in 2009 you taught me how to solve a 3x3x3 rubik's cube. now im glad you'll be teaching me how to solve a 4x4x4 rubik's cube 1 year later i hope you have a video on 5x5x5 rubik's cube because when i get comfortable with the 4x4x4 rubik's cube i might just continue to the next one. you rock man :)
I can solve my 3x3x3 cube thanks to you, by watching your previous turtorials! Now i have the 4x4x4 cube, and these turtorials are needed as well for solving my cube. I would like to thank you for sharing your turtorial, i have to say, these movies are very clear, good explanation and nice sound/voice! Thank you very much !!
Nice work Dan I actually learnt the 4x4 myself before this tutorial came out For solving the centres, I think you made it more complicated than it should be. Like you said, it's all intuitive
hey dan, i am a big fan of your rubiks cube tutorials, you are the one who first taught me the 3x3. i have moved onto the 4x4 and i have noticed that this tutorial shows the long version of solving the centers.. it can be done completely intuitively much simple and faster. maybe that could be shown instead. i think it would be much faster.
Funny to see how quickly people blow-up, this guy has spent a lot of time trying to put together a video to help you solve this, I followed his 3x3x3 videos and can now solve a 3x3x3 very swiftly, beforehand having no idea how to solve one, just have some patience guys, you're lucky he's doing this at all.
you can put the pieces back together with a little bit of patience the center ones go inside the little tread the outer edge ones just gather around the edges and corner edges snap in to hold that corresponding color in place
Wow you solve the centers differently. I learned to solve them like this. Make 2 by 1 blocks, then put them into place, but to not mess up a finished center you line up for instance the red centers so they are on the same side, then you move the one you need to place up where the other red one is and turn it 180 degrees then put the other red piece back and you will not mess up a finished center and the red center will be finished. I do that for all of the centers.
Awseome love the use of Slayer you have goot taste :D. I found your 3 by 3 tutorial really useful and that got me interested in this so im gonna give it a god dude :D.
Where the heck is part three. Your 3x3x3 videos REALLY helped and all of my friends are impressed. and a buncha of them know i have a 4x4x4 and want me to solve it in front of them. Please make a part three
josecrosscounty: That sounds a bit like the cage method, which is where you get the edges and corners first, then get the centers last. I've done this method myself quite a few times, but believe me, it isn't quite as fast as the reduction method, which is where you make the centers then edges, and then solve like a 3x3. It's the same exact method Dan Brown teachs in this video.
In this video, algorithms are not required. It's all about common sense on where the pieces have to go. So don't confuse yourself and just go with where the pieces need to go. The only algorithm you'll need is for the last 4 pieces that don't match.
hey dan! i think its better the way i make the centrers because its 100% intuitive you dont REALLY need algoriths in this part =) anyway you rock because of you i know how to solva a 3x3x3
He means you have the centers so it can be solved like a 3x3x3. Treat the 2x1 pieces like a single piece on the 3x3x3, and use these to make the cross, then the first layer, then second layer, etc,etc,etc.
You are such a good teacher!! I just got the cube yesterday, and now i know how to solve it! But i do have a question for all the viewers, and you...is it normal to get a little dizzy during or after playing it? 'cause, every time i play with the cube for a few minutes, i get dizzy... this may be a weird Q but i just wanna know if its me, or if its totally normal...
tbh buddy your first video of a 3x3 cube actually helped, its 6:35am i havent been to sleep all night, this doesnt work or help and ive wasted my time and money on this shit thanks, im gonna take it to the range tomorrow and nail the shit outa this thing with my 12gauge
After knowing how to solve the 3 x 3, I figured out how to do the first 3 layers intuitively. But I solve the inner 2 x 2 squares a much different way to this. I just solved one square, but kept it on the bottom and used the top layer as my swapping layer. But this video gave me some ideas on different ways to approach the squares.
Last night I wanted to look at this video but no internet, so I played with 4x4x4 for 90 minutes and without alg's I managed to get all the centers correctly, and then by apply 3x3x3 rules I get bottom two (D and d) correct. And then I was stumped. So, technically I need part 3 of your instructions? Yeaaaa
you just solve the other 8 center pieces around that one. The big difference it makes is that now you don't need to figure out the centers' positions on your own....
