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
TCLL	Robert Yau, Christopher Olson, and others	CLL
HD	V. Higgs, S. Demars, Max Garza, John Lewis	VOP
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
3x3 speed Beginner
Beginner Petrus
Beginner Roux
Beginner CFOP	Badmephisto
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, WV, Salvia, Snyder
3x3 Speed
Ribbon Method	Justin Taylor	F2L-1 Corner, TOLS, TTLL
ZZ	Zbigniew Zborowski	ZZ-VH, ZZ-a, ZZ-b, ZZ-d, ZZ-WV, MGLS-Z, ZZ-blah, EJLS, JTLE, ZBLL
Waterman	Marc Waterman
Tripod	Michael Gottlieb	F2L, 2x2 Block, 2x2x3 Block
L2L	Duncan Dicks, Stachu Korick
Hahn	Eric Hahn
CFOP (Fridrich)	David Singmaster René Schoof Jessica Fridrich Hans Dockhorn Anneke Treep	VH, ZB, MGLS-F, OLL, PLL, F2L
CFCE		CLL/ELL
FreeFOP		Petrus, CFOP
Columns First Methods		Roux, CFOP, Shadowslice
3x3 Speed/FMC
Petrus	Lars Petrus	JTLE, EJLS, MGLS-P
Roux	Gilles Roux
Heise	Ryan Heise
Snyder	Anthony Snyder
SSC (Shadowslice Snow Columns)	Joseph Briggs
B2 (Briggs2) Method (Briggs/B2)
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
Big Cubes
Big Cubes Speed
Yau method	Robert Yau
Hoya method	Jong-Ho Jeong
Reduction
OBLBL
NS4
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	??
Lewis Method	John Lewis
Big Cubes BLD
r2	Erik Akkersdijk
BH	Daniel Beyer, Chris Hardwick
Other puzzles
Experimental
Human Thistlethwaite	Morwen Thistlethwaite Ryan Heise
Belt	Various
Salvia Method	David Salvia
Triangular Francisco	Michael Gottlieb
Hexagonal Francisco	Andrew Nathenson, Henry Helmuth
Quadrangular Francisco	Alex Yang
Orient First	Lars Nielsson
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
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
Roux n Skrew
Skwuction	Jaap Scherphuis, Cary Huang
Yoyleberry	Cary Huang
Lin
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
Ranzha method	??	Petrus Block, Welder mask, PUC (Permuting U corners), LFC(Last Four Centers), CLL
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.