Way of Cube teaches a child to solve a Rubik's cube, one small step at a time, on a 3D cube they can spin with a finger. Shuffle it, learn a stage, twist it yourself, watch the videos. It is free, and it always will be.
A cube lives in the browser. Press Shuffle and it mixes itself up, checks that the mix can actually be solved, and then walks your child through getting it back. Every step comes with a sentence in plain words, an arrow on the cube showing which slice turns, and a Next button. Nobody has to know any notation to finish a cube here.
The lesson does not go faster than the child does. There is a Back button for the step they missed, an Auto solve for when they just want to watch, and a stage bar across the top that fills in as each part of the cube goes home. If they close the tab halfway, the cube is exactly where they left it when they come back.
It was built by a parent, at the kitchen table, for their own kids, after the fourth evening of trying to teach the middle layer out loud. Everything here is the part that finally worked.
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Way of Cube teaches the beginner layer-by-layer method, the one most people learn first. The cube comes back together in seven stages, bottom layer to top, and each stage only holds on to what the ones before it built. That is the whole trick of it: a cube is not one enormous puzzle, it is seven small ones in a row.
First a white plus sign on the bottom, with each edge matching its side colour. The four white edge pieces come down one at a time, and the trick is to line each one up with its own centre before dropping it. Children usually get most of this stage by themselves once they have seen it twice.
Next, fill the four corners so the whole bottom is white. Each corner gets parked above the gap it belongs in, then tucked down with the same short sequence, over and over. It is the first time a child feels a set of moves become a single thing they know by heart.
Now the middle layer: slide the side edges into their slots, like drawers. Each edge waits on the top face until its slot rolls into place underneath, and then one sequence sends it left or right into the gap. This is where a cube usually stops looking random and starts looking half done.
With two layers home, flip yellow stickers up to make a plus on top. Only the top face matters here, and only one sequence is needed: run it once on a dot, twice on a line, and the plus arrives. What is underneath comes back untouched every time, which is the promise that makes the rest of the solve safe.
The yellow plus is there, but its arms are pointing at the wrong sides, so spin the top edges until each one matches its side colour. Turn the top face until two of them are already right, then swap the other pair with a sequence. Now every side of the cube has a matching stripe of three.
Four corners are left, and they need to move to their right seats. Find the one corner already sitting between the correct two colours, hold it still, and cycle the other three around it. They can come out twisted the wrong way up, and that is fine for now.
The last stage: twist each corner until yellow faces up. The cube looks like it is falling apart while this one runs, and then, on the final turn of the top face, every side snaps into a solid colour at once. It gets a gasp every single time.
The plainest way in. Press Shuffle, read the sentence, press Next, and watch the cube make that turn. The arrow always points at the slice that is about to move, so a child who cannot read every word can still follow along.
On the watch page there is the whole solve played through, plus a short clip for each of the seven stages. Some children want to see the shape of the thing before they try it, and some come back to one clip when a stage will not stick.
Drag any sticker and the cube turns, whether or not it was the move being taught. The lesson simply works out a new route from wherever the cube ended up and carries on. A child cannot break it, cannot get lost, and never has to start over.
The whole cube is keyboard-playable with the U D L R F B keys, and holding Shift turns the other way. Letters can be shown on the stickers for a colourblind cuber, so a piece is named as well as coloured. Read aloud speaks each step out loud for a child who is still learning to read, and sound and animation can be turned off entirely.
A shuffled cube takes somewhere between 130 and 220 turns to solve with this method, so a first solve with a grown-up reading along is usually half an hour. Nobody has to do it in one sitting: stages are a natural place to stop, and the cube saves itself, so you can close the tab in the middle of stage 4 and pick it up tomorrow exactly there.
Yes. Once the page has loaded a single time it keeps working with no connection at all, which is what makes it useful in a car or on a plane. You can also install it to a home screen from your browser's share or menu, and it opens like an app.
Roughly 6 to 12. Children around 9 and up tend to work through it on their own, while the youngest do best with a grown-up sitting next to them for the first solve, reading the steps and celebrating the stages. After that they mostly want to show you.