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CFOP

Method

Cross, F2L, OLL, PLL — the Fridrich method

The method that teaches you there’s always another optimization.

Actually, though

The most widely used speedsolving method, and what nearly every fast cuber you have watched is doing. Four steps: build the cross, fill the first two layers, orient the last layer, permute the last layer.

Full CFOP is 78 last-layer algorithms, but you can run the whole method with about 10 while you learn the rest. Almost every world record has been set with it.

In the wild

mei’ve finally learned all of CFOP
me*discovers full ZBLL exists*
me*it’s 3am*

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