 In this video we're going to be solving a 2x2 Rubik's Cube. I'm going to try to go over in detail. If you already know how to solve a 3x3 using the methods that are given at the Rubik's Cube website, you may want to check out the other video I have where I don't go into as much detail because you already know the algorithms and I just kind of explain which ones you do at which points. It's going to be a bit shorter, a bit quicker. Go ahead and check that out. But if you've never solved a Rubik's Cube, hopefully this video will go into enough detail to explain it to you. Don't give up. You should be able to solve it, follow in these instructions and just practice over and over again and eventually you'll get it. And you should be able to solve a 2x2 in under a minute once you learn how to. So let's get started. Hello. In this video I'm going to show you how to solve a 2x2 Rubik's Cube. And I'm going to show you a method that uses some of the algorithms that used for a 3x3. I'm going to try to break them down. A 2x2 is definitely simpler than a 3x3 because you only have two layers to solve really. And there's going to be four algorithms you need to learn. So let's go ahead and get started. The first thing you need to do is you need to get the white side. You need to realize you can't just get it white. You need to get the layers correct. So when you're solving a Rubik's Cube you don't solve white side, red side, green side, orange side. You solve layer by layer and we're going to do the same thing here but we only have two layers. So we're going to get the white side but we want to make sure that the colors match. One thing you need to know about a Rubik's Cube is that the colors are always in the same place, portioned to each other. So with the same Rubik's Cube you have the center square here which never moves so green is always next to red and across from blue. Orange is always next to white with yellow across from the white. And no matter how you move it those center pieces never move. Now we don't have the center pieces on a 2x2 cube but they're still in the same position. Blue is across from green, red is across from orange and white is across from yellow. So I could do something like this, let's see, I can put that there, I can put that there and that there. And you might go okay I've got the white side which if you continued at this point you could actually still solve the cube but it's going to make the end part a bit harder because you can see these colors don't match here. I want two green there, two red here, two orange here and two blue here or however they match up. So let's go ahead and fix this. I've already got two in the right place which that's easy enough to do but what you need to do is you need to learn the algorithms and the algorithm for doing the corner pieces is the same as doing the white corner pieces on the standard cube and it's fairly simple. And so we have when you're holding the cube a certain way you're going to have a right side, a left side, an upper side and a down side. And if I say to turn the right side you're going to turn the right side clockwise. If I say right inverted you're going to turn it counterclockwise same with the upper and the lower. So what I need to do now is I need to find the next white piece that goes here and it can't just be any white piece. It can't be this white piece. It needs to be this one because we need the one, the other one that has white and red on it and there's only going to be one other one that has white and red. And so you're going to look for it and you need to get it either in that spot like so or underneath it like so. Now here that is the correct piece but it's turned the wrong way. So we need to do our algorithm to turn it the proper way. So what we're going to do here is the algorithm which is right inverted, down inverted, right and down. So you just need to keep doing that until the piece falls into place and it might take a couple tries but it's those same four moves over and over again. So again now we need to find the piece that has blue and white on it which there's only one other piece and we're going to put it underneath where it belongs. So it's under the corner where it belongs and we're going to go right inverted, down inverted and right and that time it only took one time but as long as you keep doing that algorithm over and over again you will eventually get the corner piece in the proper spot. Next we're going to start solving the yellow side. So at this point what we need to do is we need to get a yellow dot, one yellow dot on top which we don't have right now. So the next algorithm what you're going to do is you're going to have three scenarios. Basically there's actually more but I'm going to simplify it here for you. You're going to have two on top which you're going to put towards the back. You're going to have the yellows on the sides so you'll either have two yellows here and two yellows here. Anything else other than one yellow dot you're going to put one yellow dot in the front left here. So let's go ahead and do the next algorithm. So here we go we're going to get the yellow side now and the first thing we're going to do is get a single yellow square up here which right now we don't have any. You might not have any, you might have two diagonal, you might have two next to each other or you have one and we want to get one. So the way we get just one there to start off is we do one algorithm over and over again. And so again you could have yellow squares on either side, yellow squares two in the back. Anything else put a yellow square up front here and then you do this algorithm with those scenarios until you get a single yellow square on top. And so I'm going to say this because if I try to say it while I do it I'm going to mess it up but it's going to be front, right, top, right inverted, top inverted, front inverted. So front, right, top, right inverted, top inverted, front inverted. And so we didn't get there but now we have yellow on both sides so put them on the sides. You don't want them on the front so you want them on the sides. We're going to go front, right, top, right inverted, top inverted, front inverted. Now we got two on top we put those to the back. We're going to do front inverted, right, I'm sorry, front, right, upper, right inverted, top inverted, front inverted. Again we got diagonal so we're just going to get a square up front here just like we did when we had none. And we're going to go front, right, upper, right inverted, upper inverted, front inverted. So now we have one yellow corner piece on this side and so looking at the side we want to put it in the bottom left corner. And so what we're going to do now is we're going to do an algorithm which is right, upper, right inverted, upper, right, upper, upper, right inverted. And you might have to do that two times in a row but again it's right, upper, right inverted, upper, right, upper, upper, right inverted. And again you'll either end up with a single yellow square again in which case you put it in the bottom left corner and do it a second time or you're going to get your yellow side. And once you have this now you're going to be very close. You're going to have either one side solved so it might be a different color but here we have green but what you need to do is get two corner pieces in the proper spot. So I have two corners in the proper spot right here and that means I have one algorithm left to do. If you have it to where they're diagonal, to where one side matches so we could say we could have the yellow, green, red here and then over here we would have the yellow, orange, blue and we'd do the same algorithm twice. And this is a longer algorithm. It's a little bit harder but you only have to do it one to two times and again if you have one side solved other than the yellow and white, one of the side solves, side solved, you only have to do the algorithm once. And I'm going to say this not while I'm doing it because if I try to say it while I'm doing it I'm going to mess up but it's right inverted, front, right inverted, back, back, right, front inverted, right inverted, back, back, right, right, upper inverted, which looks like this. And there you go, you might have to turn the colors to match there at the end but you have a solved cube. So again that last algorithm is rather long, it's right inverted, front, right inverted, back, right, front inverted, right inverted, back, back, right, right, upper inverted and I'll try to remember to display that one on the screen because it definitely takes a lot. But once you learn how to solve it and you practice a little bit it's not hard at all to do. And again you should definitely be able to do it in under a minute. So that's it, I hope you enjoyed this video. I hope you visit my website filmsbychris.com that's Chris Backe, check out the link in the description. And as always I hope that you have a great day.