Demonstration Speech: How to solve the 3 x 3 Rubik’s Cube

Demonstration Speech:
How to solve the 3 x 3 Rubik’s Cube
Nate Koch
History
In March 1970, Larry Nichols invented a 2×2×2 "Puzzle with
Pieces Rotatable in Groups". Nichols's cube was held
together with magnets. This was before the real Rubik’s
cube came along.
The Rubik’s Cube-or “Magic Cube”-came along in 1974 by a
man named Erno Rubik. He improved Larry’s idea, using
plastic instead of magnets, and in 1977 they were
becoming known on store shelves. Initially, Larry, Erno,
and many other people had disputes about this, but they
all agreed on Erno’s idea.
There have been many spin-offs of the Rubik’s cube, ranging
from pyramid shaped to 11 x 11.
How to Solve the Rubik’s Cube
A Few Notes
There are 7 steps:
Green Cross
Green Corners
Middle Layers
Blue Cross
Upper Middle Pieces
Blue corners’ placements
Blue Corners
Top
Left
Right
When you are doing some
of the sequences, other
things you have previously
done will get scrambled up
a bit. Don’t worry! Finish
the sequence and, if done
correctly, everything will
be back in place.
Right C: turn right side once clockwise
Right CC: turn right side once counterclockwise
Front
Grey areas are
unaffected pieces
Bottom
Step 1:
Finding Green Cross
You want to find the green cross
and at the same time get the green
middle edge pieces into place with
their middle piece cube color.
Right
Wrong
There is really no sequence to this. All
you need to do is flip it around until
they line up.
Step 2:
Get the Green Corners in Correctly
You want to get the green corner
pieces in the right place so they line
up with their colors and they are on
the right side.
Sequence:
Right CC
Bottom CC
Right C
Bottom C
Do this several times until
the corner is in the correct
spot with the colors lined up.
Step 3:
Getting the middle pieces in correctly
You want to flip the green side so it’s on the
bottom now. We want the middle edge pieces
to line up with their middle piece colors.
Sequence:
Top C
Right C
Top CC
Right CC
Top CC
Front CC
Top C
Front C
Do this to all the nonblue middle edge pieces.
If a piece is in the wrong
place, do the sequence
again to get it out. If a
piece is in the right
place but the colors are
wrong, do the sequence
again to get it out.
Step 4:
Solving the Blue Cross
Now you want to get the blue cross.
The upper middle piece colors do
not matter for now.
If the Blue side
looks like this…
Go here
Sequence:
Front C
Right C
Top C
Right CC
Top CC
Front CC
Step 5:
Fitting the Upper Edge Pieces
Now you want to get the
upper middle pieces lined up
with their side.
If two are in the correct
place but two aren’t, turn
to the wrong ones.
Repeat the sequence on
the right one. If the two
wrong ones are across
from each other, do the
sequence to get them
next to each other.
Sequence:
Right C
Top C
Right CC
Top C
Right C
Top C
Top C
Right CC
Step 6:
Getting the Blue Corners into Position
Now you want the four last corners
into position. They will not be
flipped, but that’s ok, that’s the last
step.
Sequence:
Top C
Right C
Top CC
Left CC
Top C
Right CC
Top CC
Left C
Step 7:
Getting the Blue Corners
Now for the moment of truth:
getting the blue corners in. We
are going to use some previous
methods and techniques.
Sequence:
Right CC
Bottom CC
Right C
Bottom C
You are probably going
to do this several times
until the corners are in.
In this step, you want to
stay on the red side and
rotate the top CC to the
next out-of-place corner.
Also, the rest of the cube
will get messed up badly.
But keep going on the red
side and you will complete
this step. If you do this
correctly, then…
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
YOU HAVE SOLVED THE
RUBIK’S CUBE!!!!!!