Sixfold

About Sixfold

Sixfold is Navritto's 3-D Rubik's Cube — a speedcubing puzzle you play right in the browser, on a real, fully modelled 3×3 cube you turn by dragging. Twist any face with a swipe, or type standard cube notation on the keyboard (U, R', F2), and orbit the cube to check every side. There's a Daily scramble that's the same for everyone that day, so a solve is worth comparing, plus a Free mode for endless fresh scrambles; a timer starts on your first turn and stops the moment the cube is solved, keeping your personal best for each mode on your device. If you have never solved a cube, a built-in tutorial teaches the beginner layer-by-layer method one stage at a time on the 3-D cube, a hint will show your next move, and the built-in assistant can solve the whole cube for you. It needs no install and no account, works with touch or the keyboard, and fills the screen in portrait or landscape. Sixfold is an original cube simulator — a puzzle, not a claim to any brand — free to play right here in your browser.

How to solve a Rubik's cube

The easiest way to solve a Rubik’s cube is the beginner layer-by-layer method: you build the cube one layer at a time using a few short, repeated move sequences — called algorithms, written in standard cube notation. Here are its seven stages, the same ones Sixfold’s built-in tutorial walks you through move by move on a 3-D cube.

1. 1White cross

   Start by building a white cross on the bottom. Find the four edge pieces that carry white and bring each one down so its white sticker sits on the white centre and its side colour matches the centre it points at.

   The easiest beginner route is the “daisy”: gather the four white edges around the yellow centre on top, then turn each face twice to drop that edge straight down into the cross. Watch the four edges fall into place.

   Algorithm: F2 R2 B2 L2

2. 2White corners

   Now the corners. Find a corner with white in it, hold it in the top layer directly above the empty slot where it belongs, then repeat the moves R U R′ U′ until the corner drops in with white on the bottom.

   If a white corner is stuck in the bottom layer facing the wrong way, do the same moves once to pop it out into the top layer, then insert it correctly. Finishing the corners completes the entire white face and first layer.

   Algorithm: R U R' U'

3. 3Second layer

   With white done, flip the cube in your mind so white is on the bottom. Now solve the four edges of the middle layer — the ones with no yellow.

   Find an edge in the top layer with no yellow, turn the top until it lines up with its matching centre, then run the insert: U R U′ R′ U′ F′ U F sends it down to the right. Mirror it (U′ L′ U L U F U′ F′) to send an edge to the left.

   Algorithm: U R U' R' U' F' U F

4. 4Yellow cross

   Turn to the last layer, yellow on top. First make the yellow cross — ignore the corners for now and just orient the four yellow edges.

   Hold the cube and repeat F R U R′ U′ F′. A dot becomes an L-shape, the L becomes a line, and the line becomes the full cross. Position the shape as shown (L in the top-left, or line horizontal) before each turn.

   Algorithm: F R U R' U' F'

5. 5Orient the corners (OLL)

   The yellow cross is done; now make the whole top face yellow by orienting the corners. This is the “OLL” (orient last layer) stage.

   Use the beginner favourite, Sune: R U R′ U R U2 R′. Keep an unsolved corner in the front-right, repeat Sune, and the corners rotate a step at a time until the top is a solid yellow — the cross may spin around the top; that is expected.

   Algorithm: R U R' U R U2 R'

6. 6Permute the last layer (PLL)

   The top is all yellow, but the side colours may not line up yet. The last stage — “PLL” (permute last layer) — swaps the top pieces into their correct spots without disturbing the yellow face.

   The T-perm swaps two corners and two edges: R U R′ U′ R′ F R2 U′ R′ U′ R U R′ F′. Repeat and re-align the top until every side is a single colour. When the last piece clicks in, the cube is solved.

   Algorithm: R U R' U' R' F R2 U' R' U' R U R' F'

7. 7Solved

   That is the whole beginner method: white cross, white corners, second layer, yellow cross, orient the corners, then permute the last layer.

   The more you practise, the more the algorithms become muscle memory. Scramble a fresh cube, start the timer, and see how you do — then come back to any stage here whenever you get stuck.