How Do I Solve The Rubik's Cube?

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This is Rubik's official guide on how to solve the 3x3 Rubik's cube, the one we all know and love. I'm including some of the other models such as the 2x2 and 4x4. For more advanced solving methods there are methods called CFOP (3x3) and Ortega (2x2) and for these, I recommend JPerm on YouTube for tutorials that go into more detail, moreover, I'm going to give some links to algorithm sheets made by Feliks Zemdegs (one of the only two speedcubers ever to win the World Cube Association World Championship twice). CFOP is the most common 3x3 method to use. The "word" CFOP stands for:

Cross
F2L (first two layers)
OLL (orientating last layer)
PLL (positioning last layer)

I recommend learning intuitive f2l (meaning you don't need to learn any algorithms) which is better than instead learning 42 of them. (Good luck to everybody, PS: it just takes practice)