Solving a 2x2 Rubik's Cube. 1. Get the cube so that three white squares are facing up. Hold the cube so they are like this: W W W . 2. Rotate lower layer until the piece with the last white square is underneath the place it should be: the square at lower-right of the top layer. 3. With the 3-white side facing up, repeat this sequence below until the cube is all white on top: Ri Di R D Note: The top face might become all white half-way through the sequence. Stop when it is matches all white. 4. Look for colored pairs matching on the upper layer on all sides. Is the upper layer all matching pairs? Then skip to step 8. 5. Turn the cube so the any matching upper-layer pair, if any, is facing away from you. The all-white side should still be facing up. 6. Then, do this sequence below: Ri Di R L D Li Ri Di R 7. It should still be all white on top, and now the upper layer is all matching pairs. 8. Flip over the cube so the all-white side is facing down. There will now be 0, 1, or 2 yellow squares facing up. 9. Rotate cube until yellow squares form one of these patterns: . Y . Y . . . . Y . . Y Y . . . 10. Repeat this sequence below several times until the top side is all yellow: R U Ri U R Ux2 Ri Notes: a. After each run through the sequence, rotate the upper layer until it matches one of the configurations in step 9 above. b. After each run through the sequence the cube should return to the all-white side facing down, and the bottom layer should return to all color-matching pairs. 11. There are now at least two solved sides: white on bottom, yellow on top. If you can rotate the upper layer to make a third matching side, do so. Rotate the cube so that third matching side is facing away from you. 12. Do this sequence below: Ri F Ri Bx2 R Fi R Bx2 Rx2 Bx2 13. Go back to step 11 and repeat steps 11 and 12 until solved.