The white layer
Place the four white corners: a white bottom, and the two stickers on each side match.
- You start with (input)A scrambled cube
- Result you will get after finishing this stepThe white layer
How to do it
- A 2x2 has only 8 corners, no centres. Layer 1 is the 4 corners with a white sticker. Hold the cube with white facing down and keep it that way to the last step.
- First corner: find a corner with a white sticker in the top layer. Any spot in layer 1 will do: turn until it sits right above the X (front right), then follow the picture.
- Next corners: a corner goes next to one already placed, on the side of their shared colour (both have red: the two reds sit on the same face). Turn the whole cube (white still down) so that empty spot is front right.
- Turn until the corner is above the X and see which face its white sticker is on: right, front or top. Follow the matching picture. Repeat for all 4 corners.
- A white corner already in layer 1 but in the wrong spot or twisted? Bring it to the front right and use the last picture to pop it up first.
One piece at a time, until all 4 are in
1/4 2/4 3/4 4/4
This step: look only for
- Piece
- Corners (a 2x2 has nothing else)
- Colours
- One white sticker
- Where
- The top layer. One stuck wrong at the bottom: bring it up first
- How many
- 4, one at a time
Leave every other piece alone for now: the pictures show them in grey. Found one? Compare it with the cases below.
Which case do you have?
Before you compare and all through the formula: keep the front (the face marked FACING YOU in the pictures) turned towards you. A picture marked BACK, AWAY FROM YOU looks from behind: do not turn the cube, just tilt it to see the back.
1. The corner is in layer 3, right above its spot
The corner is in layer 3 but not right above its spot? Turn U first. The white sticker moves with the corner, so look again at which face it is on after the turn.
2. The corner is in layer 1 but wrong
No white corner left in layer 3 but layer 1 is not done? One is stuck in layer 1: bring it to the bottom front right, do R U R' U', then treat it like a layer 3 corner.
- Repeat for all four corners.