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I could do a target like thing... make the white front and red on top, N-, rotate the entire cube clockwise, N-, rotate the cube back counter-clockwise, N+, rotate clock wise, N+. At this point, the centers should be on different colors if you did it right. Now out the white middle on top (it should have blue around it) with the red middle face(white surrounding it) and do the following patterns: [MNO]-, rotatethe entire cube counter-clockwise, [MNO]-, rotate clockwise, [MNO]+, rotate counter-clockwise, [MNO]+. The look at the red face and there should be a white circle within the red... sorry I don't have pictures... I don't have my own digital camera...

Yeah...I can do the thing where you surround the center pieces by a different set of colours.
To do so simply hold a completed cube in any position and apply (assuming an apostrophe, or Prime, ( ' ) is counter clockwise for those of you who use a -1 to show it)

L' R U' D F B L' R

XD If this next one is what's on the picture I don't know I can't see it but I can checker all the cubes. Basically each side has it's pieces regularly changed with the pieces of the center opposite it. This requires a completed cube by the way.

XD I can't possibly imagine what anyone else would use but just in case you don't the 2 means 180 degrees lol

L2 R2D2 (aha-aha) U2 F2 B2


Or mix the center trick with the checker one by basically doing the center one and then the checker one without resolving the cube, it's quite interesting.


And one to simply screw around with various friends it's where it looks like it can be solved in only a few moves but runs you around in circles and requires ten moves to complete.

F2 R2 L2 B2 R2 B2 F2 L2 F2 B2

Which is fine if you just do 8 of those moves but the last two really add some class

Coincidentally, if you're doing any of these little fancy things with the completed cube this algorithm is based on a very helpful move which switches four corners around. You'll notice after completing the first four moves of it that you get two sides with mixed up centers, opposite each-other as always, 2 opposite sides that are solved, and two opposite sides who's corners have two mixed up corners that make it look like a line running down the middle. The four messed up corners will be part of (related to) the two sides with swapped centers. Like a line connecting the two sides. If you position the cube so that the swapped center faces are top and bottom and the "line" faces are front and back and apply the horrendously complex algorithm:

L2 R2

Then you should arrive with a cube what has everything right except for four corners, essentially:

F2 R2 L2 B2 L2 R2

will swap these corners. Using your intuition you can use this to solve, in a very untimely fashion, the checker trick, the center trick, the line trick, or any combination of them (all three looks rather intense). Plus, if you ever have some other weird pattern you can't solve that your cruel friend has pulled on you find the most complex spot and swap the corners and things will almost always look better smile

And of course, I've already found the craziest set of things you can do with the corner switching move in which each of the opposite faces have their colours interact in exciting and exotic ways. 2 sides are checkered, 2 are center swapped and 2 are plusses ( + )

Now I need to find out how the hell I did it XD

It starts out with a bit of the corner swapping, minus the two last moves, and then the plain sides of it get checkered, which requires the line sides to be screwed with and then it sorta gets a bit Finished-Corner-Move looking so that gets repaired and then there are checkers, centers, and lines. Then the lines get corner moved and then repaired....

Now, 100% of you didn't understand that so I'll just do the algorithm for it. So with any face facing you:

F2 R2 L2 B2 U2 D2 U2 F2 B2 D2 F2 B2

And that's it XD

Well I may as well throw in something you can do to alter the edge switching to move to only 3 edges which is:

F2 R L' U2 R' L

And something I recently discovered which switches three edges and sends one to far off locations on your cube...

R L' U' F B L2 F' B' U' R' L

But that one scares me so you'll have to play around with it on your own

I guess I may as well take this time to thank various friends who screwed around with my cube so much that I was forced to discover all this and forget how to do 1st person shooting games gonk

It seriously happened though! I rocket launch my feet and snipe myself in the eye now