Hey Guys, from what i know, many people struggle to learn full oll, even in a long period of time. When i learnt full oll in 3 days, other cubers i knew just went.. WOAH!? I average around 12 seconds but something tells me sharing my method would be helpful to you guys. So here is the 3 day plan with around 1-2 hours of learning and 1 hour and practice per day. I suggest doing it on long weekends 
Requirements: You should know full pll and a decent knowledge about your method and working of the cube. I would suggest learning full oll at around 15-20 secs(avg) but at least 30.
Day 1: Learn all the olls that are just easy trigger compilations or just really short and easy to remember. I personally just watched this whole series(Just 3 videos) only and it turned out to be sufficient. Since they are easy algorithms you wont forget them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-x3FjK2jz4
Day 2: Go through the list of all olls and seeing for yourself which are the cases that you get most commonly. Common cases may not be same for all since common cases depend on scrambling style and solving style. Since these cases will pop up alot, you will naturally get more practice with them and hence you wont forget them.
Day 3: This day is actually quite easy since you have so few olls remaining that you don't know, that you can learn them all in one day.
Tips:
1. Learning (Visual and Algorithmic)
Knowing full pll actually helped alot while learning full oll because i had a bit of practice learning lots of algs in one day. The structure of how i learnt the algs was that first i used to execute the algorithm without looking at the cube but by looking only at the screen. This was just personal satisfaction that the oll worked. Then I execute the oll while alternating between the cube and screen and 90% of the times i would just remember the flow of the algorithm and how my hands looked while i was doing the oll and hence i would consider the algorithm learnt and i would never have to 'MEMORIZE' the notations of these algs. But this is not the same with all people. Some people can easily memorize algs(I suck at that though). Although for the remaining 10% i would have to memorize the algs. And the easiest way to memorize algs is to break them up into familiar movements. As in, You divide the alg into sets of moves that you usually perform together in say plls or f2l etc. There may not always be triggers in the oll algs, in which case this method is helpful. But I still find it easier to remember the 'flow' of the alg as you do it and store it in the visual memory, kind of how you visualize you cross in your head during inspection, but a little differently.
2.Practicing
While learning these algorithms I usually learnt the algorithms in the morning before going to school and then when i came home, i would start cubing normally. Then, if i got a case that i learnt in the morning but didn't quite remember, i would quickly look it up. With a decent amount of solves you should get enough practice for most of the olls. Then at night before sleeping, i would test myself to see if i remember all of them, and i would practice the ones that i didn't. In this way you can ensure you will remember all your algs.
3. Choosing the right alg
There are many sites where you could get oll algs, but to choose which alg is the right alg for you, you need to try all the possible algs for all the cases and see for yourself which one would be better for your learning and execution style. I originally learnt olls from Bob Burton's site but as i progressed i saw a few of my olls getting really fast and a few of them really slow. So i had to eventually switch my algs to something that suited my turning style better.
I did the mistake of learning full oll when i averaged around 25 secs, And it took really long for me to get sub-15. I can't impose a limit to when you learn but can share my experience and hope it will help. I hope this post helped
Requirements: You should know full pll and a decent knowledge about your method and working of the cube. I would suggest learning full oll at around 15-20 secs(avg) but at least 30.
Day 1: Learn all the olls that are just easy trigger compilations or just really short and easy to remember. I personally just watched this whole series(Just 3 videos) only and it turned out to be sufficient. Since they are easy algorithms you wont forget them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-x3FjK2jz4
Day 2: Go through the list of all olls and seeing for yourself which are the cases that you get most commonly. Common cases may not be same for all since common cases depend on scrambling style and solving style. Since these cases will pop up alot, you will naturally get more practice with them and hence you wont forget them.
Day 3: This day is actually quite easy since you have so few olls remaining that you don't know, that you can learn them all in one day.
Tips:
1. Learning (Visual and Algorithmic)
Knowing full pll actually helped alot while learning full oll because i had a bit of practice learning lots of algs in one day. The structure of how i learnt the algs was that first i used to execute the algorithm without looking at the cube but by looking only at the screen. This was just personal satisfaction that the oll worked
. Then I execute the oll while alternating between the cube and screen and 90% of the times i would just remember the flow of the algorithm and how my hands looked while i was doing the oll and hence i would consider the algorithm learnt and i would never have to 'MEMORIZE' the notations of these algs. But this is not the same with all people. Some people can easily memorize algs(I suck at that though). Although for the remaining 10% i would have to memorize the algs. And the easiest way to memorize algs is to break them up into familiar movements. As in, You divide the alg into sets of moves that you usually perform together in say plls or f2l etc. There may not always be triggers in the oll algs, in which case this method is helpful. But I still find it easier to remember the 'flow' of the alg as you do it and store it in the visual memory, kind of how you visualize you cross in your head during inspection, but a little differently.2.Practicing
While learning these algorithms I usually learnt the algorithms in the morning before going to school and then when i came home, i would start cubing normally. Then, if i got a case that i learnt in the morning but didn't quite remember, i would quickly look it up. With a decent amount of solves you should get enough practice for most of the olls. Then at night before sleeping, i would test myself to see if i remember all of them, and i would practice the ones that i didn't. In this way you can ensure you will remember all your algs.
3. Choosing the right alg
There are many sites where you could get oll algs, but to choose which alg is the right alg for you, you need to try all the possible algs for all the cases and see for yourself which one would be better for your learning and execution style. I originally learnt olls from Bob Burton's site but as i progressed i saw a few of my olls getting really fast and a few of them really slow. So i had to eventually switch my algs to something that suited my turning style better.
I did the mistake of learning full oll when i averaged around 25 secs, And it took really long for me to get sub-15. I can't impose a limit to when you learn but can share my experience and hope it will help. I hope this post helped
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