Online 3x3 Cube Simulator, Solver, Timer and Tutorial

Free online 3D 3x3 cube simulator, one-click solver, speedcube timer and a seven-step tutorial for beginners.
It works with any 3x3 speedcube. An original Rubik's™ brand cube, a GAN, a MoYu, or the one that came free in a cereal box.

The 3x3 is the cube most people mean when they say "the cube". 🎲 It has 20 moving pieces, and they can be arranged in 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 different ways. Even so, any one of them can be solved in 20 turns or fewer. That limit is called God's Number, and researchers only proved it in 2010.

Spin the cube in the simulator

The simulator at the top of the page is a real 3D cube. Drag a sticker and that layer follows your finger. It snaps square once you pass a third of a turn. Drag the background to spin the whole cube and look at the back. The Scramble button mixes it up, and the full screen button gives you a bigger view. You can also turn the faces from the keyboard with U, L, F, R, B and D. Hold Shift for a counterclockwise turn.

The solver finds the way out

Copy the colors of your scrambled cube onto the net in the solver and press Solve. The answer comes back in about twenty moves. Your own browser works it out, using the Kociemba two-phase algorithm. You can step through the moves one at a time, and the 3D cube turns along with you.

You do not have to hold the cube any particular way. The six center stickers are what name the faces, so paint them as you see them and the solver works out the rest. If a color pattern could never exist on a real cube, the solver tells you which piece looks wrong. It will not hand you a solution that cannot work.

Race the clock

⏱️ Hold down the space bar, then let go. The timer starts. Press again to stop. On a phone, tap the clock instead. You get a fresh 20-move scramble for every solve. The timer keeps your best time, your average, and your averages of 5 and 12, which are the numbers speedcubers use at competitions. Turn on inspection for the WCA's 15 seconds. Your times stay saved in your browser.

Learn the whole solution in seven steps

🎓 The tutorial below teaches the layer-by-layer method, the one almost every cuber learns first. You build the white cross, finish the white face, then fill in the middle layer. After that you make the yellow cross and put the last layer in order. There are only a handful of short sequences to remember, and most people get through it in a weekend.

New to cubing? A few things worth knowing:

• The 2x2 has no edge pieces, so it is a gentler place to start.
• Every corner trick you learn there works here without any change.
• You are never more than 20 turns from solved, however hopeless it looks.
• Turning a face never breaks the cube. You cannot make it worse.

Here is how the 3x3 compares with its neighbors:

When the 3x3 starts to feel easy, try the 4x4 and 5x5. They add centers and edge pairs to the same method. The Pyraminx, Skewb and Megaminx turn in ways a cube never does.

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