Qubed. 3 x 3 Cube Game and Solver

Twist. Solve. Master.

Controls

• Use the arrow keys or drag empty space with the left mouse button to orbit the cube.
• Click a cube face, or press U, D, F, B, L, or R, to animate a clockwise quarter-turn of that face.
• Hold Shift while clicking a face or pressing a face key to animate the counter-clockwise turn.
• Hold Control while clicking a face or pressing a face key to animate the half-face turn.
• Press Space to search for and animate a solution from the current cube state.
• Press Esc to exit.
• Press S to scramble.
• Press Control + Z to undo a move.
• Press Control + Shift + Z to redo a move.

Ideas

• Replay last solve.
  • Save scramble state.
  • Reset cube to it.
  • Play saved moves from solver.
• Invisible cube mode?
• Save points (not necessarily to disc, but maybe).
• Immediate solve button to skip to the end.
• Scramble, solve, repeat with stats.

Notes

Coordinates

All coordinates are (x, y) or (column, row).

Faces

White  | Up
Yellow | Down
Red    | Front
Orange | Back
Blue   | Right
Green  | Left

Net Layout

    +---+
    | U |
+---+---+---+---+
| L | F | R | B |
+---+---+---+---+
    | D |
    +---+

Coordinates

                            U

                    (0,0) (1,0) (2,0)
                    (0,1) (1,1) (2,1)
                    (0,2) (1,2) (2,2)

        L                   F                   R                   B

(0,0) (1,0) (2,0)   (0,0) (1,0) (2,0)   (0,0) (1,0) (2,0)   (0,0) (1,0) (2,0)
(0,1) (1,1) (2,1)   (0,1) (1,1) (2,1)   (0,1) (1,1) (2,1)   (0,1) (1,1) (2,1)
(0,2) (1,2) (2,2)   (0,2) (1,2) (2,2)   (0,2) (1,2) (2,2)   (0,2) (1,2) (2,2)

                            D

                    (0,0) (1,0) (2,0)
                    (0,1) (1,1) (2,1)
                    (0,2) (1,2) (2,2)

Colours

         U 

       W W W
       W W W
       W W W

  L      F      R      B

G G G  R R R  B B B  O O O
G G G  R R R  B B B  O O O
G G G  R R R  B B B  O O O

         D

       Y Y Y
       Y Y Y
       Y Y Y