This document describes the Jessica Fridrich's method to solve the 3x3 Rubik's cube efficiently. This method is targeted for people already knowing how to solve the cube in 3 or 4 minutes, wanting to go below the minute.
The Fridrich method involves 4 steps:
The method is also called CFOP for Cross/First/Orient/Permute.
This method is the reduced version of the complete one that orients and permutes edges and corners with 2 different sets of algorithm.
All the algorithms are illustrated with a 3 dimensional exploded cube, that let the 6 faces to be displayed on each view. And also because the resulting images are cool!
Views are normalized, so every algorithm is described with the white face down, the blue face front and the red face right. Since the cube is seen in perspective, the most visible faces are the blue, red and yellow ones.
Besides, depending on the steps, some irrelevant cubes may be just represented as mesh.