OLS

Click here for a description of OLS on the SpeedSolving.com wiki

OLS orients the last layer edges and corners during the final pair of the first two layers. There are multiple subsets which have been proposed by various people and they all have been grouped into the single name OLS.

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VHLS orients all edges of the last layer when the final F2L pair is already built or is in the three turns away from solved state (R U R' or F' U' F).

• This message comes from the SpeedSolvingRubiksCube Yahoo group.

Winter Variation orients all last layer corners when the final F2L pair is in the pre-built state.

• This message comes from the SpeedSolvingRubiksCube Yahoo group.

CLS orients the last layer corners while placing the final corner of the first two layers. The prerequisite is that the last layer edges are already oriented and the final F2L edge is already solved. This was proposed as the second step of MGLS.

• https://web.archive.org/web/20070913114107/http://cubefreak.net:80/f2lc_llco.html

• The second image comes from the SpeedSolvingRubiksCube Yahoo group, which is no longer online.

EJLS orients the last layer corners when there is a single misoriented corner in the first two layers and the last layer edges are already oriented. It is similar to the "I" and "Im" subsets of CLS. However, the difference is that the goal is to take advantage of easy situations in blockbuilding in Petrus, ZZ, or even CFOP where a corner can be placed misoriented at any point and save moves versus correctly solving the corner.

• https://www.speedsolving.com/threads/secret-petrus-technique-revealed.6276/post-84298

• https://www.speedsolving.com/threads/secret-petrus-technique-revealed.6276/post-84523

Summer Variation orients the last layer corners when all edges are already oriented and the final F2L pair is in the three turns away from solved state (R U R').

• https://www.speedsolving.com/threads/cols-summer-variation-set-of-algs-without-a-name.8820/

• https://www.speedsolving.com/threads/cols-summer-variation-set-of-algs-without-a-name.8820/post-126510

VLS orients the last layer edges and corners when the final F2L pair is pre-built. HLS orients the last layer pieces when the pair is R U R' away from solved.

• https://www.speedsolving.com/threads/ols-vls-hls-algorithms-by-mats-valk-and-rowe-hessler.44642/post-916360

Magic Wondeful orients all last last layer pieces when there is an oriented 1x2x2 block of pieces on the last layer and the final F2L pair is pre-built.

• https://www.speedsolving.com/threads/introducing-magic-wondeful.29464/post-578938

• http://cubefreak.net/speed/advancedf2l/mw.php

• http://www.cyotheking.com/magic-wondeful/

BLE / JJLS orients all last layer corners during insertion of the final F2L edge. The prerequisite is that the corner of the final F2L pair is already solved, all edges are already oriented, and the edge of the F2L pair is currently in the last layer.

• https://web.archive.org/web/20130919142035/https://johnstoncubing.webs.com/jjls.htm

• https://johnstoncubing.webs.com/jjlsstep1f2lcornereo.htm

• https://johnstoncubing.webs.com/jjlsstep2f2ledgeco.htm

• https://www.speedsolving.com/threads/new-ls-ll-approach.43862/post-897109

• https://web.archive.org/web/20140913231837/http://www.brookscubing.com/ble-brooks-last-edge.html

• https://www.speedsolving.com/threads/6-80-avg-5-anthony-brooks.63829/post-1219392

• https://www.speedsolving.com/threads/2-look-ls-ll-combinations.36468/post-1108339