# Step 5: make the whole top yellow

You have a yellow cross on top. Now twist the four corners so their yellow stickers face up too. Where the corners are doesn't matter yet; only which way they face.

## The easy way: one corner at a time

The move is `R' D' R D`, done in pairs.

1. Hold the cube with yellow on top. **Don't turn the whole cube during this step**: only turn the top layer.
2. Look at the corner at the **front-right-top**. If its yellow faces up, go to step 4.
3. Do `R' D' R D` twice. Check the corner. If yellow still isn't up, do it twice more. Four times is always enough.
4. Turn the **top layer only** (`U`) to bring the next corner to the front-right.
5. Repeat until all four corners are yellow on top. Then turn the top until the sides line up as well as they can.

**The bottom layers will look scrambled halfway through. That's expected.** They come back by themselves once the last corner is twisted up. Don't stop in the middle, and don't turn the whole cube.

> 3D demo, One corner: (R' D' R D) ×4 twists it up (the rest looks broken for now): `R' D' R D` × 4

> 3D demo, All four corners: twist, U, twist, U … — the bottom repairs itself: `R' D' R D R' D' R D R' D' R D R' D' R D U R' D' R D R' D' R D R' D' R D R' D' R D U R' D' R D R' D' R D R' D' R D R' D' R D U U`

## The faster way: Sune

`R U R' U R U2 R'`

Sune solves the case where exactly **one** corner already has yellow up and the cross makes a "fish" shape.
1. Hold the cube with that corner at the **front-left**.
2. The front-right corner's yellow faces you.
3. Do Sune.

> 3D demo, Sune: one corner up at front-left → whole top yellow: `R U R' U R U2 R'`

For any other case, doing Sune once (from any angle) turns it into another case. Sooner or later you get the one-corner fish, so keep going. The twist-a-corner method above has no such guesswork; that's why it's taught first.

## Common mistakes

- **Rotating the whole cube between corners.** Turn only the top layer. If you rotate the cube, the bottom stays broken.
- **Stopping after an odd number of R' D' R D.** Always do it in pairs.
- **Panicking when the bottom looks wrong.** It sorts itself out after the last corner.

Source: https://scanmycube.com/learn/beginner/yellow-face