How to Solve the Skewb [Beginner Method] (v2) 

This video has been getting very popular recently, so I'll just address a couple common issues here. Skewb is a very simply puzzle, and so nearly all stages of it rely on the one algorithm I showed you (R' L R L'), more commonly called the sledgehammer. Pay very close attention to the exact sides I turn in the video, and make sure you're doing it exactly the same. After doing a sledgehammer, the bottom layer should never be affected (or else you're doing it wrong!). Also pay attention to the axis you're turning the cube around (known as a y2 rotation in the most common case), as that could also mess you up.

When you first pick up a skewb, it almost inevitably slips out of your hands as you're not expecting it to turn like it does... :)

Why did I use to think that the skewbs corners twisted

White layer: 0:44 Yellow Corners: 3:30 Yellow Center: 4:44 Final Centers : 5:08 Algorithm: 4:09

Very good tutorial. My grandma is proud that I can solve it

i didnt want to learn how to solve it. i just wanted to see how it turns

0:44 white side 1:06 first layer 3:30 yellow corners 3:55 different situations for corners 4:45 yellow centre 5:12 3 centre pieces 5:50 algorithm 6:01 4 centre pieces

I had watched this video as soon as I got my skewb, and I tried and tried, and I thought,”I cant do this, the turning is so weird.” And a few days later(today) I tried again, and I finally solved it. Thank you, and keep making good tutorials!!!

Start 0:00 Intro 0:05 Earape 0:10 Skewb Stuf to know 0:16 How many algs are there? 0:26 Do I have to know how to solve a 3x3? Tutorial 0:40 0:43 Note 1st Layer 0:45 0:50 What is a Layer? 0:58 More stuff to know 1:06 1st Step 1:11 2nd Step 1:14 1st Case Corner on the Bottom Also first Corner 1:24 2nd Corner 1:33 2nd Case 2:04 3rd Corner 2:13 4th Case 2:26 5th Case 2:37 6th Case 3:05 7th Case 3:19 The First Layer Is Intuitive Corners Oll 3:31 (Or All yellow corners facing up) 3:36 How many Cases are their? 3:54 L Case (Two Corners Facing up and two corners facing down) 4:06 Our 1st Alg 4:21 Pi Case (No Corners are facing up) Yellow Center 4:44 Alg 4:50 (1st Alg) y2 (1st Alg) y2=Turn the cube Right 2x 5:09 Centers 5:17 1st Case 3 Centers 5:39 Note 5:51 Alg 6:02 2nd Case 4 Centers Circle 6:06 Alg 6:31 3rd Case (Opposite Centers/H Perm) 6:35 Alg 6:46 Your Skewb is solved 7:25 Bye! I Hope This Helped You Solved Your Skewb

I have a problem.............. I don't have a skewb!

AI don't even have a skewb. I just love your videos!

Ah yes, Back in the day when he was called LegoBoy

I am brazilian and watched solve videos in portuguese first (cuz its my main language so i thought id understand it better) but I couldn’t understand it, so I watched your video and it was way clearer than the videos i have watched. You made the solve simple. Thank you very much! I love your tutorials.

That's it?! 😂😂😂😂 I expected some long ass algorithms or something

Is that a 10x10?!?! sorry

I have been trying to solve this for a long time and I just realized I was doing the algorithm wrong lol 😂

Best skewb tutorial out there. Very concise. Good job!

I just learned how to solve this today, and my PB is 22.6. This was a great tutorial 👍🏻 . Keep it up!

Did he just say "This cube" or "This Skewb"?? hehe

I watched other videos too, but honestly, this was the best one. Thank you so much!! I was scared to even play around with my skewb, but now I solve it in around a minute!! Thank youuuu!!!! Best tutorial ever!!

I learned how to solve one simply by watching this video. Great job!

