so, you have to find all the other white pieces.
If one is on the top layer,
then you want to go to this color
which is on the same white piece,
rotate it until it's matching with the middle color.
Now these are matching,
so I'm going to do a left trigger
because it's on the left side.
If it's on the right side, then you do a right trigger.
So I'm gonna do a left trigger.
Now, if it's on the bottom piece, the bottom layer,
then you want to do a trigger.
Since it's on the left, I'm going to do a left trigger.
Now you want to repeat these steps
until the whole white face is solved,
and you're done.
After you've solved the entire white face,
the next step to solve this second layer.
The first step is to find a top edge piece
that does not contain a yellow side.
Since this edge piece did not contain a yellow side,
we are going to be matching this color with this color.
Now that it's matching,
you are going to be looking at this top color
and these two sides.
Since this color is matching with this side,
we are going to be turning it the opposite direction.
Since the matching side is on to the left,
we are going to be turning this piece to the right.
Since you turned it to the right,
you are going to be doing a right trigger.
Now we have to do this entire step all again
until this whole entire layer is solved.
Theses are matching.
Boom, you solved the entire second layer.
The next step is to solve the yellow cross.
We are going to bring notations and algorithms
into this step.
The first thing you want to do is look down
at your yellow face.
If you have zero to one yellow edge pieces,
then you want to do this algorithm
I'm about to show you.
If you have two yellow edge pieces,
that's in a line, you want to rotate it
until it's vertical and do this algorithm
I'm about to show you.
If there's two yellow edge pieces that form an L shape,
you want to rotate it
until it's pointing to the upper left corner
and do this algorithm.
F, U, R, U Prime, R Prime, F Prime.
Congratulations, you have solved the yellow cross.
The next step is to solve the entire yellow face.
Okay, the first thing you want to do is look
at your yellow face.
If you have zero or two yellow corners,
then you want to perform this algorithm.
But first, you want to position this piece
into this position and that's pointing to your left.
So it's in this position.
Now you're going to do this algorithm.
R, up, R Prime, U, R, U, U, R prime.
By now, you should have a cross looking like a fish.
You want to point this head of the fish
to the bottom left corner.
Then you want to perform the same algorithm.
R, U, R Prime, U, R, U, U, R Prime.
And congrats!
You have solved the entire yellow face.
This is the very final step into solving your cube.
The first thing you want to do is look
at your corner pieces.
If you have two matching colors
that are on the same side, the corner pieces,
kind of like this, you want to rotate it
until they're matching the same color
in the middle piece, like this.
You want to point that to the left side.
If you already have one completed side,
you want to rotate that side until it's onto the left.
If you have no matching corner pieces or a completed side,
then you can do this algorithm on any side.
L Prime, U, R, U Prime, L, U, U,
R Prime, U, R, U, U, L Prime.
If you have four dots, then you can do this algorithm.
F, F, U, R Prime, L, F, F,
U Prime, L Prime, R, U Prime,
and you're done with your cube.
Thank you so much for cubing with me.
I'm Dylan Henry Lau.
I'm Slow-Mo in We Can Be Heroes,
streaming right now on Netflix.
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