XnXn Cube Algorithms PDF Rubik’s 2025 (new)

xnxn Cube Algorithms PDF, Today I will be showing you how to do the CFOP method for the 3×3. Many of you may have saw my 3×3 tutorial, which has a couple of hundred thousand views. Now we are trying to get faster at this Rubik’s cube, and I’ll show you the CFOP method which is center, F2L, which is the first two layer, OLL, which is orient the last layer, and PLL permute the last layer.

Before we get into this, don’t forget to like and subscribe. You should be able to know how to solve a regular 3×3 Rubik’s cube. If you do not, I will have my beginner’s method in the link below. Also before we get started to the tutorial, if you need any help I do have a Discord server. I have a specific channel where you can ask for Rubik’s cube help whether it’s beginner’s methods, CFOP methods, Megaminx, 4×4. I’ll have that in the description so you can go to that channel if you have any questions. Please go there and I’ll make sure your questions are answered. Without further ado, let’s go ahead and scramble this Rubik’s cube.

And FYI this is my GAN 11M Pro. You can head to speedcubeshop.com and use my discount code Simon, it’ll really help me out and the channel. And with that being said let’s go ahead and start with step number one.

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Step 1 – Cross

So for a beginner method you will solve the white cross with the white on top. For a more advanced way you would solve it on the bottom or maybe sometimes towards the side, the right or the left. When you solve it on the bottom you’ll have like an overall look on the other layers because right when you solve the cross you have to flip your cube over and then perform F2L which is the first two layers.

When looking at this cross I can see that red will be coming down right here and then I can also move this to match with this red center piece. Move this white and green down and I know this white and orange piece goes right here. So I’m going to turn the bottom layer here, slide this in and then move it back. So now there’s three and there’s one more right here. I can do this, move that to the side, turn the bottom layer, put this in, bring it back.

There are many different ways to do this intuitively. You really want to keep practicing. There’s no algorithm for this, you just want to slowly try to connect the pieces for the cross something on the bottom layer. So now we have all these edges matched up with this respective center piece.

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Step 2 – First Two Layers (F2L)

So now it’s time for the first two layers. For the first two layers you would solve the corner piece as well as this F2L piece. So an example if I want to solve this white blue red piece I would have to match it with this edge piece. So when I do that I can make an F, I can make a U2 and then get this piece up, put the center piece back down so this piece is on the top layer.

So when I see this piece go to this bottom layer all I have to do is go like this. But when I do that, in the process when I turn it this way it connects to this edge piece and then I turn it in and then here is the first F2L slot solved. So you keep doing that. Sometimes you may have a piece that’s already in the right position and you would do the normal beginners method to insert it like that. So there will be two and then you have to work on the other two.

I will have a link to a PDF in the description. CubeSkills does a really good job with his F2L, OLL and PLL algorithm. So basically for F2L you want to connect the corner and the first two layers, the middle layer and then put them in its correct position. And with practice, look at the algorithm, look at the PDF sheet that I will have. At first you’ll be slower at solving the three by three but with practice you’ll get the hang of it. In a couple weeks, couple months, you will be much faster.

So you won’t have to solve the cross, the corner piece, flip the cube over and then the middle layer. You can do a two-in-one special with this F2L which is really good in my opinion. And also if needed I can make another F2L video to show all the F2Ls and then show all the OLLs and all the PLLs.

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Step 3 – Orient Last Layer (OLL)

The third step of the CFOP method, we will orient the yellow layer. So we need to make all this yellow color facing up. I do have a sheet by CubeSkills laminated. So here’s all the OLL, there are 57 in total and I have around 25 more left to memorize. But you don’t have to memorize all of these 57 algorithms.

What you really need is to memorize these three OLL algorithms and some of them you may even already know. In this step you would need to get the yellow cross. You have a dot, the backward L, and a line and you can do the algorithm to get that cross.

So now when you have this cross you can look at the algorithm. So in this case I have this shape, yellow is right here for this corner across, there’s a yellow piece facing this way out, yellow facing here, and yellow facing this way. And then I do this algorithm like that and that completes the top yellow piece.

This is called two-step OLL. You first get the yellow cross and then you memorize 57 algorithms on the CubeSkills xnxn cube algorithms pdf sheet which I’ll have in the description below.

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Step 4 – Permute Last Layer (PLL)

Now we’re on our fourth and final step of the CFOP method – the P which is permute the last layer. So remember, memorize these seven layers and now I also have a sheet for the PLLs. For this it is two sides. This may be more tough at first in the beginning but try to look at different patterns on these PLLs.

So in this case I have a J-perm but I don’t use these algorithms; I learned it a different way. And to solve this I do that, so it’s one algorithm to finish the Rubik’s cube. So basically, if I have a flip, edges, or corners, I’ll look at this and see if it’s going clockwise, if it’s going counterclockwise and see which algorithm you like on this xnxn cube algorithms pdf file.

So in this case, I have a UB permutation, and I would do this algorithm:
R2 U R U R’ U’ R’ U’ R’ U R’
and that would finish that cube.

This may be the hardest step because there are more algorithms to memorize. The G permutations are just flipping the edges and the corner pieces just like these algorithms but they’re combined. So you don’t have to really know these four at first, everything else you have to know. You just need to practice and try to get the hang of it.

One of my favorite PLLs is this one, the H-perm. So it’s just that it flips these two edges across and these two edges horizontal. Like this. This will also be in the link in the description.

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Conclusion

So overall for CFOP you do the cross, try to practice it with the cross facing down. Once you get the white cross you get these F2L slots, the first two layers at the same time when solving the corner and this edge piece. Then you orient the last layer, bring every color of yellow facing up, it doesn’t matter what color is out of order. And then you look at this PLL sheet and flip all these pieces and that will be the CFOP method.

I’ll also have more F2L, OLL and PLL type videos in the future but that’s the overall CFOP method. I hope you guys learned a lot and enjoyed this content. Don’t forget to press that like button and subscribe.

If you need any help with the CFOP method or my Rubik’s cube tutorial, be sure to visit my Discord server down below. We have a specific channel for people wanting Rubik’s cube help and we have a great group of cubers that will help you solve your Rubik’s cube, solve it in an advanced way and make sure you are set to go. Link to that will be in the description to my Discord. Again thanks so much for watching and I’ll catch you guys later.