The yellow cross is up, but from the side the cube still looks chaotic. Each cross edge has a second sticker facing outwards, and it belongs above the center of the same color. This step puts all four home — white stays on the bottom, yellow on top, as always.
Find the matching pair
Turn U one click at a time, a full circle, and at each stop count how many edge side stickers match the center directly below them. One angle gives you either:
- All four match — this step is done, go to Step 6.
- Exactly two match — every other outcome. Three is impossible: if three edges are home, the fourth has only one place left to be.
Leave U at the two-match angle and check whether the matching pair sits adjacent (side by side) or opposite (facing across the cube).
The tool: Sune + U
R U R' U R U2 R' followed by a single U.
Held normally, this swaps the front and left edges while leaving the back and right edges — and the entire yellow cross — untouched. It scrambles the corners; ignore them completely, they are Steps 6 and 7.
Adjacent pair
Hold the cube so the two matching edges sit at the back and right. Run
Sune, then U. The front and left edges trade places, and all four edges are
home.
Opposite pair
No grip puts an opposite pair at back-and-right, so run Sune + U from
any angle. It won’t solve the edges — it converts the case: turn U again
to find the new matching pair, which is now adjacent, hold it back-and-right,
and apply once more.
Repeat the loop — turn U to count matches, hold the matching pair
back-and-right, Sune + U — until all four side stickers match their
centers. Adjacent takes one round, opposite takes two. Step 6 then positions
the corners.