How to Solve a Skewb With the Beginner Method

Obviously, you can't improve at Skewb if you don't know how to solve a Skewb. So here's a beginner's tutorial to get you started:

Step by Step Instructions on How to Solve a Skewb:

Step 1: Make the White Layer

Step 2: Solve the Yellow Corners

Step 3: Solve the Yellow Center

Step 4: Solve the Middle Centers

Step 1:

To make the white layer, there are 2 substeps:

Substep 1: Permute White Corners

Substep2: Orient White Corners

To insert the top front corner to the bottom right or bottom left, you will turn either the top right or top left corner. If the top front corner has to go to the bottom right, turn the top right corner counterclockwise. If the top front corner has to go to the bottom left, turn the top left corner clockwise.

If no corners are on the top, pretend that one of the yellow corners is a white corner and insert it into one of the spots. This will put a white corner on top.

Step 2:

To Solve the yellow corners, there are 3 cases. There is peanut (2 corners solved, 2 corners misoriented). There is pi (all corners misoriented). And there is skip (all corners oriented).

To solve pi, hold it so that the two corners that face the same direction are facing to the right. Then do an algorithm called sledge: First, turn the top right front corner counterclockwise. Second, turn the top left front corner clockwise. Third, turn the top right front corner clockwise. Last, turn the top left front corner counterclockwise.

To solve peanut, hold it so that the yellow on the right misoriented corner is in the front right. Then do sledge. This sets it up to pi. Solve pi as shown above.

Step 3:

To solve the yellow center, there are only 2 cases. There is skip (the yellow center is already solved) & there is when the yellow center is on the side.

To solve yellow center on the side, hold the yellow center in the back and do sledge. Then rotate the puzzle on the y-axis twice so the yellow center is in the front. Then do sledge again.

Step 4:

To solve the middle centers, there are 2 (technically 3 but 2 of them are solved the same way) cases. There is UPerm (when one center is solved and one is opposite) & there is when no centers are solved.

To solve UPerm, hold the white and yellow centers on the left and right. Then hold the solved middle center on the bottom with the opposite middle center in the front. Then do sledge. Next, rotate on the y-axis twice. Then do sledge again.

To solve a case where no middle center is solved, hold the white & yellow centers on the left & right. Then do UPerm (as shown above). This will set it up into a UPerm. Solve the UPerm (as shown above).

And that is how to solve a Skewb with the beginner method.