HOW TO SOLVE A SQUARE-1 💡 (Explained As Clearly As Possible!)

SUMMARY OF EACH STEP
📙 Step 1: Get the square-1 into cube shape. "Millennium falcon" ➡️ scallop/scallop ➡️ barrel/barrel ➡️ kite/kite ➡️ cube.
📙 Step 2a: Orient the corners so all the yellow (or black) corners are on top and all the white corners are on the bottom. This can be done intuitively. Just make sure you misalign the top or bottom by 1 when slicing so that you retain cube shape.
📙 Step 2b: Orient the edges so that the top is completely yellow (or black) and the bottom is completely white.
(Optional step: If you can recognise that you will get parity, perform the "mid solve" parity alg here)
📙 Step 3a: Permute the corners so that they're all in the correct positions and only the edges need fixing. There are 6 possible cases here: diag/diag, adj/diag, adj/adj, adj/solve, diag/solved, and fully solved.
📙 Step 3b: Permute the edges using the magical adj/adj edge algorithm! Almost every case can be solved by using this alg several times. 50% of the time, the cube will be solved here! If you still have 2 edges that cannot by solved, perform the super yucky adjacent parity alg. THE END!

ALL ALGORITHMS MENTIONED IN VIDEO
- EO swap 1 edge from top to bottom: (0,-1) / (-3,0) / (4,1) / (-4,-1) / (3,0) / (0,1)
- M2: (1,0) / (-1,-1) / (0,1)

- "Mid solve" parity alg: / (3,3) / (1,0) / (4,-2) / (-4,2) / (-1,0) / (-3,-3)
- Swap top and bottom layers: / (6,6) /

- CP Diag/diag: / (3,-3) / (-3,3) /
- CP Adj/diag: / (3,0) / (-3,0) / (3,0) / (-3,0) (Headlights on left. Do the "3" moves to whichever layer has diag)
- CP Adj/adj: / (-3,0) / (3,3) / (0,-3) / (Headlights at the back. Frère Jacques)
- CP Adj/solved: / (3,-3) / (3,0) / (-3,0) / (0,3) / (-3,0) / (Headlights at back)
- CP Diag/solved: / (3,3) / (3,0) / (3,3) / (3,0) / (3,3) /

- The Magical Adj/Adj Edge Algorithm! (1,0) / (0,3) / (-1,-1) / (1,-2) / (-1,0)
- M2 EP algorithm: (0,-1) / (1,1) / (-1,0)
- Equator flip alg: / (6,0) / (6/0) / (6,0) /

- Parity alg (if you have 2 edges at the very end): / (-3,0) / (0,3) / (0,-3) / (0,3) / (2,0) / (0,2) / (-2,0) / (4,0) / (0,-2) / (0,2) / (-1,4) / (0,-3) / (0,3)

FAVs (Frequently Asked Videos)

CHAPTERS
0:00 YOU CAN SOLVE THE SQUARE 1!
0:30 Overview of 3 steps
2:23 Step 1- Cube shape
8:28 Skillshare is awesome!
9:32 Step 2a - Orient corners
11:38 How to read Square-1 notation
14:24 Step 2b - Orient edges
17:14 Fixing parity mid-solve
20:28 Step 3a - Permute corners
23:09 CP - Diag/diag
23:53 CP - Adj/diag
24:59 CP - Adj/adj
26:16 CP - Adj/solved
27:22 CP - Diag/solved
28:53 The magical adj/adj edge algorithm!
29:38 Step 3b - Permute edges
31:55 A simple EP M2 case
32:23 How to flip the equator
32:50 THE FINAL PARITY ALGORITHM
35:34 We did it.

[lesliejenkins]

Thank god I literally just ordered a square 1 and JPerm doesn’t have a tutorial on it.

[cubingwithcarl]

Notes to self:

Edges: 14:52
Parity: 19:42

PLL:
All move three and all start with slash
Case 1: 23:08 (No headlight)
Case 2: 24:05 (One headlight)
Case 3: 25:00 (Two headlights)

Case 4: 26:25 (Headlight at top)
Case 5: 27:28 (No headlight at top)

Last Step:
28:55

Flip equator: 32:29

[stealthsolo]

im still confused, also half of your views are from me

[b-cubed]

What I really like about your channel is that you tag other cubing channels with no hesitation ton help the viewers of your videos cube better, I honestly think that every cubing channel should adopt this mindset as it will only grow the cubing community if anything. Thanks for the awesome videos!!!😉

[n-a-t-h-a-n]

THANK YOU SO MUCH. You dont understand how much this helped me. Ive been putting it off for almost 6 months and this video was perfect. Super easy to understand and the relief I felt when I did the last few turns and saw the cube being solved. Thanks so, so so much.

[ryanvasquez]

I love learning this after learning other cubes, it makes it make so much more sense than it used to

[imateckid]

Thank you so much for posting this, I bought my brother a square one not knowing that he didn't enjoy them, so I ended up with it. Up until that point I had never considered getting a square one for myself, and thanks to you and this video I can now solve a square one with very little help. The algorithms are odd to me because I know regular cubes (3x3, 4x4, 5x5, and variations of them), so getting used to slashes is a little bit interesting but fun regardless. I never thought that I would enjoy solving a square one and enjoy scrambling it so much, I highly recommend it to anybody that wants a challenge.

[enmysune]

you’re not the only one who regularly forgets the method

edit: ok this is the best square-1 tutorial on youtube

[Messi_.]

This is officially the best sq1 tutorial ever

[starnight]

Thanks tingman! Did a couple of solves without referring to the vid in just one day! Super easy to follow 😊😊

[leonjacob]

OHMYGOSH this tutorial is so good! I tried another one that used conventional teaching methods but dang just using the shapes to make the cubes is so much easier. Thank you for existing

[DrawCornOfficial]

CONGRATZ ON 100K!!!, HOPE TO SEE MORE OF YOUR AMAZING CONTENT IN THE FUTURE 🙂🙃🙂

[SeanD]

Wow, when you did the video on you solving the square-1 I didn’t know how to solve it and three months after that I became sub-20 on square-1!

[beetmeme]

ive been putting this off for a while but recently ive had more free time so im putting my square-1 to use. appreciate the clear instructions and tips!

[originalcracker]

Finally got it back to cube after like 30 years after my sister scrambled it. Thank you so much for the tips! Rotational puzzles are hard for me to make sense of. This helped me stop thinking of the weird shapes and more how the top and bottom layers can work like 3x3.

[benjaminxiao]

me: literally has the best square 1 on the market and doesnt know how to solve it

[CatherineKimport]

This is the first Square-1 tutorial that I've watched that has made me actually want to dig my Square-1 out from the bottom of my bin of cubes and learn to solve it for real

[msntcuber]

Thank you so much!
I just did my first squan solve today.
The best squan tutorial on youtube!

[hraz]

Thank you so much for this, you made this seem so clear and easy

[moizpittalwala]

Me: knows how to solve Square-1
Also me: watches it twice