We're a small group of people who like cubes and put this site together in our spare time. We aren't professional educators and none of us is a competition winner. Between us we've solved a lot of 3x3 cubes, and teaching a beginner their first solve turns out not to need much more than that. Once you can solve the cube reliably, you can usually explain it.
What pushed us to actually build something was the state of the beginner material out there. Most of it lives in scattered YouTube videos and forum threads of mixed quality, and the good stuff is mixed in with the bad without much to tell them apart. We wanted one clean written guide that a beginner could read at their own pace and come back to whenever they got stuck — no signup and no upsell.
Why this site exists
A written guide is the format we kept wishing existed. Videos move past you and you have to keep scrubbing back to catch the bit you missed. Forums give you ten good answers and twenty bad ones, and as a beginner you can't reliably tell which is which. A page you can re-read at your own pace, with the steps in a fixed order and the algorithms in one place, fixes most of that. So we wrote one. If a step doesn't land the first time, the page is still here tomorrow, in the same order.
What we also make
The same team also publishes mobile apps for solving the cube. We don't sell or push them on this site — this site is the written guide and that's it. If a phone fits your life better than a browser tab, the recommendations on the home page have the links. The guide is free either way.