Should have done this a long time ago… here are the algorithms I use to solve the various rubik’s cubes.<\/p>\n
Note that I’m terrible at the 2×2. It’s my worst cube and I HATE solving it. Here are two algorithms I use:<\/p>\n
R U R’ U R U2 R’<\/strong><\/p>\n R’ U R’ D2 R U’ R’ D2 R2 B’<\/strong><\/p>\n (bottom to get edge like +) F R U R’ U’ F’ L<\/strong><\/p>\n (bottom to get edge properly positioned) R U2 R’ U R U’ R’ U’<\/strong><\/p>\n (bottom to get corners properly positioned) L’ U R U’ L U R’ U<\/strong><\/p>\n (bottom to get corners properly positioned) R U2 R’ U’ R U’ R’ L’ U2 L U L’ U L<\/strong><\/p>\n (flipped edges) L R’ L’ R U’ R U R’<\/strong><\/p>\n (other solve) R’ L R L’<\/strong><\/p>\n (2 unsolved edges ====) Dr R F’ U R’ F Dl<\/strong><\/p>\n (parody) Rw1 U2 Lw F2 Lw1 F2 Rw2 U2 R U2 Rw’ U2 F2 Rw2 F2<\/strong><\/p>\n (parody corners) Rw2 U2 Rw2 UU2 Rw2 UU2<\/strong><\/p>\n I solve this one differently than what tutorials would tell you. The way I solve it only leaves me with one possible parody; the flipped edges one.<\/p>\n (flipped edges |||) LL’ U2 LL’ U2 F2 LL’ F2 RR U2 RR’ U2 LL2<\/strong><\/p>\n (to get the star edges; 1 flipped at 6 o’clock & 1 right at 11 o’clock) F R U R’ U’ F’<\/strong><\/p>\n (to get star corner pieces; 6 o’clock & 8 o’clock will stay) R U R’ U R U2′ R’<\/strong><\/p>\n (corners; 5 o’clock & 7 o’clock will stay) U 2 U2′ L’ U2 R’ U2′ L U<\/strong><\/p>\n (corners pieces; piece on right will change; keep repeating until solved) R’ D’ R D<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Should have done this a long time ago… here are the algorithms I use to solve the various rubik’s cubes. 2×2 Note that I’m terrible at the 2×2. It’s my worst cube and I HATE solving it. Here are two algorithms I use: R U R’ U R U2 R’ R’ U R’ D2 R […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1156,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions\/1156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}3×3<\/h2>\n
Pyramid<\/h2>\n
4×4<\/h2>\n
5×5 (and other odds)<\/h2>\n
Mega Minx<\/h2>\n