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Step 2-Insert Corners and complete first layer

Here our aim is to fix the four corners belonging to the bottom layer,namely the Yellow face.
We don't fix all the corners at once, instead we do it one by one.

Now remember you made a Yellow cross.
So now look for a Yellow sticker along the four sides of the top layer.

Ah! There it is!No no!Not the RED-GREEN-YELLOW cubie, because Yellow is not in the sides of the top layer but at the top of top layer.So I was referring to the RED-BLUE-YELLOW cubie.
Now turn the U face such that the RED-BLUE-YELLOW cubie comes right above its position in the bottom layer.
When this happens, observe that the Red sticker is diagonal to the Red center.

Now turn the cube such that the Red center is your front face.
Do a R-U-R' and the corner is back home.

Sometimes you may have to do the mirror of this.
That is when you may have to do a L'-U'-L instead of R-U-R' in case the corner ends up at the left top corner instead of the right top corner.
Here is an example:

Now try and do this to all the corners and see if are able to complete the first layer.

Exceptions

There are a few cases where the Yellow sticker maynot be on the sides of top layer.
In such cases, you must first bring the Yellow sticker to the side.
Then fix the corner the regular way.
Here are the other cases.

Yellow on Top

Yellow on Bottom-Right

Yellow on Bottom-Front


Please notice that the Yellow sticker was brought to the Top-side positon as before and re-inserted by the regular method described before.

Here is an example of a full layer solve:

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