In practice, the most expert human cube solvers usually need more than 40 moves.
But these mobile apps can solve it fasteror they can teach you how to solve like an expert.
Here are the best ones.
There are a lot of cube solver apps, and each one has its own quirks and flaws.
Whichever you use, youll run into one problem or another.
So have some patience, and give each app a couple of tries before moving to another.
Its the most intuitive of every app I tried, except for the one that just uses your camera.
Every app displays instructions differently too, and MCS does it best.
MCS is very efficient, always solving a cube in 22 steps or less.
If you ask to solve and learn, then MCS does something amazing.
Many guides can teach you the general strategy for solving a cube.
But MCS can teach you that strategyusing the specific configuration of your cube.
The guide tells you whatkindof thing to do, so you might figure out the exact moves yourself.
Its the only AR-based solving app I found.
Pointing your camera at your cube and show the app every side.
The app will recognize the colors, then use arrows to tell you what to turn.
Just follow its instructions and youll solve the cube.
There are two big downsides: First, you wont learn how to solve a cube yourself.
Second, its physically awkward.
The app is way underrated in the app store, thanks to confusion about whether its actually free.
You pay one dollar, once, but you only pay it when your cube is mostly solved.
You never have to pay anything again.
Youll learn the Rubiks Cube better by seeing it through all these apps perspectives.
Try this if you like a mathematical, minimal approach.
(This app wont help you solve a specific configuration.)
The ads are a little buggy, so pay to remove them.
(Youll have to fix a few cells manually.)
I prefer it to the updated version,Cube Snap 2.
Color entry is awkward, requiring you to pick each color from a palette to apply to certain squares.
Trythis Wired tutorial, orthis solvers homemade video, orthis video full of generic peppy music.
They have some differences of method, but not enough to confuse you.
Its interface is unintuitive.
To even start using the app, you have to request a verification email twice because of a bug.
Dont waste your time (or your two bucks) on it just because its the official app.
