How to Solve a Rubik’s Cube

In this video which helped +2 million people, I teach you the easiest method to solve the Rubik’s Cube together with cubing legend Matty Hiroto, #6 of the world! However if you want visual instructions, check the chapters below.

1. White Cross

We’ll create a white cross witch each cross piece in its correct spot. The easiest way to do this is by first creating a daisy around the yellow center.

Creating a daisy is intuitive: move the white edge pieces to the yellow center, ensuring the white matches the yellow center

One bad case is a flipped white edge in place. Simply move it down one step and reinsert.

To create a white cross, align each white edge with its matching center color and bring it to the white center.

once you solved the white cross, we’ll hold it to the bottom for the rest of the solve!

2. White Corners

to solve the rest of the cube, we’ll need to memorize two simple algorithms.

Righty Alg

1. right clockwise
2. top clockwise
3. right anticlockwise
4. top anticlockwise

Lefty Alg

1. left anticlockwise
2. top anticlockwise
3. left clockwise
4. top clockwise

Find a white corner in the top layer and place it above the spot where it needs to go. Now there are three cases:

If white faces right, hold to corner to the right & perform one Righty Alg to solve the corner.

If white faces left, hold to corner to the left & perform one Lefty Alg to solve the corner.

If white faces up, hold to corner to the right & perform 3x Righty Alg to solve the corner.

if you have no white corners in the top layer, find a white corner in the bottom layer, hold it to the right, and do a righty alg.

3. Second Layer

Find an edge piece in the top layer without yellow. Align it with the matching center color and determine where the edge needs to go by looking at the top color.

Edge goes right

1. turn top layer clockwise
2. do a righty algorithm
3. reinsert white corner

Edge goes left

1. top layer anticlockwise
2. do a lefty algorithm
3. reinsert white corner

If there’s no edges in the top layer without yellow, you can take out a wrong yellow edge from the middle layer by holding it to the right and doing case 1 (edge goes right). This puts the yellow edge in the top layer.

4. Yellow Cross

now we need to create a yellow cross on top . If you already have this, you can skip this step. Otherwise looking only at the yellow edges there are three cases you can get:

- turn front clockwise
- do a Righty Alg
- turn front anticlockwise

- turn front clockwise
- do 2x Righty Alg
- turn front anticlockwise

- do steps from Line case
- Solve hook

5. Yellow Edges

We want to get the yellow edges in their correct position, matching the center.
To position all edges correctly, we’ll learn the 'Sune' algorithm.

Sune

For the Sune, we’re going to move the front right pair around.

1. put pair in top layer
2. turn top layer clockwise
3. reinsert pair from that position

We can apply the Sune algorithm to move edges around.
Try to align as many edges with their centers as possible by turning the top layer. You’ll either be able to align all edges (skip step), or two edges.

if the 2 correct edges are across each other:
Do a Sune from any angle. Now you should be able to align two edges besides each other.

If the 2 correct edges are besides each other:
hold them in the back and right and do a Sune. Now you can align all edges

6. Yellow Corners

Now we want to bring the yellow corners to their correct spot. You can tell a corner is in its correct spot when the non-yellow colors match the adjacent edges. To move corners around we use the Niklas Alg.

Niklas

For the Niklas we’re going to move the two front pairs around.

1. put right pair in top / back
2. put left pair in top / back
3. resolve right pair
4. resolve left pair
5. realign yellow edges

When all the edges are aligned to their correct center, you will either have 0 corners, 1 corner or all corners (skip step) in their correct spot.

if no corners are in their correct spot, do a Niklas from any angle. Now you should have one.

If one corner is in its correct spot, hold it in the front left and do a Niklas. Repeat if necessary.

7. Finish Cube 🥳

Now we just need to twist the corners to solve the cube!
Follow these steps carefully, as one wrong move can set you back to the beginning. Don’t worry if the cube looks scrambled during the process—just focus on the yellow corner you're solving and you’ll be fine!