 In this video we're going to solve a 2x2 Rubik's Cube using the same algorithms that we use to solve a 3x3 Rubik's Cube using the method from the Rubik's Cube website. So this video is for people who already know how to do this. If you don't know how to do this, this video will show you how to do this but I'm going to gloss over things assuming that you already know them. I'm going to put out a second video hopefully soon going over the same things but in more detail for people who have never solved a Rubik's Cube before. Okay, I'm a big fan of the Rubik's Cube. I've had this one for a couple years. I actually just got a new one that I don't have with me. If you do buy a Rubik's Cube, I think pretty much all newer models see this one has stickers that are peeling off. They tend to peel off pretty fast and it's kind of stiff. Newer models move a lot smoother and the colors are actually plastic. They're not a sticker so they're not going to come off and you also can't cheat by pulling the stickers off. But today I'm going to show you how to solve the 2x2 Rubik's Cube. I just got this a day and a half ago and solving it was actually pretty simple because I already knew how to solve a standard 3x3 Rubik's Cube. Now this is definitely not the most efficient way to solve the Rubik's Cube but the way I solve the standard Rubik's Cube, the 3x3, is the standard way off the Rubik's Cube website. If you go to rubikscube.com they have instructions and videos on how to solve it. I've been told it's not the fastest way and not the most efficient way to solve it. But I can solve a standard Rubik's Cube in about, in under two minutes, easy, about a minute 40 on average. So definitely there are people who are faster than that but I can solve pretty fast using those algorithms. And if you know how to do that solving this cube is pretty simple. Again I'm going to show you how to do it. It's not the most productive way, most efficient way, but it does work. And if you already know how to do the standard Rubik's Cube in the standard way from the website you already know how to do this. And again I've seen other people do different algorithms when I was trying to learn how to use it. Again I've only had this for a day and a half. And there were some more complex algorithms that were a bit faster but I can solve the 2x2 in about 40 seconds. I've only had a day and a half. So let's go ahead and get started. So I'm going to mix it up. Now the first thing you need to do is just like you have the standard cube, you want to get one side done and usually people start with the white side. So we're going to go ahead and do that now. If you watch a lot of videos they say getting the the white side is pretty standard and easy and you don't have to get all the colors on the side to match. So what I mean by that is when you can solve a Rubik's Cube you don't solve just the white side. You want to make sure that the layer is done so the colors match. Now with the 2x2 you want to get the white side you don't need these colors on the side to match but I have found at least with my way of doing this that it saves you some time in the end. So go ahead and do that. You don't have the center dot, center square to tell you what color each side is but it's simple. You start off with one color. Let's say this is green. You want to just find the other one with green and put it next to it then find the red one and then the blue one. And it's using the same algorithm that you would use to solve the four corners on the white side. So you skip the white cross which is what you start with on a regular Rubik's Cube and you just go to the four corners and that's all you do and you're done. So you already know how to do that if you know how to solve a standard Rubik's Cube. At this point we're going to flip it over just as you would flip this over and now the next thing you do on a standard Rubik's Cube is get these edge pieces. Well we don't have those edge pieces so the next thing we need to do is just get the yellow side and so the next two moves on the standard Rubik's Cube are to get the yellow cross and then the yellow corner pieces to get the yellow side even though the layer won't match. And it's the same two algorithms that you would do with this cube. Now again I watched a video when I first got the 2x2 and gentlemen got to this point and he said there's seven different positions that the cube can be in and there's seven different algorithms you can do to get the yellow side. And I didn't want to have to learn seven different things so his way is no matter what the position of the yellow cubes are the yellow squares you would do one of seven algorithms and you would get the entire yellow side and this is where using my technique here I don't call my technique using the standard Rubik's Cube technique is not the most efficient because I only have to do two algorithms that I already know but I might have to do them a couple of times. So what we're gonna do here is if you have two yellow on top such as I do put them to the back. If you have yellows on the sides on two sides put them on either side and then anything else you want to try to get a yellow dot here I find is the best. Now our goal is to get one yellow dot on top to here so once you get there we move to the next algorithm. So the algorithm is the same that we would do on this so to get the yellow cross I would