Rubik's Cube Cheat Sheet

Step 1 · Make a Daisy Flower

Hold yellow on top. Lift the four white edges up around the yellow centre so they form a daisy.

Step 2 · Make the White Cross

Turn each daisy petal until its side colour matches the centre below it, then drop it straight down onto the white face.

Step 3 · First Layer Corners

One algorithm for the whole step: the Rightie. Position a white corner above its empty front-right slot, between its two matching edges, then repeat until it drops in solved - white on the side needs 1, white on top 3, white in front 5. A corner stuck in the wrong slot? One Rightie pops it back to the top.

The Rightie (repeat per case)

RUR'U'

White in front, in one move

URU'R'

Lefty (left-slot mirror, optional)

L'U'LU

Step 4 · Middle Layer Edges

Insert left

U'L'UL y' URU'R'

Insert right

URU'R' y U'L'UL

Step 5 · Yellow Cross

Repeat up to 3 times, re-holding the cube between each go, until the top edges form a yellow cross.

Edge orientation

F RUR'U' F'

Step 6 · Yellow Face (Sune)

Repeat up to 4 times until the whole top face is yellow. You go 0 → 2 → 1 → solved corners, re-holding by the top-left corner between each.

Corner orientation

RUR'URU2R'

No corners yellow faces left

Two corners yellow faces forward

One corner yellow faces up

Solved

Step 7 · Corner Permutation (T-Perm)

Align two matching corners (headlights) on the left, then execute.

Swap corners

RUR'U' R'FR2U' R'U' RUR'F'

Step 8 · Edge Permutation (Ua-Perm)

Put a solved edge at the back, then execute once or twice.

Cycle edges

RU' RURURU'R'U'R' R'