How to use the 2x2 solver
The cube is shown unfolded, so you can see all 24 stickers at once. Press Edit to clear the colors, then click the stickers of each color in turn: red first, then green, white, yellow, blue and finally orange.
The solver helps you along. It won't accept an impossible piece, such as a corner with two stickers of the same color, and it fills in the stickers it can work out for itself, so the last color is completed automatically. Any color scheme works.
When the cube on the screen matches yours, press Solve. The solution appears below the cube, both as a list of moves and as pictures with arrows.
Reading the solution
The 2x2 solver only uses three faces: F (front), R (right) and U (up). On a 2x2, turning a face clockwise rearranges the pieces the same way as turning the opposite face counterclockwise, so these three faces are enough. A letter on its own is a quarter turn clockwise, an apostrophe means counterclockwise and a 2 means a half turn. Our notation guide shows each move with pictures.
Play with the 2x2 simulator
Press Scramble for a random position and try to solve it yourself: click a face to turn it clockwise, as shown by the arrow. Reset brings back the solved cube.
How to solve the 2x2 cube yourself
The 2x2, also called the Pocket Cube or Mini Cube, is a Rubik's Cube with only corner pieces. That makes it a good first puzzle: if you know the corner steps of the 3x3 beginner's method, you can already solve it. Ruwix also has a dedicated 2x2 tutorial.
The puzzle has 3,674,160 possible positions, and every one of them can be solved in 11 moves or fewer. For the full-size puzzle, use the 3x3 Rubik's Cube solver.