FANTASTIC. You'd make a great teacher as long as the little rug rats didn't interrupt with questions. That said...I got lost in the last 50 seconds. AND WHEN R U GOING TO FIX PART 3 of 3 so I can keep viewing on my Kindle Fire. Mahalo
It's because of the parity, just make sure that the top layer has the pieces in the right place, even if they are not orientated right, you solve the parity at the end. Hope this helps :)
I found mine at a store called "My Gifted Child," you can usually find them in stores that sell educational toys/puzzles for kids. (or even regular toy stores)
R*,2U,R'* to get the blue piece without screwing up the green doesn't work. I've tried it multiple times and it conitnues to stay in the same position.
I have just a quick question... When you do either R*, 2U, R'* or it's opposite, would you really need to do the Prime (outer) layer too. Or could you just do the inner one?
Wow , and here i thought the 3X3 was bad...This gave me a headache. Mr.Brown...you have a nice day with your cube i'm going to lie down. nice Video ..although i almost got a nosebleed from it
Turn one face of the cube 45 degrees and pull out an edge piece (as shown in Dan's 3x3x3 video) After that the rest of the cube should be easy to take apart.
If you end up in a situation where, you manage to solve 4 centres completely, but in such a way that the centres are in a ring, and therefore the unsolved ones are opposite to each other, can you still get the centres finished by doing those algorithms at the end?
I think that the 730,000 views for each vid are for those who wanted to learn, the additional 470k for part 1 is because part 1 of anything is usually the most watched, and part 3 because people probably have problems with parity.
If your cube has colors other then that of a standard cube, the easiest way to figure out your colors is to solve the corners as if you were solving at 2x2.
@SirFlakes It doesn't work, the top has nothing to do with the sides, therefore it's useless. The "corners" on a 2x2x2 are combined with the top face, and all the other faces, it is a rubik's cube of corners. This cube isn't corners, although it does make some logical sense, it just doesn't work... Sorry if thats confusing.
@GeraldVirgil I would post the link, but it is not aloud. He did create a part 3, it should be the first video in the suggested section. If this does not help, try searching for "How to solve a 4x4x4 Rubik's Cube (Part Three)" and then look for the one from pogobat.
you've helped me a lot dude!thanks for that.,anyway how do you learn all this things?haha anyway thanks!!^__^ [how to open the 4x4x4 cube anyway?for lubing ]
Great vid. I had a question about solving the 4x4. When you solve the green cross (or whatever color you solve first), and you want to put the corner pieces to complete the green side, suppose I put the green-yellow-orange piece in it's correct position, the yellow side of the corner piece faces the orange side and the orange side of the corner piece faces the yellow side. How am I supposed to fix that? Thanks. :)
@arrisoomiero your gonna have to ruin some centers start with one color ex: yellow and work out and do the color to either its right or its left ( red or orange ) then you should be able to solve it
If you now how to solve the regular 3x3x3 and 4x4x4 you can solve the 5x5x5 cube professor because the move notation of the 5x5x5 is exactly the same the difference is that in a 5x5x5 when you are solving the centers the centers have 9 peaces which is like a face of a 3x3x3 cube then you solve the edges an you have a scrambled 3x3x3 you now is the same thing the thing is that it has more peaces and more moves but everything is the same.
hey i watched the tutorial of the original Rubick's cube and i loved it so i looked up to you to solve the 4x4x4. So i got to the step where i finished the blue red yellow and green sides but when i go on to the orange and white one of the corner pieces says blue yellow and orange. But i already solved the yellow!!! I'm so confused! Plz comment me back cause i dont know if the producers screwed up the stickers or something or if im just screwing up!
+LoneWhiteWolf13 You if a piece popped out before, you have to take your cube apart, put and put it back (solved of course) scramble and then try it again...I had a similar problem
@TadejSolvenec....Yes you can prevent parity. I barely ever get it. You have to solve two pairs at once.......difficult to explain over youtube though.
@ganninu93 also dan brown(pogobat) his tutorial is how just simply solve it not necessarily to speed cube. Type onto youtube how to speed cube a 3x3x3 cube. LAst question. Sadly i do not know how to solve a sudoku cube. I do however know how to do sudoku but i dont think that will help in your situation. If you need anyother help contact me somehow:)
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0:40 i just love how he says "THATS NICE AND SCRAMBLED AND SCARY AS HELL" To really fit the mood of a 4x4x4 being a revenge cube
Wow Dan!I'm Hungarian,but you speak so clearly english that I understand every words!!The best tutorial is yours!!!Thank's for it!!!:)
Damn you're so Good at talking and explaining!
in 2009 you taught me how to solve a 3x3x3 rubik's cube. now im glad you'll be teaching me how to solve a 4x4x4 rubik's cube 1 year later i hope you have a video on 5x5x5 rubik's cube because when i get comfortable with the 4x4x4 rubik's cube i might just continue to the next one. you rock man :)
I can solve my 3x3x3 cube thanks to you, by watching your previous turtorials! Now i have the 4x4x4 cube, and these turtorials are needed as well for solving my cube. I would like to thank you for sharing your turtorial, i have to say, these movies are very clear, good explanation and nice sound/voice! Thank you very much !!
your rubik's videos are going to make me tame the beast
This is a really helpful tutorial. Using your tutorial, I can solve the entire cube in half of just this video.
