Peter Renzland's Elegant Rubik's Cube Solution Method, in Brief

The Elegant Rubik's Cube Solution Method solves each corner, then each edge.

To send a Corner cubie home,
• line it up opposite its home cubicle, with cubie's near facelet matching home face colour; (takes at most 2 turns);
• apply the Corner-Mover: UR *7.5; (fld-bdl);
• invert the line-up turns.

To send an Edge cubie home,
• line it up opposite its home cubicle, with cubie's near facelet matching home face colour; (takes at most 3 turns);
• line up a Helper Edge-Pair alongside (already matched, or both still random); (usually takes 1 turn);
• apply the Edge-Mover: U2R2 *3; (fu-bu, fr-br);
• invert the line-up turns.

As you read the above 100 word description, please consider:

Be sure to understand the effects of the transform-tools, and how proper line-up results in correct orientation, and how to invert line-up turns, before you try to solve a cube. With the Elegant Method you are in control, so please don't interpret description as procedural instruction that must be followed passively and unthinkingly without understanding. This method is not like other methods.

The Elegant Solution Method uses a simple corner mover to move each corner home, and then a simple edge mover to move each edge home. It employs two powerful concepts in its application, and has a concise description. First you learn to understand the tools and to apply them using the concepts. This inspires and empowers you to be a free, thinking, creative discoverer.

The two tools are a minimalist corner mover and a minimalist edge mover.
The three concepts are:
1) a tool that moves a cubie from X to Y, can be used to move any such cubie from anywhere to anywhere,
like this: line up the cubie across from its target, apply the move-tool, invert the line-up turns;
2) to orient line up, the cubie's near facelet to match the target face colour.
3) the edge-mover swaps a second pair of edges, a "helper edge-pair", which must also be lined up.

Elegant Rubik's Cube Solution Method