Tuesday, March 18, 2008

RUBIK'S 3X3 CUBE SOLUTION Part 6

STEP 6. LOOKING FOR CORRECTLY POSITIONED UPPER CORNER PIECES OF ANY SIDE COLORS

Why side colors? Here's why, upon arriving in STEP 6;
1. You have completed your WHITE bottom,
2. You have completed your MIDDLE layer,
3. You have completed your YELLOW top,
4. You will now focus on the UPPER side colors (BLUE, ORANGE, GREEN, AND ORANGE)
5. There will now be only FOUR corner pieces to concentrate on.
6. Do not mind the UPPER edge pieces (gitnang piyesa) for the meantime.

Let's continue...
When I say correctly positioned corner pieces I am talking about the side color corner pieces.
It may be RED-RED corner piece; BLUE-BLUE corner piece; GREEN-GREEN corner; ORANGE-ORANGE corner piece.
These correctly positioned corner pieces may have DIFFERENT edge piece in between them. If it is not so, we have already solved the cube. The probability of this happening is great. But, i've seen it happened many times for me. Imagine not doing STEP 6 and 7 (ang bilis di ba?)

(That's why I'm proud to learn and to impart to all of you these set of algorithms because it's not always up to STEP 7. Sometimes you may skip this part and go directly to Step 7, ang galing, diba?)

TWO possible ways:
1. ONE of the four side colors is correctly positioned.
2. ALL of the four side colors are correctly positioned. (I'll give you a TIP . STEP 6 is not needed here!!!)

For ONE PAIR OF CORRECTLY POSITIONED CORNER PIECES (ANY COLOR)
1. Place this pair at the back. If you want you may place it together with its CENTER face then PLACE THIS FACE AT THE BACK.
2. (If you are already experienced enough, you can do the moves eventhough this pair is NOT with its FACE).
3. I repeat, place the pair of any correctly positioned color at the back. YELLOW on top. WHITE underneath.
4. Do the following moves,

...RIGHT Side DOWN; FRONT rotate to your right; RIGHT Side DOWN; BACK rotate 180 degrees (left or right, it doesn't matter; it will fall on the same spot); RIGHT Side UP; FRONT go towards your left; RIGHT Side DOWN; BACK rotate 180 degrees ; RIGHT Side DOWN; RIGHT Side DOWN...

After doing this move, you will now have :
1.THREE upper side colors correctly positioned. (Either BLUE, ORANGE, RED or GREEN)
2. Place it together with it's own FACE to form a solid color (one colored FACE).
3. Place this AT THE BACK.
4. Look at your LEFT, FRONT, and RIGHT sides.
5. Repeat moves above if number 1 is not met.

POSSIBLE OUTCOMES:
1. One solid color at the back. Your LEFT Side, RIGHT Side; and FRONT has NO TWO correctly positioned CORNER PIECES. Ok but not quite. Repeat the moves above with the same orientation. You will arrive at outcome number 2 below. And, be ready with the last STEP.

2. One solid color at the back. Your LEFT Side, RIGHT Side; and FRONT has TWO correctly positioned CORNER PIECES. Very good!! You are now ready for the last STEP.

For ALL OF THE UPPER CORNER PIECES ARE CORRECTLY POSITIONED:
1. We will skip STEP 6 and go directly to STEP 7. You have save a lot of time!!!

Next... THE FINAL STEP


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