Turn the whole top yellow.

OLL stands for Orientation of the Last Layer — making the entire top face yellow. You have the cross; the four corners may still show yellow on their sides instead of on top. One famous algorithm, repeated with the right starting angle, fixes every case.

Sune

R U R' U R U2 R'

Seven moves, probably the most-executed algorithm in speedcubing history.

Play on the 3D cube

1Count corners that already show yellow on top: zero, one, or two (three is impossible — if you see it, a corner is twisted from a mis-scramble).
2One yellow corner — the "fish". Turn U so that corner sits at the front-left, then run Sune. Often solves it in one; at most two rounds.
3Zero or two — find a corner whose yellow sticker faces you (on the front, not the side). Hold that corner front-left, run Sune, and you'll land in a fish. Go to step 2.

Between rounds, only the top layer changes — the two solved layers are safe the whole time. That's the quiet beauty of last-layer algorithms: they scramble and unscramble the bottom mid-sequence, always finishing clean.

Tip

Sune has a rhythm — say "trigger, come back, big turn, close" while you learn it. When you can run it from muscle memory, you've outgrown the hardest part of the beginner method.

See it on the cube

Sune

R U R' U R U2 R'

Yellow on top, green in front: the case is set up first, then the algorithm plays one move at a time. Drag the cube to look around it.

Back to Sune

Try it yourself

Do it on the cube

2 short exercises with this lesson's algorithm. You turn the cube; it checks the result and helps with any wrong turn.

A fish: one yellow corner, already at the front-left. Turn the top all yellow.
Another fish — this one takes two rounds.