57 cases

OLL — orientation of the last layer

All 57 cases, each turning the top face yellow in one algorithm.

OLL makes the whole top face one colour in a single algorithm, ignoring where the pieces end up. The 57 cases sound daunting; they are not learnt in one go. Most people pick them up in groups that share a shape or a trigger, and the awkward ones — the dots — come last because they are also the rarest.

From advanced

All edges oriented 7

Double Sune

OLL 21
Not started Intermediate 1/108 11 moves
RU2R'U'RUR'U'RU'R'

A bare yellow cross with a loose corner sticker at each end of the front face and each end of the back face. Nothing at all shows on the left or the right.

Pi

OLL 22
Not started Intermediate 1/54 9 moves
RU2R2U'R2U'R2U2R

A bare cross with two yellow corner stickers sitting together on one side face — the left as drawn — and a single sticker at the far end of both the front and the back.

Headlights

OLL 23
Not started Intermediate 1/54 9 moves
R2DR'U2RD'R'U2R'

The cross plus both back corners, so the top shows a solid bar of three across the back. The front face carries a matching pair of yellow stickers — the headlights.

Chameleon

OLL 24
Not started Intermediate 1/54 8 moves
RwUR'U'Rw'FRF'

A fat bar down the right of the top face — the cross plus both right-hand corners. One lone yellow sticker sits at the left end of the back row and another at the left end of the front row.

Bowtie

OLL 25
Not started Intermediate 1/54 8 moves
F'RwUR'U'Rw'FR

The cross with two diagonally opposite corners already yellow. The two twisted corners show one sticker on the left face and one at the right-hand end of the front row, pointing away from each other.

Anti-Sune

OLL 26
Not started Intermediate 1/54 7 moves
RU2R'U'RU'R'

The cross with exactly one corner already yellow. As drawn the finished corner is at the back right, and the other three show their yellow on the left face, at the left end of the front, and at the front end of the right face.

Sune

OLL 27
Not started Intermediate 1/54 7 moves
RUR'URU2R'

The cross with exactly one corner already yellow. As drawn the finished corner is at the front left, and the other three show yellow on the back face, on the right face and on the front face in turn.

T shapes 2

Key

OLL 33
Not started Advanced 1/54 8 moves
RUR'U'R'FRF'

A sideways T: the whole right-hand column of the top face plus the middle row reaching across to the left. The back and the front each show two yellow stickers running from the left corner to the middle.

T Shape

OLL 45
Not started Advanced 1/54 6 moves
FRUR'U'F'

The same sideways T as OLL 33, but the two loose corner stickers both face left, one at each end of the left face, instead of splitting between the front and the back.

Squares 2

Square (front-right)

OLL 5
Not started Advanced 1/54 7 moves
Rw'U2RUR'URw

A 2×2 block of yellow filling one corner of the top face — the front right as drawn — with the loose stickers wrapping round the left face and along the back. The front face stays bare.

Square (back-right)

OLL 6
Not started Advanced 1/54 7 moves
RwU2R'U'RU'Rw'

The mirror of OLL 5: a 2×2 block of yellow, drawn here at the back right, with the loose stickers running down the left face and along the front.

C shapes 2

C Shape (back)

OLL 34
Not started Advanced 1/54 11 moves
RUR2U'R'FRURU'F'

A C opening towards the back: the middle row of the top face plus both front corners. Single yellow stickers sit at the back end of the left and right faces.

C Shape (right)

OLL 46
Not started Advanced 1/54 8 moves
R'U'R'FRF'UR

A C opening to the right: both left-hand corners with the front and back edges, but not the left edge. The whole right face shows yellow, three stickers in a column.

W shapes 2

W Shape (left)

OLL 36
Not started Advanced 1/54 12 moves
L'U'LU'L'ULULF'L'F

A staircase of yellow running from the back-left corner across to the front-right: corner, edge, centre, edge, corner. The left face shows two stickers and the back one.

W Shape (right)

OLL 38
Not started Advanced 1/54 12 moves
RUR'URU'R'U'R'FRF'

The mirror staircase: yellow runs from the back-right corner down to the front-left. The right face shows two stickers and the back one.

Corners oriented 2

Stealth

OLL 28
Not started Advanced 1/54 10 moves
RwUR'U'Rw'RURU'R'

Every corner is already yellow. Two adjacent edges are flipped — the right and the front as drawn — so seven of the nine top stickers show yellow, with a notch either side of the front-right corner.