This is a lot easier than expected, I'm moving along quite nicely.
Nice work Dan
I actually learnt the 4x4 myself before this tutorial came out
For solving the centres, I think you made it more complicated than it should be. Like you said, it's all intuitive
Or maybe when you're mixing it up, just don't mess up the centers.
BAM. GENIUS.
hey dan,
i am a big fan of your rubiks cube tutorials, you are the one who first taught me the 3x3. i have moved onto the 4x4 and i have noticed that this tutorial shows the long version of solving the centers.. it can be done completely intuitively much simple and faster. maybe that could be shown instead. i think it would be much faster.
You should be a teacher or sumthin dude, I love ur tutorials man. I always find ur vids whenever I get a new cube
Just opened and scrambled my cube.
I have faith in you that you will teach good.
(I used your video for 3x3, you are awesome man)
I would really help if someone could post a link to part 3 :)
Dan, you're awesome. Thanks a lot for posting this vids!!!
Next step is 5x5x5 Cube, right???
As always, a wonderful tutorial. well understood, even by folks like me.
Funny to see how quickly people blow-up, this guy has spent a lot of time trying to put together a video to help you solve this, I followed his 3x3x3 videos and can now solve a 3x3x3 very swiftly, beforehand having no idea how to solve one, just have some patience guys, you're lucky he's doing this at all.
you can put the pieces back together with a little bit of patience the center ones go inside the little tread the outer edge ones just gather around the edges and corner edges snap in to hold that corresponding color in place
Wow you solve the centers differently. I learned to solve them like this. Make 2 by 1 blocks, then put them into place, but to not mess up a finished center you line up for instance the red centers so they are on the same side, then you move the one you need to place up where the other red one is and turn it 180 degrees then put the other red piece back and you will not mess up a finished center and the red center will be finished. I do that for all of the centers.
Awseome love the use of Slayer you have goot taste :D. I found your 3 by 3 tutorial really useful and that got me interested in this so im gonna give it a god dude :D.
i already know how to solve one of these things but it is so worth it to watch you; a great teacher
Where the heck is part three. Your 3x3x3 videos REALLY helped and all of my friends are impressed. and a buncha of them know i have a 4x4x4 and want me to solve it in front of them. Please make a part three
the king of the cubes! you are the new champion! Try joining the worlds!
Dude... Your amazing... Now i can solve 2 Rubiks Cubes, 3*3 and 4*4,Thanks SO MUCH! :)
josecrosscounty: That sounds a bit like the cage method, which is where you get the edges and corners first, then get the centers last. I've done this method myself quite a few times, but believe me, it isn't quite as fast as the reduction method, which is where you make the centers then edges, and then solve like a 3x3. It's the same exact method Dan Brown teachs in this video.
In this video, algorithms are not required. It's all about common sense on where the pieces have to go. So don't confuse yourself and just go with where the pieces need to go. The only algorithm you'll need is for the last 4 pieces that don't match.
hey dan! i think its better the way i make the centrers because its 100% intuitive you dont REALLY need algoriths in this part =) anyway you rock because of you i know how to solva a 3x3x3
He means you have the centers so it can be solved like a 3x3x3. Treat the 2x1 pieces like a single piece on the 3x3x3, and use these to make the cross, then the first layer, then second layer, etc,etc,etc.
thanks dan cuz of u i know can solve the 3x3x3 cube now im trying to learn to solve a 4x4x4 cuz i might get one for christmas.
That's nice and scrambled and... scary as hell. Love that comment. thanks for your tutorials man!
u hav been a great help maan!!!
please upload some videos for 5x5 cube !
kudos to dan brown!!
You are such a good teacher!! I just got the cube yesterday, and now i know how to solve it!