This video is freaking magic... I learned how to solve in 7:28 mins ONLY

i was just tossing my skewb in the air not too high today at school then my friend just smacked it from the air and all of the pieces popped out

You really have the best tutorials out there. I've tried to follow so many other people's videos on various cubes, and yours are the only ones that I can consistently follow. Thanks for the help!

Thanks for teaching me I done it all my self for messing around with the cube except for the last part. The part I always struggle. Now this video helped me I can impress my friends.

Non-cuber: Damn, that looks tough. How many algorithms does it require? Me: 1 Non-cuber: How many moves? Me: 4

... *Z3Cubing* : this is a really *fun* and *easy* rubix cube Me : ... *legit no one in my class(even the guy who can solve the 5x5) can solve it*

Every single tutorial of your’s messes up everything I have made with an algorithm

Interesting to see how it is supposed to be done. I solved it myself and did it completely differently. My method was this: 1. Solve the permutation of the corners (pretty much the same way done here, except I dont put it on the white center since my next algorithms mess up the centers, and I don't orient the white side). 2. Solve the orientation of the corners 4 at a time (this is the algorithm that messes up the centers), and then 2 at a time when there are less than 4 left to orientate. 3. Solve the centers.

I can't give enough likes to this video, if it were possible I'd give it 💯❤💪👏 It is exhaustive, short and fun to watch. And I can see exactly where things go with my Skewb. I do have a wide variety of cubes, I don't like memorizing complicated algorithms. I like to understand what they do, how they rotate pieces and I'd rather use a few simple algorithms that I can follow several times. Here only the famous and simple Sledgehammer RLR'L' is used. If anyone asks me ever about Skewb solutions I'll point them to this video.

The last tutorial was shit, I went to yours and my Skewb is now solved, thanks for the tutorial!

Ok, this was really simple. I watched a bad tutorial and gave up, but this explained everything I needed in three minutes, thank you z3.

"At this point you can only have one of three situations" Me: *has a different one*

Who else spent like an hour of fast forwarding and going back in the video to solve it?

wow. i thought skewb would be harder than 3x3, but it looks so easy! nice tutorial!

Thanks! I was fiddling around with my skews at the dinner table until I got lucky and got to one of the last steps and then I watched this tutorial and figured the rest out.

Finally solve it for the first time… thank u! Now need to understand it commit it to memory!

Thanks bro! I'm an amateur puzzle solver. You helped me expand my puzzle skillset!! The puzzles I now know how to solve are - 3x3 Pyraminx Mirror cube And recently, thanks to you, skewb. Thanks very much!!!!!

Thank you for a simple and to-the-point tutorial. Others are long and I can't keep up. Yours is to the point and you are well spoken. Great job, here!!

i did not realise it was that easy thank you so much!!!

I did not think I was gonna learn the skewb that quick. Wow.

Who else heard "this cube" instead of the skewb in the intro?

after 6 yrs still the best tutorial

Best skewb tutorial I've seen by far.

Thank you SO much, Z3Cubing! My skewb was scrambled since ages and your tutorial helped me solve it. Thanks!

"I've covered all the different cases for all the different steps" *one algorithm*

Thank you so much!!!!! You are the only You Tuber who could help me solve this. Your video is the only video that works for me. You’re THE BEST YOU TUBER EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I like that you solve corners first and then go to sides

Legoboy3z is so cute why did u change it

He sounds like Neil from family guy😂😂

Man, you're my saviour. Great tutorial

Great tutorial! I just got a skewb and after 10 minutes i got a sub 20

final step reminds me of pll on the 3x3

I learned it in like 1 min lol. Best tutorial ever!

Z3 I searched for a long but no good videos until I came to you

Great Tutorial. At first i messed up on the algorithm but i found out what i was doing wrong and now i can sovle a skewb. Your tutorial is so good i learned it in like 15 minutes 😀

Great video! It helped me a lot! I had this puzzle for years and I thought it was impossible. But finding out it was that simple all along is awesome!

super easy to follow, and you explained well. Thanks for doing this video!!

