The white centre
Put the nine white centre pieces together on the top.
- You start with (input)A scrambled cube
- Result you will get after finishing this stepThe white centre
Which case do you have?
RwU2Rw′
Keep the front
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.
New moves on a 5x5
A letter on its own, like , is still the outer layer. turns the two right layers together. 2R turns only the second layer from the right. and are the top two and bottom two layers. The middle layer holds the fixed middle pieces.
How to do it
- A 5x5 has 9 centre pieces in the middle of each face. The very middle one never moves: it tells you the face’s colour. The 8 around it move.
- Think of the 3x3 centre block as 3 upright strips of 3 pieces. Put the white middle piece on top and build the middle strip by eye: nothing can break yet, so turn freely.
- The two side strips: gather 3 white pieces into a strip in the right column of the front, turn until the top’s left column is the unfinished one, then follow the picture.
- One strip done? Turn to move it to the right column and do the other strip the same way.
This step: look only for
- Piece
- Centre pieces (9 in the middle of each face, the very middle fixed)
- Colours
- White, gathered in strips of 3
- Where
- The sides and the bottom
- How many
- The middle strip, then 2 side strips
Leave every other piece alone for now: the pictures show them in grey. Found one? Compare it with the cases below.
- Nine whites on top? Go to step 2.