A Little Bit Faster Now

Our basic 5-step solution gives a wonderfully simple approach to solving the cube which doesn't require any memorization. However, you won't be winning any speed solving contests with it. If you want to increase your speed there are a few things you can do.

• learn to solve the first two layers simultaneously (called F2L)
• learn a number of different algorithms for solving last layer configurations
• speed up your fingers through lots of practice

There are lots of resources available if you want to learn the art of speedcubing, just search for "speedsolving" or "speedcubing".

If you just want to speed up your solve times a little bit, and aren't really interested in learning speedsolving techniques, here are a couple of last layer sequences that are a good place to start. They mostly use $M$, $R$, and $U$ moves which are quick to perform with good finger placement.