This is now a really easy move, this changes the orientation of the middle blocks that you have just been working with so that they match up properly. THE IMPORTANT PART OF THIS MOVE IS THAT IT WORKS IN PAIRS. YOU HAVE TO TURN TWO MIDDLE BLOCKS AROUND BEFORE THE CUBE RETURNS TO WHERE IT WAS. This will become clearer later.
Turn the cube so that the bottom is facing up. With the middle blocks in the right positions, as they should be at the end of move 2, rotate the WHOLE CUBE (See animation for whole cube rotation) horizontally until the middle block that you want to "turn around" is on the right hand side. (See picture)
Notice
all the middle blocks are still in the correct position as they should be at the
end of Move 2.
This picture shows where the middle block must be for you to do "Move 3" on it. Look at the position of the yellow block. (remember you are now looking at the bottom of the cube) The block must be in the 3 o'clock position.
Then do "Move 3". The alternative notation for this move is not that easy and I think that my description explains it better, but you can decide. The animation shows it clearly.
- Move the right hand column away 1 turn. (This is the column that contains the block you are working with, the yellow block must go to the back in the above picture)
- Move the middle row right 1 turn (This will require you to move the middle & the top row to the right 1 turn & then to move the top row back to the left)
- Then you repeat 1. & 2. three more times (the same column is turned away 4 times), until your yellow block appears but with blue facing the bottom and yellow facing to yellow. See the animation.
- Then you turn JUST THE TOP ROW (see
animation), to bring the next
middle block that you want to turn into "the position" (3
o'clock). IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU DON'T MOVE THE WHOLE CUBE,
JUST TURN THE TOP ROW, keep the color facing you the same, in this case it
is the green
color.
In
this picture the yellow block has been turned
around (see previous picture), now the top row needs to be turned
anticlockwise to put the green & blue
middle block in the position on the middle right, 3 o'clock.
Then do 1. & 2. again 4 times. - IMPORTANT: DON'T FORGET THAT WHEN YOU SEE THE MIDDLE PIECE IN THE RIGHT PLACE THEN YOU STILL HAVE ONE MOVE LEFT, that is to turn the middle row to the right. This is not an extra move it is just the last turn of the move, "move 3"
- After the 8th time you will see that the rest of the cube has returned to where it was & the middle blocks that you wanted turned are turned. If not then try again. (See picture below of what it should look like)
- Another important note is that this move works in 2's or 4's in other words if you get to the end of move 2 and you see that there is only 1 middle block that is the wrong way round then your cube cannot be completed and was put back together incorrectly. The same goes for if you have to turn three around. It can only be 2 or all 4 middle blocks.
Here
all the middle blue blocks are facing the right way & they are in the right
positions.
Move 4 (requires you to know move 1)
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