Thank you, once again, of explaining how to solve one of these cube puzzles. Your video on Square-1 was so helpful

The hardest part was finding the name of the skewb to find a tutorial, cuz everything else, was ezzy. Great tutorial. Covers everything, easy, short, and fun. Gg

Hey Z3 I thought there were more algorithms. And also i love skewb and the container cube . My favourites ...

thank you so much i subscribed!!!

I didn't realise how easy this was! Thanks! :)

Thank you! I've got an extreme and all the videos I saw glossed over how to solve the centers after getting the corners in place. Now I can actually solve this thing consistently

It seems a key final step (when three sides are unsolved) is to have the one solved side on the _bottom_. Otherwise I was just going back and forth between three unsolved and four unsolved.

I use my own algorithm to get up to the last bit but I can't seem to do your algorithm

Best channel for cube solvers

I dont even have a skewb, but this is so easy to remember that once I get one Ill know exactly what to do.

i got 26 seconds as my pb after i got my first skewb and watching this.. is that a good start?

I KEEP DROPPING IT WHEN I TURN IT IT'S SO WEIRD H E L P

thanks for the video . after even a year i am able to solve the skewb because of you.thanks!

Oh i dont have a skweb YET but thanks, the video is easy to follow and really great!

I don't even have a skewb but I am watching this because I want a skewb for my birthday

merry christmas!. i got a skewb by Moyu (Mo Fang Ge) and a sqare 1 for christmas this method helped alot thanks

Thank you for showing how to do the skewb

Surprisingly simple tutorial.

Thank you so much you're the best! :D

Legoboyz3 I got the layer and then I did the alg for oposite side, lined it up how you said and performed the correct alg but it just muddled up my cube. (Btw I have moyu magnetic skewb).

Great tutorial, thanks. It took a little time to get used to the difference between the moves on skewb v 3x3. With 3x3, the front centre colour remains the same whereas with skewb it changes with each turn so keeping the orientation of the skewb took some practice.

Thanks! Now I can solve a Skewb in 28 seconds.

i am doing the exact way you are and when i do the algorithem it doesn't work :/

Nice

This is the only tutorial that I could follow

Thank you so much! For some reason the diagonal turns really messed it up for me. I spent a few days just messing with it and I finally figured out to do white and yellow, but I was really struggling with the last 3 faces.thank you!!!

Thx for the tutorial i didn’t see that you turned it 180 degs and then did the alg again i watched it like 3 Times and i solved my first ever skews thx man rly appreciate it

Thank you so much I just got a skewb for Christmas and I couldn’t solve it thank you agiab

Took me awhile, but that's just how my brain works. Finally got it just now.

i learned how to solve this rubik in 15minute with your video, i have done a great job

Thank you I just broke the world record

I just bought a skewb today and solved it. Thanks.

I dont know if this cube is easy or your tutorial is easy but it helped me so much

Thank you so much , because of you now I have learnt the skewb . Those who agree with me like the comment.........

This cube is made for me. I love sledgehammering on pyraminx and that’s the only algorithm

hey z3 very nice tutorial i have learnt to solve the skewb and the 3*3 by u itself keep up the good work

Thank you dude now i can solve the skewb :D

So simple, yet I couldn’t figure it out by myself. Fascinating🤔 good tutorial though👍

Thanks for helping me out man! This video really helped me (P.S. I like ur voice)

Thank you so much for the easy tutorial, I bought my cube yesterday only and I solved it today by the help kg your tutorial thanks again😀😀😀

After some trial and error, I finally know how to solve the Skewb EASILY with JUST the SledgeHammer algorithm..!! The Skewb is by far my easiest puzzle to solve because of its way of switching colors around…. NOW I can practice my turning speed on the cube and get faster for competitions…. It’s pretty exciting to be honest..!! Hopefully I’m in a competition by next year..!! I’d love to see people performing their best..!!

This was helpful I was confused on the start because my corner was turned but I figured it out thanks this was really helpful 😁😁😁😁😁