But i do have a question for all the viewers, and you...is it normal to get a little dizzy during or after playing it? 'cause, every time i play with the cube for a few minutes, i get dizzy... this may be a weird Q but i just wanna know if its me, or if its totally normal...
tbh buddy your first video of a 3x3 cube actually helped, its 6:35am i havent been to sleep all night, this doesnt work or help and ive wasted my time and money on this shit thanks, im gonna take it to the range tomorrow and nail the shit outa this thing with my 12gauge
After knowing how to solve the 3 x 3, I figured out how to do the first 3 layers intuitively. But I solve the inner 2 x 2 squares a much different way to this. I just solved one square, but kept it on the bottom and used the top layer as my swapping layer. But this video gave me some ideas on different ways to approach the squares.
WOW huge help. I used your video for the 3x3x3 rubix cube as well! Thanksss
Last night I wanted to look at this video but no internet, so I played with 4x4x4 for 90 minutes and without alg's I managed to get all the centers correctly, and then by apply 3x3x3 rules I get bottom two (D and d) correct. And then I was stumped. So, technically I need part 3 of your instructions? Yeaaaa
@hskrwr9495 no need for one. If you can solve a 3x3 and 4x4, then you can apply those to any cube and solve it.
He made the centers a lot harder than he needed to, you don't need any algorithms, it's much easier to do it intuitively.
omg thankyou dan i was afraid you werent going to make one before christmas
i am geting one for christmas!!!!!!!
whooooo
scary as hell
honestly the best tutorial ive found for this!! thanks
hey dan thx thx thx so so so much 4 making this vid!!! :D not only has it helped me solve the 4x4, it has also helped me solve the 5x5 :D
Thanks Dan, now I can solve the 3x3 and the 4x4!
excellent taste of music! and thanks for the tutorial :D it was fun! :)
you just solve the other 8 center pieces around that one.
The big difference it makes is that now you don't need to figure out the centers' positions on your own....
just for clarification, prime in this video means the same as inverted in the others, which means counterclockwise.
FANTASTIC. You'd make a great teacher as long as the little rug rats didn't interrupt with questions. That said...I got lost in the last 50 seconds. AND WHEN R U GOING TO FIX PART 3 of 3 so I can keep viewing on my Kindle Fire. Mahalo
It's because of the parity, just make sure that the top layer has the pieces in the right place, even if they are not orientated right, you solve the parity at the end. Hope this helps :)
lol in the begining, when you scrambled the cube, its amazing how a piece didnt fall off.
Mine does and sometimes the whole thing just falls apart.
I found mine at a store called "My Gifted Child," you can usually find them in stores that sell educational toys/puzzles for kids. (or even regular toy stores)
R*,2U,R'* to get the blue piece without screwing up the green doesn't work. I've tried it multiple times and it conitnues to stay in the same position.
So far so good!!! I got the middle 4 cubes solved and in the right color notation! Thank you Dan Brown!
~Chris :-)
I have just a quick question... When you do either R*, 2U, R'* or it's opposite, would you really need to do the Prime (outer) layer too. Or could you just do the inner one?
It isn't the centers but the edge pieces that is difficult. The center is just a 2x2x2 with extra crap that you don't need to worry about.
Wow , and here i thought the 3X3 was bad...This gave me a headache.
Mr.Brown...you have a nice day with your cube i'm going to lie down.
nice Video ..although i almost got a nosebleed from it
Turn one face of the cube 45 degrees and pull out an edge piece (as shown in Dan's 3x3x3 video) After that the rest of the cube should be easy to take apart.
If you end up in a situation where, you manage to solve 4 centres completely, but in such a way that the centres are in a ring, and therefore the unsolved ones are opposite to each other, can you still get the centres finished by doing those algorithms at the end?
Love the Raining Blood! Nice vid.
I think that the 730,000 views for each vid are for those who wanted to learn, the additional 470k for part 1 is because part 1 of anything is usually the most watched, and part 3 because people probably have problems with parity.
You can twist the top side until the 2 pieces are in line with the other two pieces that are facing you.
the song you used when you scrambled the cube sounded like SLAYER!
If your cube has colors other then that of a standard cube, the easiest way to figure out your colors is to solve the corners as if you were solving at 2x2.
go to part 4 it talks abought it. it is when at the end therer is 2 or more pieces usualy fliped upsidedown or acros where it needs to be
@SirFlakes It doesn't work, the top has nothing to do with the sides, therefore it's useless. The "corners" on a 2x2x2 are combined with the top face, and all the other faces, it is a rubik's cube of corners. This cube isn't corners, although it does make some logical sense, it just doesn't work... Sorry if thats confusing.
you should do one for the 5x5 and 2x2!
