Tyler Durden's Fight Club Blog

Algorithms are the series of moves done to help solve a cube or for making cool patterns.  I will be updating this with the algorithms I use in my videos.

​I personally like visuals so I have embedded the videos in this page as well is the algorithms are a bit confusing to understand.The algorithms are meant to accompany the video so they might be a bit confusing without.

Corner twisting algorithm - R' D' R D

Edge insertion algorithm (U R U' R') (U' F' U F) or (U' L' U L) (U F U' F') depending if you need to insert it on the right slot or left after lining up edge with center color.

Making the top cross:
If you have a horizontal bar - F (R U R' U') F'
If you have a J shape in the top left - F (R U R' U')2x F'
If you only have the center dot just do either one of these.

Solve corners on PLL stage (Put headlight in back) - (R' F R' B2) (R F' R' B2) R2
If you don't have any headlights do this once and then you will.

Solve Edges on PLL stage - (R U' (R U R U) R U') R' U' R2
If only three edges need to be solved put solved bar in back and do alg. 1 or 2 times

OLL cross stage:
​Horizontal bar - F (R U R' U') F'
​J shape in top left - F (U R U' R') F'
No solved edges - F (R U R' U') S (R U R' U') f'

OLL corner stage:
​Headlights on both sides - F (R U R' U')3x F'
Headlights on one side on left - R U2 (R2 U' R2 U' R2) U2 R
Sune on right - ​R U R' U R U2 R'
Sune on left - L' U' L U' L' U2 L
Headlights in front - (R2 D R' U2) (R D' R' U2) R'
"Hammerhead" shape on left - ​(r U R' U') (r' F R F')
​Two opposite corners - (R' F R B') (R' F' R B)

​PLL Corner stage:
​​A-perm One set of headlights in back - (R' F R' B2) (R F' R' B2) R2
N-perm No headlights - (R ' U L' U2 R U' L)2x

PLL edge stage:
​U-perm rotating clockwise - (R U' (R U R U) R U') R' U' R2
U-perm rotating counterclockwise - (L' U (L' U' L' U') L' U) L U L2
H-perm switching opposite edges - M2 U M2 U2 M2 U M2
​Z-perm switching adjacent edges - (M2 U M2 U) M' (U2 M2 U2) M' U2

Edge Pairing (slice - flip - slice back) - Uu' - R U R' (F R' F' R) - Uu

OLL parity algorithm (Also used to swap edges on any large cube like 5x5):
r' U2 l F2 l' F2 (r2 U2 r U2 r' U2) F2 r2 F2

Faster OLL Alg (All R moves are going to be two layers (Usually noted Rr or 2R) but will be represented as just R for simplicity sake of the text.)  
R’ (U2 R U2 R U2) R2 F2 (R’ U2 R’ U2) F2 R2 F2
PLL Parity algorithm - r2 U2 r2 Uu2 r2 u2

Supercube algorithms(This includes shape modes like the Fisher Cube, Mastermorphix, etc.)

Turn the top center 180° - (R U R' U)5x
​Turn the front and left side center 90° - (M' U M) E (M' U' M) E'

Supercube algorithms 4x4 and larger
(This includes shape modes like the Fisher Cube, Mastermorphix, etc.)

Cycles FDR (Front face - down/right piece) to UDR (Up face - Down/Right) to FDL
r U l' U' r' U l U' -

Switch the top and left three center pieces on the U face.
(r' u r U) (r' u' r U) (r' u r U2) r' u' r 

"Safe" OLL parity algorithm that wont mess up the center
(lowercase indicates an inner slice and not turning two faces)
r' U2 l U2 l' U2 (r2 U2 r U2 r' U2) F2 r2 F2

"Safe" PLL parity algorithm that wont mess up the center
(lowercase indicates an inner slice and not turning two faces)
r' (U' R U F R2 F') r l (F R2 F' U' R' U) l’ 

Corner twisting algorithm - R' D' R D
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​​A-perm one set of headlights in back - (R' F R' B2) (R F' R' B2) R2

Headlights on one side on left - F (R U R' U') F'
​Headlights on one side on left and other corners pointing out - F (R U R' U')2x F'
Headlights on both sides - F (R U R' U')3x F' or R2 U2 R U2 R2
Sune on right - ​R U R' U R U2 R'
Sune on left - L' U' L U' L' U2 L
"Hammerhead" shape on left - ​(R U R' U') (R' F R F')
​Two opposite corners - (R' F R B') (R' F' R B)

​​A-perm one set of headlights in back - (R' F R' B2) (R F' R' B2) R2
T-perm one set of headlights on left - (R U R' U') R' F R2 (U' R' U' R) U R' F'
Y-perm - F (R U' R' U') R U R' F' (R U R' U') (R' F R F')