List of methods

Complete List of Methods by Purpose

Presented below is a complete list of methods (and their variants) for solving various twisty puzzles. Use the Wiki links in the table to find out more about each method, or the methods in each category.

Name	Original Proposer(s)	Variants
2x2 Beginner
LBL		Waterman Last Layer
Beginner Guimond	Conrad Rider
2x2 Speed
Ortega	Victor Ortega, Josef Jelinek
Guimond	Gaétan Guimond
Waterman (CLL)	Marc Waterman
EG	Erik Akkersdijk, Gunnar Krig
OFOTA	Erik Akkersdijk
SS	Mitchell Stern, Timothy Sun
VOP	Kenneth Gustavsson
3x3 Beginner
LBL		Keyhole, XG
Corners First	Marc Waterman
Edges First
Beginner Petrus
8355	Reheart Sheu	Sexy Method
3x3 Speed
ZZ	Zbigniew Zborowski	ZZ-VH, ZZ-a, ZZ-b, ZZ-d, ZZ-WV, MGLS-Z, ZZ-blah, EJLS, JTLE,jsls
Waterman	Marc Waterman
Tripod	Michael Gottlieb
L2L	Duncan Dicks, Stachu Korick
Hahn	Eric Hahn
3x3 Speed/SpeedBLD
CFOP (Fridrich)	Jessica Fridrich, and others	CLL/ELL, VH, ZB, MGLS-F
3x3 Speed/FMC
Petrus	Lars Petrus	JTLE, EJLS, MGLS-P,jsls
Roux	Gilles Roux
Heise	Ryan Heise
Snyder	Anthony Snyder
3x3 BLD
3OP	John White?
Old Pochmann	Stefan Pochmann
M2/R2	Stefan Pochmann	Deadalnix (M2), Freestyle for Dummies (R2)
TuRBo	Erik Akkersdijk
BH	Daniel Beyer, Chris Hardwick
ZBLD	Chris Tran	ZBLD-2Cycle, ZBLD-3Cycle
Experimental
Human Thistlethwaite	Morwen Thistlethwaite Ryan Heise
Belt	??
Salvia Method	David Salvia
Triangular Francisco	Michael Gottlieb
Orient First	Lars Nielsson
E15 / E35	??
3CFCEP	??
3CFCE	??
PEG	??
PORT	??
FRED	Baian Liu, Timothy Sun, Stachu Korick
Big Cubes Speed
Reduction
Cage	Per Kristen Fredlund
K4	Thom Barlow
Sandwich	Nicholas Ho
Kenneth's Big Cubes Method	Kenneth Gustavsson
Z4	Conrad Rider
js4	??
Big Cubes BLD
r2	Erik Akkersdijk
BH	Daniel Beyer, Chris Hardwick
Pyraminx
Corners First	??
Layer First	??
Last 4 Edges	??
Petrus	??
Face Permute	??
WO	Oscar Andersen (Odder)
Oka Method	Yohei Oka
Megaminx
...
Square-1
SSS1M	Shelley Chang
Vandenbergh Method	Lars Vandenbergh
Rubik's Clock
...
Magic
...
Master Magic
Pochmann Method	Stefan Pochmann
Ooms	Alexander Ooms
Skewb
...
Rubik's 360
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See also

• Substep
• Common substeps
• Algorithm Database
• Solving Variants

External links

• Speedsolving.com: BCE Methods - methods based around Blockbuilding, Corners First and Edges First.