Pretty Rubik´s Cube Patterns With Algorithms

Are you tired of solving your Rubik´s Cube always the same way and you are looking for a new challenge? Try to reproduce or invent some pretty patterns! In this section I´m going to present a gallery of pretty Rubik´s Cube patterns with algorithms, preview images, and a small animation on how to form them. Find out how to make the famous Superflip, the checkerboard, the snake patterns, the cross, the cube in a cube and many other nice motives. If you've got bored solving the Rubik's Cube always the same way and you're looking for a new challenge try to reach one of these patterns without watching the algorithms supplied.

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Click or tap an image in the gallery to open and reveal the algorithm.
Make sure you check out the second page of the list with even more patterns!

Click To Reveal The Patterns In The Gallery:

The Superflip
The easy checkerboard
SpeedSolving
3 sides solved
All flags & crests
Wire
Checkerboard in the cube
Perfect Scramble
( ! ) (ˆ⌣ˆԅ)
Minority cross
Perpendicular lines
Flipped tips
Plus minus
Tablecloth
Deckerboard
Spiral pattern
Fruit bowl
Flower
Vertical stripes
Gift box
Opposite corners
Cross
4 crosses
Union Jack
Cube in the cube
Cube in a cube in a cube
Anaconda
Python
Black mamba
Green mamba
Tangled
Four spots
Six spots
Twister
Kilt (Scottish skirt)
Tetris
Don't cross line
Hi
Hi all around
Displaced Motif
Are you high?
C U around
Order in chaos
Evenly distributed
The hole
No entry
"Plus"
3C3W
Pong

Facing checkerboardsExchanged peaksEdge triangleLoose strapSix spotsTableclothMore Patterns

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You don't even have to know the Rubik´s notation to be able to read the letters in the algorithms because I have attached a short animation for each scramble. If you don´t have a Magic Cube go ahead and use the online Rubik´s Cube solver or use the cube simulator where you can apply rotations or even solve the cube online.

How to undo a scramble?

Apply the inverse rotations of the backward algorithm to revert the cube to the solved cube (or the initial position).

Let's take a short algorithm for the demonstration, the Cross: U F B’ L2 U2 L2 F’ B U2 L2 U
Written backwards: U L2 U2 B F’ L2 U2 L2 B’ F U
Replace the moves with the inverse rotations: U’ L2 U2 B’ F L2 U2 L2 B F’ U’
– this will undo the Cross algorithm. Note that double rotations, marked with 2 are the inverse rotations of themselves because it doesn't matter in which direction you perform a half turn. Use this method to calculate the reverse moves for any pattern in the list.
Twisty Puzzle Patterns
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Dénes Ferenc
To add: U' F D2 L2 D R' F2 L F L' B2 D L2 U' F2 U' R2 F2 R2 U2
George Pre Malana Jr.
I created this pattern by fusing others,
I call this Jorj' Twisted Cube in Cube
U' L D2 B2 D F' L2 B L B' R2 D B2 U' L2 U' F2 L2 F2 U2
Joy Baradero
pattern #1 do M' U' M' U' M' U' M' U'
x y [3 times]
Daniel Mitchell
From solve (green facing you):
L2 D2 B2 R2 D2 B2 L2 D U' L' D U F2 L R B F D' L' R'
I call it The Cyclone
Nick Haller
Exchanged Cube in the Cube (not quite)
F2 R2 U2 R2 F2 L2 D' B2 L2 F U L' B2 L U' F'
Dénes Ferenc
This is the cube in a cube in a cube, but from another angle.
Nick Haller
Actually, this gives what looks like an exchanged cube in the cube, but with an 'L' shape on one face. (There is no exchanged cube in cube without partially disassembling the cube. Try also setting up the Wierdo puzzle, shown above, but without the last move).
Bob Longo
Can you do this pattern? youtube.com/shorts/XeNFkzqGsMc?feature=share
Dénes Ferenc
This seems to be impossible...
Stephan Schneider
"Four spots" can also be achieved with these moves:
M2 E M2 E'
(plus/minus Y2)
Kyle Halabi
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🆃🅷🅰🅽🅺 🆈🅾🆄
Nick Haller
Diagonal Minority Cross
R2 F U2 F2 D R2 B2 U2 F2 R2 B' U2 R2 B2 D L2 U2 F2 D2
Sean Loresto
i am going to fuse the patterns here
Ali Mohammad
Amazing very simply guided very easy to do but they look hard
Steve Harrison
I don't see a solution for the middle pattern with the white, orange and yellow stair pattern.
Bryan Wolf
You can do the Perpendicular Lines pattern with 6 moves:
U2 L2 B2 U2 L2 U2
Undoing it is the same.
Rui Guedes
I performed more than 10 patterns of this site, and it was nice. Thanks!
Trystan Anderson
How do you submit a pattern?
Ruwix
Leave a comment with the scramble algorithm.
Arigatou Broadbeach Teppanyaki
Cool Patten : U' L' U' F' R2 B' R F U B2 U B' L U' F U R F' F L F U' R U F2 L2 U' L' B D' B' L2 U (:
Kyle Halabi
This looks quite simple. I used rubiks-cube-solver.com to calculate a more optimal algo:
U B D' F2 D B' U' R2 D F2 D' R2 D F2 D' R2
Corwyn Susanto
The "opposite checkerboards" and "facing checkerboards" are exactly the same, but with different colours. And they have very inefficient algos. Use (U2 M2 D2) z (U2 M2 D2)
Alex Le
M2 E M'2 E' D2 M2 S2 D2 M2 S2
Don't know if there's a more effecient way to get to it
Corwyn Susanto
Easier superflip:
4 ( 4[M' U'] x y)