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This page gives a list of guides, wikis, video tips on the Rubik's cube.

Guides & Wiki

• speedsolving.com wiki

• Training schedule - Getting faster with CFOP

• Quel cube choisir pour le speedcubing 3x3x3
• Rubik's cube : aller plus vite avec la méthode débutant
• Cubers wiki on reddit

Buy guides, solutions, (new) how to improve...

• (new) speedsolving.com FAQ (cubes, notation, timers, methods...)
• The Six Sides - Rubik's Cube (incl. a nicely sorted list of OLLs).
• Andy Klise's Rubik's Cube Guides (very well done guides and cheat sheets, including probabilities, blindfolded, badmephisto's guides)
• Badmephisto (often reported as the king of tutorials for the Rubik's Cube)

Videos

• HOW TO DO FINGER TRICKS RUBIK'S CUBE FINGER SHORTCUTS How to do finger tricks for Beginners.

Some cool finger tricks. Don't leave your finger from the cube most of the time.

• Finger Trick Exercises And Tips

More nice exercices to do (RUR'U', L'U'LU, RUR'F...)

• What a speedcuber sees when he solves the Rubik's cube.
• Tutoriel : Améliorer la croix du 3x3 (méthode fridrich)

Overshoot move: U' R' F R, swap an edge on the cross: R' u R' u'

• Alternatives to cube rotation [F2L Tutorial

Video on how to move F2L to FR column.

• Cube rotation: y U' L' U L. Quite slow.
• Sledgehammer: F R' F' R (or see variants below).

  A bit faster, no cube rotation. Use it for inserting your last f2l pair for partial edge control of your OLL, or to avoid moving your next pair if you've spotted it using look ahead. Apparently the F' is done with the thumb, a bit before doing the R.

• Case Number 2: F' (r U r')
• Case Number 3: r' U' R U M' — What about B' R B R' ?
• Case Number 4: l U L' U' M' — What about B L' B' L ?

• NoahCubes Edge Control Part 1: When to Use Sledgehammer

When to use the sledgehammer (right-handed left variant): R' F R F' , or "RU" prime: U R U' R' (i.e. sexy move prime).

The goal is to end up with 4 well-oriented edges in the OLL.

• NoahCubes 10 Websites Every Cuber Should Know

http://cubesolv.es/ (reconstruction db for WR...), speedsolving.com forum and wiki, alg.cubing.net, wca, www.qqtimer.net

• F2L - The Jessica Fridrich Method - No algorithms needed.
• What a speedcuber sees when he solves the Rubik's cube.

Insert a connected pair in wrong slot to get out a corner with white sticker to prepare next slot.

• Fast Sune/Anti-Sune Execution

Sune: Second U by pushing with left index.

Anti-sune: First U' with left index, then second U' with left middle finger.

• (new) F2L videos: FiDo's, BadMephisto
• Beginner - How to Learn Algorithms Faster

• Break algorithms into triggers (R U R' U', R' F R F', R U2 R', R U R', R U' R', ...)
• Track F2L pairs in algorithms.
• Cases of 2 algorithms put into one.
• Look for repeating patterns in algorithms.
• Learn more algorithms.

• The Westonian — Random F2L Tricks #1

F2L case 03 — R2 U' R' U R2' (require BR free)

• (look-ahead) cubefreak.net — A Guide to F2L Look Ahead

Excellent introduction to advanced lookahead techniques, explaining the principle of edge parity (good/bad edge)

(Note: The visualcube links are broken, but can be fixed using Privoxy filters.)

• (new) (speed) Rubik's Cube: How to Develop FASTER Turning Speed!
• (new) (PLL recognition) PLL Recognition- Tips, Techniques and Examples

F' R' D' R2 U' R' L

• (new) (cross) Rubik's Cube: 7 Tips For An Efficient Cross Every Solve (CFOP)

• 1. Ignore center pieces
• 2. The 3-move insert
• 3. Use one piece to insert another piece
• 4. Don't move the piece, move the cross!
• 5. Plan out the entire cross during inspection.

• Example: R2 B2 D' U2 B2 R2 U' F' U' B L' B' D2 L2 R U F2 L D R2 cross+F2L: F' R' D' R2 U' R' L

• 6. Watch example solves

1. B2 D2 U' R2 F2 D2 R2 U' R2 B2 D2 B U' L D2 B L' R' D' B D', solve: z2 R' D L U L F' D2, quite easy.
2. B2 R2 B U2 F' U2 B2 R2 F' L2 U2 L U' R' B U' L D2 F D' F, my solve: x2 y L' F' R' B' d R2: I insert BLU first then daisy chain GRE-ORA. Use d R2 to insert RED (better than say U F2). J Perm: R F L R D' R' D' L2, he inserts ORA+GRE (hence inserting RED), saying he can insert BLU later. His solution looks easier on the fingers.
3. D' B U D2 R F U2 L' B R2 U2 R2 B2 U D R2 F2 D2 B2 D2 x2, solve: x z r' D R' F' u L' : He prepares BLU first left of RED, so that inserting BLU will take ORA with it. Also, puts his cube x r to do the first r' D R' fast. To conclude, instead of U F' face, he does a u L' to avoid turning the F face.
4. B L U' R D' L U2 F' U' R2 B2 L2 D B2 U D2 R2 F2, cross: x2 B U' D2 R' D F: I found B U' D2 R' D F (or x2 y U2 R' F R2 U' D' R2), but he proposes y R (L F' L') D2 F' u that is more fingertrick friendly. In particular, a 3-move insert, then does u to align the cross, not D.

• 7. Spend a few minutes per days practicing

• (new) (cross) J Perm - How To Solve the Cross FASTER (Cross Boot Camp)

Victor Colin

• Tutoriel : Résoudre les F2L intuitivement
• Rubik's cube : Méthode intermédiaire (fridrich simplifiée)
• 3x3 - Exemples de résolutions avancés en Fridrich (partie 6)

Videos - blind-folded

• How to solve the Rubik's Cube blindfolded (Zane C)

• Good memory NOT needed
• Conjugates make small changes (A B A', with A called the setup move, and A' the undo setup). Setup move must not destroy the buffer or the adjacent corners/edges that are swapped along.
• All pieces are solved from the buffer
• Target is where the buffer needs to go (where we need to shoot).

• (NoahCubes) How to Improve Your Memo for 3BLD — Good memorization tricks
• Not seen yet:
• Tutorial: Solve the Rubik's Cube blind by Badmephisto
• (NoahCubes) How to Solve a Rubik's Cube Blindfolded (5 parts)
• Already seen: [1], [2]

Solutions

• Bob Burton's CubeWhiz (CFOP, F2L...)

  Notations

• F2L
  • Advanced F2L on speedsolving.com
• OLL
  • OLL Cheat sheet (linked from speedsolving.com)
  • Cheatsheets by Andy Klise