Double posting because why not, been a month.
I can do the first two layers of the cube pretty easily now, but I can't do the final layer yet without looking on the internet. Far as I am aware, you need to memorize a bunch of algorithms to get the last layer, of which two of the 4 steps to solving the cube are located. The first step is very very very easy, make a cross. Pick a side, whatever color you want, and make a cross, make sure each part of the cross matches with the adjacent side. So you're solving for blue, one of your side pieces for blue has red on it, so make sure that blue/red piece is on the blue/red side, not the blue/orange side or the blue/white or blue/yellow side, it has to be in that specific spot. Second step is called F2L, which is first two layers. You pretty much put the cross you made on the bottom, and use the now top layer as your workspace. Solve each of the corners on the side you made the cross on, so I solve for blue, now I want each corner, catch is, im also solving for the sides on the middle layer at the same time. So for example, Solving for blue, I have a corner piece for blue, that has blue/white/orange, so I need a side piece that has white/orange. My goal is to get the blue/white/orange piece to match up with the white/orange sidepiece to make an f2l pair, and i do this with the top workspace, while trying to maintain the cross i made in the first step. Work at getting a pair, slide it into place, and do it for all 4 corners, this solves the first two layers.
After that, I don't know, you can do the first two steps on intuition, the other two just requires memorization to my knowledge. Step 3 is called OLL, orient last layer, so when solving for blue, the last layer is green, so you get the green layer all the same (but this in most cases doesn't solve the sides), so with the top done, you need to slide the sides around to finish the puzzle...to step 4, PLL, permutations of the last layer. That step is just remembering algorithms to slide the blocks around in the right spot to finish the puzzle.
For now I am enjoying getting the first two layers done by intuition, whenever I decide to get to it, I'll try to memorize the cases and algorithms I need to actually solve the whole thing without using the internet.