@GeraldVirgil I would post the link, but it is not aloud. He did create a part 3, it should be the first video in the suggested section. If this does not help, try searching for "How to solve a 4x4x4 Rubik's Cube (Part Three)" and then look for the one from pogobat.
you've helped me a lot dude!thanks for that.,anyway how do you learn all this things?haha anyway thanks!!^__^
[how to open the 4x4x4 cube anyway?for lubing ]
@heresjohnnnyy1 it isnt a part, you just have to be sure they all correspond as you do the centers.
Aaaahhh... this is so hard! *nervous breakdown* hahaha... the 3x3 was easy enough, but this one is just SCARY!
Great vid.
I had a question about solving the 4x4. When you solve the green cross (or whatever color you solve first), and you want to put the corner pieces to complete the green side, suppose I put the green-yellow-orange piece in it's correct position, the yellow side of the corner piece faces the orange side and the orange side of the corner piece faces the yellow side. How am I supposed to fix that?
Thanks. :)
thanks, this is so much easier than 3x3x3. Took me 20 mins.
@arrisoomiero your gonna have to ruin some centers start with one color ex: yellow and work out and do the color to either its right or its left ( red or orange ) then you should be able to solve it
When I'm doing the whole figuring out where each center goes, I always find it easier to just keep my solved 3x3x3 next to me so I can quickly look :P
are you ever going to make a solution video for a 5x5x5 cube?
@MCSyncronyze
no its makes sense.. i guess i didnt think about it enough lol..
thanks!
for those of you wanting a good lubricant for your cube(s) Silicone spray of any kind works great
@ezarlol its not position of the corner he is referring to, he refers to the color scheme of the corner.
yea mister dan brown u r da man i praise u , u r my god!!!!!!!!!!!!! i luv ur vids man
Question: Can you take this apart and lube it in as u did with the 3x3x3? Is it as easy to put everything back in place as it is with the 3x3x3?
where have you lerned this?
and can you make a movie on how to make a 5x5x5?...
ohh and you rock ;P
The second parity algorithm is for a 5x5x5 parity. If you use
2r, 2B, 2U, l, 2U, r', 2U, r, 2U, 2F, r, 2F, l', 2B, 2r
its faster.
I'm rockin these shades bro
@crescentmoonpro There's a lot on the 4x4x4 you can actually do pretty intuitively.
I made the whole cube without looking at any algorithm on the internet, but still it's an useful tutorial :)
It looks alot harder than 3x3 and plus how do you tell what each side is without the center piece?
haha that cracked me up "now, thats nice and scrambled and scary as hell"
If you now how to solve the regular 3x3x3 and 4x4x4 you can solve the 5x5x5 cube professor because the move notation of the 5x5x5 is exactly the same the difference is that in a 5x5x5 when you are solving the centers the centers have 9 peaces which is like a face of a 3x3x3 cube then you solve the edges an you have a scrambled 3x3x3 you now is the same thing the thing is that it has more peaces and more moves but everything is the same.
When doing the 1x2 centre sections, how to solve the last 2 sections without messing the earlier ones?? Plz help!!
hey i watched the tutorial of the original Rubick's cube and i loved it so i looked up to you to solve the 4x4x4. So i got to the step where i finished the blue red yellow and green sides but when i go on to the orange and white one of the corner pieces says blue yellow and orange. But i already solved the yellow!!! I'm so confused! Plz comment me back cause i dont know if the producers screwed up the stickers or something or if im just screwing up!
I have no clue what he is doing but I keep watching!!
Dan why don't you make more videos on other Rubik's Cubes like the 5x5x5 6x6x6 ect.
@BeLievAbleNonSense1 disasemble your cube and put it back together then take note of the opposite sides
i need help with part where you line up the colrs after you solved the green center and the blue center
What is the algorithm you use to scramble your cubes?
you are a great teacher at this , I solved it 2 timez today!
+LoneWhiteWolf13 You if a piece popped out before, you have to take your cube apart, put and put it back (solved of course) scramble and then try it again...I had a similar problem
@TadejSolvenec....Yes you can prevent parity. I barely ever get it. You have to solve two pairs at once.......difficult to explain over youtube though.
prime (') means inverted and star(*) means both the inner and outer layers.
What is the best 4x4x4 cube?
the original rubiks, the eastsheen or the meffert?
please anwser
@ganninu93 also dan brown(pogobat) his tutorial is how just simply solve it not necessarily to speed cube. Type onto youtube how to speed cube a 3x3x3 cube. LAst question. Sadly i do not know how to solve a sudoku cube. I do however know how to do sudoku but i dont think that will help in your situation. If you need anyother help contact me somehow:)
I always get confused at 7:00. I could never line up the "little 1x2" squares...