From cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Fri Dec 26 22:50:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: from sun30.aic.nrl.navy.mil by mc.lcs.mit.edu (8.8.1/mc) with SMTP id WAA08130; Fri, 26 Dec 1997 22:50:16 -0500 (EST) Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Mail-from: From cube-lovers-request@life.ai.mit.edu Fri Dec 26 04:04:16 1997 Date: Fri, 26 Dec 1997 10:03:05 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <1.5.4.16.19971226100243.1137cba4@mailsvr.pt.lu> X-Sender: geohelm@mailsvr.pt.lu To: "Frederik Strauss" From: Georges Helm Subject: Re: 5x5x5 Cc: Cube-Lovers@ai.mit.edu I have a German book by Kurt ENDL on how to solve the whole bunch of 2x2x2, 3x3x3, 4x4x4 and 5x5x5 cubes. I have a xeroxed copy of a solution by myself. I do upper middles, edges, corners. Then 2d, 3d and 4th layer edges. Then 2d, 3d and 4th layer middles. Then last layer corners and finally last layer edges. Sometimes parity is uneven, i,e, there remain 2 edges to swap, and there is a move I use to resolve that problem without disturbing the rest of the cube by Helmut GEMBITZKY. Georges Helm geohelm@pt.lu http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Georges_Helm/ http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2715 [ Moderator's note: As has been mentioned previously, there is a general solution method in Eidswick, J. A., "Cubelike Puzzles -- What Are They and How Do You Solve Them?", 'American Mathematical Monthly', Vol. 93, #3, March 1986, pp. 157-176, though it's not optimized. ]