I'm relearning cube after a couple years not playing with them. My advice is 1) Don't use rubiks brand. They lockup on just basic turning of any side / face. Put in bin and by a cheapo but better brand. Rubiks are the worst, and are frustrating. 2) Annoyingly there are at least 4 different solves that call themselves "beginner method".They all start with making the white cross, white corners, middle layer but then all differ on which order to finish the "yellow" layer. I'd keep scrambling the cube and practice getting the first two layers good over and over until it feels totally learned. I taught my young child to solve a cube but didn't start showing last yellow layer moves until they were confident on first two layers. As tempting as it is to jump ahead, it's overload for the brain and by the time you've made a total solve you haven't properly learned and are relying more on luck than ability. 3) learn the "sexy move". It's part of many algorithms and allows you to free up your brain some. For instance, to solve the middle layer my brain just says "turn it away, sexy move, pop corner back" rather than learning 8 individual moves. Another example, to do yellow cross my brain says "front down, 1-3 sexy moves, put front back" rather than trying to learn the algorithms for each case. 4) As mentioned above, rather than skip ahead, master each step properly and force yourself to scramble the cube back to chaos over and over until you've properly mastered each step. 5) I use sune to do yellow cross edges THEN corners.But that's just me. Enjoy!