Rubic cube solution

Nov 24, 08

Invented by Gene a few years ago after 2 months of twisting cube and observing changes.
This past summer, I worked on the cube again and remembered the basics, but the cube colors were deteriorated plus my memory had serious gaps
Purchased new cube at WalMart few days ago
Rediscovered the solution Nov 23 after two hours of work over two days

A couple things to understand:
1. There are 8 corner pieces and they will always be corner pieces
2. There are 6 center pieces and they will never change their location relative to the other center pieces
3. There are 12 edge pieces and they can move to any other edge piece location
4. There are 6 sides: For ease of identification, I’ll call these T for Top, Bot for Bottom, F for Front, Back for Back, RS for Right Side, and LS for Left Side.
5. Notice that when a cube is solved, that each color is in a definite position relative to the other colors: the orange is opposite the red; the yellow is opposite the white; the blue is opposite the green. The relationship between the colors is fixed.
6. Because of the fixed relationship between colors and location, there is a pattern that repeats itself when the cube surfaces are moved. In short there is order in the random appearance of the cube. My solution came from observing this repeat pattern and then making a slight adjustment to change the order. This allowed the correct square to arrive at the right spot at the right time.
7. My solution lets you move the squares around the cube using the same rotation sequence over and over. All you have to do is learn the sequence. It’s simple to do but hard to describe in words. That’s why there are so many words.

Here is the color layout I use to solve the puzzle:
T or Top = white
Bot or Bottom = yellow
F or Front [can be any of remaining colors]
RS and LS or Right and Left sides [can be any of remaining colors]

For example: If White is T and let’s say Blue is F, then Orange will always be on RS, Green will always be on Back, and Red will always be on LS.



Steps:
A.    My solution assumes White is always on top and therefore Yellow is on bottom – sides can be any of remaining colors.
B.    In my solution, there are two basic movements: movement a. and movement b.; each movement is repeated over and over until the pieces align.
C.    First let’s look at the cube: Hold cube upright with the center White on top. Next, you want to look at the Front of cube. As you face the Front, you can see there are three vertical rows (left vertical, middle vertical, and right vertical) and three horizontal rows (top horizontal, middle horizontal and bottom horizontal). The diagonals are ignored since the cube can not rotate diagonally.
D.    Before describing the steps: My solution begins by assuming you can get all the White squares in place so that the top of the cube is finished, and all pieces on top are White. It will take time to figure out the several techniques needed to align the pieces. Only the top is finished at this point. If the top is done, then it means that the top horizontal row is correct around all four sides of cube. Once finished, the top horizontal row does not need to be rotated again to achieve the solution. Remember, this is just the top horizontal row while the rest of the cube still appears in random order.
E.    Moving forward: After the top is finished, each step that follows requires eight rotations that are repeated exactly the same each time. Each rotation is a quarter turn except in two cases where the rotation is a full half turn. What is a quarter turn? Let’s face the front of the cube. Remember the White is on top. Look at the far right vertical row
F.    us to move the far right vertical row. Each step requires the far right vertical row to be moved. Therefore it is necessary to place both hands correctly: We want to hold the cube with the left hand and use the right hand to move the far right vertical row.
G.    Each time we , we will do the exact same movement: Using your right hand
H.    What is basic the movement? Hold square in left hand,
1.    There are two basic sets of movement:
2.    all
3.    Complete the top so all White squares are in place including corners
4.    The next objective is to align the bottom corners using


Gene Haynes