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Sausage's Hybrid Speed Solution

by Wayne Johnson

Step 6 - The Fourth Pair

Here is our last pair. The last corner with a blue sticker is the red yellow and blue one. Take away blue, and it's edge friend is red and yellow. They are aleady together, but very wrong.

This is a difficult situation, because they need to be separated and then rejoined properly.

First, let's view the cube from the last hole. We will need to use this hole.

Turn the top face twice this this position. You'll see why in the next step.

Turn the yellow face once clockwise. This has done two things: it has split the pair apart, and at the same time, kept the block of four yellow stickers together under the waterline.

The benefit of doing this means that we can freely move the red and yellow edge cubie elsewhere, to await the return of the red, yellow and blue cubie.

So we'll make that move now, turn the white face once anti-clockwise to move the edge cubie into a new position.

Turn the yellow face once anti-clockwise to bring the corner back to the top.

We have successfully split the pair up and brought them back to the top of the cube again, but are still not in either situation No 1 or No 2.

Rotate the white face twice to get the red and yellow edge cubie in this position. We need to get the edge cubie is a position so that we can swing the top layer around to meet it. We can do this by...

... turning the yellow face once clockwise. By doing it near the hole, we have kept all the important cubies under the protective waterline, allowing us to move the corner into position without disturbing any important cubies in the top layer (because there are none there except our corner).

Swing the corner around by turning the white face twice. This matches up the pair correctly together. Don't forget, we still have to return the edge cubie with a blue sticker, back to the bottom of the ocean.

Turning the yellow face once anti-clockwise once will do this and also place our pair on top. We are now in Situation No 2.

As with all pairs in Situation No 2, Turn the top face once clockwise which will place it's edge colour opposite to the centre colours.

Turn the yellow face once clockwise to line up the blue and yellow edge cubie with the pair.

Turn the white face once anti-clockwise to match them all up.

And a single anti-clockwise turn of the yellow face will bring them all back together. The first two layers are now done.

With all the colours turned back on, the cube should look like this. Time to now make a cross at the top.

Move to Step 7.