How to solve a Rubik's Cube. (Beginner's Method) - Part V

Part V of beginner's method - Last Layer step 2, permuting the corners.

(My first tutorial by request, so I know it's not the best, I may make a revision later. This is a very, very basic beginner method, but serves as a good foundation for progressing onto more advanced methods later. More advanced tutorials will be following shortly!)

This is the second of four steps to solving the last layer. The goal of this step is to move the corners to their correct places.

***NOTES

- Make sure you can solve the second layer and orient the last layer edges comfortably before attempting.

- After you flip all the edges in the top face (in this case, yellow) to face up, you can now perform this step. Find two adjacent corners that both share similar colors, and line them up on that color's side.

- For example, if the green/red/yellow corner and blue/red/yellow corner are next to each other, line them up on the red side.

- After you line up the two adjacent corners, check to see if they are in the correct position (refer to video for detail). Look at the two other colors on the corner besides yellow, and see if the corner does belong between those two centers. It should be quite easy to discern whether or not a corner is in the right place.

- It doesn't matter what the orientation of the corner is, meaning don't worry about which way the corner is facing. Just get it into the right PLACE first.

- Once you find a pair of corners that need to be swapped, line them up so those two corners are both on the right side. This move switches two corners like that on the right side, in notation form:

L U' R' U L' U' R .

- This move basically takes out a pair from the left side, then another from the right side, then puts them both back, while preserving the rest of the cube. You can perform the move slowly and see how the corners are swapped.

- If you cannot find a pair of adjacent corners to be swapped, chances are you did not line up the corners correctly, OR it's a diagonal corner swap. In the latter case, perform the adjacent swap once, line up again, then perform the adjacent swap a second time. Line up again afterwards and check if the corners are in correct position.

- There are other ways to switch two adjacent corners, but this is most intuitive. Also there is a one-step move for a diagonal switch, which I will cover later.

- So for right now, just get the corners into the correct place and you can move on to the two last steps! This step can take a while to get used to, but just practice.

- Direct any questions to me, thanks for watching!

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[Dufaze]

jesus can you please put the algorithm on the screen honestly it would be so much easier to understand instead of having to skip back every few seconds...

[unidentified0010]

@Dufaze Hello. Look in the video description, I put all the algorithms there if you prefer to learn that way. On another note, I intended the video to be merely a visual representation of the concepts needed to solve the cube, as some people I have taught learn better visually rather than reading an algorithm.

[LightDarkNinja]

you screwed up mu cube on step 1 and i had everything in the right position >:(

[96BboyHurricane]

That's what she said

[KukiKruch]

Thanks for FUCKING UP MY CUBE :(

[wildboyintraining]

dude this is too confusing can u please help me? and i dont know any algorithums

[kanshiketsu89]

Hehe, tnx mate. I used to know how to solve the whole cube but forgot the part at 2:58 after some time. Now I'm back. :)

[icomputertinker]

Every time you say "pair" everyone gets thrown off

[Simpy2012]

Just provide both visuals and algorithms, then they reinforce each other.Why separate them?

[VisualDesignFX]

Algorithm*

[VisualDesignFX]

Aglo's plz?