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==History==
The Layer by Layer Method was pioneered by [[David Singmaster]] in his 1980 book ''Notes on Rubik's "Magic Cube"''.<ref name="linkedresources">{{cite web |url = http://www.linkedresources.com/teach/rubik/solution.php |title = A Step by Step Solution of Rubik's "Magic Cube" |author = David Singmaster |date = 1980-08-06 |publisher = Jeffrey W Baumann & LinkedResources |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20060304183050/http://www.linkedresources.com/teach/rubik/solution.php |archivedate = 2006-03-04}}</ref><ref name="ryanheise-beginner">{{cite web |url = http://www.ryanheise.com/cube/beginner.html |title = Beginner's Rubik's Cube Solution |quote = The general layer-by-layer approach described above is credited to mathematician David Singmaster and was first published in his 1980 book "Notes on Rubik's Magic Cube" |author = Ryan Heise |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20150926083418/http://www.ryanheise.com/cube/beginner.html |archivedate = 2015-09-26}}</ref> The same idea was adopted by James G. Nourse in his ''[[The Simple Solution to Rubik's Cube]]'' which became the bestselling book of 1981,<ref name="upi">{{Cite news|url=http://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/01/05/BEST-SELLER/3264379054800/|last=Hanauer|first=Joan|title=The man who wrote the best-selling book of 1981|date=5 January 1982|publisher=United Press International}}</ref> and similar approaches could be found in Don Taylor's ''Mastering Rubik's Cube'' and Cyril Östrop's ''Solving the Cube'' from the same era.<ref name="phil">[http://helm.lu/cube/MarshallPhilipp/page_1.htm A Comparison of Various Methods], Philip Marshall, 2005</ref>▼
▲}}</ref> The same idea was adopted by James G. Nourse in his ''[[The Simple Solution to Rubik's Cube]]'' which became the bestselling book of 1981,<ref name="upi">{{Cite news|url=http://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/01/05/BEST-SELLER/3264379054800/|last=Hanauer|first=Joan|title=The man who wrote the best-selling book of 1981|date=5 January 1982|publisher=United Press International}}</ref> and similar approaches could be found in Don Taylor's ''Mastering Rubik's Cube'' and Cyril Östrop's ''Solving the Cube'' from the same era.<ref name="phil">[http://helm.lu/cube/MarshallPhilipp/page_1.htm A Comparison of Various Methods], Philip Marshall, 2005</ref>
==Method==
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