Turn the daisy into a white cross — 3×3 Beginner

Before you start

Four white petals around the yellow centre. Return to the daisy lesson if any are missing.

How to hold your cube

Keep yellow up and white down. Turn the whole cube sideways to face each petal’s matching centre.

1. Identify both colours on a petal

Choose a white petal and look at the sticker facing out to the side. If it is blue, the edge goes beside the blue centre. Use the side colour to identify the edge’s matching position.

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 while keeping white facing up. Rotate the whole cube sideways to bring the matching face to the front.

3. Lower it with a half-turn

Perform F2. The petal moves from the top-front to the bottom-front with its white sticker facing down. Its other sticker still matches the front centre.

Choose another petal in the top layer. Turn U to match its side colour with the centre, rotate the whole cube to face that centre and do F2 again. Repeat until all four petals have moved to the bottom. The remaining petals can move freely around the top layer as you work.

4. Inspect the cross from two directions

Look underneath to check that four white edges surround the white centre. Then check each side face. Its bottom-middle sticker must match its centre sticker, forming a short vertical line of the same colour.

If the white sticker faces down but the side colour is wrong, bring that edge to the front and do F2 to lift it back up. Use U to match its side sticker to the correct centre, then lower the edge on that face. If another misplaced edge is in the way, lift it out first, then place both edges.

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 going through the moves one at a time. The prepared example shows a specific action. Use the lesson’s setup instructions to recognise when to apply it 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. The example shows one petal moving down. Repeat the process for all four petals on your cube.

Starting grip. Yellow up · blue at the front · red on the right. Follow any written instructions for rotating the whole cube.

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Drag to inspect other faces. Use the arrow keys to rotate the view when the cube has focus.

Copy this exact example on your own cube

Start with a solved 3×3 with yellow facing up and blue facing front. Apply the setup moves below from left to right to create the example’s starting position. Keep this example separate from the scramble you are solving as you work through the course.

F2

Then follow the lesson sequence. If your cube’s colour scheme differs, match the piece relationships using your own colours.

Compare the starting position and the result

Before the example

After the full sequence

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, tilt the cube just enough to check the bottom edge and its side colour, then return the cube to its yellow-up position.

Open a 3×3 Digital Cube for practice

Opens in a new tab so you can refer to this lesson while you practise. Check for yourself whether you’ve met the lesson goal. The Digital Cube does not grade your work.

If you get stuck

There is a white cross on the bottom, but the side colours do not match their centres.

Lift the misplaced edge with a half-turn of the face it is on. Match its side sticker to the correct centre while the edge is on top, then lower it on that face. The cross is complete when all four side stickers 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.

All four white edges surround the white centre on the bottom.Each of their side stickers matches the centre above it.I have kept the white cross intact for the corner lesson.

Tick each item once you can do it yourself.