irontwig
Veteran
Are you just trying to teach him how to solve a cube or is he actually a speedcuber? Because if he just wants to solve the cube, I'd recommend he learn the beginners last layer (I think that only requires like 4 algorithms). If he's speedcuber, then he could try CLL/ELL, which I believe is about 10 algs shorter.
Well, that depends on how you count the number of algs; OLL has a bunch of algs where you just use double instead of single layer turns and you can easily avoid the 4-flip cases.