Solving the Yellow Corners (Step 6, Solving the yellow side)

The key to this step is being able to put as many of the yellow corner pieces in their right place, not necesarilly with the yellow on the yellow side quite yet.

From the example above we can put the Yellow Side in 4 positions, once of which puts 2 of the yellow corners exactly where they need to be.

Note: By turning the top layer (U) a few times you will be able to put at least one of the pieces in the correct position.

Once you have at least one piece in the correct position, we need to keep that where it is and move others around to reposition them correctly. Importantly without messing up the complete parts of the cube.

Using just the Rightie and Leftie algorithm we can swap the positions of the two top corners on the right hand side of the cube. This might not seem that useful, but in a lot of instances we just need to swap those two corners around and we can put all the corners in the correct positions.

The following illustrates this in action from having 2 yellow corner pieces in the correct place (Blue/Orange/Yellow and Blue/Red/Yellow are in the correct place) and we'll swap the other two (Green/Orange/Yellow and Red/Green/Yellow) to put them in the correct place :

To do this we need to have the Green/Orange/Yellow and Red/Green/Yellow pieces on the top on the right hand side, so turn the whole cube don't just turn the top, then do the following.

• R U R' U' (Rightie)
• R U R' U' (Rightie)
• R U R' U' (Rightie)
• u (Turn the whole cube clockwise)
• L' U' L U (Leftie)
• L' U' L U (Leftie)
• L' U' L U (Leftie)
• U'

If you think about it, being able to swap the top two right hand corners is all you need to be able to do to put all the corners into the correct position.

We'll prove this by using another of the examples above where only one of the corners (Orange/Green/Yellow) is in the correct place

Let's put it on the right hand side by turning the whole cube, we'll swap it with the one at the top right back (Red/Green/Yellow).

So we're getting very close to completing the Yellow side, we just need to turn the Yellow corners so that they face the right way!

This is one of those occasions where we turn the whole cube upside down and solve this layer from the bottom, again we use just the Rightie algorithm.

The steps are as follows

1. x x (Turn the cube upside down)
2. Rotate the whole cube so that the bottom front right corner doesn't have it's Yellow side on the bottom.
3. Repeat the Rightie algorithm (R U R' U' until the piece is in the bottom right front position and it's Yellow side is on the Yellow side of the cube.
4. If there are other corner pieces on the bottom layer where their Yellow side is not on the Yellow side of the cube, then turn the bottom layer (B) until that corner is in the front bottom right and then go back to step 3
5. Repeat steps 4 and 3 until the whole bottom layer is done. The cube will look messed up until all corner pieces have their yellow side facing in the right direction

To solve 'The L Shape' and make it into 'The Yellow Cross'

You need to make sure that the L Shape is on the front right as per where it starts in our demo below.

When the L Shape is in the front right of the top side, you can do the same solution as 'The Dot' and 'The Line' (I told you it was easy!)

• f (Front two layers clockwise)
• R U R' U' (Rightie)
• f' (Front two layers anti-clockwise)

Don't worry about the yellow edge side colour not matching up with the side it's on, we'll fix that in the very last step.