Everything yellow — now put it in order.
The top is solid yellow but the sides of the last layer are jumbled. PLL — Permutation of the Last Layer — moves those final pieces around the top without flipping anything. Two steps: corners, then edges.
Step 1 — corners: find the headlights
Spin U slowly and study each side. "Headlights" are two corner stickers of the same color on one face, like a car facing you. Usually exactly one side has them (if every side has headlights, your corners are already done — skip to edges; if no side has them, see the note below).
Corner cycle
R' F R' B2 R F' R' B2 R2
Hold the headlights at the BACK, then run it (B2 is two turns of the back face). No headlights anywhere? Run it once from any angle, find the headlights that appear, hold them at the back and run it again. Only the corners move — the top stays yellow.
Play on the 3D cubeStep 2 — edges: rotate the middles
With corners solved, at least one side is now a full solid bar. Hold that solved bar at the back and cycle the remaining three edges:
Edge cycle (Ua)
R U' R U R U R U' R' U' R2
Run it, check, run it again if needed — it cycles three edges counter-clockwise. No solid bar anywhere? Run it once from any angle and one will appear.
Play on the 3D cubeSomewhere in the middle of that sequence, the cube clicks into a full solve. Take a second. Every scrambled cube you ever meet is now a solved cube that hasn't happened yet.
Tip
See it on the cube
Corner cycle
R' F R' B2 R F' R' B2 R2
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.
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.
- Corners are done; the solid bar is at the back. Cycle the last three edges.
- Same setup, edges going the other way. Run it, check, run it again.