Stage 2 — the white corners
Finish the whole first layer
Goal: The entire bottom layer solved: white face complete and the first row of every side matching its centre.
Now find a corner with a white sticker in the top layer. Its three colours tell you where it belongs — for example white, green and red goes between the green and red centres.
Turn the top layer until that corner is directly above the gap it belongs in.
Then repeat R U R' U' (holding the cube so the gap is at the bottom-right of the front face) until the corner drops in the right way up. It takes one, three or five goes.
If a white corner is stuck in the bottom layer the wrong way round, do R U R' U' once to pop it out into the top layer, then place it properly.
Watch it happen
R U R' U' — the corner insert
R U R' U'
Repeat it until the corner sits white-side-down. Six repeats bring the cube back to where it started, so you can never break anything.
Worth knowing
- Only ever use this sequence with the target gap at the front-right. Turning the whole cube to reach another gap is fine — turning the cube mid-sequence is not.
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