How to Solve the 2x2x4 Tower Cube

Now solving the two by two by four is actually pretty easy .

You know , it's just like you only have to learn one algorithm and you have it down .

So after it's properly mixed up in this fashion , you just solve this whole thing like a two by two until you get it back into the rectangular prism form .

So you just solve it basically like a two by two only with two white sides on it .

And the rest are blank .

So that shouldn't be too hard for you .

Anyone should be able to figure it out .

Alright .

And then after you get to this point , then we need to pair up each corner with the edge piece .

So to do that , we just turn one of the layers until you get one that matches up , here's one .

And if you don't get any on the top by turning this layer , try on the bottom or if you can't get any there , then try rotating it over .

But you know , that'll be pretty rare .

I almost always get a paired up edge piece after turning it for the first time .

So after you get one matched up , go to the other side and do the same thing .

Yep .

Here's one and then we wanna match that up onto the top layer .

We don't want to do it cross ways like this because that will make it difficult to pair up the other two .

So what you wanna do is bring it over here and then you can rotate it up .

So that's pretty easy to do .

So we keep matching up edges or pieces , whatever they're called .

OK ?

It doesn't look like I'm getting any .

Oh , there we are , we did got one .

So I'm gonna bring this up here .

So we have just one more to match up .

Let's see if I can get any more down here .

Yep .

There we are .

So to bring this down here , we oh it looks like I got a lot of them matched up .

So we wanna bring this down to snatch one up .

You want to pair it up like this and then rotate it in position and bring it back up .

It shouldn't be too hard to pair up .

The first four .

It's these last ones where it takes an algorithm to do it .

Now , what you wanna do here is rotate the top layer until you get two sets of matched pieces .

So let's rotate .

This looks like we have one there , but that's not enough .

So keep turning .

And yep , here we are , we have two sets of matched pieces up and they are adjacent to each other , I'll tell you what to do when they're across from each other in a moment .

So to set this algorithm up , you want to position the cube so that your two mass matched pieces are on the left .

Then do a double U move A two L A double D move another two L , then rotate the cube to the left , then do a two double D move A two R double D move another two R and then one U move .

And there we are that will match it all up for you .

Now , if you have this case where the two match pieces are across from each other , then you want to position it .

So one is here in the bottom , right ?

And then one is up here in the top left .

Then you do a very similar algorithm except you just start off with a U prime .

Then the two L , the double D move two L again , rotate over double D move , then a two R , another double D move , then A two R again and then you end off with a U two .

There you are , you now have all of the pieces matched up at this point .

You pretty much have it solved .

All you have to do is solve it like a two by two and you're done .

So let's see .

Yeah .

OK .

I'm using Friedrich algorithms here for the three by three .

OK .

Oops the dry one there , there we are So that's the tutorial on how to solve the two by two by four .

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