Photo Cube Solver

Choose a top face and a front face before the first photo. Keep that relationship while capturing the remaining sides. Do not simply turn every face toward you without tracking which direction is still up.

Use the face picker in the scanner and capture U (up), R (right), F (front), D (down), L (left), and B (back). The labels describe positions, not colors: a non-standard cube may use a different center color on any face.

1. Start with F. Hold the front face square to the camera and keep its top edge at the top of the frame.
2. Capture U, R, D, and L. Rotate the physical cube around the chosen front while preserving the top/front relationship shown by the face label.
3. Finish with B. Turn to the back face carefully; verify its top edge before applying all six photos.

Use soft, even light and fill most of the frame with one face. Keep all stickers visible, avoid a hard flash, and hold the camera as parallel to the face as possible. A strong diagonal angle changes the sampled area and can mix sticker colors with borders.

Glare commonly makes red look orange, yellow look white, or dark blue look black. If one sticker is reflective, change the light or camera angle and capture that face again instead of relying on a low-confidence result.

• Wipe the lens and the cube before taking photos.
• Use a plain background that does not match a sticker color.
• Avoid fingers, logos, and deep shadows over sticker centers.
• Capture one face at a time rather than a wide photo of several faces.

Photo detection is an entry shortcut, not a reason to skip review. Compare each detected grid with the physical face before applying it. If a sticker is wrong, retake that face or correct the applied state with the flat or 3D editor.

A standard 3x3 has nine stickers of each color and six unique centers. If you are unsure which colors belong opposite each other or how the face labels fit together, check the standard cube color scheme guide.

Six complete-looking photos can still describe an impossible cube. A wrong face direction, one swapped color, a twisted corner, or a physically reassembled piece can all fail validation.

Use the validation message as a checklist. Recheck empty stickers and color counts first, then centers and the orientation of adjacent faces. Generate a solution only after the state passes.

Selected images, camera frames, detected colors, cube states, and generated solutions are processed locally in your browser. Solve My Cube does not upload cube photos to its servers.

Camera access begins only when you choose live capture. You can use existing images instead, switch to manual entry at any time, and read the full details in the privacy policy.

The page starts in 3x3 mode because fixed center stickers make face mapping easier to check. Switch to 2x2 before capture when you have a pocket cube; each detected face will use a 2-by-2 grid.

A 2x2 has no fixed centers, so consistent orientation matters even more. The solver validates corner combinations instead of center colors, then generates a size-specific solution.