rouxtorial

CMLL

Corners of the Last Layer (ignoring the M slice). Yes, the name is confusing.

You can solve this with as little as 1 alg and as many as 42 (or more!).

Side note: Some CMLLs can be referred to by their name, such as “sune”. You don’t need to remember the name at all. :) In fact, you don’t even need to know the algs’ moves… just the muscle memory! If you can remember it by the “shapes” it moves on the cube, that works too :)

A “look” means you look at the cube and execute 1 alg, after which some step is done. With “full CMLL”, you’d know 42 algs and be able to 1-look CMLL.

2-look CMLL uses only 9 algs, and is worth knowing until you can get through the rest. CMLL is a fairly small and easy algset though, so you can learn it whenever! I know only partial CMLL because I’m lazy :)

2-look CMLL

For 2-look CMLL, the steps are:

• Orient the top layer corners (assumed to be yellow usually) in one look
  • 7 algs
• Permute the top layer corners in one look
  • 2 algs

Here’s an algsheet for 2-look CMLL. I’ll describe these algs here, but that’s a great reference!

If you learned the layer-by-layer “beginner’s method” first, then you already might know:

• Niklas
  • R U' L' U R' U' L
  • Used in beginner’s method to permute corners.
  • Not necessarily used in 2-look CMLL, but hey, now you know a full CMLL case!
    • It actually does a Sune’s orientation + an adjacent corner perm (like a T perm).
• Niklas mirror (just do that but with ur left hand starting first!)
• Sune:
  • R U R' U R U2 R'
  • Used in beginner’s method to move yellow edges!
• Antisune:
  • either do sune with left hand, OR do sune in reverse:
  • R U2 R' U' R U' R'
  • or from the back:
    • R' U' R U' R' U2 R (this is the one on the page)
• F sexy F’:
  • F (R U R' U') F
  • used in beginner’s to FLIP yellow edges
  • Note: “sexy move” refers to R U R' U', a common trigger in algs

Sune, Antisune, and F sexy F’ are used in 2-look CMLL to orient corners. The remainders for orientation are:

• H: F (triple sexy) F'
  • As in, you do 3 sexy moves!
• Pi: F (double sexy) F'
• T: (sexy) (sledgehammer)
  • A “sledgehammer” is R' F R F'.
• L: F R U' R' U' R U R' F'
  • Note: don’t confuse these R and U moves with a sexy move!

For permutation, you’ll need the T and Y perms:

• T perm:
  • Used for adjacent corner swaps on the right side.
  • R U R' U' R' F R2 U' R' U' R U R' F'
    • Aka, (sexy) (L orientation), but the R R that would be in the middle of that gets written as R2.
    • T perm is best perm :)
• Y perm:
  • Used for diagonal corner swaps.
  • F R U' R' U' R U R' F' R U R' U' R' F R F'
  • Notice: (L orientation) (T orientation) lol