When you're just starting to solve the 3x3 Cube, it’s really important to focus on getting it right, not on trying to go fast. A lot of beginners want to solve it quickly, but that’s when mistakes happen. It’s better to take your time and learn how each step works. When you understand what’s happening, you’re more likely to solve it the right way.
And here’s the good news: with practice, you will get faster. After doing the same steps again and again, your hands will start to remember what to do—that’s called muscle memory. You'll get better and quicker without even trying to be fast! First, learn it properly. Speed will come later.
A really helpful idea when solving the cube is to fix one piece at a time, and try hard not to mess up the parts you’ve already solved.
Imagine you’re stacking blocks into a tower. You place one block on top of another carefully. You wouldn’t want the bottom blocks to fall over while placing a new one, right? Solving the cube is just like that—you build it bit by bit, and you protect what you’ve already done.
The centre pieces on each side rotate but they don't move, this means the White face centre will always be on the opposite side as the Yellow face centre and green opposite blue, and red opposite orange.
We start with something called the Daisy. This means putting four white edge pieces around the yellow centre piece. You find each white edge, one at a time, and move it next to yellow. If you try to do more than one at once, it gets confusing, and you might undo your progress. So take it slow—one piece at a time.
Once the Daisy is done, we move those white edge pieces down to the bottom of the cube to make the white cross. But again, you can’t just twist anything you want. You have to be careful and use a few specific moves (called an algorithm) that move the piece where it belongs without ruining the others.
As we move forward, we solve the white corners, the middle layer, and finally the top of the cube. In each step, we keep using the same smart idea: find the piece that needs to be fixed, and use a special set of moves to place it while keeping the rest of the cube just how it is.
If we just twisted the cube randomly, we might fix one piece, but everything else would get messed up again. That would be super frustrating! That’s why we use planned moves—little step-by-step dances that move only what we need to move.
So remember: don’t rush. Learn each step the right way. Fix one piece at a time. Keep everything else safe. Over time, solving the cube will feel easier and faster, and your fingers will start doing the moves without you even thinking about them.
That’s how you go from beginner to cube master—not by going fast right away, but by doing it the right way.
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