Beginner courseLesson 8 of 11

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.

  1. 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).
  2. 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.
  3. 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.