How to Solve the Rubix Cube

Hold the Rubik's Cube and pick a color before starting to solve the puzzle. Keep this color facing upwards for the time being. Stick with this color the next time you attempt to solve the Cube as you will learn which colors are adjacent to each face.

Rotate individual sections of the cube until you have formed a right-angled cross pattern of the color you have chosen. Continue to hold the cube with the cross pattern facing upwards.

Locate the colored squares that match each side's top row middle square. Now rotate individual sections of the cube until each side-face center square matches the color of the top row middle square. The cube should now have a cross on the top face with each arm of the cross extending two squares, of the same color, down each side.

Fill in three of the top faces' corner squares with the correct color. The top layer should have two sides completed and two sides with one square of the wrong color at adjacent corners.

Turn the whole cube upside down. Complete three of the second layer's edge pieces by rotating the lower slice horizontally about its axis. Each of the required squares should be facing up before you attempt to put them in their correct place.

Hold the cube with the original color face pointing upwards. If the final edge pieces are already in the correct place, the cube will have one complete face, and two layers of each color in the correct position. It may be that a square is in the correct space, but needs to be rotated for the color to match its adjacent squares. Rotate the layer vertically until the desired square is on the cube's bottom layer. Rotate horizontally to align the square opposite its final position, and then rotate the layer vertically to put it in place.

Fill in the corner pieces of the bottom layer, moving two squares at the same time. At this point only rotate layers in the same direction for one rotation to avoid mixing up the rest of the cube. When the corner pieces of the cube are in place and properly orientated, forming a solid color on each face, the Rubik's Cube is complete.