The Cube Method · A masterclass by Emmanuel Pacheco

Every hard problem has pieces.

Learn to solve the cube in seven calm stages, and walk away with a way of thinking you can use on a stalled deal, a money decision, a tech rollout or a hard conversation.

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54stickers
26pieces you can move
3kinds of piece: centers, edges, corners
43 quintillionpossible scrambles
Drag the cube to turn it
The one idea to keep

You are not solving the cube. You are solving the lesson.

43 quintillion scrambles sounds impossible. Yet every one of them is solved with the same few moves, in the same order. Hard problems at work and at home are no different once you know where to look.

The method · four truths

How the cube teaches you to think

Tap each truth to see it on the cube.

6 centers · 12 edges · 8 corners
The lessons · seven stages

Solve it one stage at a time

Each stage is small on purpose. Master it, mark it done, and move on. Grey stickers are the ones you can ignore for now. Every stage has a short video lesson.

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    PRACTICE
    The real-world lesson

    Watch the full YouTube playlist
    The real-world lab

    Same cube, different problem

    Pick a challenge. Then look at it through each lens: what never moves, what connects, what distracts, and which layer to build first.

    Drag to turn · tap a lens or a layer
    Build it layer by layer

    Practice · get faster and faster

    Time your solves

    Speed is the sign that a stage has become automatic. Tap the clock (or press the space bar) to start and stop.

    Best–
    Average of last 5–
    Solves0

    Times stay on this device only.

    Illustrated portrait of Emmanuel Pacheco
    Your coach

    Emmanuel Pacheco

    Sales leader, speaker and problem solver from Toronto. Emmy has spent decades leading complex enterprise deals at Google Cloud and Salesforce, and teaching teams that the hardest problems get easier when you stop looking at the whole and start with one piece.

    Mountain View · Nov 2023Guinness World Record
    Toronto · Aug 2024Coached first-time solvers
    London UK · Nov 2024Talk with Ernő Rubik
    To date43,000+ people reached
    “If you are curious, you’ll find the puzzles around you. If you are determined, you will solve them.”Ernő Rubik, inventor of the cube
    Bring the masterclass to your team

    Everyone leaves holding a solved cube

    Hands-on sessions for sales teams, leadership offsites and conferences. No experience needed.

    Keynote

    45 minutes on the Cube Method for hard problems, with live solving and real deal stories.

    Hands-on workshop

    Two to three hours. Every participant learns the first layer, and the team maps a real challenge onto the cube.

    Leadership advisory

    Working sessions that break a stalled deal, a growth plan or a team problem into centers, edges and layers.

    emmypacheco@gmail.com emmanuelpacheco.com