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Here is an explenation to this technique of solving the cube. You solve the cube in layers, the 1st layer, the 2nd layer, and then the 3rd layer. If I say a certain color edge piece, that is telling you to find an edge piece with one side of it white, which means it should have a white sticker on it :-P. If I say cubie, it means one of the 26 little cubies that are either a corner, edge, or center peices which make up the visible part of the cube. In the image (left) you see an example of what I would call a white edge piece or white corner piece, they can also be called other colors as well, and all you will need is one of the edge or corner peices with that color on it. You will see I catagorized the cube into the 3 layers, which you will hear me refer to throught the tutorial. In the image (right) with the shorthand is based on if your looking directly at the red face, a letter with an "i" before it means inverse, so counterclockwise. If you see -F--> it means to turn the face clockwise 90 degrees, but if you see -iF--> it means to turn the face counterclockwise 90 degrees.

Assuming red is face for image on the right.
A bit of an explanation to the madness Shorthand Key


(step 1)

Cross On the Top

There are 2 ways to get get a white cross on the top of the cube.

1. Find a white edge piece in the third row with the white facing down, then just allign the side of the edge peice with the center of its color, and turn that face 180 degrees to bring it to the top of the cube.
2.Find a white edge piece in the third row with the white facing out, put it under the center it belongs to, then --D-R-iF-iR-->
Before you continue you should have this (only pay attention to the colored cubies)

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(Step 2)

Completing the Top

(finishes the 1st layer)

Find a white corner piece in the 3rd row, and find out what corner it goes to in the top layer, and place that white corner piece directly under that top corner like ex1. Then turn the face that the white sticker of the cubie is on so that the white sticker is still in the third row, and then turn the bottom to put the corner into place, and turn the face you turned just earlier back the opposite way.

white on left side
If white sticker is on left side of face:
-iF-iD-F--
(here blue is face because thats what face white is on)
white on right side
If white sticker is on right side of face:
-F-D-iF-->
(here red is face because thats what face white is on)
Before you continue you should have this (only pay attention to the colored cubies)
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(step 3)

Completing the 2nd Layer

Find an edge piece on the bottom without a yellow, and orient it so that whatever color is on the bottom (on the face with the yellow center, colo ris called primary color) determines what face is when you apply the algorithm. You put the edge piece opposite the primary color.. If the color on the bttom is blue, then you would orient that edge so it is on the opposite side of the cube from the blue face, and still in the third row. The color on this same piece that is in the 3rd layer of the cube will be called the secondary color, and you will use that to determine what algorithm you use by looking at the color that you put the edge piece opposite of, and seeing if the secondary color is to the right or the left.

If the secondary color is on the left.
(since blue is on bottom it becomes face, the color we look at when applying algorithms, and the edge piece is also oriented opposite that color)
-iF-iD-F-D-L-D-iL-->
 
If secondary color is to the right.
(since red is on the bottom it becomes face, the color we look at when applying algorithms, and the edge piece is also oriented opposite that color)
-F-D-iF-iD-iR-iD-R-->
Before you continue you should have this (only pay attention to the colored cubies)
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(step 4)

Obtaining the bottom cross

Orient the cube so that the bottom becomes your face (this guide shows yellow as face, and red as top). Then you apply the algorithm -U-L-F-iL-iF-iU making sure to orient the cube like in the pictures below.
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Before you continue you should have this (only pay attention to the colored cubies)
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(step 5)

Correcting the edges

When I say correcting the images I mean you need all the edge pieces so that they are touching their correct correct color at the same time, like you had to do with the top in step 1. Now in this step the yellow will still be considered the top, through the rest of the guide as well.
Turn the yellow face until you have two correct edges right next to each other and two incorrect edges right next to each other....sorta like this---
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Orient the cube so that the two wrong colors are towards you and to your right (in this case green would become face, and orange would be right) and apply algorithm.
-2L-2U-D-iR-L-2F-R-iL-iD-2L-->
Before you continue you should have this (only pay attention to the colored cubies)
step5_end1.jpg step5_end2.jpg
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(step 6)

Placing the corners

coming soon
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(step 7)

Rotating the corners

coming soon