Corners Done, Bar

OLL 57
Not started Advanced 1/108 9 moves
RUR'U'M'URU'Rw'

All four corners done and a bar of three across the middle of the top: only the front and back edges are flipped.

P shapes 4

P Shape (back)

OLL 31
Not started Advanced 1/54 9 moves
R'U'FURU'R'F'R

A P lying on its side: the right-hand column of the top face plus the centre and the back edge. The front shows two yellow stickers at its left end.

P Shape (front)

OLL 32
Not started Advanced 1/54 9 moves
RUB'U'R'URBR'

The mirror of OLL 31: the right-hand column of the top face with the centre and the front edge, and two yellow stickers on the back at its left end.

P Shape (left)

OLL 43
Not started Advanced 1/54 6 moves
R'U'F'UFR

The left-hand column of the top face plus the front edge — a P facing left. The whole right face shows yellow.

P Shape (right)

OLL 44
Not started Advanced 1/54 6 moves
FwRUR'U'Fw'

The right-hand column of the top face plus the front edge — a P facing right. The whole left face shows yellow.

I shapes 4

Bottlecap

OLL 51
Not started Advanced 1/54 10 moves
R'U'R'FRF'RU'R'U2R

A bare line of three across the middle of the top face, no corners at all. The left face carries a sticker at each end and the front and back each show a pair at their right.

Rice Cooker

OLL 52
Not started Advanced 1/54 10 moves
RUR'URU'BU'B'R'

A bare line running front to back. The right face shows a full column of yellow while the left shows only its middle sticker.

Highway

OLL 55
Not started Advanced 1/108 11 moves
RU2R2U'RU'R'U2FRF'

A bare line front to back with the left and right faces each showing a full column of yellow, and nothing at all on the front or the back.

Streetlights

OLL 56
Not started Advanced 1/108 14 moves
RwURw'URU'R'URU'R'RwU'Rw'

A bare line left to right, with a yellow corner sticker at each end of the left face and each end of the right face.

Fish shapes 4

Kite

OLL 9
Not started Advanced 1/54 11 moves
RUR'U'R'FR2UR'U'F'

A kite: the back and left edges with the centre, and a lone corner diagonally across at the front right.

Anti-Kite

OLL 10
Not started Advanced 1/54 11 moves
RUR'UR'FRF'RU2R'

The mirror kite: the left and front edges with the centre, and the lone corner at the back right.

Fish Salad

OLL 35
Not started Advanced 1/54 9 moves
RU2R2FRF'RU2R'

A fish pointing at the front-right corner: that corner with the two edges beside it and the centre, plus a lone corner away at the back left.

Mounted Fish

OLL 37
Not started Advanced 1/54 8 moves
FR'F'RURU'R'

A fish pointing at the back-left corner: that corner with the two edges beside it, and a lone corner at the front right. The right face shows two stickers.

Knight move shapes 4

Knight Move (front-left)

OLL 13
Not started Advanced 1/54 11 moves
FURU'R2F'RURU'R'

A bar across the middle of the top face with one extra corner hanging off it at the front left — a knight's move away from the far end of the bar.

Knight Move (front-right)

OLL 14
Not started Advanced 1/54 10 moves
R'FRUR'F'RFU'F'

The same middle bar as OLL 13, with the extra corner at the front right instead.

Knight Move (back-left)

OLL 15
Not started Advanced 1/54 10 moves
Lw'U'LwL'U'LULw'ULw

The middle bar with its extra corner at the back left. The back face shows only its middle sticker, which is what separates it from OLL 13.

Knight Move (back-right)

OLL 16
Not started Advanced 1/54 10 moves
RwURw'RUR'U'RwU'Rw'

The middle bar with its extra corner at the back right.

Awkward shapes 4

Awkward (right)

OLL 29
Not started Advanced 1/54 13 moves
RUR'U'RU'R'F'U'FRUR'

An awkward scatter with no clean shape to it: the back and left edges, the back-right corner and the front-right corner.

Awkward (left)

OLL 30
Not started Advanced 1/54 11 moves
FR'FR2U'R'U'RUR'F2

The mirror awkward case: the back and left edges plus both front corners.

Awkward Fish (right)

OLL 41
Not started Advanced 1/54 13 moves
RUR'URU2R'FRUR'U'F'

The back edge, the left edge and both front corners on top. The same top-face shape as OLL 30, but here the two loose corner stickers sit at either end of the back face.

Awkward Fish (left)

OLL 42
Not started Advanced 1/54 13 moves
R'U'RU'R'U2RFRUR'U'F'

Both back corners with the left and front edges. The two loose corner stickers sit at either end of the front face.

