CFOP - Cross for Beginners

Hey guys , Paradox Qing here and today , I'm gonna be doing a beginner's tutorial for on the cross .

And this is uh this video is just to start off my CFA tutorial series .

So I'm gonna be making tutorials uh for beginners that are , that have no clue what CFA or free is .

So just gonna be teaching them all teaching them the cross F two loll and PLL in each separate videos .

So for the first video , we have the cross that I'm that I'm gonna be teaching you and you guys probably already know how to do the cross if you can solve a cue .

But so this video is kind of pointless , but it's just to start off my series .

So it completes the series of the C fault tutorials .

And once I get this cross video done , I'll make an F two L video and then OLL and one for PLO and these are all for beginners , then I'll do the exact same series .

But for advanced .

So if you know , full of free trick method and you're really slow at it like 40 seconds and maybe 50 seconds if you're really slow , but then uh I'll then I'll make advanced tutorials to help you get even faster .

So you can learn , advance up to a advanced cross and stuff like that .

So then you can get even faster like maybe sub 20 or um 32nd , 22nd average around there .

So yeah , for this video , I'm just gonna be showing you the cross and this is for beginners like extremely simple tutorial like anybody can get this .

Um even if you've never solved a queue before you can get this .

But if you have solved a queue before , then it's pro you probably already know how to do the cross .

So yeah , let's get on with it .

So first I wanna scramble your cube , obviously .

OK .

So once you have your keep scrambled , what we're gonna do is look on the hold , hold the white set on the top or whatever side , whatever color you're solving on .

So we're solving on white .

So we're gonna hold white on top .

And then if you have one edge piece already aligned with the cross , you wanna make sure this color is the same .

So we know this color is the same , both the whites .

Now we want both the reds to be the same .

So we're gonna turn it to the red side .

That's good .

See now it's white and then it's matching up with the red .

This means this corner is in the right spot .

I mean , sorry , this edge is in the right spot .

Now we're gonna look on the bottom for any white uh white edge pieces .

So here we have one here .

So we're gonna face it to our cells and it's the orange one .

So what we're gonna do is turn , turn um we're gonna turn it to the orange side like this .

So now that the orange is matching , but now we need to move this white to the top .

So all we're gonna do is simply turn it to the top like that .

Now we notice that the whites are solved and the oranges are and the oranges are solved and the reds are solved and the whites are solved .

So now we need to get the blue and the green .

So we're gonna look on the bottom if there's any white edge pieces , but there aren't this time and this time the white is facing this way .

So what we're going to do is again , just move it to the green side .

So there we go , they're both the greens .

But now this is flipped wrong if this is flipped wrong , what you're gonna do is turn it to the left .

That's it simply just turn it to the left side .

Now it's over there .

We , we , what you're gonna do is bring the white centerpiece down just like that by doing like doing this type of move to bring it down .

Now you're gonna put it uh attach it to the white and bring that white back up .

Now you notice that the oranges are salt , greens are salt and the reds are salt .

So now we're gonna look around .

So now we see that the white is uh based on the bottom and the other color is blue , we're gonna turn to the blue side and it's matching now , so we're gonna simply turn it to the top like that .

Now , we see that the white cross is done .

We're ignoring the corners because we're not doing the corners for in the step .

So the white cross is finished and to know if you did your cross properly is if these colors are all matching .

So we see the greens are matching , the reds are matching , the blues are matching and the white , I mean , the oranges are matching and also the whites are all facing the white .

If your cross looks like this , that means you did it right and you're done the cross .

So , but if your cross doesn't look like that , that means you did something wrong .

So I'm gonna go walk through it a bit a little bit more so you can see how it is .

So if we have no whites on the top , that's OK .

We're gonna look on the bottom .

So now we have two , whites facing the bottom .

We're gonna do this one , the blue , it's already matched up .

So we're just gonna move it to the top next .

We have the green one .

So what we're gonna do is move it to the green side like that and just bring it to the top .

Now look on the bottom .

So we have no more .

And let's see there's an orange here , face , the whites on the side .

So what we're gonna do is bring it to the orange side like that .

And now to solve this , you're gonna bring the right to the left , bring the top the centerpiece down , bring the uh attach the light to the centerpiece and bring the centerpiece back up just like that .

And now we see that the orange is solved and the blue salt and the green salt , now we're gonna move on to the red .

So if this happens where there's no edges , white edges on the bottom and the edges over here , what you're gonna do is turn the empty spot .

So let's say this uh the empty spot is this right because these three are all solved .

This is the empty spot and this is the red .

This is where the red has to go .

So what we're gonna do is move the empty spot on top of the red .

So now it looks like this where the empty spot is here right on top of the red piece .

And we're gonna bring the red and we're gonna bring the red right up .

Now , we see we've completed the cross except all these colors are not matching .

That's OK because all you have to do is turn it back .

So now the colors are all matching because what we did was see how the colors were matching , we turned it .

So the colors were not matching , put the red here and now we turn it back so that all also all the colors are matching .

So this is a very simple tutorial for beginners .

And this is if you , if you already know how to solve the cross , this probably doesn't really help you because I just showed you how to solve a cross .

But if you're having trouble with the cross , like you don't know how to solve the cube and you never solved it before .

So this video should help you with the cross .

And uh yeah , but this isn't , this is not advanced cross .

If you already know how to do the cross , this , this video is not gonna help you , but I'll make an advanced video on the futures .

I'll quickly walk you through one more cross and then that'll be the end of the video .

So we look on the bottom , we see one white piece .

It's the orange and white .

We're gonna move it to the orange side .

Now they're matching the oranges , they're matching the whites on the bottom , move it to the top .

Next , we're gonna look on the bottom and we see nothing and there's no whites on the side either .

So there's no white edge pieces on this , on the bottom layer .

And this is not an edge piece .

This is a corner piece .

This is an edge piece .

So we have no white edge pieces on the bottom .

We , we have one here , one here and the last one is here .

So what we're gonna do is find the empty spot .

So if we were to solve this one , we're gonna find the empty spot .

And , but now there's three empty spots .

We know the green has to go here because the green , if , if this is matched , the green is gonna go here because this is the green side , right ?

So this is where the green has to go .

So you're gonna move this empty spot on top of the green piece and move the green edge to match up with the white .

Now we can move it back .

So the orange is aligned and the green is aligned .

Now we have one more to go .

I mean , sorry , two more to go and we see the red is already matched up .

So we can just easily move that to the top .

Next .

We have the , the blue , it's stuck in one of the middles .

So for this , we're gonna move the empty spot on top of it .

So there's only one empty spot , which means it's for the blue .

So we turn it on top of the blue , bring the blue into the empty spot and we turn and we turn the cross back to normal .

So all the edges are aligned and the cross is done .

So that's all you need to do to solve the cross .

And that was it for this video guys .

If you have any questions , please , please leave them down in the comment section and I'll be sure to answer you .

So yeah , guys , that was it for this video .

If it helped you , then please like it .

And thanks for watching .