Tutorials
Welcome to the tutorials section! Below you can find links to tutorials that can help you to solve your cube. If you are trying to solve your cube for the first time, I highly recommend the first tutorial. If you are interested in solving Rubik's Cube for speed: you might want to start with reading the tips page, to get a general idea about what speedcubing is all about. You might not understand everything I am saying there, but read it anyway :).
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I recently rearranged the tutorials in three categories. In the past, I had numbered the tutorials, but this gave the wrong impression about the importance of the tutorials. If you are a beginner, you can move on to the tutorials in the 'General Cubing' category, pretty fast (once you know how to solve a cube), as those topics will be very useful.
Beginner Level
I don't know if this really is a tutorial, but if you want to understand the tutorials, you should understand the basic notations. If you just started, just learn the UDLRFB notation, and skip the slice moves, double layer turns and cube rotations.
Simple Solution to Rubik's Cube
This is a very easy solution for solving the cube. I designed it to be beginner friendly, and easy to memorise. It is meant to be an introduction to cubing. The moves are not optimized for speed, but I think it's a very good way to start for a beginner. I don't want to brag about this too much, but I frequently get e-mails from beginners who say that this tutorial is very easy to follow.
Dutch Translation of the Simple Solution
I translated the 'Simple Solution' in Dutch, for all the Dutch fans ;).
Rubik’s Cube Beginners Tutorial
This is a pretty extensive tutorial for solving Rubik's Cube. There are tons of beginners solutions available on the internet, but not so many of them explain how the moves work. In this tutorial, I tried to explain moves that are very logical, so you can understand why they work. Learning this solution requires some reading, but afterwards, you will understand much more about the moves, and about solving the cube in general. Another advantage is, that if you memorize moves that you understand, then it’s harder to forget them. If you get stuck at one of the steps, try to learn the solution provided in the previous tutorial first. But try to learn the solution of this tutorial later, because in my opinion, they are very 'elegant' and logical solutions, and the principles used are also usefull for solving other puzzles.
There are already a lot of website's that give speedcubing tips. This is just a small list of only the most important things I think every beginner should know. But maybe some of them can also be useful for more experienced cubers.
Intermediate Level
This section is made for people who can solve the cube with the solution I present in the "Beginners Tutorial". That tutorial explains moves that can be understood intuitively, but they are not very efficient. In this section, you can learn how to speed up your solution. I also added a couple of videos that illustrate how to perform the algoritms fast. If you used the "Simple Solution" to learn solving the cube, just try to read this section. However, I can't guarantee that you will understand everything. If necessary, read the prologue (and maybe some other parts) of the "Beginners Tutorial".
I really think that every serious cuber should have at least some basic knowledge of commutators, and that is why I created this tutorial. Commutators are algorithms that allow you to solve puzzles in an intuitive way. That means, if you understand how they work, you will be able to find your own moves to solve many different puzzles. In this tutorial I explain exactly how commutators work.
This tutorial will show you some of the basic fingertricks. It includes videos to show you how to perform the moves. Be careful not to try these tricks on stiff cubes. These tricks require smooth and lubed cubes!
Advanced level
Orientation of the Last Layer (OLL)
This tutorial is not like any other OLL-page on the internet. Most OLL pages organise all the cases according to their shapes. It's very good to be aware that the OLL-cases can be organised by their shapes, because this make recognition easier. For memorisation however, I think it's a good thing to organise the algorithms according to their algorithms structure, since a lot of algorithms use the same basic moves, and they are often inverses or variations of each other. On this page I tried to organise all the OLL-cases in a way, so that these connections between the algorithms are visible. I hope this will make memorisation of the algorithms easier.
This tutorial explains how to solve Rubik's Cube blindfolded. The method explained here is Stefan Pochmann's method. You have to be a pretty advanced cuber if you want to use this tutorial.