4x4 Cube: Play Online in 3D
The 4x4 has 56 visible pieces and a huge number of positions, but it is solved with ideas you already know from the 3x3. Play it here in 3D: turn outer and inner layers, scramble it and try to solve it.
Get 3D Cube Puzzle as an app
Free, no app store and no sign-up. The cube, the 2x2, 3x3 and 4x4 solvers, the trainer, the timer and the patterns all work without the internet once it is saved.
How to add it on this device:
Your moves
How to play
- Look around: drag the background to spin the cube.
- Outer layers: tap a sticker on the edge of a face, then ↻ or ↺, or swipe it. Keys U D L R F B (with Shift for the other way).
- Inner layers: swipe one of the two middle rows. The buttons turn two layers together (Rw means the right two layers).
- Whole cube: X Y Z. Ctrl+Z undoes.
How the 4x4 is different
On a 4x4 nothing is fixed. Each face has four centre pieces that move around, every edge is made of two separate pieces (“wings”), and only the eight corners behave like a 3x3’s. So you have to build the centres and pair up the edges before you can finish it like a 3x3. This is called the reduction method.
Because the centres can end up in any order, you also need to know the colour scheme: white opposite yellow, green opposite blue, red opposite orange, and with white on top and green in front, red is on the right.
4x4 facts
- About 7.4 × 1045 positions (7,401,196,841,564,901,869,874,093,974,498,574,336,000,000,000), around 170 million million million million times as many as the 3x3, counting identical-looking centre pieces as the same.
- It can show positions that look impossible on a 3x3, such as one flipped edge. This is 4x4 parity, and it has a simple fix.
- The world record single is 15.18 seconds. See world records.
Learn to solve it
Read how to solve a 4x4 for the full reduction method, or let the 4x4 solver work it out step by step. New to cubes? Start with the 3x3 beginner’s method, because the last part of a 4x4 solve is a 3x3 solve.
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Questions people ask
Is the 4x4 much harder than the 3x3?
It takes longer, but only adds two new ideas: building centres and pairing edges. After that you solve it like a 3x3, plus a couple of parity algorithms.
What does Rw mean?
Turn the right two layers together, clockwise as you look at the right face. On some guides it is written as a lower-case r.
Why does my 4x4 have one flipped edge?
That is OLL parity. It can’t happen on a 3x3. See our 4x4 parity page for the algorithm that fixes it.