List of methods

For a category view, see Methods and substeps

Table of methods by purpose

The following is a table of methods (and their variants) for solving various twisty puzzles. Follow the links to read more about each method or the methods in the category.

Name	Original Proposer(s)	Variants
2x2
2x2 Beginner
LBL		Waterman Last Layer
Beginner Guimond	Conrad Rider
2x2 Speed
CLL	Various
NMCLL	Gilles Roux, James Straughan
EG	Erik Akkersdijk, Gunnar Krig	EG-1, EG-2
Guimond	Gaétan Guimond
Ortega	Victor Ortega, Josef Jelinek, Jeff Varasano	PBL
SS	Mitchell Stern, Timothy Sun
OFOTA	Erik Akkersdijk
VOP	Kenneth Gustavsson
GBC	Signalcuber
TCLL	Robert Yau, Christopher Olson, and others	CLL
HD	V. Higgs, J. Demars, Max Garza, John Lewis	VOP
BOP	Matthew Pan
MLS	Matthew Pan
3x3
3x3 Beginner
LBL
Ortega/Mcetsu	Jeff Varasano
Corners First	Marc Waterman
Less is More	Camilo Amaral
"The Ideal Solution"	Ideal Toy Corp
Edges First
8355	Reheart Sheu	Sexy Method, MirIS Method
Edge Supertwist Method	David Ha
3x3 speed Beginner
Beginner CFOP	Badmephisto
Beginner Roux
Beginner Petrus
Pogobat Beginner Method	Dan Brown
Keyhole
XG		OLL, PLL
Samsara Method		OLL, PLL
Lazy CFOP	Alex Yang	CFOP, Roux, Petrus, CFCE, ZZ, Columns, LBL, FreeFOP, FreeFCE, WV, Salvia, Snyder
335	Robbie Safran
CB	Allen Milazzo, Joon Johnson
3x3 Speed
CFOP (Fridrich)	David Singmaster René Schoof Jessica Fridrich Hans Dockhorn Anneke Treep	VH, ZB, TN, MGLS-F, OLL, PLL, F2L
ZZ	Zbigniew Zborowski	ZZ-VH, ZZ-a, ZZ-b, ZZ-d, ZZ-WV, MGLS-Z, ZZ-blah, EJLS, JTLE, ZBLL
ChucnyZB	Chucny
Tripod	Michael Gottlieb	F2L, 2x2 Block, 2x2x3 Block
FreeFOP
FreeFCE	T Perm -	Petrus, CFOP
CFCE		CLL/ELL
Waterman	Marc Waterman
APB	James Straughan
L2L	Duncan Dicks, Stachu Korick
Hahn	Eric Hahn
Sledgehog	Ryan Vigil	CFOP, Tripod
Hexagonal Francisco	Andrew Nathenson
Ultimate dimensional pillars of francisco,UDPF	Uff20xd
Double domino dimension,DDD	Uff20xd
Farz	Faris Zamani
ECBL	Kristopher Tibbetts and Montu
Quadrangular Francisco	Alex Yang
LMCF	Eric Fattah
WaterRoux	efattah, Neuro
Columns First Methods		Roux, CFOP, Shadowslice
Pizel method	Alexandre Philiponet
Qipper method	William Sallros
Ribbon Method	Justin Taylor	F2L-1 Corner, TOLS, TTLL
Russo method	Anthony Russo	F2L-1 Cross Edge, CLL, EO, L5EP
Iacob method	Iacob Razvan	EoFace without the DFR corner, Belt, CLS, PLL + IPFL
Hall Method	Daylen Hall	OLTP PLTP
CFBL	Riccardo Munaro
Peridot	Kristopher Tibbetts	TSLE+DF PLTP
Epidote	Kristopher Tibbetts	EOLC E2CP
R3T	Terence Tan
TVS	Paul K.