How to solve the 3×3 Rubik’s cube

Note: This tutorial assumes that your cube has the standard colour scheme. You can check online for the colour scheme. This tutorial also uses notation. If you have not learnt it yet, please head to here to learn it. Thanks!

Overview

Step-0. Familiarise yourself with how the cube turns
Step-1. Making the daisy and white cross pg.1
Step-2. Solving 1st/white layer pg.2
Step-3. Solving 2nd/middle layer pg.3
Step-4. Orienting yellow cross pg.4
Step-5. Permuting yellow edges pg.5
Step-6. Permuting yellow corners pg.6
Step-7. Orienting yellow corners pg.7

Step-1
Making the daisy and white cross

Hold the white center at the bottom.
Look for an edge piece with white on it (an edge piece has 2 colours).
Once you find one edge piece with white on it, intuitively put white to be matching or attached to the yellow center.
Below is what it should look like(ignore the pieces in grey).

Do this for all 4 of the edges and below is what it should look like.

You have now completed the daisy.
Next, face the blue center with white center still on bottom.
Do “U” moves until blue is matching with its center like this:

Then, do an “F2” with blue on front.

Afterwards, rotate to face the red center and do the same:
Do “U” moves until red is matching with its center, then do an “F2”.
Continue rotating to the next colour until you have done the above with all 4 edges.

If you look at the bottom of your cube(white), it should look like this:

You have now completed the first step!

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