Four white petals around the yellow centre. Return to the daisy lesson if any are missing.
Keep yellow up and white down. Turn the whole cube sideways to bring each petal’s matching centre to the front.
1. Read both colours on a petal
Choose a white petal and look at its side sticker. If it’s blue, the edge belongs beside the blue centre. Use the side colour to work out where the white edge belongs.
2. Match the side sticker
Turn only U until the side sticker is directly above the centre of the same colour. This moves the edge around the top with its white sticker facing up. Rotate the whole cube sideways to bring the matching face to the front.
3. Lower it with a half-turn
Do F2. The petal moves from top-front to bottom-front with white facing down. Its other sticker still matches the front centre.
Choose another petal still on top. Turn U until its side colour matches a centre, rotate the whole cube so that centre faces you and do F2 again. Repeat until all four petals are on the bottom. It’s fine if the remaining petals move around the top as you go.
4. Inspect the cross from two directions
Look underneath: four white edges should surround the white centre. Then inspect every side. The bottom-middle sticker of each side must match its centre, making a short vertical line of one colour.
If white faces down but the side colour is wrong, put that edge at the front and do F2 to lift it back up. Use U to match its side sticker to the correct centre, then lower it on that side. If the wrong edge is already in that spot, lift it out first, then put both edges in their correct places.
White corners can still be anywhere. Do not solve them yet; keep white down for the next lesson.
Watch, then try
Work through an example
Start by stepping through the example one move at a time. This example demonstrates a specific action. Use the lesson’s setup instructions to recognise when that action applies to your own scramble.
Watch one worked example
Watch F2 move the white-blue petal from the top-front position to the bottom. Its blue sticker matches the blue centre before and after the move. This example shows one petal. Repeat the process for all four on your cube.
Example grip: yellow up · blue front · red right at the start. Follow any written whole-cube rotations.
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Use Next move to follow the sequence.
Drag to inspect other faces. When the cube has focus, use the arrow keys to rotate the view.
Copy this exact example on your own cube
Start with a solved 3×3, with yellow on top and blue facing you. Follow the setup moves below from left to right to recreate the example’s starting position. Keep this example separate from the scramble you’re solving throughout the course.
F2Then follow the lesson sequence. If your cube has a different colour scheme, use your own colours to identify the corresponding pieces.
Compare the starting position and the result
Drag each cube to inspect its other faces.
Explain it to yourself
Check your understanding
Now use your own cube
Your turn
Lower one matched petal at a time. After each half-turn, tip the cube just enough to check the bottom edge and its side colour, then return the cube to yellow-up.
Open a 3×3 Digital Cube for practiceThe Digital Cube opens in a new tab so you can keep this lesson open while you practise. Check for yourself whether you’ve met the lesson goal, as the Digital Cube doesn’t assess your result.
If you get stuck
There’s a white cross on the bottom, but the side colours don’t match.
Lift the misplaced edge with a half-turn of its side. With the edge on top, match its side sticker to the centre of the same colour, then lower it on that side. The white cross is complete only when its side colours match their centres.
Before moving on
Check your result
Your cube at this stage
An aligned white cross
The four white edges are on the bottom, with each side sticker matching its centre. Corners and upper layers can still be mixed.
Confirm these on your cube. Watching the animation alone does not complete the lesson.
Tick each item when you can do it yourself.