do front right top inverted right inverted top inverted front and you have the yellow cross. We're gonna do the same thing on this front right top inverted right inverted top inverted front and again I'm gonna do it a couple times I'm gonna put this yellow dot in front here front right top inverted right and very top inverted front until I get a yellow dot in the corner. So now that we have the one yellow square we're gonna put that in the bottom left facing us so bottom left as far as looking at the top and it's gonna be the same algorithm that we would use next to get the yellow in all four of those corners there which is up over I should say I'm sorry right top inverted right top right top top inverted right and then you should have all four yellow squares here on top and at this point you're going to have two corners that match or they're in the correct spot so here I have the red blue in the right spot and the green orange in the right spot which means now we're going to be solving just as we were solving to put the four corners on a standard Rubik's Cube here which is the second last move for solving the standard three by three now with the mini the two by two here you're gonna have to do this is gonna be the last algorithm but you're gonna have to do it twice in this case now if both colors were on the same side for example if I had both reds so the whole red side completed I'm going to do the algorithm once since they're diagonal I'm gonna put one of them in the back right and I'm gonna have to do the algorithm twice so again let me show you it here on the standard cube so let me get to that point so here we go on the standard Rubik's Cube the standard three by three I've got two corners that match in this case they're both in the back so you're either gonna have two corners on the back or you're gonna have a diagonal just as we have here I have got them on the diagonal and so the movement is going to be inverted right front inverted right back back right front I'm sorry inverted front right inverted back back right right and then upper inverted so sounds like a lot but again if you already know how to do the standard Rubik's Cube you already know how to do this and I will be hopefully doing a follow-up video on this where I go into more detail but again this video is for people who already know how to solve a Rubik's Cube so we're gonna go inverted right and do do and now we have all our corner pieces correct so green orange red orange blue red and orange blue so we're gonna do the same exact movements on this so I'm gonna find my corners here put the yellow on top one of the matching corners in the back right and I'm gonna do the same thing so now that I have did it once since I have diagonal I have to do it again but this time I have a solid green side so I'm gonna put that to the back and again it's right inverted front right inverted back back right front inverted right inverted back back right right upper inverted I can't say it while I'm gonna do it because it messes me up but here we go and now we just turn to match our cube and then we have all colors matched so that is solving a 2 by 2 if you already know how to solve the standard 3 by 3 using the the algorithms that are shown at the Rubik's Cube website again this is not necessarily the most efficient way and again some instructions say you need the white side and the layers don't have to match if you do that then that last algorithm the really long one you might end up having to do that four or five times where if you make sure the layers match at top at first when you're doing the white side you only have to do it at most two times so again I'll just go through the whole thing right now so here we go this one goes here so I got the white side and the layers turn it over I can skip the next move because I got the the single square there so and then I'll match up our corners so I got two red there and you have a solve 2 by 2 Rubik's Cube so again may not be the most efficient way and I'm assuming you already know how to solve the standard Rubik's Cube 3 by 3 the way that I do which is the official way on the Rubik's Cube website but I thought I'd do a video on that when I bought this I was actually kind of hoping it'd be a little more challenging and so maybe I'll learn some of the other algorithms so you see if I can speed up my time but I was hoping to spend a day or two learning how to do this because it took me three days to really memorize how to do the standard Rubik's Cube but again after watching a few different things I realized that that I could do it using moves that I already knew from here and it's quite simple if you're able to do this I understand if you don't know how to solve a 3 by 3 this might seem a little complex especially that last move for solving the bottom corner pieces that's it so again I hope you enjoyed this video I kind of off topic compared to most my videos but I recommend you check out my other videos which mostly on computer stuff if you are a new viewer and again I'll probably do a follow-up video maybe just going over what I just went over but in more detail for people who have not solved the standard Rubik's Cube the 3 by 3 and I think for thank you for watching please visit filmsbychris.com that's Chris the K check out the link in the description and as always I hope 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