L shapes 6

L Shape (double sledgehammer)

OLL 47
Not started Advanced 1/54 12 moves
R'U'R'FRF'R'FRF'UR

No corners at all: the back and right edges with the centre, making an L. The front face shows two yellow stickers at its left end.

Breakneck

OLL 48
Not started Advanced 1/54 10 moves
FRUR'U'RUR'U'F'

The mirror L: the back and left edges with the centre, and two yellow stickers on the front at its right end.

L Shape (back-right)

OLL 49
Not started Advanced 1/54 9 moves
RwU'Rw2URw2URw2U'Rw

The same L as OLL 47 — the back and right edges with the centre — but here the whole left face shows yellow and the right face is bare.

L Shape (front-right)

OLL 50
Not started Advanced 1/54 9 moves
Rw'URw2U'Rw2U'Rw2URw'

An L made of the right and front edges with the centre, the whole left face showing yellow and the right face bare.

Frying Pan (left)

OLL 53
Not started Advanced 1/54 11 moves
Rw'U'RU'R'URU'R'U2Rw

The right and front edges with the centre. The left face is a full column of yellow and the right face shows a sticker at each end.

Frying Pan (right)

OLL 54
Not started Advanced 1/54 11 moves
RwUR'URU'R'URU2Rw'

The back and right edges with the centre, the left face a full column of yellow and the right face a sticker at each end.

Lightning bolts 6

Lightning (right)

OLL 7
Not started Advanced 1/54 7 moves
RwUR'URU2Rw'

A lightning bolt: the back and left edges with the centre, and the front-left corner hanging off the end.

Lightning (left)

OLL 8
Not started Advanced 1/54 7 moves
Rw'U'RU'R'U2Rw

The mirror bolt: the left and front edges with the centre and the back-left corner.

Lightning (back-right)

OLL 11
Not started Advanced 1/54 11 moves
RwUR'UR'FRF'RU2Rw'

A bolt running from the back-right corner along the back edge, through the centre and out to the left edge.

Lightning (back-left)

OLL 12
Not started Advanced 1/54 11 moves
Lw'U'LU'LF'L'FL'U2Lw

The mirror bolt: from the back-left corner along the back edge, through the centre and out to the right edge.

Big Lightning (left)

OLL 39
Not started Advanced 1/54 9 moves
LF'L'U'LUFU'L'

A big lightning bolt: the whole middle row of the top face with one corner at each end, going opposite ways — back right and front left.

Big Lightning (right)

OLL 40
Not started Advanced 1/54 9 moves
R'FRUR'U'F'UR

The mirror big bolt: the middle row with the back-left and front-right corners.

Dots 8

Runway

OLL 1
Not started Advanced 1/108 11 moves
RU2R2FRF'U2R'FRF'

A bare dot with a full column of yellow down both the left and the right faces. The front and back each show only their middle sticker.

Zamboni

OLL 2
Not started Advanced 1/54 12 moves
FRUR'U'F'FwRUR'U'Fw'

A dot with a full column of yellow down the left face only. The back and the front each show a pair of stickers at their right-hand ends.

Sune Dot

OLL 3
Not started Advanced 1/54 13 moves
FwRUR'U'Fw'U'FRUR'U'F'

A dot with exactly one corner already yellow — the front right as drawn. The back face carries a pair of stickers at its left end while the front shows only its middle one.

Anti-Sune Dot

OLL 4
Not started Advanced 1/54 13 moves
FwRUR'U'Fw'UFRUR'U'F'

The mirror of OLL 3: a dot with a single finished corner, at the back right as drawn. Here it is the front face that carries the pair at its left end, with only a middle sticker on the back.

Slash

OLL 17
Not started Advanced 1/54 13 moves
RUR'UR'FRF'U2R'FRF'

A dot with two diagonally opposite corners already yellow, and nothing else on the top face.

Crown

OLL 18
Not started Advanced 1/54 13 moves
RwUR'URU2Rw2U'RU'R'U2Rw

A dot with the two back corners already yellow and a solid bar of three yellow stickers right across the front face.

Bunny

OLL 19
Not started Advanced 1/54 11 moves
MURUR'U'M'R'FRF'

A dot with the two back corners done, like OLL 18, but here the loose stickers split between the left and right faces instead of forming a bar on the front.

Checkers

OLL 20
Not started Advanced 1/216 11 moves
RwUR'U'M2URU'R'U'M'

The checkerboard: all four corners already yellow and all four edges flipped, so the top face alternates. Every side face shows a single sticker in its middle.