I've got my eyes on you, sir.

Wait.....that wasn't the challenge? Ah, bollocks. I'm out!

I have never finished a Rubick's Cube.

"Life is about movies; anything else is a bonus!"- Me   

Yeah, I've got a friend like that too, I don't think he has any vids. But yeah, dude is nuts.

I am terrible at the Cube, so for those uniformed, how do you mean by "layers" versus side by side?

I can imagine it, but I want to make sure it is right.

By "Layers" I mean you solve the "top" side first (including the edges around it - super-rookies thinks they have "solved one side" just coz it is all red, but it isn't "solved" unless the edges around it have all the right colors too). Then you solve the 2nd "row", and then you solve the bottom (generally by first solving the corners and then the middle pieces)

The techniques I use are probably not "the best" but are stuff me and my friends came up with ourselves in school, oh, 30 years ago.

Here's my rough step-by-step description.  I have only like 4 "moves" I know, and I can't explain them, coz they are all muscle-memory, and every time I've tried to EXPLAIN to someone what I do, I inveriably end up doing slowly (to show it) and holding the cube "wrong" compared to my muscle memory, so I screw up doing the "move" ... so no, you won't get details, just a principle:

Step 1: You do the "top", well, you just do it, it's simple enough to just figure out, you need no special "moves", but make sure it color matches all around the edge too.

Step 2: Align the center squares under the right color of the "edges" of the top side.

Step 3: Fix the non-center parts in the 2nd "row". There is only one "move" you need to know to do this, it's a "move" that switches place of 2 middle pieces. You just align the piece you want in the right place on the bottom side, and do the move sequence... what used to be on that particlar spot in the bottom is now in your "middle row" instead. Repeat this until "middle row" is done.

Step 4: Rotate bottom side so that the corners have the right POSITION (so the colors of the sides matches the colors that EXIST on the corner - ignore the rotations of the corners). If that is impossible, you need to swap two corners. If so, you need to use the "swap two corners" move.

Step 5: Now the corners are in the right place, but probably rotated wrong. You use a move that "rotates three corners" to do this.

Step 6: Now your corners are rotated correctly and in the right place. Only bottom side "middle pieces" are wrong. You use a variant of the "middle piece moving" thing from step 2, only when used on the bottom it actually swaps place on 3 "middle pieces", so you need to be mindful of orientation and sequence to do the "three piece shuffle" until things are in the right spot.

I could make a video, but you wouldn't be able to follow it due to the Muscle-memory thing.

/Z