hey guys my name is Simon today I'll teach you how to solve this square one
puzzle now you should be able to know how to solve the 3x3 rubik's cube
because there are going to be some basic visual concepts that you'll need to have
now the first step is some notation so if there is a slice and in the algorithm
you do a 180 degree turn like that slice 180 degree and what I have you
don't want like a full block like this green here you can't turn it this way
only this way same with this blue side right here but this orange side and this
red side you can so a 180 degree slice and what I usually have I have this
small piece right here and this big piece on my right when I do this slice
instead of like this in the notation there's a parenthesis and the first
number followed by a comma and then a second number the first number is the
top base turn so if there's a one I turn the clock base one time so here's this
one to keep track of this line move it one like this this corner piece is
considered to if it's like this and the first number is three that I turn it 1 2
3 so 3 means turning a face basically 1 turn like a normal 3x3 rubik's cube and
the second number is the bottom face so negative 3 look at the bottom
counterclockwise 1 2 3 that's negative 3 and this is 3 this is one of the
algorithm you will have to know at the end so to do this you hold it left the
smallest block on the left and then it goes like this a slash a 3 0 3 so 0
turns for the top the bottom 3 clockwise 1 2 3
slice 0 negative 3 1 2 negative 3 / 3 / negative 3 /
so this would basically do a jape earn so here's this this switches these two
pieces as well as these two pieces and then the bottom changes and it flips
this middle one so if we do that algorithm again / 3 0 3 / negative 0
negative 3 / it's solved like that okay your square
1 should be like this all in different shape the goal is to make a square so we
want to find these pieces so these two connecting yellows these two don't worry
about the color for now this line here and this piece so what I can do right
here I can put this bottom line like this so I can move this up and along
with these three big corner pieces like that the top stays the same I move this
one to this side so when I move this up it'll connect these four pieces so and
then this will go back to the bottom so when I do that I do a slice and then I
could move this like that so when I slice again these two horizontal piece
across from each other will be connected so I want to get to this part first and
then the bottom alcorn pieces now with different tries you should be able to do
it there's could be some hard scenarios but
like this one for instance if you have the bottom all corner pieces but you
have all button one what you can do is you can cut this in half like that so
now you have now you're left with these then you can turned it like that so this
L shape here put it back up now we only at this so when we slice it this piece
across from each other will go down to the bottom layer and then I can move
this piece to this side so when I move this back up
this piece goes down to the bottom layer and this one connects move this here so
I can bring this back up now to turn this into a cube you put this the top
layer into the back layer right here and this stays the same and then you do this
algorithm slice to so I just put this huh and then move this to the back
negative 4 I mean 4 and you have these two in the back you do a slice negative
1 and negative 2 slice negative 3 negative 3 slice so there's the cube you
might have a scenario where you had a piece sticking out it just doesn't
matter what you can do so have this small block here this to the right is
this algorithm so a slice 6 which is a 180-degree turn slice six zero slice so
that just fixes that now the next step is to orient the yellow corner so this
is the yellow side as we can see or you can make it a white side it doesn't
really matter but if I have these two here then I want to connect these this
yellow piece with this yellow piece in the bottom so when I do a slice it
messes up it doesn't turn into Q so what I always want to do is have one layer
offset by one so I'm gonna have the top layer offset by one we're gonna do a
slice it was still a Q it still has this which doesn't matter we can keep still
easily fixed we have this two connecting now I can slide this to my right side
and then with this offset there's this backup so now we have this yellow and
white corners done next step is to orient the corners so this is a yellow
that means we need yellow corners here here and here
and in place was that now there could be three scenarios the first one is you
have some of these pieces across from each other what you can do is use the
slice middle slice algorithm so and 3x3 a middle slice is like this so switch it
like that these two edges and these two edges but for square one is a little
more complicated what you want to do is offset one the top make sure they're
across from each other on the bottom and top so offset one slice and then
negative one on the top move that back negative 1 in the bottom slice and then
1 so that's that if you have all four white you would do that twice because
you always fix these two move it like that and then fix these two this is
another case we have one missing and if you have this case you want to put one
and the right side like that on the top and then the bottom will be on the
bottom side and then you're going to do this algorithm so you're going to first
pops it one so to start out one zero slice negative 3 and then the M this M
slicing algorithm so that's a slice negative one negative one slice do a
three Nantz next and that's it so that takes us to this one which is a third
case now in this case you want this like a backward towel just like the three
months three weeks to you on the top layer and bottom layer one on the right
one on the back like that and then you do that exact same algorithm so offset
first slice negative three zero slice and then the EM algorithm so slice then
a 3-0 slice so you should have all yellow and white
salt right now now the last thing is permuting the layers what I found to be
easiest I started on one side I do that J prime algorithm I did in the beginning
so what that does it switches these two pieces and these two pieces but when I
move it like that this which is these two and these two
so since I have this red and green blue salt
I'm gonna end up with a parody so I'm gonna start doing this algorithm like
this so it's blocked these two and then we'll have parody here so slice zero
negative zero three sliced through negative 3 3 and 3 that so this is
considered parody we'll get to that in a second but to fix this we can simply do
that the sixth algorithm so all the top layer is permeated except 2 which is
parody we'll get to that in a second to switch the layer remember I want the
left small block on the left side so to switch this is the algorithm slice 6 6
slice so as you can see this is now moved to the bottom and we can focus on
doing this so just like before I want to do the J prim as much as possible and
see how many I can fix so here we have 2 corners that are already position so I
can try J perm right here to switch these two corners and these 2 pieces and
then now we have it looks like we'll have another Paradiso so the
easiest way I found out to do this is to use J perm and get all the corners
aligned like that that's the easiest way and then you focus on the edges now in
this case what I can see green has to go here because green here and then this
orange edge has to go here what I can do is I deal with J prim offset in here so
I rotate these two corners and flip these two edges this orange piece will
come here and then I do a J from here so I can get orange here green here so this
doing to je ferme twice one here one offsetting it will rotate the edges
these three edges this way counterclockwise so if I do that offset
J perm and then not offset here another three firms and then it's justice so we
have two parodies one here and then the bottoms messed up but it might be
another parry at the bottom so once we have this the algorithm for this is
pretty long but you just look at the shape and try to remember the key
details you're gonna have one here one to your front and all the rest is salt
you can just a slice negative three zero slice zero three slice zero negative
three slice zero three slice to zero
slice zero to slice negative two zero
slice four one two three four slice zero negative two one two slice zero two one
two slice negative 1 negative 4 1 2 3 4
slice negative 3 and slice so this top layer is solved now we want to move this
to the bottom layer so we can focus on this fixing this side up but first we
want to do this so an easy way to flip this and to turn the size down do a
slice 6 slice 6 0 6 and a slice so it does two things at once so now the
bottom piece is here now we can focus on the top so on the top I want to try to
get align the corners so what I can do is start a shape from here so do that
because I want to preserve this piece and then I can do another J from right
here to get this corner matching because this one's already is okay and then as
expected our last parody on the top layer so what you want to do do J perms
to get the corners done first look at the edges and then do the J perm to
switch the edges like that so you might have to do this a couple times now this
parody again I can do it one more time / negative 3 0 / 0 3 / 0 negative 3 / 0 3
/ 2 0 / 0 - / negative 2 0 / 4 1 2 3 4 / 0 negative 2 / 0 - / negative 1 negative
4 / 0 negative 3 and / and then we're going to fix this
6 / 6 / and then just align the pieces up like that so that's how you solve a
square one do you have any questions please let me know in the comments I
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