Learning how to solve a rubix cube

Learning How To Solve A Rubix Cube and solving the rubix cube are two different things.

There are lots of books, guides, manuals and websites which contain huge lists of move sequences grouped into five overall phases of how to solve a rubix cube: how to move an edge piece on to the top face, what if it's here, or perhaps here, how to deal with the bottom face corners if they're in this or that arrangement, and a near-endless stream of hugely long transforms for permuting three edges in ever so slightly different relative arrangements.

If you will follow those rubix cube instructions it will work all right - you can solve your rubix cube by sitting there with the book or laptop in front of you and following the instructions throughout the five levels. So it will probably be useful if you genuinely don't have any interest in learning how to solve a rubix cube (perhaps if you had bought one for your child) but needed to get it back into the solved state as a one show off.

On the other hand you can take one look at the huge lists of rubix cube moves with no rhyme or reason and think: "if I have to memorize that amount of data in order to be able to learn how to solve a rubix cube in my head, I'm not even going to try". I might be unreasonably impressed with people who could solve a rubix cube without help. Eventually you might found out, by reading the rubix cube solutions that you actually don't need more than four basic move sequences memorized, that even those four sequences can be arranged to have internal structure in such a way as to make them easy to remember, and that anything else can be done by trivial on-the-fly modifications.

It would be nice to think that somewhere out there is a book that explain the basic mechanics of how to construct a rubix cube solution, and then exhibit one broken down into "here is what you need to memorize" (short), and "here is it all worked out longhand for parents who don't have the time (enormous lists of move sequences)". The latter section, in addition to the move lists, would have the structure of every move sequence clearly shown, so you can see the conjugates and commentators and understand why it works.