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)	Year	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)	Donald Taylor, John Conway, David Benson, David Seal, Jessica Fridrich, Mirek Goljan, Hans Dockhorn, Anneke Treep, René Schoof	1979-1981	VH, ZB, MGLS-F, FreeFOP
CFCE	Guus Razoux Schultz	1981
Petrus	Lars Petrus	1981
Waterman	Marc Waterman	1981
Snyder Method 2	Anthony Snyder	1982
Tripod	Ryan Heise Michael Gottlieb	2002	F2L, 2x2 Block, 2x2x3 Block
Doug Li	Doug Li	2002
Roux	Gilles Roux	2003
Heise	Ryan Heise	2003
L2L	Duncan Dicks, Stachu Korick	2004
Solaris	James Straughan	2006
Nautilus	James Straughan	2006
ZZ	Zbigniew Zborowski	2006	ZZ-VH, ZZ-a, ZZ-b, ZZ-d, ZZ-WV, MGLS-Z, ZZ-blah, EJLS, JTLE, ZBLL
Polaris	James Straughan	2010
Hahn	Eric Hahn	2010
Pizel method	Alexandre Philiponet	2011
CEOR	Various	2013
LEOR	Noa Arthurs	2013
SSC	Joseph Briggs	2015
M-CELL	Joseph Briggs	2015
Hexagonal Francisco	Andrew Nathenson, Henry Helmuth	2016
Quadrangular Francisco	Alex Yang	2016
2GR	John Li	2017
42	Joseph Briggs	2017
Zipper	Justin Taylor	2017
Ribbon	Justin Taylor	2017
Sledgehog	Ryan Vigil	2017
LMCF	Eric Fattah	2017
WaterRoux	Eric Fattah, Max Garza	2017
R3T	Terence Tan	2018
Tudor	Joseph Tudor	2018
Russo	Anthony Russo	2019
Square-101	Vincent Trang	2020
Mehta	Yash Mehta	2020
SSRC	Silky	2020
APB	James Straughan	2021
Squall	Vincent Trang	2021
TruSRU	Vincent Trang	2021
Farz	Faris Zamani	2023
Peridot	Kristopher Tibbetts	2023
Epidote	Kristopher Tibbetts	2023
Iacob	Iacob Razvan	2023
Hall	Daylen Hall, Ethan Hayes	2023
ECBL	Montu, Kristopher Tibbetts	2024
Quipper	William Sallros	2025
Petrus-T	Gustavo P Leite, Mingus, Major Gilreath	2025
TN	Ngô Anh Tuấn	2025
Columns First Methods	Various	Unknown	Roux, CFOP, Shadowslice
3x3 Speed/FMC
Petrus	Lars Petrus		JTLE, EJLS, MGLS-P
Heise	Ryan Heise
Mehta	Yash Mehta
Snyder	Anthony Snyder
SSC (Shadowslice Snow Columns)	Joseph Briggs
B2 (Briggs2) Method (Briggs/B2)
LEOR	Arc, Pyjam		EO, ZBLL
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
3x3 Domino Subgroup
N3DR	N3RZ		223, DRL, DRPLL
Big Cubes
n×n×n / Universal
Ofapel method	Guillaume Erbibou
ABCube Method	Sandra Workman
Big Cubes Speed
Yau method	Robert Yau
Hoya method	Jong-Ho Jeong
4BOP	Kristopher Tibbetts
Obli Method	Alex Yang
Reduction
OBLBL
NS4
4Z4	Joseph Tudor
Cage	Per Kristen Fredlund
Meyer method	Richard Meyer
K4	Thom Barlow
Sandwich	Nicholas Ho
Kenneth's Big Cubes Method	Kenneth Gustavsson
Z4	Conrad Rider
js4	??
4trus	Owen Smith
Lewis Method	John Lewis
Pet5	Isabel S.
Mehta-MH	Matthew Hinton
Mehtad	Yash Mehta
TN4	Ngô Anh Tuấn
Big Cubes BLD
r2	Erik Akkersdijk
BH	Daniel Beyer, Chris Hardwick
Other puzzles
Experimental
Human Thistlethwaite	Morwen Thistlethwaite Ryan Heise
Belt	Various
CML-Method	[Various]
Salvia Method	David Salvia
Triangular Francisco	Michael Gottlieb
Hexagonal Francisco	Andrew Nathenson, Henry Helmuth
Quadrangular Francisco	Alex Yang
Orient First	Lars Nielsson
F2LL2C	Aiad Janis
HSC	Imam Tanvin Alam
2GB	Imam Tanvin Alam
E15 / E35	??
Zagorec method	Damjan Zagorec
3CFCEP	??
3CFCE	??
PEG	??
PORT	??
FRED	Baian Liu, Timothy Sun, Stachu Korick
VDW Method	Alex VanDerWyst
Hawaiian Kociemba	Michael Humuhumunukunukuapua'a		HKOLL, HKPLL, EO,
Pikas**t	Justin Harder
Poux	Alex Yang
Roux-CFOP hybrid	Tao Yu (and probably others)
1/162	Emil Zedelius
Pyraminx
Corners First	??
Layer First	??
Last 4 Edges	??
Petrus	??
Face Permute	??
WO	Oscar Roth Andersen (Odder)
Oka Method	Yohei Oka
Megaminx
Balint method	Balint Bodor
keyhole method
S2L Westlund Style	Simon Westlund
S2L+T2L--->Multiple F2L (Virus S2L)	Yu Da Hyun
Square-1
SSS1M	Shelley Chang
Vandenbergh Method	Lars Vandenbergh		EO, CP, EP
Roux n Skrew
LBL			PLL
Skwuction	Jaap Scherphuis, Cary Huang
Yoyleberry	Cary Huang
Lin	Tse-Kan Lin
JQ	Jack Triton
Rubik's Clock
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Magic
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Master Magic
Pochmann Method	Stefan Pochmann
Ooms	Alexander Ooms
Skewb
Sarah method	Sarah Strong		LBL, 1LLL
Ranzha method	Brandon Harnish		Petrus Block, Welder mask, PUC (Permuting U corners), LFC(Last Four Centers), CLL
Frisk Method	Alex Yang		VHLS, EG-2
Skrouxb	Ben Pang
1 Algorithm method	??		FBF (Face by Face), CLL
Kirjava-Meep Method	Kirjava-Meep		CLL, EG, L5C, TCLL
Rubik's 360
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See also

• Substep
• Common substeps
• Algorithm Database
• List of Subsets
• Solving Variants

External links

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