Rubik's Cube Techniques

One Uniform Side

• After shuffling the cube, begin to solve it by selecting one of the sides and make it all the same color. This will be less difficult if you first examine the entire cube to figure out which side has the most of one particular color. Pick that side and move the pieces around to get it uniform.

The Center Color

• Each cube has nine little squares on each side of the cube, with one square right in the center. On the four sides of the cube that touch the uniform colored side, arrange the top line of squares so that these three squares match whatever color is in the center of the side.

Four More Uniform Sides

• Now that five of the six sides have at least four of the same color on it, the cube is beginning to look like a finished cube. Carefully move the cube's pieces around to add uniform colors to the existing four on each side. Only focus on the current five sides for right now. Building these sides up one at a time around the original four colored squares will make the sixth side an easier task.

Final Line

• The cube is mostly complete after the planned movements listed above. The final solution to the Rubik's cube depends on where the rest of the squares are due to the initial shuffling. According to most Rubik's cube experts, this final step is the timeliest of the puzzle. Five out of the six sides will be mostly uniform at this point, save for one colored square here or there. The easiest trick to completing the cube is to move the colored squares one at a time to the correct side. Do as little damage as possible to the other five sides when doing this. Focusing on one single square at a time will keep the other parts of the cube mostly intact.